Press Release Criterion Press Release: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[titch]

Since it's usually only people moaning about (what they perceive as) terrible cover designs, who post on thread forums, I'd like to say that the cover design for this set is really inspired!

 

[Moleman X]

I can't remember the last time I wanted EVERY disc in a Criterion announcement. I will have to wait for a sale for some of these or get divorced, but Freaks is a day one.
The Others / Nanny / Don't Look Now 4K / Videodrome 4K, be patient...

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Preorder is live. See post #2

 

[octobercountry]

Preorder is live. See post #2

Huh, at the moment all I'm getting on Amazon is a "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." statement, with no preorder button. Though, I'm sure the preorder option will be back soon enough...

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Huh, at the moment all I'm getting on Amazon is a "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." statement, with no preorder button. Though, I'm sure the preorder option will be back soon enough...

There is a long history of Amazon preorders going up, disappearing, and then reappearing again hours/days later. The preorder was working at the time it was posted.

 

[warnerbro]

FREAKS (1932) coming to bluray on Criterion along with THE UNKNOWN (1927) with tons of extras! What do y'all think?

COMING October 17, 2023.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 2K RESTORATION OF FREAKS, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• NEW 2K RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION OF THE UNKNOWN by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip Carli
• NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE MYSTIC, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley
• Audio commentaries on Freaks and The Unknown and an introduction to The Mystic by film scholar David J. Skal
• New interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror
• Archival documentary on Freaks
• Reading of "Spurs," the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based
• Prologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947
• Program on the alternate endings to Freaks
• Video gallery of portraits from Freaks
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme

 

[Robert Harris]

FREAKS (1932) coming to bluray on Criterion along with THE UNKNOWN (1927) with tons of extras! What do y'all think?

COMING October 17, 2023.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 2K RESTORATION OF FREAKS, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• NEW 2K RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION OF THE UNKNOWN by the George Eastman Museum, with a new score by composer Philip Carli
• NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE MYSTIC, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley
• Audio commentaries on Freaks and The Unknown and an introduction to The Mystic by film scholar David J. Skal
• New interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror
• Archival documentary on Freaks
• Reading of "Spurs," the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based
• Prologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947
• Program on the alternate endings to Freaks
• Video gallery of portraits from Freaks
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme

What do I think?

I’m wondering why Freaks would be a 2k restoration?

 

[warnerbro]

They have a two minute clip on the Criterion site that looks sensational.

Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers

The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling...

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