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• New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Amy Heckerling, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe
• Television version of the film from the eighties, featuring deleted and alternate scenes
• New conversation with Heckerling and Crowe, moderated by filmmaker Olivia Wilde
• Reliving Our “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” a 1999 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
• Audio discussion from 1982 with Heckerling at the American Film Institute
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  PLUS: An essay by film critic Dana Stevens and, for the Blu-ray edition, a new introduction by Crowe

beamish14 wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:05 pm A bit disappointed that Criterion couldn't include Heckerling's NYU/AFI student shorts (Getting it Over With, produced while at the latter, is what got her hired for this, and is discussed a bit on the commentary).

Not too fond of the cover design. It looks a bit like those repackaged "80's Hits" DVDs that Paramount has put out

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:57 am Forest Whitaker's parents weren't in the business - were you talking about someone else?

Didn't know Penn's father was in the business, though it looks like he was a victim of HUAC which explains a lot. Here he is.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:57 am Forest Whitaker's parents weren't in the business - were you talking about someone else?

Didn't know Penn's father was in the business, though it looks like he was a victim of HUAC which explains a lot. Here he is.

1. Original Mono Track - Universal couldn’t find the mono! Criterion's audio supervisor analyzed the 5.1 and really liked the work they did so Criterion talked to Amy about it and she agreed this is the way most people would want to watch it these days anyway. If you don’t have a 5.1 your system, obviously it will fold down to stereo. P.S. The TV version is mono! Lastly the missing sound effect when Damone hits Charles Jefferson's car will be restored.

More about the 5.1 mix:
The remix was created in April of 2004 in the Universal Sound Department. We began with the original 35mm 3CH D/M/E Dubbed Master. The BluWave Restoration department fine-tuned these stems using ProTools editorial, Sonic Solutions and EQ in the final mix pass. The restored stems were handed off to our BluWave Digital Mastering team for the 5.1 remix. We also pulled the ½” music masters for needed cues in order to utilize the stereo score sources for better upmixing.

2. TV Version - We worked really hard to include this. Universal has "lost" or had many of their assets destroyed in fires. We tried to get the dailies and outtakes (Cameron recalls amazing Sean Penn alternate takes and lines that are sadly lost forever), but Universal does not have them. The next best thing was to include the TV version that folks have been asking for since DVD was a burgeoning new format....Universal did have an IP of the TV version which Criterion has used to create a new HD transfer. Again, we felt like this was the MOST important extra and I'm bummed about comments that there aren't "any new extras".....

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:07 pm New information from someone who I guess works for Cameron Crowe:

1. Original Mono Track - Universal couldn’t find the mono! Criterion's audio supervisor analyzed the 5.1 and really liked the work they did so Criterion talked to Amy about it and she agreed this is the way most people would want to watch it these days anyway. If you don’t have a 5.1 your system, obviously it will fold down to stereo. P.S. The TV version is mono! Lastly the missing sound effect when Damone hits Charles Jefferson's car will be restored.

More about the 5.1 mix:
The remix was created in April of 2004 in the Universal Sound Department. We began with the original 35mm 3CH D/M/E Dubbed Master. The BluWave Restoration department fine-tuned these stems using ProTools editorial, Sonic Solutions and EQ in the final mix pass. The restored stems were handed off to our BluWave Digital Mastering team for the 5.1 remix. We also pulled the ½” music masters for needed cues in order to utilize the stereo score sources for better upmixing.

2. TV Version - We worked really hard to include this. Universal has "lost" or had many of their assets destroyed in fires. We tried to get the dailies and outtakes (Cameron recalls amazing Sean Penn alternate takes and lines that are sadly lost forever), but Universal does not have them. The next best thing was to include the TV version that folks have been asking for since DVD was a burgeoning new format....Universal did have an IP of the TV version which Criterion has used to create a new HD transfer. Again, we felt like this was the MOST important extra and I'm bummed about comments that there aren't "any new extras".....

aox wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:02 pm Is there a list anywhere noting the differences between the cuts? I have always assumed that "TV versions" just excised nudity and overdubbed profanity (or dropped the audio). Why would the cuts be substantially different? It seems that rediting a film with different takes would be more labor intensive. Why do it?

cdnchris wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:06 pm The Mallrats TV version was an interesting cut as they had to cut out a lot of the cruder material then add in scenes that referenced the excised subplot around the "attempted assassination" to make it fill the time slot. So you have these sequences that make no sense in the context of the shorter version and this TV version becomes a sort of odd missing link between the theatrical and extended versions.

Not the movie is any good (it's not) but I feel worse for the people that were introduced to it through that version.

Gerald Christie wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:58 pm 1-This is Amy's preferred version of the film which means it has one slight change...the reframing of Mike Damone (Robert Romanus) during the pool house scene. This was the shot that initially got Fast Times an X rating by the MPAA...it's back in all its glory for this release.

IMDb trivia wrote:Mike Damone's nude scene with Stacy that was filmed and never used was stated by director Amy Heckerling to show the natural vulnerability between two young teenagers. The intent was to show each of them undressing, and then show them standing before each other fully naked, full frontal, vulnerable, and nervous. The scene was pulled due to an impending X-rating and has never been released.

Amy Heckerling wanted to show male nudity [in the movie], too, in a scene with Leigh and Robert Romanus, but "I was not allowed to do that," she says. She was told that if that shot was in the movie, it would get an X rating, which to her "meant porn. So we had to blow it up so just like in every other film, you saw a guy topless, which is nothing essentially. It was cut way down and they said, 'See, it's better now. We improved your scene.' Thanks a lot."