Janurary 2007 Criterions
10-17-06 | 04:14 PM
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Janurary 2007 Criterions
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Spine # 362 - Border Radio
Synopsis
Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema , Allison Anders made her debut, alongside codirectors and fellow UCLA film school students, Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife (Luanna Anders), a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends (John Doe of the band X; Chris Shearer). With its sprawling Southern Californian and Mexican landscape, captured in evocative 16mm black-and-white, Border Radio is a singular, DIY memento of the indie film explosion in America.
Special Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director of photography Dean Lent and codirector Kurt Voss
Two audio commentaries: one with codirectors Allison Anders and Voss, and one with actors Luanna Anders, Dave Alvin, Chris D., John Doe, and Chris Shearer
The Making of "Border Radio", a 2002 documentary featuring interviews with Anders, Lent, Voss, Doe, and Chris D.
Nine deleted scenes
Music video of the Flesh Eaters’ “The Wedding Dice”
Stills gallery featuring rare behind-the-scenes photos
Theatrical trailer and radio spot
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: New essays by music journalist and critic Chris Morris
Synopsis
Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema , Allison Anders made her debut, alongside codirectors and fellow UCLA film school students, Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife (Luanna Anders), a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends (John Doe of the band X; Chris Shearer). With its sprawling Southern Californian and Mexican landscape, captured in evocative 16mm black-and-white, Border Radio is a singular, DIY memento of the indie film explosion in America.
Special Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director of photography Dean Lent and codirector Kurt Voss
Two audio commentaries: one with codirectors Allison Anders and Voss, and one with actors Luanna Anders, Dave Alvin, Chris D., John Doe, and Chris Shearer
The Making of "Border Radio", a 2002 documentary featuring interviews with Anders, Lent, Voss, Doe, and Chris D.
Nine deleted scenes
Music video of the Flesh Eaters’ “The Wedding Dice”
Stills gallery featuring rare behind-the-scenes photos
Theatrical trailer and radio spot
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: New essays by music journalist and critic Chris Morris
Spine #363 Mouchette
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenaged Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil. An essential work of French filmmaking, Bresson’s hugely empathetic drama elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema’s great tragic figures.
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Audio commentary by renowned film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
• Au hasard Bresson, a half-hour documentary about the director, including behind-the-scenes footage of Robert Bresson directing Mouchette
• “Traveling,” a segment from the cine-magazine TV series Cinéma, featuring on-set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert
• Original theatrical trailer, cut by Jean-Luc Godard
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Plus: A new essay by writer Robert Polito
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenaged Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil. An essential work of French filmmaking, Bresson’s hugely empathetic drama elevates its trapped protagonist into one of the cinema’s great tragic figures.
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Audio commentary by renowned film scholar, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
• Au hasard Bresson, a half-hour documentary about the director, including behind-the-scenes footage of Robert Bresson directing Mouchette
• “Traveling,” a segment from the cine-magazine TV series Cinéma, featuring on-set interviews with Bresson and actors Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert
• Original theatrical trailer, cut by Jean-Luc Godard
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Plus: A new essay by writer Robert Polito
Spine #364 - 366 - Monster and Madmen
Synopsis
Launching us from a grave past to a space-age future, these two thrilling double features, from producers Richard and Alex Gordon, spin classic tales of hair-raising homicidal mania and intrepid, death-defying exploration.
Special Features
FOUR-DISC SPECIAL EDITION SET FEATURES:
DISC ONE: The Haunted Strangler
Corridors of Blood New, restored high-definition digital transfers
Audio commentaries by Richard Gordon and Weaver on both films, with additional comments from Alex Gordon on The Haunted Strangler
New video interviews with Day and costars Francis Matthews and Yvonne Romain (Corridors of Blood) and Day, screenwriter Jan Read, and costars Jean Kent and Vera Day (Strangler) Deleted scenes
Original theatrical trailers and radio spots
Stills galleries featuring production and publicity photographs
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring Fangoria’s 1984 interview with producer John Croydon about Karloff, and a new essay by Maitland McDonagh
DISC TWO: The Atomic Submarine
First Man into Space New. restored high-definition digital transfers
Audio commentaries by producer Alex Gordon and writer Tom Weaver (The Atomic Submarine) and producer Richard Gordon and Weaver (First Man into Space)
New video interviews with actor Brett Halsey (Submarine) and director Robert Day and costar Marla Landi (Space)
Original theatrical trailers and radio spots
Stills galleries featuring production and publicity photographs
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Bruce Eder and Michael Lennick
Synopsis
Launching us from a grave past to a space-age future, these two thrilling double features, from producers Richard and Alex Gordon, spin classic tales of hair-raising homicidal mania and intrepid, death-defying exploration.
