The Criterion Collection announced six (6) titles to be releaed in January 2014. On January 7, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood will be available. On January 14, Michael Mann’s Thief and Jules Dassin’s Rififi will be released. On January 21, Staley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Aki Kaurismäki’s La vie de bohème will arrive on stores. For the week of January 28, Terence Davies’ The Long Day Closes will mark the final release of the month. Check below for a list of supplements on each release.

Throne of Blood
Disc Features

1. New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Audio commentary featuring Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck
3. Documentary on the making of Throne of Blood, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
4. Two alternate subtitle translations, by Japanese-film translator Linda Hoaglund and Kurosawa expert Donald Richie
5. Trailer
6. One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
7. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Stephen Prince and notes on the subtitling by Hoaglund and Richie

Thief
Disc Features

1. New digital restoration from a 4K film transfer, approved by director Michael Mann, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Audio commentary featuring Mann and actor James Caan
3. New interviews with Mann, Caan, and Johannes Schmoelling of the band Tangerine Dream, which contributed the film’s soundtrack
4. Trailer
5. One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
6. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Nick James

Rififi
Disc Features

1. New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Interview with director Jules Dassin
3. Set design drawings by Alexandre Trauner
4. Production stills
5. Trailer
6. Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
7. One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
8. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Disc Features

1. Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1 surround Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. 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
3. New audio commentary featuring It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
4. New documentary on the film’s visual and sound effects, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage of the crew at work and interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt
5. Talk show from 1974 hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters
6. Press interview from 1963 featuring Kramer and members of the film’s cast
7. Interviews recorded for the 2000 AFI program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs, featuring comedians and actors discussing the influence of the film
8. Two-part 1963 episode of the CBC television program Telescope that follows the film’s press junket and premiere
9. The Last 70mm Film Festival, a program from 2012 featuring cast and crew members from Mad World at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hosted by Billy Crystal
10. Selection of humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg’s original TV and radio advertisements for the film, with a new introduction by Freberg
11. Original and rerelease trailers, and rerelease radio spots
12. Two Blu-rays and three DVDs, with all content available in both formats
13. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Lou Lumenick

La vie de Bohème
Disc Features

1. New, high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Where Is Musette?, an hour-long documentary on the making of the film
3. New interview with actor André Wilms
4. Trailer
5. New and improved English subtitle translation
6. One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
7. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Luc Sante

The Long Day Closes
Disc Features

1. New, high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Audio commentary by director Terence Davies and director of photography Michael Coulter
3. Episode from 1992 of the British television series The South Bank Show with Davies, featuring on-set footage from The Long Day Closes and interviews with cast and crew
4. New interviews with executive producer Colin MacCabe and production designer Christopher Hobbs
5. Trailer
6. One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
7. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Koresky