Late Spring. Not only does this film serve as an incredible form of storytelling, but it also firmly showcases exactly why Ozu has had so much influence and regard as a true master of Cinema.
All of the films come in at the usual Criterion suggested MSRP of $39.99 except for The Organizer which is another release containing little to no extras that Criterion has been listing MSRP at $29.99. Below are all of the films cover artwork, supplements and release dates.
A Hollis Frampton Odyssey (Release Date: April 10, 2012)
Amazon Pre-order: $27.99
New high-definition digital restorations of all twenty-four films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition
DISC ONE: Early Films
- Manual of Arms (1966 17 minutes Black & White Silent)
- Process Red (1966 3 minutes, 30 seconds Color Silent)
- Maxwell's Demon (1968 4 minutes Color/Black & White Silent)
- Surface Tension (1968 9 minutes, 30 seconds Color Monaural)
- Carrots & Peas (1969 5 minutes Color Monaural)
- Lemon (1969 5 minutes Color Silent)
- Zorns Lemma (1970 60 minutes Color Monaural)
DISC TWO: Films from Hapax Legomena and Magellan
- (nostalgia) (1971 36 minutes Black & White Monaural)
- Poetic Justice (1972 31 minutes, 30 seconds Black & White Silent)
- Critical Mass (1971 25 minutes, 30 seconds Black & White Monaural)
- The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I (1977-1980 6 minutes Color Monaural)
- Pans 0-4 and 697-700 (1974 1-minute each Color Silent)
- INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Part I (1975 5 minutes Color Silent)
- Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0 (1976 4 minutes, 20 seconds Color Silent)
- Winter Solstice (1974 33 minutes Color Silent)
- Gloria! (1979 9 minutes, 30 seconds Color Monaural)
- Audio commentary and remarks by filmmaker Hollis Frampton on selected works
- Excerpted interview with Frampton from 1978
- A Lecture, a performance piece by Frampton, recorded in 1968 with the voice of artist Michael Snow
- Gallery of works from Frampton's xerographic series By Any Other Name
- PLUS: A booklet with an introduction by film critic Ed Halter and essays and capsules on the films by Frampton scholars Ken Eisenstein, Bruce Jenkins, and Michael Zryd
Alambrista! (Release Date: April 17, 2012)
Amazon Pre-order: $27.99
- New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New audio commentary featuring director Robert M. Young and coproducer Michael Hausman
- New interview with actor Edward James Olmos
- Children of the Fields, a 1973 short documentary by Young, accompanied by a new interview with the director
- Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Charles Ramνrez-Berg
Harold and Maude (Release Date: April 17, 2012)
Amazon Pre-order: $27.99
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the
Blu-ray edition
- Optional remastered stereo soundtrack
- Audio commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson and producer Charles B. Mulvehill
- Illustrated audio excerpts of seminars by Ashby and writer-producer Colin Higgins
- New interview with songwriter Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Wood; a 1971 New York Times profile of star Ruth Gordon; and excerpted transcripts of two interviews, one from 1997 with star Bud Cort and director of photography John Alonzo and one from 2001 with executive producer Mildred Lewis
Late Spring (Release Date: April 17, 2012)
Amazon Pre-order: $27.99
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by Richard Peρa, program director of New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Tokyo-ga (1985), filmmaker Wim Wenders's ninety-two-minute documentary about director Yasujiro Ozu
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Michael Atkinson and Japanese-film historian Donald Richie
The Organizer (Release Date: April 24, 2012)
Amazon Pre-order: $20.99
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Introduction by director Mario Monicelli from 2006
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman
- Matt Hardeman
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The Criterion Collection have announced their Blu-ray release slate for the month of April 2012 and it's another wonderful month, with films ranging from emotional family drama to the experimental.
