The Criterion Collection Announces November Release Slate Highlighted By 4K Ultra HD Editions Of The Last Picture Show And Days Of Heaven

The Criterion Collection announced its November slate of new film restorations and bubbling right to the top of the list is none other than auteur filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 film adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s 1966 novel, The Last Picture Show.

Best Picture and seven additional Oscar nominations were the result of Bognanovich’s film craftmanship … he was nominated for Best Director and both Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman took home the gold for their respective supporting roles.

 

This is a new 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut and it arrives on Nov. 14 as a two-SKU selection — 4K Ultra HD/2 Blu-ray Combo Pack or a double-disc Blu-ray edition.

 

The “big” bonus goodie here is McMurtry’s Texasville, also directed by Bogdanovich in 1990, which has two viewing options — the original theatrical version and a black-and-white version of Peter Bogdanovich’s director’s cut.

 

Other bonus features include two separate commentary options featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman and Frank Marshall, screen tests, location footage, three unspecified making-of documentaries and more!

Also getting the 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack treatment from Criterion in November is writer/director Terrence Malick’s 1978 film release of Days of Heaven, starring Richard Gere, Sam Shepard and Brooke Adams.

This is a new 4K digital restoration supervised by Malick … it will be available on Nov. 14 as well.   A Blu-ray purchasing option is also available on that date.

 

Bonus features include commentary by the film’s technical crew — editor Billy Weber, art director Jack Fisk, costume designer Patricia Norris and casting director Dianne Crittenden, video sessions with camera operator John Bailey, cinematographer Haskell Wexler and actor Sam Shepard and an audio-only interview with Gere.

Rounding out the November selections are a new 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack presentation of director Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (Nov. 21 … stand-alone Blu-ray also available); DVD and Blu-ray editions of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol’s La Cérémonie (Nov. 21) and the six film collection (four Blu-ray discs on Nov. 7) titled Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar (included in the mix are: Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Spiritual Kung Fu, The Fearless Hyena, Fearless Hyena II, The Young Master and My Lucky Stars).