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ARTWORK ADDED: From Here to Eternity (Blu-Ray)

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ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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From Here to Eternity (Blu-Ray)
October 1st
Sony
Retail: $19.99, Our: $15.99

Sony has announced an October 1st release date for From Here to Eternity (Blu-Ray).

Although not promoted as such, the studio has timed this Blu release of 1953's Oscar winner for best picture to coincide with its 60th anniversary. Most of the bonus features from the DVD release will carry over.

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In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio (Frank Sinatra) tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster) and Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr) tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Winner of eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting awards for Sinatra in a career-defining role and for Donna Reed as a not-so-wholesome "club hostess."

BONUS FEATURES:

Audio Commentary from Tim Zinnemann and Alvin Sargent
Featurette: The Making of From Here to Eternity
Excerpt from "Fred Zinnemann: As I See It"

From Here to Eternity (Blu-Ray) in October

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From Here to Eternity (Blu-Ray)
October 1st
Sony
Retail: $19.99, Our: $15.99

Audio Commentary from Tim Zinnemann and Alvin Sargent
Featurette: The Making Of From Here To Eternity
Excerpt from "Fred Zinnemann: As I See It"

CRITERION BLU: 12 Angry Men, Rules of the Game in November

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12 Angry Men (1957)
November 22nd
Criterion
Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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12 Angry Men (Blu-Ray) (1957)
November 22nd
Criterion
Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99

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The Rules of the Game (1939)
November 15th
Criterion
Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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The Rules of the Game (Blu-Ray) (1939)
November 15th
Criterion
Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99

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

The Rules of the Game
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.