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Finch wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 9:42 pm And surely they're going to do standalone BDs for Anderson's most recent films that they didn't get to yet, if only to avoid complaints from the Blu ray only crowd.

Finch wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 11:43 pm You could still do a nice looking upscale for UHDs of the films that were finished at 2K. Anyone know Anderson is keen on or doesn't like HDR and Dolby Vision? If the 4Ks were to turn out SDR only, then the set becomes less attractive except for the modern scans of his older films. The Rushmore and Tenenbaum BDs are showing their age the most.

Omensetter wrote: Sun May 25, 2025 3:05 am I'm less confident of ever seeing a standalone blu-ray of Hour of the Wolf or The Passion of Anna.

andyli wrote: Sun May 18, 2025 4:38 am And that pool is dwindling fast, with rights to lots of DVD titles now lost to other labels/companies. Of the still in-print DVDs I could see these jump directly to a 4K UHD as newer restorations have since become available: the René Clair films, And God Created Woman, I Know Where I'm Going!, The Shop on Main Street, Closely Watched Train, The Last Wave, Loves of a Blonde, Pépé le moko, Il posto/I fidanzati, Salvatore Giuliano, Stray Dog, the Ozu films, Unfaithfully Yours, Viridiana, Hands Over the City, Sweet Movie, Classe tous risques, La ronde, Le deuxième souffle. But I imagine some of them will be deemed unworthy of the ultimate format.

Now then, the big news today is that the Criterion Collection is working on a 10-film Wes Anderson Collection for release later this year!

Full disclosure… this is something that I’ve actually known was coming for several months, but I’ve held my tongue about it for reasons that will become obvious in a minute.

But Anderson himself has recently confirmed the existence of this project in a new interview connected to his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, with a magazine called Little White Lies.

Specifically, what he’s said is: “I’ve always tried to treat them [meaning his films] as a body of work to some degree, and even now we’re doing a thing with the Criterion Collection, they’re releasing my first ten movies as a box set. I want these movies to all sit together as a set.”

Of course, the films in question are:

Bottle Rocket (1996)
Rushmore (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
The French Dispatch (2021)
And I can indeed confirm now, per our studio sources, that this box set will include newly remastered 4K Ultra HD versions of each of these films.

Now... here’s why I’ve had to hold my tongue about this release: Other than the first film, Bottle Rocket, all of these are Disney-controlled titles. Suffice it to say, I had no desire to jeopardize this release by leaking details too early!

All but two of those films—Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch—are already part of the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray. So those two films will obviously join the Collection now as well on both formats.

Given that Anderson has started talking about this, I would expect some kind of official acknowledgement from Criterion sooner rather than later. The company has already announced their August slate, so the earliest this is likely to street is September. Stay tuned for further details!

Wes Anderson’s first ten features represent twenty-five years of irrepressible creativity, an ongoing ode to outsiders and quixotic dreamers, and a world unto themselves, graced with a mischievous wit and a current of existential melancholy that flows through every captivating frame. This momentous twenty-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the films, over twenty-five hours of special features, and ten illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWENTY-DISC 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES

New 4K digital masters of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, and The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
Ten 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and ten Blu-rays with the films and special features
Over twenty-five hours of special features, including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photography, discussions/analyses, and visual essays
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Essays by Richard Brody, James L. Brooks, Bilge Ebiri, Moeko Fujii, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Geoffrey O’Brien, Martin Scorsese, and Erica Wagner

Design by Beth Mathews

Mr.DarjeelingLimited wrote: Mon Jun 02, 2025 6:47 pm In an interview with Wes Anderson and Sharmila Tagore they confirm that Ray’s Days and Nights In The Forest is coming soon.

Digitized, Subtitled, and Restored documentaries submitted to Criterion. They launched on their streaming service on Feb 1, 2025. A boxed DVD is forthcoming. This is the result of 4 years of work undertaken in the Vulnerable Media Lab by six graduate students, two post-doctoral fellows and three undergraduates. Afro-Cuban filmmaker, Sara Gómez made 19 documentaries and a feature film in Cuba before her very untimely death at 34 in 1974. Her feature film was restored recently by Arsenal Berlin.