The good folks at Criterion home video will be carving up a 4K digital master of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio on Dec. 12, just in time for the holiday gift-giving season. The stop-motion movie, which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar earlier this year, offers a dark take on Carlo Collodi’s tale of a wooden toy that dreams of becoming a real boy. Directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson, the movie features the voices of Ewan McGregor, David Manning, Gregory Mann, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton and Tom Kenny.
The Criterion 2-disc edition of Pinocchio was supervised by its director and includes a bunch of bonus material, including a conversation with fantasy living legends Del Toro, Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) and Mark Gustafson. Here are the specifics:
- 4K digital master, supervised by directors Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, with Dolby Atmos
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Hand-carved Cinema, a new documentary featuring del Toro, Gustafson, and cast and crew, including the film’s puppet creators, production designers, and animation supervisor
- Directing Stop-Motion, a new program featuring del Toro and Gustafson
- New conversation between del Toro and film critic Farran Smith Nehme
- New interview with curator Ron Magliozzi on The Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 exhibition devoted to the film
- New program on the eight rules of animation that informed the film’s production
- Panel discussion featuring del Toro, Gustafson, production designer Guy Davis, composer Alexandre Desplat, and sound designer Scott Martin Gershin, moderated by filmmaker James Cameron
- Conversation among del Toro, Gustafson, and author Neil Gaiman
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz and author Cornelia Funke
- 4K+Blu-Ray (2 Discs) $39.95; Blu-ray (1 Disc) $31.96; DVD (2 Discs) $23.96.
To preorder the title, visit criterion.com.
