My Criterion Collection newsletter told me this:

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber (THAT’S ME! - ed.),

We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.

Holy shit, people. This is going to be amazing. Here’s the list of their first 13 Blu-ray titles:

The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear

This is all good stuff, but I’m really looking forward to Chungking Express and Walkabout, which apparently will have a new transfer.

Spread the word!