Criterion Additions

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)

Confirmation of Broadcast News in the latest newsletter.

B&N currently has 50% off all criterion dvd & bluray

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/holiday-gifts/collection.asp?pid=31880

the days of heaven blu-ray in particular but really all the criterion blu-rays in general (that ive seen obv) are just ~amazing~

words fail really

October: The Magician, Paths of Glory, House & The Darjeeling Limited*-plus Seven Samurai on blu. No news from Eclipse or Essential Art House.

*All standard & blu

I found an error on the closed captioning/subtitles of the Short Cuts DVD, do I win a prize? Gimme a cookie!

house!

and Paths of Glory! Hopefully this means they'll begetting the other MGM Kubrick titles too...

Wings of Desire bd is $20 on amazon.com lightning deals right now.

amazon.ca has night and the city dvd for $16.75

The hint in the latest newsletter is a bunch of monkeys on a motorcycle; image name is "wackymonkees." Head, maybe?

are there 12 monkeys?

Haven't seen them recently but not too long ago there used to be these guys selling screenplays on the streets of New York and they always had one for "Twelve Monkees."

Four, actually. And the motorcycle maybe = Easy Rider = Jack Nicholson?

I really want a Criterion of Head, is what I'm driving at here.

Sounds possible! I've never successfully deciphered one of those clues

The people over at Criterion Forum seem convinced it's Head, and they're right more often than not. And apparently Sony/Columbia licensed Head and some other New Hollywood pictures, possibly all together in a box set- Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show, King of Marvin Gardens, A Safe Place, and Drive, He Said.

Yeah, rumor has it a BBS box is coming in December.

Where's subUrbia already??

had never heard of 'louie bluie' but 'crumb' is srsly an all time fav. it's hard for me to resist not buying it again just 2 hear the new commentary

NOVEMBER: Night of The Hunter, Antichrist, Modern Times & America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (7 films, 9 discs). All on Standard & Blu (The standard BBS box drops in December tho)

No Eclipse or Essential Art House titles.

Yeah the Crumb disc looks nice. I don't really buy DVDs, though

Any ideas on the bird/football pic in the Sept. newsletter?

not seen the pic ur referring to, but... 'kes'? it has a bird, and football.

Sept. newsletter just hit my inbox a couple hours ago. And I think you're right. Criterion forums seem to think it's Kes too.

Folks on the criterion forum think it's Kes as well.
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that would be great! I've never seen that and it's not available in the US afaik

I have seen Kes twice, I think

December: The BBS box (standard def), Cronos (standard & blu), and Videodrome (blu).

No Eclipse or Essential Art House.

January: reissues of Shock Corridor & The Naked Kiss plus Broadcast News (all standard& blu) and also Army of Shadows & Robinson Crusoe On Mars as stand-alone blus.

Not to mention Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden’s London Underground (SAPPHIRE, THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, VICTIM & ALL NIGHT LONG)

Awesome Dan Clowes packaging for those new Fuller discs.