Colossal Month for Criterion, har har

It's going to be hard for Criterion to deliver a more exciting month in 2010 following their March releases. Firstly, we have a Pedro Costa box-set, entitled Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa, which includes the features Ossos, In Vanda's Room [No Quarto da Vanda] and Colossal Youth [Juventude Em Marcha], set for the 30th. The fourth disc contains a feature-length doc, All Blossoms Again [Tout refleurit: Pedro Costa, cinéaste] by Aurélien Gerbault, as well as two shorts from Costa, Tarrafal and The Rabbit Hunters, both taken from the omnibus features O Estado do Mundo and Memories, respectively. Then we have Nicholas Ray's classic Bigger Than Life, on DVD and Blu-ray, on the 23rd. Then, Marco Ferreri's Dillinger Is Dead [Dillinger è morto], with Michel Piccoli and Anita Pallenberg, on DVD on the 16th.

And... perfectly timed to celebrate Akira Kurosawa's 100th birthday on the 23rd (and, coincidentally, my 26th), Sanjuro and Yojimbo will debut on Blu-ray, available either together in a cheaper set or separately. And, perhaps best of all (depending on who you ask), Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven will get the Blu-ray treatment on the same date. If June was Criterion's exemplary month in 2009, March is certainly it for 2010.

Remember Me?

It's been so long that I almost forgot the full version of Terrence Malick's The New World was never released on DVD. In fact, I think it was only released in like two theatres for around a week. In fact, I think there were three different versions of the film that were cut. I don't know. But New Line will be releasing a 172-minute version on 14 October. I thought the version that was released in NYC and LA ran about 150 minutes, so I'm not quite sure what this version is all about. More information as it becomes available.

Criterion in October

As promised, Criterion will officially be releasing Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in October. Also bowing that month will be Gus Van Sant's Mala Noche, which is in small rotation from Janus Films theatrically right now, and Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven. John Huston's Under the Volcano, with Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset, will round out the titles for the exciting month.