Tema: Lanzamientos de "Criterion Collection"

Ufff, " Valeríe... " puede ser algo maravilloso en HD !!

Criterion anuncia sus lanzamientos previstos para el próximo Julio:

The Killers



Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and launch the acting careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and John Cassavetes, that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway's existential classic.

The Killers (1946)

The first screen incarnation of Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers" came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.

The Killers (1964)

Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. In 1964, Don Siegel—initially slated to direct the 1946 version—took it on, creating the first-ever made-for-TV feature.

Special Features:
New high-definition digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers," made when he was a student in 1956
Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films
Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story
Screen Director's Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters
Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager
Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by actor and director Hampton Fancher
Trailers
PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien


Hiroshima mon amour



A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award–nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.

Special Features:
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
Interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980
Interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003
New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L'atelier d'Alain Resnais
New interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score
Revoir Hiroshima . . . , a 2013 program about the film's restoration
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film

Here's Your Life



This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people—all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film—presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut—is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema's greatest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.

Special Features:
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New introduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh
New conversation between director Jan Troell and film historian Peter Cowie
New interviews with actor Eddie Axberg and producer and screenwriter Bengt Forslund
Interlude in Marshland, a 1965 short film by Troell, starring Max von Sydow
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu

The Black Stallion



This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel by Carroll Ballard—in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse—is a cinematic tour de force. From the crystalline shores of a deserted island in the Arabian Sea to the green grass and dusty roads of 1930s suburban New York, Ballard and director of photography Caleb Deschanel create a film of consistent visual invention and purity, also featuring a winning supporting performance by Mickey Rooney as a retired jockey and a gorgeous score by Carmine Coppola.

Special Features:
New 4K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Caleb Deschanel, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Five short films by Carroll Ballard, with introductions by the director: Pigs! (1965), The Perils of Priscilla (1969), Rodeo (1969), Seems Like Only Yesterday (1971), and Crystallization (1974)
New conversation between Ballard and film critic Scott Foundas
New interview with Deschanel
New piece featuring photographer Mary Ellen Mark discussing her images from the film's set
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Sragow

My Beautiful Laundrette



Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by writer Hanif Kureishi, soon to be internationally renowned, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England.

Special Features:
New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe
New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and Stapleton
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by journalist Sarfraz Manzoor

Moonrise Kingdom



An island off the New England coast, summer of 1965. Two twelve-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As local authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing offshore . . . Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom stars Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the young couple on the run, Bruce Willis as Island Police Captain Sharp, Edward Norton as Khaki Scout troop leader Scout Master Ward, and Bill Murray and Frances McDormand as Suzy's attorney parents, Walt and Laura Bishop. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban. The magical soundtrack features the music of Benjamin Britten.

Special Features:
Restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Anderson
Selected-scene storyboard animatics
Interviews with cast and crew
Behind-the-scenes tour hosted by Bill Murray
Welcome to New Penzance, hosted by Bob Balaban
Auditions
Home movies from the set
Trailer
More!
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien, plus a map of New Penzance Island and other ephemera

Review de "Candilejas" en DVDBeaver: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-r...ht_blu-ray.htm

Me uno a este hilo. Me parece muy interesante.

Anunciados los nuevos títulos para el próximo mes de agosto:

- Night and the City
- The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Dressed to Kill
- Day for Night
- Two Days, One Night

Y en DVD:
- Eclipse Series 43: Agnès Varda in California


Noticia, con todos los detalles y extras: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=16791

No me parece descabellado contactar con Criterion para hacerlos saber que incluir en su subtitulado el español (ellos no conocen la diferencia entre castellano y español), sería muy adecuado. E incluso sopesar la inclusión de otras bandas de subtitulado. Su vocación es mundial. Editan títulos de todas partes. Creo que si se lo hiciéramos saber quizás se lo plantearía. Un mail no es digno de debate, pero muchos quizás sí. Yo ya se lo he enviado.
Saludos a tod@s

Ojalá, pero esta gente lleva ya muchos años en el negocio como no haberse dado cuenta de que la falta de otros subtitulados ( especialmente en castellano ) les hace vender muchísimo menos, y si no los incluyen es porque no quieren, ó bien no pueden hacerlo por temas de derechos.

