Criterion announces new Blue Velvet 4K release (June 2024)

[Ickles]

Blue Velvet

Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to...

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DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

• 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, supervised and approved by director David Lynch
• Alternate original 2.0 surround soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• The Lost Footage, fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by Lynch
• “Blue Velvet” Revisited, a feature-length meditation on the making of the movie by Peter Braatz, filmed on-set during the production
• Mysteries of Love, a seventy-minute documentary from 2002 on the making of the film
• Interview from 2017 with composer Angelo Badalamenti
• It’s a Strange World: The Filming of “Blue Velvet,” a 2019 documentary featuring interviews with crew members and visits to the shooting locations
• Lynch reading from Room to Dream, a 2018 book he coauthored with Kristine McKenna
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: Excerpts by McKenna from Room to Dream
  
  Cover by Fred Davis

 

[Dom]

Blue Velvet

Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to...

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Nice! What it doesn't say is whether the 2.0 soundtrack is the original mix. It also doesn't say whether the lost footage will be in HD or 4K . Presumably it'll be HD.

 

[Sparky]

Nice! What it doesn't say is whether the 2.0 soundtrack is the original mix. It also doesn't say whether the lost footage will be in HD or 4K . Presumably it'll be HD.

It says it’s the original on Criterion’s website just like the old Blu Ray says. Did I miss something?

I do wonder however if this is the same remaster Lynch did years ago just released uncompressed or if it’s something he’s done recently. I vaguely remember the Mulholland Drive 4k being different