DECEMBER 2021 NEW RELEASES - THE CRITERION COLLECTION
The Criterion Collection has announced that it will add three new titles to its catalog in December. They are: THE RED SHOES (1948), THE LEARNING TREE (1969), and ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... (2020)
クライテリオンから届いた2021年12月の4K UHD BLU-RAY & BLU-RAYリリース・アナウンス。11月にテイクオフとなったUHD BLU-RAYは1タイトルとなります(BLU-RAYのカップリング)。
4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO RELEASE
SPECIAL FEATURES
- 4K TRANSFER FROM THE 2009 RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- 4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO
- Introductory restoration demonstration with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary from 1994 by film historian Ian Christie, featuring interviews with actors Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and Scorsese
- Profile of "The Red Shoes," a 2000 documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team
- Interview with director Michael Powell's widow, editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
- Audio recordings from 1994 of actor Jeremy Irons reading excerpts from Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger's novelization of The Red Shoes and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Red Shoes"
- Collection of rare publicity stills and behind-the-scenes photos
- Gallery of memorabilia from Scorsese's collection
- The "Red Shoes" Sketches, a 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth's painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic David Ehrenstein and a description of the restoration by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt
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AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2021 - THE CRITERION COLLECTION(BLU-RAY)
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- NEW 4K TRANSFER, approved by director Regina King, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio
- New conversation between King and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons
- New conversation among King, screenwriter Kemp Powers, and critic Gil Robertson
- Conversation between King and filmmaker Barry Jenkins from a 2021 episode of The Director's Cut – A DGA Podcast
- New program featuring King and actors Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr.
- New program on the making of the film, featuring King, Powers, director of photography Tami Reiker, editor Tariq Anwar, producer Jody Klein, costume designer Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, and set decorator Janessa Hitsman
- New program on the film's sound design, featuring sound editor and mixer Andy Hay, sound mixer Paul Ledford, and music producer Nick Baxter
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- English descriptive audio
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gene Seymour
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 2K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New documentary on the making of the film, featuring artist and critic Ina Diane Archer, curator Rhea L. Combs, and filmmakers Ernest R. Dickerson and Nelson George
- New conversation, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie, between artist Hank Willis Thomas and art historian Deborah Willis about the influence of director Gordon Parks
- My Father: Gordon Parks (1969), a documentary made on the set of The Learning Tree, narrated by Gordon Parks Jr., and featuring interviews with Gordon Parks Sr. and members of the cast and crew
- Diary of a Harlem Family and The World of Piri Thomas, two 1968 films on which Parks played creative roles, with a new introduction by Combs
- Unstoppable (2005), a documentary featuring producer Warrington Hudlin in conversation with Parks and filmmakers Ossie Davis and Melvin Van Peebles
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: "How It Feels to Be Black," a 1963 Life magazine photo-essay by Parks, and an excerpt from the director's 2005 book A Hungry Heart: A Memoir