1987• Restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Renato Berta, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Video interviews with biographer Pierre Billard and

now AVAILABLE In A BLU-RAY EdItIon!

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THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS

AU REVoIR LEs EnfAnts

“Frightening and beautiful.” —Richard Corliss, Time

“It’s a work that has the kind of simplicity, ease, and density of

detail that only a filmmaker in total command of his craft can bring off.”

—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

LOUIS MALLE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE RETURNS TO CRITERION

IN A NEW BLU-RAY EDITION!

This intensely personal film from LOUIS MALLE (The Lovers, My Dinner with André) tells a heartbreaking

story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a

provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is

revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye,

Children) is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• Restored digital transfer, supervised by director

of photography Renato Berta, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Video interviews with biographer Pierre Billard and actress Candice Bergen, director Louis Malle’s widow

• Joseph: A Character Study, a profile of the provocative character from Au revoir les enfants

• The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short comedy, featured in the film

• Audio excerpts from a 1988 AFI interview with Malle

• Original theatrical trailer and teaser

• PLUS: A book featuring essays by film critic Philip Kemp and historian Francis J. Murphy

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOK 2/15/11 STREET 3/15/11 CAT. NO. CC1985BD ISBN 978-1-60465-392-2 UPC 7-15515-06851-2

1987 • 105 mInUtEs • CoLoR • monAURAL • In fREnCh wIth EngLIsh sUBtItLEs • 1.66:1 AspECt RAtIo

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WINNER BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR, CéSAR AwARDS, 1987WINNER GOLDEN LION, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, 1987

NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, BEST SCREENPLAy, ACADEMy AwARDS, 1987

AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AnD DVD!

Directed by Victor Schertzinger

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ThE MIkADo

“As a film edition of the most popular item in the Gilbert and Sullivan

repertoire, it must be recognized as one of the most luscious productions

of the operetta in history.” —The New York Times

See the oriGinAl Gilbert And SullivAn troupe in the teChniColor

movie verSion oF THE MIKADO

The legendary Gilbert And SullivAn troupe the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with

Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by

the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker

viCtor SChertZinGer (One Night of Love, Road to Singapore). The result is a lavish cinematic

retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan, with such enduringly popular numbers as

“A Wandering Minstrel I” and “Three Little Maids from School Are We,” and featuring performances

by American singer Kenny bAKer as well as a host of renowned D’Oyly Carte actors, including

mArtyn Green and Sydney GrAnville.

SpeCiAl edition FeAtureS • Newly remastered digital transfer, with uncompressed

monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New video interview with Topsy-Turvy director Mike Leigh on The Mikado and its adaptation for the screen

• New video interview with Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr., tracing the 1939 filmed version of the opera back to its 1885 stage debut

• Short silent film promoting the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s 1926 stage performance of The Mikado

• pluS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

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1939 • 91 MInUTEs • CoLoR • MonAURAL • 1.33:1 AspECT RATIo

nomineeBEST CINEMATOGRAPHy, ACADEMy AWARDS, 1939



a film by RobeRt epstein and RichaRd schmiechen

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“If a bullet should enter my braIn, let that bullet

destroy every closet door.”—Harvey Milk

THe CriTeriON COlleCTiON PreSeNTS

ThE TImEs of hARVEY mILk

“Transcendent . . . Completely absorbing.” —a. O. Scott, The New York Times

“The sublime work of a contemporary master.”—F. X. Feeney, LA Weekly

THE LANDMARK, OSCAR-WINNING DOCUMENTARY

a true twentieth-century trailblazer, HARvEY MILK was an outspoken human rights activist and the first openly gay U.S. politician elected to public office; even after his assassination, in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by ROBERT EPSTEIN (The Celluloid Closet, Paragraph 175) and produced by RICHARD SCHMIECHEN, was, like its subject, groundbreaking. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in america, it’s a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk’s message of hope and equality to a wider audience. This exhilarating trove of archival footage and heartfelt interviews is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to the legacy of a political visionary.

