Wes Anderson’s 2021 anthology The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun arrives in a director-approved 4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition from The Criterion Collection, featuring a new 4K digital master with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio. The film assembles a starry ensemble to tell three stories from the final issue of a magazine in Ennui-sur-Blasé, France.
If you want our take on the movie itself, read our review of The French Dispatch.
Film Info
Country: United States
Year: 2021
Runtime: 108 minutes
Color/Black and White | 1.37:1, 1.85:1, 2.40:1 | English
Spine: #1282
Special Features
Director-approved 4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition features:
- New 4K digital master supervised and approved by Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Anderson and collaborators Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman
- Selected-scene storyboard animatic
- Behind the Scenes of “The French Dispatch”
- Visual essay featuring the writing of film scholar David Bordwell, read by Rupert Friend
- Episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour featuring Anderson, New Yorker editor David Remnick, and actor Jeffrey Wright
- Interview with artist Sandro Kopp, who created Moses Rosenthaler’s paintings in the film
- Music video for “Aline” by Jarvis Cocker, directed by Anderson and illustrated by Javi Aznarez
- “The French Dispatch” Reads the “New Yorker” (and Other Magazines), featuring Jeffrey Wright and actors Bill Murray, Stephen Park, Elisabeth Moss, Owen Wilson, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton reading excerpts from classic magazine pieces
- “The French Dispatch”: Miniature Unit Berlin and Accidentally Angoulême, shorts about the making of the film
- Trailer
- English SDH subtitles
- Plus: an essay by critic Richard Brody; excerpts from the limited-edition magazine issue of The French Dispatch, including historical and production dispatches by Alex Pasternack and further-reading recommendations from Anderson; and a poster by Javi Aznarez featuring the magazine covers created for the film
Release Date
The Criterion edition of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun releases on September 30, 2025 and can be pre-ordered here.
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