Criterion has revealed their September line-up, and while the rumored
Three Colors trilogy was noticeably absent, a few noteworthy additions to the collection have been added. Previous Criterion titles making their Blu-ray debut will be Robert Altman's 1977 drama
3 Women, and the 1985 Swedish film
My Life as a Dog. Newbies include the first two films from French director Claude Chabrol,
Le Beau Serge (1958) and
Les Cousins (1959), Olivier Assaya's 2010 miniseries
Carlos and the 1920 silent classic
The Phantom Carriage.
All titles carry the standard Criterion price of $39.95 with the exception of
Carlos, which has been listed with a SRP of $49.95. Release dates and special features for each Blu-ray are outlined below.
My Life as a Dog (September 13, 2011)
- New digital transfer, approved by director Lasse Hallström and enhanced for widescreen televisions.
- Shall We Go to Your or My Place or Each Go Home Alone? (1973): A 52-minute film by Lasse Hallström, with a video introduction by the director.
- New video interview with Lasse Hallström.
- Reflections on My Life as a Dog by Kurt Vonnegut.
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation.
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition.
3 Women (September 13, 2011)
- New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions
- Audio commentary by director Robert Altman.
- Stills gallery of rare production and publicity photos.
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition.
Le Beau Serge (September 20, 2011)
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
- New audio commentary featuring Guy Austin, author of Claude Chabrol.
- Segment from a 1969 episode of the French television series L'invité du dimanche in which Chabrol revisits Sardent, the town he grew up in and the film's location.
- A 2011 documentary by filmmaker Pierre-Henri Gibert on the making of Le Beau Serge
- New and improved English subtitle translation.
- Theatrical trailer
- Booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty.
Les Cousins (September 20, 2011)
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin.
- A 2011 documentary by filmmaker Pierre-Henri Gibert about the making of Les cousins, featuring director Claude Chabrol, star Stéphane Audran, assistant directors Charles Bitsch and Claude de Givray, and others
- New and improved English subtitle translation.
- Theatrical trailer
- Booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty.
The Phantom Carriage (September 27, 2011)
- New digital transfer, restored in collaboration with the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute.
- Two scores, one by acclaimed Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL.
- Audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg.
- Interview with Ingmar Bergman excerpted from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait, by Gösta Werner.
- The Bergman Connection, an original visual essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on The Phantom Carriage's influence on Bergman.
- New and improved English subtitle translation.
- Booklet featuring an essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg.
Carlos (September 27, 2011)
- New digital transfer, supervised and approved by directors of photography Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux, with DTS-HD Master Audio.
- New video interviews with director Olivier Assayas, Lenoir, Le Saux, and actor Édgar Ramírez.
- Twenty-minute making-of documentary on the film's OPEC raid scene.
- Original theatrical trailer
- Booklet featuring essays by critics Colin MacCabe and Greil Marcus, plus biographies on selected historical figures portrayed in the film, written by the film's historical adviser, Stephen Smith.