Es una cuestión de mercado, incluso de marca. También van bloqueados los discos a zona A, y eso tampoco interesa cambiarlo (aunque a priori parezca una contradicción).

Criterion solo compra los derechos para la distribución y comercialización de sus DVDs y BDs en los Estados Unidos y Canadá. A diferencia de los estudios de Hollywood como Fox, Warner. LionsGate o Sony, Criterion NO es dueña de las películas que distribuye, sólo es un licenciatario. Ellos compran los derechos para ese mercado en particular, por contrato no pueden incluir subtítulos en otros idiomas porque los derechos lo tienen otras compañías en diversos países. Por ejemplo en mi país muchas de las ediciones de Criterion las edita Zima, empresa que paga por el derecho (licencia) a la inclusión de subtítulos en español (Y doblaje si quisieran), pero a su vez Zima NO puede por contrato incluir subtítulos en inglés. En España serán otros compañías las que tengan los derechos, en Brasil, Alemania, etc. otras.

Los estudios de Hollywood al ser dueños universales de sus películas pueden incluir los subtítulos y doblajes que quieran, pero en el caso de Criterion la cosa no es tan sencilla, primero tendrían que comprar las licencias para incluir subtítulos o doblajes en otros idiomas, luego abrir una empresa distribuidora en los países para los cuáles compraron los derechos, o aliarse con una distribuidora local (como lo suelen hacer en Canadá con Entertainment One) lo cual significa un doble gasto. En resumen, seguramente no les resulta atractiva ni redituable la inversión, sobretodo porque no venden cine comercial.

A mí lo que me jode es el bloqueo de región, cosa mala, aunque Pachucho ha dado razones bastante buenas.

Nuevos títulos para septiembre:
- Blind Chance
- Mister Johnson
- Breaker Morant
- Moonrise Kingdom
- A Room with a View
- The Honeymoon Killers

Noticia con todos los detalles y extras: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=16995

Estupendo. Por fin una edición decente en HD de A Room with a View.

Al fin se re-edita " Breaker Morant ". Gran portada.

Anunciados nuevos títulos para octubre:

- My Own Private Idaho
- The Brood
- A Special Day
- Kwaidan
- Mulholland Drive

Noticia con todos los detalles y extras: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17183

¡¡Por fin Cromosoma 3 !!

Hay edicion europea ya de la de Cronenberg.

Ganas de ver como dejan " Kwaidan" . Es de las que necesitaban un buen arreglo.

Sony Pictures and Criterion Extend Distribution Deal.

The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced today that they have agreed to a multi-year extension of their distribution agreement.

Under the new agreement, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will continue to distribute Criterion's home video releases in the United States.


Noticia: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17195

Títulos para noviembre:

- Code Unknown
- In Cold Blood
- The Apu Trilogy
- Ikiru
- Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back

Además un pack de Julien Duvivier en DVD.


Noticia: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17403

yo eh comprado hace poco unas cuantas peliculas de criterion y ya entre esta semana me mando con ver algunas, compre estas:

-umberto D
-the royal tenembaums
-au revoir les enfants
-the killing
-brief encounter
-summer with monika y otras mas

algunas las probe para ver q tal la imagen, y te sorprendes con la imagen, incluso brutal algunas pelis en imagen

los tenembaums se ve lo maximo

saludos con los compañeros y los aportes

Nuevos títulos para diciembre:

- Downhill Racer
- Jellyfish Eyes
- Speedy
- Burroughs: The Movie


Noticia: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17590

woooow!!, qué buenos títulos!; lástima en mi caso que mis reproductores estén limitados a nuestra zona, y que mi nivel de inglés no me permita seguir los diálogos.

El lector es fácil de resolver, pero el idioma?, podían subtitular en la 3ª lengua más hablada del planeta.

La maravillosa Night and the city, se ve muy bien en DVD, no quiero ni pensar como se verá en esta edición de Criterion.

Saludos.

The Brood (1973, David Cronenberg): Reseña de la edición Criterion.

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chevere con el dato, ahora estoy pobre , ya compre muchas pelis d criterion y no eh visto ni la mitad

ayer recien me puse a ver high and low (el infierno del odio) y no sabia si ver esa o ver tambien solaris, o tambien the leopard

tratare d ver una al dia si o si