April: Death of a Cyclist, Blast of Silence & from Eclipse, "The Delirious Fictions of William Klein"(The Model Couple, Mr. Freedom, Who Are You, Polly Magoo?)
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Looking forward to the Lubitsch.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Cryptic confirmation of Tati's Trafic for this summer in the newsletter. Adding to the intrigue, DVDBeaver is reporting that in April, Criterion will also drop discs of The Red Balloon, White Mane, and Paddle To The Sea, plus an "Silent Ozu" set from Eclipse.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 18 January 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It's sort of like Criterion and Eclipse have switched places.
― Eric H., Friday, 18 January 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
May: The Lovers, The Fire Within, and The Thief of Bagdad.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Mon Oncle Antoine confirmed in the newsletter.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Old news by now, but: JUNE- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Patriotism, Classe tous risques, The Furies & Before the Rain.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 17 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
More old news: A so far unknown Guy Maddin title was confirmed in the latest newsletter.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"a real blast of silence"
MY WINNIPEG was really, really, really great
― Tape Store, Saturday, 29 March 2008 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Xpost: "A so far unknown Guy Maddin title" - which is?
He's done about a zillion shorts, most with outrageous titles. I'd like to see those compiled.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
many of them have appeared on the discs of his features.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
DVDbeaver is reporting that July will be: Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971), Trafic (Jacques Tati, 1971), Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932) and a reissue of High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963).
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 17 April 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I've wanted to see the first two for awhile. The Vampyr DVD on the market is really poor, glad they're doing a better version.
― abanana, Saturday, 19 April 2008 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Trafic is only Tati feature I havent seen.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
According to the Tribeca note on the Criterion homepage, the Guy Maddin title will be Brand Upon The Brain!. In other old news, the latest newsletter hint regards a Late Rossellini set (probably from Eclipse).
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't actually got the new newsletter yet, but I've come across the text, and boy o boy have they got a bombshell to drop:
Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber, We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first. Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions. Here’s what’s in the pipeline: The Third Man Bottle Rocket Chungking Express The Man Who Fell to Earth The Last Emperor El Norte The 400 Blows Gimme Shelter The Complete Monterey Pop Contempt Walkabout For All Mankind The Wages of Fear Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we’ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg’s outback masterpiece at the same time.
We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.
Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.
Here’s what’s in the pipeline:
The Third Man Bottle Rocket Chungking Express The Man Who Fell to Earth The Last Emperor El Norte The 400 Blows Gimme Shelter The Complete Monterey Pop Contempt Walkabout For All Mankind The Wages of Fear
Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we’ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg’s outback masterpiece at the same time.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
August: Brand Upon The Brain!, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Small Back Room, & Twenty-Four Eyes.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 16 May 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
...and Eclipse Series 11 will be two films by Larisa Shepitko: The Ascent & Wings.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 16 May 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Salo reish will probably piss off collector scum
― abanana, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The Max Ophuls box confirmed for this fall in the newsletter.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 22 May 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Ophuls September: La Ronde, Le Plasir, & The Earrings of Madame de . . .. All three available individually, not in a box.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, and coming from Eclipse in September: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, & The Match Factory Girl).
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
One more thing--September will also bring a budget line of "Essential Arthouse" titles. In another words, bare bones editions of: Grand Illusion Beauty & The Beast Rashomon Wild Strawberries Knife In The Water Lord of The Flies
will hit the streets with a list price of 20 bucks each (or all six in a box for a cool 100).
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, one more (for real this time): Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon will also be out in September, it just isn't on the "coming soon" page yet.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
"Essential"? Are they chosen by Robert Osborne?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
somewhat arbitrary selection to qualify for a box.
― banriquit, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I think what they are doing is reissuing the stripo titles from the Janus 50 films box (which was titled "Essential Arthouse") so somebody that wanted, say Knife In The Water, but figured they didn't want to shell out the extra 20 bucks for bonus features that they'd watch once (if at all), could have an option to get a cheaper edition. So perhaps every few months, more of those films (like The Rules of The Game and L'Avventura) will get a similar treatment. I do imagine though that the folks at criterion arived at their selection for this line by drawing titles for the set out of a hat.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Confirmation of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold in the latest newsletter.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
That essential arthouse line is the dumbest thing they've done in awhile.
― Eric H., Friday, 20 June 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
October: Le Doulos, Le deuxieme souffle, Missing, plus standalone editions of A Woman Under The Influence & The Killing of A Chinese Bookie, and a cheaper version of Short Cuts*.
Meanwhile over at Eclipse, Series 13 will be "Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women" (Naniwa erejî, Gion no shimai, Akasen chitai& Yoru no onnatachi)
*Which looks like the old version sans the paperback book.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
...or we could use the English titles for the Mizoguchi films-Osaka Elegy, Sisters of The Gion, Women of The Night & Street of Shame
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
the CC Mishima is GORRRRRRRRRRRRRRGEOUS
― jamescobo, Thursday, 17 July 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Fanfan La Tulipe confirmed for November in latest newsletter
― C. Grisso/McCain, Sunday, 20 July 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Magnificent Obsession confirmed in the latest newsletter.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
November: Fanfan le Tulipe, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Bottle Rocket, Chungking Express.
We also get the initial wave of BluRays (Bottle Rocket, Chungking, Third Man, Man Who Fell From Earth, and The Last Emperor) in November. There was no Eclipse announcement.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Sunday, 17 August 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the msrp of the blurays?
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
$39.95 each on the Blurays (or $31.96 if you buy direct)
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 21 August 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Chungking is sooorely lacking in extras, especially one commanding a $39.99 MSRP.
― Stevie D, Monday, 25 August 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Chungking is sooorely lacking in extras, especially one commanding a $39.99 MSRP. (actually, it's been a few years)
― poortheatre, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
(old news)December:White Dog & Europa. It also looks like The Exterminating Angel & Last Year At Marienbad are confirmed for Feb. in the latest newsletter.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 18 September 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, it seems like it's taken them forever to get out White Dog.
― Nhex, Friday, 19 September 2008 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Marienbad! I just saw this again on the big screen and wondered why it was still out of print.
― wmlynch, Friday, 19 September 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Damnit; I just bought the UK DVD a few months ago. I figured it'd be Criterion'd eventually since Rialto just distributed a print of it.
― Steve (Not Stevie) (Stevie D), Friday, 19 September 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
uk one is pretty dece though, nice extras.
― broken_britan (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 19 September 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the fanboys over at the criterion forum wrote the company and got a response confirming a box set of Rossellini's "War Trilogy" for next year.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 October 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
January: The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Magnificent Obsession, & El Norte (the latter in both standard and Blu-Ray editions). Also out-Eclipse Series #14: ROSSELLINI’S HISTORY FILMSRENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 October 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
More fanboy news: Some reps @ Paramount have gone on record that Criterion will be handling The Confession and Wings.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
http://sharetv.org/images/wings-show.jpg
― metametadata (n/a), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
When is Sextette coming out on Criterion? I'm available for commentary.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally, Simon of the Desert! (Plus The Exterminating Angel)
― Eric H., Sunday, 16 November 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link