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richast2 wrote:It sold for £265,000. The new buyer plans to preserve it.

BBC

The sale has fallen through.

Particle Zoo wrote:With the greatest respect, I saw a 35mm screening of W & I last year and it looked absolutely gorgeous.

"The greatest respect" isn't necessary when a simple correction is fine; I wasn't purporting to have a first hand encounter with the thing, but admitted that it was through hearsay.

Foam wrote:

Particle Zoo wrote:With the greatest respect, I saw a 35mm screening of W & I last year and it looked absolutely gorgeous.

"The greatest respect" isn't necessary when a simple correction is fine; I wasn't purporting to have a first hand encounter with the thing, but admitted that it was through hearsay.

Not really a correction, just my opinion...and I'm always polite, I don't want to start an infighting and navel gazing thread

No worries. I suppose there's not much chance of my ever seeing a print, me being in the States?

Foam wrote:No worries. I suppose there's not much chance of my ever seeing a print, me being in the States?

Well, the next best thing is coming soon

Blu-Ray coming from Image 8/24

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According to Image web site, the only extra is a trailer.

available for pre-order and only $13. Will Amazon lock in that price if you preorder it? And this essentially means Criterion is not going to do their own on BD, right?

Yes. And probably.

Already being talked about elsewhere, but the new restoration of this is coming out soon on blu-ray with tons of extra features. Really excited about this one.

Any rumors or speculation on whether CC will reacquire the rights to this with a BD release?

4K upgrade in May

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Hannan, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Two audio commentaries, one from 2020 featuring writer-director Bruce Robinson, and the other from 2001 featuring actors Ralph Brown and Paul McGann
New short program featuring Robinson and actor Richard E. Grant
Withnail and Us (1999), a documentary on the making of the film
British Film Institute Q&A from 2017 with Robinson and Grant
Stills gallery featuring photographs by artist Ralph Steadman
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic David Cairns

Illustration by Ralph Steadman

I'd like a new feature devoted to the real Vivian MacKarrell.

aox wrote: Thu Oct 04, 2018 3:48 pm Any rumors or speculation on whether CC will reacquire the rights to this with a BD release?

I doubt it.

is there a reason we all guessed this for this month, or was it just due? I assumed the latter

not really seeing a reason to get this when I have the Arrow. incredible movie though! I'll write it up next revisit. glad it'll be back in print stateside

ryannichols7 wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:32 pm is there a reason we all guessed this for this month, or was it just due? I assumed the latter

Richard E. Grant recently mentioned he participated in the special features for this release on his Instagram account.

dwk wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:20 pm

ryannichols7 wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:32 pm is there a reason we all guessed this for this month, or was it just due? I assumed the latter

Richard E. Grant recently mentioned he participated in the special features for this release on his Instagram account.

I totally missed that, but awesome. it was basically a given anyway since the other Handmade titles came out. genuinely just glad more people can see this at Barnes and Noble and blind buy it

Here's the BFI Q&A from 2017 from the announced features.

Randall Maysin Again wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:34 pm I'd like a new feature devoted to the real Vivian MacKarrell.

And I'd like it now!

Was surprised to learn from Chris's review that this has a different commentary track by Bruce Robinson than the one originally recorded back in 2006 and featured on the Anchor Bay and Arrow editions. However, if you want to hear what's on the new Criterion release, it's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4rZDnRXIkg

Another thing I was surprised to notice is that Criterion seems to have started providing SDH subtitles for everything on their discs with Withnail & I, including English-language commentaries and bonus features. They retitled the SETUP menu to SDH and when this is activated the respective subtitles appear for each program. This applies to both Withnail and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.

Curious to see if this is going to be the case for everything going forward, or if it will be reserved for the Janus Films stuff, where the SDH subs on the extras can be used for the closed captioning on the channel.