Criterion Additions

People who don't have a blu-ray player yet, but plan on getting one, should just buy one all ready.

I imagine it's the HDTV that's the problem

September: Eraserhead, MacBeth, The Innocents, Sundays and Cybele, and an upgrade of Ali: Fear Eats The Soul.

It looks like the Eraserhead blu-ray has everything from the old Short Films dvd except for The Cowboy and the Frenchman :(

Some great news from a usually reliable source (apparently they broke news of The Innocents a month before release and have a more or less unblemished record with Criterion; IIRC their source is some trade paper for retailers):

Criterion Corner: Those folks at Criterion are up to their old tricks, pushing out gems on DVD and Blu-ray that collectors simply can’t live without. Down the road, we’ve learned that the company has slated David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., the 2001 Hollywood-set mystery that actually started life as a pilot for a TV series. The film deals with an aspiring actress, an amnesiac woman, a film director, and a lesbian liaison and stars Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Robert Forster and Justin Theroux. This will be a nice companion piece to Criterion’s upcoming Eraserhead. Also due from the company is Terry Gilliam’s fantasy Time Bandits, available in a mega-deluxe edition. Just licensed for future release is Federico Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece La Dolce Vita with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg. This will make a nice companion with The Great Beauty, the recent Oscar winner inspired by La Dolce Vita.

There's good supporting evidence for Mulholland Drive (people have come forward and confirmed that Criterion does have distribution rights for the omitted The Cowboy and the Frenchman as well as Lynch's animated Dumbland shorts, and their Facebook page posted a note from Lynch to theaters asking for special matting and volume considerations for Mulholland Drive), the Fellini news matches up with Paramount, a frequent Criterion licensor, finally establishing their legal rights to the film, and Time Bandits, if true, could potentially mean reissues of other Handmade Films productions (Withnail & I and the long out of print How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Mona Lisa, and The Long Good Friday- maybe even Life of Brian, though I'm sure the ownership of that film is a little more complicated).

I'm hoping they manage to pick up some other Handmade titles like The Missionary or Track 29, but I'm not holding my breath.

Mulholland is exciting. Eraserhead would be exciting if I didn't already own both the individual DVD and the Lime Green set. Doesn't sound like there's anything new?

Aside from the 4k transfer, I don't think there's anything new, no- all of this material has appeared on the prior Eraserhead and Short Films DVDs. I kind of wish I'd picked up the Lime Green set myself while it was still in print, since it doesn't look like anyone plans to put the Wild at Heart deleted scenes or Industrial Symphony No. 1 back into circulation anytime soon.

TIME BANDITS

¡Sí, los bandidos del tiempo!

It Happened One Night confirmed in latest in newsletter.

That's the knight with the horn?

I saw some speculation on the Criterion Forum that it was the Dean Martin western Rough Night in Jericho...

I was hoping for Lancelot Du Lac :/

Gah, forgot entirely about the "walls of Jericho" thing in It Happened One Night- for some reason I thought that was Bringing Up Baby. It's...been a while. Yeah, that's infinitely more likely than Rough Night in Jericho.

UNF

http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati

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Yes. Also My Darling Clementine and La Dolce Vita plus Blu upgrades of F for Fake and The Vanishing.

HOLY

FUCKING

SHIT

I personally want to flog anyone on the internet that calls that lineup 'disappointing'.

It's a hell of a month

http://i.imgur.com/3L5uW4x.jpg

wannnnnnnnnnt

Think I'll wait for the 4K re-re-remaster of Playtime instead

This is the first time in ages I've been immediately interested in every single title released in a month.

Fellini Satyricon confirmed in the newsletter

A workstation photo of the restoration of The Shooting was shared on FB today.

A Les Blank box set that doesn't include a blu-ray upgrade for Burden of Dreams? It feels churlish to complain about that, but man :(

God, that's attractive.

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Isn't it, though? It's not even drastically different from their previous design, just less busy and fussy and with a better choice of frame.

Not sure what I think about the Monte Hellman box looking vaguely like a Black Dice album:

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Also coming: It Happened One Night, Tootsie.

That Blank collection has been anticipated as an Eclipse set for so long that to see it in the mainline has rendered the former label more moot than ever.

The Thin Blue Line confirmed in latest newsletter.

Bunch of stuff added to the Hulu Criterion channel in the last month or so, but mostly in the last couple of days:

Watership Down
Il Sorpasso
Scanners and The Brood
Le Notti Bianchi
Where Is the Friend's Home? (the title here is Where Is My Friend's House?) - Kiarostami
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Tess
Jascha Heifetz Master Class Series
Liv & Ingmar (Akolkar 2012)
Kaurismaki, La Vie de Boheme
Judex
The Elephant God
A Brief History of Time
Breaking the Waves
A Hard Day's Night
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Ronin-Gai
The Third Shadow Warrior
Assassin (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
some other samurai stuff for the current week of free offerings

DECEMBER: Safe; and what appears to be reissues of Time Bandits & The Night Porter; along with Eclipse Series 41: Kinoshita and World War II

Safe details:
http://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe

Don't Look Know confirmed in latest newsletter.

Don't Look NOW, even.

God I hope so

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, My Winnipeg, The Palm Beach Story and La Cienaga. And Sword of Doom? Not sure what's up there, since it's not being reissued on blu-ray or even with a new design, it's just there on the page.

Sword of Doom is being reissued on blu-ray. This is just one of those cases where they don't have blu-ray cover art yet to upload to the thumbnail.

The bummer about that title is the severe lack of supplements with the release!

Oh wait it does have the blu-ray box art within the link.

Criterion, the Book: http://www.criterion.com/shop_products/106-criterion-designs

I'll wait for the movie.

the kind of coffee table book I would proudly display next to my copy of Pet Shop Boys - Catalogue.

Odd Man Out confirmed in latest newsletter.

Where?

FEBRUARY: Every Man For Himself; Don't Look Now; Watership Down; Satyricon; and a blue upgrade of An Autumn Afternoon.

Criterion Forum is also reporting Renoir's A Day In The Country, but I'm not seeing it on the official site.

It's available on the Hulu+ Criterion channel -- I watched it a couple of weeks ago. Hard not to think that anything that shows up on Hulu is in the pipeline for disc release (except maybe the Bulldog Drummond pictures), the way things have been moving the last year or so. In which case, maybe look for The Brood, a Martha Graham dance film release, a Jascha Heifetz box,...

They've got it up on the main page now--it was just weird that the forum had both specs and artwork before the official site did.

Not up yet on the site, but the forum is reporting MARCH: Ride The Pink Horse; Gates of Heaven b/w Vernon, Florida; The Soft Skin; and an upgrade of Cries and Whispers