Criterion Additions

I would love to see a collection of Jem Cohen's films released by Criterion, but I'm certainly not holding my breath.

Once again, I refer you all to the wonderfully great Criterion messageboard of http://pub125.ezboard.com/bcriterioncollectionforum/

Try that...

I just ordered my copy - $18. on DVD-R. Natch. - along with a copy of <em> F is for Fake </em> from
www.pimpadelicwonderland.com

Weekend is owned by New Yorker films but no plans for a DVD have been made. It may come on Region 2 at some point.

And because they can - they've got the name and the identity to hook in film geeks, where else are you going to turn, New Yorker?

I haven't seen it, but supposedly it was aimed at the special effects mavens out there. Also I recall reading an interview with one of the Criterion folks who said that the revenues from the Armageddon allowed them to fund a lot of other less-popular titles.

Here's just the start of the relevant section:

Specifically, with "Armageddon": You'd be silly to overlook blockbusters as a genre and leave them out of a film library. They drive so much. They drive tastes and shooting styles and visual references that appear all over the world in commercials and on TV as well as on movie screens. They're part of a huge cultural cross-pollination. And special effects are one of the most important aspects of a certain kind of contemporary filmmaking.

Is The Rock Criterion still in print? I'd much rather have that than Armageddon.

Those were the days when you actually got your $140 million dollars worth out of your production budget.

I miss the days when a budget topping $80mln was big news and a reason to go see the film. Now that barely buys you a romantic comedy.

it depends on how you look at it. it my mind, there's no need for it to necessarily become somethi@5{te the suggestion that short films/music videos/avant-garde & experimental work are just a "warm-up" for a feature length narrative. it's kind of absurd to but a limitation of film that it has to be 90-180 minutes long with actors, dialogue & a plot. at least 50% of my favorite cinematic works don't fit into the categorization, and whenever i hear about people complaining about a lack of innovation in film, it's usually because all they watch are feature length narratives.

but as for the idea of the innovation in these works not "catching on" in the mainstream, you simply have to look around you to see their influence: magazines, billboards, popular films and music, even architecture. it's everywhere, and most of the good, innovative feature filmmakers will be the first to admit that they've been influenced by someone like michel gondry, spike jonze, jem cohen, etc.

two words: HOLY SHIT.

so rejoice, damn you.

