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Charlotte Rampling and reckon with the past, in ’s devastating portrait of a marriage upended

WINNER NOMINEE WINNER BEST ACTRESS (), BEST ACTRESS BEST ACTRESS BEST (TOM COURTENAY); (CHARLOTTE RAMPLING), (CHARLOTTE RAMPLING), NATIONAL BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2015 ACADEMY AWARDS, 2016 SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS, 2016 THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS

In this exquisitely calibrated film by ANDREW HAIGH (Weekend), CHARLOTTE RAMPLING () and TOM COURTENAY (Billy Liar) perform a subtly off-kilter pas de deux as Kate and Geoff, an English couple who, on the eve of an anniversary celebration, find their long marriage shaken by the arrival of a letter to Geoff that unceremoniously collapses his past into their shared present. Haigh carries the tradition of British realist cinema to artful new heights in 45 Years, weaving the momentous into the mundane as the pair go about their daily lives, while the evocatively flat, wintry Norfolk landscape frames their struggle to maintain an increasingly untenable status quo. Loosely adapting a short story by DAVID CONSTANTINE, Haigh shifts the focus from the slightly erratic Geoff to Kate, eliciting a remarkable, nuanced portrayal by Rampling of a woman’s gradual metamorphosis from unflappable wife to woman undone.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • High-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Andrew Haigh, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray • Audio commentary featuring Haigh and producer Tristan Goligher • New documentary featuring interviews with Haigh, “Psychological drama at its most delicate Goligher, Charlotte Rampling and Tom and acute.” Courtenay, editor Jonathan Alberts, and director of photography —Jonathan Romney, Film Comment • New interview with David Constantine, author of the “Rampling . . . conveys emotions so strange and short story on which the film is based intense that they don’t quite have names.” • Trailer —A. O. Scott, The New York Times • PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor

2015 • 95 MINUTES • COLOR • 5.1 SURROUND • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO

BLU-RAY EDITION DVD EDITION SRP $39.95 SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 2/7/17 PREBOOK 2/7/17 STREET 3/7/17 STREET 3/7/17 CAT. NO. CC2732BD CAT. NO. CC2733DDVD ISBN 978-1-68143-268-7 ISBN 978-1-68143-269-4 UPC 7-15515-19311-5 UPC 7-15515-19321-4

Summary and design © 2016 The Criterion Collection. Oscar®, Academy Award®, and Academy Awards® are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. www.criterion.com ’ shocking, subversive, hysterical trash masterpiece, on home video for the first time THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS

The gloriously grotesque second feature directed by JOHN WATERS (Hairspray) is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters’ native , with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace- and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger- than-life (), out for blood after discovering her lover’s affair. Starring Waters’ beloved regular cast the (including DAVID LOCHARY, MARY VIVIAN PEARCE, MINK STOLE, SUSAN LOWE, GEORGE FIGGS, and COOKIE MUELLER), Multiple Maniacs is an anarchic masterwork from an artist who has doggedly tested the limits of good taste for decades.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Waters, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray • New audio commentary featuring Waters • New interviews with cast and crew members Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, “Glorious . . . Can only be described as and George Figgs • More! The Passion of the Christ on quaaludes.” • PLUS: An essay by critic Linda Yablonsky —The Hollywood Reporter

“Even the garbage is too good a place for it.” 1970 • 96 MINUTES • BLACK & WHITE • MONAURAL • —Mary Avara, Maryland Board of Censors 1.66:1 ASPECT RATIO

BLU-RAY EDITION DVD EDITION SRP $39.95 SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 2/21/17 PREBOOK 2/21/17 STREET 3/21/17 STREET 3/21/17 CAT. NO. CC2740BD CAT. NO. CC2741DDVD ISBN 978-1-68143-277-9 ISBN 978-1-68143-278-6 UPC 7-15515-19481-5 UPC 7-15515-19491-4

Summary and design © 2016 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com Peter Sellers stars in Hal Ashby’s classic satire, based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski

Being There

A Hal Ashby film 1979

WINNER NOMINEE SELECTION SELECTION BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST ACTOR NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, (MELVYN DOUGLAS), (PETER SELLERS), NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION 1980 ACADEMY AWARDS, 1980 ACADEMY AWARDS, 1980 BOARD, 1980 THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS BEING THERE

In one of his most finely tuned performances, PETER SELLERS (The Pink Panther) plays the pure-hearted Chance, a gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn’t respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles haplessly into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Oscar winner MELVYN DOUGLAS), who mistakes his new protégé’s mumbling about horticulture for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife (The Apartment’s SHIRLEY MACLAINE) targets Chance as the object of her desire. Adapted from a novel by JERZY KOSINSKI, this hilarious, deeply melancholy satire marks the culmination a remarkable string of films by HAL ASHBY (Harold and Maude) in the 1970s, and serves as a carefully modulated examination of the ideals, anxieties, and media-fueled delusions that shaped American culture during that decade.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray • New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the “Hal Ashby directed this 1979 feature with a production team straight face that could hide a wicked grin, a • Excerpts from a 1980 American Film Institute beatific glow, or both.” seminar with director Hal Ashby • Author Jerzy Kosinksi in a 1979 appearance on —Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club The Dick Cavett Show “Peter Sellers gives a performance that is • Appearances from 1980 by actor Peter Sellers on unparalleled in modern comedy.” NBC’s Today and The Don Lane Show • Promo reel featuring Sellers and Ashby —Judd Apatow • Trailer and TV spots • Deleted scene, outtakes, and an alternate ending • PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris

