The Criterion Collection has announced three movies for release on Blu-ray in June. First, on June 15, the studio will release
Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989), with a transfer supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch. A week later, it will release
Red Desert (
Il deserto rosseo, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964). And finally, on June 29, it will release
The Leopard (
Il gattopardo, Luchino Visconti, 1963), with a transfer supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno.
Special features include:
The Leopard
- Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie
- A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, an hour-long documentary featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D'Amico, Rotunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others
- Video interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo
- Video interview with professor Millicent Marcus on the history behind The Leopard
- Original theatrical trailers and newsreels
- Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
- A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Michael Wood
Mystery Train
- Two video Q&As with Jarmusch, one from the 2009 All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New York and one in which he responds to questions sent in by fans
- Original documentary on Mystery Train's locations and Memphis's rich social and musical history
- On-set photos by Masayoshi Sukita, and behind-the-scenes photos
- A booklet featuring essays by writers Peter Guralnick and Dennis Lim, as well as a collectible poster
Red Desert
- Audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs
- Archival video interviews with director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti
- Outtakes from the film's production
- Original theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Mark Le Fanu, an interview with Antonioni by Jean-Luc Godard, and a reprinted essay by Antonioni on his use of color