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The Criterion Collection: February 2015 Releases: DON’T LOOK NOW, FELLINI SATYRICON

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The Criterion Collection February 2015 Releases. Don’t Look Now, Fellini Satyricon, and many other films are the February 2015 releases from The Criterion Collection. Some of these films are appearing within The Criterion Collection for the first time, on The Criterion Collection Blu-ray for the first time, and/or on The Criterion Collection Dual Format (DVD and Blu-ray) for the first time.

The official press release for the February 2015 releases from The Criterion Collection:

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EVERYMAN FOR HIMSELF – Blu-ray & DVD Editions
After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) returned to commercial cinema with this work of social commentary, star-driven and narrative while remaining defiantly intellectual and visually cutting-edge. Every Man for Himself, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) and Anne-Marie Miéville (Ici et ailleurs), looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people—a television producer (Van Gogh’s Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend (The Return of Martin Guerre’s Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute (White Material’s Isabelle Huppert)—to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom. Made twenty years into his career, the film was, according to Godard, a second debut.

1980 • 88 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Le scénario (1979), a short video created by director Jean-Luc Godard to secure financing for Every Man for Himself
• New video essay by critic Colin MacCabe
• New interviews with actor Isabelle Huppert and producer Marin Karmitz
• Archival interviews with actor Nathalie Baye, cinema­tographers Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, and composer Gabriel Yared
• Two back-to-back 1980 appearances by Godard on The Dick Cavett Show
• Godard 1980, a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, featuring Godard
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin

TITLE: EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2439BD
UPC: 7-15515-13631-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-947-4
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/6/15
STREET: 2/3/15

TITLE: EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2440DDVD
UPC: 7-15515-13641-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-948-1
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/6/15
STREET: 2/3/15

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY – Blu-ray & DVD Editions
This bittersweet work from Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game), based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family’s picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men. Conceived as part of a larger project that was never completed, shot in 1936, and released ten years later, the warmly humanist vignette A Day in the Country ranks among Renoir’s most lyrical films, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame.

1936 • 40 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
• New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film’s production
• New video essay by Faulkner on Renoir’s methods
• Un tournage à la campagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
• Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
• Screen tests
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez

TITLE: A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2445BD
UPC: 7-15515-13691-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-953-5
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/13/15
STREET: 2/10/15

TITLE: A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2446DDVD
UPC: 7-15515-13701-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-954- 2
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/13/15
STREET: 2/10/15

DON’T LOOK NOW – Blu-ray & DVD Editions
Donald Sutherland (Klute) and Julie Christie (Darling) mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout), Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca), is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as its explicit eroticism and unforgettable denouement, one of the great endings in horror history.

1973 • 110 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Nicolas Roeg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New conversation between the film’s editor, Graeme Clifford, and film writer Bobbie O’Steen
• “Don’t Look Now,” Looking Back, a short 2002 documentary featuring Roeg, Clifford, and cinematographer Anthony Richmond
• Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio
• Something Interesting, a new documentary on the writing and making of the film, featuring interviews with Richmond, actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, and coscreenwriter Allan Scott
• Nicolas Roeg: The Enigma of Film, a new documentary on Roeg’s style, featuring interviews with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh
• Q&A with Roeg at London’s Ciné Lumière from 2003
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thompson

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TITLE: DON’T LOOK NOW (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2443BD
UPC: 7-15515-13671-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-951-1
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/13/15
STREET: 2/10/15

TITLE: DON’T LOOK NOW (2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2444DDVD
UPC: 7-15515-13681-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-952-8
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/13/15
STREET: 2/10/15

AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON – Blu-ray Edition
The final film from Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) was also his last masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignifed resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization. Though widower Shuhei (frequent Ozu leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master’s films, An Autumn Afternoon is one of cinema’s fondest farewells.

1962 • 113 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Japanese with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring film scholar David Bordwell, author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
• Excerpts from Yasujiro Ozu and “The Taste of Sake,” a 1978 French television program, featuring critics Michel Ciment and Georges Perec, that looks back on Ozu’s career
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: Essays by critic Geoff Andrew and scholar Donald Richie

TITLE: AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2449BD
UPC: 7-15515-13731-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-957-3
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/20/15
STREET: 2/17/15

FELLINI SATYRICON – Blu-ray & DVD Editions
Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.

1969 • 129 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughes’s memoir On the Set of “Fellini Satyricon”: A Behind-the-Scenes Diary
• Ciao, Federico!, Gideon Bachmann’s hour-long documentary shot on the set of Fellini Satyricon
• Archival interviews with director Federico Fellini
• New interview with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno
• New documentary about Fellini’s adaptation of Petronius’s work, featuring interviews with classicists Luca Canali, a consultant on the film, and Joanna Paul
• New interview with photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her experiences on the set and her iconic photographs of Fellini and his film
• Felliniana, a presentation of Fellini Satyricon ephemera from the collection of Don Young
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Wood

TITLE: FELLINI SATYRICON (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2441BD
UPC: 7-15515-13651-8
ISBN: 978-1-60465-949-8
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/27/15
STREET: 2/24/15

TITLE: FELLINI SATYRICON (2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2442DDVD
UPC: 7-15515-13661-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-950-4
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/27/15
STREET: 2/24/15

WATERSHIP DOWN – Blu-ray & DVD Editions
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt (The Elephant Man), Ralph Richardson (The Fallen Idol), Richard Briers (Much Ado About Nothing), and Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.

1978 • 92 minutes • Color • Stereo • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interview with director Martin Rosen
• New appreciation of the film by director Guillermo del Toro
• Picture-in-picture storyboard for the entire film (Blu-ray); four film-to-storyboard scene comparisons (DVD)
• Defining a Style, a 2008 featurette about the film’s aesthetic
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones

TITLE: WATERSHIP DOWN (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2447BD
UPC: 7-15515-13711-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-955-9
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/27/15
STREET: 2/24/15

TITLE: WATERSHIP DOWN (DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2448DDVD
UPC: 7-15515-13721-8
ISBN: 978-1-60465-956-6
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/27/15
STREET: 2/24/15

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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