How often are these B&N sales? Everyone talks like they are a regular occurrence. I was only aware of the last one, were there more before that?
I think it’s a once per year type thing, maybe twice at most, from what I can remember.
What kind of deals do they have? Because from my experience, everything at B&N (other than books) tends to be rediculously overpriced.
What kind of deals do they have? Because from my experience, everything at B&N (other than books) tends to be rediculously overpriced.
I bought a few Criterion at the last B&N sale and they were a good bargain.
B and N has a half off cireterion sale as well as a buy 2 get 1 free sale. If you have the members discount it can be a steal on criterions. They are way overpriced when they arent having sales.
Just announced for September on blu-ray: Breathless (À bout de souffle). Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, 1983) and The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998
YES!!!!!! XD New Oshima!! This is a happy day! I can get ahold, now, of, like, eight Oshimas with great transfers!
And The Thin Red Line and Breathless. Hell Yes.
Savvy
Oof! I had read somewhere that Hausu would be released in September, and see it didn’t make the cut. I’ve been looking forward to that ever since I saw the film earlier this spring. Hoping it’s by Christmas, though—it’s on my wish list.
They probably will wait to release there best stuff till the Holidays. That Oshima movie looks sweet. Still waiting for Chaplin, Darjeling, and Hausu (this one the most).
Hausu is less-than pleasant… :’( BUT I hope you guys both love it! :D
Savvy
I fairly certain we’ll be seeing those “eerier” films in October. I think October 31st would be an appropriate release date for Antichrist don’t you?
Ben., yes indeed, or maybe the week before, so people can have it for the big day.
That being said, I always associate Antichrist with November, since that’s when it arrived here in theaters (that’s when I first saw it, too).
Savvy
I’m eager to see what they put on the disc in terms of supplements. I wonder if they will be able to get a commentary from von Trier.
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Hi everyone, here is the official press release for September releases:
BREATHLESS – BD
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard (Band of Outsiders, Masculin féminin) burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo (Classe tous risques, Pierrot le fou) and Jean Seberg (Saint Joan, Bonjour tristesse), Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.
1960 • 90 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Raoul Coutard, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
• Video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker
• Video essays: one on Jean Seberg and one on Breathless as film criticism
• Chambre 12, Hôtel du suède, an eighty-minute documentary about the making of Breathless
• Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short by Godard starring Belmondo
• French theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring writings by Godard and film historian Dudley Andrew, François Truffaut’s original film treatment, and Godard’s scenario
TITLE: Breathless (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1939BD
UPC: 7-15515-06371-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-337-3
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 8/17/10
STREET: 9/14/10
CHARADE – BD
In this deliciously dark comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s), outfitted in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is a suave, mysterious stranger, played by Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby, North by Northwest). Director Stanley Donen (On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain, Two for the Road) goes splendidly Hitchcockian for Charade, a glittering emblem of sixties style and macabre wit.
1963 • 113 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring director Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Bruce Eder
TITLE: Charade (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1925BD
UPC: 7-15515-06171-1
ISBN: 978-1-60465-313-7
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 8/24/10
STREET: 9/21/10
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE – DVD & BD
In this captivating, exhilaratingly skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses, Empire of Passion), David Bowie (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Basquiat) regally embodies the character Celliers, a high-ranking British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Music star Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed this film’s hypnotic score) plays the camp commander, who becomes obsessed with the mysterious blond major, while Tom Conti (The Duellists; Reuben, Reuben) is British lieutenant colonel Mr. Lawrence, who tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between his captors and fellow prisoners. Also featuring actor-director Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine, Fireworks) in his first dramatic role, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a multilayered, brutal, at times erotic tale of culture clash that was one of Oshima’s greatest successes.
