‘Crying Game,’ ‘Hud,’ more join Criterion Collection in 4K in July

April 15 (UPI) — The Criterion Collection announced its July additions Wednesday. The 1992 Oscar winner The Crying Game joins the collection along with Hud, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and more.

The Crying Game was a sensation after its 1992 release with a twist that was satirized in comedies like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Naked Gun 33⅓. Stephen Rea plays an IRA operative who falls for the girlfriend (Jaye Davidson) of his late hostage (Forest Whitaker).

It won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Rea and Davidson’s performances. Writer/director Neil Jordan approved the 4K restoration, available July 14.

Jordan and Rea gave new interviews, and the release includes Jordan’s audio commentary, alternate ending, a 2005 documentary and essays.

Hud and Alice also arrive July 14. Martin Scorsese supervised the 4K restoration of Alice, which stars Ellen Burstyn as a widowed mother that inspired the sitcom Alice.

Burstyn speaks with critic Farran Smith Nehme, and editor Marcia Lucas gives a new interview. An archival commentary includes Scorsese, Burstyn, Jodie Foster, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd and Alfred Lutter. It also includes a documentary and essay.

Hud is also presented in 4K. Sally Field speaks about director Martin Ritt, who directed her in Norma Rae and Murphy’s Romance before he died in 1990. Roger Deakins discusses cinematographer James Wong Howe.

Archival bonus features include star Paul Newman’s episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio and audio of a 1974 American Film Institute seminar Ritt gave.

On July 7, The Elephant Man gets a 4K upgrade, having previously been added to the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray. David Lynch’s biography of John Merrick includes archival material from 1981 through the 2020 edition.

On July 21, Nagisha Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth gets a 4K edition and last year’s The Love That Remains gets a Blu-ray.

July 28 sees a trio of Mike Mills’ films. Beginners, 20th Century Women and C’mon C’mon are collected in the set called I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills, all in 4K approved by Mills.