August heralds Criterion releasing at least two very long-awaited titles, one which has been consistently ill-served by past home video formats and one which wishes it had the chance to be ill-served by past home video formats. You’ve got more Orson Welles than you shake a bottle of Paul Masson at, some British kitchen-sink realism, a documentary about one of our greatest actresses, and an honest-to-god upgrade (if a rather confounding one, considering it was originally part of a box set). Specs and cover art are below.
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles
- New interview with actor Keith Baxter
- New interview with director Orson Welles’s daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven
- New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow
- New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
- Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show
- Trailer
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
- Audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
- New interview with Kate Dorney, curator of modern and contemporary theater at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, about A Taste of Honey’s onstage origins
- Excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney
- Momma Don’t Allow (1956), Richardson’s first theatrical film
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt
- Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956),Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965)
- Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster
- New documentary on the making of the film, featuring actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy; casting director Graeme Clifford; and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury
- New conversation about the film and Altman’s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell
- Featurette from the film’s production, shot on location in 1970
- Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen, hosted by the Art Directors Guild Film Society
- Archival footage from interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, in which he discusses his work on the film
- Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro
- Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Nathaniel Rich
- New, restored 4K digital transfer of the English-language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Alternate French-language version of the film
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
- Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif
- New interview with actor Norman Eshley
- Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant
- New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
- High-definition digital transfer, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with director Stig Björkman
- Super 8 home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s
- Two deleted scenes, showing Bergman’s daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone
- Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann and Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings
- Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role
- Outtakes from Bergman’s 1936 film On the Sunny Side
- Music video for Eva Dahlgren’s song “The Movie About Us,” which is included on the film’s soundtrack
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jeanine Basinger