Frank Capra’s “It Happened One Night” is coming to the UK Criterion Collection in April
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Loading...More than 30 years after they began to set the bar for film presentation with their lovingly restored and feature packed LaserDisc special edition releases, the US indie The Criterion Collection is finally headed to the UK, thanks to a new deal with Sony Pictures.
The deal will see a selection of past and future titles getting a UK release (rights deals permitting of course), with identical artwork and extra features to those found in the US, and at very reasonable prices, especially when you compare them the cost of getting a US import (and the requirement for multi-region player to watch it on).
The first batch of 6 titles are released on April 18th, and include Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night
Pre-order: Amazon UK | Zavvi | HMV
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-
the-people reporter (Clark Gable) who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar® categories (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.Special Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Screwball Comedy? – new conversation between critics Molly Haskell and Phillip Lopate
- Interview with Frank Capra Jr. from 1999
- Frank Capra’s American Dream – a 1997 feature-length documentary about the director’s life and career
- New digital transfer of Capra’s first film, the 1921 silent short Fultah Fisher’s Boarding House, with a score composed and performed by Donald Sosin
- American Film Institute tribute to Capra from 1982
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
