Now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY Edition! the CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Beauty and the Beast

1946

now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Beauty and the Beast

CINEMA’S MOST GLORIOUS FAIRY TALE COMES TO NEW LIFE ON CRITERION BLU-RAY!

The sublime adaptation by Jean Cocteau (Orpheus) of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the true love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark feat of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais (Orpheus) and Josette Day (Les parents terribles). The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

Blu-ray SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES WINNER • High-definition digital transfer from restored film Prix Louis Delluc, 1946 elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Composer Philip Glass’s opera La Belle et la Bête, presented in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio as an alternate soundtrack • Two commentaries: one by film historian Arthur “One of the most magical of all films.” Knight and one by writer and cultural historian —Roger Ebert Sir Christopher Frayling • Screening at the Majestic, a 1995 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew “A sensuously fascinating film, • Interview with cinematographer Henri Alekan a fanciful poem in movement.” —The New York Times • Rare behind-the-scenes photos and publicity stills • Film restoration demonstration • Original trailer, directed and narrated by director 1946 • 93 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Jean Cocteau, plus restoration trailer from 1995 French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Geoffrey O’Brien, a piece on the film by Cocteau, Prebook 6/21/11 Street 7/19/11 excerpts from Francis Steegmuller’s 1970 book Cat. no. CC2016BD Cocteau: A Biography, and an introduction to ISBN 978-1-60465-429-5 Glass’s opera by the composer UPC 7-15515-08131-3

now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS HIGH AND LOW

KUROSAWA’S HARROWING TALE OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, starring Toshiro mifune now in a criterION BLU-Ray special edition!

Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai) is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director AKIRA KUROSAWA (Rashomon). Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.

Blu-ray SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • High-definition digital restoration, with original “Brilliant. A taut moral drama . . . four-track surround sound presented in DTS-HD Master Audio and a nail-biting tale of detection.” • Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar —Village Voice Stephen Prince • Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create “Kurosawa blows up the genre • Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune and puts the pieces back together in a completely new way.” • Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper —New York Times • Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S. • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a reprinted on-set account by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 6/28/11 Street 7/26/11 Cat. no. CC2039BD 1963 • 143 minutes • Black & White/COLOR • ISBN 978-1-60465-473-8 Surround • In Japanese with English subtitles • UPC 7-15515-08591-5 2.35:1 aspect ratio

Under exclusive license from Toho Co., Ltd. © 1963 Toho Co., Ltd.A ll rights reserved. English subtitled version © 2008 Toho Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Summary and design © 2011 The Criterion Collection. All rights reserved. www.criterion.com 1961 LÉON MORIN, PRIEST A film by Jean-Pierre Melville

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Léon Morin, Priest

JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO SMOLDERS IN A CONTROVERSIAL DRAMA about WAR AND FAITH FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ARMY OF SHADOWS ON BLU-RAY AND DVD!

Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless) dons clerical robes and delivers a subtly sensual performance for the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (Army of Shadows). The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is the crush object of all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow—played by Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima mon amour)—a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos.

“Extraordinary . . . Often thrilling, SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES always surprising.” • New high-definition digital restoration, with —Manohla Dargis, New York Times uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition “Melville’s masterpiece . . . • Archival interview with director Jean-Pierre Melville A giddy bit of blasphemy.” and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo —Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York • Visual essay by French film scholar Ginette Vincendeau • Original theatrical trailer BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and Prebook 6/28/11 Street 7/26/11 Cat. no. CC2037BD novelist Gary Indiana ISBN 978-1-60465-455-4 UPC 7-15515-08461-1

DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 6/28/11 Street 7/26/11 Cat. no. CC2038D 1961 • 117 minutes • Black & White • ISBN 978-1-60465-456-1 Monaural • In French with English subtitles • UPC 7-15515-08471-0 1.66:1 aspect ratio

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Life During Wartime

todd solondz’s shockingly funny exploration of the boundaries of forgiveness, family, and love IN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS!

In Life During Wartime, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse) explores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The film functions as a distorted mirror image of Solondz’s acclaimed 1998 dark comedy Happiness, its emotionally stunted characters now groping for the possibility of change in a post-9/11 world. Happiness’s grim New Jersey setting is transposed to sunny Florida, but the biggest twist is that new actors fill the roles originated in the earlier film—including Shirley Henderson (Topsy-Turvy), Allison Janney (The Ice Storm), and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) as alarmingly dissimilar sisters, and Ciarán Hinds (Persuasion) hauntingly embodying a reformed pedophile. Shot in expressionistic tones by cinematographer extraordinaire Ed Lachman (Far from Heaven), Solondz’s film finds the humor in the tragic and the tragic in the everyday.

