The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years 4K Blu-ray
Posted May 28, 2025 08:58 PM by Webmaster
The Criterion Collection has announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years (1996-2001). The ten-disc box set is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 30.
Wes Anderson's first ten features represent twenty-five years of irrepressible creativity, an ongoing ode to outsiders and quixotic dreamers, and a world unto themselves, graced with a mischievous wit and a current of existential melancholy that flows through every captivating frame. This momentous twenty-disc collector's set includes new 4K masters of the films, over twenty-five hours of special features, and ten illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K MASTERS of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, and The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
Ten 4K Blu-ray discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and ten Blu-rays with the films and special features
Over twenty-five hours of special features, including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photography, discussions/analyses, and visual essays
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: Essays by Richard Brody, James L. Brooks, Bilge Ebiri, Moeko Fujii, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Geoffrey O'Brien, Martin Scorsese, and Erica Wagner