Criterion to Release ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and a Guillermo Del Toro Trilogy Pack this October
If you’ve been thinking about sprucing up your Guillermo Del Toro collection (you do have one, right?) you might want to hold off on that for a little bit. Criterion is getting ready to pay proper tribute to one of my favorite directors.
Releasing on October 11, 2016 Criterion will be taking a trip into “Pan’s Labyrinth” for the first time. The film will be available on Blu-Ray $39.95 and a 2-Disc DVD edition for $29.95 and feature some new features specially made for this release along with reading material. Check the full list of features down below.
PAN’S LABYRINTH
An Academy Award-winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Pan’s Labyrinth encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro (The Devil’s Backbone, Cronos). Eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, in a mature and tender performance) comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather (Sergi López), a sadistic captain in General Franco’s army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth and is set on a strange, mythic journey that is at once terrifying and beautiful. In his revisiting of this bloody period in Spanish history, del Toro creates a vivid depiction of the monstrosities of war infiltrating a child’s imagination and threatening the innocence of youth. 2006 * 119 minutes * Color * 5.1 Surround * In Spanish with English subtitles * 1.85:1 aspect ratio DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Newly graded 2K digital master, supervised by director Guillermo del Toro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Alternate DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary by del Toro from 2007
- New interview with del Toro by novelist Cornelia Funke about fairy tales, fantasy, and Pan’s Labyrinth
- New interview with actor Doug Jones
- Four 2007 making-of documentaries, examining the characters, production, special effects, themes, and music of the film
- Interactive director’s notebook
- Footage of actor Ivana Baquero’s audition for the film
- Animated comics featuring prequel stories for the film’s menagerie of creatures
- Programs comparing selected production storyboards and del Toro’s thumbnail sketches with the final film; visual effects work for the Green Fairy; and elements of the film’s score
- Trailers and TV spots
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
Along with the release of “Pan’s Labyrinth” Criterion has announced that they will be packing three of Guillermo Del Toro’s films together in a special trilogy pack dubbed “TRILOGÍA DE GUILLERMO DEL TORO.” The special three pack will include the aforementioned “Pan’s Labyrinth” along with two previous Criterion releases “Cronos” and “The Devil’s Backbone.” Check out the description of features down below along with the box art:
TRILOGÍA DE GUILLERMO DEL TORO