1979 • 130 MINUTES • COLOR • MONAURAL • BLU-RAY EDITION 2-DVD EDITION 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO SRP $39.95 SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 2/21/17 PREBOOK 2/21/17 STREET 3/21/17 STREET 3/21/17 CAT. NO. CC2744BD CAT. NO. CC2745DDVD ISBN 978-1-68143-281-6 ISBN 978-1-68143-282-3 UPC 7-15515-19521-8 UPC 7-15515-19531-7

Summary and design © 2016 The Criterion Collection. Oscar®, Academy Award®, and Academy Awards® are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences www.criterion.com. ’s stylish anti-thriller, fifty years after its groundbreaking release

WINNER NOMINEE WINNER PALME D’OR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST FILM, DIRECTOR; CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 1967 ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY; NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM ACADEMY AWARDS, 1967 CRITICS AWARDS, 1967 THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS BLOW-UP

In 1966, MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI (L’avventura) transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s English-language debut. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow-Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring DAVID HEMMINGS (Deep Red) as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. Antonioni’s meticulous aesthetic control and intoxicating color palette breathe life into every frame, and the jazzy sounds of HERBIE HANCOCK, a beautifully evasive performance by (Howards End), and a cameo by the Yardbirds make the film a transporting time capsule from a bygone era. Blow‑Up is a seductive immersion into creative passion, and a brilliant film by one of cinema’s greatest artists.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray • A new piece about director Michelangelo Antonioni’s artistic approach, featuring photography curators Walter Moser and Philippe Garner and art historian David Alan Mellor • Blo w-up of “Blow-Up,” a new 52-minute “It remains a deadpan delight—witty, sexy, documentary on the making of the film nasty, tricky.” • Conversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa Redgrave —David Thomson • Archival interviews with Antonioni and actors David “Freed from the hype and fashion, it emerges as Hemmings and Jane Birkin a great film, if not the one we thought we were • Trailers seeing at the time.” • PLUS: A book featuring an essay by film scholar —Roger Ebert David Forgacs and more

1966 • 111 MINUTES • COLOR • MONAURAL • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO

BLU-RAY EDITION 2-DVD EDITION SRP $39.95 SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 2/28/17 PREBOOK 2/28/17 STREET 3/28/17 STREET 3/28/17 CAT. NO. CC2730BD CAT. NO. CC2731DDVD ISBN 978-1-68143-266-3 ISBN 978-1-68143-267-0 UPC 7-15515-19291-0 UPC 7-15515-19301-6

Summary and design © 2016 The Criterion Collection. Oscar®, Academy Award®, and Academy Awards® are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. www.criterion.com Felipe Cazals’s harrowing thriller, a landmark of Mexican political cinema, available in the U.S. for the first time

WINNER WINNER NOMINEE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, BEST FILM, BEST PICTURE, BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL, 1976 MEXICAN CINEMA MEXICAN ACADEMY JOURNALISTS, 1976 OF FILM, 1976 THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS CANOA: A SHAMEFUL MEMORY

One of Mexico’s most highly regarded works of political cinema for the audaciousness of its attack on the Catholic Church, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life massacre that occurred in 1968, eight years before the film’s release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the isolated village of San Miguel de Canoa, who mistook them for communist revolutionaries. Intercutting depictions of the days in the workers’ lives leading up to their journey and footage from a fictional documentary about the village and the autocratic priest who governs it with the scenes of the atrocity itself, director FELIPE CAZALS (Las inocentes) creates a terrifying sense of menace, capped by a gruesome denouement. Adopting a gritty newsreel style, Canoa is a daring historical document and a visceral expression of horror.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Felipe Cazals, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray • New introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro • New conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and Cazals • Trailer “Cazals has the drive of an action-film director, • New English subtitle translation but his concerns are social.” • PLUS: An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano —Alfonso Cuarón

1976 • 115 MINUTES • COLOR • MONAURAL • IN SPANISH WITH “A truly brave, brutal, precise piece of ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO filmmaking.” —Guillermo del Toro

BLU-RAY EDITION DVD EDITION SRP $39.95 SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 2/14/17 PREBOOK 2/14/17 STREET 3/14/17 STREET 3/14/17 CAT. NO. CC2742BD CAT. NO. CC2743DDVD ISBN 978-1-68143-279-3 ISBN 978-1-68143-280-9 UPC 7-15515-19501-0 UPC 7-15515-19511-9

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