The Criterion Collection has announced the release for the month of December. On December 3rd, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and Nashville will hit store shelves, both titles are dual format editions. On December 10, Grey Gardens and Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project are the two final releases for the year, only Scorsese’s set will arrive in dual format. Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project will include 6 titles; Touki Bouki; Redes; A River Called Titas; Dry Summer; Trances; The Housemaid. Check below for a supplements and artwork.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Disc Features
- New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
- New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
- Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volonté
- Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
- Trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by author and screenwriter Ugo Pirro
Nashville
Disc Features
- New 2K digital film restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring director Robert Altman
- New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with actors Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Allan Nicholls, and Lily Tomlin; assistant director Alan Rudolph; and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury
- Archival interviews with Altman
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Demos of Carradine singing his songs from the film
- Trailer
- One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both editions
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell
Gray Gardens
Disc Features
- New 2K digital film restoration, approved by codirector Albert Maysles, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack (Blu-ray)
- New digital transfer (DVD)
- The Beales of Grey Gardens, the 2006 sequel to the film (Blu-ray)
- Audio commentary for Grey Gardens, featuring Maysles and codirectors Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, along with associate producer Susan Froemke
- Introduction to The Beales of Grey Gardens by Maysles (Blu-ray)
- Audio excerpts from a 1976 interview with Little Edie Beale, conducted by Kathryn G. Graham
- Interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens
- Behind-the-scenes photographs
- Trailers
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Hilton Als
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restorations of all six films, undertaken by the World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
- New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
- New interview programs featuring filmmakers Abderrahmane Sissako (on Touki bouki), Kumar Shahani (on A River Called Titas), Metin Erksan and Fatih Akin (on Dry Summer), and Bong Joon-ho (on The Housemaid)
- New visual essay on Redes by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones
- New interview program on Trances featuring filmmaker Ahmed El Maânouni, producer Izza Génini, and musician Omar Sayed
- New English subtitle translations
- Three Blu-rays and six DVDs, with all content available in both formats
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays on the films by Charles Ramirez Berg, Bilge Ebiri, Kyung Hyun Kim, Adrian Martin, Richard Porton, and Sally Shafto