1983 • 124 minutes • Color • Stereo • In English and Japanese with English subtitles • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition master (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
• The Oshima Gang, an original making-of featurette
• New video interviews with producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Paul Mayersberg, actor Tom Conti, and actor-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Hasten Slowly, an hour-long documentary about author and adventurer Laurens van der Post, whose autobiographical novel is the basis for the film
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Chuck Stephens and a 1983 interview with director Nagisa Oshima by Japanese film writer Tadao Sato
TITLE: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (2-DISC DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1928D
UPC: 7-15515-06191-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-315-1
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 8/31/10
STREET: 9/28/10
TITLE: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1929BD
UPC: 7-15515-06201-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-316-8
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 8/31/10
STREET: 9/28/10
THE THIN RED LINE – DVD & BD
After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema’s finest actors—Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, Milk), Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides, Affliction), Elias Koteas (Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt) among them—The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of cinema’s greatest war films.
1998 • 170 minutes • Color • Surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
• New audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill
• Outtakes from the film
• Video interviews with several of the film’s actors, including Jim Caviezel, Elias Koteas, and Sean Penn; composer Hans Zimmer; editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein; and writer James Jones’s daughter Kaylie Jones
• New video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage
• World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 essay by James Jones on war films
TITLE: The Thin Red Line (2-DISC DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1932D
UPC: 7-15515-06231-2
ISBN: 978-1-60465-319-9
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 8/31/10
STREET: 9/28/10
TITLE: The Thin Red Line (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1933BD
UPC: 7-15515-06241-1
ISBN: 978-1-60465-320-5
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 8/31/10
STREET: 9/28/10
ECLIPSE SERIES 24: THE ACTUALITY DRAMAS OF ALLAN KING
Canadian director Allan King is one of cinema’s best-kept secrets. Over the course of fifty years, King shuttled between features and shorts, big-screen cinema and episodic television, comedy and drama, fiction and nonfiction. Within this remarkably varied career, it was with his cinema-verité-style documentaries—his “actuality dramas,” as he called them—that he left his greatest mark on film history. These startlingly intimate studies of lives in flux—emotionally troubled children, warring spouses, and the terminally ill—are riveting, at times emotionally overwhelming, and always depicted without narration or interviews. Humane, cathartic, and important, Allan King’s spontaneous portraits of the everyday demand to be seen.
FIVE-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:
Warrendale
For his enthralling first feature, Allan King brought his cameras to a home for psychologically disturbed young people. Situated inside the facility like flies on the wall, we get full access to the wide spectrum of emotions displayed by twelve
fascinating children and the caregivers trying to nurture and guide them. The
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stunning Warrendale won the Prix d’art et d’essai at Cannes and a special docu¬mentary award from the National Society of Film Critics.
1967 • 101 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
A Married Couple
Billy and Antoinette Edwards let it all hang out for Allan King and crew in this jaw-dropping documentary of a marriage gone haywire that “makes John Cassavetes’s Faces look like early Doris Day” (Time). Intense and hectic, frightening and funny, A Married Couple is ultimately about the eternal power struggle in romantic relationships, as well as entrenched gender roles on the cusp of change.
1969 • 96 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Come On Children
In the early 1970s, ten teenagers (five boys and five girls) leave behind parents, school, and all other authority figures to live on a farm for ten weeks. What emerges in front of Allan King’s cameras is the fears, hopes, and alienation of a disillusioned generation. Come On Children is a swiftly paced, vivid rendering of one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable—and ultimately directionless—countercultures.
1972 • 95 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
Dying at Grace
An extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King’s Dying at Grace is quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Care Center. The result is an unflinching, enormously empathetic contemplation of death, featuring a handful of the most memorable people ever captured on film.
2003 • 143 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.77:1 aspect ratio
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
Allan King brings us close to the people who reside and work in a home for geriatric care in this beautifully conceived, powerful documentary. For four months, King follows the daily routines of eight patients suffering from dementia and memory loss; the result is searing, compassionate drama that can bring to the viewer a greater understanding of his or her loved ones.
