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THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH

“[This] gloriously inventive, delightfully nutty comic treasure is unlike anything you’ve ever seen.”

—Jami Bernard, New York Daily News

“This movie of constant astonishments will make you laugh hard and long.” —Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“It’s a good film. I’m happy with it, and I’m glad I did it. But I don’t think about it much.”

—John Malkovich

THE MOST ABSURD HOLLYWOOD MOVIE EVER? TAKE ANOTHER SPIN WITH SPIKE JONZE’S BRILLIANT AND BIZARRE HEAD TRIP.

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of JOHN MALKOVICH for fifteen minutes before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Then director SPIKE JONZE (Adaptation) and writer CHARLIE KAUFMAN (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) have the movie for you. Melancholy marionettes, office drudgery, a frizzy-haired CAMERON DIAZ (There’s Something About Mary)—but that’s not all! Surrealism, possession, JOHN CUSACK (Say Anything), a domesticated primate, Freud, CATHERINE KEENER (Capote), non sequiturs, and absolutely no romance! But wait: get your Being John Malkovich now and we’ll throw in emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and extra Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• New high-definition digital restoration, with 5.1

surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New selected-scene audio commentary featuring filmmaker Michel Gondry

• New behind-the-scenes documentary by filmmaker Lance Bangs

• Conversation between John Malkovich and humorist John Hodgman

• Director Spike Jonze discusses Being John Malkovich via photos from its production

• Two films within the film: 7 1/2 Floor Orientation and “American Arts & Culture” Presents John Horatio Malkovich, “Dance of Despair and Disillusionment”

• An Intimate Portrait of the Art of Puppeteering, a documentary by Bangs

• Trailer and TV spots• PLUS: A booklet featuring a conversation between

Jonze and pop-culture critic Perkus Tooth

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BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 PREBOOK 4/17/12 STREET 5/15/12 CAT. NO. CC2142BD ISBN 978-1-60465-586-5 UPC 7-15515-09531-0

1999 • 113 MINUTES • COLOR • 5.1 SURROUND • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO

WINNER Best Picture/Best Screenplay,

National Society of Film Critics Awards, 1999

WINNER Best Screenplay, Los Angeles

Film Critics Association Awards, 1999

WINNER Best Supporting Actress

(Catherine Keener), New York Film Critics Circle

Awards, 1999

WINNER Best Supporting Actor

(John Malkovich), New York Film Critics Circle

Awards, 1999

NOMINEE Best Director/Best Screenplay,

Academy Awards, 1999

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CERTIFIED

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Abbas Kiarostami

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CERTIFIED COPY

“Kiarostami has created his fair share of masterpieces, but this blithe romance about

emotional gamesmanship tops them all.”—Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

“An appealing and one-of-a-kind experience.” —Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

JULIETTE BINOCHE IN AN EXTRAORDINARY PUZZLE OF A LOVE STORY—DIRECT FROM

ITS HIT 2011 U.S. THEATRICAL RELEASE

The great Iranian director ABBAS KIAROSTAMI (Close-up) travels to Tuscany for a luminous and provocative romance in which nothing is as it appears. What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people—played by Oscar-winning actress JULIETTE BINOCHE (Blue) and opera singer WILLIAM SHIMELL—getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, Certified Copy (Copie conforme) reminds us that love itself is an enigma.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New high-definition digital restoration, with 5.1 surround

DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami

• Let’s See “Copia conforme,” an Italian documentary on the making of Certified Copy, featuring interviews with Kiarostami and actors Juliette Binoche and William Shimell

• Trailer

• New English subtitle translation

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Godfrey Cheshire

2-DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 4/24/12 STREET 5/22/12 CAT. NO. CC2147D ISBN 978-1-60465-576-6UPC 7-15515-09501-3


2010 • 106 MINUTES • COLOR • 5.1 SURROUND • IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO

WINNER BEST ACTRESS

(JULIETTE BINOCHE), CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 2010

WINNER BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, SAN FRANCISCO FILM CRITICS

CIRCLE AWARDS, 2011

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LA HAINE

“Hard-hitting and extremely intelligent.”

