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Published on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 5:37pm |
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Criterion is going BluRay!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSS! Hey folks, Harry here. As a high def junkie - I've been dying waiting for Criterion to commit and start offering us there ubercoolness in 1080p glory! As for the line up... It's just about as outstanding as you could hope for from Criterion. THIRD MAN! MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH! CHUNGKING EXPRESS! WALKABOUT! WAGES OF FEAR! I can not friggin wait! Great news for all of us that love Criterion and HD!
Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,
We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.
Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.
Here’s what’s in the pipeline:
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.
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Reader Talkback
The 400 Blows? by gotham_night | May 7th, 2008 06:39:25 PM | First! by Zerath | May 7th, 2008 06:39:30 PM | Damn, was second: by Zerath | May 7th, 2008 06:39:55 PM | I love Criterion movies by toadkillerdog | May 7th, 2008 06:39:58 PM | Fuck yeah! by Shawn F. | May 7th, 2008 06:40:54 PM | Where's Armageddon?! by TallBoy66 | May 7th, 2008 06:41:37 PM | Hi Purpa Sadu! by Money Daniels | May 7th, 2008 06:46:31 PM | 400 Blows by SPECTRE007 | May 7th, 2008 06:52:17 PM | enough... by Noddy93 | May 7th, 2008 06:53:15 PM | Criterion has a beer and
cheats on HD-DVD by KurtLockwood | May 7th, 2008 06:54:49 PM | Blu Ray Still Priced Too High. by Underoos Hero | May 7th, 2008 06:56:13 PM | Criterion has gone Blu-ray and
here's why... by Mistahtibbs | May 7th, 2008 06:56:58 PM | RE: Armageddon?! by Noddy93 | May 7th, 2008 06:57:29 PM | Underoos? by Mistahtibbs | May 7th, 2008 06:59:25 PM | Walkabout in high-def is worth
the price of a blu-ray player
alo by jackprice | May 7th, 2008 07:01:03 PM | Mistahtibbs by Underoos Hero | May 7th, 2008 07:02:13 PM | Where's Star Wars in Blue
Ray!!! by gotham_night | May 7th, 2008 07:03:35 PM | gotham_night by Underoos Hero | May 7th, 2008 07:05:28 PM | 2 of Roeg's right out of the
gate... by Alfred_Packer | May 7th, 2008 07:06:30 PM | Did Martians eat the Hi-Def,
Harry? by Stephen OKeefe | May 7th, 2008 07:08:49 PM | I CARE DAMMIT by gotham_night | May 7th, 2008 07:12:11 PM | Great cliche---"glorious
picture and sound" by leobloom | May 7th, 2008 07:19:00 PM | Blue Ray is done in two years. by gotham_night | May 7th, 2008 07:22:08 PM | whats the deal with criterion? by Bouncy X | May 7th, 2008 07:25:41 PM | Hi Harry...Carnie Wilson
called... by Gus Van Rant | May 7th, 2008 07:26:37 PM | Well Duh Yeah... by tolomey | May 7th, 2008 07:27:03 PM | WTF is "El Norte"? by ricarleite | May 7th, 2008 07:27:34 PM | Can they please release The
Last Emperor in 2.35:1 by Mr_ant | May 7th, 2008 07:32:47 PM | El Nck Norte? by gotham_night | May 7th, 2008 07:34:00 PM | MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE
--CRITERION by la_sith | May 7th, 2008 07:37:04 PM | without Star Wars or LOTR or
Harry Potter or Trek by sith_rising | May 7th, 2008 07:37:42 PM | I just creamed in my pants by Mattyboy122 | May 7th, 2008 07:40:59 PM | Dammit, I just bought The
Third Man CC by Greenleaf1 | May 7th, 2008 07:43:22 PM | Salò? by FraDolcino | May 7th, 2008 07:44:21 PM | I'm not investing in Blu-ray
until we get The Black Hole in
1080 by KnightShift | May 7th, 2008 07:51:14 PM | Don't be so gloomy, Greenleaf by Mattyboy122 | May 7th, 2008 07:52:28 PM | by cousindave | May 7th, 2008 08:10:10 PM | HOT DAMN! by FarSky | May 7th, 2008 08:11:31 PM | FUCK YOU, HARRY. by Frankenblogger | May 7th, 2008 08:12:34 PM | Blu-Ray??? YAWN by Gungan Slayer | May 7th, 2008 08:23:02 PM | Criterion-bring us The
Reflecting Skin by SoylentMean | May 7th, 2008 08:30:30 PM | Criterion-bring us Santa
