battlebeast
Senior HTF Member
Did you think Criterion would ever consider "The Theif and the Cobbler" by Richard Williams?
They could release "The Recobbled Cut", by filmmaker, artist, and fan of Williams's work Garrett Gilchrist, which is as close to his original vision as possible...
The film has an amazing 50 years of history, and is a masterpiece among animation. The director is still alive to aprove and do a commentary and or intervirews.
There are a treasure trove of bonus features, including "Persistence of Vision", a 2012 documentary by Kevin Schreck, about Richard Williams and the doomed production of The Thief and the Cobbler, which the film calls "the greatest animated film never made."
They could also do a feature on the controversy about it's comparrisons to Disney's Aladdin (or vice versa).
It would be amazing if Criterion could give this film the treatment it so richly deserves... having watched it on you tube, I can only hope this film gets a true release, and not the crap miramax released in 1995.
They could release "The Recobbled Cut", by filmmaker, artist, and fan of Williams's work Garrett Gilchrist, which is as close to his original vision as possible...
The film has an amazing 50 years of history, and is a masterpiece among animation. The director is still alive to aprove and do a commentary and or intervirews.
There are a treasure trove of bonus features, including "Persistence of Vision", a 2012 documentary by Kevin Schreck, about Richard Williams and the doomed production of The Thief and the Cobbler, which the film calls "the greatest animated film never made."
They could also do a feature on the controversy about it's comparrisons to Disney's Aladdin (or vice versa).
It would be amazing if Criterion could give this film the treatment it so richly deserves... having watched it on you tube, I can only hope this film gets a true release, and not the crap miramax released in 1995.