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AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS The Forgiveness of Blood

THE STARTLING NEW DRAMA FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MARIA FULL OF GRACE fresh from its theatrical run!

American director JOSHUA MARSTON broke out in 2004 with his jolting, Oscar-nominated Maria Full of Grace, about a young Colombian woman working as a drug mule. In his remarkable follow-up, The Forgiveness of Blood, he turns his camera on another corner of the world: contemporary northern Albania, a place still troubled by the ancient custom of interfamilial blood feuds. From this reality, Marston sculpts a fictional narrative about a teenage brother and sister physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father’s entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land. The Forgiveness of Blood is a tense and perceptive depiction of a place where tradition and progress have an uneasy coexistence, as well as a dynamic coming-of-age drama.

WINNER DIRECTOR-APPROVED Best Screenplay, Berlin Film Festival, 2011 SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES · New high-definition digital transfer, approved by producer Paul Mezey, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD “Marston may be indie cinema’s finest Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition immersive journalist.” · Audio commentary featuring director and cowriter —David Fear, Time Out New York Joshua Marston · Two new video programs: Acting Close to Home, “An accomplished and suspenseful drama.” a discussion between Marston and actors Refet —The Hollywood Reporter Abazi, Tristan Halilaj, and Sindi Laçej, and Truth on the Ground, featuring new and on-set interviews with Mezey, Abazi, Halilaj, and Laçej BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 9/18/12 Street 10/16/12 · Audition and rehearsal footage Cat. no. CC2189BD · Trailer ISBN 978-1-60465-641-1 UPC 7-15515-09971-4 · PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Oscar Moralde DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 9/18/12 Street 10/16/12 Cat. no. CC2190D ISBN 978-1-60465-642-8 2011 · 109 minutes · Color · 5.1 surround · In Albanian UPC 7-15515-09981-3 with English subtitles · 1.85:1 aspect ratio

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now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY special edition! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS In the Mood for Love

THE BELOVED, VISUALLY RAVISHING ROMANCE BY WONG KAR-WAI on Blu-ray for the first time!

WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER Best Cinematography, Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Foreign-Language Film, Cannes Film Festival, 2000 César Awards, 2001 National Society of Film New York Film Critics Critics Awards, 2001 Circle Awards, 2001

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Hero’s TONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI) and Su Li-zhen (Irma Vep’s MAGGIE CHEUNG MAN-YUK) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses sparks an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, In the Mood for Love, directed by WONG KAR-WAI (Chungking Express), is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and its exquisitely abstract cinematography by CHRISTOPHER DOYLE (2046) and MARK LEE PING-BIN (Flight of the Red Balloon), this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, as well as a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

“Breathtakingly gorgeous . . . BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass · High-definition digital restoration, approved by romantic spirit that has been missing cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bin, with 5.1 surround from the cinema forever.” DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack —A. O. Scott, The New York Times · @ “In the Mood for Love,” director Wong Kar-wai’s documentary on the making of the film “An ecstatic vision . . . · Deleted scenes, with commentary by Wong An evanescent masterwork.” · Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong —Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly · Archival interview with Wong and a “cinema lesson” given by the director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival · Toronto International Film Festival press conference 2000 · 98 minutes · Color · 5.1 Surround · from 2000, with stars Maggie Cheung Man-yuk and In Cantonese and Shanghainese with Tony Leung Chiu-wai English subtitles · 1.66:1 aspect ratio · Two new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 film and the other about the soundtrack Prebook 9/4/12 Street 10/2/12 · Trailers and TV spots Cat. no. CC2185BD ISBN 978-1-60465-638-1 · Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film UPC 7-15515-09941-7 critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi-chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film

Summary and design © 2012 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Rosemary’s Baby

THE POLANSKI MASTERPIECE THAT CHANGED HORROR CINEMA— FOR THE FIRST TIME ON BLU-RAY

Number seven on Time Out’s list of 100 best horror films! Number nine on the American Film Institute’s “100 Years . . . 100 Thrills” list!

Terrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby marked the Hollywood debut of ROMAN POLANSKI (Repulsion). This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory MIA FARROW (Hannah and Her Sisters) as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors, played by SIDNEY BLACKMER (High Society) and an Oscar-winning RUTH GORDON (Harold and Maude), and self-involved husband (actor and filmmaker JOHN CASSAVETES) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it’s never been outdone for sheer psychological terror.

“Scary just isn’t the right word Director-approved for Rosemary’s Baby. It’s an artful SPECIAL edition FEATURES and unnerving picture that settles · New high-definition digital restoration, approved by deep into your bones.” director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural —Stephanie Zacharek, Salon soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition · New interviews with Polanski, actor Mia Farrow, and “Tension is sustained to a degree producer Robert Evans surpassing at his best.” · Komeda, Komeda, a feature-length documentary on the —The Daily Telegraph life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the score for Rosemary’s Baby · 1997 radio interview with author Ira Levin from Leonard BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Lopate’s WNYC program New York and Company on the Prebook 10/02/12 Street 10/30/12 1967 novel, the sequel, and the film Cat. no. CC2199BD ISBN 978-1-60465-651-0 · PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park UPC 7-15515-10071-7 and Levin’s afterword for the 2003 New American Library edition of his novel, in which he discusses its and the film’s origins 2-dvd EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 10/02/12 Street 10/30/12 “A masterpiece.” Cat. no. CC2200D —Jonathan Rosenbaum ISBN 978-1-60465-652-7 1968 · 136 minutes · Color · Monaural · UPC 7-15515-10081-6 1.85:1 aspect ratio

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A FILM BY John Schlesinger

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Sunday Bloody Sunday

OSCAR WINNER JOHN SCHLESINGER’S GROUNDBREAKING LOVE TRIANGLE TALE

JOHN SCHLESINGER followed his Academy Award–winning Midnight Cowboy with this sophisticated and highly personal take on love and sex. Sunday Bloody Sunday depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirtysomething divorcée—played by Oscar winners PETER FINCH (Network) and GLENDA JACKSON (Women in Love)—who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist (MURRAY HEAD). A revelation in its day, this may be the 1970s’ most intelligent, multitextured film about the complexities of romantic relationships; it is keenly acted and sensitively directed, from a penetrating screenplay by novelist and critic PENELOPE GILLIATT.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES “Schlesinger’s wisest, least · New high-definition digital restoration, supervised by sentimental film . . . Almost perfect.” director of photography Billy Williams, with uncompressed —Vincent Canby, The New York Times monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition · New video interviews with actor Murray Head, Williams, and production designer Luciana Arrighi “I think Sunday Bloody Sunday is a · Illustrated 1975 audio interview with director John masterpiece . . . The acting is flawless.” Schlesinger —Roger Ebert · New interview with writer William J. Mann (Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger) about the making of Sunday Bloody Sunday · New interview with photographer Michael Childers, Schlesinger’s longtime partner BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 9/25/12 Street 10/23/12 · Trailer Cat. no. CC2186BD · PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Terrence ISBN 978-1-60465-639-8 Rafferty and cultural historian Ian Buruma, as well as UPC 7-15515-09951-6 screenwriter Penelope Gilliatt’s 1971 introduction to the film’s screenplay DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 9/25/12 Street 10/23/12 Cat. no. CC2188D ISBN 978-1-60465-640-4 1971 · 110 minutes · Color · Monaural · UPC 7-15515-09961-5 1.66:1 aspect ratio

Summary and design © 2012 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 series 36 THREE WICKED MELODRAMAS FROM three-dvd Box SET INCLUDES: MADONNA OF THE SEVEN MOONS

During the 1940s, realism reigned in British cinema—but not at Gainsborough Pictures. The studio, which had been around since the ’20s, found new success with a series of pleasurably preposterous costume melodramas. Audiences ate up these overheated films, which featured a stable of charismatic stars, including (Lolita), (), (King Solomon’s Mines), and (Indiscreet). Though its films were immensely profitable in wartime and immediately after, Gainsborough did not outlive the decade. This set brings together a trio of Gainsborough’s most popular films—florid, visceral tales of secret identities, multiple personalities, and romantic betrayals.

Eclipse is a selection of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics in simple, affordable editions. Each series is a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer.

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