Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has new a 4K restoration — no wait, two new 4K restorations — of director Tarsem Singh’s 2000 serial-killer thriller, The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D’Onofrio as the infamous Carl Rudolph Stargher.
We say two new restorations because Arrow has both the original theatrical cut and Singh’s “director’s cut” of the film ready for a 4K Ultra HD rollout in the New Year (Jan. 21 to be exact).
The original theatrical cut clocked in at 107 minutes, while the “director’s cut” has a running time of 109 minutes.
The 4K Ultra HD disc includes both cuts plus four separate commentary options — two newly-prepared featuring film scholars Josh Nelson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and film critic Kay Lynch teams with screenwriter Mark Protosevich … plus two archived commentaries with director Tarsem Singh and a tag-team option featuring director of photography Paul Laufer, production designer Tom Foden, makeup supervisor Michèle Burke, costume designer April Napier, visual effects supervisor Kevin Tod Haug and composer Howard Shore.
There are also two new featurettes included on the 4K Ultra HD disc — “Projection of the Mind’s Eye” and “Between Two Worlds.”’
The companion Blu-ray features an “unseen” theatrical cut prepared by the director of photography Paul Laufer. Also included are three new featurettes — “Paul Laufer Illuminates,” “Art is Where You Find It” and “The Costuming Auteur” — plus eight deleted or extended scenes and the archival featurette titled “Style as Substance: Reflections on Tarsem.”
