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Spinal Tap Blu-ray Re-Announced for July Release

By brenden ⋅ June 16, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

This is Spinal Tap is required viewing for any musician. In fact, it’s like a touring musician’s handbook: The Dangers of Being on the Road 101. It’s easy to imagine when watching the film that everything on screen is quite fantastical and could never exist in the real world. I’m here to tell you that Spinal Tap is funny because it’s so close to reality. Musicians may not find themselves with a cucumber down their trousers or miniature Stonehenge monument on stage but every band has had a Tap moment or two on every tour.

I truly love this film. I lament the fact that no version of Spinal Tap on home video will ever be definitive (MGM releases will never have the Criterion content, produced for Laserdisc and released on their long out-of-print DVD) but remain ecstatic that I’ll be able to “Smell The Glove” in delicious 1080p this July!

THIS IS SPINAL TAP
(July 28, 2009 - MSRP $34.99)
Video: 1.85:1 1080p AVC
Audio: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

Special Features:

Disc 1 (BD)
• Over 1 Hour of Deleted Scenes and Outtakes
• Audio Commentary by the Members of Spinal Tap
• Catching Up With Marty DiBergi Featurette
• Flower People Press Conference
• 4 Classic Spinal Tap Music Videos

◦ Gimme Some Money
◦ (Listed to the) Flower People
◦ Hell Hole
◦ Big Bottom

• Spinal Tap Appearance on The Joe Franklin Show
• Spinal Tap sells cheese and a variety of other exciting products 



Disc 2 (DVD)
• “Stonehenge” Performance at the 2007 Live Earth Concert
• National Geographic Stonehenge Interview with Nigel Tufnel

Tags: Criterion, Fox, MGM, Mockumentary, Music, Spinal Tap, The Criterion Collection