Virgin Suicides Criterion

French band Air‘s soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s 1999 film The Virgin Suicides will be reissued as a limited edition five-disc super deluxe edition box set this June. The album has been remastered and the box set will include the soundtrack pressed onto 180g red vinyl, a picture disc live album (previously unreleased and exclusive to the box), the Playground Love EP also pressed onto 180g red vinyl and two CDs. The CDs consist of the album, along with a couple of studio outtakes, and the aforementioned previously unreleased live album. Fans of nick-knacks will be pleased to hear that this comes with posters and a replica laminate VIP pass. A download card includes all the audio.The original soundtrack will also be available as a single LP on 180-gram vinyl and of course as you might expect, the two-CD deluxe edition will also be widely available separately.

In these three delightful documentaries—The Great Chase, a rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences, The Love Goddesses, a look at cinema's most alluring female sex symbols, and Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, an Oscar-winning remembrance of the ground-breaking American stage and screen star—director Saul J. Turell pays tribute to the movies in engaging, eclectic ways.

The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive “teleplays” constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to all of America. The award-winning programs included in this box set – originally curated for PBS in the early 1980s as the series The Golden Age of Television, featuring recollections from key cast and crew members – were conceived by such up-and-comers as Rod Serling and John Frankenheimer and star the likes of Paul Newman, Mickey Rooney, Rod Steiger, Julie Harris, and Piper Laurie.

A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for the murders of her father and brother and the rape of her mother, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, Toshiya Fujita’s pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance are bloody, beautiful extravaganzas composed of one elegant widescreen composition after another. The first Lady Snowblood was a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, and both of Fujita’s films remain cornerstones of Asian action cinema.

Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and exceptional works, created as World War II raged. All gripping dramas, those rare first films - Sanshiro Sugata; The Most Beautiful; Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two; and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail - are collected here and include a two-part martial arts saga, a portrait of female volunteers helping the war effort, and a kabuki-derived tale of deception. These captivating films are a glorious introduction to a peerless career.

Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee.