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| Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Criterion Collection Newsletter. Our goal is to keep you in the loop about upcoming releases, introduce you to titles in the collection that you may not know, and give you a window into all things Criterion. This is definitely a work in progress. We'll be trying out new features over the coming months, and we'd like your help. We've set up an e-mail address, newsletter@criterionco.com, where you can send us feedback and suggestions for features you'd like to see. Don't hesitate to drop us a line.
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 This romantic tale is an early triumph from the director of such groundbreaking works as Rocco and His Brothers and The Leopard. Make sure you check out the downloadable audiobook of the original Dostoyevsky short story; listen to it directly from the DVD or take it with you on your iPod or other MP3 player! |
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 A different side of irrepressible Japanese director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter) is on display in these powerful literary adaptations. Deviating from the gangster genre, Suzuki presents a pair of violent and hyperstylized womens stories, drawn from Taijiro Tamura novels. The director and his longtime production designer Takeo Kimura sat down with Criterion for the first time for exclusive new video interviews on both discs. On Gate of Flesh, Kimura tells a priceless story of assembling the film's sprawling set, on zero budget, by scavenging broken plywood from the studio's lumberyard, and of having the construction crew report that they were working on other films. |
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 If laughter is what you're after, Preston Sturges delivers a typically hilarious treatment of seemingly pitch-black subject matter in Unfaithfully Yours: marital infidelity, jealousy, and vengeance. Unfairly dismissed by critics upon its initial release, the groundbreaking satirist's last great triumph has come to stand proudly alongside other Sturges landmarks like The Lady Eve and Sullivan's Travels. |
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The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda's A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes and Diamonds - collected as Three War Films - constitute a shattering and comprehensive examination of the effects of war on the individual spirit. For years - going all the way back to the laserdisc days - we searched for suitable film materials for high-quality releases of these films. We had been told that there were no usable elements, even in Poland, for A Generation. But with the help of Wajda and Roman Polanski (who appears in A Generation), negatives were unearthed and cleaned. Fine grains were struck, and after months of restoration work, we felt confident that we had created the best possible versions of these films, now available together for the first time on DVD, with new interviews and a host of other supplements. | ||||||
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| Criterion producer Johanna Schiller recently received a very kind note from François Truffaut's daughter, Laura Truffaut, on the occasion of the release of our DVD edition of Jules and Jim.
"I really couldn't be more pleased ... I kept thinking of how much my father would have enjoyed watching films on DVD. The extras remind me of the newspaper clippings I still find, to this day, tucked in the pages of favorite books of his, which I now own." For the complete text of Ms. Truffaut's note, click here. |
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| For our fellow New Yorkers, the new IFC Center - located on the site of the classic Waverly Theater on Sixth Avenue - will present the first of an ongoing series of special Criterion Collection Onscreen tributes on Thursday, July 21. The inaugural film for this program will be Richard Linklater's Slacker. |
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| Since we're currently working with him on DVDs of his Bad Timing and The Man Who Fell to Earth, we asked filmmaker Nicolas Roeg to select his favorite Criterion films.
Here is his list: Click here if you'd like to see Roeg's letter to us. |
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