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I thought they moved announcements to the following Monday if the 15th falls on a Friday?

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I don't get why, it's not like they don't already know what they're releasing. Same with those times they sometimes delay it by a day. It's not like a day is going to make a difference if there are any rights issues to clear up. It is, as they say, what it is, though.

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Trying to trick them?

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Announcement is up. Fantastic Mr. Fox gets spine #700.

Jules and Jim
Foreign Correspondent
Breathless Dual format edition
Tess
King of the Hill
Blue is the Warmest Color (movie-only edition)

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I never got the first Mr. Fox BD, so I'm in for that. Tess and King of the Hill I will pick up at the next BN sale.

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I bought Breathless on BD...what's up with the rerelease (aside from dual format)? And with Mr. fox joining the line that is the first in a LONG ASS TIME that Criterion is getting and releasing an animated film. About time. I understand that many animated films are heavily guarded by their respective owners and the only reason for the inclusion is for Wes Anderson, but at least we get something.

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Would've rather they done Life Aquatic over Fox, since Fox already has a blu-ray and LA does not.

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Not a bad haul.

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totally in for FC and JJ.

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Will get all except King of the Hill and Breathless (already own on BD)

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Just an fyi in case you didn't catch this. There will be a special edition of this released by Criterion at a later date. I'm assuming this is being released barebones to take advantage of the awards season.

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I've already got Breathless, and the Fox Blu-Ray of Fantastic Mr. Fox. I'll certainly look into the other titles (although I'll wait for the aforementioned special edition).

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Agree. I guess it's safe to assume we'll see Criterion release Moonrise Kingdom at some point as well.

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I'll be waiting...maybe.

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I couldn't be more excited about King of the Hill. Fantastic movie that never even got a domestic DVD release. And one of the extras is another Soderbergh feature film? Incredible!

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I think the hype of the feuding is detracting too much from what a great film this is. I wrote a review that I received some great feedback, for those who are on the fence. I think the movie transcends queer cinema:

http://indieethos.wordpress.com/2013...ain-of-loving/

Still, I hope the extras in the later edition are worthwhile.

So, so far, the only one for sure I'm getting is Mr. Fox.

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Damnit. I love Mr. Fox but I want Steve Zissou more!

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I'm a CC completist, so who am I kidding? I will be getting the CC movie version for sure.

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Agree with this. Eagerly anticiating Life Aquatic release!

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Jules and Jim (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffaut (The 400 Blows) directs, and Jeanne Moreau (Elevator to the Gallows) stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’s Oskar Werner) and Jim (The Fire Within’s Henri Serre) into one of cinema’s most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude of love, Jules and Jim was a worldwide smash in 1962 and remains every bit as audacious and entrancing today.

1962 • 105 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the
Blu-ray
• Two audio commentaries: one featuring screenwriter Jean Gruault, François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, editor Claudine Bouché, and film scholar Annette Insdorf; the other featuring actor Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana
• Excerpts from The Key to “Jules and Jim” (1985), a documentary about author Henri-Pierre Roché and the real-life relationships that inspired the novel and film
• Interviews with Truffaut, Gruault, and cinematographer Raoul Coutard
• Conversation between scholars Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew
• Excerpt from a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps dedicated to Truffaut
• Segment from a 1969 episode of the French television program L’invité du dimanche featuring Truffaut, Moreau, and filmmaker Jean Renoir
• Excerpts from Truffaut’s first appearance on American television, a 1977 interview with New York Film Festival director Richard Roud
• Excerpts from a 1979 American Film Institute seminar given by Truffaut
• Audio interview with Truffaut from 1980, conducted by film scholar Claude-Jean Philippe
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic John Powers, a 1981 piece by Truffaut on Roché, and script notes by Truffaut

TITLE: Jules and Jim (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2334BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11351-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-822-4
SRP:$39.95
STREET: 2/4/14

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Blue is the Warmest Color (Blu-ray & DVD Editions)
The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman’s experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Excharpoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty something art student, played by Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris). Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche (The Secret of the Grain), this finely detailed, intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth. It has captivated international audiences and been widely embraced as a defining love story for the new century.

2013 • 179 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • In French with English subtitles • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Abdellatif Kechiche, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Trailer and TV spot
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic B. Ruby Rich

A full special edition treatment of this film will follow at a later date.

TITLE: Blue Is the Warmest Color (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2336BD
UPC: 7-15515-11381-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-825-5
SRP: $24.95
STREET: 2/11/14

TITLE: Blue Is the Warmest Color (DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2337DDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11391-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-826-2
SRP: $19.95
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
Fantastic Mr. Fox is the story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms—owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. This adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel from Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) is a meticulous work of stop-motion animation featuring vibrant performances by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, and Bill Murray.

2009 • 87 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New digital master, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring Anderson
• Storyboard animatics for the entire film
• Footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop-motion setups, and the recording of the score
• Interviews with cast and crew
• Puppet animation tests
• Photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets
• Animated awards acceptance speeches
• Audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based
• Gallery of Dahl’s original manuscripts
• Discussion and analysis of the film
• Stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay; a 2002 article on Dahl’s Gipsy House by Anderson; White Cape, a comic book used as a prop in the film; and drawings, original paintings, and other ephemera

TITLE: Fantastic Mr. Fox (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2319BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11141-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-788-3
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 2/18/14

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Foreign Correspondent (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official transition from the British film industry to Hollywood. And it was quite a year: his first two American movies, Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent, were both nominated for the best picture Oscar. Though Rebecca prevailed, Foreign Correspondent is the more quintessential Hitch film. A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea (Sullivan’s Travels) as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war, its wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects. Foreign Correspondent deserves to be mentioned alongside The 39 Steps and North by Northwest as one of the master’s greatest adventures.

