The Criterion Collection March Line-Up Is ‘Riveting & Complex’
The Criterion Collection continue their mission to deliver classic films in 4K UHD and have their March line-up ready, one that promises to be ‘riveting and complex’.
The Coen brothers‘ coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller, The Man Who Wasn’t There, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand arrives on 4K UHD on March 2nd.
A week later, on March 9th, The Breakfast Club comes to 4K UHD. With its highly quotable dialogue and star-making performances, this exploration of the trials of adolescence became an era-defining pop-culture phenomenon, one whose influence now spans generations.
On the same day, the 1957 version of the thrilling and psychologically complex western 3:10 to Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves and based on a story by Elmore Leonard, comes to 4K UHD.
THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE – Out on March 2nd – New 4K Digital Restoration
The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this cool, profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy Bob Thornton stars as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. The film is shot in expressionistic black and white.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY™ SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton
- New conversation between the Coens and author Megan Abbott
- Archival interview with Deakins
- Short making-of documentary and deleted scenes
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Laura Lippman
New cover by Marc Aspinall
Buy on 4K UHD Special Edition : AMAZON, HMV, ZAVVI andRAREWAVES
THE BREAKFAST CLUB – Out on March 9th New 4K Digital Restoration
What happens when five strangers end up together in Saturday detention? Badass posturing, gleeful misbehavior, and a potent dose of angst, that’s what. With this exuberant, disarmingly candid film, writer-director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off. The Breakfast Club brings together an assortment of adolescent archetypes — the uptight popular girl (Molly Ringwald), the stoic jock (Emilio Estevez), the foulmouthed rebel (Judd Nelson), the virginal bookworm (Anthony Michael Hall) and the kooky recluse (Ally Sheedy) — and watches them shed their personae and emerge into unlikely friendships. With its highly quotable dialogue and star-making performances, this exploration of the trials of adolescence became an era-defining pop-culture phenomenon, one whose influence now spans generations.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY™ SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson
- Interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy and other members of the cast and crew
- Video essay featuring director John Hughes’s production notes, read by Nelson
- Fifty minutes of deleted and extended scenes
- Promotional and archival interviews
- Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes
- Radio interview with Hughes
- Audio interview with Ringwald from an episode of This American Life
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author and critic David Kamp
Cover based on an original theatrical poster by Annie Leibovitz
Buy on 4K UHD: AMAZON, HMV, ZAVVI and RAREWAVES
3:10 TO YUMA – Out on March 9th New 4K Digital Restoration
In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison. This apparently simple mission turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that tests each man’s particular brand of honour. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, 3:10 to Yuma is a thrilling, humane action movie, directed by the supremely talented studio filmmaker Delmer Daves with intense feeling and precision.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Interviews with author Elmore Leonard and actor Glenn Ford’s son and biographer, Peter Ford
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones
Cover by Gregory Manchess
Buy on 4K UHD: AMAZON, HMV, ZAVVI and RAREWAVES
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