The Criterion Collection’s May Blu-ray Releases

February 15, 2013 - Blu-ray Releases - no comments

The Criterion Collection has announced their blu-ray releases for May. There are a total of five (5) releases, Band of Outsiders on May 7th; 3:10 to Yuma and Jubal on May 14th; Meduim Cool on May 21st; and Life is Sweet on May 28th. Here’s a list of the features with each release:

Band of Outsiders
-New digital master of Gaumont’s recent high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Visual glossary of references and wordplay found in Band of Outsiders
-Exclusive interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard and actor Anna Karina
-Excerpts from a 1964 interview with director Jean-Luc Godard, including rare behind-the-scenes footage from the film
-Filmmaker Agnès Varda’s 1961 silent comedy Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, starring Godard and Karina and featuring other members of the Band of Outsiders cast
-Godard’s original theatrical trailer and the 2001 U.S. rerelease trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by poet and critic Joshua Clover, Godard’s character descriptions for the film’s 1964 press book, and an interview with the director from the same year

3:10 to Yuma
-New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
-New interviews with author Elmore Leonard and Glenn Ford’s son and biographer, Peter Ford
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones

Jubal
-New high-definition digital restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones

Medium Cool
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
-New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Haskell Wexler, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-Two audio commentaries, one featuring Wexler, actor Marianna Hill, and editor Paul Golding, the other featuring historian Paul Cronin
-New interview with Wexler
-Look Out Haskell, It’s Real!, a fifty-five-minute documentary about the making of Medium Cool, produced by Cronin and featuring interviews with Wexler, Golding, actors Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, and Robert Forster, Chicago historian Studs Terkel, and others
-Excerpts from Sooner or Later, a documentary by Cronin about Harold Blankenship, who plays the adolescent Harold in the film
-Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard

Life is Sweet
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
-New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
-New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
-Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London
More!
PLUS: A booket featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt

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