Criterion Additions

True! But because the supplements are so expected from Criterion this comes across as a very phoned in release on shelf.

I just checked and they did finally remove the tease of a forthcoming SE of Blue is the Warmest Color from the website. (And maybe they slightly bumped up the price? I seem to remember it being $20 for the BR, not $25.)

well in some cases, including evidently this one, it's the difference between having it available on disc in the region and not having it

Wonder how many ppl would find this enough to buy, considering the availability of multi region players and streaming, if it didn't say Criterion on the cover.

tbh i think the # of multi-region player owners (at least in the US) is lower than the # of casual Criterion fans

Picked up the mubi br of Petite Maman for £7.99 a month or two ago and not regretting that in light of this release

Another very contemporary future addition: All That Breathes.

https://deadline.com/2023/03/all-that-breathes-documentary-criterion-tvod-acquisition-news-1235279149/amp/

Pasolini box (doesn't include Salo, or the Trilogy of Life):

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101

Coming in June, a major tribute to the Italian iconoclast Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most original and controversial thinkers of the 20th century.

Released in celebration of the 101st anniversary of Pasolini’s birth, this collector’s set provides an essential window onto a transformative period for an artist whose legacy remains a wellspring of freedom and revolutionary force. Including nine provocative, lyrical, often scandal-inducing films from the 1960s—Accattone, Mamma Roma, Love Meetings, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Oedipus Rex, Teorema, Porcile, and Medea—the decade in which this celebrated poet, novelist, and intellectual embarked on a feature filmmaking career, Pasolini 101 is a monument to the artist’s daring vision of cinema.

Those other ones are already out on Blu from Criterion, so presumably most interested in this new set already has them.

True ... if you have those two, this would complete your set of PPP movies (including one -- Love Meetings -- I never knew existed until now?)

seems like they took note of the Petite Maman complaints and are now including the animated film My Life as a Courgette/Zucchini (written by Sciamma) in the package

Didn't know there was a connection between those two movies, hah. I should get to Petit Maman

More June: Medicine for Melancholy; The Servant; and 4K editions of Time Bandits & The Rules of The Game

Rules... is also now on it's 3rd distinctive cover, which must be a record.

I started watching the Servant on the app 2 weeks ago. Watched the first half and by the time I had time to watch the rest it was gone!

They did that on purpose, if you break down your watches into several sessions they tag you as Not Kino Enough and block you from finishing the film.

Ah, Medicine for Melancholy, one of the infamous titles Criterion previously turned down before that NYT article called them out.

And Rules will become my first Criterion triple-dip

They did that on purpose, if you break down your watches into several sessions they tag you as Not Kino Enough and block you from finishing the film.

Hmm. I see that someone over here posts the monthly leaving list which is a useful addition to looking in the app itself, which can be kind of tedious: https://letterboxd.com/lonelygoatherd/list/leaving-criterion-channel-updated-monthly/

Re: *Rules* covers, it was also a Criterion laserdisc: https://dadons.com/the-rules-of-the-game-criterion-new-cav-50-laserdisc-vintage-drama

50% off flash sale for the next 24 hours

I allowed myself to get a little greedy this time (as I'm now sans car payments for the first time in years and years). Picked up World Cinema Projects #2 and 4, along with Inland Empire, Cure, the Marguerite Duras duo set, This is not a Burial, and a couple others...

I had three years of sales codes...so I indulged in one of the infamous t-shirts.

SILENT
or
NOIR?

I used up a year and a half's worth of codes, which more or less paid for the tax on the order, but next flash sale I should be able to get to that $50 certificate from points

x-post PRE-CODE, of course. Capitolfest here I come....

In my younger days, I'd proudly flaunt a MELODRAMA shirt at the club

Thanks to this thread for reminding me to look for old unused codes - I searched my email, found $70 worth, and wound up getting six titles for about $65.

-Two Films by Marguerite Duras
-Wanda
-All About Eve
-The Naked Kiss
-I Married a Witch
-Cat People

The Naked Kiss had been on my wishlist since at least 2011, when the Blu-ray first came out. No idea why I waited so long. I haven't seen it since I rented the original Criterion DVD.

I missed out on finally buying Dielman, after putting it off for a similar amount of time. When I first looked this morning, it was in stock; when I placed my order, it was not; then later in the day it was again. Oh well, next time.

Stocked up on Lynch.

