Lanzamientos de Criterion en USA para agosto

Una gran selección de novedades de la mano de la poderosa Criterion

Criterion continúa lanzandao excelentes ediciones de films básicos en la historia del cine, así como rarezas y cine de autor en formato Blu-ray. Muchos nos cabreamos porque estas excelentes ediciones no llegan a nuestro país, así como las excelentes remasterizaciones y amplios contenidos extras que suelen incluir éstas.

La distribuidora acaba de anunciar sus novedades para el mes de agosto en Estados Unidos. Podeis acceder a todo el material en su página web.

Se estrenarán títulos de Kubrick, Gillo Pontercorvo, Roman Polanski, Jean Cocteau y Jean Vigo.

A continuación teneis las carátulas y el amplio metrial extra que incluirá cada una de ellas.

The Killing

 

 

• New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• New video interview with producer James B. Harris
• Excerpts of interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinemas
• New video interview with film scholar Robert Polito about writer Jim Thompson and his work on The Killing
• Restored transfer of Stanley Kubrick’s 1955 noir feature Killer’s Kiss
• New video appreciation of Killer’s Kiss with film critic Geoffrey O’Brien
• Theatrical trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Haden Guest and a reprinted interview with Marie Windsor on The Killing

Cul-de-sac

 

• New digital restoration, approved by director Roman Polanski (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Two Gangsters and an Island, a 2003 short documentary about the making of Cul-de-sac, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor
• Interview with Polanski from 1967
• Theatrical trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Thompson

The battle of Algiers

 

• High-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Marcello Gatti (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth, a documentary narrated by literary critic Edward Said
• Marxist Poetry: The Making of «The Battle of Algiers,» a documentary featuring interviews with Pontecorvo, Gatti, composer Ennio Morricone, and others
• Interviews with Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone on the film’s influence, style, and importance
• Remembering History, a documentary reconstructing the Algerian experience of the battle for independence
• «États d’armes,» a documentary excerpt featuring senior French military officers recalling the use of torture and execution to combat the Algerian rebellion
• «The Battle of Algiers»: A Case Study, a video piece featuring U.S. counterterrorism experts
• Gillo Pontecorvo’s Return to Algiers, a documentary in which the filmmaker revisits the country after three decades of independence
• Production gallery
• Theatrical and rerelease trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Peter Matthews, excerpts from Algeria’s National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef’s original account of his arrest, excerpts from the film’s screenplay, a reprinted interview with cowriter Franco Solinas, and biographical sketches of key figures in the French-Algerian War

Secret Sunshine

 

• New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Lee Chang-dong and cinematographer Cho Yong-kyu (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
• New interview with Lee
• On the Set of «Secret Sunshine,» a video piece featuring interviews with actors Jeon Do-yeon and Song Kang-ho, as well as behind-the-scenes footage
• U.S. theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Dennis Lim

IF

 

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček and assistant editor Ian Rakoff (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Audio commentary featuring film critic and historian David Robinson and actor Malcolm McDowell
• Episode of the Scottish TV series Cast and Crew from 2003, featuring interviews with McDowell, Ondříček, Rakoff, director’s assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin
• Video interview with actor Graham Crowden
• Thursday’s Children (1954), an Academy Award–winning documentary about a school for deaf children, by director Lindsay Anderson and Guy Brenton and narrated by actor Richard Burton
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Ehrenstein as well as reprinted pieces by Sherwin and Anderson

Orpheus

 

• New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Audio commentary by French film scholar James Williams
• Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown, a 1984 feature-length documentary
• Video piece from 2008 featuring assistant director Claude Pinoteau on the special effects in the film
• 40 Minutes with Jean Cocteau, an interview with the director from 1957
• In Search of Jazz, a 1956 interview with Cocteau on the use of jazz in the film
• La villa Santo-Sospir, a 16 mm color Cocteau film from 1951
• Gallery of images by French film portrait photographer Roger Corbeau
• Raw newsreel footage
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by author Mark Polizzotti, selected Cocteau writings on the film, and an essay on La villa Santo-Sospir by Williams

The complete Jean Vigo

 

• New, high-definition digital restorations of all of Jean Vigo’s films: À propos de Nice, Taris, Zéro de conduite, and L’Atalante (with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition)
• Audio commentaries featuring Michael Temple, author of Jean Vigo
• Alternate shots from À propos de Nice, featuring footage Vigo cut from the film
• Animated tribute to Vigo by filmmaker Michel Gondry
• Ninety-minute 1964 episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps on Vigo, directed by Jacques Rozier
• Conversation from 1968 between filmmakers François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer on L’Atalante
• Les voyages de «L’Atalante,» Bernard Eisenschitz’s 2001 documentary tracking the history of the film
• Video interview from 2007 with director Otar Iosseliani on Vigo
• New and improved English subtitle translations
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film writers Michael Almereyda, Robert Polito, B. Kite, and Luc Sante