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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.

had my eye on that karel zeman set for a while, definitely copping that. might wild out and get the fellini box idk

Zeman set is so much fun on many levels. Great choice.

Pulled trigger on:

Buñuel box set
Parallax View
Mandabi
Lost in America

fuck I should've waited for this one instead of the one in December

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

oh yeah now i remember, i did the december sale because it applied to preorders. still. i'm an idiot

then again, the silent von Sternberg set...

Site so slammed/sluggish I stopped with 1 disc, Cronenberg's Crash. Used my $10 Criterion Channel coupon so it was even cheaper.

oh i forgot i have a coupon too

I went back and forth but I think I need to skip this one. WB Shop is having what sounds like their final 4 for $44 Warner Archives sale in a couple weeks and I need to save enough money to go properly apeshit with that.

i noticed that amazon has matched the sale prices of everything ive looked up so far, i assume for today only - do they normally do that? i wonder if thats why criterion sent out that $10 coupon, to keep people on the site.

WB Shop is having what sounds like their final 4 for $44 Warner Archives sale in a couple weeks

Does ILX have a catch-all "boutique home video" thread somewhere? I'd find that pretty useful now that I have a region-free 4K player and am finally digging into more Arrow/Indicator/etc.

finally own a DVD copy of Notorious.

just went to the website for the Canadian CC distributor to see if anything was happening today and now I'm...#753 in line

I did that earlier, then found the few things I was after were either pre-orders or out of stock :/

I suspect I'm in the same boat (Touki Bouki is the only thing I can immediately think of that I want), though maybe I'll see how much upgrading my Sturges dvds would cost

that said I am very pleased that Unobstructed View exists and I don't have to use amazon

xposts All right, I finally pulled the trigger: Non-Criterion Boutique Home Video Discussion (Kino, Warner Archive, Arrow, Indicator, Vinegar Syndrome, Code Red, etc.)

Ok, splurged on that Bruce Lee box set. Couldn't resist this time.

the art on that put me off even considering it. Ugly ass cover. Don't get me started on Godzilla.

Going through the third Scorsese World Film Foundation box and those things are the best case for the continued existence of the label imo: so far I've seen Dos Monjes (Mexico, campy 30's melodrama bathed in expressionism with a truly bonkers ending), After The Curfew (Indonesia, amazing film about post-war malaise and PTSD that any noir fan should enjoy) and Pixote (Brazil, probably the roughest social realist film I've seen from the modern era; Brazilian music geeks take note that Toni Tornado has a cameo).

umm Paramount is pulling their Criterion shit w/o warning to take to Paramount+

first on the chopping block:

Harold & Maude
Nashville
La Dolce Vita
Rosemary's Baby
Days Of Heaven

and something else awesome that I forget

grab the discs now if you want 'em

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, and Don't Look Now. Bad news

wait, like pulling them from Criterion Channel, or pulling the rights for Criterion to sell discs????

Probably yes(?) and the corresponding discs are now OOP.

A poster on Criterion Forum emailed the company, and they confirmed the five titles sleeve listed plus Don't Look Now are going OOP. However, the CC La dolce vita will remain available as part of the Fellini box.

They also said there weren't any plans for other Paramount titles to go OOP right now.

I think part of this is happening because Paramount is playing their own new editions of a few of those titles, and probably angling to add all six to Paramount+.

PLANNING

FWIW, I don't see Paramount making a move on more esoteric titles like Eddie Coyle or, say, If.... or Downhill Racer or Ace In The Hole.