The CRITERION DVD and Blu-ray Thread

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

UK July titles have been confirmed as A Brighter Summer Day and Tarkovsky's Stalker.

Originally Posted by Rob4

this is the artwork for the us release of Stalker. assume it is the same for UK

Yes Rob - it's the same picture



Features

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
• Interview from 2002 with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky
• Interview from 2002 with set designer Rashit Safiullin
• Interview from 2002 with composer Eduard Artemyev
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu

Features

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns
• Our Time, Our Story, a 113-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with Yang and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sylvia Chang, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others
• New interview with actor Chen Chang
• Videotaped performance of director Edward Yang's 1992 play Ukely Consequence
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director's statement

[Susan Foreman]

Criterion's August Releases Announced | News | Film @ The Digital Fix



"Lord of the Flies, the 1963 celebrated British film adaptation of William Golding's novel about schoolboys marooned on an island where they become savages, is released on 28 August. In the hands of the renowned experimental theatre director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its centre. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' ids. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its source material.

• New, restored 4K digital film transfer, supervised by editor and cameraman Gerald Feil, ASC, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring director Peter Brook, producer Lewis Allen, director of photography Tom Hollyman, and Feil
• Audio recordings of William Golding reading from his novel Lord of the Flies, accompanied by the corresponding scenes from the film
• Deleted scene, with optional commentary and Golding reading interview with Brook from 2008
• Collection of behind-the-scenes material, including home movies, screen tests, outtakes, and stills
• Excerpt from a 1980 episode of The South Bank Show featuring Golding
• New interview with Feil
• Excerpt from Feil's 1973 documentary The Empty Space,
• showcasing Brook's theatre methods Living "Lord of the Flies", a piece composed of never-before-seen footage shot by the boy actors during production, with new voice-over by actor Tom Gaman
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Geoffrey Macnab and an excerpt from Brook's autobiography The Shifting Point"

"Satyajit Ray is regarded by cineastes as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century and one of his most important works, The Music Room about the decadence of the Indian aristocracy, joins The Criterion Collection UK on 7 August. Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a fading way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years-now a shadow of its former vivid self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India's most popular musicians of the day, The Music Room is a defining work by the great Bengali filmmaker.

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Satyajit Ray (1984), a feature documentary by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray's career through interviews with the filmmaker, family photographs, and extensive clips from his films
• New interviews with Satyajit Ray biographer Andrew Robinson and filmmaker Mira Nair
• Excerpt from a 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, film critic Michel Ciment, and director Claude Sautet
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Philip Kemp, a 1963 essay by Ray on the film's location, and a 1986 interview with the director about the film's music"

[Justin101]

I've been patiently waiting for Lord of the Flies to come out. Great film.

[Rob4]

Cool, I was just about to pull the trigger on the US release of Lord of the Flies but now it becomes a much cheaper purchase. Agree its a great movie of a great book.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I'm not sure why, but I've never seen the film. The book is a masterpiece.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

STRAW DOGS preordered.
Won't be long now!

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I'm not sure why, but I've never seen the film. The book is a masterpiece.

There is a 1990 version as well which is more Americanised but the original film is really good, I'd recommend it. Perhaps you can rent the DVD from LoveFilm before the CC comes out.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

There is a 1990 version as well which is more Americanised but the original film is really good, I'd recommend it. Perhaps you can rent the DVD from LoveFilm before the CC comes out.

I would do that if I still had a Lovefilm account, but I cancelled it when I started my degree course in January. I'll either wait until I have completely finished uni, which will be in December, or pick up the Criterion Collection disc as a blind buy.

[Rik]

I've not seen it since watching it at school in English, after we'd read the book as a class. I do remember enjoying it though.
Incidentally, Stephen King named his fictional town of Castle Rock after the mountain fort from this film/book

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

I've not seen it since watching it at school in English, after we'd read the book as a class. I do remember enjoying it though.
Incidentally, Stephen King named his fictional town of Castle Rock after the mountain fort from this film/book

… And the film and TV production company founded by Rob Reiner and others was named after Stephen King's fictional town.