Uhhhh…Criterion totally blew me away this week. I think that’s why I haven’t gotten around to posting their slate of November releases yet (announced a couple of days ago.) There’s just way too much coming out! So, I’m splitting the announcements up into a couple of posts. This one will deal with the single disc titles and I’ll follow up with the rundown of titles in their ginormous, incredible-looking America Lost and Found: The BBS Story boxed set. Here we go:
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
(November 16, 2010 – MSRP $49.95)
Video: 1.66:1 1080p
Audio: uncompressed monaural
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
- Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film
- New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
- New video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
- Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the film
- Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
- Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
- Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb
- New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter”
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
ANTICHRIST
(November 9, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 2.35:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Lars von Trier and supervised by director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary by von Trier and professor Murray Smith
- Video interviews with von Trier and actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
- A collection of video pieces delving into the production of Antichrist, including interviews with von Trier and key members of his filmmaking team as well as behind-the-scenes footage
- Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, a documentary on the film’s world premiere, plus press interviews with Dafoe and Gainsbourg
- Three theatrical trailers
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie
MODERN TIMES
(November 16, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.33:1 1080p
Audio: uncompressed monaural
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson
- Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
- New program on the film’s visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
- Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin
- Chaplin Today: “Modern Times” (2004), a half-hour program with filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Two segments removed from the film
- Three theatrical trailers
- All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Cooke, plus a new score by Donald Sosin and a new interview with Cooke’s daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge
- The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler highlighting his skill on wheels
- For the First Time (1967), a Cuban documentary short about a projectionist who shows Modern Times to first-time moviegoers
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin’s writing about his travels in 1931 and 1932
I hope the classics comes in Blu Ray as well.
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