With his latest film The Phoenician Scheme about to hit theaters, prestige home-video distributor The Criterion Collection has just announced it will release the definitive Wes Anderson 4K/Bllu-ray box set this fall.
Titled The Wes Anderson Archive, this twenty-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the Houston-born filmmaker’s first 10 films, over 25 hours of special features, and 10 illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition. Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun will also be released as 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions.
The 10-disc set is priced at $400.Courtesy of The Criterion Collection
Anderson’s partnership with Criterion goes back 25 years, when the company dropped a special-edition DVD of his breakout 1998 sophomore feature Rushmore. (Who remembers checking that out at the old Hollywood Video on Westheimer near Montrose?) The set goes for $399.96 and will be available for purchase on Tuesday, September 30.
If you wanna check out some Wes Anderson movies on the big screen in the meantime, the River Oaks Theatre is currently in the middle of a Wes Anderson film series. His 2004 seafaring comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou will be playing this Saturday, May 31, while his 2009 adaptation of Road Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson’s stop-motion-animated debut) will screen on Saturday, June 14.
River Oaks Theatre is also part of “The Houstonian Scheme,” a week-long, promotional tie-in where the theater and other spots (Brazos Bookstore, Voodoo Doughnut, Leo’s River Oaks) will be serving up Phoenician-related goodies. You can also win a chance to attend a preview screening of the movie before it hits Houston theaters on Friday, June 6.
