The Criterion Collection has announced that it will release six films on Blu-ray in June. On June 14, it will release
Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg, 1985) and
The Makioka Sisters (
Sesame-yuki; Kon Ichikawa, 1983). A week later, it will release
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955). And finally, June 28 will see three BD titles:
People on Sunday (
Menschen am Sonntag; Robert Siodmak and Edgar G.Ulmer, 1930),
Zazie dans le métro (Louis Malle, 1960) and
Black Moon (Louis Malle, 1975).
Insignificance will have a newly restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Nicolas Roeg and producer Jeremy Thomas. The silent
People on Sunday will come with two scores—a silent-era-style score by the Mont Alto Orchestra and a modern composition by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by the Czech Film Orchestra—both as uncompressed stereo soundtracks.
Special features include:
Black Moon
- Archival interview with director Louis Malle
- Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
- Alternate French-dubbed soundtrack
- Original theatrical trailer
- A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
Insignificance
- New video interviews with Roeg, Thomas, and editor Tony Lawson
- Making 'Insignificance', a short documentary shot on the set of the film
- Original theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Chuck Stephens and a reprinted exchange between Roeg and screenwriter Terry Johnson
Kiss Me Deadly
- Audio commentary by film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini
- New video tribute from director Alex Cox
- Excerpts from The Long Haul of A. I. Bezzerides, a 2005 documentary on the Kiss Me Deadly screenwriter
- Excerpts from Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane, a 1998 documentary on the author whose book inspired the film
- A look at the film's locations
- Altered ending
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman and a 1955 reprint by director Robert Aldrich
The Makioka Sisters
- Original theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Audie Bock
People on Sunday
- Weekend am Wannsee, Gerald Koll's 2000 documentary about the film, featuring an interview with star Brigitte Borchert
- Ins Blaue Hinein, a thirty-six-minute short from 1931 by People on Sunday cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan
- A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Noah Isenberg and reprints by scriptwriter Billy Wilder and director Robert Siodmak
Zazie dans le métro
- Archival interviews with director Louis Malle, novelist Raymond Queneau, and the young actress Catherine Demongeot
- Le Paris de Zazie, an interview with assistant director Philippe Collin
- Original theatrical trailer
- A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau