• Described by Variety magazine as “really about as good as rock documentaries get”, the long-awaited, official King Crimson documentary by Toby Amies will be released in Limited edition form as an 8 Disc boxed set containing 2 Blu-Rays, 2 DVDs and 4 CDs
• The set includes the full film, an early edited version of the film, live and studio performances from the 50th anniversary tour plus a plethora of additional footage.
• Also includes the music from the original soundtrack and more over 4 CDs - many tracks previously unreleased and/or new to CD.
• Film appears in DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround on Blu-Ray 1 and in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround on DVD 1.
• The film and other material on Blu-Ray 1/DVD 1 – the final performance of ‘Starless from December 2021, an early edit of sections of the film and a set of trailers/shorts, appear in LPCM 24/48 Stereo on both formats
• Blu-Ray 2/DVD 2 feature:
• Tring: A one hour plus ‘Live in the Studio’ setting with King Crimson performing in the round. Presented in DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround & LPCM 24/48 Stereo with an audio only option on Blu-Ray & in Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 on the DVD
• Rock in Rio: Complete performance from the 2019 festival presented in 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround on Blu-Ray & Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound on DVD
• Gentlemen of the Road – 38 minutes of footage backstage with the band & crew drawn from footage not included in the main film.
• In addition to the Surround Sound options for the Tring/Rio performances, the features play in LPCM 24/48 Stereo on both formats, (Rio 24/96 Stereo on Blu-Ray)
• Housed in a rigid slipcase, the 8 discs are beautifully packaged in mini-gatefold sleeves along with a 48-page booklet with notes from the director Toby Amies, King Crimson manager, music & film producer David Singleton, a statement from Robert Fripp and tour photos by Tony Levin and David Singleton plus still images from the film.

“ In the Court of the Crimson King is really about as good as rock documentaries get” - VARIETY

“ This elegant, intimate, funny and surprisingly moving film covers every aspect of the group — from its thorny interpersonal history to the almost religious loyalty it inspires in fans — and lays out exactly what makes Crimson such a singular and enduring musical force.” ROLLING STONE

King Crimson has been described as popular but never populist. Just as King Crimson has been, for more than half a century, an atypical rock band, this film is a refreshingly atypical music documentary.

Toby Amies’ film about one of rock music’s most enduring, but simultaneously elusive, bands, ‘In The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson at 50’ provides a unique insight into the working process of a complex touring band, interspersed with contributions from previous band members to provide a contextual backdrop to the band’s past, as the most recent (2014-2021) line-up tours the world just before and during its 50th anniversary.

As King Crimson producer and band manager, David Singleton observed of the film: “All of life is here, not just music, and certainly not just rock. It has rightly been described as going beyond King Crimson into a ‘universal, inspirational study of what it is to work or dream to work as an artist’.”

While director Toby Amies writes of the experience: “In the Court of the Crimson King is not a film that wants to tell the audience what to think, rather it presents several different points of view about the creative process and what it means to be in this most unusual band; leaving the audience with a sense of both how complicated it all is, but also just how incredibly rewarding the King Crimson experience is both for the musicians and its fans.”

Robert Fripp announced that King Crimson had “moved from sound to silence” on social media after their final date in Japan in December 2021, making this release all the more poignant as a unique record of the band’s longest lasting line-up with tantalising glimpses of the band’s history.