Special Features
FOUR-DISC SPECIAL EDITION SET FEATURES:
DISC ONE: The Haunted Strangler
Corridors of Blood New, restored high-definition digital transfers
Audio commentaries by Richard Gordon and Weaver on both films, with additional comments from Alex Gordon on The Haunted Strangler
New video interviews with Day and costars Francis Matthews and Yvonne Romain (Corridors of Blood) and Day, screenwriter Jan Read, and costars Jean Kent and Vera Day (Strangler) Deleted scenes
Original theatrical trailers and radio spots
Stills galleries featuring production and publicity photographs
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring Fangoria’s 1984 interview with producer John Croydon about Karloff, and a new essay by Maitland McDonagh
DISC TWO: The Atomic Submarine
First Man into Space New. restored high-definition digital transfers
Audio commentaries by producer Alex Gordon and writer Tom Weaver (The Atomic Submarine) and producer Richard Gordon and Weaver (First Man into Space)
New video interviews with actor Brett Halsey (Submarine) and director Robert Day and costar Marla Landi (Space)
Original theatrical trailers and radio spots
Stills galleries featuring production and publicity photographs
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Bruce Eder and Michael Lennick
And rereleases of Sanjuro and Yojimbo:
Synopsis
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akria Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, the jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a “proper” samurai on its ear. Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character’s return is a masterpiece in its own right. Criterion is proud to present this Kurosawa favorite in a new, high-definition transfer.
Available individually or as part of the Yojimbo/Sanjuro collector's set!
Special Features
All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
Theatrical trailer and teaser
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and notes and statements from Kurosawa and his cast and crew
Synopsis
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films ever produced. Criterion is proud to present this Kurosawa favorite in a new, high-definition transfer.
Available individually or as part of the Yojimbo/Sanjuro collector's set!
Special Features
All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
A 45-minute documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
Theatrical trailer and teaser
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
New and improved English subtitle translation
Synopsis
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akria Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, the jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a “proper” samurai on its ear. Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character’s return is a masterpiece in its own right. Criterion is proud to present this Kurosawa favorite in a new, high-definition transfer.
Available individually or as part of the Yojimbo/Sanjuro collector's set!
Special Features
All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
Theatrical trailer and teaser
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and notes and statements from Kurosawa and his cast and crew
Synopsis
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films ever produced. Criterion is proud to present this Kurosawa favorite in a new, high-definition transfer.
Available individually or as part of the Yojimbo/Sanjuro collector's set!
Special Features
All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
A 45-minute documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
Theatrical trailer and teaser
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
New and improved English subtitle translation
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10-17-06 | 04:22 PM
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Great to see that they are finally releasing those 4 horror and sci-fi flicks which have been in the rumor will for a long time. Also cool to see they are in a nifty set as I wanted all of them anyway (even though I still have the Rhino disc of "FIRST MAN INTO SPACE". This release, and "EQUINOX" earlier, pretty much proves Criterion won't be starting up a new cult sub-label for this kind of thing, but just issue them under the main line.
10-17-06 | 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by man*machine
Great to see that they are finally releasing those 4 horror and sci-fi flicks which have been in the rumor will for a long time. Also cool to see they are in a nifty set as I wanted all of them anyway (even though I still have the Rhino disc of "FIRST MAN INTO SPACE". This release, and "EQUINOX" earlier, pretty much proves Criterion won't be starting up a new cult sub-label for this kind of thing, but just issue them under the main line.
So in other words, get ready to hear some bitching from the elitists.
10-17-06 | 04:54 PM
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That's a dbl-dip of Yojimbo for me (But I don't know what's up with those Complete Dossier-looking covers)
I Gotta check out Monster & Madmen too. Tom Weaver's been long overdue for another audio commentary!
I Gotta check out Monster & Madmen too. Tom Weaver's been long overdue for another audio commentary!
10-17-06 | 05:05 PM
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Since we are finally seeing the reissues of Sanjuro and Yojimbo, can a Kurosawa boxset be forthcoming? I've held off on the improved Seven Samurai in anticipation of this, but is this wishful thinking?
"Available individually or as part of the Yojimbo/Sanjuro collector's set!"
Maybe no Kurosawa set...
"Available individually or as part of the Yojimbo/Sanjuro collector's set!"
Maybe no Kurosawa set...
Last edited by tofferman; 10-17-06 at 05:06 PM. Reason: added text
10-17-06 | 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Walter Neff
No other John Doe fans here, I guess? I'm in for "Border Radio," the two Kurosawas, and maybe others...
I will also be getting the Kurosawas. Not sure about the others yet.
10-17-06 | 07:09 PM
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Monsters and Madmen.... can't wait. It's been years since I've seen The Atomic Submarine.
10-17-06 | 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by tofferman
"Available individually or as part of the Yojimbo/Sanjuro collector's set!"
10-17-06 | 07:48 PM
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Already own Mouchette, and I don't care to double-dip on a couple of Kurosawas I don't care much for. 
10-17-06 | 08:18 PM
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I eagerly await Mouchette. My admiration for Bresson grows with each film I see by him. I did not get a chance to see it during the theatrical re-release.
The January titles are a nice mix and more than compensate for the weak October and December slates for me.
The January titles are a nice mix and more than compensate for the weak October and December slates for me.
10-17-06 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by bboisvert
The rereleases of Sanjuro and Yojimbo are listed on Criterion's site as "Not Anamorphic". That's gotta be a mistake, right?
It has to be a mistake. It has happened before at the Criterion website.
