David Lynch’s 2006 experimental horror Inland Empire is the latest of the director’s work to be added to The Criterion Collection in Blu-ray form from March 2023.
Famous for being the auteur’s first feature to be shot entirely in digital video, Inland Empire stars frequent Lynch collaborators Laura Dern, Justin Theroux and Harry Dean Stanton and follows ‘the fragmented and nightmarish events surrounding a Hollywood actress (Dern) who begins to take on the personality of a character she plays in a supposedly cursed film production.’
The director-approved special edition features include;
- New HD digital master, made from the 4K restoration supervised by director David Lynch, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio and uncompressed stereo soundtracks, newly remastered by Lynch and original rerecording mixers Dean Hurley and Ron Eng
- Two films from 2007, LYNCH (one) and LYNCH2, by blackANDwhite, the makers of David Lynch: The Art Life
- New conversation between actors Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan
- More Things That Happened, seventy-five minutes of extra scenes
- Ballerina, a 2007 short film by Lynch
- Reading by Lynch of excerpts from Room to Dream, his 2018 book with critic Kristine McKenna
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Excerpts from Richard A. Barney’s book David Lynch: Interviews
A newly remastered version of Inland Empire with soundtrack supervised by Lynch screened nationally via Janus Films earlier this year, and has been a long-awaited addition to the Criterion Collection for some time. Other Lynch features already available via Criterion include Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man.
The Inland Empire Blu-ray will be released on March 21, 2023 and can be pre-ordered here.
