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ANTICHRIST
Criterion #542
November 9th on DVD & Blu-ray
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Lars von Trier and supervised by director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary by von Trier and professor Murray Smith
- Video interviews with von Trier and actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
- A collection of video pieces delving into the production of Antichrist, including interviews with von Trier and key members of his filmmaking team as well as behind-the-scenes footage
- Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, a documentary on the film’s world premiere, plus press interviews with Dafoe and Gainsbourg
- Three theatrical trailers
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Criterion # 541
November 16th on DVD and Blu-ray
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
- Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film
- New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
- New video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
- Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the film
- Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
- Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
- Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb
- New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter”
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
THE DARJEELING LIMITED
Criterion #540
October 12th on DVD and Blu-ray
- Anderson’s short film Hotel Chevalier (part one of The Darjeeling Limited), starring Natalie Portman, with commentary by Anderson
- Audio commentary featuring Anderson and cowriters Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola
- Behind-the-scenes documentary by Barry Braverman
- Anderson and filmmaker James Ivory discussing the film’s music
- Anderson’s American Express commercial
- On-set footage shot by Coppola and actor Waris Ahluwalia
- Audition footage, deleted and alternate scenes, and stills galleries
- Original theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody and original illustrations by Eric Anderson
PATHS OF GLORY
Criterion #538
October 26th on DVD and Blu-ray
- New audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins
- Television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas
- New video interviews with Kubrick’s longtime executive producer Jan Harlan, Paths of Glory producer James B. Harris, and actress Christiane Kubrick
- Excerpt from a French television program about real-life World War I executions similar to the events dramatized in Paths of Glory
- Theatrical trailer
- An essay by Kubrick scholar James Naremore
Modern Times
Criterion #543
November 16th DVD and Blu-ray
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson
- Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
- New program on the film’s visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
- Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin
- Chaplin Today: “Modern Times” (2004), a half-hour program with filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Two segments removed from the film
- Three theatrical trailers
- All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Cooke, plus a new score by Donald Sosin and a new interview with Cooke’s daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge
- The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler highlighting his skill on wheels
- For the First Time (1967), a Cuban documentary short about a projectionist who shows Modern Times to first-time moviegoers
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin’s writing about his travels in 1931 and 1932
AMERICA LOST AND FOUND: THE BBS STORY [box set]
(Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show, The King of Marvin Gardens, Head, Drive He Said, A Safe Place)
Criterion #544
December 14th DVD and Blu-ray
Head
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring Monkees Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork
- New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
- New documentary about BBS, featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
Easy Rider
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring director Dennis Hopper
- Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage, a 1999 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage
- Footage of Hopper and star Peter Fonda at Cannes in 1969
- New video interview with BBS’s Steve Blauner
Five Easy Pieces
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
- Soul Searching in Five Easy Pieces, a 2009 video piece in which Rafelson discusses the film
- BBStory, a 2009 documentary
- Excerpts from an audio recording of Rafelson at the American Film Institute in 1976
The Last Picture Show
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Two audio commentaries, one featuring director Peter Bogdanovich and the other featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall
- Picture This, a 1990 documentary by George Hickenlooper
- “The Last Picture Show”: A Look Back, an hour-long 1999 documentary
- 2009 interview with Bogdanovich
- Screen tests and location footage
- Theatrical trailers
A Safe Place
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring director Henry Jaglom
- Henry Jaglom Finds “A Safe Place,” a 2009 video piece in which the director discusses the film
- Notes on the New York Film Festival, a 1971 video piece featuring an interview conducted by critic Molly Haskell with directors Peter Bogdanovich and Jaglom about their films The Last Picture Show and A Safe Place
- Deleted scenes
- Screen tests
- Theatrical trailer
Drive, He Said
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom, a 2009 video piece in which director Jack Nicholson discusses the experience of making this film
- Theatrical trailer
King Of Marvin Gardens
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson
- Reflections of a Philosopher King, a 2009 documentary about the making of the film
- Afterthoughts, a short 2002 documentary about the film, produced by Rafelson
- Theatrical trailer
sources: Blu-ray.com, the playlist, Criterion.com, DVD beaver, the criterioncast
Whoa, new Modern Times disc? Might have to pick up the blu-ray of that. And Night of the Hunter. Antichrist I’d like to watch again in blu-ray, but I’m not sure I need to own it.
Criterion had actually released a rough draft version of the cover art for Darjeeling some time back. I actually like that one better. But ah well, it still fits in with the rest of the artwork pieces of Wes Anderson.
“rough draft” or sample version:
With all the possible images in MODERN TIMES, that is a disappointing cover.
Also, it was inevitable that Criterion release THE DARJEELING LTD. I should have held out before buying that film in standard edition.
So much for the rumour that Criterion was going to hold out for Spine #666 to release Lars Von Trier’s ANTICHRIST.
Holy hell! MODERN TIMES & NIGHT OF THE HUNTER were news to me…and I thought that box set was only a rumour!!
Guess I know what will be dominating my Christmas list…
That box set looks awesome.
Night Of The Hunter may be the one that pushes me to BluRay.
I did the same as you with Darjeeling Kurt, but on the flip side at least we’ve been able to watch it a few times instead of just waiting…
As for the Modern Times cover, I’m not too keen on it either but it does capture one of the iconic moments in a new visual. And the designer himself seems to like it.
I am buying every single one of these, along with Thin Red Line,
Whoa! The Box Set was news to me. I’ve been waiting for A SAFE PLACE to come out (or course, I already have EASY RIDER on Blu-Ray, and most of the other films on Standard Def. Guess I’ll have to double-dip!). Thanks for the heads-up, Andrew.