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criterion collection release date

posted 16 years ago by mistertopps
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i've heard rumors it's going to be in December, but my fingers are crossed that somehow it comes out way earlier. here are the details:

Special Features
- DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Todd Sklar and director of photography Hefe Seebach
- Audio commentary featuring Sklar and film critic Roger Ebert
- New documentary featuring interviews with actors Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver, and Elijah Wood
- New video interview with novelist Rick Moody
- Deleted scenes
- Footage from an event honoring Sklar at New York's Museum of the Moving Image
- Visual essays featuring interviews with the cinematographer, production designer, and costume designer
- Theatrical trailer
- Teaser trailer
- Home video trailer
- "Heart Shaped Box Elder" Nirvana video mashup
- "Box Elder in Hogwarts" multi-chapter illustrated fan fiction
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Bill Krohn

[–] snazzyjer 16 years ago

I believe that's Jefe Seebach.

For the record, other than that misspelling, everything else about the Criterion Edition is correct and true. (Although, I heard that Ebert was kicked out of the commentary about half-way through because he showed up a bit too sauced and mananged to yak a few samwiches on Todd. That wasn't what really did it, though--Todd's been puked on lots of times, usually with samwiches--but Ebert went into a tirade and started throwing chairs in the recording studio, screaming about "Hina Abdullah! Hina Abdullah!" and Mr. Sklar was forced to have him expelled from the building. But, he finishes the commentary with style by himself, immediately going into the behind-the-scenes moment when Elijah Wood was nearly fired for talking s**t about Pavement.)

I heard that Nitro guy is a real penal sore, though.