The Criterion Collection has informed us that two upcoming titles have been delayed:
A Story from Chikamatsu has been moved from 11/6/18 to 11/13/18, while
Some Like It Hot has been moved from 11/13/18 to 11/20/18.
Some Like It Hot
Synopsis: One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group's singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers) leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry's female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast, Some Like It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as if it had just been made.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 1989 featuring film scholar Howard Suber
- New program on Orry-Kelly's costumes for the film, featuring costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis and costume historian and archivist Larry McQueen
- Three making-of documentaries
- Appearance from 1982 by director Billy Wilder on The Dick Cavett Show
- Conversation from 2001 between actor Tony Curtis and film critic Leonard Maltin
- French television interview from 1988 with actor Jack Lemmon
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by author Sam Wasson
A Story From Chikamatsu
Synopsis: One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death. Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this subtly sensuous indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a "great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi."
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa
- Mizoguchi: The Auteur Behind the "Metteur-en-scène," a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Haden Guest