A big month for re-releases for Criterion, as they tentatively have three previously available films being put out in much bigger and better editions.

Playtime 

   SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
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   All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   Video introduction by writer, director, and performer Terry Jones
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   Selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp
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   Au-del de "Playtime," a short documentary featuring archival behind-the-scenes footage from the set
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   Tati Story, a short biographical film about Tati
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   Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulots Work, a 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati
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   Rare audio interview with Tati from the U.S. debut of Playtime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival
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   Video interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot
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   Cours du soir, a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati
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   Alternate international soundtrack
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   New and improved English subtitle translation
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   PLUS: A new essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Amarcord

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
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   All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
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   American release trailer
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   Deleted scene
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   Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
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   New and improved English subtitle translation
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   New 45-minute documentary, Fellinis Homecoming, on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
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   Video interview with star Magali Nol
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   Fellinis drawings of characters in the film
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   Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord from the collection of Don Young
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   Audio interviews with Fellini, his friends, and family by Gideon Bachmann
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   New restoration demonstration
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   PLUS: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, author of Fellini Lexicon, and the full text of Fellinis 1967 essay, My Rimini"

Seven Samurai 

   SPECIAL EDITION THREE-DISC SET FEATURES
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   All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   Two audio commentaries: one by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie; the other by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck
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   A 50-minute documentary on the making of Seven Samurai, part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
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   My Life in Cinema, a two-hour video conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima produced by the Directors Guild of Japan
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   Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a new documentary lookimg at the samurai traditions and films that impacted Kurosawa's masterpiece
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   Theatrical trailers and teaser
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   Gallery of rare posters and behind-the scenes and production stills
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   New and improved English subtitle translation
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   PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Peter Cowie, Philip Kemp, Peggy Chiao, Alain Silver, Kenneth Turan, Stuart Galbraith, Arthur Penn, and Sindey Lumet and an interview with Toshiro Mifune
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   More!

and the first time on DVD group

Spirit of the Beehive

New, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   The Footprints of a Spirit, a documentary featuring director Vctor Erice, producer Elas Querejeta, coscreenwriter ngel Fernndez-Santos, and actor Ana Torrent
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   Vctor Erice in Madrid, an interview with the director
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   Interview with film scholar Linda Ehrlich
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   Interview with actor Fernando Fernn Gmez
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   New and improved English subtitle translation
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   PLUS: a new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith

Jigoku 

   New, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   Building the Inferno, a new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, featuring exclusive interviews with the late actor Yoichi Numata, screenwriter Ichiro Miyagawa, Nakagawa collaborators Chiho Katsura and Kensuke Suzuki, and Cure and Doppelganger director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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   Theatrical trailer
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   Galleries of posters from selected Nakagawa and Shintoho studio films
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   New and improved English subtitle translation
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   Plus: A new essay by noted Asian-cinema critic Chuck Stephens