The Criterion Collection Reveals Its September Of 2018 Release Calendar

The Criterion Collection announced its September DVD and Blu-ray release calendar this past week, which includes a terrific screwball comedy, the film adaptation of a Lorraine Hansberry’s celebrated play, A Raisin in the Sun, two extended versions of major foreign-language works and the domestic home entertainment debut of French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ Cold Water.

The screwball comedy getting a restoration from Criterion in September is director Gregory La Cava’s 1936 gem My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard (both nominated Best Actor and Best Actress respectively … as was La Cava for his direction and Eric Hatch and Morrie Ryskind for their screenplay).   The street date for DVD and Blu-ray selections is Sept. 18.

Bonus features include outtakes, newsreels from the period, the 1938 Lux Radio Theatre recreation with William Powell, Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick and Mischa Auer (who nominated Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Carlo in the theatrical release) and two newly-prepared video sessions — one with Village Voice film critic Gary Giddins (discussing the jazz elements of the film) and the second features film critic Nick Pinkerton’s insights on filmmaker Gregory La Cava.

Getting a new 4K film restoration on Sept. 25 is director Daniel Petrie’s 1961 film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s Broadway Play, A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil.

Bonus features for the Blu-ray and DVD release include a vintage (circa 1961) interview with Lorraine Hansberry, two newly-prepared video sessions — one with author Imani Perry (“Looking for Lorraine”) and the second featuring film scholar and author of “Poitier Revisited” — and an excerpt from documentary filmmaker Woodie King, Jr.’s 1978 documentary, Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement.

Rounding out the September release calendar from Criterion are Blu-ray and DVD editions of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage (both the TV mini-series and domestic theatrical release versions are included … street date is Sept. 04), Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1966 film release of Andrei Rublev (both the original Russian theatrical version and Tarkovsky’s preferred cut of the film on Sept. 28) and the aforementioned debut Cold Water (Sept. 11).