The Criterion Collection August Line Up Will Be ‘Colourful And Supressed’

The Sun may have it’s hat on, the Criterion Collection in August will deliver a line up that will be ‘colourful and suppressed’.

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film Crumb arrives on Blu-ray on 5th August. An intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, Zwigoff candidly and colourfully delves into the details of Crumb’s incredible career and life.

Following on 19th August comes Jim Jarmusch‘s Night on Earth. One of the director’s most charming and beloved films, it features an extraordinary cast including Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Béatrice Dalle, and Roberto Benigni.

The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion is released on 26th August on 4K UHD. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among the characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers.

Crumb – out on 5th August New Restoration on Blu-ray

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colourfully delves into the details of Crumb’s incredible career and life, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people you’ll ever see on-screen. At once a profound biographical portrait, a riotous examination of a man’s controversial art, and a devastating look at a troubled family, Crumb is a genuine American original.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
-New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terry Zwigoff, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
-Two audio commentaries, one featuring Zwigoff from 2010, and one with Zwigoff and critic Roger Ebert from 2006
-More than fifty minutes of unused footage
-Stills gallery
-English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A new essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and artwork by Charles, Jesse, Maxon, and Robert Crumb
-Cover illustration by R. Crumb

The Power of the Dog – out on 26th August New 4K Digital Restoration

Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape—pulsating with both freedom and menace—that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage’s novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-Mhee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse Plemons), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or spell his destruction. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
-4K digital master, approved by director Jane Campion, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
-One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
-Interview with Campion about the making of the film
-Program featuring interviews with of the cast and crew and behind-the-scenes footage captured on location in New Zealand
-Interview with Campion and composer Jonny Greenwood about the film’s score
-Conversation among Campion, director of photography Ari Wegner, actor Kirsten Dunst, and producer -Tanya Seghatchian, moderated by filmmaker Tamara Jenkins
-New interview with novelist Annie Proulx
-Trailer
-English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
-English descriptive audio
PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin

Night on Earth – out on 19th August New Digital Restoration on Blu-ray

Five cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors (including Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Béatrice Dalle, and Roberto Benigni) for this quintet of transitory tales of urban displacement and existential angst, all staged as encounters between cabbies and their fares. Spanning time zones, continents, and languages, Night on Earth winds its course through scenes of uproarious comedy, nocturnal poetry, and sombre fatalism, set to a moody soundtrack by Tom Waits. Jarmusch’s lovingly askew view of humanity from the enger seat makes for one of his most charming and beloved films, a freewheeling showcase for the cosmopolitan range of his imagination.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
-High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
-Selected-scene commentary from 2007 featuring director of photography Frederick Elmes and location sound mixer Drew Kunin
-Q&A with Jarmusch from 2007, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans
-Belgian television interview with Jarmusch from 1992
-English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Essays by filmmakers, authors, and critics Thom Andersen, Paul Auster, Bernard Eisenschitz, Goffredo Fofi, and Peter von Bagh, and the lyrics to Tom Waits’s original songs from the film