La distribuidora añade seis títulos a su excelente catálogo
Criterion sigue lanzando en formato Blu-ray las mejores obras del cine de autor. Así durante el mes de julio estrenará seis nuevos títulos en Estados Unidos a añadir a su extenso listado de ediciones en alta definición.
Obras clásicas de Akira Kurosawa y Jean Pierre Melville así como films más recientes de Mike Leigh o Todd Solondz; esa es la variada gama de lanzamientos de la distribuidora.
A continuación el listado de novedades de Criterion junto con sus carátulas y complementos.
Naked
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Mike Leigh, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary by Leigh and actors David Thewlis and Katrin Cartlidge
- Exclusive video interview with director Neil LaBute
- An episode of the BBC program The Art Zone in which author Will Self interviews Leigh
- The Short and Curlies, a short comedy from 1982 directed by Leigh and starring Thewlis, with audio commentary by Leigh
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critics Derek Malcolm and Amy Taubin
The Music Room
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Satyajit Ray (1984), a feature documentary by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray’s career and includes interviews with the filmmaker, family photographs, and extensive clips from his films
- New interview with filmmaker Mira Nair
- New interview in which Ray biographer Andrew Robinson discusses the making of The Music Room and the film’s cultural significance
- Excerpt from a 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, film critic Michel Ciment, and filmmaker Claude Sautet
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp as well as reprints of a 1963 essay by Ray and a 1986 interview with the director about the film’s music
Beauty and the Beast
- High-definition digital transfer from restored film elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Composer Philip Glass’s opera La Belle et la Bête, presented in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio as an alternate soundtrack
- Two commentaries: one by film historian Arthur Knight and one by writer and cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling
- Screening at the Majestic, a 1995 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
- Interview with cinematographer Henri Alekan
- Rare behind-the-scenes photos and publicity stills
- Film restoration demonstration
- Original trailer, directed and narrated by director Jean Cocteau, plus restoration trailer from 1995
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Geoffrey O’Brien, a piece on the film by Cocteau, excerpts from Francis Steegmuller’s 1970 book Cocteau: A Biography, and an introduction to Glass’s opera by the composer
High and Low
- High-definition digital restoration, with original four-track surround sound presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune
- Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper
- Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a reprinted on- set account by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie
Léon Morin, Priest
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Archival interview with director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Visual essay by French film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana
Life During Wartime
- New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Ed Lachman, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Ask Todd, an audio Q&A with director Todd Solondz
- Making «Life During Wartime,» a new documentary featuring interviews with actors Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, and Michael Kenneth Williams, and on-set footage of the actors and crew
- New video piece in which Lachman discusses his work on the film
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt