Criterion Edition of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Blu-ray at Amazon for $15
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
This particular release includes 2 discs. The first includes the film with audio commentary from director David Fincher. The second disc is all supplementary material, with hours of video and still photo galleries covering all aspects of production. A taste of these extras can be found on Amazon’s page for the film, where one can watch a 6-minute excerpt of the making-of featurette about some of the film’s visual effects.
I don’t know what prompted this price drop, but I’d be happy to see many more Criterion titles fall into such a price range. Criterion discs are known for the quality of their extra materials and featurettes, and they generally cost more than the average disc. I like the idea of lowering the barrier to entry to give more people access to high-quality behind-the-scenes information that can illuminate the filmmaking process.2
- Disclaimer: I worked on this film. I’m in the credits and everything. I mean to minimize the gloatiness of this “disclaimer” by making it a footnote, set in small type. Yeah, that oughta do it. [↩]
- I’m looking forward to receiving my Blu-ray disc, and I am hoping it includes a 2-hour featurette on the Excel spreadsheets and web apps I coded to help track VFX clips in the timeline. (Kidding.) Given how often I end up using Excel on productions, I may have to put together an exciting spreadsheet sequence for my editing reel. (Might be kidding.) [↩]
