now AVAILABLE In A spEcIAL BLU-RAY EDItIon! AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AnD DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS tHE BIG cItY SATYAJIT RAY’S irresistiblE FIlM ABOUT A WORKING WOMAN IN MODERN INDIA WINNER SILVER BEAR (BEST DIRECTOR), BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 1964 The Big City (Mahanagar), set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by the great SATYAJIT RAY (The Music Room), follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman. “Extraordinary . One of the most rewarding SPECIAl EDITION FEATURES screen experiences of our time.” • New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed —Roger Ebert monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition “Beautifully photographed, perfectly acted, • New interview with actor Madhabi Mukherjee shining with compassion, humor, and wisdom.” • Satyajit Ray and the Modern Woman, a new interview —Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune program featuring Ray historian Suranjan Ganguly • The Coward (1965), a feature film directed by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and BlU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee PREBOOK 7/23/13 STREET 8/20/13 CAT. NO. CC2301BD • New English subtitle translation ISBN 978-1-60465-764-7 UPC 7-15515-10931-4 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and an interview with Ray from the 1980s by his biographer Andrew Robinson 2-DvD EDITION SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 7/23/13 STREET 8/20/13 CAT. NO. CC2302D ISBN 978-1-60465-765-4 1963 • 135 mInUtEs • BLAck & wHItE • monaural • UPC 7-15515-10941-3 In BEnGALI wItH EnGLIsH sUBtItLEs • 1.33:1 AspEct RAtIo Summary and design © 2013 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com now AVAILABLE In A spEcIAL BLU-RAY EDItIon! AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AnD DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS cHARULAtA the epitome of SAtYAJit RAY’S ARtiStry FINALLY ON BLU-RAY AND DVD! WiNNeR SILVER BEAR (BEST DIRECTOR), BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 1965 This film about a woman’s artistic and romantic yearning by SAtYAJit RAY (The Music Room) is set in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India. It takes place in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely, stifled wife, Charulata (The Big City’s mADhABi mUKheRJee), whose exquisitely composed features mask a burning creativity. When her husband’s poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him to pursue her own writing and dangerously drawn to him physically. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice. SpeCiAL eDitioN feAtUReS “Gorgeous cinematography and expressive camera movements . You shouldn’t miss this.” • New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed —Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition • New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee “An artistic masterpiece, impeccably performed.” • Adapting Tagore, a new interview program — New York Times featuring Indian film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali literature historian Supriya Chaudhuri Archival audio interview with director Satyajit Ray BLU-RAY eDitioN SRP $39.95 • PREBOOK 7/23/13 STREET 8/20/13 by film historian Gideon Bachmann CAT. NO. CC2299BD • New English subtitle translation ISBN 978-1-60465-762-3 UPC 7-15515-10911-6 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson DVD eDitioN SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 7/23/13 STREET 8/20/13 CAT. NO. CC2300D ISBN 978-1-60465-763-0 1964 • 118 mInUtEs • BLAck & wHItE • monaural • UPC 7-15515-10921-5 In BEngALI wItH EngLIsH sUBtItLEs • 1.33:1 AspEct RAtIo Summary and design © 2013 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com 1953 a film by MAX OPHULS now AVAILABLE In A spEcIAL BLU-RAY EdItIon! now AVAILABLE In A BLU-RAY EdItIon! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS tHE EARRInGs oF MAdAME dE . MAX OPHULS’S DAZZLING ROMANTIC TRAGEDY FOR THE FIRST TIME ON BLu-RAy! The most cherished work from French master MAX OPHULS (La ronde), The Earrings of Madame de . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (Le plaisir’s extraordinary DANIELLE DARRIEUX) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Gaslight’s CHARLES BOYER) in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls’s adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel employs the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned, to ravishing effect. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES NOMINEE Best COSTuME DESIGN, • Restored high-definition digital film transfer, with black AND WHITE, ACADEMy Awards, 1954 uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar • Introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson “The greatest film of all time.” —Andrew Sarris, New York Observer • Interviews with director Max Ophuls’s collaborators Alan Jessua, Marc Frédérix, and Annette Wademant • Visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher “A romantic masterpiece.” • Archival interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin —New York Times on Ophuls’s adaptation of her story • PLuS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell, an excerpt from costume designer Georges Annenkov’s 1962 book Max Ophuls, and BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 the 1951 source novel by Vilmorin, Madame de PREBOOK 7/9/13 STREET 8/6/13 CAT. NO. CC2296BD 1953 100 MInUtEs BLAck & wHItE ISBN 978-1-60465-759-3 • • • Monaural In FREncH wItH EnGLIsH sUBtItLEs uPC 7-15515-10881-2 • • 1.33:1 AspEct RAtIo Summary and design © 2013 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 now AVAILABLE In A spEcIAL BLU-RAY EDItIon! AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AnD DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS sECONDs THE CLASSIC JOHN FRANKENHEIMER THRILLER, STARRING ROCK HUDSON NOMINEE Best black-AND-wHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY, ACADEMY Awards, 1966 ROCK HUDSON (All That Heaven Allows) is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. Seconds, directed by JOHN FRANKENHEIMER (The Manchurian Candidate), concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. Starting over in America, however, is not as easy as it sounds. This paranoiac symphony of canted camera angles (courtesy of famed cinematographer JAMES WONG HOWE), fragmented editing, and layered sound design is a remarkably risk-taking Hollywood film that ranks high on the list of its legendary director’s major achievements. “Everything about Seconds is enthralling . SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Its sense of cinema is overpowering.” • New 4K digital film restoration, with uncompressed —Gerald Pratley monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition “One of the most chilling endings • Audio commentary featuring director John Frankenheimer in all American cinema.” —Trevor Johnston, Time Out • Actor Alec Baldwin on Frankenheimer and Seconds • New program on the making of Seconds, featuring BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 interviews with Evans Frankenheimer, the director’s PREBOOK 7/16/13 STREET 8/13/13 widow, and actor Salome Jens CAT. NO. CC2294BD ISBN 978-1-60465-757-9 • Interview with Frankenheimer from 1971 UPC 7-15515-10861-4 • New visual essay by film scholars R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 PLUS: An essay by critic David Sterritt PREBOOK 7/16/13 STREET 8/13/13 • CAT. NO. CC2295D ISBN 978-1-60465-758-6 1966 107 mInUtEs BLAck & whItE monaural UPC 7-15515-10871-3 • • • • 1.75:1 AspEct RAtIo Summary and design © 2013 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 now AVAILABLE In A spEcIAL BLU-RAY EDItIon! AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AnD DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS TO BE oR NOT TO BE LUBITSCH’S STILL SHOCKING COMIC TrIUMpH COMES TO CrITErION! SELECTION NOMINEE national FILM registry, Best MUSIC SCORE, 1996 ACADEMY Awards, 1942 As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from ErNST LUBITSCH (Trouble in Paradise) stars JACK BENNY (The Jack Benny Program) and, in her final screen appearance, CArOLE LOMBArD (My Man Godfrey) as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled. SpECIAL EDITION FEATUrES “One of the most profound, emotionally • New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with complex comedies ever made.” uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the —Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader Blu-ray edition • New audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat “Survives in a way that many more serious and high-toned works about war do not.” • Lubitsch le patron, a 2010 French documentary on —Peter Bogdanovich director Ernst Lubitsch’s career • Two episodes of The Screen Guild Theater, a radio anthology series: Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Lubitsch, and To BLU-rAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Be or Not to Be (1942), an adaptation of the film, PREBOOK 7/30/13 STREET 8/27/13 starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and CAT.