{"id":481,"date":"2008-05-07T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-05-07T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:57:00","slug":"dvd-news-criterion-goes-bluray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/07\/dvd-news-criterion-goes-bluray\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD News: Criterion Goes BluRay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DVD enthuiasts who subscribe to the Criterion Collection&#8217;s newsletter got a welcome piece of news this evening. The label is planning on releasing titles in the high definition BluRay format starting in October.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the news, cut and pasted directly from the horse&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we\u2019ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what\u2019s in the pipeline:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Third Man<br \/>Bottle Rocket<br \/>Chungking Express<br \/>The Man Who Fell to Earth<br \/>The Last Emperor<br \/>El Norte<br \/>The 400 Blows<br \/>Gimme Shelter<br \/>The Complete Monterey Pop<br \/>Contempt<br \/>Walkabout<br \/>For All Mankind<br \/>The Wages of Fear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of <strong>The Last Emperor<\/strong>, we\u2019ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg\u2019s outback masterpiece at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">DVD enthuiasts who subscribe to the Criterion Collection&#8217;s newsletter got a welcome piece of news this evening. The label is planning on releasing titles in the high definition BluRay format starting in October. Here&#8217;s the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/07\/dvd-news-criterion-goes-bluray\/\" title=\"DVD News: Criterion Goes BluRay\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,7],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"tag-classic-film","7":"tag-dvd-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}