May Criterion Titles
02-16-07 | 09:58 AM
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May Criterion Titles
Sansho the Bailiff http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=64346
Vengence is Mine http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=64342
Army of Shadows - 2 disc http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=64340
The Third Man Re-issue 2 disc http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=64344
Vengence is Mine http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=64342
Army of Shadows - 2 disc http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=64340
The Third Man Re-issue 2 disc http://www.image-entertainment.com/d...roductID=64344
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02-16-07 | 10:03 AM
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Wow - I had just sold my Third Man with the hopes of a future re-release. The Vengeance Is Mine will have to be awesome to compete with the excellent region2 dvd. Army of Shadows & Sansho the Bailiff should be must haves. Great news!
02-16-07 | 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by bdots48
Army of Shadows & Sansho the Bailiff should be must haves. Great news!
I wonder how long it will take for someone to assume that BFI's R2 release of Army of Shadows will remain superior to Criterion's, even though the Criterion hasn't been released yet....
Actually, it will be interesting to see how the extras compare. And if Criterion still fiddles with Melville's colors.
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02-16-07 | 11:13 AM
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Woo hoo! Got to love all these classic, non-Kurosawa Japanese films.
02-16-07 | 11:14 AM
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Your Army of Shdows link points to Sansho the Baliff.
I'll be picking up Sansho the Baliff for sure!
I'll be picking up Sansho the Baliff for sure!
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02-16-07 | 12:18 PM
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Army of Shadows link fixed
I have been really close to getting this recently but keep postponing it, I just may wait some more in case of a re-issue.
Originally Posted by DVD King
Forget The Third Man reissue, criterion needs to get going on the most important, demolishing, sweeping, colossal, film in their collection: ANDREI RUBLEV.
02-16-07 | 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Ambassador
I wonder how long it will take for someone to assume that BFI's R2 release of Army of Shadows will remain superior to Criterion's, even though the Criterion hasn't been released yet....
Actually, it will be interesting to see how the extras compare. And if Criterion still fiddles with Melville's colors.
Actually, it will be interesting to see how the extras compare. And if Criterion still fiddles with Melville's colors.
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02-16-07 | 02:24 PM
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Cover art and special features are now up on Criterion's "Coming Soon" page.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
New high-definition digital transfer of the recent full restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme
Optional Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 soundtrack
Audio commentary by Jean-Pierre Melville historian Ginette Vincendeau
New interviews with Lhomme and editor Françoise Bonnot
Archival excerpts from French television programs, including on-set footage from the film’s production and interviews with Melville; actors Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Crauchet, Paul Meurisse, and Simone Signoret; writer Joseph Kessel; and real-life Resistance fighters André Dewavrin (a.k.a. Colonel Passy) and Lucie Aubrac, among others
Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'Armée des ombres" (2006), a short documentary including interviews with Bonnot, Lhomme, Cassel, composer Eric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
Le journal de la Résistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of the French Resistance
Film restoration demonstration by Lhomme
Theatrical trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s Melville on Melville
More!
New high-definition digital transfer of the recent full restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme
Optional Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 soundtrack
Audio commentary by Jean-Pierre Melville historian Ginette Vincendeau
New interviews with Lhomme and editor Françoise Bonnot
Archival excerpts from French television programs, including on-set footage from the film’s production and interviews with Melville; actors Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Crauchet, Paul Meurisse, and Simone Signoret; writer Joseph Kessel; and real-life Resistance fighters André Dewavrin (a.k.a. Colonel Passy) and Lucie Aubrac, among others
Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'Armée des ombres" (2006), a short documentary including interviews with Bonnot, Lhomme, Cassel, composer Eric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
Le journal de la Résistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of the French Resistance
Film restoration demonstration by Lhomme
Theatrical trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s Melville on Melville
More!
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Excerpts from a video interview with Shohei Imamura, produced by the Directors Guild of Japan
Theatrical trailer and teaser
New and improved English subtitle translation
LUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Atkinson, a 1994 interview with Imamura by writer Toichi Nakata, and writings from Imamura on Vengeance Is Mine and his approach to filmmaking
Excerpts from a video interview with Shohei Imamura, produced by the Directors Guild of Japan
Theatrical trailer and teaser
New and improved English subtitle translation
LUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Atkinson, a 1994 interview with Imamura by writer Toichi Nakata, and writings from Imamura on Vengeance Is Mine and his approach to filmmaking
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by Japanese-literature professor Jeffrey Angles
New video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokugo Tanaka, and legendary actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu; the story on which the film was based, Mori Ogai’s “Sansho dayu,” from 1915, in an acclaimed translation by J. Thomas Rimer; and a written form of an oral variation of the same tale, dating back to the fifteenth century, in a rare English translation
Audio commentary by Japanese-literature professor Jeffrey Angles
New video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokugo Tanaka, and legendary actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu; the story on which the film was based, Mori Ogai’s “Sansho dayu,” from 1915, in an acclaimed translation by J. Thomas Rimer; and a written form of an oral variation of the same tale, dating back to the fifteenth century, in a rare English translation
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
Audio commentary by film scholar Dana Polan
Shadowing "The Third Man", a ninety-minute 2005 feature documentary on the making of the film
Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 “A Ticket to Tangiers” episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer
Actor Joseph Cotten’s alternate opening voiceover narration for the U.S. version
Archival footage and photos of postwar Vienna
A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr
More!
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
Audio commentary by film scholar Dana Polan
Shadowing "The Third Man", a ninety-minute 2005 feature documentary on the making of the film
Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 “A Ticket to Tangiers” episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer
Actor Joseph Cotten’s alternate opening voiceover narration for the U.S. version
Archival footage and photos of postwar Vienna
A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr
More!
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02-16-07 | 02:59 PM
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Well, since THE THIRD MAN is just about my favourite movie of all time, I won't begrudge the double dip. Their previous release was one of the very first DVDs I ever bought, nearly seven years ago, and was my first Criterion.
02-16-07 | 03:13 PM
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Is the swastika supposed to be on the floor underneath the sitting man? It looks like it's supposed to be, but it's on top of his shoes.
(edit-I originally saw this art on a monitor that must have been too bright, and the see-through effect was so pronounced it looked like an error. Now seeing it again on another machine it looks much better and, well, appropriately shadowy.)
Otherwise, excellent art as always by Criterion.
(edit-I originally saw this art on a monitor that must have been too bright, and the see-through effect was so pronounced it looked like an error. Now seeing it again on another machine it looks much better and, well, appropriately shadowy.)
Otherwise, excellent art as always by Criterion.
Last edited by canaryfarmer; 02-16-07 at 09:30 PM.
02-16-07 | 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Apone
I will have to doubledip The Third Man. 
02-16-07 | 03:48 PM
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I agree - Criterion covers alone sometimes make me consider a movie, or at least rouse my curiosity. And yes, there is a swastika below the man's feet in Army of Shadows.
02-16-07 | 06:37 PM
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i'm getting so tired of these dd, especially from Criterion. i just found "The Third Man", luckily i paid only $30.00, but i just got it after long sought after and then this...
well, hopefully i'll get something good for it on the Bay or Half or AM.
well, hopefully i'll get something good for it on the Bay or Half or AM.
02-16-07 | 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by scott1598
i'm getting so tired of these dd, especially from Criterion.