While The Criterion Collection is generally known for their high-class releases of revered foreign and arthouse films, the boutique label knows how to have fun too. And the company is leading their January wave of titles with everyone’s favorite movie about detention.
John Hughes‘ classic “The Breakfast Club” is coming to The Criterion Collection, with an extra side of bacon. Besides arriving in a new 4K restoration, and being packed with all sorts of extras including commentary by Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson, and interviews with cast members, the highlight is 50 minutes of previously unseen deleted and extended scenes. That’s worth staying after class for.
For those of you who want to roll up your sleeves and get elbow deep in cinematic history, don’t worry, Criterion has you plenty covered. G.W. Pabst‘s WWI film and first sound picture, “Westfront 1918” is arriving, making the hard to find movie widely available and freshly restored. The director’s “Kameradschaft,” also set during the war, arrives as well, and given a new coat of paint too. Overlooked French filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara gets his own boxset with “Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France” offering cinephiles a look at what other kind of work was being done during the New Wave era.
For something more contemporary, Criterion will be issuing Ken Loach‘s “I, Daniel Blake” and it’ll be packed with some hearty extras including the documentary, “Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach.”
Lastly, “Young Mr. Lincoln” has been given a Blu-ray upgrade.