DIRECTOR-APPROvED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • Director-approved digital transfer, from the meticulous UCla

Film and Television archive restoration, with DTS-HD Master audio on the Blu-ray edition

• audio commentary featuring director robert epstein, coeditor Deborah Hoffmann, and photographer Daniel Nicoletta

• New interview with documentary filmmaker and UC Berkeley professor Jon else

• New program about The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus van Sant’s Milk, featuring epstein, van Sant, actor James Franco, and Milk friends Cleve Jones, anne kronenberg, and Nicoletta

• Postscript containing interview clips not used in the film

• rare collection of audio and video recordings of Harvey Milk

• interview excerpts from epstein’s research tapes

• Footage from the film’s Castro Theatre premiere and the 1984 academy awards ceremony

• Panel discussion on Supervisor Dan White’s controversial trial

• excerpts from the twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of Milk’s and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations

• Original theatrical trailer

• PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic B. ruby rich, a tribute by Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk, and a piece on the film’s restoration by the UCla Film and Television archive’s ross lipman

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1984 • 88 mInUTEs • CoLoR • 2.0 sURRoUnD • 1.37:1 AspECT RATIo

WINNER BeST DOCUMeNTary FeaTUre, aCaDeMy aWarDS, 1984WINNER PeaBODy aWarD, 1986

WINNER SPeCial JUry Prize, SUNDaNCe FilM FeSTival, 1985WINNER BeST DOCUMeNTary, NeW yOrk FilM CriTiCS CirCle aWarDS, 1984

iN CriTeriON BlU-ray aND DvD eDiTiONS!

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TopsY-TURVY

“Brilliantly acted, sumptuously filmed, and overflowing with

mellifluous music.”—David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor

“Mike Leigh’s great big, superbly performed homage

to the creative process.”—Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe

MIKE LEIGH’S LAVISH, ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING GILBERT AND SULLIVAN MUSICAL DRAMA

The world of GILBERT AND SULLIVAN comes to vivid life in this extraordinary dramatization of the staging of their legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado from MIKE LEIGH (Naked, Secrets and Lies). JIM BROADBENT (Moulin Rouge, Iris) and ALLAN CORDUNER (Yentl, Vera Drake) brilliantly inhabit the roles of the world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, respectively, who, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production. A lushly produced epic about the harsh realities of creative expression, featuring bravura performances and Oscar-winning costume design and makeup, Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema’s great artists.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• Director-approved digital transfer, supervised by

cinematographer Dick Pope, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• Audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh

• New video conversation between Leigh and the film’s musical director, Gary Yershon

• A Sense of History, Leigh’s 1992 short film written by and starring actor Jim Broadbent

• Deleted scenes

• Featurette from 1999 including interviews with Leigh, stars Broadbent and Allan Corduner, and other cast members

• Theatrical trailer and TV spots

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin

2-DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 PREBOOk 2/29/11 STREET 3/29/11 CAT. NO. CC1990D ISBN 978-1-60465-397-7UPC 7-15515-06901-4

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOk 2/29/11 STREET 3/29/11 CAT. NO. CC1989BD ISBN 978-1-60465-396-0 UPC 7-15515-06891-8

1999 • 160 mInUTEs • CoLoR • sURRoUnD • 1.78:1 AspECT RATIo

WINNER BEST COSTUME DESIGN,

BEST MAkEUP, ACADEMY AWARDS, 1999

WINNER BEST PICTURE, BEST

DIRECTOR, NEW YORk FILM CRITICS CIRCLE

AWARDS, 1999

WINNER BEST PICTURE, BEST

DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS

AWARDS, 1999

WINNER BEST ACTOR, JIM

BROADBENT, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, 1999


NOW IN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS!

now AVAILABLE In A BLU-RAY EdItIon!

