Criterion Additions

Shallow Grave confirmed for June on FB.

Looks like The Gold Rush got confirmed for June on FB today.

I pre-ordered Hollis Frampton Blu today. what whaaaat

v excited abt the rbt downey snr set, esp greaser's palace

June: The Gold Rush, Shallow Grave, Gray's Anatomy, And Everything Is Going Fine, Harold and Maude (bumped from May), and a reish of The 39 Steps.

and The Samurai Trilogy

yeah, their site just crashed on my phone.

> and The Samurai Trilogy

the toshio mifune films? about miyamoto musashi?

(there's actually another film about musashi that was released the same year (1954) which gets better reviews.
this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047444/
vs this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282006/
as well as a tv miniseries http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398521/
and a dozen others )

yeah, the Mifune ones they've previously released on DVD way back when.

2004, £37 import on amazon. am hoping the reissue will be cheaper and more available

2004 was the reissues. I forgot they did that.

http://www.criterion.com/films/28373-kindergarten-cop

funny.

"related films..."

July is Le Havre and a Jean Grémillon Eclipse.

Rest are Blu-Ray Upgrades of Down By Law, Metropolitan, and Last Days of Disco.

Rosemary's Baby confirmed in latest newsletter.

Oh shit yes! I was wondering what that was.

August:

Rosetta, La Promesse, Weekend, Lonesome, Quadrophenia, and a Normal Mailer Eclipse set.

great, maybe we can finally get a decent release of weekend

oh no, it's not the Godard one. It's the 2011 British one.

I feel confident that the Godard one is coming up this year though.

Janus Films is touring the Godard Weekend, so a Criterion is on the way.

Also in August: The Royal Tenenbaums on blu

Lonesome, nice! Feel like that's been a rumored title for as long as I've been following Criterions.

yeah that's good news. i'd love to get to one of the cinema screenings of the restoration in the meantime.

On The Waterfront confirmed in latest newsletter.

Sunday Bloody Sunday confirmed in latest newsletter.

Sept titles:

The Game, Les Visiteurs Du Soir, and Eating Raoul, with Blu-updates of Children of Paradise (new artwork!) and Umberto D (also new artwork).

Eating Raoul is another to strike off from the new years cartoon, and The Game has been in the pipeline for years.

I got Hulu+ for the Criterion stuff and it's been a good investment. The best one I have watched so far was Devil and Daniel Webster, which tbh scared me so much I kind of felt like I should go to church the next day! Equinox was also badass. Worst so far has been The Plumber, which wasn't really bad, but it was billed as a comedy and I would have put it in the "creepy movies about awful humans" category. Turns out it was made for TV.

They just added Mahler and Eraserhead to the Hulu+ channel.

Also: The B & N 50% off sale started today.

so I can't get up the list for some reason, but Rosemary's Baby and In the Mood for Love Blu?

Yeah, also Forgiveness of Blood, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and a Gainsborough Eclipse set.

folks on the web are claiming this is real:

http://i.imgur.com/ZvRZH.jpg

they are using the jump in spine numbers from Sunday Bloody Sunday to Rosemary's Baby to buttress their absurd claims.

think they'll do anything interesting at #666?

Criterion #666: The Room*

Also: The Pasolini claim holds water. That box set has been in the pipeline for years (IIRC, they picked up the rights in their initial MGM deal back in 2005 or so.)

*Wishful thinking would be The Devils, but that is so not happening in the States.

They made Salo happen in the states. Is The Devils that much more complicated?

The Devils presents a set of problems. First of all, it's a Warner Bros. title, and Warner USA really doesn't license to boutique labels. Secondly, even after all these years, there are people in the Warner organization who are offended by the content of the film who've gone so far as to block releases of the film on physical media, such as a dvd edition that had a transfer and artwork ready to go.*

All that said, it is a miracle of sorts that BFI was able to release their edition earlier this year. However, it was a compromise, featuring the censored UK theatrical version (which admittedly isn't as censored as the US version) which is missing existing footage that at one time Warners US let out for a "making of" doc, but has since been thrown back in the vaults. It's been speculated that this release only happened because of persistent inquires from the UK causing them to cave and broker a one-off deal. I imagine Warners is of the mind that anyone in the states who's interested in the film will just go region-free and buy the BFI edition.

Of course, I'd love to be proved wrong about the worst parts of this. However, I just don't see Criterion wanting to play ball with Warners & vice versa.

*Of course the film has been issued on video in the states, but usually in truncated versions. This also hasn't stopped them from distributing prints for rep screenings.

Heaven's Gate confirmed in the latest newsletter.

I should have clocked the skating fiddler. I don't know about this one. I know it has it's hardcore fans, but...

...Tiny Furniture's better? I concur! OTOH, Heaven's Gate is one of the most important films ever made (not that important=good, mind you), and the old MGM disc's minuses (non-anamorphic 'scope transfer, scratchy image) outdo the pluses (premiere-length cut, unintentionally hilarious booklet focusing only positive aspects of the production).

And of the course the collection can always use more nude Isabelle Huppert!

I've only seen the long version on VHS.

Pretty sure I saw the long version in a theatre--I recall that they gave it a re-release some time after the abridged version. (A year later? Two years?) I've watched it one or two times subsequent to that. It requires a lot of patience between some incredible sequences.

Yeah, I think the "Premiere Cut" (which played briefly in NYC, getting the initial damning reviews before the recut was ordered) made the rounds as a kinda-sorta rep title in the early '80s along with the famous Z-Channel airing.

November: Rashomon reissue, Weekend (the Godard one), The Trilogy of Life, Heaven's Gate, and Eclipse 37: When Horror Came To Shochiku.

Aside from Rashomon, which I've seen, and the Eclipse thing, which I know nothing about, I've been wanting to see all these movies.

Looks like a confirmation on The Qatsi Trilogy in the latest newsletter.

did you get that from the drawing of the three C's? because i couldn't figure that out. still can't tbh.

Someone on the Criterionforum figured it out as a pun: "Three Caught C's".

oooh, of course...

Purple Noon, Qatsi trilogy, and Nolan's Following in December