The Criterion Collection has revealed its Blu-ray slate for November and the prestigious independent studio shows no signs of slowing down. On November 9, the studio will release the highly controversial Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009). A week later, the long-rumored The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) will hit shelves, along with Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936). And last but not least, on November 23, Criterion will release America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, a six-disc box set compiling seven films from the innovative New Hollywood of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Contents are as follows:
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story:
Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968)
Audio commentary featuring Monkees Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork
New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
New documentary about BBS, featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
More!
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)
Audio commentary featuring director Dennis Hopper
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage, a 1999 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage
Footage of Hopper and star Peter Fonda at Cannes in 1969
New video interview with BBS's Steve Blauner
More!
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
Audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
Soul Searching in Five Easy Pieces, a 2009 video piece in which Rafelson discusses the film
BBStory, a 2009 documentary
Excerpts from an audio recording of Rafelson at the American Film Institute in 1976
Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson, 1970)
A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom, a 2009 video piece in which director Jack Nicholson discusses the experience of making this film
Theatrical trailer
More!
A Safe Place (Henri Jaglom, 1971)
Audio commentary featuring director Henry Jaglom
Henry Jaglom Finds "A Safe Place", a 2009 video piece in which the director discusses the film
Notes on the New York Film Festival, a 1971 video piece featuring an interview conducted by critic Molly Haskell with directors Peter Bogdanovich and Jaglom about their films The Last Picture Show and A Safe Place
Deleted scene and screen tests
Theatrical trailer
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
Two audio commentaries
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall
Picture This, a 1990 documentary by George Hickenlooper
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back, an hour-long 1999 documentary
2009 interview with Bogdanovich
Screen tests and location footage
Theatrical trailers and more
The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson, 1972)
Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson
Reflections of a Philosopher King, a 2009 documentary about the making of the film
Afterthoughts, a short 2002 documentary about the film, produced by Rafelson
Theatrical trailer
Antichrist:
Audio commentary by von Trier and professor Murray Smith
Video interviews with von Trier and actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
A collection of video pieces delving into the production of Antichrist, including interviews with von Trier and key members of his filmmaking team as well as behind-the-scenes footage
Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, a documentary on the film's world premiere, plus press interviews with Dafoe and Gainsbourg
Three theatrical trailers
A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie
Modern Times:
New audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson
Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
New program on the film's visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin
Chaplin Today: "Modern Times" (2004), a half-hour program with filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Two segments removed from the film
Three theatrical trailers
All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Cooke, plus a new score by Donald Sosin and a new interview with Cooke's daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge
The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler highlighting his skill on wheels
For the First Time (1967), a Cuban documentary short about a projectionist who shows Modern Times to first-time moviegoers
A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin's writing about his travels in 1931 and 1932
The Night of the Hunter:
Audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
Charles Laughton Directs "The Night of the Hunter," a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film
New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
New video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
Clip from The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the film
Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb
New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs "The Night of the Hunter"
Original theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
