The Criterion Collection has announced 6 new titles for July, the titles are Naked on July 12th, The Music Room and Beauty and the Beast for July 19th, Léon Morin Priest, Life during Wartime, and High and Low are due on the 26th of July. All films have been digitally restored with new audio tracks to continue with Criterion’s of high quality treatment. Check below for a list of supplements for each film.

The Music Room
Disc Features

• New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Satyajit Ray (1984), a feature documentary by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray’s career and includes interviews with the filmmaker, family photographs, and extensive clips from his films
• New interview with filmmaker Mira Nair
• New interview in which Ray biographer Andrew Robinson discusses the making of The Music Room and the film’s cultural significance
• Excerpt from a 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, film critic Michel Ciment, and filmmaker Claude Sautet
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp as well as reprints of a 1963 essay by Ray and a 1986 interview with the director about the film’s music

Léon Morin, Priest
Disc Features

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Archival interview with director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Visual essay by French film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
• Original theatrical trailer
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana

Life During Wartime
Disc Features

• New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Ed Lachman, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Ask Todd, an audio Q&A with director Todd Solondz in which he responds to viewers’ questions
• Making “Life During Wartime,” a new documentary featuring interviews with actors Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, and Michael Kenneth Williams, and on-set footage of the actors and crew
• New video piece in which Lachman discusses his work on the film
• Original theatrical trailer
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt

Beauty and the Beast
Disc Features

• High-definition digital transfer from restored film elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Composer Philip Glass’s opera La Belle et la Bête, presented as an alternate soundtrack (in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
• Two commentaries: one by film historian Arthur Knight and one by writer and cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling
• Screening at the Majestic, a 1995 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
• Interview with cinematographer Henri Alekan
• Rare behind-the-scenes photos and publicity stills
• Film restoration demonstration
• Original trailer, directed and narrated by director Jean Cocteau, plus restoration trailer from 1995
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Geoffrey O’Brien (Blu-ray edition only), a piece on the film by Cocteau, excerpts from Francis Steegmuller’s 1970 book Cocteau: A Biography, a reprint of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s original fable (DVD edition only), and an introduction to Glass’s opera by the composer

Naked
Disc Features

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Mike Leigh, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary by Leigh and actors David Thewlis and Katrin Cartlidge
• Exclusive video interview with director Neil LaBute
• An episode of the BBC program The Art Zone in which author Will Self interviews Leigh
• The Short and Curlies, a short comedy from 1982 directed by Leigh and starring Thewlis, with audio commentary by Leigh
• Original theatrical trailer
• A booklet featuring essays by film critics Derek Malcolm and Amy Taubin

High and Low
Disc Features

• High-definition digital restoration, with original four-track surround sound (presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
• Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
• Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
• Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune, conducted by TV talk-show host Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
• Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper
• Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.
• A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a reprinted on-set account by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie