Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary 4K UHD Collection - November 22, 2022

[MifuneFan]

Sony will be releasing an 11-disc Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary 4K set on November 22nd.

Sony Pictures Classics: 30th Anniversary Collection 4K Blu-ray

It includes the following films:

• Orlando (1992)
• City of Lost Children (1995)
• The Celluloid Closet (1995)
• Run Lola Run (1998)
• SLC Punk (1998)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• The Devil's Backbone (2001)
• Volver (2006)
• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Call Me By Your Name (2008)
• Still Alice (2014)

Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Sony Pictures Classics with this limited edition box set:

Limited edition gift set includes fully remastered 4K UHD disc debuts for ORLANDO, THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, THE CELLULOID CLOSET, RUN LOLA RUN, SLC PUNK, THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE, VOLVER, SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK, STILL ALICE and CALL ME BY YOUR NAME – the only way to get these movies on 4K UHD, plus CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON with Dolby Vision

• All eleven films presented with Dolby Vision HDR for the most premium presentation possible
  
• CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON also includes Dolby Atmos audio; all films include original theatrical audio, as well
  
• Includes hours of special features across the films: a mix of archival materials and exciting new content
  
• Also includes a booklet with an all-new essay about the legacy of Sony Pictures Classics and details about the included films

Full Breakdown of all the extras for each release:

ORLANDO

[Show spoiler]Tilda Swinton and Billy Zane star in this hip, sexy and wickedly funny look at an English nobleman who defies the laws of nature and comes back to life as an English noblewoman.

ORLANDO 4K UHDDisc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• English 2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary with Director Sally Potter and Actress Tilda Swinton
• Select Scenes Commentary
• Orlando Goes to Russia
• Orlando in Uzbekistan
• Jimmy Was an Angel
• Venice Film Festival Press Conference
• An Interview with Sally Potter
• Theatrical Trailer

ORLANDO has a run time of approximately 94 minutes and is rated PG-13 for some sensuality.

THE CELLULOID CLOSET

[Show spoiler]Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of gay men and women on the silver screen.

THE CELLULOID CLOSET 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• English 2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary with Filmmakers Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Lily Tomlin, producer Howard Rosenman, and editor Arnold Glassman
• Additional Commentary with Author Vito Russo
• Collection of Outtakes
• Interview with Vito Russo
• Theatrical Trailer

THE CELLULOID CLOSET has a run time of approximately 101 minutes and is rated R for some graphic footage of sexuality and violence, and for language.

THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN

[Show spoiler]From Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of AMELIE and DELICATESSEN, comes a fantastically twisted fairy tale chock-full of curious characters, spectacular stunts and unforgettable visuals.

THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• French 2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary with Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Actor Ron Perlman
• NEWLY ADDED: Audio Commentary with Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Making-Of Featurette
• "Les Archives de Jean-Pierre Jeunet"
• Interview With Costume Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier
• Theatrical Teasers & Trailer

THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN has a run time of approximately 113 minutes and is rated R for disturbing and grotesque images of violence and menace.

RUN LOLA RUN

[Show spoiler]A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride! Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She's just received a frantic phone call from her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who's lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola doesn't replace the money in twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences.

RUN LOLA RUN 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• German 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary with Director Tom Tykwer and Actor Franka Potente
• NEWLY ADDED: Audio Commentary with Director Tom Tykwer and Editor Mathilde Bonnefoy &
• NEWLY ADDED: Making-Of Featurette
• Still Running Featurette
• “Believe” Music Video
• Theatrical Trailer.

RUN LOLA RUN has a run time of approximately 80 minutes and is rated R for some violence and language.

SLC PUNK

[Show spoiler]It's 1985 and Stevo is that rare animal: a punk rocker in the Mormon stronghold of Salt Lake City, Utah. He just graduated from college with honors and now his life is a nutty roller coaster ride of rock shows, stealing cars, beating up rednecks and non-stop partying with his buddy, Heroin Bob, and his girlfriend. But with the scene getting lame and Stevo going nowhere fast, he has to put his punk ideals to the test.

SLC PUNK 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• NEW: Revisiting SLC PUNK – a new interview with Director James Merendino
• Audio Commentary with Director James Merendino and Actors Matthew Lillard & Michael Goorjian
• Comic Book Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

SLC PUNK has a run time of approximately 97 minutes and is rated R for pervasive language, drug use, violent anti-social behavior and some sexuality.