—Variety

“A terrific jolt of a film.”—San Francisco Chronicle

THE CANNES-AWARDED WORK THAT ELECTRIFIED AUDIENCES ALL OVER THE

WORLD COMES TO BLU-RAY

MATHIEU KASSOVITZ (The Crimson Rivers) took the film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Irreversible’s VINCENT CASSEL), Hubert (The Constant Gardener’s HUBERT KOUNDÉ), and Saïd (Three Kings’ SAÏD TAGHMAOUI)—white, black, and Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by

director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• English-language audio commentary by Kassovitz• Introduction by actor Jodie Foster• Ten Years of “La haine,” an eighty-minute documentary

that brings together cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release

• Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum

• Production footage • Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring an

afterword by Kassovitz• Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos• Trailers• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar

Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by acclaimed filmmaker Costa-Gavras


1995 • 97 MINUTES • BLACK & WHITE • 5.1 SURROUND • IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO

WINNER BEST DIRECTOR,

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 1995

WINNER BEST PICTURE,

CÉSAR AWARDS, 1995

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SUMMERINTERLUDE

Ingmar Bergman’s

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SUMMER INTERLUDE

“The most beautiful of films . . . I love Summer Interlude.”

—Jean-Luc Godard

“For me, Summer Interlude is one of my most important films.”

—Ingmar Bergman

A BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING EARLY FILM FROM THE GREAT INGMAR BERGMAN

FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DVD AND BLU-RAY!

Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career—isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past—the tenth film by INGMAR BERGMAN (The Seventh Seal) was a gentle sway toward true mastery. In one of the director’s great early female roles, MAJ-BRITT NILSSON (To Joy) beguiles as Marie, an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student (Thirst’s BIRGER MALMSTEN). Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm’s outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works. A film that the director considered a creative turning point, Summer Interlude is a reverie on life and death that bridges the gap between Bergman’s past and future, theater and cinema.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New high-definition digital restoration,

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition


• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Peter Cowie

DVD EDITION SRP $19.95 PREBOOK 5/01/12 STREET 5/29/12 CAT. NO. CC2149D ISBN 978-1-60465-591-9UPC 7-15515-09581-5


1951 • 96 MINUTES • BLACK & WHITE • MONAURAL • IN SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO



SUMMERWITH

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SUMMER WITH MONIKA

“Without a single flaw, without a single hesitation, with total lucidity in both dramatic

and moral construction.”—Jean-Luc Godard

“Monika shows a director in absolute control of his medium and its singular expressivity.”

—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

INGMAR BERGMAN’S DEVASTATING CRITICAL BREAKTHROUGH

FINALLY ON DVD AND BLU-RAY!

Inspired by the earthy eroticism of his muse HARRIET ANDERSSON (Through a Glass Darkly), in the first of her many roles for him, INGMAR BERGMAN (Wild Strawberries) had a major international breakthrough with this ravaging, sensual tale of young love. In Stockholm, a girl (Andersson) and boy (The Magician’s LARS EKBORG) from working-class families run away from home to spend a secluded, romantic summer at the beach, far from parents and responsibilities. Inevitably, it is not long before the pair is forced to return to reality. The version originally released in the U.S. was reedited by its distributor into something more salacious, but the original Summer with Monika, as presented here, is a work of stunning maturity and one of Bergman’s most important films.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New high-definition digital restoration, with uncom-

pressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman

• New interview with actress Harriet Andersson, conducted by film critic Peter Cowie

• New interview with film scholar Eric Schaefer about Kroger Babb and Babb’s distribution of Monika: Story of a Bad Girl as an exploitation film

• Images from the Playground, a half-hour documentary by Stig Björkman with behind-the-scenes footage shot by Bergman, archival audio interviews with Bergman, and new interviews with actresses Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson

• Trailer


• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Laura Hubner, a 1958 review by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and a publicity piece from 1953 in which Bergman interviews himself

DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 PREBOOK 5/01/12 STREET 5/29/12 CAT. NO. CC2151D ISBN 978-1-60465-593-3UPC 7-15515-09601-0



1953 • 97 MINUTES • BLACK & WHITE • MONAURAL • IN SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.40:1 ASPECT RATIO

ECLIPSE SERIES 33

UP ALL NIGHT WITH ROBERT DOWNEY SR.TWO-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:

BABO 73CHAFED ELBOWSNO MORE EXCUSESPUTNEY SWOPETWO TONS OF TURQUOISE TO TAOS TONIGHT

Rarely do landmark works of cinema seem so . . . wrong. Robert Downey Sr. emerged as one of the most irreverent filmmakers of the new American underground of the early sixties, taking no prisoners in his rough-and-tumble treatises on politics, race, and consumer culture. In his most famous, the midnight-movie mainstay Putney Swope, an advertising agency is turned on its head when a militant African American man takes charge. Like Swope, Downey held nothing sacred. This selection of five of his most raucous and outlandish films, dating from 1964 to 1975, offers a unique mix of the hilariously crude and the intensely experimental.

