My love affair with The Criterion Collection will continue, unabated into March, as the label issues another incredible slate of films on Blu-ray! This batch includes a further round of older spine-numbers (previously issued titles on DVD) like Louis Malle‘s Au revoir les enfants and Edward Yang‘s Yi Yi as well as films new to the Collection such as Mike Leigh‘s Topsy-Turvy and the film adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan stage play it dramatizes, The Mikado. Full details below:
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
(March 15, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.66:1 1080p
Audio: uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Special Features:
- Restored digital transfer supervised by director of photography Renato Berta with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Video interviews with Louis Malle biographer Pierre Billard and actress Candice Bergen, Malle’s widow
- Joseph: A Character Study, a profile of the provocative figure from Au revoir les enfants, created by filmmaker Guy Magen in 2005
- The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short comedy, featured in the film
- Audio excerpts from a 1988 AFI interview with Malle
- Original theatrical trailer and teaser
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Philip Kemp and historian Francis J. Murphy
YI YI![Yi Yi (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]](/wp_content/uploads/2010/12/339_BD_box_348x490_213x300.jpg "Yi Yi (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]")
(March 15, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.85:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
- Newly restored digital transfer with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary by writer-director Edward Yang and Asian-cinema critic Tony Rayns
- Video interview with Rayns about Yang and the New Taiwan Cinema movement
- U.S. theatrical trailer
- Optional English subtitle translation by Yang and Rayns
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Kent Jones and notes from the director
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK![The Times of Harvey Milk (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]](/wp_content/uploads/2010/12/557_BD_box_348x490_213x300.jpg "The Times of Harvey Milk (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]")
(March 22, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.37:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
- Director-approved digital transfer, from the meticulous UCLA Film and Television Archive restoration with DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary featuring director Robert Epstein,coeditor Deborah Hoffmann, and photographer Daniel Nicoletta
- New interview with documentary filmmaker and UC Berkeley professor Jon Else
- New program about The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Sant’s Milk, featuring Epstein, Van Sant, actor James Franco, and Milk friends Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Nicoletta
- Postscript containing interview clips not used in the film
- Rare collection of audio and video recordings of Harvey Milk
- Interview excerpts from Epstein’s research tapes
- Footage from the film’s Castro Theatre premiere and the 1984 Academy Awards ceremony
- Panel discussion on Supervisor Dan White’s controversial trial
- Excerpts from the twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of Milk’s and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic B. RubyRich, a tribute by Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk, and a piece on the film’s restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Ross Lipman
TOPSY-TURVY![Topsy-Turvy (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]](/wp_content/uploads/2010/12/558_BD_box_348x490_213x300.jpg "Topsy-Turvy (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]")
(March 29, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.78:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
- Director-approved digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Dick Pope (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
- New video conversation between Leigh and the film’s musical director, Gary Yershon
- A Sense of History, Leigh’s 1992 short film written by and starring actor Jim Broadbent
- Deleted scenes
- Featurette from 1999 including interviews with Leigh, stars Broadbent and Allan Corduner, and other cast members
- Theatrical trailer and TV spots
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin
THE MIKADO![The Mikado (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]](/wp_content/uploads/2010/12/559_BD_box_348x490_213x300.jpg "The Mikado (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]")
(March 29, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.33:1 1080p
Audio: uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Special Features:
- Newly remastered digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New video interview with Topsy-Turvy director Mike Leigh on The Mikado and its adaptation for the screen
- New video interview with Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr., tracing the 1939 filmed version of the opera back to its 1885 stage debut
- More!
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
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