Criterion Collection to Re-Release Fantastic Planet

[Nirvana In Karma]

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Alternate English-language soundtrack
• Les temps morts (1965) and Les escargots (1966), two early short films by director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
• Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
• Episode of the French television program Italiques from 1974 about Topor’s work
• Interview with Topor from 1973
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke
  
  New cover by Eric Skillman

 

[Pharpetron]

Finally! I've been waiting for this for years! I don't understand why this film, which is one of the all-time greats, has been unavailable for so long. At last, O Lord, you have heard our prayers!