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON

[Show spoiler]An epic set against the breathtaking landscapes of ancient China, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon combines the exhilarating martial arts choreography by Yuen Wo-Ping (The Matrix) with the sensitivity and classical storytelling of an Ang Lee film. The result is something truly unexpected: romantic, emotionally powerful entertainment.

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• Mandarin Dolby Atmos & 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary with Director Ang Lee and Writer / Producer James Schamus
• Audio Commentary with Cinematographer Peter Pau
• Introduction by Director Ang Lee
• 7 Deleted Scenes (in 4K HDR)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - A Retrospective
• The Making of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• English “A Love Before Time” Music Video
• Mandarin “A Love Before Time” Music Video
• A Conversation with Michelle Yeoh
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON has a run time of approximately 120 minutes and is rated PG-13 for martial arts violence and some sexuality.

THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE

[Show spoiler]His father killed in the brutal fighting of the Spanish Civil War, ten-year-old Carlos is sent to live at the desolate Santa Lucia School, now a makeshift shelter for war orphans. Soon after his arrival, Carlos has a series of seemingly supernatural encounters: strange shadows, voices and, most frightening of all, the apparition of a brutalized young boy. Turns out that Carlos is not alone in seeing these strange phenomena, many other children have experienced the "One Who Sighs," as the entity has come to be called.

THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• Spanish 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary with Director Guillermo del Toro
• Audio Commentary with Director Guillermo del Toro and Cinematographer Guillermo Navarro
• Guillermo del Toro Introduction
• Director’s Thumbnails Track
• Director's Notebook
• Que es un fantasma? Featurette
• 4 Deleted Scenes with Director Commentary
• Sketch, Storyboard, Screen – 6 Scenes
• Making-Of Featurette
• Summoning Spirits Featurette
• Theatrical Trailer

THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE has a run time of approximately 108 minutes and is rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.

VOLVER

[Show spoiler]Academy Award®-winner Pedro Almodóvar (2003, Best Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) comes VOLVER, a comedic and compassionate tribute to women and their resilience in the face of life's most outrageous tribulations. A luminous Penélope Cruz leads an ensemble of gifted actresses, including Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago...or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls' departed mother, Irene (Maura), has been seen wandering around their Aunt Paula's home. When Irene appears to Sole, she explains that she has returned to set right her daughters' troubled lives and reveal shocking secrets that will impact everyone!

VOLVER 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• Spanish 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary: Director Pedro Almodóvar and Actor Penélope Cruz
• Making of Volver Featurette
• Interview With Pedro Almodóvar
• Interview with Penélope Cruz
• Interview With Carmen Maura
• Tribute to Penélope Cruz
• Theatrical Trailer

VOLVER has a run time of approximately 121 minutes and is rated R for some sexual content and language.

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK

[Show spoiler]From Charlie Kaufman comes a visual and philosophic adventure. Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside.

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• The Story of Caden Cotard Featurette
• NFTS/Script Factory Masterclass
• Infectious Diseases in Cattle Roundtable
• In and Around Synecdoche, New York Featurette
• Theatrical Trailer

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK has a run time of approximately 124 minutes and is rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity.

STILL ALICE

[Show spoiler]Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring. Also starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish.

STILL ALICE 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• 3 Deleted Scenes
• Directing Alice Featurette
• Finding Alice Featurette
• Interview with Composer Ilan Eshkeri
• Theatrical Trailer

STILL ALICE has a run time of approximately 101 minutes and is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, and brief language including a sexual reference.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

[Show spoiler]Amid the summer splendor of 1980’s Italy, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire that will alter their lives forever.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 4K UHD Disc Breakdown

• Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
• English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• Special Features:
• Audio Commentary with Actors Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg
• Snapshots of Italy: The Making of Call Me by Your Name Featurette
• In Conversation with Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Luca Guadagnino Featurette
• "Mystery of Love" Music Video by Sufjan Stevens
• Theatrical Trailer.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME has a run time of approximately 132 minutes and is rated R for sexual content, nudity and some language.

SONY PICTURES CLASSICS 30th ANNIVERSARY 4K ULTRA HD COLLECTION - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube

[filmgenius89]

My guess it will be some combination of films from this digital sale:
https://happy30th.sonyclassics.com/

[StLouisRibs]

English French and Spanish listed - which gives me some confidence this won't have repackagings in it, as you'd undoubtedly include Crouching Tiger if you were including anything you'd already released.

I would assume Call Me By Your Name and Amour and probably at least one Almodovar seem basically certain.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

English French and Spanish listed - which gives me some confidence this won't have repackagings in it, as you'd undoubtedly include Crouching Tiger if you were including anything you'd already released.