Sangre by SoylentMean | May 7th, 2008 08:30:54 PM | This is the by RyanEsta | May 7th, 2008 08:31:00 PM | 1080p in B&W?????? by SoylentMean | May 7th, 2008 08:32:25 PM | BLU-BAY!!!!! BABY!!! by sonnyhooper | May 7th, 2008 08:35:30 PM | The Last Emperor criterion
edition in 1080p by Thenon | May 7th, 2008 08:36:51 PM | SoylentMean by Mattyboy122 | May 7th, 2008 08:36:52 PM | Walkabout is Genius by odysseus | May 7th, 2008 08:40:44 PM | Oh hell yes by knowthyself | May 7th, 2008 08:44:45 PM | Blu Ray is the next Laser Disc by jae683 | May 7th, 2008 08:51:29 PM | Kurosawa????? by picardsucks | May 7th, 2008 08:54:41 PM | HD DVD is the new laser disc. by knowthyself | May 7th, 2008 08:55:13 PM | There's nothing wrong with
standard def by beetlegeuse | May 7th, 2008 08:59:02 PM | Standard def hahah. by knowthyself | May 7th, 2008 09:01:13 PM | knowthyself by Underoos Hero | May 7th, 2008 09:03:55 PM | Lets see. by knowthyself | May 7th, 2008 09:06:10 PM | I recently saw some black and
white in HD by RAVENL0RD | May 7th, 2008 09:07:18 PM | Criterion Blu Ray by darkkelt | May 7th, 2008 09:22:11 PM | Blu-Ray may be the next LD,
but... by hamster factor | May 7th, 2008 09:28:46 PM | Bottle Rocket Criterion by Accordion27 | May 7th, 2008 09:42:13 PM | SWEET! by Sakurai | May 7th, 2008 09:44:00 PM | THIRD MAN! Yes!!!!!!!!! by YackBacker | May 7th, 2008 09:45:36 PM | A big screen in a movie
theater will always be the
preferred scr by leobloom | May 7th, 2008 09:46:20 PM | BOTTLE ROCKET MOTHERFUCKER by haggardatbest | May 7th, 2008 10:01:13 PM | Sakurai by Jonesey1111 | May 7th, 2008 10:03:00 PM | Are you people like 80 years
old? by knowthyself | May 7th, 2008 10:19:24 PM | Criterion hates poor people
and minorities by Gozu | May 7th, 2008 10:26:38 PM | beetlegeuse by igotbigballs | May 7th, 2008 10:36:29 PM | The next time some of you are
at... by poeticwarriorII | May 7th, 2008 10:57:19 PM | The 400 Blows by Ageoffroyi | May 7th, 2008 10:57:50 PM | Christine Darbon by Ageoffroyi | May 7th, 2008 10:58:47 PM | Hooray! by Osmosis Jones | May 7th, 2008 10:59:38 PM | oh yeah (Kool Aid Man voice) by wash | May 7th, 2008 11:07:05 PM | Cool by thefutureoffilm | May 7th, 2008 11:21:28 PM | Last Emperor in Correct Aspect
Ratio Please by chrisboy | May 7th, 2008 11:21:40 PM | People complaining about the
price of Blu-Rays... by wash | May 7th, 2008 11:25:04 PM | Wages of Fear by lensproject | May 7th, 2008 11:27:57 PM | CONTEMPT! What about SHORT
CUTS though? by BraneRobot | May 7th, 2008 11:41:27 PM | Didn't anyone actually READ
the article? by half vader | May 7th, 2008 11:43:58 PM | exactly, vader by Holodigm | May 7th, 2008 11:57:47 PM | wkw? wth? criterion is blind
to box office poison by JRKerr | May 7th, 2008 11:59:04 PM | Chungking in HD? by phantom_of_teh_paradise | May 8th, 2008 12:03:08 AM | I also love how by phantom_of_teh_paradise | May 8th, 2008 12:08:56 AM | and of course by formate by phantom_of_teh_paradise | May 8th, 2008 12:09:24 AM | Don't have a Blu-Ray yet, but by TattooedBillionaire | May 8th, 2008 12:12:59 AM | Brazil or GTFO by EskNerd | May 8th, 2008 12:19:21 AM | Fiend without a face! by Ommadawn1959 | May 8th, 2008 12:26:25 AM | What else would they have
gone? by thebearovingian | May 8th, 2008 12:54:55 AM | Anyone who still doesn't
get... by eggart | May 8th, 2008 12:55:31 AM | The blu-ray war is not yet won by BendersShinyAss | May 8th, 2008 12:56:26 AM | COOLEST NEWS EVER! by warsinthesun | May 8th, 2008 01:00:41 AM | 2008 is the year of Blu-Ray by BadWaldo s Revenge | May 8th, 2008 01:12:07 AM | Space Oddity! by RickyShoreSingsTheBlues | May 8th, 2008 01:22:00 AM | Bearovingian by half vader | May 8th, 2008 01:51:14 AM | Could we PLEASE skip the
Blu-Ray by Boromir | May 8th, 2008 01:55:00 AM | What's a DVD? by Lashlarue | May 8th, 2008 02:00:32 AM | I thought the Criterion
Armageddon was a joke by Boromir | May 8th, 2008 02:13:39 AM | About time. by AllPowerfulWizardOfOz | May 8th, 2008 02:14:39 AM | BLUE RAY = overpriced shit by gotham_night | May 8th, 2008 02:27:50 AM | Bottle Rocket by psychedelic | May 8th, 2008 02:28:05 AM | sour grapes by sajarrow | May 8th, 2008 02:37:48 AM | I love the defense of
