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Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
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* - DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY EDITION FEATURES:
* - New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson and director of photography Robert Yeoman
* - Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
* - Commentary by director/co-writer Anderson and co-writer/actor Owen Wilson
* - The Making of “Bottle Rocket”: an original documentary by filmmaker Barry Braverman featuring Anderson, James L. Brooks, James Caan, Temple Nash Jr., Kumar Pallana, Polly Platt, Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Musgrave, Richard Sakai, David and Sandy Wasco, Andrew and Luke and Owen Wilson, and Robert Yeoman
* - The original thirteen-minute black-and-white Bottle Rocket short film from 1992
* - Eleven deleted scenes
* - Anamorphic screen test, storyboards, location photos, and behind-the-scenes photographs by Laura Wilson
* - Murita Cycles, a 1978 short film by Braverman
* - The Shafrazi Lectures, no. 1: Bottle Rocket
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by executive producer James L. Brooks, an appreciation by Martin Scorsese, and original artwork by Ian Dingman


* - New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* - Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack supervised by director Wong Kar-wai
* - Audio commentary by noted Asian cinema critic Tony Rayns
* - Episode excerpt from the British television series Moving Pictures featuring Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle
* - U.S. theatrical trailer
* - New and improved English subtitle translation
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from a 1996 Sight and Sound interview with Wong by Rayns


* - DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY EDITION FEATURES:
* - High-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Nicolas Roeg
* - Uncompressed stereo soundtrack
* - Audio commentary by Roeg and actors David Bowie and Buck Henry
* - New video interview with screenwriter Paul Mayersberg Performance, video interviews with actors Candy Clark and Rip Torn
* - Audio interviews with costume designer May Routh and production designer Brian Eatwell
* - Audio interview from 1984 with author Walter Tevis, conducted by Don Swaim
* - Multiple stills galleries, including Routh’s costume sketches; behind-the-scenes photos; and production and publicity stills, introduced by set photographer David James
* - Gallery of posters from Roeg’s films
* - Trailers
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Graham Fuller


* - SPECIAL BLU-RAY EDITION FEATURES:
* - Restored high-definition digital transfer
* - Uncompressed mono soundtrack
* - Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
* - Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by by film scholar Dana Polan
* - Shadowing “The Third Man”/ (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film
* - Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
* - “Graham Greene: The Hunted Man,” an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC’s Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist
* - Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
* - The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 “A Ticket to Tangiers” episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles, and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
* - Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer
* - Actor Joseph Cotten’s alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version
* - Archival footage of postwar Vienna
* - A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Luc Sante


* - DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY EDITION FEATURES:
* - Restored, high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
* - DTS-HD Master Audio stereo surround soundtrack
* - Audio commentary by director Bernardo Bertolucci, producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Mark Peploe, and composer-actor Ryuichi Sakamoto
* - The Italian Traveler: Bernardo Bertolucci, a 53-minute film by Fernand Mozskowicz, tracing the director’s geographic influences, from Parma to China
* - Video images taken by Bertolucci in China
* - The Chinese Adventure of Bernardo Bertolucci, a 52-minute documentary that revisits the film’s creation
* - A 47-minute documentary featuring Storaro, editor Gabriella Cristiana, costume designer James Acheson, and art director Gianni Silvestri
* - A 66-minute documentary exploring Bertolucci’s creative process and the making of The Last Emperor
* - A 30-minute interview with Bertolucci from 1989
* - A new interview with composer David Byrne
* - A new interview with Ian Buruma examining the historical period of the film
* - Theatrical trailer
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Thomson

They all have a $39.95 MSRP.
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2008, 12:23:18 AM »
Bottle Rocket will definitely be mine.

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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2008, 12:24:16 AM »
Chungking Express is so mine. I'm on the fence about Third Man and Bottle Rocket.
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2008, 12:27:44 AM »
Third Man = day one.

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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2008, 12:50:10 AM »
I WANT THEM ALL

I love Bottle Rocket and think it's really underrated, it's so much more enjoyable and good than late-era Wes Anderson confusion
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2008, 01:03:10 AM »
You know whats great about their move to bluray, I can actually start from square one instead of feeling all outta the club with the dvds n shit
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2008, 06:19:59 PM »
I WANT THEM ALL

I love Bottle Rocket and think it's really underrated, it's so much more enjoyable and good than late-era Wes Anderson confusion

The heist at the end of Bottle Rocket is fucking hysterical.  I was literally in tears laughing so hard the first time I saw it. 

Even with the lull in the middle of the movie with the hotel romance between Luke Wilson and the maid, I almost prefer Bottle Rocket over all other Wes Anderson's films.
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2008, 06:35:56 PM »
Chungking Express  :hump :hump
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2008, 06:38:32 PM »
I want Salo on blu ray
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2008, 06:49:42 PM »
I'm seriously not trolling.  But aren't you guys a little hesitant to rebuild your library all over again?  Do you really expect to have a working Bluray player in your house in 2015?

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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2008, 06:52:16 PM »
I'm seriously not trolling.  But aren't you guys a little hesitant to rebuild your library all over again?  Do you really expect to have a working Bluray player in your house in 2015?

I'm a little wary.  I only double dip on my favorites that I think would visually benefit.  I probably won't double dip on anything here.  I don't have Chungking Express though.  The Last Emperor is tempting, though.  But like, The Third Man, ehhhhhhhhh.  The recent DVD edition upscales fine.
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2008, 06:54:48 PM »
I'm seriously not trolling.  But aren't you guys a little hesitant to rebuild your library all over again?  Do you really expect to have a working Bluray player in your house in 2015?

Its a necessary evil. I have probably 300 VHS tapes kicking around in a box somewhere, and I probably re-bought 75% of them on DVD. Same thing with DVD and BD. Disposable income/consumer whorism FTW!

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« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2008, 06:59:39 PM »
I never actually bought all that many DVDs, so three out of four of these - if I bought them all - would be new purchases.  And I wouldn't mind a new transfer of Chungking one bit.
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2008, 07:12:11 PM »
I'm just not keen on rebuilding my DVD library.  For my favorite films, I've already seen the extra content.  And if it's just watching them again, I'm guessing we'll have Bluray quality on demand stuff in 5 years or so.  For now, Netflix is adequate.

Of course, I probably won't be able to help myself this December with Dr. Strangelove.  Unless the transfer is as bad as 2001 :(

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« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2008, 07:14:57 PM »
I'm seriously not trolling.  But aren't you guys a little hesitant to rebuild your library all over again?  Do you really expect to have a working Bluray player in your house in 2015?
Of course -- there's nothing looking to compete with BluRay for releases like this.

Good luck getting all those special features and booklets on your magical digital download box that doesn't exist yet.  Shit, good luck just getting to 1080p.

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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2008, 07:16:38 PM »
I want Salo on blu ray

September 22nd in the UK.

Good luck getting all those special features and booklets on your magical digital download box that doesn't exist yet.  Shit, good luck just getting to 1080p.

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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2008, 07:34:31 PM »
Unless the transfer is as bad as 2001 :(

? 2001's HD DVD/BD transfer is possibly the most impressive thing Ive seen on HD formats yet, especially for a 40 year old film.

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« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2008, 09:32:33 PM »
2001 had some moments of really bad EE that turned me off.  Still looked good, but after seeing how good The Searchers was transfered, I was expecting more.

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« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2008, 11:05:32 PM »
I haven't watched all of 2001 in HD yet, but it's the among the best looking things I've ever seen in HD.  I've literally never heard anyone else complain.

As far as the topic, I'll probably pick up The Last Emperor, that should benefit from HD. 
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2008, 12:23:24 AM »
so, uh, i have never heard of any of these movies.

they're good, i'm guessing?

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« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2008, 01:06:25 AM »
Why come they're doing artsy fartsy crap first?  I ain't paying that much for deluxe versions of Wong's shitty films. 

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« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2008, 01:13:13 AM »
Why come they're doing artsy fartsy crap first?

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« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2008, 01:16:28 AM »
so, uh, i have never heard of any of these movies.

they're good, i'm guessing?

no they all suck
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Re: Criterion's first wave of Blu-ray titles
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2008, 02:19:53 AM »
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccck

well, at least i never bought any of these on dvd

i have probably spent $100 on Jaws in the various home theater formats over the years

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« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2008, 03:32:05 AM »
I just watched Tokyo Drifter for the first time, holy fuck awesome ending
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« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2008, 04:17:26 AM »
BOTTLE ROCKET.

MAKE ALL OF WES ANDERSON'S FILMS INTO BRD PLZ CRITERION I'LL LOVE YOU WITH MOUTH.

SEVEN SAMURAI ON BRD TOO PLZ.