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April looks pretty uninteresting. Mostly re-releases...

Monterey Pop (single-disc edition)
Jimi Plays Monterey/Shake! Otis at Monterey
The 400 Blows
Elevator to the Gallows
Harlan County, U.S.A.
Grey Gardens (two-disc edition)

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't give a damn about the rest, but Harlan County is on my must-buy list.

If only Frederick Wiseman would license out to DVD...

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

From what I recall, Wiseman was supposed to have all of his movies released by the company formerly known as Homevision but something happened -- I heard about this a couple of years ago and there hasn't been much news since.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

If not *literally all of his movies* at least the big ones: High School, Titicut, Hospital, Welfare, etc.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Hi Amanda

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Thursday, 5 January 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Home Vision folded when Criterion was bought by Image (aka the studio that seems content to just start breaking up Criterion's old boxes and resell them as individual films).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I think you have that wrong. Image bought Home Vision and shut them down - but they just have an exclusive distribution deal with Criterion. I believe Criterion remains an independently owned company.

At least according to the press release...

AUG. 2 | DVD distributor Image Entertainment has acquired 19-year-old Chicago-based publisher/distributor Home Vision Entertainment.

The $8 million deal--one of the largest ever for Chatsworth, Calif.-based Image--also gives the former laserdisc company exclusive distribution rights to the prestigious Criterion Collection of esoteric, foreign and critically acclaimed movies on DVD.

For the past eight years, Image had split retail distribution of Criterion titles with Home Vision, which had a separate 50/50 joint venture with Criterion. With that arrangement, Image was never able to include Criterion titles in its overall national marketing efforts.

With this week's deal, Home Vision sells its 50% stake in the joint venture back to Criterion, freeing up Criterion to sign an exclusive output deal with Image for its 280 active catalog titles and three to four monthly new releases through 2010.

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 6 January 2006 04:30 (twenty years ago)

...and image is continuing to release stuff under the home vision banner too. oyster farmer, exiles and that jim white documentary searching for the wrong-eyed jesus have been announced as home vision titles for march.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Rialto Pictures has announced a roadshow for Army of Shadows (L'armee des Ombres) that will begin in April.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Also, RE:Wiseman-- Didn't PBS offer a Video or DVD of High School from when it was featured on either Independent Lens or Frontline 4-5 years ago? Or at least has somebody bootlegged said broadcast? I had a tape.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I saw Wiseman in Interview in SF last year and he said that his whole back catalogue will be released on DVD in 2006.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

From the new newsletter, it sounds like they're releasing Ozu's late Spring.

― Dru, Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

I might have downloaded High School and Titticut (and Domestic Violence).

But I saw High School and Meat both in the theater, and that will be hard to beat.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Spine 331 is Ozu's Late Spring

http://www.criterionco.com/content/images/titles/331_title.gif

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Spine 334 is Harlan County.

― dru, Sunday, 22 January 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

woo!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

So what's the missing 332 Spine?

― dru, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

332 is the delayed Viridiana

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Any news on the Einstein silents? According to DVDBeaver.com the only DVD edition of "Battleship Potemkin" is some French company's DVD. Criterion should it moving.

― Dru, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

October!

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Are you serious? Is there an obsolute list to the movies being released?

― Dru, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I mean absolute. And where did you get this info? I'd likie to read up on it. Thanks.

― Dru, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

hah, i am guessing "October!" is just a joke. but i hope not!

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

There's a glitch on the criterion website. it say's that "A Nos Amours" is coming out as spine 0 and when clicked on it goes to the home page. Well I guess we know which film they're releasing next.

― Dru, Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Dazed & Confused confirmed for this summer in the newsletter.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

!!??

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I noticed that Tunes Of Glory is on the roster. Is it really any good?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:25 (twenty years ago)

i haven't seen it, but hopscotch is a wtf criterion (the horse's mouth is decent though)

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that one too. I was hoping it was going to be some kind of France-Argentina coproduction based on the Cortazar novel. I'm surprised they haven't done The Poseidon Adventure as well.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Kicking and Screaming (the Baumbach film) confirmed in the new newsletter.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Criterion loves them some Chris Eigeman.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Kicking and Screaming (the Baumbach film) confirmed in the new newsletter.

Not the hilarious Will Ferrell soccer vehicle?

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

This looks cool:

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=336

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

340 - Koko: A Talking Gorilla

339 - Yi Yi

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Ha Ha.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

good, because the fox lorber transfer of yi yi was sub-vhs.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

i think they're trying to make the fanboys' heads explode

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 14 April 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

if that is the case then i highly encourage them to keep heading in that direction.

also i really hope the sweet movie rumors are true.

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Got the newsletter this afternoon. It is mentioned that a Rohmer "6 Morals Tales" box is due this summer. There is also a cryptic annoucement regarding other upcoming titles (supposedly Amarcord & Playtime remasters, plus some other stuff)

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

In case you didn't know, the website has undergone a serious overhaul. In addition, three titles have been announced for August: The Rohmer box, Kicking and Screaming, & Seduced and Abandoned.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Hooray! Criterion heard my plea for more Pietro Germi!

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

September: Jigoku, The spirit of The Beehive, and...

http://www.shillpages.com/movies/playtime1967dvd.gif

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Hasn't PLAYTIME been out? I could have sworn I'd read an essay by Kent Jones on the Criterion website a few years back...

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but it's out of print.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

...and this version will be a remastered 2-disc set. I wonder what happened to the Tati box discussed upthread?

BTW, I was just browsing the Deep Discount site, and they have the Amarcord (a two-disc) and Seven Samurai remasters listed for September, in addition to a single disc edition of Brazil.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

If you didn't know, the remasters and reissues are up on the site for September. The version of Seven Samurai is a THREE-DISC BOX in high def.

The link for it:

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=2

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

yea, they're releasing armacord in a deluxe addition as well. i hope some of their other early releases get the same.. and why the hell can't hard-boiled and the killer come back into print?

[i'm going to start posting all my film dork crap on here instead of ILE...]

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how long it'll be until the next format that's actually hi-def (as opposed to a high definition transfer) will standardize and Criterion will jump to it. Blu-Ray or whatever the contenders in that field are seem to still be questionable.

Looks like Brazil is getting rereleased in anamorphic, too.

― taco freebie (mike h.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

not criterion related, but for the (uh,wealthy) people who have been waiting on some f. wiseman films:

Zipporah Films is making the Frederick Wiseman documentary films available in VHS format at greatly reduced prices until September 30, 2006.

Order any combination of titles --
5 films for $1,500
10 films.....$2,000
15 films.....$2,500
20 films.....$3,000
25 films.....$3,500
30 films.....$4,000
plus shipping & handling charges

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 7 July 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

In the new newsletter, it's mentioned that Kieslowski is joining the collection--will it be The Double Life of Veronique?

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

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