• Release Date Changes

    Due to delays in manufacturing our custom Blu-ray cases, we’ve been forced to move the street dates for several titles.

    Monsoon Wedding (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
    Original release date: 10/13/09
    New release date: 10/20/09

    Wings of Desire (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
    Old street: 10/20/09
    New street: 11/3/09

    Howards End (Blu-ray edition)
    Old street: 10/20/09
    New street: 11/3/09

    We are also moving the DVD edition of A Christmas Tale down from November to December in order to add a Blu-ray edition; both will street on the same day.

    A Christmas Tale (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
    Original release date: 11/10/09
    New release date: 12/01/09

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26 comments

  • By Kyle
    October 27, 2009
    06:42 PM

    When will The Life Aquatic be on blu ray? i think its a great visual movie and would really look incredable on the format
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    • By SuwanneeJoe
      June 21, 2012
      03:12 AM

      I would also like to see The Life Aquatic on blu-ray!

    • By Ryland
      July 04, 2012
      04:05 PM

      I Concur. I need Life Aquatic on blu ray!!

    • By Jordan Walker
      December 10, 2012
      03:57 PM

      I'm right there with you guys. All other Wes Anderson releases look phenomenal, The Life Aquatic is one of my favorite Anderson films... need this on blu ray!

    • By Ambuehlance
      December 17, 2012
      01:21 AM

      I concur as well. I have all other Wes Anderson films on blu ray. Help me complete my blu ray collection!

    • By Josiah Austin
      April 26, 2013
      01:11 PM

      The Life Aquatic is almost-not-even-arguably my all-time favorite movie. Once it hits Blu-Ray, I'm going to pre-order it whether it's released by Criterion or its original production co. I'd really like it on Criterion though, so I suggest they get on the ball about that. I've been waiting years for TLA on Blu-Ray.

  • By Village Green
    March 18, 2010
    01:38 AM

    All I want to know about is if Criterion will be picking up A Prophet.... Just had the opportunity to see this film (in america) and I must say it was the most startling intriguing film I have seen in years (or at least since There Will Be Blood). It has "Criterion" written all over it!
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  • By Jay Gatsby
    July 28, 2010
    03:53 AM

    I agree with Village Green! "A Prophet" is a amazing picture! Audiard had created something beautiful and something that should not be waved off into dust, but be honored the to the Collection. Of coarse there are many films that probably deserve this such as "Punch Drunk Love" or "The Night of The Iguana" and so on. I came on this site for this very reason, to find out if Criterion had chose "A Prophet" to add to the kingdom, but I have high hopes.
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  • By Ted
    August 20, 2010
    03:13 PM

    I think at the top of your list for new films to restore and release should be Mizoguchi's "The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums." I had to watch it on a video tape of the poorest quality -- really the worst. But even then I could tell that it is a great film. I am sure that if it were given a proper restoration and released on DVD -- it would be awesome. In the BFI poll of greatest films in 2002, it was rated in the top 40 or so, with only "Ugetsu" and "Sansho the Bailiff" being the other Mizoguchi films on the list. Please restore and release this masterpiece!
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    • By Harold D.
      November 28, 2011
      08:17 PM

      I agree with Ted: more Mizoguchi and Ozu, pretty please.

  • By Daniel
    August 14, 2012
    11:36 PM

    I would also love to see the life aquatic on criterion blu ray
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  • By Marko
    August 21, 2012
    02:36 PM

    Yes, another keenly wishing for the Life Aquatic, please!
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  • By Rob G
    August 23, 2012
    06:30 PM

    Need life aquatic blu ray please! :)
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  • By steve e
    September 23, 2012
    04:55 AM

    Need life aquatic blu ray - criterion - make it happen
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  • By T
    October 05, 2012
    07:50 PM

    The last movie i am waiting for to convert to blu is Life Aquatic, why is it taking so long?
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  • By Oscar
    October 06, 2012
    04:01 PM

    Life Aquatic blu ray please.
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  • By Shannon
    October 08, 2012
    07:24 PM

    LIFE AQUATICE BLU RAY NOW!!!
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  • By Joseph
    October 20, 2012
    08:22 PM

    I would LOVE to see Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic" and Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty" (2011) for a 2013 release!!!
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    • By Hans M.
      October 21, 2012
      07:45 AM

      Add my name to the Life Aquatic Blu-ray campaign!. Thanks for bringing something refreshing to the mix, Jason. As for Sleeping Beauty that was a problematic film but no less interesting. I reviewed it upon release: http://bit.ly/Vh4DAD

  • By Steve
    November 16, 2012
    04:26 PM

    The three major titles missing from my Criterion bluray collection that cannot be found on bluray anywhere: (most especially, like everyone else here) The Life Aquatic, The Conformist, and Soderbergh's Solaris. Tarovsky's is good too, but Soderbergh's is a Solaris I need to see in as many lines of resolution as you can give me. Also, Criterion's recent Paths of Glory bluray needs to be accompanied with the acquisition of all of Kubrick's other films! I think Warner Bros. currently owns most of Kubrick's material if not all of it, but I can keep wishing Criterion will do something about that and take it over, if for no other reason than for the sake of collector who wants Kubrick's films to stand out on his shelf and appear more like an art collection even in the viewing than a mishmash of corporate video releases.
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  • By Jorge
    December 09, 2012
    07:27 PM

    Life aquatic on blu ray PLEASE!!!!
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    • By Daniel W.
      December 10, 2012
      04:52 PM

      Yes I agree. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou needs a Criterion blu-ray!

  • By Erik B
    February 04, 2013
    05:17 PM

    Life aquatic on blue ray would be a welcome addition. So would Anderson's two latest movies being Fantastic Mr Fox and Moonrise Kingdom
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    • By Jerrison
      February 06, 2013
      03:13 AM

      Yes, all of those movies could be released on Blu-Ray soon. The first release of, "Moonrise Kingdom", on D.V.D. and Blu-Ray did not have a lot of special features in it.

  • By Jerrison
    February 06, 2013
    03:35 AM

    You could release The, "Always: Sunset on Third Street", film series soon. The film series is very popular when it's released in Japan. Three reasons why you could release this film series is because anime meets real life in the film series, the film series's setting of Tokyo, Japan between 1958 and 1964 being recreated and its story. The last two films in the film series are, "Always: Sunset on Third Street 2", and, "Always: Sunset on Third Street '64". You could put both the 2D and 3D versions of the third film in the Blu-Ray version of the box set. You could learn more information about the first film in the film series through the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always:_Sunset_on_Third_Street. The film series is distributed by Toho. Thank you.
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  • By Michele
    May 04, 2013
    08:38 AM

    Hi, here I am, another guy waiting (praying...) for the Criterion "The Life Aquatic" blu-ray.
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