Criterion Bottle Rocket? (1 Viewer)

[Henry Gale]

Dignan: "Okay. There, you see the star is me, right there, and I'll be in there. The X is Anthony. Bob, you're the zero out here in the car."

 

[BarryS]

boy what a strange movie

Is this your first Wes Anderson movie? Bottle Rocket is probably his least strange movie.

 

[joshEH]

Yeah...it's the film I use most often to introduce the great unwashed to his works (occasionally, but not always, they've already heard of Rushmore).

 

[MatthewHA]

See post #11 on the previous page.

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

Well that was said in 2005... almost 3 years ago.

And it has since been confirmed by the director himself. So I'm not sure that statement still holds any merit.

 

[seanOhara]

It's official! Criterion just sent an email announcing their Blu-Ray line, including the first dozen titles. Ten of them are films they already put out on DVD, but they also include Bottle Rocket and the great El Norte. I can only assume that they'll put those out on regular DVD.

 

[Mike*HTF]

and Chungking Express which is new.

 

[JoshuaB.]

I hope Criterion releases SD DVD releases of their Blu-Ray line (especially Bottle Rocket and Chungking Express), otherwise I might be persuaded to finally but a Blu-Ray player!

 

[mike kaminski]

I'm much more excited about Chungking Express! That movie has so, so long deserved good treatment. The R1 Kino is awful and even the other releases are not much better. Hopefully this time they will get the coloring correct, as the R1 Kino editions of Wong Kar Wai's films often went for a "neutral" color palette. A shame they couldn't pick up the rest of his library.

I'm assuming that SD versions of these will follow (because why wouldn't they?).

 

[ZacharyTait]

Too weird.....

 

[GuruAskew]

It's official! Criterion just sent an email announcing their Blu-Ray line, including the first dozen titles. Ten of them are films they already put out on DVD, but they also include Bottle Rocket and the great El Norte. I can only assume that they'll put those out on regular DVD.

Yeah, it's official that the Blu-ray is coming but until they explicitly announce it on SD-DVD it will be just that, an assumption.

 

[Jeff Newcomb]

They confirmed the SD release many months ago in multiple emails to Criterion forum members. Even the studios can't afford to create discs exclusively for the tiny Blu-Ray market. Criterion certainly can't either.

 

[Mike*HTF]

Interesting point. Aren't there any Blu-Ray exclusive releases?