Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits | Blu-ray (Criterion)
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for Criterion Collection’s Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, a 7-disc set that includes The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon and Game of Death, plus a load of New and previously released features.
Read the official details below:
In the early 1970s, a kung fu dynamo named Bruce Lee side-kicked his way onto the screen and straight into pop-culture immortality. With his magnetic screen presence, tightly coiled intensity, and superhuman martial-arts prowess, Lee was an icon who conquered both Hong Kong and Hollywood cinema, and transformed the art of the action film in the process. This collection brings together the five films that define the Lee legend: furiously exciting fist-fliers propelled by his innovative choreography, unique martial-arts philosophy, and whirlwind fighting style. Though he completed only a handful of films while at the peak of his stardom before his untimely death at age thirty-two, Lee left behind a monumental legacy as both a consummate entertainer and a supremely disciplined artist who made Hong Kong action cinema a sensation the world over.
Special Edition Features:
- 4K digital restorations of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death and The Way of the Dragon, with uncompressed original monaural soundtracks
- New 2K digital restoration of the rarely-seen 99-minute 1973 theatrical version of Enter the Dragon, with uncompressed original monaural soundtrack
- 2K digital restoration of the 102-minute “special-edition” version of Enter the Dragon
- Alternate audio soundtracks for the films, including original English-dubbed tracks and a 5.1 surround soundtrack for the special-edition version of Enter the Dragon
- Six audio commentaries: on The Big Boss by Bruce Lee expert Brandon Bentley; on The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon by Hong Kong–film expert Mike Leeder; and on the special edition version of Enter the Dragon by producer Paul Heller
- High-definition presentation of Game of Death II, the 1981 sequel to Game of Death
- Game of Death Redux, a new presentation of Lee’s original Game of Death footage, produced by Alan Canvan.
- New interviews on all five films with Lee biographer Matthew Polly
- New interview with producer Andre Morgan about Golden Harvest, the company behind Hong Kong’s top martial-arts stars, including Lee
- New program about English-language dubbing with voice performers Michael Kaye (the English-speaking voice of Lee’s Chen Zhen in Fist of Fury) and Vaughan Savidge
- New interview with author Grady Hendrix about the “Bruceploitation” subgenre that followed Lee’s death, and a selection of Bruceploitation trailers
- Blood and Steel, a 2004 documentary about the making of Enter the Dragon
Multiple programs and documentaries about Lee’s life and philosophies, including - Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973) and Bruce Lee: In His Own Words (1998)
- Interviews with Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee’s widow, and many of Lee’s collaborators and admirers, including actors Jon T. Benn, Riki Hashimoto, Nora Miao, Robert Wall, Yuen Wah, and Simon Yam and directors Clarence Fok, Sammo Hung, and Wong Jing
- Promotional materials
- New English subtitle translations and subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Plus: An essay by critic Jeff Chang
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Incredible. This is absolutely going to be the new definitive collection of these movies, bar none. I regret buying that crappy Fortune Star boxset a couple years ago.
Definitely a “pressing” and not a MOD release. 🙂 I wouldn’t mind picking this up, but sorta torn at that price. I do have the latest set put out by Shout a few years back, but this looks like the “Forever” one to own.
Ouch, I didn’t even notice the price until you just mentioned it. I’ll temper my excitement and wait for a sale.
It’s $87 at Criterion. https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits
Now that’s more like it!
Don’t forget Barnes & Nobles 50% off Criterion sale.
Pre-ordered it when I saw the post at Criterion.com. Excited to watch Game Of Death II on Blu-Ray and have all of Bruce’s movies in one collection.
Plus the artist Gian Galang did the artwork! He’s the same guy That did the poster for the upcoming Paper Tigers movie.
Only downside is that not even Criterion could find that saw footage the Big Boss. At least nothing was mentioned on their post.
I had the Fox collection release on VHS, The Fortune Star collection DVD and Shout Factory collection with a couple of individual Blu-Rays cause of the upgrade. Hopefully this will be the last time i cop a collection of Bruce Lee movies and they can move on to focus on a Brandon Lee collection on Blu-Ray/4K. I hope i’m not the only one who has been longing for a 4K widescreen uncut version of Laser Mission with commentary, deleted scenes, promotion material, etc.