Criterion Additions

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

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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

Also: an upgrade of Hoop Dreams.

...and a new edition of The Thin Blue Line

still no Terence Davies stuff? weird.

Limelight confirmed in latest newsletter.

New Year's Cartoon, 2015-Style...

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the king & I
seven chances

llewyn davis

Two Days One Night.

What CriterionCast thinks

First Sun: Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day also, there are Two Days, One Night

House w/Crescent Moon: Moonrise Kingdom

Second Sun: Before Sunrise / Before Sunset?

Sailing Ship: Terrence Malick’s The New World

Running Group on Bridge: The Brood

Running Man on Bridge: Speedy [Harold Lloyd]

Knife-wielding Gang = Gangs of New York? (Probably not)

Marching Soldiers: Barry Lyndon? Napoleon?

Guitar Man w/Cat: Inside Llewyn Davis? That seems strange since it just got a Blu-ray release.

Couple in car: Wenders’ Road films?

Guy Standing on the Edge of Bridge: A Master Builder

Man Fishing in Boat: Fisher King

Clock = 1, 2, 3?

Maybe Gun Woman and Pyre are The Passion of Joan of Arc?

Bridge = Last Exit To Brooklyn?

Giant rose: The Rose? La Vie En Rose?

Push Cart Guy: Ramin Bahrani’s Man Push Cart?

Pyre = Passion of Joan of Arc?

The Window Frame = A Room With A View

Over on the Criterion Forum, One, Two, Three![i] has been discredited as a source places it with another label. They're thinking now it's [i]After Hours, since the clock hands match both the original poster and the title card. The couple in the car is speculated to be Donen's Two For The Road. The Cart guy is possibly/probably Fassbinder's The Merchant of Four Seasons. The Gun Woman may be Barbarella. The Rose could be The Rose.

Marching Soldiers: Barry Lyndon? Napoleon?

or The Duellists? hopefully not Sgt. Pepper.

Giant rose: ... La Vie En Rose?

uh

Moonrise Kingdom is exciting for the completist in me.

Is there any precedent for them getting the rights to something from Sony Picture Classics or the Coen Brothers? Llewyn Davis seems so obvious but it seems like a stretch.

People talking about the Before Trilogy feel crazy to me. They released Kid with a Bike so surely it's gotta be Two Days One Night.

Not convinced about Passion of Joan of Arc but stoked as hell for a Blu Ray of that if true.

Supposedly Criterion had already locked down Barton Fink, but they've been waiting on some input from the Coens. ILD was a surprise, but it's been mentioned that the main selling point of a CC edition would be the inclusion of Another Day/Another Time: Celebrating The Music Of "Inside Llewyn Davis", which has heretofore only been available to stream or download.. The latter film was distributed by Sony--Criterion does have a working relationship with them, but up to now it's just been with older films (iirc, Tootsie & The Big Chill are the newest things they've licensed). ILD was CBS Films, whom the CC hasn't worked with before.

There used to be a guy who worked at Sony over at the CCForum who stated that despite being part of the same company, Sony Pictures & Sony Pictures Classics operate independently of each other, so a deal with one doesn't mean they have one with the other. That doesn't rule out the future, but so far Criterion hasn't done anything with SPC.