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Blu-ray disc news, reviews, releases, movies, films on PS3, Playstation, players, drives, Apple, Mac, OSX, HD, HDTVThu, 06 Jan 2011 20:45:50 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4Criterion announces March Blu-ray titles: Au revoir les enfants, Yi Yi, The Times of Harvey Milk, Topsy-Turvy, The Mikado
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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‘sYi 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:
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
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
]]>http://www.theblurayblog.com/2010/12/criterion-announces-march-blu-ray-titles-au-revoir-les-enfants-yi-yi-the-times-of-harvey-milk-topsy-turvy-the-mikado/feed/1RT @Criterion Bon anniversaire to Jeanne Moreau, legendary star of Truffaut's JULES AND JIM and Louis Malle's THE LOVERS!
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http://www.theblurayblog.com/2010/01/rt-criterion-bon-anniversaire-to-jeanne-moreau/#commentsFri, 22 Jan 2010 19:42:07 +0000Brendenhttp://www.theblurayblog.com/2010/01/rt-criterion-bon-anniversaire/RT @Criterion Bon anniversaire to Jeanne Moreau, legendary star of Truffaut’s JULES AND JIM and Louis Malle’s THE LOVERS! http://ow.ly/ZsVy