Criterion Additions

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!

Yet another release for which you can thank Criterion's tireless surveillance of my recently-purchased DVDs. Fucksake.

:(

The only thing worse is when it's an import of something you think they'd never be able to license and release in Region 1. Hasn't happened to me yet with Criterion, but I've been burned a few times importing releases from BFI or Arrow only for them to get a perfectly serviceable or even superior domestic edition soon afterward (like with The Conformist).

Yeah, my days of import discs is way over.

are

days of buying wild

I saw the A Day in the Country Blu-Ray at the uni library and wept.

everyone buy this so they do one of inland empire

i've bid on half a dozen ebay auctions of the oop blu of the third man lately but i keep chickening out/coming to my senses around $130 :/

Are auctions that high on that one? ... Hmmm.

if you don't care about packaging, the studiocanal version of the third man is fine

wtf, they're putting blu-rays OOP already??

Yeah, mostly stuff that's been acquired by StudioCanal (DVDs too), though there are a few other rights situations as well. IIRC that's the only reason they ever let a title go out of print- if they literally can no longer legally sell it under the Criterion name due to an expired licensing deal.

The StudioCanal situation especially sucks because aside from some of the very biggest titles, a lot of their acquisitions never get released in R1. Take a look at the stuff they release in the uK and France under the StudioCanal banner, compare it to the offerings in the US and weep

ha, i do like packaging but the real dirty secret here is i own the criterion dvd. i was gonna sell it (they go for ~60) but maybe i'll just buy the studiocanal blu and put it in the box. i swear i am not usually such yuppie scum btw but it is my favorite movie.

Via Facebook, Dressed to Kill:

https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11060291_10155598166260565_1573486480306758479_n.jpg?oh=34b7a59c174fc96051251e0d43b2d467&oe=55BFCBC1

Kind of disappointed it's not Femme Fatale (and that it's something I already imported- Arrow's de Palma discs are wonderful) but it's good to see regardless.

That was quick.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/release_boxshots/4406-9108bbf0960c7264d1753dda8b35f3ae/770_BD_box_348x490_original.jpg

more importantly, The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Dressed to Kill has to be one of the worst cover designs they've ever produced :(

I mean, look at Arrow's:

http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/image/cache/data/DRESSED_TO_KILL_2D_BD-500x500.jpg

Especially disappointing with how lovely their Day for Night cover is.

that Criterion cover is the movie's original poster.

It's better than the movie.

Try all you might, you can't take this away from me.

a bunch of criterions are mispriced on amazon.ca right now. tati box for $10, etc.
good luck.

Criterionforum have put together some very persuasive evidence for Takashi Murakami's Jellyfish Eyes as a late 2015 release- in the New Year's drawing, the Fisher King figure is fishing a very Murakami-looking eye out of the water; Janus are hosting a screening and Q&A; and Criterion have posted photos of Murakami in their office. I've heard that the film is far from an unqualified success, but I like novelty and weirdness for its own sake, still have time for Murakami's aesthetic, and was thinking I'd never get a chance to see this on anything but an illegal fansub, so I'm kind of stoked.

...oh, and this image on a Vudu preorder page for the movie certainly doesn't hurt:

http://images2.vudu.com/poster2/681854-m

OCTOBER: Mulholland Drive; The Brood; A Special Day; Kwaidan reissue w/longer cut; and My Own Private Idaho on Blu.

Fantastic month!

Well, that Italian movie looks kinda dumb.

Which parts of Kwaidan were cut down?

People on Criterionforum hate the Brood cover and I do not know wtf is wrong with them, that is gorgeous and perfect

how could Kwaidan get longer? it was cut heavily in the US on first release, but that has long been fixed.

"that Italian movie"

hopeless.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/release_boxshots/4431-500ff01d481f0f96529106a006afa90f/90_BD_box_348x490_original.jpg

They cut the whole of "Woman in the Snow" for the US release? That's my favourite.

It sounds like "Hoichi the Earless" is longer in the three-hour cut. Not sure if that's the only one which is longer.

Re: the covers, I agree with the forum that Mulholland's cover is extremely lazy, but I think the Brood one is striking and disturbing.

Don't Look Back confirmed in latest newsletter.

wow, v strange. somebody fucked up.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3646-dressed-to-kill-alternate-disc

Yeah, I got a review copy and ... it was distractingly obvious. This isn't just CinemaScope wonkiness in play.

NOVEMBER: Code Unknown; The Apu Trilogy; In Cold Blood; Don't Look Back; Ikiru on Blue; and Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties.

Gilda confirmed in latest newsletter.

DECEMBER: Speedy; Jellyfish Eyes; Burroughs: The Movie; and a blu upgrade of Downhill Racer.

That's the most motley monthly slate I've possibly ever seen from them.

Oh, and the corrected DTK BR is gor-gee-ous.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/dressed-to-kill-bd

(Would've liked to write a completely new review, but the disc shipped so late I just had to get something up.)