{"id":12685,"date":"2026-11-13T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2026-11-13T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:36:20","slug":"and-then-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=12685","title":{"rendered":"And Then Suddenly!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. It will be released on February 23, 2027. I consider The Sweet Hereafter<\/em> to be one of the more perfect movies ever made. So, yeah. I am kinda wetting myself over this announcement. Squee!<\/p>\n

\"Criterion<\/a><\/p>\n

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES<\/h4>\n
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  • New 4K digital restoration supervised and approved by director Atom Egoyan, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack<\/li>\n
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features<\/li>\n
  • Two audio commentaries, one from 1998 featuring Egoyan and author Russell Banks, and the other from 2012 featuring Egoyan<\/li>\n
  • New interview with Egoyan<\/li>\n
  • Interview with Egoyan and actor Sarah Polley<\/li>\n
  • \u201cEgoyan to the Oscars,\u201d a 1998 segment from the Canadian television program The National<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the use of associative editing, featuring scholar Jeff Smith<\/li>\n
  • Isolated track featuring Mychael Danna’s score<\/li>\n
  • Trailers<\/li>\n
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing<\/li>\n
  • PLUS: An essay by critic C\u00e9sar Albarr\u00e1n-Torres and an introduction by Egoyan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    New cover by Anthony Gerace, featuring photography by Johnnie Eisen<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blu-ray4k","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-3iB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12690,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions\/12690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}