Now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY Edition! the CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998

now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

JOHNNY DEPP AND BENICIO DEL TORO star in A CRITERION ALL-TIME BEST-SELLER— now on BLU-RAY!

It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. His cut-and-dried assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey. Director Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, Brazil) and an all-star cast headlined by Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Brasco) and Benicio Del Toro (The Usual Suspects, Che) show no mercy in adapting Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary dissection of the American way of life to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • Digital transfer, approved by director Terry Gilliam, with a “The last word on gonzo journalism DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack and an optional 5.1 mix and the cinema.” • Three audio commentaries: one with Gilliam, one with stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro and producer —Sight & Sound Laila Nabulsi, and one with author Hunter S. Thompson • Deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Gilliam • Selection of Thompson correspondence, read on camera by Depp “The most widely released midnight • Hunter Goes to Hollywood, a short documentary by movie ever . . . A hilarious paean to filmmaker Wayne Ewing reckless indulgence.” • A look at the controversy over the screenwriting credit —The Village Voice • Profile of Oscar Zeta Acosta, the inspiration for Dr. Gonzo • Collection of artwork by illustrator Ralph Steadman • Audio excerpt from the 1996 spoken-word CD Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, featuring filmmaker Jim Jarmusch 1998 • 119 minutes • Color • 2.0 Surround • and actor Maury Chaykin 2.35:1 aspect ratio • Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, a 1978 BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 BBC documentary with Thompson and Steadman Prebook 3/29/11 Street 4/26/11 • Storyboards, production designs, stills gallery, theatrical Cat. no. CC1997BD trailer, and TV spots ISBN 978-1-60465-408-0 • PLU S: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman UPC 7-15515-07021-8 and two pieces by Thompson

BRIAN DE PALMA’S SENSATIONAL POLITICAL THRILLER, STARRING JOHN TRAVOLTA IN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS!

In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma (Sisters, Carrie, Scarface), John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction) gives one of his greatest performances, as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally (played by Carrie’s Nancy Allen), a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, Blow Out is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on the act of moviemaking.

director-approved “[De Palma’s] best and most original work . . . SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Real cinematic intelligence.” New, restored digital transfer, supervised by —Roger Ebert • director Brian De Palma, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition • New hour-long interview with De Palma, “De Palma keeps our senses heightened . . . conducted by filmmaker Noah Baumbach It’s a great movie.” —Pauline Kael • New interview with star Nancy Allen • Cameraman Garrett Brown on the Steadicam shots featured in the film within the film 1981 • 108 minutes • Color • Stereo • 2.40:1 aspect ratio • Select on-set photos from photographer BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Louis Goldman Prebook 3/29/11 Street 4/26/11 • Original theatrical trailer Cat. no. CC2004BD ISBN 978-1-60465-416-5 • More! UPC 7-15515-08001-9 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and Pauline Kael’s original 2-DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 3/29/11 Street 4/26/11 New Yorker review Cat. no. CC2005D ISBN 978-1-60465-417-2 UPC 7-15515-08011-8

KESA FILM BY KEN LOACH

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Kes BRITISH MASTER KEN LOACH’S CLASSIC FINALLY COMES TO DVD AND BLU-RAY IN THE U.S.!

WINNER Nominee WINNER Most Promising Newcomer Best Film, Best Director, Crystal Globe, (David Bradley), British Best Screenplay, British Karlovy Vary International Academy of Film and Academy of Film and Film Festival, 1970 Television Awards, 1970 Television Awards, 1970

Named by the British Film Institute as one of the ten best British films of the century, Kes, from Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda, The Wind That Shakes the Barley), is cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingly naturalistic David Bradley) is a fifteen-year-old miner’s son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life. Kes established the sociopolitical engagement and artistic brilliance of its filmmaker, and pushed the British “angry young man” film of the sixties into a new realm of authenticity, using real locations and nonprofessional actors. Loach’s poignant coming-of-age drama remains its now legendary director’s most beloved and influential film.

“One of the ten best British DIRECTOR-APPROVED films of the century.” SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES —British Film Institute • New, restored digital transfer, approved by director Ken Loach and director of photography Chris Menges, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the “The film has a heartbreaking humanity . . . Blu-ray edition Loach at his best.” • Making “Kes,” a new documentary featuring Loach, —Roger Ebert Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley • The Southbank Show: “Ken Loach” (1993), a profile of the filmmaker, featuring Loach, Garnett, directors BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Stephen Frears and Alan Parker, and other Loach Prebook 3/22/11 Street 4/19/11 collaborators Cat. no. CC2000BD • Cathy Come Home (1967), a feature directed by Loach ISBN 978-1-60465-411-0 and produced by Garnett, with an introduction by film UPC 7-15515-07051-5 writer Graham Fuller • Original theatrical trailer 2-DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 3/22/11 Street 4/19/11 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Fuller Cat. no. CC2001D ISBN 978-1-60465-412-7 1969 • 110 minutes • Color • Monaural • UPC 7-15515-07061-4 1.66:1 aspect ratio

A film by JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE

now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Le cercle rouge

THE ESSENCE OF GANGSTER COOL— JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S HEIST CLASSIC COMES TO BLU-RAY!

