From MTV Movie Blog via Cinematical:
For years, Anderson fans have grumbled about the crappy treatment his first film has received on DVD. The bare bones presentation of “Bottle Rocket” has been all the more galling considering the loving care his subsequent films have gotted as part of the Criterion Collection.
Well, grumble no more. Wes told me, “We’ve just begun work with the Criterion Collection to do ‘Bottle Rocket’ on a new DVD that’s going to have all kinds of stuff. There’s a lot of ‘Bottle Rocket’ that was on the cutting room floor, so we have a lot to work with on that one.”
Other than the newest Darjeeling Limited, Bottle Rocket is the Wes Anderson film I’m least familiar with even though I’ve seen it once or twice. I know it’s much beloved by a lot of his fans but, based on my limited viewing of the film, lacks the authorial voice of Rushmore, Tenenbaums or Life Aquatic. But it’s been too long since I’ve bought a Criterion DVD so this one is already on my list of (hopefully) 2008 films.