It would be sweet if they put out a collection of his short films that are scattered across several different collections.

Stocked up on Lynch.

It would be sweet if they put out a collection of his short films that are scattered across several different collections.

OK, July is a monster month.

The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher 4K box (!)
After Hours 4K
One False Move 4K
The Watermelon Woman BR
Breathless 4K upgrade

We missed August

Drylongso; Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart; Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema box (The Baby Carriage; Raven's End; Elvira Madigan; and Adalen 31), and a 4K upgrade of Kurosawa's Dreams

Wow -- Resurrection finally gets a proper release.

It does?

LOL, someone's last straw was La Bamba on Criterion...

Hey @Criterion — no-one who cares about LA BAMBA cares about it coming out on Criterion. What a waste of a slot. Some jerk in the conference room must have made a hell of a convincing speech to stick in the label. This is totally foolish.

— craig keller (@evillights) June 15, 2023

Is this what @Criterion have become, or are 4 of the 5 releases just the last sweeps of acquired dust-bunnies to clear the plate to tabula rasa status? I’m seriously concerned at the mounds of junk that they’re putting out. The world is not Kmart. THE TRIAL + FILMING THE TRIAL…

— craig keller (@evillights) June 15, 2023

…is/are a total triumph of a release. I know some people like Nic Roeg; frankly, I hate him; but fair enough. The rest? LA BAMBA? And the other shit? I used to buy like 3 or 4 Criterions every month. Now? Other labels do it better, w/ just as good restoration.

— craig keller (@evillights) June 15, 2023

Who cares?

Posted mostly to point and laugh ... but it also kind of speaks to a certain kind of cultural gatekeeper chauvinism that's been creeping into a lot of cinephilia's margins ever since NYT wrote that article excoriating CC for its lack of Black representation, and CC's subsequent course-correction

What an asshole. Probably a Mod over at the CC Forum.

SEPTEMBER: Moonage Daydream*; La Bamba; The Trial*; and 4K upgrades of Walkabout and The Princess Bride

*4K available

Yeah, sorry, to be clear, the "Who cares?" wasn't directed at your post, Eric; I'm just baffled by the sentiment that guy is expressing.

I'm less baffled than saddened at how often this pernicious mentality pops up, in every fandom

October: Nanny; The Others*; Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers set (Freaks/The Unknown/The Mystic); and 4K upgrades of Videodrome & Don't Look Now.

*4K available

New 2K digital restoration of The Mystic, with a new score by composer Dean Hurley

v. intrigued by this in light of some of the sounds he made for Twin Peaks: The Return

Oh wow, I don't think Criterion's ever endeavored a nothing-but-horror October before

New sister line Janus Contemporaries to launch in October!

Initial Titles: EO; No Bears; and The Innocent.

https://www.criterion.com/janus-contemporaries

November's slate is ... quite New Hollywood-centric:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/product_images/2035-00397dc6a40239b317f24adf0c86b430/55pTNrIGtsH7uG8kEDAoe9PZu76jZu_small.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/fdd856a888419c6f2c73abfdf238f241/Kdd1vlVmnbyb2MamPGVm4SdmVOpfgo_small.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/323c56a13b44f5ded3b7b0117a6dc08d/o7l2a4KSto1HXIf7DxvRcPVn2sMRvl_small.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/246893f4108627f4863117ebf1d321da/4TR6eTQtnxHqqWZsxZ00vgXfrLMiwO_small.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/46b4f8dc45b858771e74746e2655b7a1/lM3SqpO30GIVmAQoWIN7c1F2QKclrM_small.jpg

(The three American films are 4K; the box and Chabrol just BR.)

lol that Jackie set is some real barrel scraping

boy, La Cérémonie continues to grow in esteem.

This probably means nothing other than a new new deal with the rights holders, but La ceremonie is a rare upgrade from the old Home Vision line. The only others I can think of are Pale Flower and Toby Dammit from Spirits of The Dead (and Putney Swope ended up as the centerpiece of the Eclipse RDSr set).

Nice...I'll get "Days of Heaven" and maybe "The Last Picture Show". I remember thinking when I got the (non-CC) "Days of Heaven" Blu-ray one month ago (to upgrade my DVD), "the moment I get this, CC is going to put out a 4K edition" - so that's exactly what happened, but I'm glad it's coming out in 4K and don't even mind getting it again, ha.