First, on June 15, the studio will release Mystery Train (1989) on DVD/Blu-ray, with a transfer supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition).
Extras inlcude:
- Two video Q&As with Jarmusch, one from the 2009 All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New York and one in which he responds to questions sent in by fans
- Original documentary on Mystery Train's locations and Memphis's rich social and musical history
- On-set photos by Masayoshi Sukita, and behind-the-scenes photos
- A booklet featuring essays by writers Peter Guralnick and Dennis Lim, as well as a collectible poster
On June 22nd, they will release Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's fiction-documentary hybrid Close-Up (1990) on DVD/Blu-ray, with a new, restored high-definition digital transfer.
Extras include:
- Audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, authors of Abbas Kiarostami
- The Traveler, a notable early feature by director Abbas Kiarostami
- 'Close-Up' Long Shot, a forty-five-minute documentary on Close-up’s central figure, Hossein Sabzian, five years after Kiarostami’s film
- New video interview with Kiarostami
- A Walk with Kiarostami (2003), a thirty-two-minute documentary portrait of the director by Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akrami
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Godfrey Cheshire
On June 22nd, they will also release Antonioni's classic Red Desert (1964) on DVD/Blu-ray, with a new, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition).
Extras include:
- Audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs
- Archival video interviews with director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti
- Outtakes from the film's production
- Original theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Mark Le Fanu, an interview with Antonioni by Jean-Luc Godard, and a reprinted essay by Antonioni on his use of color
On June 29th, they will release Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments (2008) on DVD/Blu-ray, with a new, restored high-definition digital transfer.
Extras include:
- Jan Troell's Magic Mirror, an hour-long documentary about Troell's life and career
- Short documentary on the making of Everlasting Moments, featuring interviews with Troell, cast, and crew
- Documentary featuring photographs by the real Maria Larsson, accompanied by narration telling her story
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Armond White
On June 29, they will also release Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (1963) on Blu-ray for the first time, with a transfer supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno.
Extras include:
- Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie
- A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, an hour-long documentary featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D'Amico, Rotunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others
- Video interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo
- Video interview with professor Millicent Marcus on the history behind The Leopard
- Original theatrical trailers and newsreels
- Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
- A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Michael Wood
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