Criterion Blu-ray List - Updated 17/02/11

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I couldn't find a list of Criterion Blu-rays with all the releases dates to help me keep track so have created the below. It's largely from the criterion list on their website with added release dates for all of them. I'll keep this up-to-date as new titles are announced :smashin:

Sorted By Release Date

Title Release Date Director Country Year Spine # The Great Dictator 24/05/2011 Charles Chaplin UNITED STATES 1940 565
Solaris 24/05/2011 Andrei Tarkovsky SOVIET UNION 1972 164
Diabolique 17/05/2011 Henri-Georges Clouzot FRANCE 1954 35
Pale Flower 17/05/2011 Masahiro Shinoda JAPAN 1964 564
Something Wild 10/05/2011 Jonathan Demme UNITED STATES 1986 563
Fat Girl 03/05/2011 Catherine Breillat France 2001 259
Smiles of a Summer Night 03/05/2011 Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN 1955 237
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS 26/04/2011 Terry Gilliam UNITED STATES 1998 175
BLOW OUT 26/04/2011 Brian De Palma UNITED STATES 1981 562
SWEETIE 19/04/2011 Jane Campion NEW ZEALAND 1989 356
KES 19/04/2011 Ken Loach UNITED KINGDOM 1969 561
LE CERCLE ROUGE 12/04/2011 Jean-Pierre Melville FRANCE 1970 218
WHITE MATERIAL 12/04/2011 Claire Denis FRANCE 2009 560
THE MIKADO 29/03/2011 Victor Schertzinger UNITED STATES 1939 559
TOPSY-TURVY 29/03/2011 Mike Leigh UNITED KINGDOM 1999 558
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK 22/03/2011 Robert Epstein UNITED STATES 1984 557
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS 15/03/2011 Louis Malle FRANCE 1987 330
YI YI 15/03/2011 Edward Yang TAIWAN 2000 339
FISH TANK 22/02/2011 Andrea Arnold UNITED KINGDOM 2009 553
SENSO 22/02/2011 Luchino Visconti ITALY 1954 556
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 22/02/2011 Alexander Mackendrick UNITED STATES 1957 555
AMARCORD 08/02/2011 Federico Fellini ITALY 1973 4
STILL WALKING 08/02/2011 Hirokazu Kore-eda JAPAN 2008 554
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE 01/02/2011 Krzysztof Kieślowski FRANCE 1991 359
BROADCAST NEWS 25/01/2011 James L. Brooks UNITED STATES 1987 552
THE NAKED KISS 18/01/2011 Samuel Fuller UNITED STATES 1964 18
SHOCK CORRIDOR 18/01/2011 Samuel Fuller UNITED STATES 1963 19
ARMY OF SHADOWS 11/01/2011 Jean-Pierre Melville FRANCE 1969 385
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS 11/01/2011 Byron Haskin UNITED STATES 1964 404
CRONOS 07/12/2010 Guillermo del Toro MEXICO 1993 551
VIDEODROME 07/12/2010 David Cronenberg CANADA 1983 248
AMERICA LOST AND FOUND: THE BBS STORY 23/11/2010 UNITED STATES
MODERN TIMES 16/11/2010 Charlie Chaplin UNITED STATES 1936 543
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 16/11/2010 Charles Laughton UNITED STATES 1955 541
ANTICHRIST 09/11/2010 Lars von Trier DENMARK 2009 542
HOUSE 26/10/2010 Nobuhiko Obayashi JAPAN 1977 539
PATHS OF GLORY 26/10/2010 Stanley Kubrick UNITED STATES 1957 538
SEVEN SAMURAI 19/10/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1954 2
THE DARJEELING LIMITED 12/10/2010 Wes Anderson UNITED STATES 2007 540
THE MAGICIAN 12/10/2010 Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN 1958 537
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE 28/09/2010 Nagisa Oshima JAPAN 1983 535
THE THIN RED LINE 28/09/2010 Terrence Malick UNITED STATES 1998 536
CHARADE 21/09/2010 Stanley Donen UNITED STATES 1963 57
BREATHLESS 14/09/2010 Jean-Luc Godard FRANCE 1960 408
BLACK ORPHEUS 17/08/2010 Marcel Camus FRANCE 1959 48
CRUMB 10/08/2010 Terry Zwigoff UNITED STATES 1995 533
THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN 27/07/2010 Abdellatif Kechiche FRANCE 2007 527
BLACK NARCISSUS 20/07/2010 Michael Powell… UNITED KINGDOM 1947 93
THE RED SHOES 20/07/2010 Michael Powell… UNITED KINGDOM 1948 44
EVERLASTING MOMENTS 29/06/2010 Jan Troell SWEDEN 2008 520
THE LEOPARD 29/06/2010 Luchino Visconti ITALY 1963 235
CLOSE-UP 22/06/2010 Abbas Kiarostami IRAN 1990 519
RED DESERT 22/06/2010 Michelangelo Antonioni ITALY 1964 522
MYSTERY TRAIN 15/06/2010 Jim Jarmusch UNITED STATES 1989 521
BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY,*VOLUMES 1 AND 2 25/05/2010 Stan Brakhage UNITED STATES 518
STAGECOACH 25/05/2010 John Ford UNITED STATES 1939 516
WALKABOUT 18/05/2010 Nicolas Roeg AUSTRALIA 1971 10
M 11/05/2010 Fritz Lang GERMANY 1931 30
RIDE WITH THE DEVIL 27/04/2010 Ang Lee UNITED STATES 1999 514
SUMMER HOURS 20/04/2010 Olivier Assayas FRANCE 2008 513
VIVRE SA VIE 20/04/2010 Jean-Luc Godard FRANCE 1962 512
BIGGER THAN LIFE 23/03/2010 Nicholas Ray UNITED STATES 1956 507
DAYS OF HEAVEN 23/03/2010 Terrence Malick UNITED STATES 1978 409
SANJURO 23/03/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1962 53
YOJIMBO 23/03/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1961 52
YOJIMBO/SANJURO* 23/03/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN
HUNGER 16/02/2010 Steve McQueen UNITED KINGDOM 2008 504
LOLA MONTÈS 16/02/2010 Max Ophuls FRANCE 1955 503
REVANCHE 16/02/2010 Götz Spielmann AUSTRIA 2008 502
PARIS, TEXAS 26/01/2010 Wim Wenders GERMANY 1984 501
CHE 19/01/2010 Steven Soderbergh UNITED STATES 2008 496
12/01/2010 Federico Fellini ITALY 1963 140
A CHRISTMAS TALE 01/12/2009 Arnaud Desplechin FRANCE 2008 492
GIMME SHELTER 01/12/2009 David Maysles… UNITED STATES 1970 99
GOMORRAH 24/11/2009 Matteo Garrone ITALY 2008 493
HOWARDS END 03/11/2009 James Ivory UNITED KINGDOM 1992 488
WINGS OF DESIRE 03/11/2009 Wim Wenders GERMANY 1987 490
MONSOON WEDDING 20/10/2009 Mira Nair INDIA 2001 489
THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL 22/09/2009 UNITED STATES 167
JIMI PLAYS MONTEREY & SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY 22/09/2009 D. A. Pennebaker… UNITED STATES 1986 169
MONTEREY POP 22/09/2009 D. A. Pennebaker UNITED STATES 1967 168
PIERROT LE FOU 22/09/2009 Jean-Luc Godard FRANCE 1965 421
KAGEMUSHA 18/08/2009 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1980 267
PLAYTIME 18/08/2009 Jacques Tati FRANCE 1967 112
REPULSION 28/07/2009 Roman Polanski UNITED KINGDOM 1965 483
FOR ALL MANKIND 14/07/2009 Al Reinert UNITED STATES 1989 54
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD 23/06/2009 Alain Resnais FRANCE 1961 478
THE SEVENTH SEAL 16/06/2009 Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN 1957 11
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON 05/05/2009 David Fincher UNITED STATES 2008 476
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES 28/04/2009 Nagisa Oshima JAPAN 1976 466
THE WAGES OF FEAR 21/04/2009 Henri-Georges Clouzot FRANCE 1953 36
THE 400 BLOWS 24/03/2009 François Truffaut FRANCE 1959 5
THE LAST METRO 24/03/2009 François Truffaut FRANCE 1980 462
EL NORTE 20/01/2009 Gregory Nava UNITED STATES 1983 458
THE LAST EMPEROR 06/01/2009 Bernardo Bertolucci CHINA 1987 422
BOTTLE ROCKET 16/12/2008 Wes Anderson UNITED STATES 1996 450
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 16/12/2008 Wong Kar-wai HONG KONG 1994 453
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH 16/12/2008 Nicolas Roeg UNITED STATES 1976 304
THE THIRD MAN 16/12/2008 Carol Reed UNITED KINGDOM 1949 64
 
