Criterion Additions

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

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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.

Wow! That totally passed me by. Yeah, it looks worse but I'm still going to check it out.

Amazon has a bunch of unannounced Criterion blu-rays listed without release dates- Videodrome, The Thin Red Line, Antichrist, Seven Samurai, and The Darjeeling Limited.

Breathless confirmed for Blu in the latest newsletter.

August: Crumb*, Louie Bluie, L’enfance nue & THREE SILENT CLASSICS BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG box set (Underworld, The Last Command & The Docks of New York), plus black Orpheus on Blu and ECLIPSE SERIES 23: THE FIRST FILMS OF AKIRA KUROSAWA (Sanshiro Sugata, The Most Beautiful, Sanshiro Sugata Part 2 & The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail).

*Standard & Blu

im hugely pumped for the sternberg

whoa

Another vote for the Sternberg.

Added: Black Orpheus is getting a standard reish as well.

THREE SILENT CLASSICS BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG box set (Underworld, The Last Command & The Docks of New York)*

Fuck the silents. I want THUNDERBOLT (1929), an infinitely superior remake of Underworld which does for sound what the Dietrich extravaganzas did for visuals.

* But yeah, Docks is long overdue for a Criterion.

The Docks of New York

Olga Baclanova AND Betty Compson rowr rowr.

Also, those Sternbergs are originally Paramount titles, aren't they? It would be great if more Paramount silent titles came out on DVD, they're pretty scarce, officially anyway.

hitchcock rated 'the last command' as one of the top ten films of all time

as of 1939

The only new titles in the latest round of announcements are DVD and blu-ray releases of The Thin Red Line and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and a long, depressing list of titles going OOP:

Billy Liar
Bob le flambeur
Diary of A Chambermaid
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Man Who Fell to Earth (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
The Milky Way
The Phantom of Liberty
That Obscure Object of Desire
Touchez pas au grisbi
A Woman Is a Woman

Fuck! I better pick up Discreet Charm soon...

anyone know about this Bob le flambeur dvd?

http://www.maplepictures.com/home_video_detail.aspx?id=37248

They've also got an new Eclipse set for September: Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King.

That's a bummer about that new wave of deleted titles. I've got most of 'em already but I guess I'll have to get the others too, as they are faves I've slept on.

Oh, and Charade is coming to blu as well.

Night of The Hunter confirmed in latest newsletter.

OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!

Confirmation of The Sweet Smell of Success on Facebook.

White Dog is worth the money.

Any word on when House is coming out?

criterion is doing house now?

http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/house-hausu/

Well considering Janus just rereleased a print and Criterion is selling House shirts on their website and there's STILL no stateside release, it only makes sense.

Though that MoC House is apparently NTSC (albeit R2)