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think you could scan it and post here or send it to me or hammock through CriterionDungeon.com?keeproductions wrote:The new issue of Premiere (Daniel Craig on cover) has a full-page Criterion advert for Seven Samurai and much of their Kurosawa output.
COMING SOON: Glorious new special editions of Kurosawa's Samurai classics Yojimbo and Sanjuro.
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Yojimbo
• All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
• Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
• A 45-minute documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
• Theatrical trailer and teaser
• Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
• New and improved English subtitle translation
Sanjuro
• All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
• Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
• A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
• Theatrical trailer and teaser
• Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and notes and statements from Kurosawa and his cast and crew
Available separately or in a collector's set.
• All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
• Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
• A 45-minute documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
• Theatrical trailer and teaser
• Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
• New and improved English subtitle translation
Sanjuro
• All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
• Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
• A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
• Theatrical trailer and teaser
• Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and notes and statements from Kurosawa and his cast and crew
Available separately or in a collector's set.
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That would be terrific.Cinephrenic wrote:That said, I hope Donald Richie was busy on some Naruse or Mizoguchi commentaries.
Richie or no Richie, I am quite satisfied with the specs of these two though. I have avoided buying the original releases for years and only own the old BFI version of Yojimbo. Haven't even watched Sanjuro.
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Excellent! I love Sanjuro and will definitely be getting these reissues!
I don't know why Yojimbo doesn't grab me the same way - it is very well made and has great performances but the story has never excited me. However I think Sanjuro is a masterpiece and one of my absolute favourites of all Kurosawa's films, perhaps due in no small part to it being the first Kurosawa film I saw!
It is a strange way to feel since Yojimbo is usually the more celebrated film, but I also felt the same way about A Fistful Of Dollars - I didn't really like that film either but loved the other two films in Leone's trilogy, so perhaps I just don't connect with that particular story. I wouldn't tell others to avoid it though - try them both especially now that they have restored the films!
Does the 3.0 sound potentially make this the definitive release of these titles? I don't remember the BFI Yojimbo having this sound option.
A very good January - it seems somewhat of a 'housecleaning' month in the sense that these films, Mouchette and the Richard Gordon films have been 'Certainties', we just didn't know when! Same with Pandora's Box - all these long touted films are coming out. Now we can get back to badgering Criterion full time over the Eisenstein: Silents boxset!
I don't know why Yojimbo doesn't grab me the same way - it is very well made and has great performances but the story has never excited me. However I think Sanjuro is a masterpiece and one of my absolute favourites of all Kurosawa's films, perhaps due in no small part to it being the first Kurosawa film I saw!
It is a strange way to feel since Yojimbo is usually the more celebrated film, but I also felt the same way about A Fistful Of Dollars - I didn't really like that film either but loved the other two films in Leone's trilogy, so perhaps I just don't connect with that particular story. I wouldn't tell others to avoid it though - try them both especially now that they have restored the films!
Does the 3.0 sound potentially make this the definitive release of these titles? I don't remember the BFI Yojimbo having this sound option.
A very good January - it seems somewhat of a 'housecleaning' month in the sense that these films, Mouchette and the Richard Gordon films have been 'Certainties', we just didn't know when! Same with Pandora's Box - all these long touted films are coming out. Now we can get back to badgering Criterion full time over the Eisenstein: Silents boxset!
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Not especially. While High and Low would be a perfect candidate for a remaster, these releases don't indicate anything in that direction.
Criterion officially announced the remasters of Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Seven Samurai almost a year ago. Nothing has ever been said about High and Low (though you can count me in among the people that would like it to happen).
Criterion officially announced the remasters of Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Seven Samurai almost a year ago. Nothing has ever been said about High and Low (though you can count me in among the people that would like it to happen).
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