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Criterion’s September slate includes Lynch’s Elephant Man, along with Claire Denis, Jules Dassin, and more
Welcome to the new week!
We’re starting things off today with a new Blu-ray review from our own Dennis Seuling. He’s given Ryan Nicholson’s Gutterballs (2008) a look on disc for you from the folks at Unearthed Films.
This is just a quick update to bring you word that The Criterion Collection has just dropped news of their September Blu-ray and DVD title slate.
And as usual, it’s a good one, including the likes of David Lynch, Claire Denis, Francesco Rosi, Jules Dassin, and more of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project.
The full list includes the following... [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- The Criterion Collection
- September 2020 Bluray and DVD slate
- David Lynch
- Claire Denis
- Jules Dassin
- Gutterballs BD review
- Francesco Rosi
- The Naked City BD
- Brute Force BD
- Beau travail BD
- Christ Stopped at Eboli BD
- Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No 3 BD
- The Elephant Man BD
- Outlander: Season Five BD
- The Wind Rises GKids BD
- Children of the Sea BD
- The Criterion Spines Project
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Dennis Seuling
BREAKING: Criterion's Jan includes Throne of Blood, Rififi & It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!
Here’s some exciting breaking news: Our friends at The Criterion Collection have just announced their January Blu-ray and DVD release slate, and WOW – some terrific titles!
The fun starts with a BD upgrade of Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (Cat #190 – Blu-ray/DVD – due 1/7/14) and the fortieth Eclipse set Late Ray (DVD – due 1/7/14 – features Satyajit Ray’s The Home and the World, An Enemy of the People and The Stranger), and continues with a BD upgrade of Jules Dassin’s Rififi (Cat #114 – Blu-ray/DVD – due 1/14/14) and the all-new Michael Mann’s Thief (Cat #691 – Blu-ray/DVD – due 1/14/14), Aki Kaurismäki’s La vie de bohème (Cat #693 – Blu-ray/DVD – due 1/21/14), Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Cat #692 – Blu-ray/DVD – due 1/21/14) and Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes (Cat #694 – Blu-ray/DVD – due 1/28/14). By the way, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World includes a “restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray” plus a “new high-definition digital transfer of a 197-minute extended version of the film, reconstructed and restored by Robert A. Harris using visual and audio material from the longer original road-show version – including some scenes that have been returned to the film here for the first time – with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray.” What a great slate! You’ll find cover artwork for all the Blu-rays below. [Read on here...]