In May, Criterion will take Blu-ray viewers on wild rides—way out west with John Wayne, to the Australian outback with an aboriginal guide, to the darkest corners of the outlaw mind and the outermost regions of experimental film. On May 11, the studio will release Fritz Lang's psychological thriller
M. A week later, Nicolas Roeg's spellbinding
Walkabout will hit store shelves. Finally, on May 25, Criterion will release
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two and John Ford's seminal western
Stagecoach.
Special features are as follows:
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two
- Brakhage on Brakhage, a collection of video encounters with the filmmaker
- Audio remarks on selected films by Stan Brakhage
- For Stan, a short film by Marilyn Brakhage
- Excerpts from a 1990 interview with Brakhage
- Footage from Brakhage's salon at the University of Colorado
- Audio recordings of two lectures by Brakhage
- A booklet featuring a foreword and program notes by Marilyn Brakhage, as well as write-ups of the films and an essay by Brakhage expert Fred Camper
M
- Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes and Eric Rentschler
- The long-lost English-language version of M
- Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
- Conversation with Fritz Lang, a fifty-minute film by William Friedkin
- Claude Chabrol's short film M le maudit, plus a video interview with Chabrol
- Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing M and its history, set to clips from the film
- Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
- Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos and production sketches
- A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with director Fritz Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles
Stagecoach
- Audio commentary by noted western authority Jim Kitses
- Bucking Broadway (1917), a fifty-four-minute silent western by John Ford, with new music by Donald Sosin
- Extensive video interview with Ford from 1968
- New video interview with Dan Ford, biographer and grandson of the director, about Ford's home movies
- New video interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- New video essay by writer Tag Gallagher
- New video feature about Monument Valley
- New video interview with stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong about Stagecoach's stuntman Yakima Canutt
- Radio dramatization of Stagecoach from 1949
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by David Cairns and the short story that inspired the film
Walkabout
- Audio commentary featuring director Nicolas Roeg and actress Jenny Agutter
- Video interviews with Agutter and actor Luc Roeg
- Gulpilil—One Red Blood (2002), an hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by author Paul Ryan