The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are delighted to confirm the titles to be released on Blu-ray in March 2020.
On 9 March comes ANTONIO GAUDI. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s film takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí’s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Interview with architect Arata Isozaki from 2008
Gaudí, Catalunya, 1959, footage from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s first trip to Spain
Visions of Space: “Antoni Gaudí,” an hour-long documentary from 2003 on the architect’s life and work
BBC program on Gaudí by filmmaker Ken Russell
Sculptures by Sofu—Vita, a 1963 short film by Teshigahara on the sculpture work of his father, Sofu Teshigahara
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by art historian Dore Ashton, a 1986 reminiscence by Hiroshi Teshigahara, and excerpts from a 1959 conversation between Hiroshi and Sofu Teshigahara on their trip to the West
Following on 16 March is ANATOMY OF A MURDER starring James Stewart as a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case. This is a gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom potboiler, the most popular film from Hollywood provocateur Otto Preminger.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New alternate 5.1 soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
New interview with Otto Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch
Critic Gary Giddins explores Duke Ellington’s score in a new interview
A look at the relationship between graphic designer Saul Bass and Preminger with Bass biographer Pat Kirkham
Newsreel footage from the set
Excerpts from a 1967 episode of Firing Line, featuring Preminger in discussion with William F. Buckley Jr.
Excerpts from the work Anatomy of “Anatomy”: The Making of a Movie
Behind-the-scenes photographs by Life magazine’s Gjon Mili
Trailer, featuring on-set footage
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Nick Pinkerton and a 1959 Life magazine article on real-life lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge in the film
On 30 March arrives THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmable. Starring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep, it’s a beguiling, intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New introduction by film scholar Ian Christie
New interviews with actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep, editor John Bloom, and composer Carl Davis
Episode of The South Bank Show from 1981 featuring director Karel Reisz, novelist John Fowles, and screenwriter Harold Pinter