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I think you have to go into your account and check the box that you want to receive it.

Edit: I don't think you even need to log in or have an account. There is a place on their homepage to enter your email address and hit subscribe.

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yeah it's one of the rumoured WB titles that they got. And strictly speaking, it should be Jacques Torneur and not Paul schrader :)

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It's good to see the WB titles trickling out. Hopefully The Devils is one of them.

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If it was really just a pop-up trivia track then yeah. But it's not:

Given all else is equal, if making a choice between the digibook packaging and that feature vs. the listed new features on the Criterion disc, it's an easy call for the digibook. I'll just have to live with the fact that the digibook doesn't have a spine number.

After seeing the final details on the Criterion I picked myself up the digibook version.

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Tourneur directed, but an argument can be made that Lewton (the producer) was the actual auteur behind the movie.

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It's not that great of an extra. It's more about the Cold War than the actual film. I'd rather have interviews about the film but that's my preference.

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You can say -- and people have been saying for years -- the same about Yasjuro Ozu :shrug:

And I would heartily disagree with both assessments.

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It's the best directors that go on to make the same films over and over.

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..except for Kubrick.

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That's fine, but that doesn't change the way he tells his stories and that types of characters he uses. Pretty much you know when you're looking at a Wes Anderson movie. I never said it's a bad thing, just repetitive.

Exactly. Just not sure that merits Criterion cutting a deal with him because of that. But hey, they like it, and I'm guessing they make bank from it. But Moonrise and Mr. Fox are two titles I won't be double dipping on.

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When should we expect the next B&N Criterion sale? It's usually twice a year, right?

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I asked earlier, and I was told the next one is July.

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Thanks. I thought it might be sooner, but July's not bad. :)

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The B&N Criterion sales are held in July and November every year.

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:up: I knew about November, but couldn't remember if the other one was July or earlier, and I'm bad at Google. :)

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Oldboy bad?

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Please.

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Nice cover but they need to fix the year.

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That isn't official is it?

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Never seen a Criterion cover with the producers name on it.

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It was posted on Facebook by Bill Sienkiewicz saying that it was his latest for Criterion

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Lewton is as much or more the auteur of that film as Tourneur.

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I am still hoping that this release turns out to be a double feature with the sequel as an extra feature. It's not like they haven't done that kind of thing before.

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WOO-HOO!!!!

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- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster
- New documentary on the making of the film, featuring actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy; casting director Graeme Clifford; and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury
- New conversation about the film and Altman’s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell
- Featurette from the film’s production, shot on location in 1970
- Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen, hosted by the Art Directors Guild Film Society
- Archival footage from interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, in which he discusses his work on the film
- Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro
- Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael
- Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Nathaniel Rich

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I was so excited to see that announcement! I've been waiting for that one for a long time.

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Splendid. Although the cover's a little over-crowded

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I'm excited about:

Chimes at Midnight

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New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles
New interview with actor Keith Baxter
New interview with director Orson Welles’s daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven
New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow
New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show
Trailer

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other August titles:

The Immortal Story

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New, restored 4K digital transfer of the English-language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate French-language version of the film
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif
New interview with actor Norman Eshley
Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant
New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas
PLUS: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

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A Taste of Honey

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New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
Audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
New interview with Kate Dorney, curator of modern and contemporary theater at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, about A Taste of Honey’s onstage origins
Excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney
Momma Don’t Allow (1956), Richardson’s first theatrical film
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe

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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

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High-definition digital transfer, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with director Stig Björkman
Super 8 home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s
Two deleted scenes, showing Bergman’s daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone
Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann and Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings
Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role
Outtakes from Bergman’s 1936 film On the Sunny Side
Music video for Eva Dahlgren’s song “The Movie About Us,” which is included on the film’s soundtrack
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jeanine Basinger

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Woman in the Dunes

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New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt
Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965)
Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara

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Finally!

