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THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS

FEAR And LoAthIng In LAs VEgAs

“The last word on gonzo journalism and the cinema.”

—Sight & Sound

“The most widely released midnight movie ever . . . A hilarious paean to

reckless indulgence.” —The Village Voice

JOHNNY DEPP AND BENICIO DEL TORO sTAR IN A CRITERION ALL-TIME BEsT-sELLER—

NOw ON BLU-RAY!

It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. His cut-and-dried assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey. Director TERRY GILLIAM (Time Bandits, Brazil) and an all-star cast headlined by JOHNNY DEPP (Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Brasco) and BENICIO DEL TORO (The Usual Suspects, Che) show no mercy in adapting HUNTER s. THOMPsON’s legendary dissection of the American way of life to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY sPECIAL EDITION FEATUREs • Digital transfer, approved by director Terry Gilliam, with a

DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack and an optional 5.1 mix

• Three audio commentaries: one with Gilliam, one with stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro and producer Laila Nabulsi, and one with author Hunter S. Thompson

• Deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Gilliam

• Selection of Thompson correspondence, read on camera by Depp

• Hunter Goes to Hollywood, a short documentary by filmmaker Wayne Ewing

• A look at the controversy over the screenwriting credit

• Profile of Oscar Zeta Acosta, the inspiration for Dr. Gonzo

• Collection of artwork by illustrator Ralph Steadman

• Audio excerpt from the 1996 spoken-word CD Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, featuring filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and actor Maury Chaykin

• Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, a 1978 BBC documentary with Thompson and Steadman

• Storyboards, production designs, stills gallery, theatrical trailer, and TV spots

• PLUs: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman and two pieces by Thompson

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOk 3/29/11 STREET 4/26/11 CAT. NO. CC1997BD ISBN 978-1-60465-408-0 UPC 7-15515-07021-8

1998 • 119 mInUtEs • CoLoR • 2.0 sURRoUnd • 2.35:1 AspECt RAtIo

Summary and design © 2011 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AnD DVD!


BLow oUt

“[De Palma’s] best and most original work . . . Real cinematic intelligence.”

—Roger Ebert

“De Palma keeps our senses heightened . . . It’s a great movie.”

—Pauline Kael

BRIAN DE PALMA’S SENSATIONAL POLITICAL THRILLER, STARRING JOHN TRAVOLTA

IN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS!

In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by BRIAN DE PALMA (Sisters, Carrie, Scarface), JOHN TRAVOLTA (Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction) gives one of his greatest performances, as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally (played by Carrie’s NANCy ALLEN), a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, Blow Out is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on the act of moviemaking.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director Brian De Palma, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New hour-long interview with De Palma, conducted by filmmaker Noah Baumbach

• New interview with star Nancy Allen

• Cameraman Garrett Brown on the Steadicam shots featured in the film within the film

• Select on-set photos from photographer Louis Goldman

• Original theatrical trailer

• More!

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and Pauline Kael’s original New Yorker review

2-DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 3/29/11 STREET 4/26/11 CAT. NO. CC2005D ISBN 978-1-60465-417-2UPC 7-15515-08011-8

BLU-RAy EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOK 3/29/11 STREET 4/26/11 CAT. NO. CC2004BD ISBN 978-1-60465-416-5 UPC 7-15515-08001-9


1981 • 108 mInUtEs • CoLoR • stEREo • 2.40:1 AspECt RAtIo

KESA FILM BY KEN LOACH


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KEs

“One of the ten best British films of the century.” —British Film Institute

“The film has a heartbreaking humanity . . . Loach at his best.”

—Roger Ebert

BRITISH MASTER KEN LOACH’S CLASSIC FINALLY COMES TO

DVD AND BLU-RAY IN THE U.S.!

Named by the British Film Institute as one of the ten best British films of the century, Kes, from KEN LOACH (Hidden Agenda, The Wind That Shakes the Barley), is cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingly naturalistic DAVID BRADLEY) is a fifteen-year-old miner’s son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life. Kes established the sociopolitical engagement and artistic brilliance of its filmmaker, and pushed the British “angry young man” film of the sixties into a new realm of authenticity, using real locations and nonprofessional actors. Loach’s poignant coming-of-age drama remains its now legendary director’s most beloved and influential film.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored digital transfer, approved by director

Ken Loach and director of photography Chris Menges, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• Making “Kes,” a new documentary featuring Loach, Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley

• The Southbank Show: “Ken Loach” (1993), a profile of the filmmaker, featuring Loach, Garnett, directors Stephen Frears and Alan Parker, and other Loach collaborators

• Cathy Come Home (1967), a feature directed by Loach and produced by Garnett, with an introduction by film writer Graham Fuller


• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Fuller2-DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 3/22/11 STREET 4/19/11 CAT. NO. CC2001D ISBN 978-1-60465-412-7UPC 7-15515-07061-4

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOK 3/22/11 STREET 4/19/11 CAT. NO. CC2000BD ISBN 978-1-60465-411-0 UPC 7-15515-07051-5

1969 • 110 mInUtEs • CoLoR • monAURAL • 1.66:1 AspECt RAtIo

NOMINEE BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAy, BRITISH

ACADEMy OF FILM AND TELEvISION AwARDS, 1970

WINNER MOST PROMISING NEwCOMER

(DAvID BRADLEy), BRITISH ACADEMy OF FILM AND

TELEvISION AwARDS, 1970

WINNER CRySTAL GLOBE,

KARLOvy vARy INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIvAL, 1970



Alain Delon and Yves Montand

A film by JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE

1970


LE cERcLE RoUgE

“The kind of experience that makes you glad movies exist.”

