http://www.criterion.com/films/28547-a-hard-day-s-night

Criterion Films have announced a new re-issue of the Beatles A Hard Day’s Night film. It will have a new cover:

And will come in two versions – a DVD only, and a “dual-format” 3 disc box set edition which combines DVD and BluRay versions. What you’ll get is:

• A new 4K digital film restoration, approved by director Richard Lester, with two audio options—a monaural soundtrack and a new 5.1 surround soundtrack made by Apple Records (which Giles Martin worked on) — presented in uncompressed monaural DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray (dual-format only)
• Audio commentary featuring various members of the film’s cast and crew (dual-format only)
• In Their Own Voices, a new piece combining interviews with the Beatles from 1964 with behind-the-scenes footage and photos
• You Can’t Do That: The Making of “A Hard Day’s Night,” a 1994 documentary program by producer Walter Shenson
• Things They Said Today, a 2002 documentary about the film featuring Lester, music producer George Martin, writer Alun Owen, cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, and others (dual-format only)
• New piece about Lester’s early work, featuring a new audio interview with the director (dual-format only)
• The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film (1959), Lester’s Oscar-nominated short featuring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan (dual-format only)
• Anatomy of a Style, a new piece on Lester’s approach to editing (dual-format only)
• New interview with Mark Lewisohn, author of Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years—Volume One (dual-format only)
• Deleted scene (dual-format only)
• Trailers
• PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton
• The film will be in a 1:75:1 aspect ratio, which is how it was originally shown in movie theatres in 1964
• The re-issue is due for release on June 24