For those that have wanted your essential art house films in Blu-ray, your day comes November 18. The Criterion Collection, the DVD distributors of such epic masterpieces as Akira Kurosawa‘s Seven Samurai and Ingmar Bergman‘s The Seventh Seal bursts into the High Def market starting in November with a handful of titles and then more to come in the near future.
Release Date: 11/18/08
The Third Man
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
Release Date: 11/25/08
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
Release Date: TBD
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear
For those that don’t already know and are worried about it, Criterion has announced that these editions will have the same Special Features content as the standard DVD editions, and that they’ll be the SAME PRICE as those standard def discs.
For those that have already bought some of these films on DVD, Criterion is also offering an exchange program where you can send them your old DVD and for $20 plus shipping and handling, they’ll replace it with a corresponding Blu-ray version. Personally, I can’t wait until some of the monsters of The Criterion Collection catalogue are up for grabs!
Credit: criterion.com