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.

FIVE RULE-BREAKING COMEDIES FROM THE UNDERGROUND MOVIE MASTER!

“Anarchically whimsical and countercultural with a capital C.”

—The Village Voice

ECLIPSE SERIES 33

UP ALL NIGHT WITH ROBERT DOWNEY SR.

TWO-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:

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BABO 73Taylor Mead plays the president of the United Status, who conducts his top-secret international affairs on a deserted beach when he isn’t at the White House (a dilapidated Victorian), in Robert Downey Sr.’s political satire. Downey’s first feature is a rollicking, slapstick, ultra-low-budget 16 mm comedy experiment that introduced a twisted new voice to the American underground scene.1964 · 56 MINUTES · BLACK & WHITE/COLOR · MONAURAL · 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO

CHAFED ELBOWSThis bad-taste riot was a breakthrough for Robert Downey Sr., thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown,” wandering from one odd job to the next, and encountering all sorts of sordid types, from desperate low-budget filmmakers to destitute dirty-sock sniffers. And there are incest, murder, and bad pop songs—something to offend everyone.1966 · 58 MINUTES · BLACK & WHITE/COLOR · MONAURAL · 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO

NO MORE EXCUSESRobert Downey Sr. takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a close look at Manhattan’s swinging singles scene of the late sixties. Of course, that’s not all: No More Excuses cuts between this footage and the fragmented tale of a time-traveling Civil War soldier, a rant from the director of the fictional Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, and other assorted improprieties.1968 · 48 MINUTES · BLACK & WHITE · MONAURAL · 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO


PUTNEY SWOPEThe most popular film by Robert Downey Sr. is this oddball classic about the antics that ensue after Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, his voice dubbed by a gravelly Downey), the token black man on the board of a Madison Avenue advertising agency, is inadvertently elected chairman. Putney summarily fires all the whiteys, replaces them with Black Power apostles, renames the company Truth and Soul, Inc., and proceeds to wreak politically incorrect havoc.1969 · 85 MINUTES · BLACK & WHITE/COLOR · MONAURAL · 1.77:1 ASPECT RATIO

TWO TONS OF TURQUOISE TO TAOS TONIGHT“A film without a beginning or an end,” in Robert Downey Sr.’s words, this Dadaist thingamajig—a never-before-seen, newly reedited version of the director’s 1975 release Moment to Moment (also known as Jive)—is a cascade of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life. It stars Downey’s wife, Elsie, in an endless succession of off-the-wall roles, from dancer to cocaine fiend. 1975 · 56 MINUTES · BLACK & WHITE · MONAURAL · 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO

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1968 • 76 MINUTES •COLOR • MONAURAL • IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO

THE JOKE1969 • 81 MINUTES •BLACK & WHITE • MONAURAL • IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO

Distributed under exclusive license from the Czech State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography, represented by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín a.s. Capricious Summer © 1967. The Joke © 1968. All rights reserved. © 2012 The Criterion Collection. All rights reserved. Cat. no. ECL151. ISBN 978-1-60465-581-0. Warning: Unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, or copying is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in USA. First printing 2012.

SERIES 32: PEARLS OF THE CZECH NEW WAVE

CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (Rozmarné léto)

Two years after his worldwide hit Closely Watched Trains, Jirí Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose carefree summer is interrupted by the arrival of a beautiful young circus performer’s assistant. A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, Capricious Summer is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries.

