Criterion Additions

oh man, that would be awesome.

having dinner with president of criterion nxt week

get me a job there!

Help me convince them to release a John Paizs box set!

February: Fish Tank, Still Walking, Sweet Smell of Success & Senso (all standard & blu), plus Amarcord & The Double Life of Véronique on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

March: Au Revoir les Enfants and Yi Yi on blu, The Times of Harvey Milk, Topsy Turvy and The Mikado on standard and blu, Mikio Naruse set from Eclipse.

Pale Flower confirmed in latest newsletter.

big <3 for Criterion releasing the Allan King set, that's some fucking brilliant filmmaking

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Lots of 2011 hints in here. I'm usually terrible at these, but I'm guessing a Wild Strawberries blu-ray, the Monroe/Einstein figure is practically a confirmation of Insignificance, and the globe/balloon s/he's playing with might be The Great Dictator? Also, reeeally hoping the suitcase with a sun inside is Kiss Me Deadly...

that guy is carlos, right

Boca del Cielo = Y tu mama tambien

That drawing has been circulating since New Years. Here is a key made by the folks @ Criterioncast.

Although they are missing the voluptuous dancing chick, which has been sourced elsewhere as (most likely) Silvana Magano in Bitter Rice or possibly Harriet Andersson in Summer With Monika. And the Sunday calendar has also been linked to People On Sunday.

And also the knife/coffee can is most likely White Material.

i watched insignificance recently - it's a pretty bad movie imo

it's ok but not crying out for the criterion treatment

iirc there's already an edition with a roeg commentary out there

they shd do _the front page_

There is, but it's a R2 PAL disc. I wish they were doing Eureka instead, but that's readily available (and for STUPID cheap too- just checked out Amazon to refresh my memory re: special features on the existing DVD, and they're selling it for $3 and change).

calendar could also be le cercle rouge

April: White Material, Kes & Blow Out (all standard & blu) Plus Fear & Loathing... & Sweetie on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

Should also note that Kes will have Cathy Come Home as a bonus feature.

oh, and Le cercle rouge is also coming to blu.

Should also note that Kes will have Cathy Come Home as a bonus feature.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, January 14, 2011 10:44 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

This is ridiculously awesome.

http://ow.ly/i/7O6t

Magnificent Ambersons

oh, wait, apparently they're just taking a bunch of photos of "ancient reels from the laserdisc days".

criterion selling the old solaris for $14

We will be announcing new Blu-ray and DVD editions of Solaris as part of our May lineup. We now know that the black-and-white scenes in the film were meant to be tinted blue, and we have updated the feature accordingly. The supplements from the original DVD will not change.

The old DVD edition is officially out of print. However, we are offering it at a 65% discount from the SRP at criterion.com (use the promotion code RHEYA at checkout). We have a limited supply and will fulfill orders as soon as we can.

May: Something Wild, Pale Flower (stadard & blu), and remasters of Diabolique & Solaris (standard & blu), plus Smiles of A Summer Night & Fat Girl on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

Just added: The Great Dictator on standard & blu.

Malle's Black Moon confirmed in the latest newsletter, plus a plug for the Janus release of Truffaut's The Soft Skin, so it'll probably be getting the Wacky C treatment down the road.

JUNE: Insignificance, The Makioka Sisters, Kiss Me Deadly, People On Sunday, Zazie dans le métro & Black Moon (all standard & blu)

Also-Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas

So now, with a half-year of announcements in the can, here's what's yet to come from the New Year's Cartoon:

Cul de sac
Wild Strawberries blu
Sunday Bloody Sunday (which may have been wishful thinking)
Carlos
Kuroneko
Bitter Rice or Summer With Monika
Y tu mama tambien
Jean Vigo collection

Life During Wartime confirmed on Facebook.

The Killing confirmed in the latest newsletter.

Life During Wartime- the Solondz movie? Hm :(

yeah... can't say people are crying out for it.

Jean Vigo collection

!!!!!!

you used to be able to get this vigo collection in fopp for abt £12 but looks like its oop now, judging by the silly money price on amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jean-Vigo-Collection-disc-Collectors/dp/B00009Z52C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300451827&sr=1-1

Life During Wartime is another one of Criterion's IFC acquisitions (ala Antichrist, Fish Tank etc).

http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=330801#p330801

Last week while I was at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in New Orleans I spoke with some Criterion reps and was delighted to learn that Criterion plans to release Lonesome (1928) with talking sequences and tinted sequences either late this year or some time next year. It is my favorite picture and I was so excited that I started doing some of the film’s dialogue. When I asked whether I could mention this online, I was assured that it would be perfectly OK.

Wow, looking forward to this.

Old news now, but The Music Room was confirmed on FB the other day.

I inherently, by nature, don’t trust 99% of the news I read on April 1st, but I promise you – this one is the real deal. Criterion has just announced that they are going to be releasing 1984′s cult classic horror flick C.H.U.D to Blu-ray.

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so, Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture in early 2012 apparently.

There's been alot of grumbling about that over @the ccforum. It's kind of weird that it'll take that long (the film went off IFC On Demand like six weeks ago). Maybe the 7d footage already needs an upgrade (ala Che, which was delayed because the RED software changed and Soderbergh made an all-new transfer using it).

Personally I enjoyed the movie, care fuck-all about whatever connections/silver spoons Dunham has, and hope the best for her in the future. However, something tells me getting her initial flick in the CC will do her no favors.

Also, I must thank her Twitter feed for my new display name.

is that really the big complaint with tiny furniture? that lena dunham is... rich?

One of the things. A lot of it boils down to "She's from New york and her parents are connected and she used those connections to finance & make a film about being from New York and having a family that's connected and how terrible that is because nothing's real anymore and nobody gets me, man."

The other big point of contention from the same leaked IFC info on the ccforum is that they won't* be doing Certified Copy, because Peter Becker feels it's "Minor Kiarostami."

On the bright side, it was also more or less confirmed that Errol Morris' Gates of Heaven, Vernon, Florida and The Thin Blue Line are in the pipeline.

*At least anytime soon.

there's a bunch of kiarostamis they shd do before 'certified copy' but that news on the same day as the lena durham thing is a bad look

Exactly. The Kiarostami thing is particularly incongruous in the context of the IFC deal because up til now that haven't exactly been that discriminating in what they put out by them. By that I mean in the cases of, say, White Material or Summer Hours (or Life During Wartime or...), they might not necessarily be ideal films to introduce their directors into the collection, but they were what was available to them via IFC. These films can provide a starting point for further investigation, and anyway the disc production shouldn't be too hard since these are new films and in many cases they've just ported the extras from R2 editions. They've already done some Kiarostami, but Certified Copy has certainly been as well-received as any other IFC acquisition they have made, and you would think on those grounds alone it would get picked up.

The guy who leaked that "minor Kiarostami" quote started backing off of it on the criterionforum when it got some attention. I find it extremely unlikely Becker would say something so laughably arrogant about a director they've revered in the past.

tiny furniture is pretty bad. i really wanted to like it! but man it's just shitty and charmless and lacks ~heart~. it gave me the impression that she got into directing just so she could make out with ~cute boys~

oh wow i really liked tiny furniture!! i dunno i saw it last month not knowing _anything_ abt her or her mom or her fam or anything and i was like, hey, what a nice little movie.