Criterion May Releases (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)
Criterion has announced some new releases for the month of May..
Criterion has announced their releases for the month of May. Each film will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray.
Quote: Release Date: 7 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders. In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakeably cool Madison dance sequence.
Disc Features
-New digital master of Gaumont’s recent high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Visual glossary of references and wordplay found in Band of Outsiders
-Exclusive interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard and actor Anna Karina
-Excerpts from a 1964 interview with director Jean-Luc Godard, including rare behind-the-scenes footage from the film
-Filmmaker Agnès Varda’s 1961 silent comedy Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, starring Godard and Karina and featuring other members of the Band of Outsiders cast
-Godard’s original theatrical trailer and the 2001 U.S. rerelease trailer
-A booklet featuring an essay by poet and critic Joshua Clover, Godard’s character descriptions for the film’s 1964 press book, and an interview with the director from the same year
Quote: Release Date: 14 May 2013
SRP: $29.95
Synopsis: A trio of exceptional performances from Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger form the center of Jubal, an overlooked Hollywood treasure from genre master Delmer Daves. In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, Ford is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by Borgnine’s bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner’s bored wife (Valerie French) and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman’s responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand, played by Steiger. The resulting emotional showdown imparts unparalleled psychology intensity to this western, a vivid melodrama featuring expressive location photography in Technicolor and CinemaScope.
Disc Features
-New high-definition digital restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones
Quote: Release Date: 14 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: In this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford, to the train that will take him to prison. This apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man’s particular brand of honor. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, 3:10 to Yuma is a thrilling, humane action movie, directed by the supremely talented studio filmmaker Delmer Daves with intense feeling and precision.
Disc Features
-New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
-New interviews with author Elmore Leonard and Glenn Ford’s son and biographer, Peter Ford
-A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones
Quote: Release Date: 21 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. His debut feature, Medium Cool, plunges us into that moment. With its mix of scripted fiction and seat-of-the-pants documentary technique, this story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman (Robert Forster) is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
Disc Features
-New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Haskell Wexler, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Two audio commentaries, one featuring Wexler, actor Marianna Hill, and editor Paul Golding, the other featuring historian Paul Cronin
-New interview with Wexler
- Look Out Haskell, It’s Real!, a fifty-five-minute documentary about the making of Medium Cool, produced by Cronin and featuring interviews with Wexler, Golding, actors Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, and Robert Forster, Chicago historian Studs Terkel, and others
-Excerpts from Sooner or Later, a documentary by Cronin about Harold Blankenship, who plays the adolescent Harold in the film
-Original theatrical trailer
-A booklet featuring an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard
Quote: Release Date: 28 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: This moving film from Mike Leigh is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). In it, Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father’s desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy, Life Is Sweet is captivating, and it was Leigh’s first international sensation.
Disc Features
-New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
-Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London
-More! (What the actual bullet point says on the Criterion site)
-A booket featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt
News by Jonathan Hogberg
Band of Outsiders
Quote: Release Date: 7 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders. In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakeably cool Madison dance sequence.
Disc Features
-New digital master of Gaumont’s recent high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Visual glossary of references and wordplay found in Band of Outsiders
-Exclusive interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard and actor Anna Karina
-Excerpts from a 1964 interview with director Jean-Luc Godard, including rare behind-the-scenes footage from the film
-Filmmaker Agnès Varda’s 1961 silent comedy Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, starring Godard and Karina and featuring other members of the Band of Outsiders cast
-Godard’s original theatrical trailer and the 2001 U.S. rerelease trailer
-A booklet featuring an essay by poet and critic Joshua Clover, Godard’s character descriptions for the film’s 1964 press book, and an interview with the director from the same year
Jubal
Quote: Release Date: 14 May 2013
SRP: $29.95
Synopsis: A trio of exceptional performances from Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger form the center of Jubal, an overlooked Hollywood treasure from genre master Delmer Daves. In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, Ford is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by Borgnine’s bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner’s bored wife (Valerie French) and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman’s responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand, played by Steiger. The resulting emotional showdown imparts unparalleled psychology intensity to this western, a vivid melodrama featuring expressive location photography in Technicolor and CinemaScope.
