I usually wait for the BN sale, but with Blow Out I can't wait, probably my most anticipated release of the year, placed my pre-order for $26 at Amazon. I'd also wished they would have got QT involved, he seems easy enough to track down and eager to talk about anything involving film.

The "more" for The Mikado:

DVD Beaver on Amarcord

DVD Beaver on Still Walking

Here's the "More!" on Blow Out:

So we get a full-length film as a supplementary feature, presumably also in HD. Very nice. That's several Criterion Blu-rays now with feature films as extras. Has anyone seen Murder a la Mod? De Palma's early works are at least interesting experiments, though I'm not familiar with this one.

Apparently, Something Weird Video held the rights to Murder a la Mod at one point. There is a trailer of it on youtube if anybody is curious. Pretty cool extra even if it ends up being a turd.

Here's the trailer:

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It's the film Dennis Franz's character is watching on television in Blow Out.

interesting indeed......

Awesome news on the Blow Out bonus film. Kinda surprised CC didn't give it a seperate release or release.

Maybe someone here could help me out. I remember a while back I thought I saw there was going to be a new Criterion release that seemed like some kind of exploitation film that was in black and white, had nazi imagery, and the main images I saw were of a woman-- maybe in a position of power-- who was maybe topless or maybe had some real skimmpy thing on up top and with nazi imagery.

I know that's a real stream of consciousness sentence up there, but that's really all I can remember from it. Am I hallucinating?

i think you're talking about SALON KITTY (a Blue Underground release)

Sounds like The Night Porter.

it indeed is...and this is my favorite scene out of it...

OH...NSFW....didn't notice the screen cap...

Ah I see, it is Night Porter. Thanks! Has this been announced for blu yet?

These extras are no longer listed on Criterion's website, hopefully they haven't been dropped.

There have been no announcements for a Night Porter blu-ray. I can't imagine it is too high on their list to revisit, but I could be wrong.

I hope it is. It's one I have held off from buying for a long time so it can get an upgrade.

DVD Beaver on Sweet Smell of Success

this movie despite it's notoriety did nothing for me.

DVD Beaver on Senso

I'm sure Sweet Smell of Success looks much better in motion but those comparison caps dont really seem to show to much extra detail or depth compared to the dvd.

Though they were able to remove those annoying lines on the right hand side during Curtis' telephone conversation. As for Senso, just based upon the caps I prefer the Studio Canal version.

yeah I agree that most the improvements in Sweet Smell will be lack of damage/artifacting related.

edit: forgot the old dvd was non-anamorphic, that's obviously a big plus for the blu.

I have to agree and wasn't there was an issue with The Leopard with another release that appeared to best Criterion's image quality? Seems odd.