Well, after a pretty stressful week, Criterion has made my day by announcing a 4K edition of Atom Egoyan’s 1997 masterpiece, The Sweet Hereafter. It will be released on February 23, 2027. I consider The Sweet Hereafter to be one of the more perfect movies ever made. So, yeah. I am kinda wetting myself over this announcement. Squee!
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration supervised and approved by director Atom Egoyan, with 5.1 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
- Two audio commentaries, one from 1998 featuring Egoyan and author Russell Banks, and the other from 2012 featuring Egoyan
- New interview with Egoyan
- Interview with Egoyan and actor Sarah Polley
- “Egoyan to the Oscars,” a 1998 segment from the Canadian television program The National
- Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the use of associative editing, featuring scholar Jeff Smith
- Isolated track featuring Mychael Danna’s score
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic César Albarrán-Torres and an introduction by Egoyan
New cover by Anthony Gerace, featuring photography by Johnnie Eisen