OK ... They timed this one out to be released specifically on my birthday!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/release_boxshots/4849-787e2b13697fc4d86fbf3f7aac5c6e39/930_BD_box_348x490_original.jpg
Also in July:
A Matter of Life or DeathDragon InnBull DurhamSex, Lies & Videotape
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Life AND Death, sorry
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
very nice
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
what's with the Bergan box? Ingmar not Ingrid. wasn't confirmed but someone thought one of the clues in the NYE drawing was a Bergman box? what else is there that CC hasn't put out? just upgrades right?
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
The precedent is that those big boxes come out for Xmas.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
That Sternberg/Dietrich cover is so lush.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
I can wait for a Bergman box. Especially since Dietrich/Sternberg is already maybe the most thrilling box they’ve released since Bergman/Rossellini.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
The Sternberg-Dietrch stuff has been out on non-Criterion editions for a while, no? I've had no trouble checking them out of libraries in the last fifteen years.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
I mean, there's plenty of Ingmar Bergman on YouTube.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
XP Sure, they've been available, but usually with indifferent presentations--now they are available in restorations on Blu with contextual supplements, which is kind of a big deal for whom that would be a big deal (and also Shanghai Express has been the CC pipeline since the first W administration)
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
Baal too tempting not to check out of the library.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Doesn't look like it's made it to this thread yet, but the quasi-confirmed hubbub on the grapevine is that Criterion is prepping a whole slew of Godzilla-related discs, possibly a box set. They have the rights and the intention but I don't know how far along the actual product is rn.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
Wow, that sounds great. Haven't seen any of the original Japanese Godzilla movies since I was a little kid.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
I don't have Filmstruck but I guess all of the Toho stuff Criterion has the rights to is up there now.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
these? http://www.godzilla-movies.com/news/criterion-godzilla-films-stream-filmstruck-this-month
― koogs, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
(i bought about half a dozen of these in the last couple of years with both the japanese versions and the bastardised english language versions on the same disk. english versions only watched for the commentary, done by people who really knew their stuff. would like a copy of 'vs mechagodzilla' though, it appears to be unavailable here (on amazon for 60+ quid)
― koogs, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
I'm fairly certain Mechagodzilla is intended to be among Criterion's releases, as well as...Son of Godzilla? I think that's the other one that's currently way out of print.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
(And among the reasons why I'm assuming this will be a Zatoichi-esque box set, because I cannot imagine an individual Criterion release of Son of Godzilla.)
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
Extended Tree of Life due later this year: http://variety.com/2018/film/news/terrence-malick-tree-of-life-longer-criterion-version-1202807034/#Review
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
Extended???!!??
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 May 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
Can we get a 90 minute cut please
There's supposedly a 5-hour ToL cut. My opinion is that this would violate the Geneva Convention, but then what do I know?
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
AUGUST: The Tree of Life; Memories of Underdevelopment; Smithereens; The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez; Heaven Can Wait (original) on Blu.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
HCW (Lubitsch) hasn't been remade, I don't think. The Warren Beatty film was a remake of Here Comes Mr Jordan.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
Yes indeed
― Bring Me The Binaural Heads Of Butch Firbanks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
Looks like a confirmation for The Magnificent Ambersons in the latest newsletter.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 June 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
...did they find the original cut??
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 June 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
Looks like Andrei Rublev and Scenes from a Marriage are getting upgraded in September.
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Welles finished it in between takes of The Other Side of the Wind. :)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
also My Man Godfrey: https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?popular=coming-soon
a lot of people seem pretty sure that After Hours is coming in September too.
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 June 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
And now they're all gone. I suspect they're not all intended for September.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
SEPTEMBER: A Raisin In The Sun; Cold Water; and upgrades of My Man Godfrey, Andrei Rublev; and Scenes From A Marriage.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 June 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
Woo hoo!
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 June 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
Oops!
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 15 June 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
B+N 50% off sale is go.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 June 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
Just in time for next week’s Dietrich-Von Sternberg set!
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Thanks for the reminder. Picked up Marketa Lazarova and Chimes at Midnight, the later evidently sourced from a pristine print discovered by Steven Morowitz recently.
― Roomba with an attitude (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
Got the David Lean box set in the mail yesterday 👻💔
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
The Naked Prey and Sisters getting upgrades in October
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 July 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Rest of OCTOBER: The Princess Bride; Shampoo; and Eight Hours Don't Make A Day
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 July 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
Shampoo!!
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 July 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
An awful lot of mainstream '80s starting to creep into the CC this year.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 16 July 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
mainstream '80s=License To Print Money
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 July 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/j1qop7sgnqe11.jpg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
Controversial, yet intriguing.
― Caddyshack III: Back to the Shack! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
NOVEMBER: True Stories; The Magnificent Ambersons; Some Like It Hot!; and A Story From Chikamatsu.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
...and The Bergman box.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
PS: The True Stories Blu comes w/a CD of the complete score!
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
another month, another After Hours no show
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
Patience, young Flappy. At least you're not my buddy who's waiting years on The Tenant, or anyone else holding out for the Eisenstien Silent box (which the ducks are allegedly finally getting in a row for the CC to do).
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link