January always poses an exciting month for Criterion releases, as it (hopefully) kick-starts the year with a bang, especially after their typically slow month of December. And with the January 2010 titles, Criterion crossed the 500 threshold, with Robert Rossellini's War Trilogy box set marking spine number 500, the trilogy being
Rome, Open City [
Roma, città aperta],
Paisan [
Paisà] and
Germany Year Zero [
Germania anno zero]. Steven Soderbergh's
Che will finally bow on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as a resorted version of Wim Wenders'
Paris, Texas (on DVD and Blu-ray). Federico Fellini's
8½ will premiere on Blu-ray, which might be the first release of the film in high-definition anywhere.
More exciting than the mainline Criterion titles though is their new Eclipse set, available 19 January: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies. The set includes
La chambre,
Hotel Monterey,
News from Home,
Je tu il elle and
Les rendez-vous d'Anna.
IFC also announced several titles for January. Jean-Claude Brisseau's
À l'aventure, Paco Cabezas'
The Appeared [
Aparecidos], David Zellner's
Goliath, Spike Lee's
Passing Strange, Alan Brown's
Superheroes and Armando Iannucci's hysterical
In the Loop, which will also come in Blu-ray. All are set for 12 January. MPI, who releases IFC's titles, set a new date for
The House of the Devil for 2 February, for those concerned.
January always poses an exciting month for Criterion releases, as it (hopefully) kick-starts the year with a bang, especially after their typically slow month of December. And with the January 2010 titles, Criterion crossed the 500 threshold, with Robert Rossellini's War Trilogy box set marking spine number 500, the trilogy being Rome, Open City [Roma, città aperta], Paisan [Paisà] and Germany Year Zero [Germania anno zero]. Steven Soderbergh's Che will finally bow on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as a resorted version of Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (on DVD and Blu-ray). Federico Fellini's 8½ will premiere on Blu-ray, which might be the first release of the film in high-definition anywhere.
More exciting than the mainline Criterion titles though is their new Eclipse set, available 19 January: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies. The set includes La chambre, Hotel Monterey, News from Home, Je tu il elle and Les rendez-vous d'Anna.
IFC also announced several titles for January. Jean-Claude Brisseau's À l'aventure, Paco Cabezas' The Appeared [Aparecidos], David Zellner's Goliath, Spike Lee's Passing Strange, Alan Brown's Superheroes and Armando Iannucci's hysterical In the Loop, which will also come in Blu-ray. All are set for 12 January. MPI, who releases IFC's titles, set a new date for The House of the Devil for 2 February, for those concerned.
