Criterion continue their quest to bring internationally acclaimed titles to feature rich DVD and Blu-ray, and their February line-up continues their recent trend for mixing new films to their catalogue with upgrades of their older releases. First up we have Visconti's tragic Technicolor romance Senso, one of Criterion's most requested titles and coming to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time. Then there's a scathing portrait of New York power-play that is the 1957 Sweet Smell of Success, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis and directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The best of recent British and Japanese cinema is represented by Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo). Rounding the collection off are high definition releases of Federico Fellini's 1973 Amarcord and Krzysztof Kieslowski's gorgeous 1991 The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Véronique).

The Double Life of Véronique – Blu-ray ($39.95) – 1st February 2011

This ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition remains one of the most beloved films of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Decalogue, the Three Colours trilogy). Irène Jacob (Three Colours: Red, Othello) is incandescent as both Weronika, a Polish choral soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. Though unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond, which Kieslowski details in gorgeous reflections, color, and movement. The Double Life of Véronique is an unforgettable symphony of feeling.

Featuring a restored high-definition digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, the disc will have the following extras:

• Audio commentary featuring Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski;
• Three short documentaries by Kieslowski: Factory (1970), Hospital (1976), and Railway Station (1980);
• The Musicians (1958), a short film by Kieslowski's teacher Kazimierz Karabasz;
• Kieslowski – Dialogue (1991), a documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieslowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of this film;
• 1966–1988: Kieslowski, Polish Filmmaker, a 2005 documentary tracing the director's work in Poland, from his days as a student through The Double Life of Véronique;
• Video interviews with actress Irène Jacob, cinematographer Sławomir Idziak, and composer Zbigniew Preisner;
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Romney and selections from Kieslowski on Kieslowski.

Amarcord – Blu-ray ($29.95) – 8th February 2011

This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini (La strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8½), satirizes the director's youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord is one of cinema's most delightful treasures.

This new Blu-ray edition will feature a restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack, and the following extras:

• Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke;
• Fellini's Homecoming, a forty-five-minute documentary on director Federico Fellini's complicated relationship to his hometown and past;
• Video interview with star Magali Noël;
• Fellini's drawings of characters in the film;
• Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord;
• Archival audio interviews with Fellini and his friends and family, by film critic Gideon Bachmann;
• Restoration demonstration;
• Deleted scene;
• American release trailer;
• Optional English-dubbed soundtrack;
• A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, author of Fellini Lexicon, and the full text of Fellini's 1967 essay "My Rimini".

Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) – DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.95) – 8th February 2011

The lyrical, profoundly moving Still Walking is the most personal work to date from contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (Maborosi, After Life, Nobody Knows). Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a celebratory ritual that only gradually makes itself clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a family's entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys. Featuring vivid, heartrending performances and a gentle naturalism that harks back to the director's earlier, documentary work, Still Walking is an extraordinary portrayal of the ties that bind us.

This director-approved special edition features a new high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Hirokazu Kore-eda and director of photography Yutaka Yamazaki, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, plus the following extras:

• New video interviews with Kore-eda and Yamazaki;
• Making Still Walking;
• Trailer;
• New and improved English subtitle translation;
• A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Dennis Lim and recipes for the food prepared in the film.

Sweet Smell of Success – DVD ($39.95) and Blu-ray ($39.95) – 22nd February 2011

In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick (The Ladykillers), Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets (Notorious, Bigger Than Life) and Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest, The Sound of Music) and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe (The Thin Man, Yankee Doodle Dandy), Sweet Smell of Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan.

Both discs feature a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, plus the following extras:

• New audio commentary by film scholar James Naremore;
• Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, a 1986 documentary featuring interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and more;
• James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe;
• New video interview with film critic and historian Neil Gabler (Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker;
• New video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor;
• Original theatrical trailer;
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins, two short stories by Ernest Lehman featuring the characters from the film, notes about the film by Lehman, and an excerpt from Mackendrick's book On Film-making.

Fish Tank – DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.95) – 22nd February 2011

British director Andrea Arnold (Red Road) won the Cannes Jury Prize for the searing and invigorating Fish Tank, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the depressed housing projects of Essex. Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach boiling points when her mother's new boyfriend (a lethally attractive Michael Fassbender) enters the picture. In her young career, Arnold has already proven herself to be a master of social realism (evoking the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach), investing her sympathetic portraits of dead-end lives with a poetic, earthy sensibility all her own. Fish Tank heralds the official arrival of a major new filmmaker.

Featuring a new high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Andrea Arnold, director of photography Robbie Ryan, and editor Nicolas Chaudeurge, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, plus the following extras:

• All three of Arnold's short films: Milk (1998), Dog (2001), and the Oscar-winning Wasp (2003);
• New video interview with actor Kierston Wareing;
• Interview with actor Michael Fassbender from 2009;
• Audition footage;
• Stills gallery by on-set photographer Holly Horner;
• Original theatrical trailer;
• A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie.

Senso – DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.95) – 22nd February 2011

This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti (Le notti bianche, The Leopard) stars Alida Valli (The Third Man, Eyes Without a Face) as a nineteenth-century Italian countess who, amid the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant, played by Farley Granger (Rope, Strangers on a Train). Gilded with fearless performances, ornate costumes and sets, and a rich classical soundtrack, Visconti's operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust from one of the cinema's great sensualists.

With a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, created in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna and Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, both discs will have the following extras:

• The Making of Senso, a new documentary featuring Rotunno, assistant director Francesco Rosi, costume designer Piero Tosi, and Caterina D'Amico, daughter of screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico and author of Life and Work of Luchino Visconti;
• Viva VERDI, a new documentary on Visconti, Senso, and opera featuring Italian film scholar Peter Brunette, Italian historian Stefano Albertini, and author Wayne Koestenbaum;
• The Wanton Countess, the rarely seen English-language version of the film;
• Visual essay by film scholar Peter Cowie;
• Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti, a 1966 BBC special exploring Visconti's parallel masteries of cinema, theater, and opera direction;
• New and improved English subtitle translation;
• A booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker and author Mark Rappaport and an excerpt from actor Farley Granger's autobiography, Include Me Out.