Criterion has announced June street dates for They Live By Night (1948), The Lodger (1927) and Ugetsu (1954) with all three films making their Blu debut.

They Live By Night, originally dropped in 2007 from Warner as a double feature with its 1950 companion Side Street, is receiving its introduction into the Criterion Collection. The Lodger was released on DVD via MGM in 2009. Ugetsu was initially released via Criterion in 2005.

Each Blu will be single-disc while The Lodger and Ugetsu's DVDs will be 2-disc sets.

Bonus features are planned to accompany each disc (below).

Ugetsu arrives on June 6th, They Live By Night on June 13th and The Lodger on June 27th.

They Live By Night

Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs.

When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie's fellow outlaws, who aren't about to let him go straight, they realize there's nowhere left to run.

Ray brought an outsider's sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come.

BONUS FEATURES:

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger
• New video interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith
• Short piece from 2007 with film critic Molly Haskell, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone, and film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini
• Illustrated audio interview excerpts from 1956 with producer John Houseman
• PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz

The Lodger

With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city.

The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions. In this edition, The Lodger is accompanied by Downhill, another 1927 silent exploration of Hitchcock's 'wrong man' trope, also headlined by Novello-making for a double feature that reveals the great master of the macabre as he was just coming into his own.

BONUS FEATURES:

• 2K digital restoration, with a new score by composer Neil Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's
• Downhill, director Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 feature film starring Ivor Novello, in a 2K digital restoration with a new piano score by Brand
• New interview with film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock's visual signatures
• New video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock's use of architecture
• Excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963)
• Radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock
• New interview with Brand on composing for silent film
• PLUS: Essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp

Ugetsu

Having refined his craft in the silent era, Kenji Mizoguchi was an elder statesman of Japanese cinema-fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other younger directors-by the time he made Ugetsu. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.

BONUS FEATURES:

• New 4K digital restoration undertaken by The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary by filmmaker, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
• Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), a 150-minute documentary by Kaneto Shindo
• Two Worlds Intertwined, a 2005 appreciation of Ugetsu by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda
• Process and Production, a 2005 interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu
• Interview from 1992 with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa
• Trailers
• An essay by film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film