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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.

APRIL: Odd Man Out; Le Silence de La mer;Eclipse Series 42: Silent Ozu—Three Crime Dramas; plus upgrades of The River; Sullivan's Travels; and The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

This may seem kinda picky, but I'm a little saddened that they've completely done away with booklets for the individual releases, instead including fold out leaflets with not much more than one essay.

Yeah, I thought the insert for Safe seemed awful paltry.

the equiv of the booklets is now in site content on each release, i think...

most of my CC experience is with library borrowing, and the booklets are always gone.

that is too bad, I always like reading those after watching when I'm maybe not going to jump right into lengthy supplements. my brother picked up Picnic at Hanging Rock the other day and it comes with the original novel

is Odd Man Out as good as I imagine it to be? have been meaning to see that for like 10 years.

it's p damn good (ie don't listen to Eric)

i'm not sure i liked the last sec w/ Robert Newton so much, last time, as the Mason character is barely conscious in much of it.

It's endless and fussy and not even remotely in the same ballpark as The Third Man.

several ballparks ahead of The Fury though

Different leagues entirely.

I know enough about it to not expect The Third Man, but I did quite like The Fallen Idol and OMO seemed to be closer in spirit

YMMV

Wait have they officially done away with the booklets in favour of the foldouts? Bummer.

Yeah, apparently after dropping dual-format they've cut costs by doing the foldouts/folders instead of booklets for new, non-box set titles. Of course, they've always done the folders, and according to these packaging photos, those old-school accordion-style folders are still being made. The big problem are the foldouts, as seen here, which are ungainly road map-esque things that can only be comfortably read on a table, or other large flat surface.

All the features in the Jacques Demy box and then some have been added to the Hulu channel. (A Slightly Pregnant Man, The Pied Piper, Parking, plus two Agnes Varda docs about Demy, Jacquot de Nantes and The Young Girls Turn 25)

MAY: The Rose; Limelight; State of Siege; The Confession; The Merchant of Four Seasons; and a blu upgrade of Make Way For Tomorrow.

I wonder if they'll ever release Funeral Parade of Roses

wow at a Mark Rydell film on CC

(albeit one i've not seen)

My Beautiful Launderette confirmed in latest newsletter.

Their flash sale for today confirmed by eight robot Twitter accounts.

No Flash Sale for Dual-Format non-supporters.

JUNE: The Bridge; The Fisher King; Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders; A Master Builder (standalone and also in a "Three Films With Shawn/Gregory" box, with...); My Dinner With Andre blu upgrade; and a standalone edition of Five Easy Pieces.

Am hopeful Five Easy Pieces means we might get a standalone release of Head someday.

Or The Last Picture Show.

They've been doing a fantastic job lately of announcing Criterion editions of movies I've just purchased.

I've sort of solved that problem by not really buying movies any longer except for the occasional Criterion.

Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders whaaaaaaaat

Mulholland Drive confirmed in the newsletter!