Amazon Blu-ray Deal: Criterion's World on a Wire and Anatomy of a Murder (Expired)

Following yesterday's Criterion Collection February Blu-ray announcements, Amazon has now listed those titles for pre-order, and two have special discounted prices. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder are on sale for $16.99.

Both Criterion Blu-rays are not budget-priced editions like The Makioka Sisters or Identification of a Woman; they contain digitally restored image and sound quality alongside the following bonus supplements:

World on a Wire —

• New high-definition digital restoration
• Uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Fassbinder's "World on a Wire": Looking Ahead to Today, a fifty-minute documentary about the making of the film by Juliane Lorenz
• New interview with German-film scholar Gerd Gemünden
• New English subtitles
• Trailer for the 2010 theatrical release
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Ed Halter

Anatomy of a Murder —

• New high-definition digital restoration
• Two audio options: an uncompressed monaural soundtrack and an alternate 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track
• New interview with Otto Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch
• Critic Gary Giddins explores Duke Ellington's score in a new interview
• A look at the relationship between graphic designer Saul Bass and Preminger with Bass biographer Pat Kirkham
• Newsreel footage from the set
• Excerpts from a 1967 episode of Firing Line, featuring Preminger in discussion with William F. Buckley Jr.
• Excerpts from the work in progress Anatomy of "Anatomy": The Making of a Movie
• Behind-the-scenes photographs by Life Magazine's Gjon Mili
• Trailer, featuring on-set footage
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Nick Pinkerton and a 1959 Life Magazine article on real-life lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge in the film

The discount represents a 57% markdown from the discs' SRP of $39.95. Amazon has not noted for how long this savings will last.

Both World on a Wire and Anatomy of a Murder street on February 21st, 2012.