Probably just a coincidence exacerbated by rumors going around that it too was also going OOP, and collectors and/or speculators snatching up copies.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 02:13 (three years ago) link
yeah I just grabbed one for "normal price," seems like it is. then again it was worth waiting for Salo to come back into print this year
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 07:19 (three years ago) link
I've been hearing rumors about Medium Cool and (from an unrelated rights owner) Belle de Jour as well, but idk how seriously to take them. Sucks either way if you care about the physical presentation of the film, which Paramount very obviously do not:
https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/54/3946454-2680732.jpg?ae=1655788141
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
wow. that is not a good cover.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
a wacky comedy about two giant people who have to learn to live in a normal sized house
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
DAMN
I was curious about Medium Cool. it's been unavailable on Blu Ray for a while, maybe even over a year?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
So not "out of print" like Nashville et al. but "CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE" like Eddie Coyle
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
I can't find the post now, but there was another CriterionForum user reckoning that "Currently Unavailable" just means between pressings, and it's happening with more titles because of Covid-related issues at pressing plants, where priority is given to new titles and repressing for the time being is reserved for faster sellers. A relatively obscure title like Medium Cool just isn't a priority for them right now.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
JUNE: Pariah; Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell; The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs; Visions of Eight; and upgrades of Pickup On South Street and The Human Condition Trilogy.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
Good news about Streetwise. I remember renting a creaky VHS copy for the ILX '80s filmpoll back in the day.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah I caught that at a rep screening in September 2019. Great, great movie. Excited to see the follow-up.
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
You can get the Medium Cool blu-ray at Barnes and Noble if you don't mind paying MSRP. I'm going to email Criterion and ask what's up with that title in particular; they're usually pretty forthcoming when asked.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
Also, it's happening less now since they're mostly finished, but if a title was released during the period when blu-rays were released in dual format (bundled with a DVD), they would go temporarily OOP while they were repackaged as blu-ray only.
That's exciting news about Streetwise, I've been wanting to see that for decades.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Monday, 15 March 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
I'd never heard of Pariah but the clip on the Criterion site looks gorgeous
― rob, Monday, 15 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
"Hi Ryan,Thank you for writing to us!
MEDIUM COOL Blu-rays are due to be available again on our site the mid April:https://www.criterion.com/films/28426-medium-coolThe title is not due to be out of print.
As a note, any time that we sell out of a film and we still have the distribution rights for it, we will always produce more inventory. You'll know a title is due to be restocked in the future when you see "Currently Unavailable" or "On Back-order" on the film's page. Titles that have sold out and for which we no longer hold the rights will be designated as "Out of Print" (OOP).
As I think you're aware, the following titles recently went out of print for us due to licensing:DAYS OF HEAVENDON'T LOOK NOWHAROLD AND MAUDELA DOLCE VITANASHVILLEROSEMARY'S BABY
As usual, if we should ever recover the rights to any of our out-of-print titles, we will happily re-release them.We do not typically disclose things that are about to go out of print, but I can assure you that there is nothing else in our catalog that is due to be OOP in the near future.
That said, obviously if there's something you've had an eye on, it's always a good idea to purchase it sooner than later, as we do not announce upcoming OOP status or packaging changes.
Hope this puts your mind at ease but please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
Best,Kseniya
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
really glad I snagged a Harold & Maude from B&N right after this went down
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
oh hell yeah
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4430-streetwise-tiny-the-life-of-erin-blackwell
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Monday, 22 March 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
I don't know if I'm ever going to stop kicking myself for selling my Chungking Express disc right before the particulars of the Wong Kar-Wai box set were announced >_<
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
Stopped at the Tupelo B&N today while running errands and snagged their last (only) La Dolce Vita blu. I don't even like Fellini -- I may leave it sealed and try to flip it for $$$ at some point.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
WKW thing comes out today !
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
caught streetwise / tiny double feature early last year and I think of different things from streetwise all the time
― Bongo Jongus, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
like the prisoner dad at his son's open casket funeral and in that moment he mainly just wants to drink soda
― Bongo Jongus, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
July: La Piscine, Bringing Up Baby, Deep Cover, Working Girls, and...Mirror!!!
