Criterion Additions

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.

June's releases traverse the vast spectrum of the human condition, from the all-consuming romance between two women to the slapstick pleasures of silent cinema’s great stone face; from the pain and joy of one woman’s self-discovery to the horrors of war. https://t.co/QVmav0z5bK pic.twitter.com/Rk8BkbKmPz

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) March 18, 2020

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.

This August, we're celebrating the boundless creative vision of Agnès Varda with a comprehensive collection of her genre-blurring, culture-shaping films, bringing together all thirty-nine of her features, shorts, and documentaries for the first time! 🧡💜💗https://t.co/qYMbWfwmus pic.twitter.com/7nMiXmPdqs

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) May 11, 2020

Awesome news! (Cinévardaphoto appears to be missing tho?)

MORE AUGUST: Toni; The Comfort of Strangers; Town Bloody Hall; and a Blu upgrade of The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.

If The Comfort of Strangers is the early 90s Canadian film, I've been wanting to see that one for a while.

...except that film is The Company of Strangers. This is the Paul Schrader movie (oddly enough, both are from 1990).

Vegemite Is My Grrl wrote: Cinévardaphoto appears to be missing tho?

It's there, just listed as the three individual films that comprise it.

like the Bergman set, it's "programmed" out of chronological order which is sort of annoying

I think it's neat tbh

tbf I haven't tried watching any of the films "as programmed" in the Bergman set, it's just a pain to find a certain movie in the thing all out of order, but I should try it, I haven't dug back into it for a few months. a theater here was supposed to show A Lesson in Love sometime in April, I'll watch whatever batch that's in soon.

30% off until May 31 on discs from the CC store

I only saw Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers once, probably around the the time it came out, I mostly remember being really impressed by the visuals of the lantern-lit scenes

I could be completely misremembering it, would like to see it again

30% off until May 31 on discs from the CC store

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:09 PM

Extended to June 15th

Are they going under?

I haven't heard anything of the sort! Have you heard something we haven't?

Probably just residual speculation after Twilight Time folded. But they've never had such a prolonged sale as this that I can remember.

prob just taking advantage of people being stuck at home/stimulus money/the ongoing deterioration of worth assigned to physical media

Everybody who has anything to sell is desperate to move their product right now.

Twilight Time has surprisingly been the only boutique company to shut down (and they just got picked up for distribution by another company). Seems like a lot of them are doing gangbusters business just now (perhaps thanks to a multitude of quarantine sales sales).

I do want the Husbands disc. got any Oshima recs?

Twilight Time had already been winding down for awhile. Their last new product announcement was last summer (and even then that was stuff which had been delayed). Co-Owner Nick Redman died in early '19 as well. Not to mention that their stubbornly clung-to business model was outmoded and had been improved on by Arrow/Indicator/Kino Lorber etc.

Re: Twilight Time: limiting runs to 3000 ea of some 220 titles may have improved sales to speculative collectors, but it's a model which drove me to get imported UK blus of 1984, Sexy Beast, Richard III, and Wild at Heart. I've watched Titus ascend in price beyond my prudence, and it just made me view Twilight Time with some scorn.

Given that CC recently tweeted a still from In a Year with 13 Moons, and that 2020 happens to be a moon year with 13 new moons where inescapable personal (and global?) personal tragedies may, and already have, occurred—I predict they will announce its release on Monday. Or the next 15th. But it's coming out this year.

SEPTEMBER: The Elephant Man; Christ Stopped At Eboli; Beau Travail; Scorsese's World Cinema Project Box #3, featuring: Lucia, After The Curfew; Pixote; Dos Monjes; Soleil O; and Downpour; and upgrades of The Naked City & Brute Force.

Ooooh BRUTE FORCE

Surprised the Denis wasn't in there already

full-length Eboli had a very limited rep release last year; someone alert JCLC

It played here in early February, I skipped it--I like his film Three Brothers but it wasn't enough to get me out to see a 4 hour epic.

Glad Beau Travail is finally going to be available again. The Elephant Man too, that one hasn't been in print in America for a while.

Predicting 13 Moons for October

Vivid memories of seeing Elephant Man for the first time, on 35, in one of my film classes, and pretty much the whole room just fucking bawling by the end.

Just felt like reminding people that But I'm a Cheerleader is streaming until the end of July. Still love that movie! Here's an interview with the stars.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6986-but-i-m-a-cheerleader-turns-twenty-natasha-lyonne-and-clea-duvall-reminisce-on-their-cult-classic