Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm: From 9.99 DVD bins to Criterion treatment

If I remember correctly, Ang Lee's The Ice Storm ranked only second in my top films of the 97' (with only the similar in seasonal setting Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter in the number one spot). I own the crappy single disc DVD that most of you have or that I've often witnessed them in the 9.99 dollar DVD bins. Get ready for the second generation edition: sweet cover box office art that the folks at Criterion Collection will unleash upon us in March of the new year. Check out the features below for the 2 disc set + the cover box art that shows the process of crystallization.

• – New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Ang Lee and director of photography Frederick Elmes
• – Audio commentary featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus
• – New documentary featuring interviews with actors Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Christina Ricci, and Elijah Wood
• – New video interview with novelist Rick Moody
• – Deleted scenes
• – Footage from an event honoring Lee and Schamus at New York's Museum of the Moving Image
• – Production designs and sketches, with commentary by the designers
• – Theatrical trailer
• – PLUS: A new essay by film critic Bill Krohn