CRITERION: The Killing, Killer's Kiss - Standard & Blu in August

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Killing / Killer's Kiss - Criterion Collection August 16th Criterion Retail $29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Killing / Killer's Kiss (Blu-Ray) - Criterion Collection August 16th Criterion Retail $39.95, Our: $31.99

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More MGM properties are coming from Criterion as they have announced Stanley Kubrick's heist thriller The Killing (1956) in both standard & Blu-Ray for release on August 16th.

Included in the 2-disc standard release and the single disc Blu-Ray, will be 1955's Killer's Kiss. Details below.

SYNOPSIS:
Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, it’s Kubrick to the core.

Includes a restored transfer of Stanley Kubrick’s 1955 noir feature Killer’s Kiss.

BONUS FEATURES:

• New video interview with producer James B. Harris
• Excerpts of interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas
• New video interview with film scholar Robert Polito about writer Jim Thompson and his work on The Killing
• New video appreciation of Killer’s Kiss with film critic Geoffrey O’Brien
• Theatrical trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Haden Guest and a reprinted interview with Marie Windsor on The Killing

CRITERION: Paths of Glory - Standard & Blu in October

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Paths of Glory October 26th Criterion Retail $29.99, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Paths of Glory (Blu-Ray) October 26th Criterion Retail $39.99, Our: $31.99

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Criterion has scheduled an October 26th release date for the Criterion Treatment of Paths of Glory in separate standard and Blu-Ray DVDs.

Each will be a single disc release. Details below.

SYNOPSIS:
A pivotal work by Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory is among the most powerful war films ever made. A fiery Kirk Douglas stars as a French colonel serving in World War I who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission.

This haunting, exquisitely photographed dissection of the military machine in all its absurdity and capacity for dehumanization (a theme Kubrick would continue to explore throughout his career) is assembled with its legendary director’s customary precision, from its tense trench warfare sequences to its gripping courtroom climax to its ravaging final scene.

BONUS FEATURES:

• New audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins
• Television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas
• New video interviews with Kubrick’s longtime executive producer Jan Harlan, Paths of Glory producer James B. Harris, and actress Christiane Kubrick
• Excerpt from a French television program about real-life World War I executions similar to the events dramatized in Paths of Glory
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: An essay by Kubrick scholar James Naremore

Dr. Strangelove (Blu-Ray) Back on Schedule for June

What: Dr. Strangelove (Blu-Ray) - 45th Anniversary Edition When: June 16th Studio: Sony Price: Retail $28.95, Our: $24.99

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Originally scheduled for last December, Sony has now put Dr. Strangelove (Blu-Ray) - 45th Anniversary Edition back on schedule for release on June 16th. Stanley Kubrick's hilarious dark comedy will be on a single disc and retail for $28.95, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $24.99.

SYNOPSIS:
Stanley Kubrick's celebrated black comedy classic about an "accidental" nuclear attack was nominated for four 1964 Academy Awards. Created during a time when the Cold War was at its peak, the film still seems surprisingly relevant today. Convinced the Commies are polluting America's "precious bodily fluids," a crazed General (Sterling Hayden) orders a surprise nuclear air strike on the USSR. His aide Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers) furiously attempts to figure out a recall code to stop the bombing. Meanwhile, the U.S. President (Sellers again) gets on the hot line to convince the drunken Soviet premier that the impending attack is a silly mistake, while the President's advisor (and ex-Nazi scientist) Dr. Strangelove (Sellers once more) confirms the existence of the dreaded Doomsday Machine -- a new secret Soviet retaliatory device guaranteed to end the human race once and for all!

BONUS FEATURES:

• The Cold Facts Graphics-in-Picture/Picture-in-Picture Track (BD Exclusive)
• An Interview with Robert McNamara
• Best Sellers: Peter Sellers Remembered
• Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove
• Inside: Dr. Strangelove
• No Fighting in the War Room or: Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat
• The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove