Criterion has, finally, announced its first 4K releases. Citizen Kane, Menace II Society, The Piano, Mulholland Dr., The Red Shoes, and A Hard Day’s Night will come to UHD Blu-ray.
Film classics in 4K
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was released on laserdisc 37 years ago. It was Criterion's first laserdisc and soon it will be one of its first UHD Blu-ray discs.
- "We’re thrilled to announce Criterion’s first 4K Ultra HD releases, a six-film slate that includes Citizen Kane, Menace II Society, The Piano, Mulholland Dr., The Red Shoes, and A Hard Day’s Night," Criterion announced.
Each title will be available as a "4K UHD + Blu-ray combo pack including a 4K UHD disc of the feature film", it said. The discs will also include special features.
Criterion did not comment on its plans for online releases but UHD Blu-ray releases usually appear in 4K HDR on VOD services like Apple iTunes and Vudu too.
Select films will be presented in Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos, but Criterion did not say which ones. Further details will be announced soon and additional 4K releases will be announced in the coming months.
Criterion's first 4K Ultra HD releases
| The most dazzling debut in cinema history, Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane was Criterion’s first laserdisc release 37 years ago. It now rejoins the library after a long absence, making its first appearance in 4K Ultra HD along with Allen and Albert Hughes’s riveting breakthrough Menace II Society; Jane Campion’s Academy Award–winning The Piano, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in her breakout role; David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., a tale of love and jealousy in the city of dreams; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s singular Technicolor fantasia The Red Shoes; and Richard Lester’s timeless movie musical A Hard Day’s Night, which brought the Beatles’ revolutionary talent and irreverent humor to the big screen. |
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