On May 11, the illustrious studio will release Fritz Lang's psychological thriller
M on Blu-ray. A week later, Nicolas Roeg's
Walkabout will hit shelves on DVD/Blu-ray. Finally, on May 25, Criterion will release John Ford's classic western
Stagecoach and By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two on DVD/Blu-ray.
M Blu-ray
Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork
M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
Extras include:
- Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes and Eric Rentschler
- The long-lost English-language version of M
- Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
- Conversation with Fritz Lang, a fifty-minute film by William Friedkin
- Claude Chabrol's short film M le maudit, plus a video interview with Chabrol
- Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing M and its history, set to clips from the film
- Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
- Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos and production sketches
- A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with director Fritz Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles
Walkabout
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg.
Extras include:
- Audio commentary featuring director Nicolas Roeg and actress Jenny Agutter
- Video interviews with Agutter and actor Luc Roeg
- Gulpilil-One Red Blood (2002), an hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by author Paul Ryan
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