The Game: Criterion Release

[grady]

The Criterion Collection laserdisc was one of the final LDs released in 1998.

I downloaded both DVD-Rs that the release group put together at another torrent site.

Basically what they did was make a 2 DVD set of all the supplemental material from the LD plus the featurette from the Japanese release and put it together with the 16x9 transfer from the DVD release in Japan. It's a wonderful little package that they've put together and I hope they will start doing this with older catalog titles.

At the moment I'm attempting to do something similar to this with the film Bad Day at Black Rock. The Criterion LD from back in the day, 1991 featured audio commentary by director John Sturges. (On the Boogie Nights commentary with director Paul Thomas Anderson, he refers to Sturges commentary as the best director's commentary ever. He's not too far off, it's pretty informative.) Unfortunately Criterion doesn't license their supplemental materials and this was not included on the recent DVD release by Warner Brothers.

So I was going to record the commentary from the LD onto my computer and then author a new DVD off of my own copy of Bad Day... specifically so the commentary can be heard with out having to watch the LD. Probably a bit more work than is necessary, but it will be nice to have.