So, it’s the middle of the month, and cinephiles know what that means. Criterion’s monthly announcement, this time, for the month of February 2012, and what a month it will be.

First, getting it out of the way, there will be one Blu-ray upgrade hitting on February 7th, and it’s a monster.  The combination of Chris Marker films, La Jetee and Sans Soleil will be hitting in wonderfully beautiful HD for the first time.  The release itself had been hinted at recently with an image posted to Criterion’s Facebook page, and will feature interviews with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin (himself a subject of an upcoming Eclipse release), and a video piece on Marker from Chris Darke, along with two bits of a French TV series, looking at the inspiration for the features.