Month: December 2009 (Page 1 of 3)

Criterion announces March, 2010 titles

DAYS OF HEAVEN and YOJIMBO/SANJURO details after the break.

BIGGER THAN LIFE – Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most indelible roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family; that it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking—and wildly entertaining. Available March 23, 2010.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring critic Geoff Andrew (The Films of Nicholas Ray)
• Profile of Nicholas Ray (1977), a half-hour television interview with the director
• New video appreciation of Bigger Than Life with author Jonathan Lethem (Chronic City)
• New video interview with Susan Ray, the director’s widow and editor of the book I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film writer B. Kite

DAYS OF HEAVEN and YOJIMBO/SANJURO details after the break.

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‘Amelia’ set to land on Blu-ray February 2

Amelia is set to land on Blu-ray Disc with Digital Copy and DVD February 2 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Directed by Mira Nair, Amelia stars two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, Golden Globe winner Richard Gere and Golden Globe nominee Ewan McGregor. The Amelia Blu-ray Disc and DVD include deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, Fox Movie Channel specials and more.

Blu-ray Disc Special Features: Deleted scenes; Making Amelia; The Power of Amelia Earhart; The Plane Behind the Legend; Re-constructing the Planes of Amelia; and Movietone News.

Click here to view the Amelia cover art.

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New Blu-ray Disc releases for December 15, 2009

Here are the new Blu-ray Disc releases for Tuesday, December 15, 2009:

Beyonce: I Am… Yours, An Intimate Performance
G-Force
The Hangover
Inglourious Basterds
The Mel Brooks Collection
New York Yankees: 2009 World Series Champions
The Other Man
Samurai Champloo Complete Set
Star Trek Original Series: Seasons 1-3
Star Trek The Original Series: Season Three
Taking Woodstock

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