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Man, Walker is an upgrade from deeeeeep left field.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link

Looking at the extras, I see The Girl... comes with the You Must Remember This ep on Mansfield. First time an actual podcast has been included w/a Criterion? I know NPR pieces have been extras before.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link

ooh that's interesting. I've been hoping Longworth could coordinate with the Channel in some way--how nice would it be if you could watch a bunch of the movies discussed in the current season? I almost watched 5-Card Stud just because Martin was in it until I looked it up and it seems generally disliked (and was barely mentioned in the podcast)

rob, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link

I love YMRT but it doesn't really get me in the mood to watch the actual films most of the time, "oh yeah the male lead in this comedy was an abusive piece of shit and the female lead killed herself".

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 10:31 (two years ago) link

That's ungenerous in terms of the podcast's remit imo, but, sure, I didn't mean every single season—I don't want a Dead Blondes collection—just ones where it would be fun to have access to some of the films under discussion: Sammy & Dino, Polly Platt, Bela & Boris, Jean & Jane, Joan Crawford, the blacklist, probably some older ones I don't remember well at this point; I think those would all have been good candidates

rob, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link

Hard Day's Night 4k disc has missing shots/transfer issues and a recall/replace program is being launched.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 January 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link

^^New 4K AHDN discs will be ready in March.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link

Reports are coming in that the CC Miller's Crossing is a new, slightly trimmed down Director's Cut.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link

Trimmed down? What would you trim?

dan selzer, Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link

20% less high hat given, and the audience is left wondering about what exactly is the rumpus

When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link

apparently it's approx. 2 minutes shorter, but I only specific thing I know that got cut was Mike Starr saying "Jesus, Tom" after getting hit in the face with the chair, which is one of the biggest laugh lines in the movie for me.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 11 February 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link

the audience is left wondering about what exactly is the rumpus

Nice...perfect film; wouldn't cut anything.

clemenza, Monday, 14 February 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link

MAY: Double Indemnity*; Chan Is Missing; Mississippi Masala; The Funeral; and Mr. Klein.

*4K available

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link

only specific thing I know that got cut was Mike Starr saying "Jesus, Tom" after getting hit in the face with the chair, which is one of the biggest laugh lines in the movie for me.

After extensive thought and much prayer & somber reflection I have concluded that this scene is actually a little funnier without the line (much to my surprise.) With the line, Starr gets the laugh. Without the line, Byrne standing there alone holding the chair becomes funnier imho, with more emphasis on the perfect note of Keatonesque confusion in his performance as he looks down at the chair then back at the door. Still a deeply weird cut to decide to make, but I sign off on it.

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Does anyone want my gift-card code for the forthcoming Criterion Store sale?

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 4 March 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link

24 hour flash sale has begun.

Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link

OK, I have never done a haul haul in all these years of sales, but I came into an unexpected windfall recently and have a few coupons stored up, so I allowed myself to spend a few Bens this time around to fill in a bunch of gaps and titles I’ve hovered and passed over for years now:

The Emigrants/The New Land
Christ Stopped at Eboli
The Furies
Love Affair
L’humanité
Life During Wartime
Marketa Lazarová
The Ascent
The Honeymoon Killers
The Cremator
Throw Down
Punch-Drunk Love
One-Eyed Jacks
The Celebration
Revanche
The Lady Eve
The Night Porter

Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link

Looks like Fox borked the transfer provided for The Girl Can't Help It: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_157/the_girl_cant_help_it_blu-ray.htm

Too Much Darkness for a Tashlin Film

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 March 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link

JUNE: Pink Flamingos; The Worst Person In The World; Shaft*; Rouge; Farewell Amor; and a remaster of Tales of Hoffman.

*4K Available

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link

Shaft also includes the sequel, Shaft's Big Score!.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link

DRIVE MY CAR is officially joining the Criterion Collection in July. pic.twitter.com/hhVCcq5ahs

— Isaac Feldberg (@isaacfeldberg) March 22, 2022

Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

JULY: Devil In A Blue Dress*; Drive My Car; Raging Bull*; Okja*; a Blu upgrade of Summertime; and a 4K upgrade of The Virgin Suicides.

