Dan

^Playtime has been, and is currently, available separately for a long time.
edit: Oh, it's discontinued? I had no idea... nevermind.

JayDerek

dex14

Glad I sold my Tati DVDs last week...for more than the list on the set.

riotinmyskull

Supermallet

La Dolce Vita for sure.

Coral

La Dolce Vita for me.

The Tati set is tempting, but I already have Playtime - so I'm going to stick to my "must-have, totally essential only" shopping strategy.

Solid Snake

La Dolce Vita is a must.

Maxflier

La Dolce Vita will be mine.

Giles

My Darling Clementine

New 4K digital restoration of the theatrical release version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
High-definition presentation of the 103-minute prerelease version of the film
New audio commentary featuring John Ford biographer Joseph McBride
New interview with western historian Andrew C. Isenberg about the real Wyatt Earp
Comparison of the two versions by the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Robert Gitt
New video essay by Ford scholar Tag Gallagher
A Bandit’s Wager, a 1916 short costarring Ford and directed by his brother, Francis Ford, featuring new music composed and performed by Donald Sosin
NBC broadcast reports from 1963 and 1975 about the history of Tombstone and Monument Valley
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1947 starring Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic David Jenkins

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F For Fake

New, restored digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary from 2005 by cowriter and star Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver
Introduction from 2005 by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Orson Welles: One-Man Band, a documentary from 1995 about Welles’s unfinished projects
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery, a fifty-two-minute documentary from 1997 about art forger Elmyr de Hory
60 Minutes interview from 2000 with Clifford Irving about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
Hughes’s 1972 press conference exposing Irving’s hoax
Extended, nine-minute trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

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La Dolce Vita

New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New visual essay by : : kogonada
New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who worked as assistant director on the film
Scholar David Forgacs discusses the period in Italy’s history when the film was made
New interview with Italian film journalist Antonello Sarno about the outlandish fashions seen in the film
Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann
Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera related to La dolce vita from the collection of Don Young
PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins

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The Complete Jacques Tati

New digital restorations of all six feature films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays of Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, Trafic, and Parade and uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray of PlayTime
New digital restorations of all seven short films: On demande une brute (1934), Gai dimanche (1935), Soigne ton gauche (1936), L’école des facteurs (1946), Cours du soir (1967), Forza Bastia (1978), and Dégustation maison (1978)
Two alternate versions of Jour de fête, a partly colorized 1964 version and the full-color 1994 rerelease version
Original 1953 theatrical release version of Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
My Uncle, the version of Mon oncle that director Jacques Tati created for English-language audiences
Introductions by actor and comedian Terry Jones to Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, and PlayTime
Archival interviews with Tati
In the Footsteps of Monsieur Hulot, a 1989 documentary about Tati’s beloved alter ego
Five visual essays by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet
New interview with film scholar Michel Chion on the sound design of Tati’s films
“Jour de fête”: In Search of the Lost Color, a 1988 documentary on the process of realizing Tati’s original color vision for that film
Once Upon a Time . . . “Mon oncle,” a 2008 documentary about the making of that film
Everything Is Beautiful, a 2005 piece on the fashion, furniture, and architecture of Mon oncle
Selected-scene commentaries on PlayTime by Goudet, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and critic Philip Kemp
Tativille, a documentary shot on the set of PlayTime
Beyond “PlayTime,” a short 2002 documentary featuring on-set footage
An Homage to Jacques Tati, a 1982 French TV program featuring Tati friend and set designer Jacques Lagrange
Audio interview with Tati from the U.S. premiere of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival
Interview with PlayTime script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot from 2006
Tati Story, a short biographical film from 2002
Professor Goudet’s Lessons, a 2013 classroom lecture by Goudet on Tati’s films
Alternate English-language soundtracks for Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday and PlayTime
New English subtitle translations
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics David Cairns, James Quandt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Kristin Ross

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The Vanishing

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with director George Sluizer
New interview with actor Johanna ter Steege
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Foundas

Ringmaster

Wait!! All that talk of The Vanishing remake included with the blu ray was a joke?!?!? You guys are cruel No joke, it would of been cool as extra.

gryffinmaster

I'm all over The Vanishing and La Dolce Vita.

MTRodaba2468

Concerning the Tati box set, what I find interesting is that Trafic, which I believe was one of the Studio Canal titles Criterion lost the rights to, is included. Perhaps we can hope more of the SC titles will be relicensed...

riotinmyskull

it's getting a seperate release via twilight time

nitin77

will get all those except F for Fake.

Kedrix

Welp, adding Vanishing to my wish list for the next B&N sale

dex14

The November sale is going to be mighty expensive for me.

DaveyJoe

The Vanishing is one of my favorite Criterions, so I'm very excited about that upgrade. I've only seen La Dolce Vita once, at least I think so, is that the one where I watched it at work, so I didn't get the best viewing experience of it, I'll probably end up picking it up, but I need to get 8 1/2 first.

rocket1312

That cover for The Vanishing is great.

Really great month, but I'll have to give my old dvds of The Vanishing and F for Fake a spin sometime soon to see if I want to upgrade. The Vanishing had to have been one of the first 3 or 4 Criterions I ever bought and I probably haven't watched it in 9 or 10 years. F for Fake is a one of a kind marvel, but it's not the kind of thing you just throw in on a lazy Friday night at home. Oh, who am I kidding. It's Welles. Of course I'll upgrade. Some day.

Josh Z

La Dolce Vita!

:swoon:

I'm a little confused as to whether Playtime in the Tati box is actually a new transfer, or whether Criterion considers the existing Blu-ray transfer to be the "digital restoration."

Neil M.

I'm pretty sure Playtime will be the new 4k restoration.

FM

Does anyone have any idea if Criterion will be re-releasing Blu-Ray only versions of the titles that were issued as dual-releases?

Solid Snake

Doubt it.

Dunno why they would do that considering the reason for the dual format. It'd be stupid of them to do that.

I'd prefer no DVD with my BD. But the price is the same for us BD people, so whatever.

DaveyJoe

Actually, they just announced that they are releasing Foreign Correspondent in separate BD and DVD versions, so it's likely they'll do that with more of their dual format editions in the future.

FM

I'm not saying it's not goofy, but part of my justification for upgrading to Blus of movies I already own on DVD is that the cases are smaller and take up less room. The dual-releases take away that excuse )

rocket1312

I'm sure that just like with old digipaks being converted to keep cases, whenever Criterion goes back to print on the dual-formats, they will do separate BD and DVD. Like DaveyJoe said, they've already started with Foreign Correspondent.