Criterion Additions

Ride with the devil is such a catastrophe...

Criterion deletions: they're losing a load of titles to Lionsgate of all people at the end of next month. Some big ones, too- Grand Illusion, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, the Orphic trilogy, etc. Would copy/paste list but I'm on my phone atm.

hmm. i have alphaville -- pretty bare-bones.

transfer's awful too

here's the list

http://www.collider.com/2010/02/02/oop-criterion-sale-purchase-studiocanal-dvd-and-blu-ray-criterions-before-lionsgate-owns-them/

that said, I doubt that lionsgate will "care" as much criterion did

xp

Alphaville
Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse Series 6)
Le corbeau
Coup de torchon
Diary of a Country Priest
The Fallen Idol
Forbidden Games (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Gervaise (Essential Art House edition)
Grand Illusion (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Le jour se lève (Essential Art House edition)
Last Holiday (Essential Art House edition)
Mayerling (Essential Art House edition)
The Orphic Trilogy
Peeping Tom
Pierrot le fou (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
Port of Shadows
Quai des Orfèvres
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Trafic
Le trou
Variety Lights (Essential Art House edition)
The White Sheik

guess I should grab a copy of that pierrot le fou blu-ray

this will kinda fuck up their janus box too iirc.

wonder how many years lionsgate will take to re-release these, if they even bother to do it at all

a fair number of these are on R2 (british) dvd already, though without the nice extras (not all of these are well extra'd up tho -- don't think the carne is). must see 'the fallen idol'.

May: BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME TWO, Stagecoach & a reissue of Walkabout all standard & Blu. Plus M on Blu & ECLIPSE SERIES 21: OSHIMA'S OUTLAW SIXTIES (PLEASURES OF THE FLESH, VIOLENCE AT NOON, SING A SONG OF SEX, JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE & THREE RESURRECTED DRUNKARDS)

i can't imagine the person that watches stan brakhage movies on blu-ray

Blanchard!

i'd rent it. i like to know that what i'm watching was in the original film and isn't a compression artifact.

3-disc Hollis Frampton set off in the distance!!!!! (And maybe even a Kuchar?)

June: Close-Up, Mystery Train*, Everlasting Moments, Red Desert* & Night Train to Munich plus The Leopard on Blu. No Eclipse or Essential Art House titles to report.

*Standard & Blu

Please, oh please let them get the rights for a blu-ray of Blow-Up...or hell, even Zabriskie Point.

What is up with the cover to Red Desert... glad the movie is finally coming out, but that has gotta be the worst Criterion cover yet....
http://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert

http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2731/522_box_348x490.jpg

nagl

the english bluray of that is excellent

There been some grumblings about a Criterion Zabriskie. I can't confirm a source but I recall hearing something about Steven Soderbergh claiming during a junket for Che that he'd cut a commentary track for the then forthcoming DVD. Fast forward some months and Warner's has issued a disc w/no commentary and the MGM's adjusted ending (w/the Orbison song instead of additional Pink Floyd). If it gets done I imagine those errors would be corrected. However I don't thing there has ever been a solid confirmation of WB finally working w/Criterion (Stagecoach was a third party acquisition).

Got the Pedro Costa box early and now I'm thinking he's director of the decade material...

wow, did not know that was forthcoming. sight & sound in particular are pretty fond with him as one of the guys of the last decade.

Goddamn, the subtitles that Polanski himself wrote for Knife in the Water are shit! They should keep him in prison just for these fucking subtitles.

ZOMG OMG RED DESERT!!! FWIW I think the cover looks very nice on its own but is an awful fit for the film.

Antichrist confirmed for this fall in the latest newsletter.

They've hinted a confirmation of Fish Tank on Facebook.

are artificial eye dvds/blu-rays region free? you could always import fish tank. so annoying that criterion chose to region lock their BDs

still need to pick up red road myself

are artificial eye dvds/blu-rays region free?

don't think so

i don't have a blu-ray but a seven-y-o could have hacked my dvd player + vlc 4 lyfe

blu-ray is p.nice tho

id be in2 it if i had a job

but even then dvds are awesome enuf for me really

July: The Only Son/There Was a Father: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu, The Secret of the Grain*, and reissues of The Red Shoes* & Black Narcissus*. Plus Eclipse Series 22:Presenting Sacha Guitry (The Story of a Cheat, The Pearls of the Crown, Désiré & Quadrille)

* Standard & Blu

they fucked up the original issue of black narcissus with colors being way off. glad to see they're giving it another go.

americans u shd see 'fish tank', very good film

I will look into "Fish Tank". Anyone know the story of why Criterion never released "Night of the Hunter"? Rights issues? Also WHEN IS HOUSE/HAUSU COMING!!

I want DAVID LYNCH BLU RAYS please

It took long enough to get Lynch DVDs, my hopes aren't too high for timely blu-rays :(

Anyone know the story of why Criterion never released "Night of the Hunter"?

What I heard was that MGM planned to do their own special edition but because of the companies recent financial woes, it's been on hold. Supposedly Criterion was going to pick it and some other similarly fated MGM projects (Last Tango... & Kiss Me Deadly had been mentioned) but IIRC I've never seen a solid confirmation on it.

BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME TWO

hello

The Fugitive Kind came out yesterday! I'm pretty surprised. Why this one? It's a terrible film. In fact, it's quite possibly the worst Tennessee Williams film adaptation ever (Last of the Mobile Hot Shots had less potential overall [Lumet again, for one] and was thus less disappointing). Still, I keep returning to it in hopes it will turn into a film maudit. Hasn't yet. Maybe the extras and David Thomson's essay will do it for me this time.

Best Tennessee Williams film adaptation ever: beyond easily Boom (which just might be Joseph Losey's best film too).

oh man a "kiss me deadly" disc would own

think im going to get high and watch "boom" to see if it really is better than all of the better losey films

Make sure you provide some evidence for the better films' betterness. For serious.

Suddenly Last Summer is really really good. Haven't seen Boom.

Hepburn's perf in that one defines "brittle."

KJB, you're mad. F'rinstance, the Tenn Williams film that came out last December is much worse than TFK.

Wait, which one is that?

This one.