1940 • 120 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New piece on the visual effects in the film with effects expert Craig Barron
• Hollywood Propaganda and World War II, a new interview with writer Mark Harris
• Interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show
• Radio adaptation of the film from 1946, starring Joseph Cotten
• Have You Heard? The Story of Wartime Rumors, a 1942 Life magazine “photo-drama” by Hitchcock
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore

TITLE: Foreign Correspondent (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2335BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11371-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-824-8
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 2/18/14

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Breathless (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard (Band of Outsiders) burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo (Pierrot le fou) and Jean Seberg (Bonjour tristesse), Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.

1960 • 90 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photographyRaoul Coutard, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
• Contemporary interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker
• Two video essays, one on Seberg and one on Breathless as film criticism
• Chambre 12, Hôtel de suède, an eighty-minute 1993 documentary about the making of Breathless
• Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short by Godard starring Belmondo
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew, writings by Godard, François Truffaut’s original treatment, and Godard’s scenario

TITLE: Breathless (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2348BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11141-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-788-3
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 2/25/14

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King of the Hill (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
For his first Hollywood studio production, Steven Soderbergh (whose independent debut, sex, lies, and videotape, had won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival a few years earlier) crafted this small jewel of a growing-up story. Set in St. Louis during the Depression, King of the Hill follows the daily struggles of a resourceful and imaginative adolescent (Bring It On’s Jesse Bradford) who, after his tubercular mother is sent to a sanatorium, must survive on his own in a run-down hotel during his salesman father’s long business trips. This evocative period piece, faithfully adapted from the memoir by the novelist A. E. Hotchner, is among the ever versatile Soderbergh’s most touching and surprising films, and features a remarkable supporting cast, including Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy), singer Lauryn Hill, Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey), and Spalding Gray (Gray’s Anatomy).

1993 • 103 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Steven Soderbergh and supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer Larry Blake, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interviews with Soderbergh and A. E. Hotchner, author of the memoir on which the film is based
• Against Tyranny, a new video essay by ::kogonada in which he explores Soderbergh’s unique approach to character subjectivity
• The Underneath (1995), Soderbergh’s follow-up feature to King of the Hill, with an interview with the director
• Trailers
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Tonguette, a 1993 interview with Soderbergh, and an excerpt from Hotchner’s 1972 memoir

TITLE: King of the Hill (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2339BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11411-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-828-6
SRP: $39.95
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Tess (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski (Rosemary’s Baby) is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Paris, Texas’s Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.

1979 • 172 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Roman Polanski, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Once Upon a Time . . . “Tess,” a 2006 documentary on the film
• Three programs on the making of the film—From Novel to Screen, Filming “Tess,” and “Tess”: The Experience— featuring interviews with Polanski, actors Nastassja Kinski and Leigh Lawson, producer Claude Berri, costume designer Anthony Powell, composer Philippe Sarde, and others
• Interview with Polanski from a 1979 episode of The South Bank Show
• Forty-five-minute documentary shot on location for French television during the making of the film
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Colin MacCabe

TITLE: Tess (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2338BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11401-1
ISBN: 978-1-60465-827-9
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 2/25/14

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I would have thought Blue is the Warmest Color would have had a lot more extras than that. After all, it did win the Palme d'Or. Just seems light for a movie so recently made.

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Another edition is coming, apparently, though I'm not entirely sure what they're hoping to accomplish with separate releases.

http://www.criterion.com/films/28603...-warmest-color

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Wow, didn't realize they were re-releasing Breathless again.

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I'm thinking this is to try and capitalize on the award season, and I'd assume it's more about getting rental copies out there than for a buyers market.

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so apparently my bolded, Italicized and bigger font of this fact didn't catch your eye (?) I guess I should have underlined it as well ;)

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Well, your bad then....-wink-

Okay, yeah, I missed that part, and the couple of comments on the previous page. Seems very un-Criterion of them to do something like this, with releasing a movie only just to capitalize on awards season. Definitely not something they normally do.

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It's possible that this might be the only release of the theatrical cut. Supposedly, there is a director's cut that adds 40 minutes to the film and I would assume that Criterion would use that version for the special edition.

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wonder what he cut?

not to be crude, but this movie furthered my knowledge on how two women pleasure one another simultaneously.

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69 or scissors?

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the latter.

while the lesbian sex is pretty graphic, I think the MPAA's real problem was the quick flash of

interestingly the French release was rated '12' - guess the French are really lax with 'sex' on the whole.

Alain Guiraudie's 'Stranger by the Lake' seems to be on similar trend, however on the male gay aspect, for pushing the limits of explicit sexuality too.

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I don't get it. Why? It's not like releasing a special edition with nice features right away will affect it's chances of winning awards... Why do they think fans of this film will bother if we already know they are going to release something better down the road?

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People want to see good looking French women fuck now?

I dunno. Weird thing for them to do.

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The extras for the SE are probably still in production, and won't be ready in time. For this release, I'm picturing a standard amray case a la Ben Button. Also, this quick hit is not aimed at the enthusiasts' market, rather, it's aimed at the casual viewer who may just be curious, or hears about it only in conjunction with the various awards shows.

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I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen this yet, considering how much water Anderson seems to draw at Criterion.

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I'm guessing that IFC wanted this released in February and Criterion wanted more time for the special edition.

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Really?

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missed that episode - LOL

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in for BitWC and FMF!