1980 AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS HEAVEN’S GATE MICHAEL CIMINO’S CUT OF HIS EPIC WESTERN, IN A BREATHTAKING NEW RESTORATION AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANY FORMAT! WINNER BEST ART DIRECTION, ACADEMY AWARDS, 1981 A visionary critique of American expansionism, Heaven’s Gate, directed by Oscar winner MICHAEL CIMINO (The Deer Hunter), is among Hollywood’s most ambitious and unorthodox epics. KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (Lone Star) brings his weathered sensuality to the role of a Harvard graduate who has relocated all the way to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned plot by rich cattle barons to kill the area’s European settlers for their land. The resulting skirmish is based on the real-life bloody Johnson County War of 1892. Also starring ISABELLE HUPPERT (White Material) and CHRISTOPHER WALKEN (The Deer Hunter), Heaven’s Gate is a savage and ravishingly shot demystification of western movie lore. This is the full director’s cut, letting viewers today see Cimino’s potent original vision. “Among the supreme achievements DIRECTOR-APPROVED of the Hollywood cinema.” SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES —Robin Wood • New, restored transfer of director Michael Cimino’s cut of the film, supervised by Cimino “An opium vision of American bloodshed.” • New restoration of the 5.1 surround soundtrack, —Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice supervised by Cimino, in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition “A masterpiece.” • New illustrated audio interview with Cimino and producer —Nigel Andrews, Financial Times Joann Carelli • New interviews with actor Kris Kristofferson, soundtrack 2-BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $49.95 arranger and performer David Mansfield, and second PREBOOK 10/23/12 STREET 11/20/12 assistant director Michael Stevenson CAT. NO. CC2203BD • The Johnson County War, a video interview with historian ISBN 978-1-60465-655-8 Bill O’Neal about the real-life conflict that inspired the UPC 7-15515-10111-0 film, and its resonance in popular culture • Trailer and TV spots 2-DVD EDITION SRP $39.95 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and PREBOOK 10/23/12 STREET 11/20/12 programmer Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan CAT. NO. CC2204D ISBN 978-1-60465-656-5 1980 • 216 MINUTES • COLOR • 5.1 SURROUND • UPC 7-15515-10121-9 2.40:1 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 THREE ICONIC CLASSICS OF LITERATURE COME RIBALDLY ALIVE! In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker PIER PAOLO PASOLINI (Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom) brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of premodern world literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian Nights)—and in doing so created his most uninhibited and extravagant work, which he titled his Trilogy of Life. In this brazen and bawdy triptych, the director set out to challenge consumer capitalism and celebrate the uncorrupted human body while commenting on contemporary sexual and religious mores and hypocrisies. His scatological humor and rough-hewn sensuality leave all modern standards of decency behind; these are physical, provocative, and wildly entertaining films, all extraordinarily designed by DANTE FERRETTI (Hugo) and featuring evocative music by ENNIO MORRICONE (Days of Heaven). AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS PIER PAOLO PASOLINI’S TRILOGY OF LIFE THE DECAMERON THE CANTERBURY TALES ARABIAN NIGHTS “Pasolini has created one of the most beautiful, “Pasolini’s compositions, turbulent, and uproarious Danilo Donati’s costumes, “It has a marvelous panoramas of early and the English locations picture-book splendor.” Renaissance life are uniformly gorgeous.” —Tim Robey, The Telegraph ever put on film.” —J. Hoberman, The Village Voice —Vincent Canby, The New York Times Pasolini weaves together stories Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s lusty Pasolini traveled to Africa, India, from Giovanni Boccaccio’s tales come to life on-screen in and the Middle East to realize this fourteenth-century moral tales Pasolini’s gutsy and delirious ambitious cinematic treatment in this picturesque free-for-all. The Canterbury Tales, which was of a handful of the stories from The Decameron explores the shot in England and offers a the legendary The Thousand and delectations and dark corners of remarkably earthy re-creation of One Nights. This is not the fairy- an earlier and, as the filmmaker the medieval era. From the story tale world of Scheherazade or saw it, less compromised time. of a nobleman struck blind after Aladdin or Ali Baba—instead, the Among the chief delights are a marrying a much younger and director focuses on the more erotic young man’s exploits with a gang ultimately promiscuous bride to a tales, ones of desire, betrayal, and of grave robbers, some randy nuns climactic trip to a hell populated by atonement, framed by the story of who sin with a strapping gardener, friars and demons (surely one of the a young man’s quest to reconnect and Pasolini’s appearance as a most outrageously conceived and with his beloved slave girl. Full of pupil of the painter Giotto, at realized sequences ever committed lustrous sets and costumes and work on a massive fresco. One of to film), this is an unendingly stunning location photography, the director’s most popular films, imaginative work of merry Arabian Nights is a fierce and joyous The Decameron, trans posed to blasphemy, framed by Pasolini’s exploration of human sensuality. Naples from Boccaccio’s Florence, portrayal of Chaucer himself. 