Armageddon on the Criterion
DVD by BitterMan23 | May 8th, 2008 02:39:29 AM | I saw the HD Great Escape
yesterday and it was by gotham_night | May 8th, 2008 02:39:42 AM | Brazil by HarryTuttle | May 8th, 2008 02:41:26 AM | by the way | May 8th, 2008 02:51:19 AM | Walkabout im HI-DEF! by FILMFUNK | May 8th, 2008 02:54:44 AM | fuck the geek tech...spirit
gets an xmas release by bacci40 | May 8th, 2008 03:06:23 AM | HOTT FUCKIN' SPIT ON A
HANKY!!!! by ChickenGeorgeVII | May 8th, 2008 03:15:25 AM | Surely it should be... by snappy | May 8th, 2008 03:43:02 AM | JESUS CHRIST IRON MAN WAS
AMAZING by deliciouscowbell | May 8th, 2008 03:58:47 AM | Do you know?? by Michael9911 | May 8th, 2008 04:03:32 AM | Criterion-bring us Jurassic
Park in hi-def by The Amazing G | May 8th, 2008 04:10:14 AM | Holy crap! by UltimaRex | May 8th, 2008 04:10:22 AM | On Blu-Ray... by UltimaRex | May 8th, 2008 04:19:24 AM | To those saying Blu Ray =
Laser Disc by ZoeFan | May 8th, 2008 04:55:34 AM | ugh I hate El Norte by troutpencil | May 8th, 2008 05:08:31 AM | Damn You Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI | May 8th, 2008 05:18:28 AM | Direct Download will kill Blue
Ray by Gozu | May 8th, 2008 05:43:22 AM | Michael Biehn in Avatar! by Paulseta | May 8th, 2008 05:59:14 AM | No Kurosawas? by Nordling | May 8th, 2008 06:04:28 AM | Direct Download will kill Blu
Ray... by ZoeFan | May 8th, 2008 06:11:45 AM | I hate the fact my lovingly
collected DVDs are not no
better tha by The Gospel According to
Bastardface | May 8th, 2008 06:36:04 AM | Criterion is like good sex. by Knuckleduster | May 8th, 2008 06:54:50 AM | In more important news ... by jae683 | May 8th, 2008 06:57:53 AM | UltimaRex by Bouncy X | May 8th, 2008 07:01:54 AM | knowthyself by christophermoltosante | May 8th, 2008 07:04:53 AM | Zoefan by jae683 | May 8th, 2008 07:11:48 AM | What's funny is.. by Stalkeye | May 8th, 2008 07:12:28 AM | Criterion by foree forehead | May 8th, 2008 07:36:18 AM | Your right. I don't have a
girlfriend. by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 08:18:15 AM | Speaking of my lovely wife... by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 08:20:02 AM | Anti-Blu Ray people will
change their mind come Q4 by ZoeFan | May 8th, 2008 08:50:26 AM | Anti-bluray people were once
Anti-DVD people by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 08:55:37 AM | The truth about blu-ray
detractors by Johnno | May 8th, 2008 09:07:19 AM | And DVD buyers will feel
really stupid... by Johnno | May 8th, 2008 09:10:08 AM | Johnno by jae683 | May 8th, 2008 09:19:28 AM | Some people actually don't
have a lot of money to spare. by Juemad | May 8th, 2008 09:21:27 AM | ZoeFan, it's not a putdown but
a fact by Mace Tofu | May 8th, 2008 09:52:58 AM | This is huge! by T 1000 xp professional | May 8th, 2008 10:01:24 AM | This is great news by mr.brownstone | May 8th, 2008 10:06:21 AM | Gozu by mr.brownstone | May 8th, 2008 10:09:43 AM | Gozu II by mr.brownstone | May 8th, 2008 10:16:59 AM | half vader by mr.brownstone | May 8th, 2008 10:29:33 AM | beetlegeuse, there is
something wrong with DVD by Flip63Hole | May 8th, 2008 10:53:53 AM | I think all these people
getting irate about people not
wanting by jae683 | May 8th, 2008 11:33:59 AM | I agree about Salo by drakeavenue | May 8th, 2008 12:09:35 PM | 40? Amazon has bluray movies
for 20 dollars a pop. by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 12:16:32 PM | Joe Sixpack doesn't give a
shit about lossless audio... by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 12:16:54 PM | Awesome! Lemme download LOTR:
TTT Extended Edition in HD! by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 12:19:12 PM | Knowthyself: SHIT bluray
movies for $20 by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 12:21:59 PM | If price is such a
problem...Try Netflix by ZoeFan | May 8th, 2008 12:46:31 PM | So 2001 a space odyssey is
