The Criterion Collection announced a few new titles early last week, “Insignificance,” “The Makioka Sisters,” “Kiss Me Deadly,” “People On Sunday,” “Zazie dans le métro” and “Black Moon.” All titles are set to be released in June, Insignificance and The Makioka Sisters are set for June 14th. Kiss Me Deadly is set to be released on June 21st. People On Sunday, Zazie Dans le Métro, and Black Moon are all set to be released on June 28th. Check below for a list of supplements included in each title.
Insignificance
Disc Features
- Newly restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Nicolas Roeg and producer Jeremy Thomas (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- New video interviews with Roeg, Thomas, and editor Tony Lawson
- Making “Insignificance,” a short documentary shot on the set of the film
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Chuck Stephens and a reprinted exchange between Roeg and screenwriter Terry Johnson
The Makioka Sisters
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Audie Bock
Kiss Me Deadly
Disc Features
New high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini
- New video tribute from director Alex Cox (Repo Man, Walker)
- Excerpts from The Long Haul of A. I. Bezzerides, a 2005 documentary on the Kiss Me Deadly screenwriter
- Excerpts from Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane, a 1998 documentary on the author whose book inspired the film
- A look at the film’s locations
- Altered ending
- Theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman and a 1955 reprint by director Robert Aldrich
People On Sunday
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, created in collaboration with the Filmmuseum Amsterdam
- Two scores—a silent-era-style score by the Mont Alto Orchestra and a modern composition by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by the Czech Film Orchestra—both presented as uncompressed stereo soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition
- Weekend am Wannsee, Gerald Koll’s 2000 documentary about the film, featuring an interview with star Brigitte Borchert
- Ins Blaue Hinein, a thirty-six-minute short from 1931 by People on Sunday cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Noah Isenberg and reprints by scriptwriter Billy Wilder and director Robert Siodmak
Zazie Dans le Métro
Disc Features
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Archival interviews with director Louis Malle, novelist Raymond Queneau, and the young actress Catherine Demongeot
- Le Paris de Zazie, an interview with assistant director Philippe Collin
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
Black Moon
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Archival interview with director Louis Malle
- Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
- Alternate French-dubbed soundtrack
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
