Criterion Announced September’s Releases!

Criterion Collection has announced five titles slated for September release. first, on September 16 David Lynch’s Eraserhead will arrive on Blu-ray. On September 23, two titles will be released Roman Polanski’s Macbeth and Jack Clayton’s The Innocents. To round up the month, on September 30 Serge Bourguignon’s Sundays and Cybèle and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Check below for a list of supplements for each title.

Eraserhead
Disc Features

  1. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  2. “Eraserhead” Stories, a 2001 documentary by David Lynch on the making of the film
  3. New high-definition restorations of six short films by Lynch: Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee, Part 1 and Part 2 (1974), and Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1996), all with video introductions by Lynch
  4. New and archival interviews with cast and crew
  5. Trailer

Macbeth
Disc Features

  1. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  2. New documentary about the making of the film, featuring interviews with director Roman Polanski, producer Andrew Braunsberg, assistant executive producer Victor Lownes, and stars Francesca Annis and Martin Shaw
  3. Polanski Meets Macbeth, a 1971 documentary by Frank Simon featuring rare footage of the film’s cast and crew at work
  4. Theatrical trailers
  5. More!
  6. PLUS: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty

The Innocents
Disc Features

  1. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  2. Audio commentary featuring cultural historian Christopher Frayling
  3. New interview with cinematographer John Bailey on director of photography Freddie Francis and the look of the film
  4. Archival interviews with editor James Clark, Francis, and script supervisor Pamela Francis
  5. Trailer
  6. More!
  7. PLUS: An essay by critic Maitland McDonagh

Sundays and Cybèle
Disc Features

  1. New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  2. New interviews with director Serge Bourguignon and actor Patricia Gozzi
  3. Le sourire (1960), Bourguignon’s Palme d’Or–winning short documentary
  4. Trailer
  5. New English subtitle translation
  6. PLUS: An essay by critic Ginette Vincendeau

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Disc Features

  1. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  2. Introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Todd Haynes
  3. Interviews from 2003 with actor Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymèsz
  4. Shahbaz Noshir’s 2002 short Angst isst Seele auf, which reunites Mira, Eymèsz, and cinematographer Jürgen Jürges to tell the story, based on real events, of an attack by neo-Nazis on a foreign actor while on his way to a stage performance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s screenplay
  5. Signs of Vigorous Life: New German Cinema, a 1976 BBC program about the national film movement of which Fassbinder was a part
  6. Scene from Fassbinder’s 1970 film The American Soldier that inspired Ali
  7. Trailer
  8. PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara