| WHAT:
WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | 12 Angry Men (1957)
November 22nd Criterion Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99 | 
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| WHAT:
WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | 12 Angry Men (Blu-Ray) (1957)
November 22nd Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99 |
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| WHAT:
WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The Rules of the Game (1939)
November 15th Criterion Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99 |
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| WHAT:
WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The Rules of the Game (Blu-Ray) (1939)
November 15th Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99 |
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Criterion has announced November release dates for standard and Blu-Ray versions of 12 Angry Men (1957) and The Rules of the Game (1939).
12 Angry Men was previously released by MGM and comes loaded with the expected Criterion bonus features for such the original TV version from 1955.
Rules will carry over all the features from the previous Criterion release. More details below.
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature-film debuts.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Frank Schaffner’s 1955 television version, with an introduction by Ron Simon, director of the Paley Center for Media Studies
- Twelve Angry Men: From Television to the Big Screen, a video essay by film scholar Vance Kepley comparing the Sidney Lumet and Schaffner versions
- Archival interviews with Lumet
- New interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein
- New interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose
- New interview with cinematographer John Bailey in which he discusses cinematographer Boris Kaufman
- Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1956), a teleplay directed by Lumet and written by Rose
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer and law professor Thane Rosenbaum
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game (La Regle de jeu) is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. Amorous intrigue abounds at a weekend hunting party, where the refusal of one of the guests to play by the class-based rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. Although the original negative was destroyed during World War II, this edition features the fully reconstructed version embraced by audiences and critics around the world as a timeless representation of Jean Renoir's genius.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Introduction to the film by Jean Renoir
- Audio Commentary Written by Film Scholar Alexander Sesonske and Read by Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Version Comparison: Side by Side Analysis of the Two Endings of the Film, Along with an Illustrated Study of Renoir's Shooting Script
- Selected Scene Analysis by Renoir Historian Christopher Faulkner
- Excerpts from Jean Renoir, le patron: La Regle et l'exception (1966), a French Television Program Directed by Jacques Rivette
- Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC Documentary by David Thompson, featuring reflections on Renoir from his family, friends, collaborators, and admirers.
- New video essay about the film's production, release, and later reconstruction.
- Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and re-release of the film.
- Interview with Renoir's son, Alain, an assistant cameraman on the film.
- Interview with The Rules of the Game set designer Max Douy
- 1995 Interview with Actress Mila Parely
- Written tributes to the film and Renoir by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and others.
- PLUS: A 24-page booklet featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske.
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