CAST Dura: Rudolf Hru!ínsky • Durová: Bohumila Myslíková • Major Vlastimil Brodsky • Canon Roch: Franti!ek Rehák • Anna: Jana Drchalová • Ernie: Jirí Menzel

CREDITS Director: Jirí Menzel • Screenplay by: Václav Nyvlt, Jirí Menzel • Script editing: Jan Libora, Vladimír Kalina • Cinematography: Jaromír "ofr • Art direction: Oldrich Bosák • Editor: Jirina Luke!ová • Costumes: Olga Dimitrovová • Music by: Jirí "ust

THE JOKE (!ert)

Jaromil Jire!’s brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel tells the fragmentary tale of a man expelled from the Communist Party because of a political joke. After “rehabilitation” in the mines and a stint in prison, he hatches a revenge plot against the former friend who betrayed him. Completed after the end of the Prague Spring, The Joke was banned, though it’s now acknowledged as one of the Czech New Wave’s greatest works.

CAST Ludvík Jahn: Josef Somr • Helena Zemánkova: Jana Dítetová • Pavel Zemánek: Ludek Munzar • Markéta: Jaroslava Obermaierová • Jaroslav: Milan Svrcina • Alexej: Milo! Rejchrt • Kostka: Evald Schorm • Bro#ová: Vera Kresadlová • Jindra: Michal Pavlata

CREDITS Director: Jaromil Jire! • Assistant director: Eli!ka "tibrová • Screenplay by: Milan Kundera, Jaromil Jire! • From the novel by: Milan Kundera • Cinematography: Jan Curík • Art direction: Ladislav Winkelhöffer, Karel Kracík • Editor: Josef Valu!iak • Costumes: Helena Any#ová, Zdena "najdarová • Music by: Zdenek Pololáník

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CAPRICIOUS SUMMER1968 • 76 MINUTES •COLOR • MONAURAL • IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO

THE JOKE1969 • 81 MINUTES •BLACK & WHITE • MONAURAL • IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO

Distributed under exclusive license from the Czech State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography, represented by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín a.s. Capricious Summer © 1967. The Joke © 1968. All rights reserved. © 2012 The Criterion Collection. All rights reserved. Cat. no. ECL151. ISBN 978-1-60465-581-0. Warning: Unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, or copying is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in USA. First printing 2012.

SERIES 32: PEARLS OF THE CZECH NEW WAVE

CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (Rozmarné léto)

Two years after his worldwide hit Closely Watched Trains, Jirí Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose carefree summer is interrupted by the arrival of a beautiful young circus performer’s assistant. A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, Capricious Summer is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries.

CAST Dura: Rudolf Hru!ínsky • Durová: Bohumila Myslíková • Major Vlastimil Brodsky • Canon Roch: Franti!ek Rehák • Anna: Jana Drchalová • Ernie: Jirí Menzel

CREDITS Director: Jirí Menzel • Screenplay by: Václav Nyvlt, Jirí Menzel • Script editing: Jan Libora, Vladimír Kalina • Cinematography: Jaromír "ofr • Art direction: Oldrich Bosák • Editor: Jirina Luke!ová • Costumes: Olga Dimitrovová • Music by: Jirí "ust

THE JOKE (!ert)

Jaromil Jire!’s brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel tells the fragmentary tale of a man expelled from the Communist Party because of a political joke. After “rehabilitation” in the mines and a stint in prison, he hatches a revenge plot against the former friend who betrayed him. Completed after the end of the Prague Spring, The Joke was banned, though it’s now acknowledged as one of the Czech New Wave’s greatest works.

CAST Ludvík Jahn: Josef Somr • Helena Zemánkova: Jana Dítetová • Pavel Zemánek: Ludek Munzar • Markéta: Jaroslava Obermaierová • Jaroslav: Milan Svrcina • Alexej: Milo! Rejchrt • Kostka: Evald Schorm • Bro#ová: Vera Kresadlová • Jindra: Michal Pavlata

CREDITS Director: Jaromil Jire! • Assistant director: Eli!ka "tibrová • Screenplay by: Milan Kundera, Jaromil Jire! • From the novel by: Milan Kundera • Cinematography: Jan Curík • Art direction: Ladislav Winkelhöffer, Karel Kracík • Editor: Josef Valu!iak • Costumes: Helena Any#ová, Zdena "najdarová • Music by: Zdenek Pololáník

SERIES 33THE CRUDE, RUDE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT DOWNEY SR.

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