Pixar's WALL-E makes history as it becomes the first Pixar film to be inducted into The Criterion Collection. WALL-E came out in 2008 from director Andrew Stanton, and holds a message still relevant to today with themes exploring the nature of love, climate change, and how technology in the future may aid the healing of Earth. The Criterion Collection was founded in 1984, and having a film inducted into its collection has become a point of prestige and exclusivity, with only 1,200 films inducted since its inception.
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The Criterion Collection announces that WALL-E will be its latest addition, and that new special features will be included in its release. Some of these features include deleted scenes featuring commentary by Stanton, documentaries exploring the film's production, and more. WALL-E is currently available to pre-order from The Criterion Collection for $39.96, and will be available on November 22. A full description of the film by The Criterion Collection can be read below:
A high-water mark of digital animation, this prescient vision of a dystopian future is packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, making for an urgent fable for our troubled millennium. It’s the twenty-ninth century, and humans have long since fled Earth for outer space, leaving WALL•E, the last functioning trash-compacting robot, to go about the work of cleaning up a pollution-choked planet, one piece of garbage at a time. When he meets EVE, a fellow automaton sent to detect plant life, the pair are launched on an intergalactic quest to return humanity to Earth. Transporting us simultaneously back to cinema’s silent origins and forward light-years into the future, WALL•E is a soaring ode to the power of love and art to heal a dying world.
WALL-E's ever poignant story makes it re-watchable 14 years after its initial release, and certainly marks it as a deserving candidate to add to The Criterion Collection. For fans of WALL-E or for those trying to experience it for the first time in incredible visual quality at home, buying the film from The Criterion Collection with its many added features may be the perfect holiday gift. Viewers will have to continue following updates regarding WALL-E's release to The Criterion Collection ahead of November 22.
Sources: The Criterion Collection