Editing Harold and Maude (section)

==Release==
''Harold and Maude'' was released with a vague, text-only poster and very little marketing. The initial release [[Box-office bomb|underperformed at the box office]], but it gradually found success in [[repertory theatre]]s and recouped its costs after several years.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Saperstein |first=Pat |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/harold-and-maude-oral-history-flop-cult-classic-1235130303/ |title='Harold and Maude' at 50: An Oral History of How a 'Harrowing' Flop Became a Beloved Cult Classic |date=2021-12-10 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=2022-07-15}}</ref> [[Danny Peary]], author of the ''[[Cult Movies (book)|Cult Movies]]'' series, referred to the film as "[o]ne of the runaway [[cult favorite]]s of the seventies" and commented that it "[broke] longevity records in cities like Detroit, Montreal, and most memorably, Minneapolis, where residents actually picketed the Westgate Theater trying to get management to replace the picture after a consecutive three-year run."{{sfn|Peary|1981|page=135}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Lileks|first=James|date=2018-02-09|title=When a Twin Cities movie theater vanishes, it takes neighborhood history with it|url=https://www.startribune.com/when-a-small-twin-cities-movie-theater-vanishes-it-takes-neighborhood-history-with-it/473590023/|newspaper=[[Star Tribune]]|access-date=2021-10-19|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715003851/https://www.startribune.com/when-a-small-twin-cities-movie-theater-vanishes-it-takes-neighborhood-history-with-it/473590023/|archive-date=2018-07-15}}</ref>

===Home media===
[[The Criterion Collection]] released ''Harold and Maude'' for Region 1 on [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray]] on June 12, 2012, including a collection of audio excerpts of Ashby from January 11, 1972, and of screenwriter Colin Higgins from January 10, 1979, a new video interview with [[Cat Stevens|Yusuf/Cat Stevens]], a new audio commentary by Ashby biographer Nick Dawson and producer Charles B. Mulvehill, and a booklet which includes a new film essay by [[Matt Zoller Seitz]]. Exclusive to the Blu-ray edition are a new digital restoration of the film with an [[Uncompressed video|uncompressed]] [[monaural]] soundtrack and an optional remastered uncompressed stereo soundtrack. Other exclusives are a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' profile of Gordon from 1971, an interview from 1997 with Cort and cinematographer John Alonzo, and an interview from 2001 with executive producer Mildred Lewis.<ref name=Criterion>{{cite web|title=Harold and Maude (1971)|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/27896-harold-and-maude|publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]]|access-date=17 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Atanasov|first=Svet|title=Harold and Maude Blu-ray Review|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Harold-and-Maude-Blu-ray/36768/#Review|website=Blu-ray.com|access-date=17 August 2015|date=26 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Katz|first=Josh|title=Criterion Blu-ray in June: Chaplin, Ashby, Boyle, Soderbergh, Hitchcock, Inagaki|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8388|website=Blu-ray.com|date=16 March 2012|access-date=17 August 2015}}</ref>