Criterion Collection January Releases

THE ASCENT

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New selected-scene commentary featuring film scholar Daniel Bird
• New video introduction by Anton Klimov, son of director Larisa Shepitko and filmmaker Elem Klimov
• New interview with actor Lyudmila Polyakova
• The Homeland of Electricity, a 1967 short film by Shepitko
• Larisa, a 1980 short film tribute to his late wife by Klimov
• Two documentaries from 2012 about Shepitko’s life, work, and relationship with Klimov
• Program from 1999 featuring an interview with Shepitko
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by poet Fanny Howe
1977 • 109 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Russian with English subtitles • 1.37:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 12/29/20
STREET 1/26/21
CAT. NO. CC3216BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-793-4
UPC 7-15515-25461-8
2-DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 12/29/20
STREET 1/26/21
CAT. NO. CC3217DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-794-1
UPC 7-15515-25471-7
MINDING THE GAP

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital master, approved by director Bing Liu, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary featuring Liu and documentary subjects Keire Johnson and Zack Mulligan
• New follow-up conversation between Liu and documentary subject Nina Bowgren
• New programs featuring interviews with professional skateboarder Tony Hawk and with Liu, Minding the Gap executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon
• Four outtake scenes with introductions by Liu
• Nu?c (2010), a short film by Liu about two Vietnamese immigrants growing up American
• Trailer
• New English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Jay Caspian Kang
2018 • 93 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 12/15/20
STREET 1/12/21
CAT. NO. CC3212BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-789-7
UPC 7-15515-25421-2
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 12/15/20
STREET 1/12/21
CAT. NO. CC3213DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-790-3
UPC 7-15515-25431-1
ROLLING THUNDER REVIEW: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital transfer, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interviews with Scorsese, editor David Tedeschi, and writer Larry “Ratso” Sloman
• Restored footage of never-before-seen Rolling Thunder Revue performances of “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” and “Romance in Durango,” and of a never-before-seen cut of “Tangled Up in Blue”
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by novelist Dana Spiotta and writing from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour by author Sam Shepard and poets Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman
2019 • 142 minutes • Color/Black & White • 5.1 surround • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 12/22/20
STREET 1/19/21
CAT. NO. CC3214BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-791-0
UPC 7-15515-25441-0
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 12/22/20
STREET 1/19/21
CAT. NO. CC3215DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-792-7
UPC 7-15515-25451-9
THREE FILMS BY LUIS BUÑUEL
More than four decades after he took a razorblade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch-iconoclast Luis Buñuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocations—The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire—in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and his own frequent on-screen alter ego Fernando Rey, Buñuel laced his scathing attacks on religion, class pretension, and moral hypocrisy with savage violence to create a trio of subversive, brutally funny masterpieces that explore the absurd randomness of existence. Among the director’s most radical works as well as some of his greatest international triumphs, these films cemented his legacy as cinema’s most incendiary revolutionary.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• The Castaway of Providence Street, a 1971 homage to Luis Buñuel made by his longtime friends and fellow filmmakers Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo
• Speaking of Buñuel, a documentary from 2000 on Buñuel’s life and work
• Once Upon a Time: “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” a 2011 television program about the making of the film
• Interviews from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière on The Phantom of Liberty and That Obscure Object of Desire
• Archival interviews on all three films featuring Carrière; actors Stéphane Audran, Muni, Michel Piccoli, and Fernando Rey; and other key collaborators
• Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Buñuel on five of his final seven films
• Analysis of The Phantom of Liberty from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans
• Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire
• Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, a 2012 short documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary
• Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film La femme et le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based
• Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack for That Obscure Object of Desire
• Trailers
• New English subtitle translations
• PLUS: Essays by critic Adrian Martin and novelist and critic Gary Indiana, along with interviews with Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE

1972 • 101 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY

1974 • 103 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE

1977 • 104 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
3-BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $99.95
PREBOOK 12/8/20
STREET 1/5/21
CAT. NO. CC3211BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-795-8
UPC 7-15515-25481-6