Sunday, July 8, 2012

Criterion releases NEW DVDs on Blu-ray: on DVD And Everything is Going Fine plus extras such as Sex and Death to the Age 14 AND also on DVD, Gray's Anatomy with extras such as A Personal History of the American Theater, a ninety-five-minute monologue and Swimming to the Macula (video of the eye operation Spalding had - not really for the squeamish) From Criterion.com: And Everything is Going Fine "New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Making of And Everything Is Going Fine, featuring director Steven Soderbergh, producer Kathie Russo, and editor Susan Littenberg Sex and Death to the Age 14, Spalding Gray’s first monologue, created in 1979 and filmed in 1982 Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer Nell Casey, editor of The Journals of Spalding Gray " Gray's Anatomy "New high definition digital transfer, supervised by director Steven Soderbergh, with a remastered 5.1 mix presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition New interviews with Soderbergh and monologue cowriter RenĂ©e Shafransky A Personal History of the American Theater, a ninety-five-minute monologue by Spalding Gray, originally produced by the Wooster Group in 1980 and videotaped in 1982 Swimming to the Macula, sixteen minutes of footage from Gray’s actual eye surgery Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin" Suggested list price for each Blu-ray is $31.96. There are also editions with only And Everything is Going Fine or Gray's Anatomy for $23.96 Note: Only Gray's Anatomy has previously been released. Everything else has never been released.