Cronos (4K + Blu-ray Limited Edition) (BFI Films) [UK]

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Release date: February 10, 2025
Purchase links: BFI - Amazon UK - Zavvi - HMV
Price: £29.99 (BFI - HMV) - £34.99 (Amazon) - £28.99 (Zavvi)
Notes: Includes 60-page book + Poster - Blu-ray disc is Extras

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  • 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Extras
  • 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
  • Newly recorded audio commentary by Jason Wood
  • Audio commentary with Guillermo del Toro (2002)
  • Audio commentary with producers Arthur H Gorson and Bertha Navarro and co-producer Alejandro Springall (in English and Spanish with optional English subtitles)
  • Optional original Spanish-language voice-over introduction
  • Cronos - An Introduction (2024, 34 mins): director Guillermo del Toro in conversation with the former head of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes film festival and current managing director of Arte France Cinéma, Olivier Père (2024, 34 mins)
  • Geometria (1987, 7 mins): a short film by Guillermo del Toro about a young man who pays dearly to have his dreams come true
  • Guillermo del Toro on Geometria (7 mins): a short interview with the director about Geometria
  • BFI Screen Talk: Guillermo del Toro (2017, 74 mins): filmed around the release of The Shape of Water, the writer and director discusses his career with journalist, author and screenwriter Mark Salisbury and the BFI London Film Festival
  • The Making of Cronos: An Interview with Federico Luppi (2006, 5 mins): a short archival interview with the actor
  • Interview with the director (2010, 60 mins): an archival interview with Guillermo del Toro
  • Interview with Guillermo del Toro (2010, 18 mins): an interview with the writer and director
  • Interview with Guillermo Navarro (2010, 13 mins): an interview with the film’s cinematographer
  • Interview with Ron Pearlman (2010, 7 mins): an interview with the actor who since Cronos has gone on to become one of Del Toro’s regular collaborators
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Stills gallery
  • 60-page book featuring new essays by Michelle Kisner, Rich Johnson, Barry Forshaw, and Michael Leader. Also includes and edited version of ‘Guillermo del Toro: The origins of horror and Cronos’, an interview that originally appeared in The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, by Jason Wood and an original Sight & Sound review by John Kraniauskas.
  • Fold-out poster featuring the new artwork for the film
 
Nice. Love Cronos.

BFI also doing Yojimbo/Sanjuro 4K set. Announcement at the same time.
Thread already done earlier today in 4K section
It only includes a booklet that’s why not in the limited edition forum.

If packaging contents included change as in poster etc will move to this forum section.

4K Forum
Yojimbo & Sanjuro