Glad I sold my Seven Samurai set recently in anticipation for this, should look amazing.

I hope they get to some of those sooner rather than later. I knew alot of them were rumored and I can't wait. to more Wes Anderson on BR, isn't Darjeeling the one with the Natalie Portman bare butt short associated with it?

Definitely in for the BD's of Paths Of Glory, The Magician and House.

Great month.


The Magician (1958)
Ingmar Bergman


* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New visual essay by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
* Brief 1967 video interview with director Ingmar Bergman about the film
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoff Andrew, a reprinted essay by Assayas, and an excerpt from Bergman’s autobiography Images: My Life in Film


Paths of Glory (1957)
Stanley Kubrick

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins
* Television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas
* New video interviews with Kubrick’s longtime executive producer Jan Harlan, Paths of Glory producer James B. Harris, and actress Christiane Kubrick
* Excerpt from a French television program about real-life World War I executions similar to the events dramatized in Paths of Glory
* Theatrical trailer
* PLUS: An essay by Kubrick scholar James Naremore


House (1977)
Nobuhiko Obayashi


* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Constructing a House, a new video piece featuring interviews with director Nobuhiko Obayashi, story scenarist and daughter of the director Chigumi Obayashi, and screenwriter Chiho Katsura
* Emotion, a 1966 experimental film by Obayashi
* New video appreciation by director Ti West (House of the Devil)
* Theatrical trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: An essay by Chuck Stephens


The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Wes Anderson

* New high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
* Anderson’s short film Hotel Chevalier (part one of The Darjeeling Limited), starring Natalie Portman, with commentary by Anderson
* Audio commentary featuring Anderson and cowriters Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola
* Behind-the-scenes documentary by Barry Braverman
* Anderson and filmmaker James Ivory discussing the film’s music
* Anderson’s American Express commercial
* On-set footage shot by Coppola and actor Waris Ahluwalia
* Audition footage, deleted and alternate scenes, and stills galleries
* Original theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody and original illustrations by Eric Anderson

Hey, it's good enough for the government . . .

Paths and Darjeeling will be mine

I've wanted to see House for some time now, so I'll be getting that one for sure. As for Paths of Glory...

Criterionforum has this very small image available for The Darjeeling Limited...

I like that, alot.

Additional semi-confirmation on the Darjeeling Limited cover, and a glimpse at potential Paths of Glory art, available over at CriterionCast.com via press release:

http://criterioncast.com/2010/07/16/...ork-not-final/

Surely all those quotes won't be there, not bad, though.

Darjeeling is his worst movie yet...but I will still buy it in hopes we get the other Anderson films.

The Darjeeling Limited is my very favorite Wes Anderson film. I believe I went to see it four times in the theater.

Those images look like potential slipcovers or maybe Criterion is going to start adding the BD banner on their artwork.

Don't really like either of those covers.

I'm definitely buying it, but that Darjeeling cover is shit.

I think it's probably my favorite Anderson film as well.

I noticed on Criterion's website that they list the aspect ratio for Paths of Glory at 1.66:1. I guess this ultimately was the preferred AR? I thought all previous releases were always 1.33:1.

I like how the Darjeeling fits in with the Rushmore/Bottle Rocket covers. But hey, I don't look at them, only the spines, so no biggie.

Oh wow, Path's of Glory? Killer's Kiss and the Killing would be a dream too. A pipe dream maybe. If they ever got ahold of Barry Lyndon that'd be magical.

Might as well give that and Lolita to them since WB doesn't seem interested.

We need Rushmore on BR to complete the Wes Anderson CC BR set right?

And Life Aquatic ...and Royal.

This will be the second Anderson CC BR. What we need is a Criterion Fantastic Mr. Fox.