It’s that time of the month, the time for Criterion’s title announcements, which actually came on-time this month. And that’s not the only thing this month to celebrate. We get another Chaplin title (one of his best) after a lengthy break, the long-awaited release of Jan Troell’s two most beloved films, another entry in the Collection from Nagisa Oshima, and some movie from the male half of Nichols and May. As always, cover artwork and specifications are below.
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Optional 5.1 surround remix, approved by director Mike Nichols, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Nichols in conversation with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
- Audio commentary from 1987 featuring film scholar Howard Suber
- New interview with actor Dustin Hoffman
- New conversation between producer Lawrence Turman and actor-screenwriter Buck Henry
- New interview with film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen about editor Sam O’Steen’s work onThe Graduate
- Students of “The Graduate,” a short documentary from 2007 on the film’s influence
- “The Graduate” at 25, a 1992 featurette on the making of the film
- Interview with Nichols by Barbara Walters, from a 1966 episode of NBC’s Today show
- Excerpt from a 1970 appearance by singer-songwriter Paul Simon on The Dick Cavett Show
- Screen tests
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by journalist and critic Frank Rich
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with critic Tony Rayns
- New high-definition digital transfer of director Nagisa Oshima’s 1965 experimental short documentary Diary of Yunbogi
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton
- New high-definition digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
- New introduction by critic and Swedish-film expert John Simon
- New conversation between film scholar Peter Cowie and director Jan Troell
- New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
- To Paint with Pictures, a 2005 documentary on the making of the films, featuring archival footage as well as interviews with Troell, Ullmann, producer and coscreenwriter Bengt Forslund, and actor Eddie Axberg
- Trailers
- New English subtitle translations
- PLUS: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with actor Stefania Sandrelli
- New interview with film scholar Luca Barattoni about the career of director Antonio Pietrangeli
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by journalist and author Alexander Stille
- New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland
- Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven
- A Study in Undercranking, a new piece featuring silent-film specialist Ben Model
- Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin
- Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman
- Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid
- “Charlie” on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin’s first return trip to Europe
- Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for The Kid
- Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by film historian Tom Gunning