The Criterion Assortment: May 2022 DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra Releases
The Piano, The Celebration, Time, and plenty of different movies are being launched in May 2022 by The Criterion Assortment. A few of these movies are showing inside The Criterion Assortment for the primary time, on The Criterion Assortment Blu-ray for the primary time, and/or on The Criterion Assortment 4K Ultra for the primary time.
The Criterion Assortment: May 2022 Press Launch
Thriller lurks this May with a lacking man in San Francisco’s Chinatown in Wayne Wang’s Chan Is Lacking, a mistaken identification in World Conflict II–period Paris in Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein, and the sinister scheme in hard-boiled LA that put movie noir on the map in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. Plus: The maker of Tampopo, Juzo Itami, takes on the Japanese manner of loss of life in The Funeral, and Mira Nair’s fashionable cross-cultural romance, Mississippi Masala, will get a long-awaited restoration.
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MR. KLEIN
One of many crowning achievements of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey’s European exile, the spellbinding modernist thriller Mr. Klein places a chilling twist on the wrong-man thriller. Alain Delon delivers a standout efficiency as Robert Klein, a decadent artwork seller in Paris throughout World Conflict II who makes a tidy revenue shopping for up work from his determined Jewish shoppers. As Klein searches for a Jewish man with the identical title for whom he has been mistaken, he finds himself plunged right into a Kafkaesque nightmare during which his identification appears to dissolve and the forces of historical past to shut in on him. Met with appreciable controversy on its launch for its portrayal of the real-life wrongdoings of the Vichy authorities, this haunting, disturbingly lovely movie shivers with existential dread because it traces a society’s descent into fascistic concern and inhumanity.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Interviews with critic Michel Ciment and editor Henri Lanoë
• Interviews from 1976 with director Joseph Losey and actor Alain Delon
• Story of a Day, a 1986 documentary on the real-life Vél d’Hiv Roundup, a central historic aspect of Mr. Klein
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by movie scholar Ginette Vincendeau
1976 • 123 minutes • Colour • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 facet ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 4/5/22
STREET 5/10/22
CAT. NO. CC3355BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-934-1
UPC 7-15515-27161-5
THE FUNERAL
It’s loss of life, Japanese fashion, within the rollicking and wistful first function from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. Within the wake of her father’s sudden passing, a profitable actor (Itami’s spouse and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) go away Tokyo and return to her household residence to supervise a standard funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that deliver illicit escapades within the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest (Chishu Ryu), and cinema’s most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and personal hypocrisy are laid naked. Deftly weaving darkish comedy with poignant household drama, The Funeral is a fearless satire of the conflict between previous and new in Japanese society during which nothing, not even the finality of loss of life, is off-limits.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Excessive-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interviews with actors Nobuko Miyamoto and Manpei Ikeuchi
• Inventive Marriages: Juzo Itami & Nobuko Miyamoto, a brief program produced by the Criterion Channel
• Commercials for Ichiroku Tart by director Juzo Itami
• Trailers
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by writer Pico Iyer and, for the Blu-ray, excerpts from Itami’s 1985 guide Diary of “The Funeral” and from a 2007 remembrance of Itami by actor Tsutomu Yamazaki
1984 • 124 minutes • Colour • Monaural • In Japanese with English subtitles • 1.33:1 facet ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 4/12/22
STREET 5/17/22
CAT. NO. CC3357BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-936-5
UPC 7-15515-27181-3
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 4/12/22
STREET 5/17/22
CAT. NO. CC3358DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-937-2
UPC 7-15515-27191-2
MISSISSIPPI MASALA
The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come collectively in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala, a luminous take a look at the complexities of affection within the fashionable melting pot. Years after her Indian household was compelled to flee their residence in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleansing rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington), their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of each of their households and exposes the rifts between the area’s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny problems with racism, colorism, tradition conflict, and displacement with bighearted humor and eager perception, Nair serves up a candy, attractive, and deeply satisfying celebration of affection’s energy.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of pictures Ed Lachman, with 2.zero encompass DTS-HD Grasp Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary that includes Nair
• New dialog between actor Sarita Choudhury and movie critic Devika Girish
• New interviews with Lachman, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, and manufacturing designer and photographer Mitch Epstein
• English subtitles for the deaf and arduous of listening to
• PLUS: An essay by critic Bilal Qureshi and, for the Blu-ray, excerpts from Nair’s manufacturing journal
1991 • 117 minutes • Colour • 2.zero encompass • In English and Swahili with English subtitles • 1.85:1 facet ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 4/19/22
STREET 5/24/22
CAT. NO. CC3361BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-940-2
UPC 7-15515-27221-6
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DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 4/19/22
STREET 5/24/22
CAT. NO. CC3362DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-941-9
UPC 7-15515-27231-5
CHAN IS MISSING
A thriller man, a homicide, and a wad of lacking money—in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the elements of basic movie noir for the streets of up to date San Francisco’s Chinatown. When their enterprise companion disappears with the cash that they had deliberate to make use of for a cab license, driver Jo (Wooden Moy) and his nephew Steve (Marc Hayashi) scour the town’s again alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese language eating places to trace him down. However what begins as a seek for a lacking man regularly turns right into a far deeper and extra elusive investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Chinese language American identification. The first function by an Asian American filmmaker to play broadly and get mainstream important appreciation, Chan Is Lacking is a repeatedly recent and shocking landmark of indie invention that playfully flips a long time of cinematic stereotypes on their heads.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Excessive-definition digital grasp, authorised by director Wayne Wang, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Is Chan Nonetheless Lacking?, a making-of documentary directed by Debbie Lum
• New conversations between Wang and critic Hua Hsu and Wang and filmmaker Ang Lee
• Dialog between Wang and movie programmer Dennis Lim
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and arduous of listening to
• PLUS: An essay by critic Oliver Wang
1982 • 75 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In English, Cantonese, and Mandarin with English subtitles • 1.33:1 facet ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 4/26/22
STREET 5/31/22
CAT. NO. CC3356BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-935-8
UPC 7-15515-27171-4
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Has dialogue ever been extra completely hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever appeared so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this paragon of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain’s pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks into the swank residence of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck), he intends to promote her insurance coverage, however he winds up changing into entangled along with her in a much more sinister manner. That includes scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson and the chiaroscuro of cinematographer John F. Seitz, Double Indemnity is without doubt one of the most wickedly perverse tales ever informed and the cynical customary by which all noir have to be measured.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Within the 4K UHD version: One 4K UHD disc of the movie introduced in Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR and two Blu-rays with the movie and particular options
• Audio commentary that includes movie critic Richard Schickel
• New interview with movie scholar Noah Isenberg, editor of Billy Wilder on Task
• New dialog between movie historians Eddie Muller and Imogen Sara Smith
• Billy, How Did You Do It?, a 1992 movie by Volker Schlöndorff and Gisela Grischow that includes interviews with director Billy Wilder
• Shadows of Suspense, a 2006 documentary on the making of Double Indemnity
• Audio excerpts from 1971 and 1972 interviews with cinematographer John F. Seitz
• Radio diversifications from 1945 and 1950
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and arduous of listening to
1944 • 108 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.37:1 facet ratio
4K UHD + BLU-RAY COMBO
SRP $49.95
PREBOOK 4/26/22
STREET 5/31/22
CAT. NO. CC3359UHDBD
ISBN 978-1-68143-938-9
UPC 7-15515-27201-8
2-BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 4/26/22
STREET 5/31/22
CAT. NO. CC3360BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-939-6
UPC 7-15515-27211-7
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