Criterion Announces First Blu-Ray Titles

Criterion is going High Def and has just announced their first lineup of Blu-Ray titles. The good news came via the Criterion subscriber’s news letter. Right off the bat I’m glad to see Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket, a film that’s been begging for a Criterion release for years. The email follows, with the rest of the announced titles.

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,

We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.

Here’s what’s in the pipeline:

- The Third Man
- Bottle Rocket
- Chungking Express
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
- The Last Emperor
- El Norte
- The 400 Blows
- Gimme Shelter
- The Complete Monterey Pop
- Contempt
- Walkabout
- For All Mankind
- The Wages of Fear