YIYI

A FILM BY EDWARD YANG

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YI YI

“It’s a magical film— an exquisitely made and

exceedingly wise family drama.” —Seattle Post Intelligencer

“Rich, funny, enormously humane.”—David Ansen, Newsweek

EDWARD YANG’S FAMILY EPIC, ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED MOVIES

OF THE DECADE—NOW ON BLU-RAY!

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese

master EDWARD YANG (A Brighter Summer Day), follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of

one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s

tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality

with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity.

Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• Newly restored digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master

Audio soundtrack

• Audio commentary by writer-director Edward Yang and Asian-cinema critic Tony Rayns

• Video interview with Rayns about Yang and the New Taiwan Cinema movement

• U.S. theatrical trailer

• Original English subtitle translation by Yang and Rayns

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Kent Jones and notes from the director

BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREbOOK 2/15/11 STREET 3/15/11 CAT. NO. CC1993BD ISbN 978-1-60465-404-2 UPC 7-15515-06941-0

2000 • 173 mInUtEs • CoLoR • 2.0 sURRoUnd • In mAndARIn wIth EngLIsh sUBtItLEs • 1.85:1 AspECt RAtIo

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WINNER bEST DIRECTOR, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 2000WINNER bEST PICTURE, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS, 2000

WINNER bEST FOREIgN FILM, NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE, 2000

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MiKiO NArUse (Floating Clouds, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs) was one of the most popular directors in Japan, a crafter of exquisite melodramas, mostly about women confined by their social and domestic circumstances. Though often compared with Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi for his style and treatment of characters, Naruse was a unique artist, making heartrending, brilliantly photographed and edited films about the impossible pursuit of happiness. From the outset of his career, with his silent films of the early thirties, Naruse zeroed in on the lives of the kinds of people—geisha, housewives, waitresses—who would continue to fascinate him for the next three decades. Though he made two dozen silent films, only five remain in existence; these works—poignant, dazzlingly made dramas all—are collected here, newly restored and on DVD for the first time, and featuring optional new scores by noted musicians Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz.

eclipse is a selection of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics in simple, affordable editions. each series is a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer.

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ApArT FrOM YOU(Kimi to wakarete)

For Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his career. in this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for the director, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her career, with that of a youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for selling her into a life of ignominy.

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in the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son—until her long-lost husband returns.

cAsTcaptain Takeshi sakamotosailor Kenji Oyamasailor shigeru Oguralandlady choko iida

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sTreeT WiTHOUT eND(Kagirinaki hodo)

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FlUNKY, WOrK HArD (Koshiben gambare)

Mikio Naruse’s earliest film in circulation, Flunky, Work Hard is a rare work by the director about a father and son—a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy child, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.

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NO BlOOD relATiON (NAsANU NAKA)an actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim the daughter she abandoned years before—with the help of her gangster brother. Yet the child’s father, and especially her nurturing new stepmother, won’t give in to the mother’s demands so easily. With its mix of maternal melodrama and expressionistic flourish, No Blood Relation is a gripping example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, and features a screenplay by Ozu’s famed collaborator Kogo Noda.


ApArT FrOM YOU (KiMi TO WAKAreTe)For Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. Here, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her career, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for selling her into a life of ignominy. This gently devastating evocation of women’s limited options in Depression-era Japan was a critical breakthrough for the director.


eVerY-NigHT DreAMs (YOgOTO NO YUMe)a single mother works tirelessly as a ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son. Her long-lost husband returns, vowing to find work and take care of both her and the child, yet his presence only complicates matters in this atmospheric study of lower-class life set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo. Mikio Naruse’s Every-Night Dreams is a formally ravishing drama about the desperation of daily living.


sTreeT WiTHOUT eND (KAgiriNAKi HODO)Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car. Featuring vividly drawn characters and an audacious commentary on politics and class in 1930s Japan, Street Without End is a grandly entertaining melodrama that brought Naruse deftly into the sound era.


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“Ozu and Mizoguchi’s brilliant peer.” —J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

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1987• Restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Renato Berta, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Video interviews with biographer Pierre Billard and