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
...and Hobson's Choice, altough I doubt anyone (Lean/Laughton devotees aside) was waiting for that. Also more ala carte Cassavetes (Faces & Shadows) and no Eclipse WTF?
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 November 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The Friends of Eddie Coyle confirmed in the latest newsletter.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
gr8
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.criterion.com/
― omar little, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i just wasted 5 minutes watching that intro movie. all it says: they have some full movies up on a partnered site called The Auteurs, which i can't use because i'm not in the us.
― abanana, Thursday, 27 November 2008 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Pigs and Battleships confirmed for May in the latest newsletter.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Why the hell does anyone think 'Eyes Without a Face' is a good movie? Could someone explain to me why it is supposed to be decent?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
It doesn't sound like you will agree with this, but it's a remarkably effective horror film in tone and very unique, influential, and forward-thinking for 1960 - it invented the bizarre genre of surgical horror, and the combination of ideas (serial killing of women supported by a murderous, but well-intentioned family to prop up their upper class family ideal, which is a weird farce of doctor/assistant/mutilated daughter) is pretty striking. But I can easily see the movie not working for everybody, especially without a certain historical interest in the genre and a kind of patience for it.
― Nhex, Sunday, 14 December 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Really my problem was the pacing, which was painfully slow. The face removal sequence did make me really squeamish in a way unique to any movie I've seen. But if that's the best thing I can say about the movie ("part of it made me nauseous")...then...
Also I had a problem telling apart the doctor (Jacques) and the detective, and keeping track of things in general (ie I thought the head-bandaged girl trying to escape the house was his daughter – "but she just got a new face! Why did she kill herself?"). This made the movie unwatchable. I didn't finish it.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Also the director seems unaware of the establishing shot – he'd show entire uneventful car drives, everyone ascending or descending the entire staircase and hallway, the entire walk from the back of the property to the house, etc., every time. I could see this with the scenes of the daughter in the house – her shy, embarrassed lurking through her own house – but sheesh, do we need to see the doctor walk up the entire staircase every time? Do I need to see each car drive uphill and park in a garage every time? It became maddening!
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
March: lI Generale della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, 1959), Dodesukaden (Akira Kurosawa, 1970), The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980), The Last Metro [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1980), Danton (Andrzej Wajda, 1983), Eclipse Series 15 - Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Very happy we're finally getting a good dvd of Dodesukaden Totally shocked at the Shimizu set - super glad I'd yet to pick up the 130 dollar Japanese version
― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
It became maddening!
So it worked, eh?
― L'esprit est toujours la dupe du coeur (Michael White), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Old news, but APRIL: The Hit, In the Realm of the Senses (also due on BluRay), Empire of Passion, & Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé--plus a BluRay of Wages of Fear. No news from Eclipse.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 January 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Wings of Desire confirmed in the latest newsletter.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 26 January 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
MAY: WISE BLOOD, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE & "PIGS, PIMPS & PROSTITUTES:3 FILMS BY SHOHEI IMAMURA" (PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS, THE INSECT WOMAN & INTENTIONS OF MURDER all exclusive to the box).
Also, Ran on Blu-Ray. No news from Eclipse.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 February 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Better late than never, the May release from Eclipse will be "Eclipse Series 16:Alexander Korda's Private Lives" featuring The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Rise of Catherine the Great, The Private Life of Don Juan & Rembrandt.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 February 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Think I just might have to get that one.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://criterion_images.s3.amazonaws.com/Other/ImagesneedingURLs/wackydinner1.jpg
I sure wish this was a confirmation of a deluxe Waiting For Guffman featuring hours and hours of outtakes instead of what it's really confirming ...
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
endless hours of improvisation, doesn't get funnier than that
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
"Not Guffman" confirmed for June, along with Marienbad, Seventh Seal remaster (both also in Blu-Ray) and Bergman Island.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Sort of brilliant cover for Marienbad, btw:
http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2125/478_box_348x490.jpg
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Would I be wrong to suspect that they might release Huston's "The Dead"?
― M.V., Tuesday, 17 March 2009 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Or hope so, at least.
― M.V., Tuesday, 17 March 2009 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
lol can't think of my dinner with andre w/o thinking of action figures
i thought the cover of marienbad wasn't even up on the site yet until i squinted a little - pretty sure i love it now as a result
― double dutch bus schedule (donna rouge), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Ingmar is kinda surprising in Bergman Island.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
They've also got another round of "Essential Art House" titles coming, including a vanilla Ashes & Diamonds, the back in print Variety Lights, and the original Last Holiday.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Zzzzzzzzzzz
http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/7249/release-date-cover-art-for-criterion-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
better than Army of Shadows (maybe -- close call, actually)
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
you were expecting Bruce LaBruce?
Looks like a confirmation for del toro's Cronos in the latest newsletter.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks like a confirmation for Monsoon Wedding in the latest newsletter. Criterion be digging (reasonably) late-model stuff.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 April 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy Shit July: Replusion (standard & Blu), The Human Condition & Made In The USA (the Godard one) plus For All Mankind on Blu (plus a standard reish). No Eclipse announcement (yet?)
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
man, i know dudes have to make a buck, but Benjamin Button is a huge crock of shit. worse than chasing amy or armageddon or any of the other big movies they sometimes work
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 16 April 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Old news, but July also brings a Criterion edition of Two or Three Things I know About Her.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
And another Godard, Made in USA, as well as Polanski's Repulsion on DVD and Blu-Ray.
― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
...Which I would've seen just a few posts above me had I read a bit further back. WHY YUO SABOTAGE ME TINY BLACKBERRY SCRN
― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing CC could do is worse than Chasing Amy
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, remembering now to take this board off my Site New Answers list
― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
So after reading the list of Criterion LDs upthread, I just realized: they don't have a single animated film out on DVD, do they? Unless you REALLY want to stretch and count some of the Brakhage shorts.
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Confirmation for a fall release of the Rossellini "War Trilogy" box in the latest newsletter.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 May 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
August: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles & The Last Days of Disco
Plus Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir Featuring: I Am Waiting, Rusty Knife, Take Aim At The Police Van, Cruel Gun Story & A Colt Is My Passport.
No new Blu-ray news.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 May 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, scratch that last statement, there are two new blu-rays for August: Playtime & Kagemusha.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 May 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link