Criterion Additions

Is this the first time an Eclipse title got promoted to the main collection?

Minding the Gap destroyed me.

the skater doc? saw that the year it came out, really strong

sps:

Most of Eclipse Series 1: Early Bergman found its way into the Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set. Scanning the Eclipse titles, I'm not seeing others.

I can totally see most of the Aki Kaurismäki (Eclipse Series 12 and 29) getting promoted (at least as a box set), as UK Artificial Eye already has this out.

the Varda eclipse set

There's probably more of those upgrades coming down the pike, like Daisies and some of the other Czech films.

minding the gap deserves it. can't wait to see what liu does next.

That huge Criterion Varda box strikes me as one of the least commercial releases they've ever done. Hope they're selling enough Godzilla and Wes Anderson titles to keep doing this sort of thing.

Yeah, I'm going to buy a copy in the next half-price sale even though all its content is available on the Channel.

the Varda box is 50 bucks cheaper than the Bergman box, I realize he's been canonized for over half a century but the Varda box doesn't strike me as much different. Then again, she's enjoying a resurgence in popularity among younger people who probably can't afford to buy the box, unlike Bergman+Fellini sets. IDK

24 hour flash sale has started.

and the site is down

i usually have a hard time justifying buying from the flash sale bc used dvd copies on ebay and amazon usually still end up being cheaper than 50% off, but I may pull the trigger on the Dietrich & von Sternberg set this time

Frustrated because Elephant Man and Beau Travail were already out of stock, but picked up the Varda box and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

B&N sale is on.

Oh, I figured someone would've already made the announcement earlier.

Planning to pull the trigger on Dietrich and Von Sternberg if the the dumbass B&N mobile site will ever actually complete my order.

By the way for those interested, they're running a simultaneous 50% sale on Arrow titles. Get some giallo to go with your snoot flicks, why dontcha.

Very excited about The Parallax View getting a proper re-release, been out of print for too long. Glad there's more Ousmane Sembene coming, too--Mandabi is great.

FEBRUARY: Smooth Talk; Chop Shop; Man Push Cart; Mandabi; and The Parallax View.

Awesome news on Mandabi!

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai

oh shit

$20 a film!

I’ll wait for the streams lol

Killer March even beyond the WKW box:

Touki Bouki
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Secrets and Lies
Defending Your Life

hell yes to Touki Bouki! was quite annoyed that was only available on one of those Scorsese world cinema sets

Hope they break off Taipei Story at some point too.

OTM

Man, FINALLY someone has put out Celine and Julie!

I know, right? Seems like the restoration toured forever ago.

Now if somebody could deliver a truckload of money to Boris Eustache so he'll turn loose of his father's films.

Oh is that what the issue is?

Basically. IIRC, The Eustache catalogue was restored and toured theatrically in the mid-'00s. However, the masters weren't scanned in Blu-Ray quality, which had only become the standard after the work was done. So Boris has long wanted a ton of money-ostensibly to do 2/4K scans-quoting figures many have balked at for too excessive given the actual price of doing the work and whatever profits that could be made on the films themselves given their niche appeal.

I also seem to recall Boris isn't interested in parting out the set to prospective licensors.

Huh. I was told Eustache pere didn't want his work to be made available, must be an urban legend.

April: Memories of Murder, Irma Vep, History is Made at Night, The Furies, Masculin Féminin

Fingers crossed...

INLAND EMPIRE was going to be the centerpiece of our Standard Definition program at @BigEarsFestival 2020 until Lynch’s team told us they’d pulled the film temporarily. I’d hoped this was the explanation. @Astrostic https://t.co/xywh8EQDMW

— Darren Hughes (@longpauses) January 22, 2021

MAY: Nightmare Alley; Flowers of Shanghai; Merrily We Go To Hell; Fast Times At Ridgemont High; and Trances.

The Fast Times... release is going to include the TV version with the deleted & alternate scenes.

lol, I was just griping in the dedicated Fast Times thread about having recently bought a copy of that on DVD. And wouldn't you know it, I was just about to pull the trigger on a collection of pre-Code movies which includes Merrily We Go to Hell. Gotta respect your game, Criterion.

why's the criterion release of Sansho Dayo so expensive? it's like 10 quid more than other, even criterion, releases and isn't 4k or anything special

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sansho-Bailiff-CRITERION-COLLECTION-Blu-ray/dp/B07ZDFCB3F/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sansho&qid=1613154284&s=dvd&sr=1-1

(my Masters of Cinema copy, with Gion Bayashi, was £11 (in 2010), this is £25)

heh, it’s in my Late Mizoguchi box

idk but the same thing happened to the BR of Salo last year, I got a normally-priced copy a month or so ago from the site

So Eclipse is presumed dead, yes? Any Fassbinder on the horizon? What kills me is that there are like 10 Fassbinder films on the Channel (all restored!! my DVDs look like shit!!) including Chinese Roulette, Third Generation, Mother Kusters, Satan's Brew, In a Year with 13 Moons, +more... and yet no disc? Unless you have fiber optic or otherwise insanely good internet, streaming looks like SHIT, especially with anything shot at night.

Fuck Fellini, I want a Fassbinder box

They should put out a Fassbinder binder

Ja

Bindebinder sounds like a hausfrau hotbed.

the flash sale is tmrw (Tuesday 2/23) FYI

oh shit do I splurge on the WKW or do I wait????? or do I splurge????????????????

Luckily for all our wallets, preorders aren't included in the sale.