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Sorted By Title

Title Release Date Director Country Year Spine # THE 400 BLOWS 24/03/2009 François Truffaut FRANCE 1959 5
12/01/2010 Federico Fellini ITALY 1963 140
AMARCORD 08/02/2011 Federico Fellini ITALY 1973 4
AMERICA LOST AND FOUND: THE BBS STORY 23/11/2010 UNITED STATES
ANTICHRIST 09/11/2010 Lars von Trier DENMARK 2009 542
ARMY OF SHADOWS 11/01/2011 Jean-Pierre Melville FRANCE 1969 385
AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS 15/03/2011 Louis Malle FRANCE 1987 330
BIGGER THAN LIFE 23/03/2010 Nicholas Ray UNITED STATES 1956 507
BLACK NARCISSUS 20/07/2010 Michael Powell… UNITED KINGDOM 1947 93
BLACK ORPHEUS 17/08/2010 Marcel Camus FRANCE 1959 48
BLOW OUT 26/04/2011 Brian De Palma UNITED STATES 1981 562
BOTTLE ROCKET 16/12/2008 Wes Anderson UNITED STATES 1996 450
BREATHLESS 14/09/2010 Jean-Luc Godard FRANCE 1960 408
BROADCAST NEWS 25/01/2011 James L. Brooks UNITED STATES 1987 552
BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY,*VOLUMES 1 AND 2 25/05/2010 Stan Brakhage UNITED STATES 518
LE CERCLE ROUGE 12/04/2011 Jean-Pierre Melville FRANCE 1970 218
CHARADE 21/09/2010 Stanley Donen UNITED STATES 1963 57
CHE 19/01/2010 Steven Soderbergh UNITED STATES 2008 496
A CHRISTMAS TALE 01/12/2009 Arnaud Desplechin FRANCE 2008 492
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 16/12/2008 Wong Kar-wai HONG KONG 1994 453
CLOSE-UP 22/06/2010 Abbas Kiarostami IRAN 1990 519
THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL 22/09/2009 UNITED STATES 167
CRONOS 07/12/2010 Guillermo del Toro MEXICO 1993 551
CRUMB 10/08/2010 Terry Zwigoff UNITED STATES 1995 533
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON 05/05/2009 David Fincher UNITED STATES 2008 476
THE DARJEELING LIMITED 12/10/2010 Wes Anderson UNITED STATES 2007 540
DAYS OF HEAVEN 23/03/2010 Terrence Malick UNITED STATES 1978 409
Diabolique 17/05/2011 Henri-Georges Clouzot FRANCE 1954 35
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE 01/02/2011 Krzysztof Kieślowski FRANCE 1991 359
EVERLASTING MOMENTS 29/06/2010 Jan Troell SWEDEN 2008 520
Fat Girl 03/05/2011 Catherine Breillat France 2001 259
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS 26/04/2011 Terry Gilliam UNITED STATES 1998 175
FISH TANK 22/02/2011 Andrea Arnold UNITED KINGDOM 2009 553
FOR ALL MANKIND 14/07/2009 Al Reinert UNITED STATES 1989 54
GIMME SHELTER 01/12/2009 David Maysles… UNITED STATES 1970 99
GOMORRAH 24/11/2009 Matteo Garrone ITALY 2008 493
The Great Dictator 24/05/2011 Charles Chaplin UNITED STATES 1940 565
HOUSE 26/10/2010 Nobuhiko Obayashi JAPAN 1977 539
HOWARDS END 03/11/2009 James Ivory UNITED KINGDOM 1992 488
HUNGER 16/02/2010 Steve McQueen UNITED KINGDOM 2008 504
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES 28/04/2009 Nagisa Oshima JAPAN 1976 466
JIMI PLAYS MONTEREY & SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY 22/09/2009 D. A. Pennebaker… UNITED STATES 1986 169
KAGEMUSHA 18/08/2009 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1980 267
KES 19/04/2011 Ken Loach UNITED KINGDOM 1969 561
THE LAST EMPEROR 06/01/2009 Bernardo Bertolucci CHINA 1987 422
THE LAST METRO 24/03/2009 François Truffaut FRANCE 1980 462
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD 23/06/2009 Alain Resnais FRANCE 1961 478
THE LEOPARD 29/06/2010 Luchino Visconti ITALY 1963 235
LOLA MONTÈS 16/02/2010 Max Ophuls FRANCE 1955 503
