NOVEMBER 2021 NEW RELEASES - THE CRITERION COLLECTION
THE CRITERION COLLECTION has announced its November slate of 4K UHD BLU-RAY and BLU-RAY releases. They are: CITIZEN KANE (1941), MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001), MENACE II SOCIETY (1993)/UHD BLU-RAY and BLU-RAY, LA STRADA (1954), ONCE UPON a TIME IN CHINA: THE COMPLETE FILMS (1991-1997)/BLU-RAY.
クライテリオンから届いた2021年11月の4K UHD BLU-RAY & BLU-RAYリリース・アナウンス。いよいよテイクオフとなるUHD BLU-RAYは3タイトルとなります(BLU-RAYTのカップリング/Slipbox & DigiPack 仕様)。
4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO RELEASE
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO RELEASE
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- DOLBY VISION/HDR 10 PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Three audio commentaries: from 2021 featuring Orson Welles scholars James Naremore and Jonathan Rosenbaum; from 2002 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; and from 2002 featuring film critic Roger Ebert
- The Complete "Citizen Kane," (1991), a rarely seen feature-length BBC documentary
- New interviews with critic Farran Smith Nehme and film scholar Racquel J. Gates
- New video essay by Orson Welles scholar Robert Carringer
- New program on the film's special effects by film scholars and effects experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
- Interviews from 1990 with editor Robert Wise; actor Ruth Warrick; optical-effects designer Linwood Dunn; Bogdanovich; filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Henry Jaglom, Martin Ritt, and Frank Marshall; and cinematographers Allen Daviau, Gary Graver, and Vilmos Zsigmond
- New documentary featuring archival interviews with Welles
- Interviews with actor Joseph Cotten from 1966 and 1975
- The Hearts of Age, a brief silent film made by Welles as a student in 1934
- Television programs from 1979 and 1988 featuring appearances by Welles and Mercury Theatre producer John Houseman
- Program featuring a 1996 interview with actor William Alland on his collaborations with Welles
- Selection of The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio plays featuring many of the actors from Citizen Kane
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a book with an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- 4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO RELEASE
- DOLBY VISION/HDR 10 PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- 4K RESTORATION, supervised by director David Lynch and director of photography Peter Deming, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Interviews from 2015 with Lynch; Deming; actors Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, and Laura Harring; composer Angelo Badalamenti; production designer Jack Fisk; and casting director Johanna Ray
- On-set footage
- Deleted scene
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an interview with Lynch from the 2005 edition of filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley's book Lynch on Lynch
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY COMBO RELEASE
- NEW 4K RESTORATION of the directors' cut of the film, supervised by cinematographer Lisa Rinzler and codirector Albert Hughes, with 7.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- DOLBY VISION/HDR 10 PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Original 2.0 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Two audio commentaries from 1993 featuring directors Albert and Allen Hughes
- Gangsta Vision, a 2009 featurette on the making of the film
- New conversation among Albert Hughes, screenwriter Tyger Williams, and film critic Elvis Mitchell
- New conversation among Allen Hughes, actor and filmmaker Bill Duke, and Mitchell
- Interview from 1993 with the directors
- Deleted scenes
- Film-to-storyboard comparison
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Craig D. Lindsey