gryffinmaster

Looks like we're getting Safe (1995), The Night Porter, and Time Bandits on Blu-ray this December.

The Valeyard

I was just about to post that!

rocket1312

Also a new Eclipse set (on dvd of course) of Keisuke Kinoshita films.

http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/108...d-world-war-ii

slop101

Time Bandits, fo sho.

Neil M.

I'm glad to see that the Eclipse line is not dead.

inri222

Safe & The Night Porter (Hate all you want, I love it)

Ewwwww yucky dvd's.

Giles

Safe

Special Features:
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Todd Haynes, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Haynes, actor Julianne Moore, and producer Christine Vachon
New conversation between Haynes and Moore
The Suicide, a 1978 short film by Haynes
New interview with Vachon
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim



Time Bandits

Special Features:
New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Terry Gilliam, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Gilliam, cowriter/actor Michael Palin, and actors John Cleese, David Warner, and Craig Warnock
New piece narrated by film writer David Morgan and featuring production designer Milly Burns and costume designer James Acheson on the creation of the film's various historical periods and fantasy worlds
Conversation between Gilliam and film scholar Peter von Bagh at Finland's Midnight Sun Film Festival in 1998
Excerpt from a 1981 appearance by actor Shelley Duvall on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic David Sterritt

The Night Porter

Special Features:
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interviews with director Liliana Cavani and screenwriters Barbara Alberti and Amedeo Pagani
Women of the Resistance, a fifty-minute 1965 documentary by Cavani, composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy, with an intro by the filmmaker
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by scholar Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, author of The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani

Eclipse Series 41: Kinoshita and World War II:

PORT OF FLOWERS
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men who prey on them at the outset of the war. But the hustlers' plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Kinoshita's directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that's a testament to the filmmaker's faith in people.

1943 · 82 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Japanese with English subtitles · 1.33:1 aspect ratio

THE LIVING MAGOROKU
A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation's troops. Kinoshita's rural drama was made to promote the war effort, but his story branches off in many directions, including one subplot about the family's heirloom samurai sword and another about a blossoming young romance.

1943 · 89 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Japanese with English subtitles · 1.33:1 aspect ratio

JUBILATION STREET
As World War II escalates, the tight-knit habitants of a street in Tokyo must relocate from their homes so that the government can use the space. Kinoshita's sensitive film—beautifully and resourcefully shot on a single set—traces the fears and desires of the evacuees.

1944 · 73 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Japanese with English subtitles · 1.33:1 aspect ratio

ARMY
Kinoshita's ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multigenerational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family, before settling into an emotionally complex portrayal of parental love during wartime. As the parents of a boy shipped off to battle, Kinuyo Tanaka and Chishu Ryu locate profound depths of feeling that transcend ideology.

1944 · 87 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Japanese with English subtitles · 1.33:1 aspect ratio

MORNING FOR THE OSONE FAMILY
Kinoshita's first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought tale about a liberal-minded Japanese family torn apart by war and imperialist politics. Morning for the Osone Family is both palpably bitter about the nation's fresh wartime wounds and inspiringly hopeful about a democratic tomorrow.

1946 · 81 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Japanese with English subtitles · 1.33:1 aspect

nitin77

in for Safe and the eclipse set, have the UK blus of the other two.

Ringmaster

I was hoping they would of finally announced Mulholland Dr.

hdnmickey

In for Time Bandits if the transfer is awesome.

Giles

If the transfer looks as good as Arrow's steelbook edition - then you're good to go!

Coral

Nothing for me.

PhantomStranger

Arrow's new transfer looked awesome last year:

http://www.doblu.com/2013/09/23/time...gion-b-review/

hdnmickey

Hopefully the Criterion disc will be as good even if it doesn't have all the same extras.

Wish releases like Arrow's were region free or released as region A here in the US.

PhantomStranger

You can still play the Arrow BD if you have a Panasonic BD player, there is a trick that works quite well on bypassing most of Arrow's region locks on Pannys.

Giles

well the Gilliam commentary track is NOT on the Arrow release so that's one plus for the Criterion edition.

E Unit

I'm in for Time Bandits. Now I'm hoping they'll release Bram Stoker's Dracula with corrected color, after all that talk on the other thread about it.

Paul_SD

I'll be interested to see Night Porter somewhere down the line, but it's far from a must have. Otherwise nothing in December for me...which feels great.
I'll be able to mop up all the releases I'm interested in that have come out since the July sale, during the November one. Including the Tati set- which I'd likely bump if MGM ends up announcing a Pink Panther box set for the same time frame- so I should be able to hold my B&N Nov. Criterion budget to under $200.
Then I'll start next year with a clean slate.

GoldenJCJ

I'll upgrade my shitty 1080i version of Time Bandits if the reviews are good enough.

Giles

Yes please. The extras on the laserdisc edition were top notch

Neeb

Apparently THE FISHER KING is in the works. So if you were holding off on the DVD...

rocket1312

Anyone see this on Criterion's Instagram?

For those who don't follow these things closely, Grand Illusion is one of the long out-of-print Studio Canal titles. This isn't the first hint in recent weeks that Criterion may have the rights to those titles again. Of course it comes about two weeks after I finally bit the bullet and picked up a used copy of The Third Man for ~$100. Still great news if it's true.

DaveyJoe

I am bummed I missed out on Army of Shadows and Le Cercle Rouge. I would love it if Criterion was able to put those back in print.

Solid Snake

TTM is one of the best CC BDs. Fucking love that one.

DaveyJoe

Fuck, man. You and your acronyms, I never know what you're talking about.