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Very nice.

It's too bad Made in USA won't be released on Blu-ray. I like to think they'll release some Godards eventually.

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http://criterion_production.s3.amazo...348x490_BD.jpg

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Disc Features

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director Al Reinert (with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon
* An Accidental Gift: The Making of “For All Mankind,” a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists Don Pickard, Mike Gentry, Morris Williams, and Chuck Welch
* On Camera, a collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts
* New video program about Bean’s artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings
* NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
* Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists
* PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert

http://criterion_production.s3.amazo...348x490_BD.jpg

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Disc Features

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring director Roman Polanski and actress Catherine Deneuve
* A British Horror Film (2003), a documentary on the making of Repulsion, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor
* A 1964 television documentary filmed on the set of Repulsion, featuring rare footage of Polanski and Deneuve at work
* Theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar and curator Bill Horrigan

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I am so in for Repulsion.

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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt (Post 9391963)

I like to think they'll release some Godards eventually.

Contempt was one of the films mentioned in Criterion's initial Blu-ray announcement.

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^ yes they even teased us with a photo of one of the telecine's viewing a scene in hidef on a monitor in an issue of Sound & Vision.

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Hmmm, never heard of Repulsion. I am in, since I love Polanski.

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Originally Posted by macnorton (Post 9393274)

Hmmm, never heard of Repulsion. I am in, since I love Polanski.

Wow. That's a bizarre pair of sentences to read together. No offense, but it's a little like reading, "Hmmm, never heard of Jaws. I am in, since I love Spielberg."

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I hope Repulsion comes in the clear BD case and not the ultra flimsy cardboard.

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in for for all mankind

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Holy crap. Repulsion. :drool:

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Wages of Fear arrived today, clear case is much better than the paper crap.

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Originally Posted by anomynous (Post 9377445)

Here's an update on the new cases with already released movies:

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Dear ****,

Well, that's just rude.

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Originally Posted by bluetoast (Post 9401362)

Wages of Fear arrived today, clear case is much better than the paper crap.

pic?

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Its the same case the PS3 games come in.

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interesting... so is that the new standard then?

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The planned standardization is proceeding as scheduled. Please outfit yourselves in the gray coveralls you were issued at orientation and form a straight line beginning at Window "C". When it is your turn at the counter, the facilitator will request any non-standard, previously issued packaging materials that you have in your possession, and will exchange them for properly retro-fitted, completely standardized, molded plastic containment vehicles for storing your digital media. That is all.

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Weirdly enough I've only seen Repulsion on the big screen when it was rereleased like 10 years ago. I'll buy it.

I want all of Krystof Kieslowski's films to get Criterion Blu Ray releases Darn It!!! Anyone know about that - I know that is a pretty random thing to know about :-)

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Originally Posted by NiCK Crush (Post 9401599)

pic?

page 36.

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Originally Posted by Richard Malloy (Post 9402722)

If only it were true!

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Originally Posted by gryffinmaster (Post 9398099)

Holy crap. Repulsion. :drool:

x2

Words cannot describe how happy I am :)

No more having to track down the OOP UK disc

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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema (Post 9402882)

page 36.

Ahh, thanks!

So, this is going to be the standard, correct? And will the previously released Criterion blus be re-released in such packaging?

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Originally Posted by NiCK Crush (Post 9403126)

And will the previously released Criterion blus be re-released in such packaging?

If you extrapolate Mr. Cinema's advice to the next logical level (ie. go back and read the thread), you will find answers to this and probably your next questions, as well.

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Originally Posted by tc5998 (Post 9402833)

I want all of Krystof Kieslowski's films to get Criterion Blu Ray releases Darn It!!! Anyone know about that - I know that is a pretty random thing to know about :-)

A Blu-ray of Double Life of Veronique would be wonderful, but unfortunately Kino owns the rights to the rest of his films (other than the Three Colors trilogy, which is Miramax), so I wouldn't hold my breath. Their much ballyhooed Wong Kar-Wai Blu-rays seem to have been indefinitely postponed. Also, Kino's track record in general is pretty spotty.