Criterion Additions

That Sternberg/Dietrich cover is so lush.

I can wait for a Bergman box. Especially since Dietrich/Sternberg is already maybe the most thrilling box they’ve released since Bergman/Rossellini.

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.

I mean, there's plenty of Ingmar Bergman on YouTube.

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)

Baal too tempting not to check out of the library.

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.

Wow, that sounds great. Haven't seen any of the original Japanese Godzilla movies since I was a little kid.

I don't have Filmstruck but I guess all of the Toho stuff Criterion has the rights to is up there now.

these? http://www.godzilla-movies.com/news/criterion-godzilla-films-stream-filmstruck-this-month

(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)

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.

(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.)

Extended Tree of Life due later this year: http://variety.com/2018/film/news/terrence-malick-tree-of-life-longer-criterion-version-1202807034/#Review

Extended???!!??

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?

AUGUST: The Tree of Life; Memories of Underdevelopment; Smithereens; The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez; Heaven Can Wait (original) on Blu.

HCW (Lubitsch) hasn't been remade, I don't think. The Warren Beatty film was a remake of Here Comes Mr Jordan.

Yes indeed

Looks like a confirmation for The Magnificent Ambersons in the latest newsletter.

...did they find the original cut??

Looks like Andrei Rublev and Scenes from a Marriage are getting upgraded in September.

Welles finished it in between takes of The Other Side of the Wind. :)

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.

And now they're all gone. I suspect they're not all intended for September.

SEPTEMBER: A Raisin In The Sun; Cold Water; and upgrades of My Man Godfrey, Andrei Rublev; and Scenes From A Marriage.

Woo hoo!

Oops!

B+N 50% off sale is go.

Just in time for next week’s Dietrich-Von Sternberg set!

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.

Got the David Lean box set in the mail yesterday 👻💔

The Naked Prey and Sisters getting upgrades in October

Rest of OCTOBER: The Princess Bride; Shampoo; and Eight Hours Don't Make A Day

Shampoo!!

An awful lot of mainstream '80s starting to creep into the CC this year.

mainstream '80s=License To Print Money

https://i.redd.it/j1qop7sgnqe11.jpg

Controversial, yet intriguing.

NOVEMBER: True Stories; The Magnificent Ambersons; Some Like It Hot!; and A Story From Chikamatsu.

...and The Bergman box.

PS: The True Stories Blu comes w/a CD of the complete score!

another month, another After Hours no show

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).

I know I know

actually what I wanted to ask was why SLIH and not The Apartment

The Welles alone, but then also the Mizoguchi on top of that? A no complaint month.

XP Arrow did a loaded Blu of The Apartment a couple years ago. Not sure if it's still in print (there was limited 1st edition w/a coffee table book with a book less version to follow).

Landing SLIH is pretty big. Never thought MGM would let that go.

now that you mention it I've seen that edition, pretty sure it's still in print. and yeah it is amazing they got SLIH, afaik that was never rumored / intuited from the doodle.