Criterion readying Bottle Rocket for DVD

In the past two weeks it's been hard to throw a rock into the cavern of film news without hitting a Wes Anderson story. While the director keeps kind of quiet between film releases, now that The Darjeeling Limited is headed towards theaters the man really knows how to keep the publicity up.

The latest word from the director is that Bottle Rocket, Anderson's first feature and what probably his least stylized, is getting the DVD treatment by prestige label Criterion with a new and significantly less terrible print of the film. For some reason Anderson has long seemed to have an arrangement with the label, with all three of his other features being released by Criterion while few other contemporary films are released by the house best known for its work with Godard, Bergman, Lang et al.

And extra features? "We’ve just begun work with the Criterion Collection to do ‘Bottle Rocket’ on a new DVD that’s going to have all kinds of stuff. There’s a lot of ‘Bottle Rocket’ that was on the cutting room floor, so we have a lot to work with on that one," Anderson told the MTV Movies Blog. It's also widely assumed that the package will include the original Bottle Rocket short, the success of which allowed Anderson to fund the full-length feature.

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The Darjeeling Limited at FoxSearchlight.com
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