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Supposedly... Hopefully...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Heaven Can Wait, Au hasard Balthazar, Crazed Fruit, and The Browning Version. Plus Ran promised for later this year!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

and all of them $29.95, hallelujah

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

ok great, i'm going to stop fruitlessly searching for an import balthazar then

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

this is great news! the cover is pretty cool too.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I found out that "Au Hasard Balthazar" was coming out on Criterion the DAY AFTER I got my DVD-R copy from Super Happy Fun.

**grumble**

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 10 April 2005 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Just got the newsletter. Due in September-An Angel At My Table, Naked, Masculin-Feminin,The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Bad Timing!

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, Theresa Russell in Bad Timing is one of the great underappreciated perfs.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Where the f*ck is Play Time?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

is an angel at my table any good? somehow i've never seen the piano, but i like campion's portrait of a lady. this one sounds kind of merchant-ivory-ish.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 8 July 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a very good TV miniseries (and unlike mid-to-late M-I, certainly not obsessed with decor). I like it way better than The Piano's silliness but nowhere as much as Portrait of a Lady.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

this one sounds kind of merchant-ivory-ish.

An Angel at My Table really could not be further from this. really!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i wouldnt doubt a december or january re-release for playtime.

where the fuck are the eisenstein silents?!?

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 9 July 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Hopefully Warner Bros. will continue their good work as of late with Petulia and Performance.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

For those who didn't already know, the newsletter has announced October's titles: Sword of the Beast, Samurai Spy, Samurai Rebellion, Kill! (all available in a set or ala carte), Le Samourai (yay!), and a re-master of Wages of Fear. It was also revealed that the long awaited Tales of Hoffman disc is almost ready. No news on Play Time.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

How did a fancy reissue of Divorce, Italian Style. Was it Criterion?

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

http://criterionco.com/content/images/full_boxshot/306_box_348x490.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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― andrew s (andrew s), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Le Samourai !!! Hurray! Now if only they'd release Melville's collaborations with Lino Ventura: Le Douxieme Souffle and the awesome L'armee des Ombres .

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 8 August 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER IN DECEMBER

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.criterionco.com/content/images/full_boxshot/309_box_348x490.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Oddly enough, the January releases aren't in this month's newsletter, but they are up on the site. They are: The Bad Sleep Well, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Virgin Spring, and The Children Are Watching Us.

The newsletter does reveal that Metropolitan and Playtime + A Tati box will be out next year, along with some Louis Malle stuff, including Murmur of The Heart.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

One more thing: L'armee des Ombres is in the the Rialto catalogue, and you know what that means. Their next premiere title is Mouchette, which will start touring in ten days.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Playtime + A Tati box

What does this mean? Like you have to buy the box to get Playtime? That'll either suck if the other titles in the box are M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle, but would be effing fantastic if the other titles are Jour De Fete, Parade and Trafic.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost) L'armee des Ombres. Criterion. My God.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's what they say about the Tati project:

"We’ve received many such e-mails from fans wondering about the status of Tati’s astounding 1967 comedy, and we are happy to report that we are indeed planning to release a new edition of Playtime—either individually or as part of a Jacques Tati box set—sometime in 2006. Watch the Criterion website for details."

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Eric, what's wrong with M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle? Too beloved? I've never seen Parade or Trafic, but still. (There's that rediscovered, different English-lang Mon Oncle MoMA screened recently -- wholly exclusive scenes etc.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I assume it's because they're already Criterion releases and he'd be forced to buy them again to get Play Time.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes. I was just worried about having to buy them a second time... which I probably wouldn't have done because I still have a burn of the previous Criterion disc (which I sold).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Just Added To The Site: Viridiana, Le Bete Humaine, Kind Hearts & Coronets (!), and Metropolitan. Upcoming #'s 322 & 327-331 are absent from the masterlist. Anybody know what they are reserved for?

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe 327-331 is the Tati box set that was being discussed?

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, that could be it. The set gets it's own number and the films (save Playtime, which as tradition dictates, will retain the old number) make up the rest.

Now about 322...

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link

322 is Mr. Arkadin.

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I guess the spines 327-331 are going to include the third re-release of Seven Samurai and a second re-release of Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

― D.M., Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

No wait. i take that back. They won't lose their spines, but maybe they're will be more kurosawa's released with the re-releases and those could be the mysterious spines, but what Kurosawa is left. It looks like they have pretty much all them covered.

― D.M., Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link

A third release? Are they going to be HD or something?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

john ford's young mr lincoln in feb!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

March...

Fists in the Pocket - Marco Bellocchio
3 films by Louis Malle Box - Lacombe, Lucien - Murmur of the Heart and Au Revoir Les Enfants
322 - Mr. Arkadin - Orson Welles

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Which ones of louis malle? Hopefully Atlantic City!

― D.M., Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Huh? Those are the three by Malle - Lacombe, Lucien - Murmur of the Heart and Au Revoir Les Enfants.

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Good grief: http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=322

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

What Criterion is Spine #331?

― Dru, Monday, 2 January 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

April looks pretty uninteresting. Mostly re-releases...

Monterey Pop (single-disc edition)
Jimi Plays Monterey/Shake! Otis at Monterey
The 400 Blows
Elevator to the Gallows
Harlan County, U.S.A.
Grey Gardens (two-disc edition)

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't give a damn about the rest, but Harlan County is on my must-buy list.

If only Frederick Wiseman would license out to DVD...

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

From what I recall, Wiseman was supposed to have all of his movies released by the company formerly known as Homevision but something happened -- I heard about this a couple of years ago and there hasn't been much news since.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

If not *literally all of his movies* at least the big ones: High School, Titicut, Hospital, Welfare, etc.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi Amanda

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Thursday, 5 January 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Home Vision folded when Criterion was bought by Image (aka the studio that seems content to just start breaking up Criterion's old boxes and resell them as individual films).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 6 January 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I think you have that wrong. Image bought Home Vision and shut them down - but they just have an exclusive distribution deal with Criterion. I believe Criterion remains an independently owned company.

At least according to the press release...

AUG. 2 | DVD distributor Image Entertainment has acquired 19-year-old Chicago-based publisher/distributor Home Vision Entertainment.

The $8 million deal--one of the largest ever for Chatsworth, Calif.-based Image--also gives the former laserdisc company exclusive distribution rights to the prestigious Criterion Collection of esoteric, foreign and critically acclaimed movies on DVD.

For the past eight years, Image had split retail distribution of Criterion titles with Home Vision, which had a separate 50/50 joint venture with Criterion. With that arrangement, Image was never able to include Criterion titles in its overall national marketing efforts.

With this week's deal, Home Vision sells its 50% stake in the joint venture back to Criterion, freeing up Criterion to sign an exclusive output deal with Image for its 280 active catalog titles and three to four monthly new releases through 2010.

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 6 January 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

...and image is continuing to release stuff under the home vision banner too. oyster farmer, exiles and that jim white documentary searching for the wrong-eyed jesus have been announced as home vision titles for march.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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