Hedwig Blu-Ray release.

[smidge]

Posted: 3/15/19 at 4:50pm

For all you Hedwig lovers, the film will get a Criterion Blu Ray release this June.
https://www.criterion.com/films/29018-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=6f4c5ce1a8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_15_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c13ac2083-6f4c5ce1a8-63871787

[haterobics]

Posted: 3/15/19 at 5:48pm

Same weekend as his Town Hall gigs, so I guess signed Blu-Rays will be at the merch table?!

[Impossible2]

Posted: 3/15/19 at 6:03pm

The original and best Russian version of War and Peace is also in the same batch of Criterion releases.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/15/19 at 6:55pm

Released date: June 25, 2019

New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Cameron Mitchell and cinematographer Frank DeMarco, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

Audio commentary from 2001 featuring Mitchell and DeMarco

New conversation between members of the cast and crew, including Mitchell, DeMarco, composer and lyricist Stephen Trask, hairstylist and makeup artist Michael Potter, animator Emily Hubley, actor Miriam Shor, and visual consultant Miguel Villalobos

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig (2003), an eighty-five-minute documentary tracing the development of the project from its beginnings in a New York club to its theatrical premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

New conversation between Trask and rock critic David Fricke about the film’s soundtrack

From the Archives, a new program exploring Hedwig’s production and legacy through its memorabilia
Deleted scenes with commentary by Mitchell and DeMarco

Trailer

More!

PLUS: An essay by Stephanie Zacharek, along with, for the Blu-ray edition, production photos by Potter and costume designer Arianne Phillips, illustrations by Hubley, and excerpts from two of the films inspirations, Plato’s Symposium and The Gospel of Thomas