October 6: PIERROT LE FOU
October 13: CLAUDINE
October 20: THE GUNFIGHTER
October 20: THE HIT
October 27: PARASITE
Criterion Collection October Releases
PIERROT LE FOU
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, “the last romantic couple.” With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave, and was Godard’s last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Interview with actor Anna Karina from 2007
• A “Pierrot” Primer, a video essay from 2007 written and narrated by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
• Godard, l’amour, la poésie, a fifty-minute French documentary from 2007, directed by Luc Lagier, about director Jean-Luc Godard and his work and marriage with Karina
• Excerpts of interviews from 1965 with Godard, Karina, and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Richard Brody, along with (Blu-ray only) a 1969 review by Andrew Sarris and a 1965 interview with Godard
1965 • 110 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 2.35:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 9/8/20
STREET 10/6/20
CAT. NO. CC3114BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-687-6
UPC 7-15515-24111-3
2-DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 9/8/20
STREET 10/6/20
CAT. NO. CC3115DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-688-3
UPC 7-15515-24121-2
CLAUDINE
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary from 2003 featuring actors Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs; filmmaker George Tillman Jr.; and Dan Pine, son of screenwriters Lester Pine and Tina Pine
• New conversation on the film between filmmaker Robert Townsend and programmer Ashley Clark
• Illustrated audio excerpts from a 1974 AFI Harold Lloyd Master Seminar featuring Carroll
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Danielle A. Jackson
1974 • 92 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 9/15/20
STREET 10/13/20
CAT. NO. CC3190BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-768-2
UPC 7-15515-25181-5
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 9/15/20
STREET 10/13/20
CAT. NO. CC3191DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-769-9
UPC 7-15515-25191-4
THE GUNFIGHTER
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interview about director Henry King and the film with filmmaker, writer, and archivist Gina Telaroli
• New video essay on editor Barbara McLean by film historian and author J. E. Smyth
• Audio excerpts of interviews with King and McLean from 1970 and ’71
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• More!
• PLUS: An essay by film critic K. Austin Collins
1950 • 84 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 9/22/20
STREET 10/20/20
CAT. NO. CC3192BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-772-9
UPC 7-15515-25221-8
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 9/22/20
STREET 10/20/20
CAT. NO. CC3193DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-773-6
UPC 7-15515-25231-7
THE HIT
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• High-definition digital restoration, approved by director of photography Mike Molloy, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 2009 featuring director Stephen Frears, actors John Hurt and Tim Roth, screenwriter Peter Prince, and editor Mick Audsley
• Interview from 1988 with actor Terence Stamp from the television show Parkinson One-to-One
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller
1984 • 98 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 9/22/20
STREET 10/20/20
CAT. NO. CC3196BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-774-3
UPC 7-15515-25241-6
PARASITE
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital master, approved by director Bong Joon Ho and director of photography Hong Kyung Pyo, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary featuring Bong and critic Tony Rayns
• Black-and-white version of the film with a new introduction by Bong, and Dolby Atmos soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New conversation between Bong and critic Darcy Paquet
• New interviews with Hong, production designer Lee Ha Jun, and editor Yang Jinmo
• New program about the New Korean Cinema movement featuring Bong and filmmaker Park Chan Wook (Oldboy)
• Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2019 featuring Bong and members of the cast
• Master class featuring Bong from the 2019 Lumière Festival in Lyon, France
• Storyboard comparison
• Trailers
• PLUS: An essay by critic Inkoo Kang
2019 • 131 minutes • Color • Dolby Atmos/5.1 surround • In Korean with English subtitles • 2.39:1 aspect ratio
2-BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 9/29/20
STREET 10/27/20
CAT. NO. CC3194BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-776-7
UPC 7-15515-25261-4
3-DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 9/29/20
STREET 10/27/20
CAT. NO. CC3195DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-777-4
UPC 7-15515-25271-3