Current Events > The Criterion Collection is now releasing Disney and Pixar movies on disc

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e

They've been in business for nearly 40 years, released films from basicslly every major Hollywood studio, but this is the first time they've ever released a Disney/Pixar animated film. And it's Wall-E of all things! The newsletter I received in the email describes this as a "first", so I assume there will be more.

Neat

That's pretty cool. Wall-E isn't my personal favorite Pixar movie, but it would have been my first guess to have gotten into the Criterion Collection.

This is the future.

Nothing will be untouched by the mouse.

It is your God.

Hornswoggled posted...

This is the future.

Nothing will be untouched by the mouse.

It is your God.

This feels more like Criterion is releasing a Disney movie than Disney releasing a Criterion movie. It's not out of place.

Serious_Cat posted...

This feels more like Criterion is releasing a Disney movie than Disney releasing a Criterion movie. It's not out of place.

Yeah, that was a weird response. Like, Disney isn't touching The Criterion Collection, it's the other way around.

This bodes well for Criterion releasing more titles licensed from Fox, which Disney now owns, or at least keeping the titles they already have.

Interesting.

At first I thought this was about Burnout.

After all these years, I feel like I still dont truly get Criterion.

Like, how is this release going to differ from the already available 4K release? Has the picture been even more improved? Or does it have a ton of new bonus features? I dont understand how that makes something special when any studio can release a movie with a new remaster and bonus material.

I know this topic isnt really about WALL-E but why was the human society considered bad?

I cant wait to pay 50 bucks for a bare bones version of WALL-E

rexcrk posted...

After all these years, I feel like I still dont truly get Criterion.

Like, how is this release going to differ from the already available 4K release? Has the picture been even more improved? Or does it have a ton of new bonus features? I dont understand how that makes something special when any studio can release a movie with a new remaster and bonus material.

They're still one of the best home video producers in the world, but a lot of their reputation is based on their Innovations in the home video market in the 1980s. They basically invented the concept of a special home release of a movie - the first audio commentary ever recorded was for their laser disc of King Kong - and they've generally kept up a high standard over the years. There's a lot of boutique label competition right now, though, that basically didn't exist until the late 2000s or so.

As for this particular title, it does contain some new features on the film's creation and influences, and a liner notes book which sounds like it could be quite hefty. Big studios, especially Disney, rarely treat their home video releases with serious critical analysis (good or bad, it's usually fairly fluffy), and it's basically unprecedented that Disney would ever let one of their animated properties receive anything like that, and from an outside party.

rexcrk posted...

After all these years, I feel like I still dont truly get Criterion.

Like, how is this release going to differ from the already available 4K release? Has the picture been even more improved? Or does it have a ton of new bonus features? I dont understand how that makes something special when any studio can release a movie with a new remaster and bonus material.

Criterion tends to have a higher standard than the typical release. (And in this case, the Criterion release will come in Dolby Vision, which the current 4K release doesn't have.)