Criterion Additions

So what's the missing 332 Spine?

332 is the delayed Viridiana

Any news on the Einstein silents? According to DVDBeaver.com the only DVD edition of "Battleship Potemkin" is some French company's DVD. Criterion should it moving.

October!

Are you serious? Is there an obsolute list to the movies being released?

I mean absolute. And where did you get this info? I'd likie to read up on it. Thanks.

hah, i am guessing "October!" is just a joke. but i hope not!

There's a glitch on the criterion website. it say's that "A Nos Amours" is coming out as spine 0 and when clicked on it goes to the home page. Well I guess we know which film they're releasing next.

Dazed & Confused confirmed for this summer in the newsletter.

!!??

I don't think I noticed that Tunes Of Glory is on the roster. Is it really any good?

i haven't seen it, but hopscotch is a wtf criterion (the horse's mouth is decent though)

Yeah, that one too. I was hoping it was going to be some kind of France-Argentina coproduction based on the Cortazar novel. I'm surprised they haven't done The Poseidon Adventure as well.

Kicking and Screaming (the Baumbach film) confirmed in the new newsletter.

Criterion loves them some Chris Eigeman.

This looks cool:

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=336

340 - Koko: A Talking Gorilla

339 - Yi Yi

Ha Ha.

good, because the fox lorber transfer of yi yi was sub-vhs.

i think they're trying to make the fanboys' heads explode

if that is the case then i highly encourage them to keep heading in that direction.

also i really hope the sweet movie rumors are true.

Got the newsletter this afternoon. It is mentioned that a Rohmer "6 Morals Tales" box is due this summer. There is also a cryptic annoucement regarding other upcoming titles (supposedly Amarcord & Playtime remasters, plus some other stuff)

In case you didn't know, the website has undergone a serious overhaul. In addition, three titles have been announced for August: The Rohmer box, Kicking and Screaming, & Seduced and Abandoned.

Hooray! Criterion heard my plea for more Pietro Germi!

September: Jigoku, The spirit of The Beehive, and...

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Hasn't PLAYTIME been out? I could have sworn I'd read an essay by Kent Jones on the Criterion website a few years back...

Yes, but it's out of print.

...and this version will be a remastered 2-disc set. I wonder what happened to the Tati box discussed upthread?

BTW, I was just browsing the Deep Discount site, and they have the Amarcord (a two-disc) and Seven Samurai remasters listed for September, in addition to a single disc edition of Brazil.

If you didn't know, the remasters and reissues are up on the site for September. The version of Seven Samurai is a THREE-DISC BOX in high def.

The link for it:

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=2

yea, they're releasing armacord in a deluxe addition as well. i hope some of their other early releases get the same.. and why the hell can't hard-boiled and the killer come back into print?

[i'm going to start posting all my film dork crap on here instead of ILE...]

I wonder how long it'll be until the next format that's actually hi-def (as opposed to a high definition transfer) will standardize and Criterion will jump to it. Blu-Ray or whatever the contenders in that field are seem to still be questionable.

Looks like Brazil is getting rereleased in anamorphic, too.

not criterion related, but for the (uh,wealthy) people who have been waiting on some f. wiseman films:

Zipporah Films is making the Frederick Wiseman documentary films available in VHS format at greatly reduced prices until September 30, 2006.

Order any combination of titles --
5 films for $1,500
10 films.....$2,000
15 films.....$2,500
20 films.....$3,000
25 films.....$3,500
30 films.....$4,000
plus shipping & handling charges

In the new newsletter, it's mentioned that Kieslowski is joining the collection--will it be The Double Life of Veronique?

New Releases for October from the site: Sólo con tu pareja, Hands Over The City, Clean Shaven, & Sweetie.

New Releases for November from the site: Pandora's Box, The Double Life of Véronique, and The Fallen Idol.

where in the uk is good to get CRITERION collection stuff?

thanxx.

New Releases for December from the site: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, The Beales of Grey Gardens, and the Grey Gardens reissue (which comes w/The Beales of... in a 2-disc box)

New Releases for January from the site: the Yojimbo and Sanjuro remasters, Border Radio Mouchette, and Monsters and Madmen (a Richard & Alex Gordon box featuring First Man into Space,The Atomic Submarine, The Haunted Strangler, and Corridors of Blood).

April: Brute Force, Overlord, La Haine.

Oooh Overlord never seen that. Brute Force is good prison-noir and La Haine's nice enough, I guess, but I'm not sure either of them deserves the full Criterion treatment.

aw shit i am stoked as a motherfucker about 'overlord'.

i just ordered 'hands over the city'

When a Woman Ascends The Stairs is coming too!

I wanna see that. It, along w/Fires On The Plain, is one of several films I missed from Sontag/Japanese film roadshow.

It's great, although I'm not sure it deserves its (seemingly unanamous) 'best Naruse' status. I hope this release means that Criterion will be issuing a bunch of his films.

Berlin Alexanderplatz???

For June: The Two of Us, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Sweet Movie, If..., and La jetée / Sans soleil.

!!! Any details on the Marker set?

Synopsis

One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending freeform travelogue, La jetée (The Jetty) and Sans soleil (Sunless) couldn’t seem more different—yet they’re the twin pillars of one of the most daring and uncompromising careers in cinema’s history. Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet, and these two films—a tale of time travel told in still images and a journey to Africa and Japan—remain his best-loved and most widely seen.

Special Features

GUILLAUME-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New, restored high-definition digital transfers, approved by director Chris Marker

New video interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin

Chris on Chris, a video piece on Marker by filmmaker and critic Chris Darke

An excerpt from the French TV series Court Circuit: The Magazine, presenting a clip from David Bowie’s music video, “Jump They Say,” which is inspired by La jetée

New and improved English subtitle translations

Cast

LA JETÉE
Helene Chatelain The Woman
Davos Hanich The Man
Jacques Ledoux
Andre Heinrich
Jacques Branchu
Pierre Joffroy
Etienne Becker
Philbert von Lifchitz
Ligia Borowczyk
Janine Klein
Bill Klein
Germano Facetti


Credits

LA JETÉE
Director Chris Marker
Editing Jean Ravel
Voice James Kirk
Music Trevor Duncan (editions Boosey & Hawkes)

SANS SOLEIL
Conception and editing Chris Marker
Mixers Antoine Bonfanti, Paul Bertault
Assistants Eric Dumage, Dominque Gentil, Arthur Cloquet
Assistant director Pierre Camus
Assistant editors Anne-Marie L’Hote, Catherine Adda
Still photography Martin*Boschet, Roger Grange
Special effects Hayao Yamaneko
Sandor Krasna’s letters are read by Alexandra Stewart in the English version and Florence Delay in the French version.

About the Transfer

La jetée and Sans soleil are presented in their original aspect ratios of 1.66:1. On standard 4:3 televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On standard and widescreen televisions, black bars may also be visible on the left and right to maintain the proper screen format. These new high-definition digital transfers were created on a Spirit 2k Datacine. La jetée was mastered from a 35mm fine-grain master positive and Sans soleil was mastered from a 35mm interpositive. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, and scratches were removed using the MTI Digital Restoration System. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 has been encoded at the highest-possible bit rate for the quantity of material included.

The soundtracks were mastered at 24-bit from 35mm optical track prints, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The Dolby Digital 1.0 signals will be directed to the center channel on surround sound systems, but some viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.