The Criterion Collection has set its September DVD and
Blu-ray release calendar, which kicks off on Sept. 5 with a new 4K digital
restoration of auteur filmmaker
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 Best Picture-winner, Rebecca.
The film was nominated for 11 Oscars, including Best
Director for Hitchcock, Best Actress for Joan Fontaine’s performance as the
tormented second “Mrs. de Winter,” Laurence Olivier for Best Actor as her
husband, Maxim, and Judith Anderson in the Best Supporting Actress category as
the deranged Mrs. Danvers.
Bonus features include a vintage commentary track from film
scholar Leonard J. Leff (author of “Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and
Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood”),
newly-prepared video sessions with film critic and author Molly Haskell, film
scholar Patricia White and f/x historian Craig Barron, screen tests, vintage
television interviews with Hitchcock and more.
Next up is the Sept. 12 DVD and Blu-ray presentations of
documentary filmmaker Murray The film was
simply titled Festival (a new 2K restoration) and featured performances from
the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Donovan, Judy Collins and the
late Ronnie Gilbert.
Bonus features include a new “reconstruction and
remastering” of the soundtrack (approved by Lerner), the featurette titled
“When We Played Newport” (a series of archived interviews), outtakes and the
featurette titled “Editing Festival.”
Elsewhere on the September release calendar from The
Criterion Collection are Blu-ray and DVD selections of director Kelly
Reichardt’s Certain Women (Sept. 16), David Lynch: The Art Life (Sept. 26)
and a new 2K restoration of writer/director Michael Haneke 2001 film adaptation
of Elfriede Jelinek 1983 novel, The Piano Teacher (also on Sept.
26).
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