—A. O. Scott, The New York Times

“A dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes.”—Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times

THE ESSENCE OF GANGSTER COOL— JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S HEIST CLASSIC

COMES TO BLU-RAY!

ALAIN DELON (The Leopard, Le samouraï) plays a master thief, fresh out of prison, who crosses paths with

a notorious escapee and an alcoholic ex-cop (The Wages of Fear’s YVES MONTAND). The unlikely trio plot a

heist, against impossible odds, and then a relentless inspector and their own pasts seal their fates. Le cercle

rouge, from JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE (Le samouraï, Army of Shadows), combines honorable antiheroes,

coolly atmospheric cinematography, and breathtaking set pieces to create a masterpiece of crime cinema.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• Restored, complete, uncut version, with

uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Excerpts from Cinéastes de notre temps: “Jean-Pierre Melville”

• Video interviews with assistant director Bernard Stora and Rui Nogueria, the author of Melville on Melville

• Thirty minutes of rare on-set and archival footage, featuring interviews with director Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, Yves Montand, and André Bourvil

• Original theatrical trailer and 2003 Rialto Pictures rerelease trailer

• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critics Michael Sragow and Chris Fujiwara, excerpts from Melville on Melville, a reprinted interview with composer Eric Demarsan, and an appreciation from director John Woo

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOk 3/15/11 STREET 4/12/11 CAT. NO. CC1996BD ISBN 978-1-60465-407-3 UPC 7-15515-07011-9

1970 • 140 mInUtEs • coLoR • monAURAL • In FREnch wIth EngLIsh sUBtItLEs • 1.85:1 AspEct RAtIo



a film by Jane Campion

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SwEEtIE

“A spectacular feature-film debut— a movie quite unlike any other

you’re likely to see.”—The New York Times

“Thrillingly atmospheric . . . Macabrely funny.” —The Washington Post

JANE CAMPION’S STUNNING DEBUT—NOW ON BLU-RAY!

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, JANE CAMPION (The Piano, Bright Star) will always be remembered for her knockout debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie—and on their family’s profoundly rotten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.

DIRECTOR-APPROvED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• Restored digital transfer, supervised by director

of photography Sally Bongers and approved by director Jane Campion, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• Audio commentary featuring Campion, Bongers, and screenwriter Gerard Lee

• Making “Sweetie,” a video conversation between stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston

• Campion’s early short films An Exercise in Discipline: Peel, Passionless Moments, and A Girl’s Own Story

• Jane Campion: The Film School Years, a 1989 video conversation between Campion and critic Peter Thompson

• Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and production stills


• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Dana Polan

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOK 3/22/11 STREET 4/19/11 CAT. NO. CC1994BD ISBN 978-1-60465-405-9 UPC 7-15515-06951-9

1989 • 99 mInUtES • CoLoR • SURRoUnd • 1.85:1 ASpECt RAtIo


WINNER BEST FOREIGN FILM, INDEPENDENT SPIRIT

AwARDS, 1990

WINNER BEST SCREENPLAy,

AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE AwARDS, 1989

NOMINEE PALME D’OR, CANNES FILM FESTIvAL, 1989


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WhItE MAtERIAL

“The best film of the year.” —Amy Taubin, Artforum

“There is no better filmmaker working in the world right now.”—Nick James, Sight & Sound

ISABELLE HUPPERT STARS IN CLAIRE DENIS’ TURBULENT DRAMA

SET IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAIN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS!

In White Material, the great contemporary French filmmaker CLAIRE DENIS (Chocolat, Beau travail), known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played ferociously by ISABELLE HUPPERT (Story of Women, The Piano Teacher), Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family’s crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. Created with Denis’ signature full-throttle visual style, which places the viewer in the center of the maelstrom, White Material is a gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.

DIRECTOR-APPROvED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New digital transfer, supervised and approved

by director Claire Denis and cinematographer Yves Cape, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New interviews with Denis and actors Isabelle Huppert and Isaach de Bankolé

• Short documentary by Denis on the film’s premiere at the Écrans Noirs Film Festival 2010 in Cameroon

• Deleted scene

• Theatrical trailer

• New and improved English subtitle translation

• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film writer Amy TaubinDvD EDITION SRP $29.95

PREBOOk 3/15/11 STREET 4/12/11 CAT. NO. CC1999D ISBN 978-1-60465-410-3UPC 7-15515-07041-6

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOk 3/15/11 STREET 4/12/11 CAT. NO. CC1998BD ISBN 978-1-60465-409-7UPC 7-15515-07031-7

2009 • 105 MInUtEs • CoLoR • sURRoUnD • In FREnCh WIth EngLIsh sUBtItLEs • 2.35:1 AspECt RAtIo


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