not impressed with the cover art for Gojiro.. oops, I mean Godzilla - it looks cheap

Traffic? I didn't see that coming.

Alright, I'm in for that and Gojira.

Love seeing Traffic get updated. What's up with Criterion making Deneuve look like Lady Gaga?

I love it. It's brilliant in its own way - having G facing away from us actually seems more menacing than all of the other monster covers with critters staring us down.

I have bought all of the Criterion Buñuel DVDs. I will buy all of the Criterion Buñuel blu-rays. Seeing the Belle de Jour cover was a definite frisson.

Kind of disappointed that the Gorin set is going to be an Eclipse - since Gorin himself has apparently stated that he helped worked on extras for a box of some of his films, and since by most accounts they are films that could greatly benefit from some contextualizing.

On the other hand, I've really liked the two other Rosi films in the collection, so I'm looking forward to The Moment of Truth. I was kind of hoping that their next Rosi release would be The Mattei Affair, which I've been dying to see for a long time, but I'll definitely check this one out.

Also, Kalat's commentaries for things like the Masters of Cinema "Mabuse" set and the Kino "Fantomas" set are among my favorite commentaries ever, so I'm quite looking forward to hear both of his on the Gojira set.

Still, a little bit of a disappointing announcement - mainly because January tends to be a big month for them (I was hoping for a mainline boxset or something.)

Not that Criterion owes me anything. I'll still pick up all of these except for Traffic.

In for Godzilla and Belle de Jour. I wish that they had the same release day since the last week in January will be a bad time for me to try to watch any blurays.

wait .. hold on, where have the 'extras' been announced? specifically for 'Godzilla'?

They're right there on title page. No U.S. cut for Godzilla, that puts to rest some controversy.

what title page? sorry I'm a bit drugged up (for back pains) at the moment

oh nevermind found it

That Gojira cover looks great, and I'm very glad both versions are included. This will be the first Criterion I've bought in probably a few years.


(Is Benjamin Button out of print? I need to grab that...)

I like the Godzilla cover...but I don't know if I like the cover for the film itself. I do..and I don't. Maybe cuz it's so different that it irks me. It's not bad..but...I think it alludes to it being something else in terms of action etc. I'm game for it either way.

I'm also game for Belle De Jour and Traffic.

oops.

Not that I know of...doesn't seem to be based on what I can see.

this is a very disappointing month IMHO.

Will probably pick up Traffic and the Rosi film at some point but not really interested in much else (unless Belle De Jour absolutely trounces the SC BD).

Godzilla cover doesn't wow me, but it's a solid effort. Not sure why it's titled "Godzilla" though, when "Gojira" is the hero of the disc.

I was literally JUST talking with a friend an hour ago about how I wasn't going to upgrade my Criterion DVD of Traffic to the current BD because of loss of extras. Sweet!

I'm in for Godzilla and Belle De Jour..... maybe Traffic.

Probably for the same reason the English-language/US-market title is used on the cover of pretty much all Criterion releases.

As for me, I may pick up Belle de Jour at some point. I'm a big Bunuel fan, but sort of hot and cold on that particular flick. Otherwise, nothing excites me this month (though I must admit a degree of ignorance about Rosi's work).

Traffic?



Now I have to sell my Universal Blu.

Belle De Jour on Blu-Ray is the best news of the month for me. Anyone have a list of the special featuers included for it?

maybe I'm just making this up, but didn't Criterion release a laserdisc edition of 'Gojira' / 'Godzilla'

New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Audio commentary featuring Michael Wood, author of the BFI Film Classics book Belle de jour
New video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright and film scholar Linda Williams
New interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
Excerpt from the French television program Cinéma, featuring interviews with Carrière and actress Catherine Deneuve
Original and American release trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Melissa Anderson and a 1970s interview with director Luis Buñuel

and while I'm at it, The Moment of Truth supplements are a bit on the minimal side:

New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Interview with director Francesco Rosi from 2004
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Matthews

Traffic:

Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Steven Soderbergh and supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer Larry Blake (with 5.1 and 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on the Blu-ray editions)
Three audio commentaries, featuring Soderbergh and writer Stephen Gaghan; producers Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz and consultants Tim Golden and Craig Chretien; and composer Cliff Martinez
Twenty-five deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Soderbergh and Gaghan
Three sets of demonstrations: one on film processing and the look of the Mexico sequences; one on film editing, with commentary by editor Stephen Mirrione; and one on dialogue editing
Additional unused footage of various scenes, from multiple angles
Theatrical trailers and television spots
Gallery of trading cards depicting the U.S. Customs canine squad used to detect narcotics and illegal substances
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Manohla Dargis

The Moment of Truth, like their other recent barebones/nearly barebones releases (Identification of a Woman, The Makioka Sisters) is only going to be $29.95, as opposed to the usual $39.95.