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THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS

BABETTE’S FEAST

“A fable told with passion, intelligence, and sumptuousness.”

—The Los Angeles Times

“Still the gold standard of food movies.” —San Francisco Examiner

THE MOST DELICIOUS FILM EVER MADE— IN A DEFINITIVE COLLECTOR’S EDITION

At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film

about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved cinematic treasure. Directed by

GABRIEL AXEL and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, this is the layered tale of a French housekeeper

with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly

pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark. Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an

indescribably moving depiction of pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New interview with actor Stéphane Audran

• Karen Blixen: Storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author of the film’s source story, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen

• New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda

• New interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson about the significance of cuisine in French culture

• Trailer

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu and Dinesen’s 1950 story

1987 • 103 mInUTES • CoLoR • 2.0 SURRoUnD • In DAnISH, FREnCH, AnD SwEDISH wITH EngLISH SUBTITLES • 1.66:1 ASpECT RATIo

WINNER BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM,

ACADEMY AwARDS, 1987

WINNER BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND

TELEVISION AwARDS, 1987

WINNER PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY,

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 1987

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THE DEVIL’s BACKBonE

“A scary, exquisitely shot—and very well acted—ghost story/political allegory.”

—Lou Lumenick, New York Post

“Genuine creepiness, drafted by one of the prime purveyors of intelligent horror.”

—John Anderson, Newsday

THE ACCLAIMED HORROR FILM FROM GUILLERMO DEL TORO

The most personal film by GUILLERMO DEL TORO (Cronos) is also among his most frightening and

emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale

of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage

full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical

melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us—as would his later Pan’s Labyrinth—that the scariest

monsters are often the human ones.

DIRECTOR-AppROvED SpECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digital film restoration, approved by director

Guillermo del Toro and cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• Audio commentary featuring Del Toro

• Video introduction by Del Toro from 2010

• New interviews with Del Toro about the process of creating the ghost Santi and the drawings and designs made in preparation for the film

• ¿Que es un fantasma?, a 2004 making-of documentary

• Spanish Gothic, a 2010 interview with Del Toro about the genre and its influence on his work

• Interactive director’s notebook, with Del Toro’s drawings and handwritten notes, along with interviews with the filmmaker

• Four deleted scenes, with optional commentary

• New featurette about the Spanish Civil War as evoked in the film

• Program comparing Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez’s storyboards with the final film

• Selected on-screen presentation of Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches alongside the sections of the final film they represent (Blu-ray edition only)

• Trailer

• New English subtitle translation

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Kermode

2001 • 108 mInUTEs • CoLoR • 5.1 sURRoUnD • In sPAnIsH wITH EngLIsH sUBTITLEs • 1.85:1 AsPECT RATIo

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tHE ICE StoRM

“Elegant and deeply disquieting.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“A stunning achievement. Like all great films, this one takes a piece out of you.”

—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

A BRILLIANT PEEK INTO SUBURBAN 1970S AMERICA FROM TWO-TIME

OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR ANG LEE

Suburban Connecticut, 1973. While Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speech drones from the TV, the

Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentment,

sexual tension, and cultural confusion. With clarity, subtlety, and a dose of wicked humor, Academy

Award–winning director ANG LEE (Life of Pi) renders Rick Moody’s acclaimed novel of upper-middle-class

American malaise as a trenchant, tragic cinematic portrait of lost souls. Featuring a tremendous cast of

established actors (KEVIN KLINE, JOAN ALLEN, SIGOURNEY WEAVER) and rising stars (TOBEY MAGUIRE, CHRISTINA RICCI, ELIJAH WOOD, KATIE HOLMES) The Ice Storm is among the finest films of the 1990s.

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

and approved by director Ang Lee and director of photography Frederick Elmes, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• Audio commentary featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus

• Documentary featuring interviews with actors Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver, and Elijah Wood

• Interview with novelist Rick Moody

• Deleted scenes

• Footage from a 2007 event honoring Lee and Schamus at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image

• Visual essays featuring interviews with the film’s cinematographer and production and costume designers

• Theatrical trailer

• PLUS: An essay by critic Bill Krohn

1997 • 113 MInUtES • CoLoR • 2.0 SURRoUnd • 1.85:1 ASpECt RAtIo

WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY,

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 1997

WINNER BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

(SIGOURNEY WEAVER), BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND

TELEVISION AWARDS, 1997

NOMINEE BEST SCREENPLAY,

WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS, 1997

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tHE LIFE oF oHARU

“A near perfect work. Stately, controlled, and impeccably constructed.”

—Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

“The Holy Grail of Japanese cinema.” —Ed Gonzalez, Slant

A LONG UNAVAILABLE MASTERPIECE OF JAPANESE CINEMA, IN A NEW RESTORATION

A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about

the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout its history, KENJI MIZOGUCHI (Ugetsu) had

already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu in 1952. But this epic portrait

of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the incredibly talented KINUYO TANAKA (The Ballad of Narayama)

as an imperial lady-in-waiting who gradually descends to street prostitution, was the movie that gained its

director international attention, ushering in a new golden period for him.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New high-definition digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• Introductory commentary by scholar Dudley Andrew

• Mizoguchi’s Art and the Demimonde, an illustrated audio essay featuring Andrew

• Kinuyo Tanaka’s New Departure, a 2009 film by Koko Kajiyama documenting the actor’s 1949 goodwill tour of the United States

• New English subtitle translation

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez

1952 • 137 mInUtEs • BLAck & wHItE • monAURAL • In JApAnEsE wItH EngLIsH sUBtItLEs • 1.37:1 AspEct RAtIo



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WINNER INTERNATIONAL AWARD,

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, 1952

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LoRD oF THE FLIEs

“Remarkable.” —New Yorker

“An expert shocker, fearsomely realistic and almost unbearably suspenseful.”

—New York Daily News

THE mosT indEliblE AdAPTATion oF THE ClAssiC noVEl,

in A nEW sPECiAl EdiTion!

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director PETER bRooK, William Golding’s legendary

novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at

its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-

cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters’ ids. The result is a rattling

masterpiece, as provocative as its source material.

sPECiAl EdiTion FEATUREs • New, restored 4K digital film transfer, supervised by

cameraman and editor Gerald Feil, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• Audio commentary featuring director Peter Brook, producer Lewis Allen, director of photography Tom Hollyman, and Feil

• Audio recordings of William Golding reading from his novel Lord of the Flies, accompanied by the corresponding scenes from the film

• Deleted scene, with optional commentary and reading by Golding

• Interview with Brook from 2008

• Collection of behind-the-scenes material, featuring home movies, screen tests, outtakes, and stills

• New interview with Feil

• Excerpt from Feil’s 1972 documentary The Empty Space, showcasing Brook’s theater methods

• Something Queer in the Warehouse, a piece composed of never-before-seen footage shot by the boy actors during production, with new voice-over by Tom Gaman, who played Simon

• Trailer

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Geoffrey Macnab and an excerpt from Brook’s book The Shifting Point

1963 • 90 mInUTEs • BLAck & WHITE • monAURAL • 1.37:1 AspEcT RATIo


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