shit? by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 12:47:10 PM | i've said it before but.. by Bouncy X | May 8th, 2008 12:47:23 PM | Aww, Seven Samurai please... by LittleDudes | May 8th, 2008 12:49:22 PM | Well look what i found... by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 12:53:56 PM | Congrats knowthyself...you
found the one kernel by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 12:54:32 PM | Oh look some more... by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 12:55:51 PM | Oh look Gattaca 18.99...Walk
Har 23.95... by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 12:58:17 PM | Ultron...how can you even
afford a broadband connection? by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 01:01:25 PM | All the shit-tastic movies for
$28: by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 01:02:39 PM | Guess what... YOU DON'T HAVE
TO BUY THE BAD MOVIES MORON. by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 01:03:44 PM | McDonalds? lol....your
kung-fu is weak. by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 01:07:07 PM | oh sorry...bestbuy? gamestop? by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 01:09:02 PM | Why charge $28 for shit
movies? by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 01:10:08 PM | i dont get it by Bouncy X | May 8th, 2008 01:11:07 PM | I work at White Castle....and
get %50 off Crave Cases. by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 01:12:51 PM | HD is a premium. by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 01:13:44 PM | Bouncy by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 01:14:29 PM | knowthyself....isn't Sony
trying to make BluRay
"mainstream"? by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 01:16:20 PM | Most 60 dollar games are 4
hours long. by knowthyself | May 8th, 2008 01:29:51 PM | "Most 60 dollar games are 4
hours long." by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 8th, 2008 01:51:12 PM | Wankabout by Fitzcarraldo2 | May 8th, 2008 01:59:48 PM | Ultron... by pdennett316 | May 8th, 2008 02:03:14 PM | please be REGION FREE please
be REGION FREE by Evil Hobbit | May 8th, 2008 02:12:17 PM | So in another 18 -24 mos. I
can start watching Criterion
on BR? by strosmer | May 8th, 2008 02:21:57 PM | I just... don't have any
desire for this yet by turketron | May 8th, 2008 03:01:15 PM | Phantasy Star was 70 bucks by Samuel Fulmer | May 8th, 2008 03:47:37 PM | I bought Cloverfield for 14
bucks by gotham_night | May 8th, 2008 04:02:21 PM | What the hell does Black and
White have to do with HD? by Harry Weinstein | May 8th, 2008 06:28:58 PM | THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE
CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING
AND BECAME M by Prossor | May 8th, 2008 06:37:23 PM | MIXED UP ZOMBIES!!? by Prossor | May 8th, 2008 06:37:44 PM | Army of Two is actually 6
hours long by Stalkeye | May 8th, 2008 06:39:02 PM | EXPLAIN CRITERION TO TYLER
DURDEN by Ethan Big Nuts McKinley | May 8th, 2008 06:46:24 PM | Sword of Doom, Please???? by picardsucks | May 8th, 2008 08:20:24 PM | You idiot Harry Weinstein... by half vader | May 8th, 2008 09:25:55 PM | Criterion is absolutely
wonderful by Proman1984 | May 8th, 2008 09:52:57 PM | I would never pay 14 cents for
Cloverfield by wash | May 8th, 2008 10:30:32 PM | Criterion = overpriced
consumer exploitation by JackRabbitSlim | May 9th, 2008 12:46:44 AM | Oh yes - Salo by JackRabbitSlim | May 9th, 2008 12:55:25 AM | Pasolini being killed by gay
prostitute by drakeavenue | May 9th, 2008 02:04:23 AM | I can't afford BLU-RAY... by sajarrow | May 9th, 2008 02:25:52 AM | Jackrabbit you need to read
other posts too. by half vader | May 9th, 2008 02:59:17 AM | Criterion: Releasing movies no
other studio would ever touch. by knowthyself | May 9th, 2008 07:30:15 AM | half vader is right. B&W
movies look stellar in HD by Ultron ver 2.0 | May 9th, 2008 09:57:47 AM | me thinks Jackrabbit doth
protest too much by wash | May 9th, 2008 02:08:18 PM | EXPLAIN CRITERION TO TYLER
DURDEN by Ethan Big Nuts McKinley | May 9th, 2008 07:34:20 PM |
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