


Also in December’s releases are a rock and roll documentary and a poignant look at the life of black teenagers in 1960s Chicago.Ĭriterion Collection is beloved by fans for the 4K restoration the films often get and the exclusive bonus features that come with their edition of the film. New interview with film historian Alexander Horwath.High-definition digital masters, supervised by director Michael Haneke, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks.Even newer films getting released in December, like 2021’s The Velvet Underground, a documentary about the titular band, will come with such features as audio commentary from the filmmakers and outtakes from interviews.ĭIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES December will see 1975’s Cooley High not only get a restored 4K digital transfer approved by the film’s director Michael Schultz, but the film will also come with a new conversation with Schultz, among other features. Documentary about Haneke’s career featuring interviews with the director and actors Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family (Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, and Leni Tanzer) begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke’s chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction. Inspired by a true story, the director’s first theatrical feature finds him fully in command of his style, observing with rigorous, clinical detachment the spiritual emptiness at the heart of consumer culture-and the horror that lurks beneath its placid surfaces.

The Seventh Continent builds to an annihilating encounter with the televisual void that powerfully synthesizes Haneke’s ideas about the link between violence and our culture of manufactured emotion. New interview with author Alicia Malone.New 2K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks.