2005 • 112 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
TITLE: Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
CAT. NO: ECL109
UPC: 7-15515-06421-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-342-7
SRP: $69.95
PREBOOK: 8/24/10
STREET: 9/21/10
I’m expecting Criterion to make a bid for I AM LOVE
Yes! I cannot wait to see how The Thin Red Line looks…all those beautiful greens. The Fox DVD seems to look worse every time I watch it. It’s really dim. Soooo happy Criterion got this.
Any clue for the teaser cat with wuv and hat on its (blu) hands?
People on facebook are saying it’s “The Night of the Hunter.”
Yes, I’m guessing Wuv and Ate tell us that it’s The Night of the Hunter, although I don’t know what the rabbit is a reference to. Any ideas?
http://www.neenja.com/articleimages/night_of_the_hunter.jpg
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/night-of-hunter-is-coming-to-criterion.html
“When we interviewed The Criterion Collection last year, “Night Of The Hunter” was actually a title that came up in our conversation of forthcoming titles but was requested we keep under our hat as negotiations were still tentative. Well, it looks like the ink is dry and things are moving forward and we couldn’t be more excited."
So excited that Night of the Hunter is coming to Criterion. I’m buying that as soon as it comes out.
Rumor: Criterion To Release New Hollywood Box Set This November
By Ryan Gallagher on June 2, 2010, 9:43 pm
Exciting news from the rumor mill! A trusted source buried deep in the business tells me that we should expect another box set this holiday season from the Criterion Collection.
This is still a rumor, and after digging around on the CriterionForum, it’s one that has been kicking around since at least last year, so keep that in mind. I’m told that Criterion has just recently acquired the rights to several films from the producing duo: Bert Schneider (producer of Hearts and Minds and Days of Heaven) and Bob Rafelson, specifically Easy Rider and The Last Picture Show. With the recent passing of Dennis Hopper, it’ll be great to have him in one more film in the Collection.
This will most likely be a box set (5-7 films) from the New Hollywood era, produced by Schneider & Rafelson, so it’s safe to assume that Five Easy Pieces will most likely be a part of this set.
Some other tidbits that I was able to pry out of this rumor:
The box set (again, 5-7 films) will be released around November for a Holiday release (similar to Criterion’s mega Kurosawa set last winter)
The films will definitely be a Criterion release (not Eclipse) as there will be lots of supplemental materials included.
There will be a Blu-ray and DVD version of the set.
The films will not be available individually, only as the set.
So again, this is all just a rumor, but a very exciting rumor at that. With this release, Criterion is proving yet again, that collectible physical media is an important part of our modern culture, especially in terms of film appreciation. Yesterday we wrote about the Redbox CEO finding Netflix’s large library irrelevant and unnecessary, I would hate to hear his thoughts on a box set release like this.
[Update 6/7/10 – According to a user on CriterionForum.org, this rumor is indeed true. They claim the titles will be: Five Easy Pieces/ Head/ King of Marvin Gardens/ The Last Picture Show/ Easy Rider/ A Safe Place/ Drive, He Said. Read the thread here.]
^outstanding news!!!
Last Picture Show is one of my all-time favorites
That would be just dreadful if von Trier did a commentary for the DVD! I don’t listen to commentaries anyway (the only one I’ve ever listened to is Nicholson’s for The Passenger) but I’d rather hear Gainsbourg or may be Defore talk about SELECT scenes. Or that misogyny researcher.
I really really hope that New Hollywood box set happens.
The BBS/RayBert set looks great. “Head” is a very puzzling entry (unless Rafelson wouldn’t hand over “Five Easy” and “Marvin Gardens” without it, haha) but the rest looks great, especially since it’s more BBS than New Hollywood, per se (otherwise, you’d think at least they’d wait and include the seemingly inevitable “Badlands”). I just wish this would’ve led to my first time seeing “The Last Movie” (considering the inclusion of “Rider”) but ya win some (big time here), you lose some.
I’m really excited about the Allan King Eclipse set—Warrendale is an amazing, harrowing documentary that everyone should see.
Leeches in the Cupboard
Do any of you guys know when antichrist is going to be released?……im hoping it is before the next b & n sale :P