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Pulse-Pounding Adam Sandler Drama ‘Uncut Gems’ Gets 4K UHD Blu-Ray From The Criterion Collection This November

By Dillon Gonzales
September 1, 2021
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The Criterion Collection previously announced that they would be bringing the pulse-pounding Adam Sandler drama Uncut Gems from directors Josh and Benny Safdie to Blu-Ray in October. After the announcement that the label would be entering the world of 4K UHD this November, we were crossing our fingers that this title would somehow end up on that format sooner rather than later. The cinema gods have answered our prayers!

The Criterion Collection has formally announced that Uncut Gems will indeed be getting a 4K UHD Blu-Ray Combo Pack on November 23, 2021. This will also be the new date for the previously-announced formats. This new 4K UHD Blu-Ray disc will be presented in Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Get additional details below!

Synopsis: This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler and gambler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard’s ship has finally come in—as long as he can stay one step ahead of a wife (Idina Menzel) who hates him, a mistress (Julia Fox) who can’t quit him, and a frenzy of loan sharks and hit men closing in on him. Wrapping a vivid look at the old-school Jewish world of Manhattan’s Diamond District within a kinetic thriller, Uncut Gems gives us one of the great characters in modern cinema: a tragic hero of competing compulsions on a shoot-the-moon quest to transcend his destiny.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital transfer, approved by writer-directors Josh and Benny Safdie, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack on the 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions

• In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

• Audio commentary from 2019 featuring the Safdies, writer and editor Ronald Bronstein, and producer Sebastian Bear-McClard

• New interviews with cinematographer Darius Khondji, costume designer Miyako Bellizzi, production designer Sam Lisenco, and casting director Jennifer Venditti

• Documentaries from 2019 and 2020 on the making of the film and soundtrack

• Screen test featuring actors Adam Sandler and Julia Fox

• Goldman v Silverman, a 2020 short film by the Safdies, featuring Sandler and Benny Safdie

• “Question & Answer,” a 2020 short film featuring the Safdies, Sandler, actor Jason Bateman, and comedy writer Megan Amram

• Audition tapes

• Deleted and extended scenes, including a full performance of “The Morning” by The Weeknd

• Trailers

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman and, for the 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions, a 2020 discussion of the film by the editorial staff of Jewish Currents magazine

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