With its sharp new 4K presentation and a new collection of features going over director Ridley Scott’s early career, this release comes with a straightforward recommendation. Criterion's included description details the 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Ridley Scott himself: Thelma (Gina Davis) lives a miserable life with her abusive husband Darryl (Christopher McDonald). He does not respect her, appreciate her and constantly controls every aspect of her life. He is also most likely cheating on her after work. Yet, Thelma spends almost every waking moment taking care of Darryl. Louise (Susan Sarandon) is a full-time server in a local diner and is fully independent. While she does have a boyfriend in Jimmy (Michael Madsen), he is not always around. When Louise decides to get out of town for a few days, she asks Thelma to go with her. Knowing Daryll wouldn’t let her go if she asks, Thelma impulsively decides to go away with Louise. She leaves a note for her husband to see when he gets home, right next to a microwave dinner. NEW Ridley Scott: Beginnings (HD, 22 min) features film critic Scott Foundas talking with Scott about his history and his particular approach to filmmaking

Director Ridley Scott keeps the kettle boiling and the visuals popping — this is a great-looking road picture. Attractive visuals have made plenty of Scott’s films watchable, as with the vague and muted Blade Runner. Here he has two fun, assertive women in front of his Panavision lens, along with and half a movie’s worth of choice Southwestern landscapes. Julia is a Senior News and Resource writer for Collider who graduated from Hofstra University in 2018 with a BA in Film Studies and Production. Since joining the Collider team in 2022, Julia enjoys writing anything related to What We Do in the Shadows, Our Flag Means Death, Abbott Elementary, and even the epic highs and lows of Riverdale — among other topics.

Thelma & Louise 4K Extras

Released: 29th January 2024. Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong—leading them on a high-speed southwestern odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their own terms. Propelled by irresistible performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis (plus Brad Pitt in a sexy, star-making turn)—and nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one for Khouri—the exhilaratingly cathartic Thelma & Louise stands as cinema’s ultimate ode to ride-or-die female friendship. Ridley Scott's "Thelma & Louise" (1991) arrives on 4K Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion. The supplemental features on the release include new program with Ridley Scott; new program with screenwriter Callie Khouri; two archival audio commentaries; multiple archival featurettes; deleted and extended scenes; promotional materials; and more. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-Free. Thelma & Louise”: The Last Journey (upscaled 1080i; 59:37): Retrospective documentary produced in 2002 by Charles Lauzirika is divided into three parts and covers the film’s concept and casting, production and performance experiences, and public and critical reception. Plentiful interviews with the cast and crew make the piece highly interesting and thorough. Thelma & Louise is a road movie that has the tone of a buddy comedy with elements of a crime drama. With its two richly developed and fully realized female lead characters, the film's influence on popular culture and feminist storytelling cannot be understated. Thelma & Louise received six Oscar nominations, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Actress for each of its leads. The film went on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In 2016, Thelma & Louise was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Ploughman - in 1958, Ridley Scott and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company. This ad for Guinness was made for RSA and released in 1977. Fully restored. In English, not subtitled. (1 min).

Callie Khouri - in this exclusive new program, screenwriter Callie Khouri discusses the genesis of the original screenplay for Thelma & Louise. In English, not subtitled. (21 min). Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey – Made in 2001 by Charles de Lauzirika for the film’s tenth anniversary, this lengthy documentary is divided into three parts— Part 1, Conception; Part 2, Production; and Part 3, Reaction and Resonance. Featured are director Ridley Scott; screenwriter Callie Khouri; actors Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Brad Pitt, Christopher McDonald, Michael Madsen, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Jason Beghe; producer Mimi Polk Gitlin; and composer Hans Zimmer. The making of the film from every possible perspective is covered. Rain Man film was nominated for eight Oscars, and went on to win four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original screenplay, and Best Actor for Hoffman. The film is also noteworthy for being highly influential in deepening the public's understanding of autism and leading to an increase in autism research funding.I was pleased with the outcome of this audio presentation. It highlights the strengths of the source material without ostentatious display and sounds great. years ago and the themes in Thelma & Louise were still relatively groundbreaking. It's one of the only films to have ever received Best Actress nominations for both of its leads and, in an age where every bit of diversity or inclusivity is scrutinised by both ends of the spectrum, Thelma & Louise navigated these waters effortlessly and authentically, positing a very organic premise and relatable characters, of course made infinitely better through perfect casting and tremendous performances. A few months' later and Fried Green Tomatoes would see Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker tread surprisingly similar territory, but Thelma did it first, and certainly more iconically. orange comes to Ultra HD Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection featuring 2160pHEVC encoded video and lossless DTS-HD 5.1 Master audio sound. Two audio commentaries, featuring Scott, screenwriter Callie Khouri, and actors Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon Sarandon and Davis, meanwhile, transform evocatively onscreen. All bonnets and frilly dresses to begin with, they shed the codings of their femininity as the Thunderbird hauls across the southwest, transcoding into the looks of modern (male) gunslingers of '80s and '90s action movies. In the same year, Sarah Connor, herself once a waitress, was emerging from the desert in combat clothes and aviator glasses; Thelma, robbing a liquor store late in the picture, could be her sister. There's an ancient sadness to Sarandon's Louise, detailed and careworn. Davis' Thelma, on the other hand, seems to only now begin realizing what being awake truly feels like -- which only tightens the desperate tension that grows as the women make their way across the south.

