Criterion Announces June’s Titles!

The Criterion Collection has announced its June Blu-ray lineup, starring with Harold and Maude, The Gold Rush, and Shallow Grave for June 12th. On June 19th And Everything is Going Fine and Gray’s Anatomy. Lastly, The 39 Steps and The Samurai Trilogy will be released on June 26th. Check below for a list of supplements for each title.

Harold and Maude
Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the
  • Blu-ray edition
  • Optional remastered stereo soundtrack
  • Audio commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson and producer Charles B. Mulvehill
  • Illustrated audio excerpts of seminars by Ashby and writer-producer Colin Higgins
  • New interview with songwriter Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)

The Gold Rush
Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital restoration of the 1942 sound version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • New 2K digital transfer of the reconstructed original 1925 silent film, restored in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with a newly recorded version of director Charlie Chaplin’s score, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
  • New audio commentary for the 1925 version by Chaplin biographer and archivist Jeffrey Vance
  • Three new programs: Presenting “The Gold Rush,” which traces the film’s history from original release to rerelease to 2003 reconstruction and features film historian Kevin Brownlow and Vance; Music by Charles Chaplin, featuring conductor and composer Timothy Brock; and Visual Effects in “The Gold Rush,” featuring effects specialist Craig Barron and Chaplin cinematographer Roland Totheroh
  • Chaplin Today: “The Gold Rush” (2002), a short documentary featuring filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo
  • Four theatrical trailers
  • A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Luc Sante and James Agee’s review of the 1942 version

Shallow Grave
Disc Features

  • New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Brian Tufano, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Two audio commentaries: one by director Danny Boyle and the other by screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald
  • New interviews with stars Christopher Eccleston, Kerry Fox, and Ewan McGregor
  • Digging Your Own Grave, a 1993 documentary by Kevin Macdonald on the making of the film
  • Andrew Macdonald and Kevin Macdonald’s video diary from the 1992 Edinburgh Film Festival, where they shopped around the script for Shallow Grave
  • Shallow Grave trailer and Trainspotting teaser trailer
  • A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp

And Everything is Going Fine
Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Making of “And Everything Is Going Fine,” featuring director Steven Soderbergh, producer Kathie Russo, and editor Susan Littenberg
  • Sex and Death to the Age 14, Spalding Gray’s first monologue, created in 1979 and filmed in 1982
  • Trailer
  • A booklet featuring an essay by writer Nell Casey, editor of The Journals of Spalding Gray

Gray’s Anatomy
Disc Features

  • New high definition digital transfer, supervised by director Steven Soderbergh, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • New interviews with Soderbergh and cowriter Renée Shafransky
  • A Personal History of the American Theater, a monologue by Spalding Gray, filmed in 1982
  • Theatrical trailer
  • A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin

The 39 Steps
Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Audio commentary by Alfred Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane
  • Hitchcock: The Early Years (2000), a British documentary covering Hitchcock’s prewar career
  • Original footage from British broadcaster Mike Scott’s 1966 television interview with Hitchcock
  • Complete broadcast of the 1937 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation, performed by Ida Lupino and Robert Montgomery
  • Visual essay by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff
  • Excerpts from François Truffaut’s 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock
  • Original production design drawings
  • A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Cairns

The Samurai Trilogy
Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition
  • New interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson about the real-life Musashi Miyamoto, the inspiration for the hero of the films
  • Trailers
  • New English subtitle translations
  • A booklet featuring essays by film historian Stephen Prince and Wilson