*4K available.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

AUGUST: Faya dayi; Buck and The Preacher; Hotel du Nord; Frownland; and Daddy Longlegs (Safdie Bros.)

four weeks pass...

SEPTEMBER: Sound of Metal*; Take Out; Exotica; Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4; a Blu upgrade/reissue of Le Corbeau; and Blow-Out on 4K.

*4K available

Exotica also includes Egoyan's earlier feature Calendar, and three shorts from different parts of his career.

Missed the screening of Chess of the Wind a few months back, it sounds fascinating.

JoeStork, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

Barnes & Noble sale reportedly begins tomorrow. Walker, High Sierra and (eventually) Drive My Car are at the top of my shopping list.

Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:26 (one year ago) link

Oh and the Tales of Hoffman remaster.

Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

OCTOBER: Lost Highway*; Eve's Bayou (Theatrical & Director's Cuts); Cure; La Llorona; Arsenic and Old Lace; and Night of The Living Dead on 4K.

*4K available

Nice to see a good old fashioned macabre October lineup again

Bait Kush (Eric H.), Monday, 18 July 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link

Cure! what a blinder, of course I only recently bought the Arrow blu.

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link

four weeks pass...

NOVEMBER: Daises; Malcolm X*; The Infernal Affairs Trilogy; The Power of The Dog*; and a 4K of In The Mood For Love.

*4K Available

So I'm wondering if that 4K will be the controversial re-color graded version of ITMFL. Who am I kidding, of course it will be.

Bait Kush (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link

Excited for The Infernal Affairs Trilogy, just found out that Criterion tried to get a hold of the chronological supercut of the three films as a bonus feature, but to no avail. I'd love to watch that.

MaresNest, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 09:10 (one year ago) link

WALL-E coming on 4K in November!

o_O

rob, Thursday, 8 September 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link

Wow, nice! Now that the Disney ice is broken, imma start hollering for The Straight Story.

DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Thursday, 8 September 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link

That is incredibly heartening news. Bob Chapek (current Disney CEO) got his start pushing hard for physical media releases of their stuff, so there's been speculation that they would eventually crank up the output on that front. Here's hoping that they recognize the plethora of boutique labels that are champing at the bit for those sweet sweet Blu-ray rights (particularly Fox movies that I figured would never see another physical release).

Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 September 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link

There's musing on the Criterion Forum that The Straight Story is only happening after the rights revert to Lynch, which should be soon.

DECEMBER: Cooley High; The Velvet Underground; Three Films By Mai Zetterling (The Girls, Loving Couples, and Night Games); and Michael Haneke: Trilogy (The Seventh Continent, Benny’s Video, and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance)

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

JANUARY: Bergman Island (2021); This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection; Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy (The Elements of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa); Imitation of Life (1934); and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen*.

*4K available

Bummed it's not the Sirk Imitation of Life, but still, good slate!

Eric H., Monday, 17 October 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link

Imitation of Life (1934)

Hoping for more John M. Stahl....

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link

Motherfuuuuuu

Literally just bought Munchausen. If I had a nickel for every time Criterion pulled this on me, well, I could probably afford to purchase one Criterion Blu-ray. That's a lotta nickels.

Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link

Bummed it's not the Sirk Imitation of Life, but still, good slate!

I guess Universal wanted to hold on to it? Kind of odd that they weren't bundled together like on the old 'Franchise Pack' DVD, or Criterion's editions of The Lower Depths or The Killers.

or the Criterion version of Magnificent Obsession, which had the John M. Stahl version as a bonus feature for the Sirk one for that matter.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 17 October 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link

four weeks pass...

Feb '23: new BR editions of Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet, Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle and two from Marguerette Duras, plus 4K upgrades for Dazed & Confused and the Three Colors trilogy

ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Regarding "Inland Empire," I was wondering "How do you do a 4K remaster of a movie shot in standard def?" and found the answer here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/janus_promo_packages/687-/InlandEmpire_RemasterNote_web_original.pdf

ernestp, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link

Hm feel like you might as well just watch it on DVD

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link


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