The freeze frame and fade to white at the end of Thelma & Louise works in exactly the same way: the freedom-loving ladies are frozen like legends, or a stellar constellation. That’s certainly more upbeat than a realistic Death Plunge to Doom (squirshed, I’d say: not pretty in the slightest). The movie then reprises the noble ladies’ shining faces from earlier in the picture, mythomania ploy from The Wild Bunch. The curtain falls on a fun thriller instead of a Deep Deep Downer. Leaving the audience smiling earned the movie excellent word of mouth.This is a rather bright film that strives to create the look and feel of filmmaker Ridley Scott’s vision. The restored video quality presented in this Ultra HD rendering is something to behold. Thelma & Louise is a beautifully crafted film from a visual standpoint. Adrian Biddle’s terrific cinematography benefits from the enhanced resolution and enriching color. Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott shifted gears for 1991's revolutionary Thelma & Louise. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star as the two titular characters, best friends who make a break from their mundane lives and hit the road in a turquoise 1966 Ford Thunderbird to go on a fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a run from the law when Louise (Sarandon) shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma (Davis) at a bar. Louise decides to flee to Mexico, and Thelma decides that she's going to join her. On the way, Thelma falls for J.D., a handsome and charming drifter, played by a young Brad Pitt in his breakout role. Harvey Keitel is also in the film, playing a sympathetic detective who tries to convince the women to surrender before their fates are sealed. Audio Commentaries: The same two audio commentaries has Ridley Scott riding solo in the first while the second features screenwriter Callie Khouri talking with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. Ridley Scott's 1991 repressed revenge road movie redefined stereotypical gender roles with career-defining performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. A gregarious polyglot as a filmmaker, Ridley Scott has tried a bit of everything. By the time Thelma & Louise hits screens in 1991, he has already made two of the most important science fiction films of all time, and has tried his hand at historical drama, fantasy, and neo-noir. (In the thirty years since, he's done pretty much everything else, except a musical.) Thelma & Louise, to my eye, is the gateway between his early efforts and everything that's come afterwards; never a slouch as a visualist, this is the film where all the other substances of filmmaking come together with the kind of effortlessness that few directors are able to match.

Of course much of the misfortune that befalls the two characters could be argued to be through their own ill-advised decisions - the tragedies frequently being made even more tragic by the fact that at least some of them could have been avoided (a flaw in the narrative, but only if you linger on it too much) - but the underlying theme is really one of bursting out of a repressed bubble, with both characters, in their own ways, stifled and veritably haunted by the men in their lives (whether past or present), and desperate to strike out and live.

The pair stop off for drinks at a roadhouse where Thelma dances and then goes outside with a creep who tries to rape her. Louise pulls a gun on him in the parking lot, and the chilling ruthlessness of the result, still startling even now, turns the two women into fugitives from the law. But the experience makes them more alive and wide-awake than they have been in their lives. Harvey Keitel is the kindly state cop who tries to get Thelma and Louise to turn themselves in peaceably, and Brad Pitt made his debut as the sweet-talking young rascal for whom Thelma briefly falls, but who turns out to be (almost) as bad as the rest of the menfolk. Hot off the success of her feature The Peacemaker (1997), director Mimi Leder took the disaster film genre to the next level with Deep Impact. Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the action drama depicts the chilling countdown to doomsday as a 7-mile wide comet makes its way towards the Earth – which would result in an Extinction Level Event after making impact. documentary featuring Davis, Khouri, Sarandon, Scott, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Brad Pitt and others