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...theaters, but they are surviving, thriving, soaring on DVD. As Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for The Chicago Reader and DVD reviewer for cinema-scope.com, noted, there's a wealth of international cinema out there, including films that never play in American theaters or film festivals - and it's all on disc, to be rented or bought, either online or at the more comprehensive video stores...
...most enduring obsession is DVDs, since it's just the product-line expression of my lifelong fascination with movies. So it was only a matter of time before I found my way to Criterion, the DVD company that grew out of the Janus film collection and Voyager/Criterion laser disc...
...during its interval as a laser disc company that Criterion virtually invented the DVD as we know it. Over the years the Criterion collection has developed beyond its origins with the Janus inventory to become a very well selected group of more than 300 titles, almost always produced to standards that very few other DVD companies bother with...
...impeccable transfers or that they have helped to reassemble or restore a host of films by great directors. It's that they surround these films with fascinating extras. It's not unusual for a Criterion set to include radio broadcast versions of the film, interviews filmed especially for the disc, alternate versions, lucid and useful commentary tracks, sometimes more than one, and a printed edition of any published work that a film was based on. (Check out the volume of Raymond Carver stories packaged with Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Eric Rohmer's short-story versions of the films...
...with Renoir's approval, to 106 minutes. This is the version released by Criterion, but in a superb high definition digital restoration that removed thousands of scratches, stains and other defects, and with enhanced subtitles that translate more dialogue than earlier versions. Extras include interviews shot especially for the disc with Renoir's son, with the film's set designer and with one of its stars, Mila Parely, as well as British and French TV documentaries about the director. The audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by director Peter Bogdanovich is a model...