M 11/05/2010 Fritz Lang GERMANY 1931 30
THE MAGICIAN 12/10/2010 Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN 1958 537
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH 16/12/2008 Nicolas Roeg UNITED STATES 1976 304
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE 28/09/2010 Nagisa Oshima JAPAN 1983 535
THE MIKADO 29/03/2011 Victor Schertzinger UNITED STATES 1939 559
MODERN TIMES 16/11/2010 Charlie Chaplin UNITED STATES 1936 543
MONSOON WEDDING 20/10/2009 Mira Nair INDIA 2001 489
MONTEREY POP 22/09/2009 D. A. Pennebaker UNITED STATES 1967 168
MYSTERY TRAIN 15/06/2010 Jim Jarmusch UNITED STATES 1989 521
THE NAKED KISS 18/01/2011 Samuel Fuller UNITED STATES 1964 18
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 16/11/2010 Charles Laughton UNITED STATES 1955 541
EL NORTE 20/01/2009 Gregory Nava UNITED STATES 1983 458
Pale Flower 17/05/2011 Masahiro Shinoda JAPAN 1964 564
PARIS, TEXAS 26/01/2010 Wim Wenders GERMANY 1984 501
PATHS OF GLORY 26/10/2010 Stanley Kubrick UNITED STATES 1957 538
PIERROT LE FOU 22/09/2009 Jean-Luc Godard FRANCE 1965 421
PLAYTIME 18/08/2009 Jacques Tati FRANCE 1967 112
RED DESERT 22/06/2010 Michelangelo Antonioni ITALY 1964 522
THE RED SHOES 20/07/2010 Michael Powell… UNITED KINGDOM 1948 44
REPULSION 28/07/2009 Roman Polanski UNITED KINGDOM 1965 483
REVANCHE 16/02/2010 Götz Spielmann AUSTRIA 2008 502
RIDE WITH THE DEVIL 27/04/2010 Ang Lee UNITED STATES 1999 514
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS 11/01/2011 Byron Haskin UNITED STATES 1964 404
SANJURO 23/03/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1962 53
THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN 27/07/2010 Abdellatif Kechiche FRANCE 2007 527
SENSO 22/02/2011 Luchino Visconti ITALY 1954 556
SEVEN SAMURAI 19/10/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1954 2
THE SEVENTH SEAL 16/06/2009 Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN 1957 11
SHOCK CORRIDOR 18/01/2011 Samuel Fuller UNITED STATES 1963 19
Smiles of a Summer Night 03/05/2011 Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN 1955 237
Solaris 24/05/2011 Andrei Tarkovsky SOVIET UNION 1972 164
Something Wild 10/05/2011 Jonathan Demme UNITED STATES 1986 563
STAGECOACH 25/05/2010 John Ford UNITED STATES 1939 516
STILL WALKING 08/02/2011 Hirokazu Kore-eda JAPAN 2008 554
SUMMER HOURS 20/04/2010 Olivier Assayas FRANCE 2008 513
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 22/02/2011 Alexander Mackendrick UNITED STATES 1957 555
SWEETIE 19/04/2011 Jane Campion NEW ZEALAND 1989 356
THE THIN RED LINE 28/09/2010 Terrence Malick UNITED STATES 1998 536
THE THIRD MAN 16/12/2008 Carol Reed UNITED KINGDOM 1949 64
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK 22/03/2011 Robert Epstein UNITED STATES 1984 557
TOPSY-TURVY 29/03/2011 Mike Leigh UNITED KINGDOM 1999 558
VIDEODROME 07/12/2010 David Cronenberg CANADA 1983 248
VIVRE SA VIE 20/04/2010 Jean-Luc Godard FRANCE 1962 512
THE WAGES OF FEAR 21/04/2009 Henri-Georges Clouzot FRANCE 1953 36
WALKABOUT 18/05/2010 Nicolas Roeg AUSTRALIA 1971 10
WHITE MATERIAL 12/04/2011 Claire Denis FRANCE 2009 560
WINGS OF DESIRE 03/11/2009 Wim Wenders GERMANY 1987 490
YI YI 15/03/2011 Edward Yang TAIWAN 2000 339
YOJIMBO 23/03/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN 1961 52
YOJIMBO/SANJURO* 23/03/2010 Akira Kurosawa JAPAN
 
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Thanks very much indeed for this.

