This decision also applied to most upgrade re-releases introduced after November 2013. In late 2013, Criterion announced that with the November release of the boxset (spine #679), all their releases would be in dual format (DVD and Blu-ray packaged together) rather than individual releases.
Criterion offers unreleased titles (on DVD/Blu-ray) on their Hulu Plus subscription channel. The company has also expanded into online distribution, through online rental services, first in partnership with (formerly known as The Auteurs), then, before launching its own streaming service with called. Once Blu-ray had emerged as the industry-standard high-definition home video format, Criterion expanded into releasing Blu-ray editions of select films from its collection, beginning with the Blu-ray release of 's (#453 currently out of print) on December 16, 2008. All of Criterion's Laserdisc releases have since gone out of print.Ĭriterion was slow to expand into releases, partly due to the between. In 1998, Criterion shifted from Laserdiscs into the then-fledgling market. Between 19, Criterion published home video releases in format, pioneering now-standard home video features such as, and other supplemental content. The Criterion logo is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling 'important classic and contemporary films' in 'editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements.' And the established The Criterion Collection in 1984 as a concentrating exclusively upon the home video market. A film like this is one that never gets boring no matter how many times you've seen it. The stories are told with such depth that you can't help but pick out new things every time you view it. This is how a film should be exhilarating, exciting and beautiful to-boot. It's this type of film that puts others to shame. Well worth checking out if only to say you've seen one of Quentin Tarrantino's favourite films. Wong Kar Wai's film fills you with the kind of warmth that only Amelie can bestow.įast-paced but with incredible cinematography and soundtrack. Amazing film the second half of which far outweighs the first. The Hong Kong cut was released on VHS/laserdisc by World Video and on VHS/LD/DVD by Mei Ah. The international cut is Wong's preferred version and has been used for most home video releases. The international version strips out the music (leaving only ambient noise), although 'Dreams' still appears at the end of the film. In the Hong Kong version, the cover of 'Dreams' plays over the shot of 663 drinking coffee. The sequence with Zhiwu loitering outside his girlfriend's window appears earlier in international edit. The international version includes the kidnapping of an Indian girl, which does not occur in the Hong Kong version.
Indian music plays during the smugglers' arrival at the airport in international prints in the Hong Kong version, the title theme plays. The international version expands the scenes where The Blonde prepares for the smuggling trip and later searches for the smugglers. 'Kar Wai Wong' made several changes to the international version, bringing the running time to 102 minutes. Alternate Versions The original Hong Kong release ran 98 minutes.
He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month.īy the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years.
Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color.