This is probably my most wanted movie in a very long time, probably ever. There was never even a proper DVD of it - I only ever saw it in college on a horrible VHS transfer. But it still left a huge impression. I can seriously be content after getting this and just stop buying movies.

(though I don't love the cover)

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Woman in the Dunes :)

Where's Pitfall & The Face of Another? :(

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Chimes looks fascinating. From my reading, it appears to be a Shakespeare fanfic?

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Hell yeah, I'll buy that. Only like the fourth or fifth Warren Beatty film on Blu Ray. Shame that neither Beatty or Christie are anywhere on the supplements. Still a must-buy for me.

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Yes, sir.

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A great month...A Taste of Honey, Chimes at Midnight, Woman in the Dunes & McCabe & Mrs Miller are all must buys for me.

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Very excited for the Welles' and McCabe. But the price point for The Immortal Story should be adjusted, IMO.

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I don't know, Immortal Story includes 2 versions of the film, a commentary, a 40 min doc and 3 interviews of unknown length. That's a pretty healthy package even if the main feature is only 60 min. Criterion has priced far lesser titles at $39.95.

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In case you haven't figured it out, no announcement today. Something went screwy on Criterion's end, so the announcement will be on the 16th.

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•New 2K digital restoration, with 3.0 LCR DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actor Barbara Parkins and journalist Ted Casablanca
•New interview with author Amy Fine Collins about author Jacqueline Susann and the film
•New video essay by critic Kim Morgan
•Footage of Marc Huestis Presents Sparkle Patty Sparkle!, a 2009 gala tribute to actor Patty Duke at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco
•A World Premiere Voyage and Jacqueline Susann and “Valley of the Dolls,” two promotional films from 1967
•Archival interviews
•Trailers and TV spots
•PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny

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•High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•Audio commentary from 2003 featuring screenwriter Roger Ebert
•Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actors Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, John La Zar, and Erica Gavin
•New interview with filmmaker John Waters
•Archival interviews with writer, director, and producer Russ Meyer
•Q&A about the film from 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, La Zar, Read, and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blodgett, and Edy Williams
•Above, Beneath, and Beyond the Valley; Look On Up at the Bottom; The Best of Beyond; Sex, Drugs, Music and Murder; and Casey & Roxanne, five documentaries from 2006 about the making of the film, featuring the cast and crew
•Trailers and TV spots
•PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny

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Also presented are the longer theatrical versions of Dekalog’s fifth and sixth films: A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love.

•New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
•New high-definition digital restorations of A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
•Selection of archival interviews with director Krzysztof Kieślowski, culled from footage from the 1987 production of Dekalog: Two, excerpts from the 1995 documentary A Short Film About “Dekalog,” and a 1990 audio recording from the National Film Theatre in London
•New program on the visual rhyming of Dekalog by film studies professor Annette Insdorf
•New and archival interviews with Dekalog cast and crew, including cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, thirteen actors, three cinematographers, editor Ewa Smal, and Kieślowski’s confidante Hanna Krall
•Trailers
•PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film analyses by film scholar Paul Coates and excerpted reprints from Kieślowski on Kieślowski

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•New, restored 2K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historian Gregory Mank, with excerpts from an audio interview with actor Simone Simon
•Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, a 2008 feature-length documentary that explores the life and career of the legendary Hollywood producer
•Interview with director Jacques Tourneur from 1977
•New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about the look of the film
•Trailer
•PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

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•New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•New conversation between Sonnenfeld and the Coens about the film’s look, featuring Telestrator video illustrations
•New conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coens about the film’s production, from inception to release
•New interviews with composer Carter Burwell, sound mixer Skip Lievsay, and actors Frances McDormand and M. Emmet Walsh
•Trailers
•PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich

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•New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•New interview with critic Phillip Lopate about the evolution of director Kenji Mizoguchi’s style
•New English subtitle translation
•PLUS: An essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew

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Nice!

I'm in for both Dolls' films, Cat People, and Blood Simple.