Criterion Additions

Absolutely. Really blindsided me, even after IIleana Douglas's preamble about how nasty it gets when she was presenting it on TCM the night I watched it.

and esp for a film co-starring the director's daughter...

of course for The Graduate it helps if you're as crazy about Paul Simon's songs as Eric is. (Maybe CC will include the novel in the package.)

Her meltdown scene at the restaurant is excruciating to watch, perhaps all the more so because I'm still laughing at Grodin's absurd rationalizations as its happening.

xp You may be right. The song makes all the difference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gs1_ndm3r4

February: The Graduate; I Knew Her Well; The Kid; Death By Hanging; and The Emigrants/The New Land.

March: A Poem Is A Naked Person; The Manchurian Candidate; Paris Belongs To Us; A Brighter Summer Day; and an upgrade of Bicycle Thieves.

Added to the Hulu channel – 5 by Tati (the only one missing from the box set is Parade), 6 by Kieslowski, A Room With a View, both Lady Snowbloods.

:)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/images/6494-5bdcd810d202e726eb5616e82f813571/New_Year_1920_large.jpg

That is the baby-cart from lone wolf and cub...

"Christ, what an asshole"

these ones are probably obvious

Three Kings
The Exterminating Angel
The Squid and the Whale

Chimes at Midnight

Supposedly that's McCabe pushing the LW & C cart.

Easy Rider
Eastwood's Bird
Cast Away

Higher quality here: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3854-happy-new-year

I thought the card might represent The Manchurian Candidate, but no, that movie's card is the queen of diamonds.

Figured the bird was Phoenix. Easy Rider already released so would they tease a stand-alone?

Could that be Malick's New World?

oh hey http://criterioncast.com/news/wacky-new-years-drawing-hints-at-the-criterion-collections-2016-line-up

I adore Manchurian Candidate so that's an insta-buy, as are McCabe, Three Kings, and Exterminating Angel if those turn out to be legit

APRIL: The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & associates; Phoenix; Barcelona (and a "Stillman Trilogy" box); Only Angels Have Wings; and a Brief Encounter upgrade.

A Stillman Trilogy box!!!

In A Lonely Place confirmed in latest newsletter.

saw I Knew Her Well -- in its premiere US theatrical run, 51 years after its making -- last weekend; it's REALLY good, Stefania Sandrelli perfect and haunting against all odds.

https://www.criterion.com/films/28600-i-knew-her-well

Last two days at Film Forum.

MAY: Wenders Road Trilogy; The Player; The Naked Island; In A Lonely Place: and a standalone Easy Rider.

Flash sale. Didn't known The Emigrants/The New Land was available!

i did, bcz people are writing about it for the first time in 40 years.

The New Land was spun into a weekly US TV series.

Sigh...so they're seriously going to be reissuing all of Altman's movies after I've just more or less completed my DVD collection, aren't they?

saw The New Land in 2005 in ratty VHS form

Confirmations for both Dr. Strangelove and The New World in latest newsletter.

Many years too late - but better late than never

http://variety.com/2016/film/global/criterion-collection-u-k-sony-1201724067/

JULY: Dr. Strangelove; Clouds of Sils Maria; Fantastic Planet; La chienne; Here Comes Mr. Jordan; and Le amiche.

^^JUNE, I MEAN

...and La chienne is paired with Renoir's first talkie On purge bebe.

I wonder if it's easier for them to get the rights to major studio titles now that the blu-ray/dvd market is in decline.

A Touch of Zen confirmed in latest newsletter.

And Fantastic Planet!

JULY: The New World; Muriel, or The Time of Return; A Touch of Zen; The In-Laws; and remasters of both Night and Fog and Carnival of Souls.

Crossposted from the TCM thread, they and Criterion are doing a streaming thing starting this fall.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4032-introducing-filmstruck

Some careful wording here: "FilmStruck subscribers will also be eligible to sign up for the Criterion Channel, a premium service that will be all Criterion’s own. Once we’re up and running, the Criterion Channel will not only offer continual access to our library of more than 1,100 films, along with their special features, it will also give us the chance to approach the Criterion mission in a whole new way."

So, 2 pricing tiers, with and without Criterion? Also, the Hulu Criterion channel has somewhere between 900-950 films, so it looks like they'll be streaming a fair number that were previously DVD/Blu only.

what a stupid thing imo

It works for me, since I never used Hulu for anything other than Criterion, but I can see how it might be a pain for anyone using them for other stuff as well.

Cat People confirmed in latest newsletter.

The Tourneur one, I'm assuming?

Naturally, as the good people at Criterion are clearly building their release schedule from a spreadsheet of non-Criterion DVDs I own, pretty much just to spite me.

the remake sounds like one of the worst ideas ever -- an erotic furry fantasy from paul schrader. a young woman's sexual awakening brings horror from milan to minsk.

I haven't seen the remake, but it actually has a fairly solid reputation. It is interesting to me (and perhaps only me) that it was written by Alan Ormsby, whose My Bodyguard contains what I take to be a visual reference to the original CP.

big(ish) bowie song on the soundtrack of the remake of course...

I haven't seen the Schrader Cat People since it came out, but my memory is that it has good things - eg the Moroder/Bowie soundtrack, some impressive production design/cinematography - and also some not so good things - eg the rapey treatment of Natassja Kinski.

Alan Ormsby also wrote a trio of interesting early Bob (Porkys) Clark-directed horrors - Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Deranged and Deathdream.

AUGUST: The Immortal Story; Chimes At Midnight; McCabe & Mrs. Miller; A Taste of Honey; Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words; and a standalone upgrade of Woman In The Dunes.