Criterion is officially going Blu!!!

[ChrisAndy]

I just got this e-mail from the Criterion website:

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,

We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.

Here’s what’s in the pipeline:

The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear

Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we’ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg’s outback masterpiece at the same time.

As a special thank you to our newsletter subscribers, we’d like to offer you all $10 off any order of $60 or more placed on on criterion.com through Monday, May 26. Just use the code OFBT and you’ll also qualify for free shipping.

Enjoy spring!

Criterion is great at putting together the best extras and picture quality. I'm especially excited for Chungking Express and Bottle Rocket.

[Master X]

I never understood the hype around Criterion

[oxbladder]

Well they have/had some of the best indie and foreign films and some of the best mastering of the DVD format. I look forward to The Last Temptation of Christ and Seven Samurai though I doubt the latter will look all that much better on Blu. I just hope that the "premium" on them is not quite as high as it is with DVD.

[melodywhore]

priced to match criterion sd dvds which means $40 a pop.

[ilovenola2]

Originally Posted by Master X

I never understood the hype around Criterion

It's not "hype." It's "excellence."

[ben1080p]

what is criterion

[michealo]

The Wages of Fear

[SkInWaLkEr]

Wow....soon to be $100 discs.

[GamerGuyX]

Originally Posted by ben1080p

what is criterion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection

[scottpilgrim]

The Third Man


FUCK. YES

[vegasr]

I've been waiting for this since Hi Def started. I dedided to stop buying Criterion until they made the move since the middle of last year. I can see 56 on that list that I'm buying. I wish they would release Zazie dans le metro.

[XodusTrance]

Waiting for the Life Aquatic.... ever so patiently.