Criterion announces its first BluRay offerings
The Criterion Collection has announced the titles for the influential label’s first BluRay offerings in its newsletter:
- The Third Man
- Bottle Rocket
- Chungking Express
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
- The Last Emperor
- El Norte
- The 400 Blows
- Gimme Shelter
- The Complete Monterey Pop
- Contempt
- Walkabout
- For All Mankind
- The Wages of Fear
Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we’ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg’s outback masterpiece at the same time.
Other than new editions of The Last Emperor and Walkabout, the new offerings only upgrade the existing standard-def editions’ high-definition picture and sound, with “all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions” (emphasis added).
Bottle Rocket over Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums is somewhat surprising, but I’m glad to see The Third Man, Walkabout, and Chungking Express on the list. I’ll be interested in seeing what new supplements they’ll have for Walkabout, which is a favorite of mine.
In: News · Tagged with: Warner Bros., Warner Independent Pictures