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HOW THE FUCK DID I MISS THAT F FOR FAKE SET!?!?!?!? God, that's a 0-day buy if ever there was one.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Great to see that they're putting out Arkadin . I purchased the awful budget-priced Laserlight release of this a few months ago and was hoping someday a better quality version would surface.

As for Chimes : my boot is an Ebay purchase from a Japanese laserdisc. Gorgeous print but marred by vertical Japanese subtitles on the righthand side of the picture. Who owns the rights to Chimes ?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and they need to put out some later Rossellini, dammit.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Blech...The Life Aquatic...Wes Anderson shamelessly wanting all his work on the CC; only cheapens the label, IMHO, regardless of the quality of the works - films should be selected, not lobbied.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 7 March 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

>Blech...The Life Aquatic...Wes Anderson shamelessly wanting all his >work on the CC; only cheapens the label, IMHO, regardless of the >quality of the works - films should be selected, not lobbied.

i haven't seen it yet, but i'm going to go ahead and agree here.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps the one advantage of the CC/Anderson connection is that his titles are profitable, which should allow for more off-beat (and less profitable) releases. Of course, this is the Armageddon argument too.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

bingo - Criterion isn't a non-profit art gallery. They're a company that has to make money to stay in business, with a lot of high-overhead low-sales products.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't seen "The Life Aquatic" yet, but it certainly must fit in with the collection better than "Armaggedon".

I really don't understand the Wes Anderson backlash. If you don't try to get too much out of his films, they're cute & fun and the cinematography is always fantastic. And how can you not like the roles he writes for Bill Murray?

That said, I'm pretty sure I'll be slightly annoyed by TLA because it seems to be just pushing the profitable Wes formula of hip 70's soundtrack & kitschy sets.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Another thing is that Criterion has had the Anderson exclusive on DVDs for both retail in rentals for the his last two pictures (TRT & TLAWSZ).

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i have nothing against anderson (i like rushmore and am pretty indifferent to the royal tennenbaums) and definitely understand criterion's need to pull a profit, but he seems to stick out like a sore thumb in their collection. if there were a few more new movies that immediately hit video with the criterion stamp (a guy maddin here, a jim jarmush there) it wouldn't feel odd.

... but ultimately it's not that big a deal, and i wish that criterion had a few more rivals at their particular level of their niche so that people (i include myself) wouldn't pore over their choices all the time.

and that said, i think warner's been kicking everybody's ass the last few months with their box sets.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Home Vision itself has had a nice string of releases that weren't 'prestigious'/snobby enough to merit a Criterion label, too.

I assume that Criterion would like to put out more new films, but can't get companies to license them out. Better to make your own $10 on a barebones release than split that with Criterion, I suppose.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

What's this all about over on Wellesnet about Criterion cutting stuff from F for Fake and the forthcoming Arkadin? If this is true, I'm deeply miffed.

http://www.wellesnet.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=422d15fb2793ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=84;st=40

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Spectator bird OTM re:Warner's (of course, this partially due to the fact that so many of the titles they've reissued got crummy treatments the first time around)

I'm eagerly awaiting the Peckinpah box, and I've got my fingers crossed for a Bonnie & Clyde 2-disc.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

On the way: Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a must-have. I don't think I've seen that since the big Fassbinder blowout of '97.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

From what I hear, it's not a done deal...yet.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Franz Biberkopf ist noch nicht wieder da!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, according to a recent article, the Fear and Loathing title is their best-selling, just a hair ahead of The Seven Samurai.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Still waiting for the redone Play Time.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

It's coming out this fall...?

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Supposedly... Hopefully...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Heaven Can Wait, Au hasard Balthazar, Crazed Fruit, and The Browning Version. Plus Ran promised for later this year!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

and all of them $29.95, hallelujah

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

ok great, i'm going to stop fruitlessly searching for an import balthazar then

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

this is great news! the cover is pretty cool too.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I found out that "Au Hasard Balthazar" was coming out on Criterion the DAY AFTER I got my DVD-R copy from Super Happy Fun.

**grumble**

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 10 April 2005 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Just got the newsletter. Due in September-An Angel At My Table, Naked, Masculin-Feminin,The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Bad Timing!

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, Theresa Russell in Bad Timing is one of the great underappreciated perfs.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Where the f*ck is Play Time?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

is an angel at my table any good? somehow i've never seen the piano, but i like campion's portrait of a lady. this one sounds kind of merchant-ivory-ish.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 8 July 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a very good TV miniseries (and unlike mid-to-late M-I, certainly not obsessed with decor). I like it way better than The Piano's silliness but nowhere as much as Portrait of a Lady.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

this one sounds kind of merchant-ivory-ish.

An Angel at My Table really could not be further from this. really!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i wouldnt doubt a december or january re-release for playtime.

where the fuck are the eisenstein silents?!?

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 9 July 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Hopefully Warner Bros. will continue their good work as of late with Petulia and Performance.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

For those who didn't already know, the newsletter has announced October's titles: Sword of the Beast, Samurai Spy, Samurai Rebellion, Kill! (all available in a set or ala carte), Le Samourai (yay!), and a re-master of Wages of Fear. It was also revealed that the long awaited Tales of Hoffman disc is almost ready. No news on Play Time.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

How did a fancy reissue of Divorce, Italian Style. Was it Criterion?

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

http://criterionco.com/content/images/full_boxshot/306_box_348x490.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007M222A.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― andrew s (andrew s), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Le Samourai !!! Hurray! Now if only they'd release Melville's collaborations with Lino Ventura: Le Douxieme Souffle and the awesome L'armee des Ombres .

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 8 August 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER IN DECEMBER

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.criterionco.com/content/images/full_boxshot/309_box_348x490.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Oddly enough, the January releases aren't in this month's newsletter, but they are up on the site. They are: The Bad Sleep Well, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Virgin Spring, and The Children Are Watching Us.

The newsletter does reveal that Metropolitan and Playtime + A Tati box will be out next year, along with some Louis Malle stuff, including Murmur of The Heart.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

One more thing: L'armee des Ombres is in the the Rialto catalogue, and you know what that means. Their next premiere title is Mouchette, which will start touring in ten days.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Playtime + A Tati box

What does this mean? Like you have to buy the box to get Playtime? That'll either suck if the other titles in the box are M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle, but would be effing fantastic if the other titles are Jour De Fete, Parade and Trafic.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost) L'armee des Ombres. Criterion. My God.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's what they say about the Tati project:

"We’ve received many such e-mails from fans wondering about the status of Tati’s astounding 1967 comedy, and we are happy to report that we are indeed planning to release a new edition of Playtime—either individually or as part of a Jacques Tati box set—sometime in 2006. Watch the Criterion website for details."

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Eric, what's wrong with M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle? Too beloved? I've never seen Parade or Trafic, but still. (There's that rediscovered, different English-lang Mon Oncle MoMA screened recently -- wholly exclusive scenes etc.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I assume it's because they're already Criterion releases and he'd be forced to buy them again to get Play Time.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes. I was just worried about having to buy them a second time... which I probably wouldn't have done because I still have a burn of the previous Criterion disc (which I sold).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Just Added To The Site: Viridiana, Le Bete Humaine, Kind Hearts & Coronets (!), and Metropolitan. Upcoming #'s 322 & 327-331 are absent from the masterlist. Anybody know what they are reserved for?

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

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