Alain Delon (The Leopard, Le samouraï) plays a master thief, fresh out of prison, who crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic ex-cop (The Wages of Fear’s Yves Montand). The unlikely trio plot a heist, against impossible odds, and then a relentless inspector and their own pasts seal their fates. Le cercle rouge, from Jean-Pierre Melville (Le samouraï, Army of Shadows), combines honorable antiheroes, coolly atmospheric cinematography, and breathtaking set pieces to create a masterpiece of crime cinema.

Blu-ray SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • Restored, complete, uncut version, with “The kind of experience that makes uncompressed monaural soundtrack you glad movies exist.” • Excerpts from Cinéastes de notre temps: “Jean- —A. O. Scott, The New York Times Pierre Melville” • Video interviews with assistant director Bernard Stora and Rui Nogueria, the author of Melville on Melville • Thirty minutes of rare on-set and archival footage, “A dazzling epic of love, guns, featuring interviews with director Jean-Pierre gangsters, and cigarettes.” Melville and stars Alain Delon, Yves Montand, and —Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times André Bourvil • Original theatrical trailer and 2003 Rialto Pictures rerelease trailer • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critics Michael Sragow and Chris Fujiwara, excerpts from Melville on Melville, a reprinted interview with BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 composer Eric Demarsan, and an appreciation Prebook 3/15/11 Street 4/12/11 from director John Woo Cat. no. CC1996BD ISBN 978-1-60465-407-3 1970 • 140 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French UPC 7-15515-07011-9 with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

a film by Jane Campion

now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Sweetie

JANE CAMPION’S STUNNING DEBUT— NOW ON BLU-RAY!

WINNER WINNER NOMINEE Best Foreign Film, Best Screenplay, Palme d’Or, Cannes Independent Spirit Australian Film Institute Film Festival, 1989 Awards, 1990 Awards, 1989

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion (The Piano, Bright Star) will always be remembered for her knockout debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie—and on their family’s profoundly rotten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.

director-approved Blu-ray SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES “A spectacular feature-film debut— • Restored digital transfer, supervised by director a movie quite unlike any other of photography Sally Bongers and approved by you’re likely to see.” director Jane Campion, with DTS-HD Master —The New York Times Audio soundtrack • Audio commentary featuring Campion, Bongers, “Thrillingly atmospheric . . . and screenwriter Gerard Lee Macabrely funny.” • Making “Sweetie,” a video conversation between stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston —The Washington Post • Campion’s early short films An Exercise in Discipline: Peel, Passionless Moments, and A Girl’s Own Story • Jane Campion: The Film School Years, a 1989 1989 • 99 minutes • Color • Surround • video conversation between Campion and critic 1.85:1 aspect ratio Peter Thompson

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 • Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and Prebook 3/22/11 Street 4/19/11 production stills Cat. no. CC1994BD • Original theatrical trailer ISBN 978-1-60465-405-9 PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film UPC 7-15515-06951-9 • scholar Dana Polan

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS White Material

ISABELLE HUPPERT STARS IN CLAIRE DENIS’ TURBULENT DRAMA set in CONTEMPORARY AFRICA iN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS!

In White Material, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis (Chocolat, Beau travail), known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played ferociously by Isabelle Huppert (Story of Women, The Piano Teacher), Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family’s crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. Created with Denis’ signature full-throttle visual style, which places the viewer in the center of the maelstrom, White Material is a gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.

Director-approved SPECIAL “The best film of the year.” EDITION FEATURES —Amy Taubin, Artforum • New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Claire Denis and cinematographer Yves Cape, with DTS-HD Master Audio “There is no better filmmaker working soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition in the world right now.” —Nick James, Sight & Sound • New interviews with Denis and actors Isabelle Huppert and Isaach de Bankolé • Short documentary by Denis on the film’s 2009 • 105 minutes • Color • Surround • In French premiere at the Écrans Noirs Film Festival 2010 with English subtitles • 2.35:1 aspect ratio in Cameroon BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 • Deleted scene Prebook 3/15/11 Street 4/12/11 Cat. no. CC1998BD • Theatrical trailer ISBN 978-1-60465-409-7 UPC 7-15515-07031-7 • New and improved English subtitle translation • PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 writer Amy Taubin Prebook 3/15/11 Street 4/12/11 Cat. no. CC1999D ISBN 978-1-60465-410-3 UPC 7-15515-07041-6