Criterion has revealed a new batch of titles, all of which will street in October. These include Zoltán Korda’s 1939 epic The Four Feathers, Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman and Island of Lost Souls, a 1932 Erle C. Kenton tale based on H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau.
As part of the Eclipse Series, Criterion has announced Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys.
Past releases getting the Blu-ray treatment are Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 samurai tale Harakiri, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom and Richard Linklater’s nostalgic comedy Dazed and Confused.
All titles carry an SRP of $39.95 with the exception of Identification of a Woman, which has been priced a bit lower at $29.95 (and has the fewest amount of extras). Special features and release dates for each title are outlined below.
Harakiri, 1962 (October 4th, 2011)
- Video introduction by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie
- Excerpt from a rare Directors Guild of Japan video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi, moderated by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda
- Video interviews with star Tatsuya Nakadai and screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto
- Original theatrical trailer
- Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Joan Mellen and a reprint of a 1972 interview by Mellen with Kobayashi
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, 1975 (October 4th, 2011)
Salò”: Yesterday and Today: Thirty-three-minute 2002 documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Nineto Davoli- Fade to Black: Twenty-three-minute 2001 documentary featuring directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury, as well as scholar David Forgacs
- The End of Salò: Forty-minute documentary about the film’s production
- Video interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and director and film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- Theatrical trailer
- Booklet featuring essays by Neil Bartlett, Breillat, Naomi Greene, Sam Rohdie, Roberto Chiesi, and Gary Indiana, and excerpts from Gideon Bachmann’s on-set diary
The Four Feathers, 1939 (October, 11th, 2011)
Audio commentary by film historian Charles Drazin- New video interview with David Korda, son of director Zoltán Korda
- A Day at Denham: A short film from 1939 featuring footage of Zoltán Korda on the set of The Four Feathers
- Trailer
- Booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow
Kuroneko, 1968 (October 18th, 2011)
- Video interview with director Kaneto Shindo from the Directors Guild of Japan
- New video interview with critic Tadao Sato
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
Booklet featuring an essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh and an excerpt from film scholar Joan Mellen’s 1972 interview with Shindo
Leningrad Cowboys (October 18th, 2011)
- Leningrad Cowboys Go To America (1989)
- Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
- Total Balalaika Show (1994)
Identification of a Woman, 1982 (October 25th, 2011)
Theatrical trailer- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Booklet featuring an essay by critic John Powers and a reprinted 1982 interview with Michelangelo Antonioni by critic Gideon Bachmann
Island of Lost Souls, 1932. (October 25th, 2011)
- Audio commentary by film historian Gregory Mank, author of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff and Hollywood’s Maddest Doctors
- New video conversation among filmmaker John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London, Videodrome), and genre expert Bob Burns
- New interviews with horror film historian David J. Skal (The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror); filmmaker Richard Stanley (Hardware, original director of the ill-fated 1996 remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau)
New interviews with Devo founding members Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, whose manifesto is rooted in themes from Island of Lost Souls- Theatrical trailer
- Booklet featuring a new essay by critic Christine Smallwood
Dazed and Confused, 1993 (October 25th, 2011)
- Audio commentary by director Richard Linklater
- Making Dazed: Fifty-minute documentary by Kahane Corn
- Rare on-set interviews and behind-the-scenes footage
- Footage from the ten-year anniversary celebration
- Audition footage and deleted Scenes
- Original theatrical trailer
- Booklet featuring essays by Kent Jones, Jim DeRogatis, and Chuck Klosterman; memories of the film from the cast and crew;
character profiles; and the original film poster by Frank Kozik