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Not always. I've had Amazon cancel my orders after they couldn't get the item back in stock.

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When Criterion releases a film on DVD, does that mean the other studio version of the title goes out of print?

I'd want to upgrade to a Darjeeling Limited Criterion Blu-ray, but I'm not sure if I should sell my standard Fox DVD now or wait until it officially goes out of print.

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No, they don't have exclusive licenses to films, even if in many cases no other company distributes their titles. Well, maybe they actually do for some titles, but certainly not for big studio titles like TDL.

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For those of you waiting for the replacement cases, they emailed me today letting me know that they shipped my order out today.

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On Criterion's website The Thin Red Line is listed under Coming Soon, so that's a September release for sure, along with Videodrome, The Seventh Samurai, and ...

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I don't see that

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I don't see it either...

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if you keep refreshing the main page you'll see TTRL without any artwork under Coming Soon.

This is the link that was presented to me when I saw it (which still isn't up yet):

http://www.criterion.com/films/27513-the-thin-red-line

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Oh nice.

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Thin Red Line artwork is terrible... it looks like a fat white half-circle. Hope they change it before it gets released. ;)

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"Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and "The Thin Red Line" are both appearing on the site as DVD and Blu-ray releases. "Breathless" and "Charade" also being upgraded to Blu-ray.

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We need to get the screenshot police in here. Clearly, Criterion has DNR'ed the cover art so badly that's all there is left of the picture. The bastards! Boycott! Boycott!! Boycott!!!

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so i guess VIDEODROME will be in the hopefully horror-esque themed october

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September 28 release date now showing on Criterion's site for the Thin Red Line and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.

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TTRL looks to be a loaded special edition. Yes, it's the theatrical cut, and here are the extras:



* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill
* Outtakes from the film
* Video interviews with several of the film’s actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Tom Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn
* New video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage
* New interview with composer Hans Zimmer
* New video piece featuring interviews with editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein
* An interview with writer James Jones’s daughter Kaylie Jones
* World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands
* Original theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 essay by James Jones on war films

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All relevant info in one neat post:



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Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard

France
1960
90 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
French

Synopsis:

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard 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 and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.


SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

* Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Raoul Coutard
* Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
* New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker
* New video essays: filmmaker and critic Mark Rappaport’s “Jean Seberg” and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum’s “Breathless as Film Criticism”
* Chambre 12, Hotel de suede, an eighty-minute French documentary about the making of Breathless, with members of the cast and crew
* Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard, starring Belmondo
* French theatrical trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring writings from Godard, film historian Dudley Andrew, François Truffaut’s original film treatment, and Godard’s scenario

14 Sep 2010
Blu-Ray
1 Disc
SRP: $39.95
Spine #408


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Charade
Stanley Donen

United States
1963
113 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English

Synopsis:

In this deliciously dark comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn, outfitted in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is a suave, mysterious stranger, played by Cary Grant. Director Stanley Donen goes splendidly Hitchcockian for Charade, a glittering emblem of sixties style and macabre wit.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

* New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound and enhanced fro widescreen telelvisions
* Audio commentary: A conversation with Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
* The Films of Stanley Donen: A selected filmography, with an introduction by Donen biographer Stephen M. Silverman
* Peter Stone’s career highlights
* Original theatrical trailer
* English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired

21 Sep 2010
Blu-Ray
1 Disc
SRP: $39.95
Spine #57


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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Nagisa Oshima

Japan, United Kingdom
1983
124 minutes
Color
1.78:1
English, Japanese

Synopsis:

In this captivating, exhilaratingly skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies the character Celliers, a high-ranking British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Music star Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed this film’s hypnotic score) plays the camp commander, who becomes obsessed with the mysterious blond major, while Tom Conti is British lieutenant colonel Mr. Lawrence, who tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between his captors and fellow prisoners. Also featuring actor-director Takeshi Kitano in his first dramatic role, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a multilayered, brutal, at times erotic tale of culture clash that was one of Oshima’s greatest successes.


SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

* New, restored high-definition master (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
* The Oshima Gang, an original making-of featurette
* New video interviews with producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Paul Mayersberg, actor Tom Conti, and actor-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
* Hasten Slowly, an hour-long documentary about author and adventurer Laurens van der Post, whose autobiographical novel is the basis for the film
* Original theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Chuck Stephens and a 1983 interview with director Nagisa Oshima by Japanese film writer Tadao Sato

28 Sep 2010
Blu-Ray
1 Disc
SRP: $39.95
DVD
2 Discs
SRP: $29.95
Spine #535



The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick

United States
1998
170 minutes
Color
2.35:1
English

Synopsis:

After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema’s finest actors—Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, and Woody Harrelson among them—The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of cinema’s greatest war films.


SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill
* Outtakes from the film
* Video interviews with several of the film’s actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Tom Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn
* New video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage
* New interview with composer Hans Zimmer
* New video piece featuring interviews with editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein
* An interview with writer James Jones’s daughter Kaylie Jones
* World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands
* Original theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 essay by James Jones on war films


28 Sep 2010
Blu-Ray
1 Disc
SRP: $39.95
28 Sep 2010
DVD
2 Discs
SRP: $29.95
Spine #56


Note: There are no new extras on the Breathless or Charade Blu-rays. Also, the DVDs of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and The Thin Red Line are both $10 cheaper than their Blu-ray counterparts.

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hrm....those extras on TTRL....are great. I'm assuming "outtakes" are literally outtakes and not another word for deleted footage. Cuz I could take hourse of deleted footage for this film.

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My Criterion cases showed up today.

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Charade on Blu? I'm in!

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Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard
Blu-ray

I just sold my DVD of this title....and I realized that I had only watched it one time.

I don't know what it is, but I am just not enamored with this seminal title. I want to like it more, but I just can't seem to muster up the requisite appreciation.

PLEASE help me like this!

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The temporary cover art for The Thin Red Line shouldn't have been a white curved 'C', but actually a thin, and red, straight line. Hmm...

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I really like it not quite as much as some of the Anna Karina films. If you don't like it, try watching it again. Sometimes it takes a few showings. I didn't like Citizen Kane until the third time seeing it.

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I feel that way about most Godard films. In fact, I used to like his movies a lot more when I was in college. Having recently rewatched Contempt and Pierrot le Fou on Blu-ray, I didn't care for them nearly as much as I remember that I used to.

I'll undoubtedly give Breathless another try as well, though.

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Nothing to be done, its OK though, you are the normal one as probably 98% of people can't stand Goddard. He is my all-time favorite directory & I've given up trying to get people into him. Its like Sushi, you either love it & can't get enough of it, or you find it weird & can't stomach it.

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I really enjoyed that commentary as well, it's a shame Criterion didn't port it over. That may be the version Netflix carries.

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DVD Beaver comparison of The Leopard

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I love Godard, but Breathless is not his best. Give me Une Femme Est Une Femme, merci beaucoup.

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See, I can't stand that one. Sure, it has some nice visuals and Karina is enchanting as always, but to me it just seems like an empty love letter to his lady, one long series of minor cinematic in-jokes (not that all of Godard's 60's output doesn't have it's fair share of movie references, but Femme seems dependent on them, and they're all pretty slight), prodded along by a thin and irritatingly cutesy plot. Enjoyable fluff, but nothing that really rewards repeat viewings. It would look wonderful in HD, of course.

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Comparing Godard to Sushi: Priceless. I love both but my sister can't seem to get into either. What a wonderful & odd comparison. Fitting.

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I'm a big fan of almost all of his 60's work, but I must admit to being nonplussed by his later output. Weekend (my favorite) is the cut-off point for me. After that, Godard's films seem more like dated left-wing political lectures than actual movies.

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Much like Kurosawa I'm not a fan Godard's later work either. All of his work is polarizing though, even his best, I completely understand why people don't like him.

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My fav Godard is Band of Outsiders. It's just a lot of fun.

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Yeah, it's just very fresh and youthful..it's hard not to get into it. You know? It's got that young cockiness that maybe I'm more inclined to understand being where and what I am.

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I like Bande à part as well....thought it was good fun.

The thing about Breathless that really turned me off was the fact that it seemed

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Band of Outsiders is one of my favorites as well.

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I guess I feel the same way about it. It's lovely stylistically, but I don't know if I want to watch it over and over again. I'll probably sell off my Criterion DVD copy just because of the window-boxing. Don't know if I'll ever get around to picking it up on Blu.

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criterion's facebook says the newsletter is going out shortly....anyone check their email yet? i'm stuck at work so i don't know if it's been sent.

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Yeah I just got it a few minutes ago.

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well...?