“Genuine, all-enveloping . . . This might be director-approved some kind of goddamned masterpiece.” SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES —David Edelstein, New York • New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Ed Lachman, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition “Deep-dish pleasure . . . Todd Solondz may have • Ask Todd, an audio Q&A with director Todd Solondz made his best film with Life During Wartime.” in which he responds to viewers’ questions —Todd McCarthy, Variety • Making “Life During Wartime,” a new documentary featuring interviews with actors Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Paul Reubens, Ally 2010 • 97 minutes • Color • Surround • Sheedy, and Michael Kenneth Williams, and on-set 1.78:1 aspect ratio footage of the actors and crew BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 • New video piece in which Lachman discusses his Prebook 6/28/11 Street 7/26/11 work on the film Cat. no. CC2035BD • Original theatrical trailer ISBN 978-1-60465-453-0 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic UPC 7-15515-08441-3 David Sterritt

DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 6/28/11 Street 7/26/11 WINNER Cat. no. CC2036D Best Screenplay, ISBN 978-1-60465-454-7 Venice Film Festival, 2009 UPC 7-15515-08451-2

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS The Music Room

SATYAJIT RAY’S POWERFUL TRAGIC DRAMA— A CORNERSTONE OF THE MONUMENTAL DIRECTOR’S CAREER IN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS!

With The Music Room (Jalsaghar), Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali) brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to his way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years— now a shadow of its former vivid self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India’s most popular musicians of the day, The Music Room is a defining work by the great Bengali filmmaker.

“Overpowering . . . A double-edged study in SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES the refinement and absurdity of aristocracy.” • New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural —Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition • Satyajit Ray (1984), a feature documentary by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray’s career and includes “One of Ray’s most magnificently visual films . . . interviews with the filmmaker, family photographs, Superb camera work . . . Ravishing score.” and extensive clips from his films —Derek Malcolm, The Guardian • New interview with filmmaker Mira Nair • New interview in which Ray biographer Andrew “His most evocative film.” Robinson discusses the making of The Music Room —Roger Ebert and the film’s cultural significance • Excerpt from a 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, film critic Michel Ciment, and filmmaker BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Claude Sautet Prebook 6/21/11 Street 7/19/11 Cat. no. CC2033BD • New and improved English subtitle translation ISBN 978-1-60465-451-6 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip UPC 7-15515-08431-4 Kemp as well as reprints of a 1963 essay by Ray and a 1986 interview with the director about the film’s music 2-DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 6/21/11 Street 7/19/11 Cat. no. CC2034D 1958 • 100 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • ISBN 978-1-60465-452-3 In Bengali with English subtitles • UPC 7-15515-08401-7 1.33:1 aspect ratio

now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Naked MIKE LEIGH’S ELECTRIFYING CANNES AWARD WINNER NOW IN A CRITERION BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION!

WINNER WINNER Borest Act (David Thewlis), Best Director, Best Actor (David New York Film Critics Circle and Thewlis), Cannes Film Festival, 1993 National Society of Film Critics, 1993

The brilliant and controversial Naked, from director Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy), stars David Thewlis (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) as Johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself through a nocturnal odyssey around London, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances from Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge (Before the Rain) and Lesley Sharp (The Full Monty), Leigh’s picture of England’s underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy that took the best director and best actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and “A masterpiece . . . Mike Leigh’s finest approved by director Mike Leigh, with DTS-HD Master work and arguably the best British Audio soundtrack film in recent history.” • Audio commentary by Leigh and actors David Thewlis —The Guardian and Katrin Cartlidge • Exclusive video interview with director Neil LaBute • An episode of the BBC program The Art Zone in which “A brilliant somersault of a movie.” author Will Self interviews Leigh —Vincent Canby, The New York Times • T he Short and Curlies, a short comedy from 1982 directed by Leigh and starring Thewlis, with audio commentary by Leigh • Original theatrical trailer BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critics Derek Prebook 6/14/11 Street 7/12/11 Malcolm and Amy Taubin Cat. no. CC2040BD ISBN 978-1-60465-448-6 1993 • 131 minutes • Color • Surround • UPC 7-15515-08381-2 1.85:1 aspect ratio