The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are delighted to confirm the titles to be released on Blu-ray in December 2019.

On 2 December comes , ON THE WATERFRONT, MARLON BRANDO (The Godfather) gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry, a raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. On the Waterfront charts Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (12 Angry Men’s LEE J. COBB) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry’s brother, Charley (In the Heat of the Night’s ROD STEIGER), as the authorities close in on them. Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of ELIA KAZAN (Gentlemen’s Agreement) and savory, streetwise dialogue by BUDD SCHULBERG (A Face in the Crowd), On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (North by Northwest’s EVA MARIE SAINT), and screenplay.

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

Alternate presentations of the feature restoration in two additional aspect ratios: 1.85:1 (widescreen) and 1.33:1 (full-screen)

Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS -HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition

Commentary featuring authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young

New conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones

Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary

New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others

New interview with actress Eva Marie Saint

Interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001

Contender, a 2001 documentary on the film’s most famous scene

New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film

New interview with author James T. Fisher (On the Irish Waterfront) about the real-life people and places behind the film

Visual essay on Leonard Bernstein’s score

Trailer

PLUS : A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Almereyda and reprints of Kazan’s 1952 ad in the New York Times defending his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, one of the 1948 New York Sun articles by Malcolm Johnson on which the film was based, and a 1953 Commonweal piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg

On 9 December NOW, VOYAGER arrives. Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale (All About Eve’s BETTE DAVIS) is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother (My Fair Lady’s GLADYS COOPER), and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist (Notorious’s CLAUDE RAINS) gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man (Casablanca’s PAUL HENREID). Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother’s grip—but will she find fulfilment as well as independence? Made at the height of Davis’s reign as the queen of the women’s picture and bolstered by an Oscar-winning score by MAX STEINER (Gone with the Wind), Now, Voyager is a melodrama for the ages, both a rapturous Hollywood romance and a poignant saga of self-discovery.

New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1971 with actor Bette Davis

Interview with Paul Henreid from 1980

Selected-scene commentary on the film’s score by professor Jeff Smith

New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme on the making of the film

New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen

Two radio adaptations from 1943 and 1946

PLUS: An essay by scholar Patricia White and a 1937 reflection on acting by Davis

16 December brings LA JETÉE  and SANS SOLEIL made by the unparalleled and uncompromising CHRIS MARKER.  One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue: La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn’t seem more different—but they’re the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema. A filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, CHRIS MARKER (A Grin Without a Cat) has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his investigations of time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet.
These two films—a tale of time travel told in still images and a journey to Africa and Japan — remain his best-loved and most widely seen.

Restored high-definition digital transfers, approved by director Chris Marker, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks

Two interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin

Chris on Chris, a video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke

Two excerpts from the French television series Court-circuit (le magazine): a look at David Bowie’s music video for the song “Jump They Say,” inspired by La Jetée, and an analysis of Hitchcock’s Vertigo and its influence on Marker

Junkopia, a six-minute film by Marker about the Emeryville Mudflats

A booklet featuring an essay by Marker scholar Catherine Lupton, an interview with Marker, notes on the films and filmmaking by Marker, and more