I would assume Call Me By Your Name and Amour and probably at least one Almodovar seem basically certain.

Yeah, I'm wondering if it's all new stuff, or whether they still might include something like Whiplash in it. Also, I get that this is being touted as an anniversary set for this year, but I'm still surprised they're not doing volume sets like the Columbia Classics ones with 5 or 6 films each, as the high price tag here might be a turn-off for many. Even with some price reductions at retailers, we're probably still talking about $250 or more.

[tama]

Holy cow....Sony going to be draining my wallet if this is true and the Vol. 3 wet coming out in Oct.

[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Yeah, I'm wondering if it's all new stuff, or whether they still might include something like Whiplash in it. I'm surprised they're not doing volume sets like the Columbia Classics one with 5 or 6 films each, as the high price tag here might be a turn-off for many. Even with some price reductions are retailers, you;re still talking about $250 or more.

It's interesting, though - all the listings for the Columbia Classics sets are accurate and include BDs on top of the 4K discs in the disc count, but the price really suggests it's more movies then the other sets. Wonder if there's no included BDs and it really is like ten movies, even though I don't think Sony's ever done releases without them before. Just the price seems too high for it to be five or six movies.

That said - consider how much Sony has loved rereleasing their earliest 4K titles with Dolby Vision it wouldn't have surprised me to have thrown Crouching Tiger in.

[The Architect]

My guess is that we'll get repacked editions of 30th anniversary editions of Glory, Ghostbusters, Dracula, Labirinth,... and hopefully some new ones too.

[trekky76]

That's very expensive! Even if all the 11 discs were 4K it still makes 27.27 each disc. If they come in their own cases like Sony usually does it then I'm good just getting the ones I want to own.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by The Architect

My guess is that we'll get repacked editions of 30th anniversary editions of Glory, Ghostbusters, Dracula, Labirinth,... and hopefully some new ones too.

None of those are part of Sony Pictures Classics library.

[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by The Architect

My guess is that we'll get repacked editions of 30th anniversary editions of Glory, Ghostbusters, Dracula, Labirinth,... and hopefully some new ones too.

Sony Pictures Classics is a specific brand that has only had two films released on 4K (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Whiplash). It's not going to include Columbia Pictures films like those.

[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by trekky76

That's very expensive! Even if all the 11 discs were 4K it still makes 27.27 each disc. If they come in their own cases like Sony usually does it then I'm good just getting the ones I want to own.

That's about normal for MSRP though - it'll retail for ~$210 and assuming there's a normal amount of discount available at release from the usual sources I would think it should be available for around $170. Which is a good deal for ten (or eleven) movies! But, like I said, the price just seems astronomically high if it is just six movies.

[The Architect]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

Sony Pictures Classics is a specific brand that has only had two films released on 4K (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Whiplash). It's not going to include Columbia Pictures films like those.

Got it. Thanks

[tama]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

Sony Pictures Classics is a specific brand that has only had two films released on 4K (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Whiplash). It's not going to include Columbia Pictures films like those.

And Moon.

[Mister_Kidd]

Take Shelter. PLEASE.

[tama]

I was thinking what films could they really use though? Recent 2K DIs. I remember the Devil's Backbone being a titled listed on Sonys survey for the Volumes Sets. I'd kill for a new scan of The Lives of Others but unsure how possible that'd be.

[PNguyen]

It’ll be Whiplash, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Call Me By Your Name, The Devil’s Backbone, The Father, and Kung Fu Hustle

[Brad1963]

11 discs makes me think 10 films and some type of bonus disc.

[StLouisRibs]

It also raises the question for... Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine, two of their highest grossing titles that also each won an Oscar. I wouldn't be surprised to see either be in this, as weird as it may seem.

Capote seems likely as well, high grossing, won an Oscar, Bennet Miller is a friend of the studio who's made all his movies at Columbia (and Foxcatcher could maybe be on the list too).

In summary, assuming ten titles I'd guess something like:

All About My Mother
Capote
Secret in Their Eyes
Synecdoche, New York
Midnight In Paris
Amour
A Dangerous Method
The Father
Call Me By Your Name

[PNguyen]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

11 discs makes me think 10 films and some type of bonus disc.

5 movies including bonus disc cause you got to count the reg Blu-ray discs.

[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by PNguyen

It’ll be Whiplash, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Call Me By Your Name, The Devil’s Backbone, The Father, and Kung Fu Hustle

No Chinese listed, so no Kung Fu Hustle.