The Blu-ray Blog » Release News http://www.theblurayblog.com Blu-ray disc news, reviews, releases, movies, films on PS3, Playstation, players, drives, Apple, Mac, OSX, HD, HDTV Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:21:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Taken Blu-ray Gets Detailed http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/04/taken-blu-ray-gets-detailed/ http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/04/taken-blu-ray-gets-detailed/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:09:07 +0000 Brenden http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/04/taken-blu-ray-gets-detailed/ Taken Blu-ray Gets Detailed … http://snurl.com/g4aih

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]]> http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/04/taken-blu-ray-gets-detailed/feed/ 0 Criterion announces Bergman's Seventh Seal and Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad for Blu-ray http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/03/criterion-announces-bergmans-seventh-seal-and-resnais-last-year-at-marienbad-for-blu-ray/ http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/03/criterion-announces-bergmans-seventh-seal-and-resnais-last-year-at-marienbad-for-blu-ray/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:19:27 +0000 Brenden http://www.theblurayblog.com/?p=1104 Criterion has announced two more fantastic European classic films for release on Blu-ray.

THE SEVENTH SEAL (16 Jun 2009, 1 Disc SRP: $39.95)

Disc Features

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Introduction by Ingmar Bergman, recorded in 2003
* Audio commentary by Bergman expert Peter Cowie
* A new afterword to the commentary by Cowie
* Bergman Island (2006), an 83-minute documentary on Bergman by Marie Nyreröd, featuring in-depth and revealing interviews with the director
* Archival audio interview with Max von Sydow
* A 1998 tribute to Bergman by filmmaker Woody Allen
* Theatrical trailer
* Bergman 101, a selected video filmography tracing Bergman’s career, narrated by Cowie
* Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (23 Jun 2009, 1 Disc SRP: $39.95)

Disc Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais (with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio interview with Resnais
* New documentary on the making of Last Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais’ collaborators
* New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries
* Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958)
* Theatrical trailer
* Optional original, unrestored French soundtrack
* New and improved subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Mark Polizzotti and film scholar François Thomas, and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s introduction to the published screenplay and comments on the film

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]]> http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/01/sony-announces-the-sci-fi-thrillers-the-one-and-ghosts-of-mars-blu-ray-disc/feed/ 0 Blu-ray Release Update: Brokeback Mountain, Kite Runner, Silence of the Lambs, Australia http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/01/blu-ray-release-update-brokeback-mountain-kite-runner-silence-of-the-lambs-australia/ http://www.theblurayblog.com/2009/01/blu-ray-release-update-brokeback-mountain-kite-runner-silence-of-the-lambs-australia/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:37:55 +0000 Brenden http://www.theblurayblog.com/?p=595 I’ve been glossing over a lot of the major release news of the last couple of weeks. Let’s play a little catch up with some details and little package art!

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (March 3 - SRP $34.99)

 

  • 1080p video with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
  • Inside the Labyrinth: Making The Silence of the Lambs documentary
  • 2-part The Silence of the Lambs: Page to Screen documentary (includes A Wealth of Talent and Preparation and Authenticity)
  • 4 featurettes (Breaking the Silence, Understanding the Madness
  • Scoring the Silence featurette and the original 1991 “making of” featurette)
  • 22 deleted scenes
  • an outtake reel
  • 8 TV spots, the theatrical and teaser trailers
  • Anthony Hopkins Phone Message (audio only)

 

THE KITE RUNNER (March 24 – SRP $34.95)

  • BD-50 dual-layer disc
  • 1080p video (2.40:1)
  • English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround tracks
  • Audio commentary with director Marc Forster, producer Khaled Hosseini and writer David Benioff
  • A pair of featurettes (“Words from The Kite Runner,” “Images from The Kite Runner”)
  • PSA
  • The theatrical trailer

 

 

 

AUSTRALIA (March 3 – SRP $39.99)

  • BD-50 dual-layer disc
  • 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video
  • DTS-HD Lossless Master Audio 5.1 Surround
  • 9-part documentary “Behind the Scenes” (Photography, Production Design, Costume Design, Locations, Cinematography, Sound, Editing, Music and Visual Effects)
  • “Australia: The people, the History, the Location” featurette
  • Deleted scenes

 

 

 

 

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (March 3 – SRP $29.98)

  • BD-50 disc
  • DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio
  • BD Live: Download Center & My Scenes Sharing
  • A Groundbreaking Success
  • Music From the Mountain
  • Impressions From the Film
  • On Being a Cowboy
  • Directing From the Heart: Ang Lee
  • From Script to Screen: Interviews with Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
  • Sharing the Story: The Making of Brokeback Mountain

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