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'Clerks X' loaded with DVD extras

Posted Friday, June 11, 2004 at 2:59 PM Central

by John Couture

Kevin Smith is almost the poster child for DVD. After famously dissing the format on the audio commentary for the Criterion laserdisc of Chasing Amy, he has proceeded to create monster DVD versions of his films and even earn a little coin as a spokeperson for Panasonic's DVD recorder.

If his previous offerings set the bar for value-added DVDs, his next release blows all expectations out of the water. On September 7th, Kevin offers the 10th anniversary edition of Clerks, appropriately entitled Clerks X. This three-disc gem not only features a new transfer but countless hours of original content.

According to Kevin Smith himself via his own website, ViewAskew, the list of bonus features for the anniversary party include:

  • The 93 minute "Clerks" Theatrical cut
  • All new HiDef transfer from 16mm IP supervised by Dave Klein with all-new 5.1 Skywalker Sound remix supervised by Scott Mosier, includes original commentary track from laser disc/initial DVD release.
  • The 103 minute "Clerks" IFFM First Cut, includes all-new audio/video commentary track with Kevin, Scott, Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran and Jason Mewes.
  • The 95 minute "The Snowball Effect: The Story of Clerks" Brand Spanking New Documentary that inteviews almost everybody who ever had something to do with "Clerks"
  • The MTV Jay and Silent Bob shorts that everyone's been crying for us to put on a DVD for years now
  • The Arclight 10th Anniversary Q&A with Brian, Jeff, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Scott, Dave, Mewes, and Kevin
  • Lots of new video intros.
  • "The Flying Car" short from the Tonight Show (re-telecined in HiDef).
  • The Original theatrical trailer
  • "Can't Even Tell" Music Video
  • The original Jeff, Brian, and Marilyn and Ernie O'Donnell audition tapes
  • The brand new, seven minute animated "Lost Scene" short
  • Expansive Still Photo Gallery
  • 'Clerks' Trivia track
  • Original 168-page original first draft screenplay
  • Kevin's 'Clerks' Journal
  • Kevin's 'Sundance' Journal
  • Peter Broderick's 1992 article "The ABC's of No-Budget Filmmaking" that inspired the budget for 'Clerks'
  • Peter Broderick's followup article "Learning from Low-Budgets" a year later that does the same treatment on 'Clerks'
  • Amy Taubin's Village Voice article on the 1991 IFFM and 'Slacker' that inspired Kevin to take 'Clerks' to the IFFM
  • Amy Taubin's Village Voice article on the 1993 IFFM about 'Clerks' being the gem of the festival.
  • Janet Maslin's 1994 New York Times review of 'Clerks' entitled "At a Convenience Store, Coolness To Go"
  • The entire John Pierson 'The Odd Couple: Sundance 1994" Chapter from 'Spike Mike Reloaded' book
  • The original Kevin-penned IFFM program note
  • The original Bob Hawk-penned 1994 Sundance Film Festival program note.
  • "Mae Day" - Kevin and Scott's Vancouver Film School documentary short.
  • Booklet.

    • Of course, coming out the week immediately following Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ isn't exactly enviable, but I think it's a safe bet that the man who gave the world Dogma will find this massive DVD offering a blessed event.