This is great news! When's the release date?

No release date yet, but presumably 2008. Check the link in the first post.

great news...

who set off all the alarms?...

Wonderful to hear! This absolutely ranks as one of Anderson's finest. It's only underrated because it's his first, but it totally has his unique touch...

"They'll never catch me because I'm innocent."

There's a rumor going around that Sony has stopped printing a lot of their foreign catalog in hopes of Anchor Bay or Criterion picking up the license.

Could this mean Night of the Creeps could finally see a release? *prays*

maybe this explains why owen wilson tried to kill himself.

he had an contractual obligation to do a commentary, which would mean he would have to watch this film again..

Wow, Bottle Rocket is arguably his best film.

Agreed

Wow. Uncool.

That was more than a threadcrap, that was more like a human-decency-crap.

Ban this cocksmoke!

merely stating, i'm sure owen wilson will probably be doing a commentary.

and if i ever want to impersonate him on a quick exit, i'll buy this criterion release.

That doesn't even make any sense.

Also, I can't wait for this! I didn't think it would ever actually happen. Bananas, get to dancing!

That's the correct answer here.

Dude, REALLY uncool.

i just watched this again tonight...

great film...

such an original feel to it...

I like Bottle Rocket as much as the next guy, but I am really shocked at the level of excitement over such a non-news item.

How many times has a filmmaker said "We're working on the dvd right now." only to have it never materialize? The fact that it's a Sony property is scary enough.

Also, yes, Sony has let a TON of smaller films go OOP recently.

Yes, a lot of studios and people have said they're working on DVD releases to never have it happen, but this has now been offically announced by Criterion.

And, if you follow Criterion's history, you know that because they're been burned before, they have a very strict policy to never officially announce that they will be doing a DVD unless everybody involved, including the rights holders, are air-tight into it.

So, if they announce it (and they have), then it's gonna happen.

Now, what I wonder is if the original short film will appear. I remember hearing that it wasn't released before, because it used Peanuts music as a temp track, and there were rights issues. So, I wonder if, since they were able to use Peanuts music in The Royal Tenenbaums, they can smooth things over enough to include it, or if they'll be able to just use creative editing on existing Mothersbaugh music from Bottle Rocket and use that as a score instead.

Either way, I'm terribly, terribly excited, since this movie was a blind buy on LD for me when it first came out, only because I remember seeing clips of it on the MTV Movie Awards or something where Wes Anderson got an award or something for it.

Afterwards, I fell in love with the movie, and would show it to just about anybody who would sit still long enough, and yet nobody else ever really liked it except me.

But, regardless of whether people like it or not, I think it deserves a Criterion edition because it was, after all, the movie that introduced the world to Wes Anderson and Luke & Owen Wilson, for good or bad.

too soon?

for what?

I had to Bottle my Rocket after hearing this news. It's about damn time the talk becomes truth.

I hope it comes in a Beautiful Digi!

lcnickell, threadcrapping is against forum rules. If you aren't interested in the DVD, please don't post in the thread.

FINALLY! I have been waiting for this for years...this news actually got me to post again....its been a long time!