It looks like Amazon screwed up a little bit by jumping the gun on offering up preorder pages for DVDs that don’t exist… yet. Criterion has confirmed that this fall (sometime) they’ll be releasing a number of well known titles on both regular DVD and Blu-ray.
No surprise that Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Ltd. will get the treatment; all the rest of Anderson’s work has, so why not this one?
Better still, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (which I just finished rewatching over the weekend) will get a Criterion spine number as well. The picture is already glorious, so on Blu-ray it should look absolutely stellar. Already the most epic cast of all time, the extras might include the cut footage with eight more big name actors. That would be nice – to put it mildly.
And of course a RowThree favorite (making my personal top ten last year) is Lars Von Trier’s gorgeously made, arthouse, torture porn film, Antichrist. Once again a visually stunning film that will best be captured by the folks over at Criterion.
Getting some nice re-release transfers onto Blu-ray are Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (an eventual Blu upgrade for all of his previously released titles is imminent I’m sure). And also the much divisive Videodrome from David Cronenberg will now be able to be seen in Hi-Def.
Lookout pocketbook. Autumn is going to be a bit busy!
That ANTICHRIST cover is bold.
I knew there was a reason I held off buying a dvd of Darjeeling. Been looking forward to a blu-ray of Thin Red Line for a long time now.
I wonder if those are the actual covers or mockups? They all look like posters from the films and Criterion doesn’t usually just do posters. Though I hafta admit, that Antichrist poster on a Criterion box? Wow.
According to a little note at the bottom of the story at playlist, those aren’t the actual covers, but fan art. Still though, a) they’re quite nice, b) there’s still the surprise of what the real covers will look like, and c) it’s still great news that these titles will be getting The Treatment.
I’ve been waiting just for a DVD release of Antichrist for a while; the fact that it’ll be on a Criterion disc is icing on the cake.
Confirmation date: Thin Red Line on Criterion September 28th. Spine #536.
And for my birthday, Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb. #533
no mention of Darjeeling yet.
Had no idea Malick wasn’t the first to do “The Thin Red Line.” It was already put to screen back in 1964:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Red_Line_(1964_film)
huh. Anyone seen this? Worth tracking down?