The Criterion Collection
has announced its DVD and Blu-ray release selections that will be ready for
delivery during the month of September.
Auteur immediately comes to
mind in describing the selections … Polanski, Lynch and Fassbinder are counted
among them.
Also, of note, it appears
that Criterion is returning to the standard Blu-ray configuration for its new
film releases — beginning in November of last year the company was
experimenting with Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs and cutting back on stand-alone DVD product
offerings.
The festivities kick off
on Sept. 16 with newly minted Blu-ray and DVD editions of director David
Lynch’s 1977 mind trip, Eraserhead, which includes, as a
bonus, new restorations of six of his short films —Figures Getting
Sick, The Alphabet, The Grandmother, The
Amputee, Part 1 and Part 2 and Premonitions Following an Evil Deed. Also included is a 2001 documentary on the
making of the film.
Sept. 23 brings newly
restored Blu-ray and DVD editions of auteur filmmaker Roman Polanski’s 1971 film,
Macbeth
(with Jon Finch and Francesca Annis).
Bonus goodies here include two featurettes on the making-of the film …
one new and one of vintage issue.
Also streeting on Sept.
23 and Blu-ray and DVD product choices is director Jack Clayton’s 1961 film
adaptation of the Henry James’ novel, “The Turn of the Screw,” issued
theatrically as simply The Innocents.
Bonus features for this Deborah
Kerr gothic horror gem (script co-written by none other than Truman Capote) include
commentary from author, educator and film culture historian Sir Christopher
Frayling.
The selections for the
month of September conclude on the 30th with the Blu-ray debut of Rainer
Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 film release of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and both DVD
and Blu-ray SKUs for writer/director Serge Bourguignon’s 1962 Oscar-winner for
Best Foreign Language Film, Sundays and Cybèle.
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