Criterion Announces October’s Blu-ray Releases!

The Criterion Collection has announced 5 releases for month of October; I Married a Witch; Eyes Without a Face; John Cassavetes: Five Films; The Uninvited; and La Notte. I Married a Witch is to be released on October 8. Eyes Without a Face is set to be released on October 15. The week of the 22nd will see the arrival of John Cassavetes: Five Films (Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under The Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Opening Night, A Constant Forge) and The Uninvited. To close the month of October, La Notte will be released on October 29. Check below for a list of supplements and artwork.

I Married a Witch
Disc Features

  • New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Audio interview with director René Clair
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Guy Maddin and a 1970 interview with Clair

Eyes Without a Face
Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris (new high-definition digital restoration on the Blu-ray edition)
  • Archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts
  • New interview with actor Edith Scob (Blu-ray only)
  • Excerpt from Les Grands-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about Eyes Without a Face writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
  • Trailers
  • Stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material (DVD only)
  • Plus: A booklet featuring essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat

John Cassavetes: Five Films
Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray editions
  • New high-definition digital restoration of Cassavetes’s 108-minute 1978 version of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  • A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes (2000), a 200-minute documentary by Charles Kiselyak
  • New interviews with actor Lelia Goldoni and associate producer Seymour Cassel about Shadows
  • Silent footage from the Cassavetes-Lane Drama Workshop, from which Shadows emerged
  • Restoration demonstration for Shadows
  • Alternate eighteen-minute opening sequence for Faces
  • Episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps from 1968, dedicated to Cassavetes
  • Making “Faces,” a new documentary featuring interviews with actors Cassel, Lynn Carlin, and Gena Rowlands and director of photography Al Ruban
  • Al Ruban on Lighting and Shooting “Faces,” a new video program featuring commentary by Ruban (Blu-ray); Lighting and Shooting the Film, an on-screen essay by Ruban, illustrated with video clips, that discusses the techniques and equipment used on Faces (DVD)
  • Audio commentary for A Woman Under the Influence by sound recordist and composer Bo Harwood and camera operator Mike Ferris
  • New conversation between Rowlands and actor Peter Falk about A Woman Under the Influence
  • New interviews with actor Ben Gazzara and Ruban on The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  • New conversation between Rowlands and Gazzara about Opening Night
  • New interview with Ruban about Opening Night
  • Audio interviews with Cassavetes from the 1970s about A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night
  • Trailers for Shadows, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night
  • Stills and poster galleries
  • Biographical sketches of the actors Cassavetes frequently cast in his films, written by Tom Chartity (John Cassavetes: Lifeworks) (DVD only)
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Gary Giddins, Kent Jones, Charles Kiselyak, Stuart Klawans, Dennis Lim, and Phillip Lopate; writings by and interviews with Cassavetes; and tributes to the filmmaker by director Martin Scorsese; actor and writer Elaine Kagan, Cassavetes’s former secretary; and novelist Jonathan Lethem

The Uninvited
Disc Features

  • New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme

La Notte
Disc Features

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
  • New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà and film historian Carlo Di Carlo
  • New interview with professor Giuliana Bruno on the role of architecture in La notte
  • Trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody and a 1961 article by director Michelangelo Antonioni