Disc Features
-New high-definition digital restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones
3:10 to Yuma
Quote: Release Date: 14 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: In this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford, to the train that will take him to prison. This apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man’s particular brand of honor. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, 3:10 to Yuma is a thrilling, humane action movie, directed by the supremely talented studio filmmaker Delmer Daves with intense feeling and precision.
Disc Features
-New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
-New interviews with author Elmore Leonard and Glenn Ford’s son and biographer, Peter Ford
-A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones
Medium Cool
Quote: Release Date: 21 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. His debut feature, Medium Cool, plunges us into that moment. With its mix of scripted fiction and seat-of-the-pants documentary technique, this story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman (Robert Forster) is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
Disc Features
-New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Haskell Wexler, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Two audio commentaries, one featuring Wexler, actor Marianna Hill, and editor Paul Golding, the other featuring historian Paul Cronin
-New interview with Wexler
- Look Out Haskell, It’s Real!, a fifty-five-minute documentary about the making of Medium Cool, produced by Cronin and featuring interviews with Wexler, Golding, actors Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, and Robert Forster, Chicago historian Studs Terkel, and others
-Excerpts from Sooner or Later, a documentary by Cronin about Harold Blankenship, who plays the adolescent Harold in the film
-Original theatrical trailer
-A booklet featuring an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard
Life Is Sweet
Quote: Release Date: 28 May 2013
SRP: $39.95
Synopsis: This moving film from Mike Leigh is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). In it, Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father’s desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy, Life Is Sweet is captivating, and it was Leigh’s first international sensation.
Disc Features
-New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
-Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London
-More! (What the actual bullet point says on the Criterion site)
-A booket featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt
News by Jonathan Hogberg
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I agree. They focus on movies that not a lot of people have heard of. That IS what neglected means, you know. Except for your unwarranted, disrespectful, low brow, not very good insults, I agree with what you said. Nothing I have ever said gave you the idea otherwise.
4 straight months of the same comment and I will reply because thats a message board is all about.
In store meaning the delivery month
Quantify a few people. What does that mean? Your opinions are not facts. Back it up
Criterion has been in business for over 20 years and is one of the most highly respected media companies. Just look at the comments from other people. And their product never gets dumped into a discount bin in any story. In fact alot of their product rises in value as the years pass
And for the last time, Criterion is a company where you discover great films that have been neglected or not available. The source of their material is the highest quality to be found. The supplements included are informative and entertaining
And yet here comes little Matty Stilwell every month complaining about his own lack of knowledge. So tell me-what are the popular movies you think they should work on? Of course it can't be recent movies already owned by other studios
In store meaning the delivery month
Quantify a few people. What does that mean? Your opinions are not facts. Back it up
Criterion has been in business for over 20 years and is one of the most highly respected media companies. Just look at the comments from other people. And their product never gets dumped into a discount bin in any story. In fact alot of their product rises in value as the years pass
And for the last time, Criterion is a company where you discover great films that have been neglected or not available. The source of their material is the highest quality to be found. The supplements included are informative and entertaining
And yet here comes little Matty Stilwell every month complaining about his own lack of knowledge. So tell me-what are the popular movies you think they should work on? Of course it can't be recent movies already owned by other studios
And....? I'm not wrong. They usually only put out movies that very few people have heard of. Never said they shouldn't. Never said it was wrong or bad. Again, why do you care so much about what I say ? It doesn't affect you. If you don't like it, just don't reply.
By the way....in store ?
By the way....in store ?
From the Feb in store Criterion announcement:
Not to be rude or anything, but does Criterion ever put out things that more than a very small number of people have heard of ?
From the Mar in store Criterion announcement:
Alright ! They're putting out The Blob again...on blu-ray, this time. Finally...a Criterion movie I've actually heard of.
From the Apr in store Criterion announcement:
I haven't heard of most of these movies either.
And of course this thread:
You'd think they'd put out movies that more people have heard of...
Not to be rude or anything, but does Criterion ever put out things that more than a very small number of people have heard of ?
From the Mar in store Criterion announcement:
Alright ! They're putting out The Blob again...on blu-ray, this time. Finally...a Criterion movie I've actually heard of.
