Criterion Blu-ray in May: Bergman, Breillat, Chaplin, Clouzot, Demme, Shinoda, Tarkovsky
The Criterion Collection has announced a record seven titles for Blu-ray release in May. On May 3, it will release Fat Girl (А ma soeur; Catherine Breillat, 2001) and Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende; Ingmar Bergman, 1955). A week later, it will release Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986). On May 17, the studio will put out Diabolique (Les diaboliques; Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954) and Pale Flower (Kawaita Hana; Masahiro Shinoda, 1964). And last but not least, May 24 will see BD releases for The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940) and Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972).
Diabolique
Special features include:
Selected-scene commentary by French-film scholar Kelley Conway
New video interview with Serge Bromberg, codirector of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
New video interview with horror film expert Kim Newman
New and improved English subtitle translation
A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty
Fat Girl
Special features include:
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Fat Girl
Two interviews with director Catherine Breillat, one conducted the night after the film's world premiere at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, the other a look back at the film's production and alternate ending
French and U.S. theatrical trailers
A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, a 2001 interview with Breillat, and a piece by Breillat on the title
The Great Dictator
Special features include:
New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin historians Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran
The Tramp and the Dictator (2001), a documentary narrated by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh and featuring interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and a host of others
Two new visual essays, by Chaplin archivist Cecilia Cenciarelli and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
On-set, color production footage shot by Chaplin's half-brother, Sydney
Deleted scene from Chaplin's 1919 film Sunnyside
Theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood and a 1940 article by Chaplin on the film
Pale Flower
Special features include:
New video interview with director Masahiro Shinoda
Selected-scene audio commentary by film scholar Peter Grilli, coproducer of Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
A new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens
Smiles of a Summer Night
Special features include:
Video introduction to the film by director Ingmar Bergman
Video conversation between Bergman scholar Peter Cowie and writer Jцrn Donner, executive producer of Fanny and Alexander
Original theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring an essay by theater and film critic John Simon and a 1961 review by film critic Pauline Kael
Solaris
Special features include:
Audio essay by Andrei Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie, coauthors of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
Nine deleted and alternate scenes
Video interviews with actress Natalya Bondarchuk, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, art director Mikhail Romadin, and composer Eduard Artemyev
Excerpt from a documentary about Stanislaw Lem, the author of the film's source novel
A booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate and an appreciation by director Akira Kurosawa
Something Wild
Special features include:
New video interviews with Demme and writer E. Max Frye
Original theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic David Thompson
. А если серьезно, спасибо за инфу, как-то я проморгал новости по этому релизу 
. Братья Янги, конечно, разорят когда-нибудь своих фанов (типа меня), но судя по картинкам и описанию - релиз будет стоящий.
