Every November is a big one for Criterion Collection, and this year is no different with their just announced line-up of titles.
The most high-profile is none other than a new 4K UHD release of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro’s seminal early teaming with the gritty 1970s New York City tale “Mean Streets”.
That release includes a new 4K Dolby Vision HDR digital restoration, approved by director Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
There’s also a bunch of extras, including selected scene commentary, video essays, doco excerpts, a DGA interview between Scorsese and Richard Linklater, and more.
The physically biggest of the bunch is a Jackie Chan box-set with six “unabashedly silly, unstoppably entertaining early-career highlights” running from 1978-1985. The films include “Half a Loaf of Kung Fu,” “Spiritual Kung Fu,” “The Fearless Hyena,” “Fearless Hyena II,” “The Young Master” and “My Lucky Stars”.
The incredibly prolific Chan broke through in 1978 with “Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow” and the first of the “Drunken Master” films before going on to notable successes with the “Police Story” and “Armour of God” franchises.
Also coming are Claude Chabrol’s 1995 film “La Ceremonie” starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire, and 4K UHD releases of Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven,” and Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show”.
The releases follow on from a busy October with 4K releases of Alejandro Amenabar’s “The Others,” David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome,” Nicolas Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now,” along with Blu-rays for Nikyatu Jusu’s “Nanny,” Jerzy Skolimowski’s “EO,” Louis Garrel’s “The Innocent,” and Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears”.
Source: Criterion
