JUNE 2022 NEW RELEASES - THE CRITERION COLLECTION
THE CRITERION COLLECTION has announced its May slate of UHD BLU-RAY and BLU-RAY releases. They are: SHAFT (1971), PINK FLAMINGOS (1972), THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (1951), ROUGE (1987) and THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2020).
クライテリオンから届いた2022年6月のBLU-RAYリリース・アナウンス。5月はUHD BLU-RAYは1作品、BLU-RAYは5作品がリリース予定となっています。
4K UHD BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO RELEASE
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III
- Shaft's Big Score!, the 1972 follow-up to Shaft by director Gordon Parks
- New documentary on the making of Shaft featuring curator Rhea L. Combs, film scholar Racquel J. Gates, filmmaker Nelson George, and music scholar Shana L. Redmond
- Behind-the-scenes program featuring Parks, actor Richard Roundtree, and musician Isaac Hayes
- Archival interviews with Hayes, Parks, and Roundtree
- New interview with costume designer Joseph G. Aulisi
- New program on the Black detective and the legacy of John Shaft, featuring scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and novelist Walter Mosley
- A Complicated Man: The "Shaft" Legacy (2019)
- Behind-the-scenes footage from Shaft's Big Score!
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri
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BLU-RAY RELEASE
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, supervised and approved by director John Waters, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Two audio commentaries featuring Waters, from the 1997 Criterion laserdisc and the 2001 DVD release
- New conversation between Waters and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch
- Tour of the film's Baltimore locations, led by Waters
- Deleted scenes, alternate takes, and on-set footage
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- And more!
- PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton and a piece by actor and author Cookie Mueller about the making of the film, from her 1990 book Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
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AVAILABLE MAY 2022 - THE CRITERION COLLECTION(BLU-RAY)
SPECIAL FEATURES
- PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED 4K RESTORATION by The Film Foundation and the BFI National Archive, in association with STUDIOCANAL, featuring newly rediscovered footage and with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 1992 by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Bruce Eder, newly updated by Eder
- Interview with filmmaker George A. Romero from 2005
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1956), a short musical film based on the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe story and directed by Michael Powell
- Collection of production designer Hein Heckroth's design sketches and paintings
- Gallery of production and publicity photographs
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Plus: An essay by film historian Ian Christie
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- NEW 2K MASTER, approved by director Ekwa Msangi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring Msangi and cinematographer Bruce Francis Cole
- Three short films by Msangi: Suspense (2011); The Market King (2014); and Farewell Meu Amor (2016), a prequel to Farewell Amor
- New interviews with actors Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, and Jayme Lawson
- Deleted scenes
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Tiana Reid
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, approved by director Stanley Kwan, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- New conversation between Kwan and filmmaker Sasha Chuk
- Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema, a 1997 documentary by Kwan exploring the representation of queerness and LGBT identity in Chinese film
- Still Love You After All These, a 1997 memoir film by Kwan about his Hong Kong identity
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 2K MASTER, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New interviews with director Joachim Trier; coscreenwriter Eskil Vogt; actors Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Herbert Nordrum; cinematographer Kasper Tuxen; and sound designer Gisle Tveito
- On-set footage from the creation of the film's time-freezing sequence
- Deleted scenes
- PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O'Malley