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
Their last two months' slates seem to indicate they took that NYT article from last year to heart. Good!
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
I know it's not universally beloved around here (xpost ;) but I am very excited they're doing BUB
The cover of Deep Cover is awesome, but I don't remember that being particularly good. It has been a long time though: it's quite possible I saw it on VHS
― rob, Thursday, 15 April 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Bringing Up Baby and Mirror have been expected for years, right?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
I keep waiting in vain for Trouble in Paradise to get an upgrade, gahdamn glaring hole in my Lubitch collection, grumble grumble
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
There must be a reason for that--I'd figure there's no way they would upgrade Heaven Can Wait before TIP if they had the option
― rob, Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
There was just some discussion about upgrading Trouble In Paradise over on the Criterion Forum: apparently the elements were an issue, but technology has advanced enough that a restoration premiered in '18, and a European Blu is due in May.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 April 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
MIRROR
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 16 April 2021 04:31 (three years ago) link
I saw it recently and it's got that urban dystopia vibe that a lot of action films from that era have, bordering on horror in its OTTness. The twist I guess is that it inserts some pretty explicit black militant and leftist messages into that context. I've seen ppl try to reclaim it as a noir but eh, it has voiceover but just feels too operatic for the genre. A curio rather than a masterpiece imo but definitley worth seeing and at this stage I have little investment in Criterion only putting out masterpieces - impossible if they keep doing complete editions of directors anyway, no matter how canonical.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 16 April 2021 08:48 (three years ago) link
AUGUST: Beasts of No Nation; Original Cast Album Company; After Life; and a Blu Upgrade of Ashes and Diamonds.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
I was already going to get Company anyway, but that they included Co-Op and the cast reunion thereof just makes it an essential purchase.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
Melvin Van Peebles box set in September.
True to form, Criterion knew that I had a DVD copy of Watermelon Man sitting in an online shopping cart. Thankfully for once they dropped the announcement before I pulled the trigger.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
Titles Included: The Story of A Three-day Pass; Watermelon Man; Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; and Don't Play Us Cheap
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-four-films
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
Oh, and Baadasssss!
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I was planning to buy a DVD copy of that one, as well.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
"story of a three-day pass" was my first movie back in the theater last month! it's slight and some of the acting is not great but there are fun french new wave-influenced experiments throughout
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
and great music
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
In addition to the Van Peebles set, September will bring us Love and Basketball, Throw Down, The Damned, and Mona Lisa.
(PS The first word I saw in the announcement email was 'basketball' and I initially misread it as 'BASEketball'.)
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
Genuinely thrilled to see Love and Basketball in the collection.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah, loved that movie
― burnt hombre (stevie), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
BORDER RADIO: THE LONG RIDE OF AN L.A. CULT CLASSIC
Now in the Criterion Collection
https://pleasekillme.com/border-radio-cult-classic/
― nickn, Monday, 21 June 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
ope, 50% sale at Barnes & Noble! I just scooped the new WKW box, which is out of stock but also half-off on Amazon.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 3 July 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
Did some Criterion half-off crimes today at the Tupelo B&N: The Gunfighter, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Flowers of Shanghai, Rushmore, Memories of Murder, Destry Rides Again, The Furies. (lol @ me hating westerns as a kid)
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, 5 July 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
October: Onibaba (my patience has paid off! now upgrade Jigoku!), Uncut Gems, Devi, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Ratcatcher, High Sierra
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
Arrow issued an Incredible Shrinking Man blu ray (I guess region 2 only) not that long ago, complete with the obligatory Tim Lucas commentary track, so I don't think I need another edition of that. Similarly,. the Eureka/Masters of Cinema Onibaba is good enough for me.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
High Sierra is bundled with Colorado Territory Walsh's own Western remake from 1949.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
4K ANNOUNCEMENTS 4 NOVEMBER (& BEYOND): Citizen Kane; Menace II Society; The Piano; The Red Shoes; A Hard Day's Night; and Mulholland Dr.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link