that would be excellent!! saw many copies of TRT at BB today.

Announcements coming later today!

I can't believe he can continue his "reporting" after that Rosemary's Baby debacle.

Come on, Criterion- stun us with a surprise batch of Almodovar titles, a couple of (overdue) Kurosawa classics and the North American Blu-ray premiere of Les Triplettes de Belleville.

A guy can dream, right?

Hoping for some Kurosawa!

I'm still crossing my fingers for a Criterion double-feature blu-ray of Claude Berri's Jean De Florette & Manon des Sources.

The ball was dropped on that when The Illusionist was released. Would have been a nice tie-in/discount package, mais non.

it's not populated yet, but David Lynch now has a page on Criterion's website!

http://www.criterion.com/people/119692-david-lynch

EDIT: also Michael Mann and many others. Obviously place holders for the future

Are these Rashomon extras new?

Waiting on Trilogy of Life announcement now...

okay I've just fainted on the floor

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picked up Quadrophenia at Barnes and Noble this morning - can't wait to watch the extras.

That horror set would have made for a wild Blu-ray box, but I'll buy it regardless.

eraserhead and the thief. now please.

Trilogy of Life
New high-definition digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray editions
New visual essays by film scholars Patrick Rumble and Tony Rayns on The Decameron and Arabian Nights, respectively
New interviews with art director Dante Ferretti and composer Ennio Morricone about their work with Pasolini, and with film scholar Sam Rohdie on The Canterbury Tales
The Lost Body of Alibech (2005), a forty-five-minute documentary by Roberto Chiesi about a lost sequence from The Decameron
The Secret Humiliation of Chaucer (2006), a forty-seven-minute documentary by Chiesi about The Canterbury Tales
Via Pasolini, a documentary in which Pasolini discusses his views on language, film, and modern society
Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Form of the City (1974), a sixteen-minute documentary by Pasolini and Paolo Burnatto about the ancient Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia
Deleted scenes from Arabian Nights, with transcriptions of pages from the original script
Pasolini-approved English-dubbed track for The Canterbury Tales
Trailers
New English subtitle translations
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Colin MacCabe; Pasolini’s 1975 article “Trilogy of Life Rejected”; excerpts from Pasolini’s Berlin Film Festival press conference for The Canterbury Tales; and a report from the set of Arabian Nights by critic Gideon Bachmann

Heaven's Gate
New, restored transfer of director Michael Cimino’s cut of the film, supervised by Cimino
New restoration of the 5.1 surround soundtrack, supervised by Cimino, in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
New illustrated audio interview with Cimino and producer Joann Carelli
New interviews with actor Kris Kristofferson, soundtrack arranger and performer David Mansfield, and second assistant director Michael Stevenson
The Johnson County War, a video interview with historian Bill O’Neal about the real-life conflict that inspired the film, and its resonance in popular culture
Trailer and TV spots
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and programmer Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan

Weekend
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New video essay by film critic Kent Jones
Archival interviews with actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne and assistant director Claude Miller
Excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard, featuring on-set footage of Weekend shot by filmmaker Philippe Garrel
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana

Rashomon
New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie
Video introduction by director Robert Altman
Excerpts from The World of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary on Rashomon’s cinematographer
A Testimony as an Image, a sixty-eight-minute documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
Archival audio interview with actor Takashi Shimura
Original and rerelease trailers
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Stephen Prince; an excerpt from director Akira Kurosawa’s Something Like an Autobiography; and reprints of Rashomon’s two source stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “Rashomon” and “In a Grove”

Glorious. I can't wait.

That's a hell of a month.

Definitely in for Rashomon. About time!

Great, great month.

re: Kurosawa. I have to admit to Seven Samurai going way above my head for a couple of reasons. Is there still a chance I might be able to enjoy some of his other films more?

That probably depends upon what those reasons are.

Godard's weekend. Yeeeeea

I found it incredibly long and slow paced, and found the multitude of characters interchangeable to the point where I wasn't completely sure who was who at times. That last point is entirely on me and not a fault of the movie per say, but it still made it harder for me to connect to the movie.