THE OFFICIAL CRITERION COLLECTION MYSPACE PAGE Sign up for the Criterion monthly e-newsletter for all the latest news: www.criterion.com/asp/newsletter_form.asp CRITERION LAUNCHES NEW SITE AND STORE The Criterion Collection has a new website! In addition to an overhaul for the site’s look and feel, you’ll find many new ways to explore the collection online, whether by director, film movement, genre, or through top-ten lists from filmmakers and friends. Additionally, customers can now shop here for various Criterion products, including T-shirts, hats, posters, tote bags, and mugs. And, for the first time since the days of laserdiscs, Criterion is selling its library of movies directly online. If you run into problems, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected] VISIT THE OFFICIAL CRITERION COLLECTION BLOG, ON FIVE Also see GO TRUE FOES , our softball team blog! Order ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE: 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS , an expansive collectors box set featuring fifty classic films on DVD and a lavishly illustrated 240-page hardcover book that tells the story of Janus Films through an essay by film historian Peter Cowie, a tribute from Martin Scorsese, and extensive notes on all fifty films. $650 ($200 off list price), and free UPS Ground shipping in the continental US. We'd love to hear from you! However, we can't keep up with correspondence through MySpace. If you want to contact us, please email Jon Mulvaney at [email protected] and title suggestions to [email protected] . ABOUT CRITERION The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. Criterion began with a mission to pull the treasures of world cinema out of the film vaults and put them in the hands of collectors. All of the films published under the Criterion banner represent cinema at its finest. In our twenty-three years, we've seen a lot of things change, but one thing has remained constant: our commitment to publishing the defining moments of cinema in the world's best digital editions.The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Renoir, Godard, Kurosawa, Cocteau, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Fuller, Lean, Kubrick, Lang, Sturges, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Ozu, Sirk, Bunuel, Powell and Pressburger. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen. For every disc, we track down the best available film elements in the world, use state-of-the-art telecine equipment and a select few colorists capable of meeting our rigorous standards, and take time during the film-to-video digital transfer to create the most pristine possible image and sound. Whenever possible, we work with directors and cinematographers to assure that the look of our releases does justice to their intentions. Our supplements enable viewers to appreciate Criterion films in context, through audio commentaries by filmmakers and scholars, restored director's cuts, deleted scenes, documentaries, shooting scripts, early shorts, and storyboards. To date, more than 75 filmmakers have made our Director Approved library of laserdiscs and DVDs the most significant archive of contemporary filmmaking available to the home viewer.