1974 • 130 MINUTES • COLOR • MONAURAL • is a cutting takedown of the pieties IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1972 • 111 MINUTES • COLOR • MONAURAL • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO surrounding religion and sex. IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO 1971 • 111 MINUTES • COLOR • MONAURAL • IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO WINNER WINNER WINNER SILVER BEAR, GOLDEN BEAR, GRAND JURY PRIZE, BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL, BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 1971 1972 1974 THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS PIER PAOLO PASOLINI’S TRILOGY OF LIFE 1974 1972 1971 SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES • New high-definition digital restorations of all three • Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Form of the City (1974), films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on a sixteen-minute documentary by Pasolini and the Blu-ray editions Paolo Burnatto about the ancient Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia • New visual essays by film scholars Patrick Rumble and Tony Rayns on The Decameron and Arabian • D eleted scenes from Arabian Nights, with Nights, respectively transcriptions of pages from the original script • New interviews with art director Dante Ferretti and • Pasolini-approved English-dubbed track for composer Ennio Morricone about their work with The Canterbury Tales Pasolini, and with film scholar Sam Rohdie on The Trailers Canterbury Tales • New English subtitle translations • The Lost Body of Alibech (2005), a forty-five- • minute documentary by Roberto Chiesi about a • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Colin lost sequence from The Decameron MacCabe; Pasolini’s 1975 article “Trilogy of Life Rejected”; excerpts from Pasolini’s Berlin Film • The Secret Humiliation of Chaucer (2006), a forty-seven-minute documentary by Chiesi about Festival press conference for The Canterbury Tales; and a report from the set of by The Canterbury Tales Arabian Nights critic Gideon Bachmann • Via Pasolini, a documentary in which Pasolini discusses his views on language, film, and modern society 3-BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $79.95 4-DVD EDITION SRP $79.95 PREBOOK 10/16/12 STREET 11/13/12 PREBOOK 10/16/12 STREET 11/13/12 CAT. NO. CC2191BD CAT. NO. CC2195D ISBN 978-1-60465-643-5 ISBN 978-1-60465-647-3 UPC 7-15515-09991-2 UPC 7-15515-10031-1 Summary and design © 2012 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com 1950 AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD! THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS RASHOMON THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD— KUROSAWA’S MASTERPIECE, BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED! WINNER WINNER WINNER BEST DIRECTOR, BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, GOLDEN LION, BEST FOREIGN FILM, ACADEMY AWARDS, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW, 1951 1951 1951 A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife, which director AKIRA KUROSAWA (Seven Samurai) presents with striking imagery and an ingenious use of flashbacks. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema—and a commanding new star by the name of TOSHIRO MIFUNE (Yojimbo)—to the Western world. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES “The truth about Rashomon—that it’s one of the • New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural best movies ever—is beyond dispute.” soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition —A. O. Scott, The New York Times • Audio commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie • Video introduction by director Robert Altman “Unites its audience in awe and wonder.” • Excerpts from The World of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary on Rashomon’s cinematographer —Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun • A Testimony as an Image, a sixty-eight-minute documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew • Archival audio interview with actor Takashi Shimura BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 • Original and rerelease trailers PREBOOK 10/9/12 STREET 11/6/12 • New English subtitle translation CAT. NO. CC2201BD ISBN 978-1-60465-653-4 • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian UPC 7-15515-10091-5 Stephen Prince; an excerpt from director Akira Kurosawa’s Something Like an Autobiography; and reprints of Rashomon’s two source stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 “Rashomon” and “In a Grove” PREBOOK 10/9/12 STREET 11/6/12 CAT.