The Criterion Collection
begins the New Year on Jan. 2 with a new 4K restoration of director John
Hughes’ 1985 “Brat Pack” gem, The Breakfast Club, which will be
available as both a double-disc DVD release as well as a Blu-ray edition.
Bonus features include a
vintage commentary track (2008) featuring Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and John
(Judd Nelson), newly-minted video sessions with Claire (Molly Ringwald) and
Allison (Ally Sheedy), the 2008 feature-length making-of documentary titled Sincerely
Yours, a featurette with Judd Nelson reading John Hughes’ production
notes, 50 minutes worth of “never-before-seen” deleted and extended scenes and
more.
The following week, Jan.
9, The Criterion Collection is back with both DVD (double-disc) and Blu-ray
editions of auteur filmmaker John Ford’s 1939 film release of Young
Mr. Lincoln, starring Henry Fonda as future president Abraham Lincoln,
with Marjorie Weaver as Mary Todd.
This new 4K restoration
sports a new commentary option featuring author and film scholar Joseph
McBride, who has written two books on the film career of John Ford — “Searching
for John Ford: A Life” and “John Ford” — vintage audio interviews with both
Henry Fonda and John Ford conduced by Henry Fonda’ grandson, Dan Ford, a radio dramatization
and more.
On Jan. 16 look for the
double-disc DVD and Blu-ray debut of director Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, starring
stand-up comedian Dave Johns in his award-winning feature film debut as the
title character, who finds himself in a no-win battle again the British health
care bureaucracy.
The ARR works out 228
days and domestic box office receipts for this British import’s arthouse run
were $258,168.
Bonus goodies include
commentary from screenwriter Paul Laverty, deleted scenes and two
feature-length documentaries — How to Make a Ken Loach Film and Versus:
The Life and Films of Ken Loach.
Rounding out the January
of 2018 release calendar from The Criterion Collection are DVD and Blu-ray
editions of German filmmaker G.W. Pabst’s early 1930s film releases, Kameradschaft
and Westfront
1918 (both are in German with English subtitles and will be available
on Jan. 30) and a four-film collection on DVD being released under the Eclipse
Series titled Claude Autant-Lara: Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France
(these are: Le Mariage de Chiffon, Lettres D'Amour, Douce
and Sylvie
et le Fantome) … they are presented in French with English subtitles.
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