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.

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

And I would heartily disagree with both assessments.

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

..except for Kubrick.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Oldboy bad?

Please.

Nice cover but they need to fix the year.

That isn't official is it?

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

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

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

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.

WOO-HOO!!!!



- 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

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

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

I'm excited about:

Chimes at Midnight



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

other August titles:

The Immortal Story



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



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



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



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

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)