In December Criterion Collection will shine their spotlight on two friends, collaborators and filmmakers with unique cinematic voices. Today Criterion Collection announced their December UK releases of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums(2001) and Noah Baumbach's The Squid And The Whale (2005) with special editions with the trademark high-quality Blu-ray.
We're nearly 3/4 of the way through Criterion Collection with the association of Sony Home Entertainment's first year in the UK& Irish market. It has been an exciting one with some earlier releases but it seems we're near enough on par with North American releases as they promised. Only 2 releases this month but fantastic releases, The Royal Tenenbaums a film that embodies Anderson highly distinctive visual and narrative style. The Squid And The Whale a personal story to Baumbach a film that's based on his own parent's divorce and his experience.
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylised study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.
United States, 2001 | 110 minutes | Color | 2.35:1 |English | Cast: Ben Stiller, Gene Hackman, Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION
- Audio commentary by Anderson
- With the Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring Anderson
- Interviews with and behind-the-scenes footage of actors Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Danny Glover
- Outtakes
- The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members
- Scrapbook featuring young Richie’s murals and paintings, still photographs by set photographer James Hamilton, book and magazine covers, and storyboards
- Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón, along with examples of his work
- Trailers
- Collectible insert with Eric Anderson’s drawings
PLUS: A new essay by film critic Kent Jones
With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal style—a move that garnered him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.
United States, 2005 | 81 minutes | Color | 1.85:1 | English | Cast: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Paquin, William Baldwin
DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:
- New interviews with Baumbach and actors Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, and Laura Linney
- New conversation about the score and other music in the film between Baumbach and composers Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips
- Behind “The Squid and the Whale,” a 2005 documentary featuring on-set footage and cast interviews
- Audition footage
-Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and a 2005 interview of Baumbach by novelist Jonathan Lethem
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