Criterion Additions

WKIW WKW

APRIL: The Grand Budapest Hotel; Me and You and Everyone We Know; The Cremator; Destry Rides Again; and a reissue of Army Of Shadows.

Fucking seriously w/that hot Me and You... trash, Criterion? Seriously?

I'm shocked they hadn't put it out yet tbh. I never saw it, never appealed to me, kinda seems of a piece with Wes Anderson (Budapest Hotel finally gets a disc release after 5 years?)

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Anderson had to sign off on GBH, and obviously was delayed making two movies.

MAYAEWK too has been in the pipeline for a long time. Vintage IFC title, IIRC.

I haven't screened MAYAEWK in like 10 years, but upon that viewing I realized if you toned down a lot of it, the film isn't that far removed from a Drew Barrymore Romcom.

I haven't seen Me and You and... but ... maybe this makes me a shit worthless toxic male but, The Future was maybe among the 3 or 4 worst movies I've seen in my entire life.

Me and You... sucks. Hard. It made me angry.

I was finally coaxed past my distaste and watched The Future. Much better July.

LOL, xpost (got distracted mid-post)

If you thought The Future was that bad I want you to liveblog your reaction to watching Me and You when/if that happens.

The Cremator is very good! Might have to save up for that.

xposted from another Criterion thread -- Target.com is doing a Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale on video games, movies and books through Saturday. Comes out a good bit cheaper than the B&N half price sale if you work it right. (Their price for single Criterion blu-rays is $23)

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/netflix-criterion-the-irishman-marriage-story-1202205790/

Criterion will be issuing discs of Marriage Story, The Irishman, Atlantics, and American Factory.

First Scorsese in CC?

(never mind; shoulda read link. forgot those other two were in there.)

ugh I'm having a full on "why tf is criterion putting out the prince of tides/armaggedon/breakfast club/princess bride" but with American Factory

I get it. It'll sell... maybe
the narrative Netflix movies make sense to me

xxp no, I have Age of Innocence (a UK region Criterion disc, no less!)

Jason Polan died yesterday, he designed a number of covers for CC and drew the NYE & email doodles.

Parasite and Memories of Murder, though no release date announced.
https://www.thewrap.com/parasite-and-memories-of-murder-from-bong-joon-ho-to-join-criterion-collection/

Perhaps there's a chance of Okja as well, given Criterion's licencing of 5 other Netflix studios titles.

nice been wanting to pick up Memories of Murder forever but it's been prohibitively expensive since it's OOP RARE

MAY: Husbands; Wildlife; Dance, Girl, Dance; The Great Escape; Scorsese Shorts (ItalianAmerican; American Boy; The Big Shave; It's Not Just You, Murray!; and What's A Nice Girl Like You...); and a Blu upgrade of Rohmer's Six Morals Tales box.

We've all seen movies become Criterion display cases. But we've never seen a Criterion display case become a movie. WILDLIFE... coming soon

The Great Escape! Is this a new addition to the Criterion Collection??

Yes. I wonder if they will include the Rick Dalton screen test.

XP The CC did it as a laserdisc back in the day (that's where that 1991 commentary comes from).

Ugh, I was hoping this would happen a few weeks from now tbh:

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I wish they took paypal.

Fuck

Guess I'm getting the Mailer Eclipse

In stock and underrated Eclipse sets--go!

I find it hilarious that people respond to this news with despair (and I am one of them).

The despair is compounded by the fact that I'm compelled to spend the amount it takes to get me to the next $50 gift certificate and then buy three more.

I can't see those Mailer films being ... heavily rewatchable

Is the Larisa Shepitko underrated? I keep waiting for The Ascent to get a blu...

Ordered my copy of All About My Mother.

xxp me neither, I'm going to watch them and donate the set to Beyond Video

xp I was disappointed by the Larisa Shepitko films

Karel Zeman set looks lush but feels kinda shitty that they rode into town after smaller label Second Run did much of the work of popularizing Zeman to contemporary audiences with region 0 blus.

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and all in-stock discs 30% off thru April 30

How I know I have highly and accurately curated which avenues of Film Twitter I follow ... way more people are amped about An Unmarried Woman than Come and See.

The Cameraman comes with its follow-up, Spite Marriage, as a bonus.

JULY: Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits (The Big Boss; Fist of Fury; The Way of The Dragon; Enter The Dragon (two cuts); Game of Death; Game of Death II; and Game of Death Redux (new cut of the surviving Lee footage from said film)), a Blu-only box.

This looks like maybe the only release for this month. Covid-19 has presumably slowed down work on everything else.

Although I now see some speculation elsewhere from folks who've seen press releases & such that further announcements about July titles will be forthcoming.

Isn't the 15th the usual day for new releases announcements?

On or around the 15th. It's speculated that the Lee announcement is separate from the usual announcements (ala the Olympic or Bergman sets).

MORE JULY: Marriage Story; The War of The Worlds (1953); and upgrades of Taste of Cherry & The Lady Eve.

taste of cherry!!!

Finally!

The end-June B&N sale (and Come and See, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Roma, Cold War and Taste of Cherry) can't come soon enough for me.

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