Can we not have our Criterion sticky please? The poll was won in our favour? Just wondering.
 
Thanks very much indeed for this.

Can we not have our Criterion sticky please? The poll was won in our favour? Just wondering.

I would love a sub-section for Criterion. They're infinitely more deserving than stealbooks :devil:
 
I would love a sub-section for Criterion. They're infinitely more deserving than stealbooks :devil:

For sure.

Emalied criterion the other day about the third man, they said the reason it's out of print is they've lost the rights. Terrible pity.
 
So Seven Samurai is available from Criterion? I have the Yojimbo/Sanjuro double. I hope they did just as good a job on Seven Samurai too!
 
So Seven Samurai is available from Criterion? I have the Yojimbo/Sanjuro double. I hope they did just as good a job on Seven Samurai too!

The 1954 master wasn't available for Seven Samurai so it's not quite as good as the amazing transfer to HD which Criterion managed with their Yojimbo Blu-Ray, however it's still the case that it has never looked this good before, some of it - especially night scenes - look very sharp indeed.
 
Time for an update I think, there are quite a few planned for the new year already.

Cheers again for this handy thread Stu! :smashin:
 
Time for an update I think, there are quite a few planned for the new year already.

Cheers again for this handy thread Stu! :smashin:

Indeed, still would be nice to get that Sticky though seeing as the poll result for it was a win (cough cough) (c:
 
For sure.

Emalied criterion the other day about the third man, they said the reason it's out of print is they've lost the rights. Terrible pity.

I always wondered why some titles go OOP.
 
I always wondered why some titles go OOP.

My understanding is that it's purely a right issues. When they license a title from a Studio for release at some point that Studio is going to want it back, so when they do Criterion can't print it anymore - ala The Third Man.
 
are all criterions locked to region a? i would love to have the thin red line criterion version but it looks like it is region a locked. :( if they are not all locked any chance someone could add region codes to the list?

if too much trouble no worries. :smashin:

EDIT: scratch that I found on axel music that all are region a locked. gutted. need to do the multiregion modification on the denon. not sure if i am comfortable doing that!
 
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are all criterions locked to region a? i would love to have the thin red line criterion version but it looks like it is region a locked. :( if they are not all locked any chance someone could add region codes to the list?

if too much trouble no worries. :smashin:

Yes they are all region A locked.
 
Updated with April's releases as announced on Friday :thumbsup::


  • FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
  • BLOW OUT
  • SWEETIE
  • KES
  • CERCLE ROUGE
  • WHITE MATERIAL
 
I have the StudioCanal release of Cercle Rouge, very good film and a really solid blu-ray too. Be interested to see what Criterion can better on this.
 
Seven more announced for May:

Fat Girl
Smiles of a Summer Night
Something Wild
Diabolique
Pale Flower
The Great Dictator
Solaris

Scott
 
Updated with April's releases as announced on Friday :thumbsup::


  • FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
  • BLOW OUT
  • SWEETIE
  • KES
  • CERCLE ROUGE
  • WHITE MATERIAL

Kes can't wait for this one.:smashin:
 
My Amarcord came today and the packaging is superb. The cardboard outbox is one of the most study boxes I've seen for a movie. Apperantly Sweet Smell of success is the same. Seems any release with a big booklet will be coming in this new type of packaging and others in the normal plastic cases.

I'll try and get some pictures of it.
 
List updated with May's releases


  • The Great Dictator
  • Solaris
  • Diabolique
  • Pale Flower
  • Something Wild
  • Fat Girl
  • Smiles of a Summer Night
 
Is this thread dead then? I for one always find it very useful come B&N Sale time! :D

June:
Black Moon
Insignificance
Kiss Me Deadly
The Makioka Sisters
People On Sunday
Zazie dans le metro

July:
Naked
The Music Room (19th)
Beauty and the Beast (19th)
High and Low (26th)
Léon Morin, Priest (26th)
Life During Wartime (26th)

August:
The Battle of Algiers
Cul-de-Sac
The Killing
Secret Sunshine
Orpheus
If....
The Complete Jean Vigo collection

September:
My Life As A Dog (13th)
3 Women (13th)
Le beau Serge (20th)
Les cousins (20th)
Phantom Carriage (27th)
Carlos (27th)
 
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