Hi Bryan Here…..
Happy holidays everyone. I sure hope you all have been receiving some AWESOME gifts this holiday season. If you got some extra money from your gifts and you are a fan of AWESOME movies, then this is one hell of a Geek Deal for you. Right now you can get five different recent Criterion Blu-rays for 46% off. The films include: ’12 Angry Men’, Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’, ‘The Rules of the Game’, ‘Carlos’, and ‘Kuroneko’. These are all awesome and very much worth of being in your collection. 4 out of 5 of the films are $21.49 each. That’s one kick ass deal for criterion. Take advantage.
12 ANGRY MEN
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the blu-ray edition
Frank Schaffner’s 1955 television version, with an introduction by Ron Simon, director of the Paley Center for Media Studies
“12 Angry Men”: From Television to the Big Screen, a video essay by film scholar Vance Kapley comparing the Sidney Lumet and Schaffner versions
Archival interviews with Lumet
New interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein
New interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose
New interview with cinematographer John Bailey in which he discusses cinematographer Boris Kaufman
Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1956), a teleplay directed by Lumet and written by Rose
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer and law professor Thane Rosenbaum
STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE KILLING
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New video interview with producer James B. Harris
Excerpts of interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas
New video interview with film scholar Robert Polito about writer Jim Thompson and his work on The Killing
Restored transfer of Stanley Kubrick’s 1955 noir feature Killer’s Kiss
New video appreciation of Killer’s Kiss with film critic Geoffrey O’Brien
Theatrical trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Haden Guest and a reprinted interview with Marie Windsor on The Killing
THE RULES OF THE GAME
High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir
Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Comparison of the film’s two endings
Olivier Curchod Presents “The Rules of the Game,” a 2005 documentary comparing today’s 106-minute edit with Renoir’s original script
Scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner
Excerpts from Jean Renoir, le patron: La règle et l’exception (1966), a French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette
Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC documentary by film critic David Thompson
Video essay about the film’s production, release, and 1959 reconstruction
1965 interview from the French television series Les écrans de la ville in which Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and rerelease of the film
Interviews with set designer Max Douy; Renoir’s son, Alain; and actress Mila Parély
PLUS: A booklet featuring writings by Jean Renoir, François Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Bertrand Tavernier; an essay by Sesonske; and tributes to the film and Renoir by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others
CARLOS
New digital transfer, supervised and approved by directors of photography Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
New video interviews with director Olivier Assayas, Lenoir, Le Saux, and actor Édgar Ramírez
Twenty-minute making-of documentary on the film’s OPEC raid scene
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Colin MacCabe and Greil Marcus, plus biographies on selected historical figures portrayed in the film, written by the film’s historical adviser, Stephen Smith
Much more!
KURONEKO
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Video interview with director Kaneto Shindo from the Directors Guild of Japan
New video interview with critic Tadao Sato
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh and more!