APRIL 2022 NEW RELEASES - THE CRITERION COLLECTION
THE CRITERION COLLECTION has announced its April slate of UHD BLU-RAY and BLU-RAY releases. They are: MIRACLE IN MILAN (1951), THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (1956), FOR ALL MANKIND (1989), WALKER (1987), EYIMOFE (This Is My Desire) (2020), and ROUND MIDNIGHT (1986).
クライテリオンから届いた2022年4月のBLU-RAYリリース・アナウンス。2月はUHD BLU-RAYは1作品、BLU-RAYは5作品がリリースされます。
4K UHD BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO RELEASE
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 4K RESTORATIONS of the original 1.33:1 framing and the alternate 1.85:1 theatrical presentation, with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- In the Blu-ray edition: High-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director Al Reinert, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring director Al Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last person to set foot on the moon
- An Accidental Gift: The Making of "For All Mankind," a documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists
- Selection of excerpted interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts
- Program about Bean's artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings
- NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
- Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission-control specialists
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert
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BLU-RAY RELEASE
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 4K DIGITAL RESTORATION, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, supervised by composer Herbie Hancock and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- New interview with jazz and cultural critic Gary Giddins
- New conversation with music producer Michael Cuscuna and author Maxine Gordon, widow of musician Dexter Gordon
- Before Midnight, a 1986 behind-the-scenes documentary
- Panel discussion from 2014 featuring director Bertrand Tavernier, Cuscuna, Maxine Gordon, and jazz scholar John Szwed, moderated by jazz critic and broadcaster Mark Ruffin
- Performance from 1969 of "Fried Bananas" by Dexter Gordon, directed by Teit Jørgensen
- New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Mark Anthony Neal
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AVAILABLE APRIL 2022 - THE CRITERION COLLECTION(BLU-RAY)
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Alex Cox, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by Cox and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer
- Dispatches from Nicaragua, a documentary about the filming of Walker
- On Moviemaking and the Revolution, reminiscences about the production twenty years later from an extra on the film
- Walker 2008 and On the Origins of "Walker" (2016), two short films by Cox
- Behind-the-scenes photos
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Graham Fuller, Wurlitzer, and Linda Sandoval
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs
- Audio interview from the late 1960s in which director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann
- Interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director's son
- Feature-length documentary from 2019 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
- Trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Christina Newland and, on the Blu-ray, "Totò il buono," a 1940 short story by Zavattini and stage actor Totò that is the earliest version of the narrative on which Miracle in Milan is based
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW HIGH-DEFINITION TRANSFER, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Toby Miller
- New interview with Eve Golden, biographer of actor Jayne Mansfield
- New video essay by film critic David Cairns
- Interview with filmmaker John Waters
- New conversation between WFMU DJs Dave "the Spazz" Abramson and Gaylord Fields about the music in the film
- On-set footage
- Interviews with Mansfield (1957) and musician Little Richard (1984)
- Episode of Karina Longworth's podcast You Must Remember This about Mansfield
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Rachel Syme and, for the Blu-ray, excerpts from director Frank Tashlin's 1952 book How to Create Cartoons with a new introduction by Ethan de Seife, author of Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- NEW 2K DIGITAL TRANSFER, approved by directors Arie and Chuko Esiri, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New conversation between the directors, moderated by filmmaker Bette Gordon
- Interview with producer Melissa O. Adeyemo
- Deleted scenes featuring audio commentary by the directors
- Three short films:
- Goose (2017), directed by Arie and Chuko Esiri
- Besida (2018), directed by Chuko Esiri
- Because Men in Silk Shirts on Lagos Nights (2018), directed by Arie Esiri
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by writer and filmmaker Maryam Kazeem
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