Tema: Lanzamientos de "Criterion Collection"

Los lanzamientos de Agosto:


Compensation
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Zeinabu irene Davis, in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Wimmin with a Mission Productions, and in conjunction with the Sundance Institute, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring Davis, screenwriter Marc Arthur Chéry, and director of photography Pierre H. L. Désir Jr.
• Q&As with members of the cast and crew
• Two short films by Davis, Crocodile Conspiracy (1986) and Pandemic Bread (2023), the latter with audio commentary featuring Davis and cast and crew members and descriptive audio
• Interview with Davis from 2021
• New program about select archival photographs and adinkra and vèvè symbols in the film
• Trailer
• English subtitles and intertitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, and English descriptive audio
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Racquel Gates, a director’s note, and a conversation between Davis and artist Alison O’Daniel about the process of captioning the film
• New cover by Polly Dedman


Saving face
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• High-definition digital master, approved by director Alice Wu, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring Wu
• New interviews with Wu and actor Joan Chen
• Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wu
• Behind-the-scenes featurette
• Program featuring Wu and members of the cast at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Phoebe Chen
• New cover by Ping Zhu


Vermiglio
• Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Maura Delpero
• Trailer


Soeshine
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Sciuscià 70 (2016), a documentary by Mimmo Verdesca, made to mark the film’s seventieth anniversary
• New program on Shoeshine and children in Italian neorealism featuring film scholars Paola Bonifazio and Catherine O’Rawe
• Radio broadcast from 1946 featuring director Vittorio De Sica
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs and “Shoeshine, Joe?,” a 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica
• New cover by F. Ron Miller


A confucian confucion & Mahjong
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restorations, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• Excerpts of director Edward Yang speaking after a 1994 screening of A Confucian Confusion
• New interview with editor Chen Po-wen
• New conversation between Chinese-cultural-studies scholar Michael Berry and film critic Justin Chang
• Performance of Yang’s 1992 play Likely Consequence
• PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim and a 1994 director’s note on A Confucian Confusion
• New cover by Tori Huynh


Cairo station
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine (1991), a short documentary by Youssef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim
• New interview with Fahim
• Chahine . . . Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station
• Excerpt from Chahine’s appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by Fahim
• New cover by Mariam El-Reweny


Fires on the plain
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Introduction by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
• Program featuring interviews with director Kon Ichikawa and actor Mickey Curtis
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Chuck Stephens
• Cover by Michael Boland


The burmese harp
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Interviews with director Kon Ichikawa and actor Rentaro Mikuni
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns
• Cover by Michael Boland

Septiembre:



10 pelis, 10 4Ks, 20 discos, 10 libros ilustrados y una maleta contenedora.

El lanzamiento del año, obviamente.

Damas y caballeros, he aquí una LEYENDA VIVA:

Octubre:
Eyes Without A Face 4K UHD
https://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face


4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris
• Archival interviews with Franju on the horror genre, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts
• Interview with actor Edith Scob
• Excerpts from Les grand-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about screenwriters Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
• Trailers
• PLUS: Essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat

A History of Violence 4K UHD
https://www.criterion.com/films/3380...ry-of-violence


DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Cronenberg
• New interview with screenwriter Josh Olson, conducted by writer-producer Tom Bernardo
• Excerpts of Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen in conversation at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival
• Acts of Violence, a documentary on the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage
• Three featurettes
• Deleted scene with commentary by Cronenberg
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Nathan Lee

Nightmare Alley (2021) 4K UHD
https://www.criterion.com/films/35272-nightmare-alley


DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• 4K digital master of Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light, a new black-and-white extended director’s cut, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• 4K digital master of the theatrical version of the film, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
• Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
• New audio commentary on the extended director’s cut featuring del Toro
• New documentary on the film’s performances, visual language, costume and production design, and score
• New conversation between del Toro and actor and producer Bradley Cooper
• New conversation between del Toro and coscreenwriter Kim Morgan
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
• PLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime expert Sarah Weinman

Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me 4K
https://www.criterion.com/films/2923...e-walk-with-me


DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• 4K digital restoration, with 7.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised by director David Lynch
• Alternate original 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• The Missing Pieces, ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from the film, assembled by Lynch
• Interview by Lynch with actors Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, and Grace Zabriskie
• Interviews with Lee and composer Angelo Badalamenti
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: Excerpts from an interview with Lynch from Lynch on Lynch, a 1997 book edited by filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley

Altered States 4K UHD
https://www.criterion.com/films/29506-altered-states


4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New audio commentary featuring film historian Samm Deighan
• Archival interviews with director Ken Russell and actor William Hurt
• New interview with special-visual-effects designer Bran Ferren
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Jessica Kiang


Deep Crimson (1996) 4K UHD
https://www.criterion.com/films/1201-deep-crimson


DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, supervised and approved by director Arturo Ripstein, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New interviews with Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego
• Panel discussion from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences featuring Ripstein and Garciadiego, hosted by film scholar Cristina Venegas
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Haden Guest