Carl Franklin’s One False Move & Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show head to Criterion Collection this November

Two more classic films are headed to the ever growing Criterion Collection this November.

Carl Franklin’s wonderful  One False Move is released on Blu-ray and also 4K Ultra HD on On 6th November.

A small-town police chief (played by Bill Paxton) concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers (co-writer Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach) who leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman (played by Cynda Williams) caught in the middle. The way these desperate lives converge becomes a masterclass in slow-burn tension thanks to the nuanced direction of Carl Franklin, whose haunting film travels a crooked road across America’s most fraught divisions—urban and rural, Black and white—while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth.

As with Criterion films, the film comes along with some great special features.

Theres the new 4K digital restoration, approved by director Carl Franklin, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features (4K UHD only)

Feature Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Carl ranklin

New conversation between Franklin and co-writer-actor Billy Bob Thornton

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by author William Boyle

Following later in the month on 27th November, comes Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show on Blu-ray  and 4K Ultra HD.  One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance, The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen. This aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybill Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman’s lonely housewife and Ben Johnson’s grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal work in the career of invaluable film historian and director Peter Bogdanovich.

THE 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES ARE, 

4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features (4K UHD only)

Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show, presented in both the original theatrical version and a black-and-white version of Peter Bogdanovich’s director’s cut, produced in collaboration with cinematographer Nicholas von Sternberg

Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall

Two documentaries about the making of the film

Q&A with Bogdanovich from 2009

Screen tests and location footage

Introduction to Texasville featuring Bogdanovich, Shepherd, and actor Jeff Bridges

Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker François Truffaut about the New Hollywood

Trailers

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich about Texasville, with a new introduction by Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette

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