From the Apr in store Criterion announcement:
I haven't heard of most of these movies either.
And of course this thread:
You'd think they'd put out movies that more people have heard of...
How am I supposed to look it up ? There's no Search By Member.... I do NOT post the same complaints about Criterion. This is maybe only my second post about them. Unless I see a news item about them here, I don't even think about them. Perhaps if they put out popular movies...
And I read it wrong. It's 359 posts in 9 years. Yeah. Real frequent...
I found 2 other posts of mine through google, that mention Criterion. How can I post a comment about Criterion every month starting in February...when it IS February ?
First was in November of 2012. Then, in December. This was my third post about Criterion. And so what ? I can say whatever I want. Am I insulting you ? No. Am I making fun of anyone here ? No. So, what do you care ?
And I read it wrong. It's 359 posts in 9 years. Yeah. Real frequent...
I found 2 other posts of mine through google, that mention Criterion. How can I post a comment about Criterion every month starting in February...when it IS February ?
First was in November of 2012. Then, in December. This was my third post about Criterion. And so what ? I can say whatever I want. Am I insulting you ? No. Am I making fun of anyone here ? No. So, what do you care ?
Well you post the same complaint about Criterion each month starting in February. 4 straight months. Look it up if your memory's faulty. And then maybe stick to commenting on topics your familiar with
No, it's not me. And how do I ask the same question every month ? I don't even post every month. I never said Criterion produced their own movies. Nothing even close to that. I'm not into movies like Transformers, especially not Saw, or Die Heard. My comments are frequent ? Yeah, I guess 285 posts in 7 years is really frequent.....
Don't make up obviously fake "facts" just to make yourself feel superior.
Don't make up obviously fake "facts" just to make yourself feel superior.
Matt Stilwell wrote: How is it ignorant ? It's fact. A dvd company, you'd think, would put out movies that a lot of people have heard of so that they can sell as much as possible. I didn't say nobody had ever heard of these movies. I said not a lot of people had heard of them. Who's the ignorant one, again ?
That would be you my friend for several reasons:
You ask the same question every month
Criterion is not a movie studio producing their own films. Their whole purpose of existence (over 20 years now) is to make available(generally) the finest movies in the international,classic and art-house genres . They also bring to attention great neglected treasures. Films by world famous directors like Chaplin,Kurosawa,Fellini,Hitchcock,Godard,Bergman-the list goes on and on.
If you're into McDonalds type movies like Transformers 5,Saw 8 or Die Hard Again and Again, look elsewhere. But if you want to expand your movie-watching experience then this is the place to go
Again Criterion has been one of the most respected companies for well over 20 years. Your comments are frequent and unbeknost to you hysterically funny
That would be you my friend for several reasons:
You ask the same question every month
Criterion is not a movie studio producing their own films. Their whole purpose of existence (over 20 years now) is to make available(generally) the finest movies in the international,classic and art-house genres . They also bring to attention great neglected treasures. Films by world famous directors like Chaplin,Kurosawa,Fellini,Hitchcock,Godard,Bergman-the list goes on and on.
If you're into McDonalds type movies like Transformers 5,Saw 8 or Die Hard Again and Again, look elsewhere. But if you want to expand your movie-watching experience then this is the place to go
Again Criterion has been one of the most respected companies for well over 20 years. Your comments are frequent and unbeknost to you hysterically funny
How is it ignorant ? It's fact. A dvd company, you'd think, would put out movies that a lot of people have heard of so that they can sell as much as possible. I didn't say nobody had ever heard of these movies. I said not a lot of people had heard of them. Who's the ignorant one, again ?
Matt Stilwell wrote: You'd think they'd put out movies that more people have heard of...
Only the ignorant make this complaint like you do every month
Only the ignorant make this complaint like you do every month
Waiting for Life Aquatic BD release to complete the Anderson filmography
You'd think they'd put out movies that more people have heard of...
"Life is Sweet" - had that on laserdisc way back in the day. I have never looked at chocolate sauce the same way again. Interesting movie; definitely looking forward to it on 5-inch media.
I've seen the original "3:10 to Yuma" but I only know of "Medium Cool" from seeing the trailer for the movie on the original DVD release of "Jackie Brown". Not too shabby.
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