12 Angry Men Lumet, Sidney 1957 27
2001: A Space Odyssey (CAV) Kubrick, Stanley 1968 60
2001: A Space Odyssey (CLV) Kubrick, Stanley 1968 60A
The 3 Penny Opera Pabst, G.W. 1931 39
The 39 Steps Hitchcock, Alfred 1935 3
400 Blows Truffaut, François 1959 173
49th Parallel Powell, Michael Pressburger 1941 130
8 1/2 Fellini, Federico 1963 71
Adam's Rib Cukor, George 1949 47
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Gilliam, Terry 1989 144
The Adventures of Robin Hood (CAV) Curtiz, Michael 1989 66
The Adventures of Robin Hood (CLV) Curtiz, Michael 1938 66A
Akira (CAV) Otomo, Katsuhiro 1988 151
Akira (CLV) Otomo, Katsuhiro 1988 283
Alphaville Godard, Jean-Luc 1965 274
Amarcord Fellini, Federico 1974 270
Andrei Rublev Tarkovsky, Andrei 1969 222
Annie Hall Allen, Woody 1977 93
Armageddon Bay, Michael 1998 384
Arsenic and Old Lace Capra, Frank 1944 136
Ashes & Diamonds Wajda, Andrzej 1958 242
The Asphalt Jungle Huston, John 1950 26
Atomic Cafe Rafferty, Kevin 1982 285
Autumn Sonata Bergman, Ingmar 1978 255
L' Avventura (CAV) Antonioni, Michelangelo 1960 62
L' Avventura (CLV) Antonioni, Michelangelo 1960 228
Bad Day at Black Rock Sturges, John 1955 133
Bad Sleep Well Kurosawa, Akira 1960 371
Beauty and the Beast (CAV) Cocteau, Jean 1946 128
Belle de Jour Bunuel, Luis 1967 290
The Big Chill Kasdan, Lawrence 1983 123
Big Deal on Madonna Street Monicelli, Mario 1958 321
Black Narcissus Powell, Michael Pressburger 1947 38
Black Orpheus (CAV) Camus, Marcel 1959 13
Black Orpheus (CLV) Camus, Marcel 1959 13A
Blackmail Hitchcock, Alfred 1929 154
Blade Runner (CAV) Scott, Ridley 1982 19
Blade Runner (CLV) Scott, Ridley 1982 69
The Blob Yeaworth, Irvin 1958 65
Blood for Dracula Morrissey, Paul 1974 287
Blood of a Poet Cocteau, Jean 1930 289
Blow Up Antonioni, Michelangelo 1966 48
Rest, and Motion Bodies Steinberg, Michael 1993 216
Boogie Nights Anderson, Paul Thomas 1997 366
Boyz N the Hood Singleton, John 1991 150
Branded to Kill Suzuki, Seijun 1967 361
Brazil (CAV) Gilliam, Terry 1985 196
Brazil (CLV) Gilliam, Terry 1985 373
Breaker Morant Beresford, Bruce 1980 355
Breaking the Waves von Trier, Lars 1996 343
Breathless Godard, Jean-Luc 1960 153
Brief Encounter Lean, David 1946 248
Burmese Harp Ichikawa, Kon 1956 171
Burn! Pontecorvo, Gillo 1969 99
La Cage Aux Folles Molinaro, Edouard 1978 96
Carnal Knowledge Nichols, Mike 1971 140
Carrie (CAV) De Palma, Brian 1976 141
Carrie (CLV) De Palma, Brian 1976 141A
Casablanca (CAV) Curtiz, Michael 1942 73
Casablanca (CLV) Curtiz, Michael 1942 73A
Cat People Lewton, Val 1942 233
Chasing Amy Smith, Kevin 1997 360
Children of Paradise Carne, Marcel 1945 84
Chungking Express Kar-Wai, Wong 1994 N/A
Citizen Kane (CAV) Welles, Orson 1941 1
Citizen Kane (CLV) Welles, Orson 1941 1A
Citizen Kane: 50th Anniversay Edition (CAV) Welles, Orson 1941 142
Citizen Kane: 50th Anniversay Edition (CLV) Welles, Orson 1941 142A
Cleo from 5 to 7 Varda, Agnes 1962 364
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CAV) Spielberg, Steven 1977 125
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CLV) Spielberg, Steven 1977 125A
Confidentally Yours Truffaut, François 1983 187
Confidential Report A.K.A Mr. Arkadin Welles, Orson 1955 121
Coup de Torchon Tavernier, Bertrand 1981 275
Crash Cronenberg, David 1996 349
Cries & Whispers Bergman, Ingmar 1972 207
Crimes and Misdemeanors Allen, Woody 1989 323
Damage Malle, Louis 1992 182
Darling Schlesinger, John 1965 55
David Holtzman’s Diary McBride, Jim 1968 244
Dead Presidents Hughes, Albert and Allen 1995 301
Dead Ringers (CAV) Cronenberg, David 1988 305
Dead Ringers (CLV) Cronenberg, David 1988 372
Dersu Uzala Kurosawa, Akira 1974 256
The Devil and Daniel Webster Dieterle, William 1941 126
Diabolique Clouzot, Henri 1955 138
Diva Beineix, Jean-Jacques 1981 309
Do the Right Thing Lee, Spike 1989 266
Dodes’ ka-den Kurosawa, Akira 1970 291
Double Suicide Shinoda, Masahiro 1969 367
Dr. No (CAV) Young, Terence 1962 124
Dr. No (CLV) Young, Terence 1962 124A
Dr. Strangelove Kubrick, Stanley 1964 143
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Coppola, Francis Ford 1992 183
Early Summer Ozu, Yasujiro 1951 332
Earrings of Madame de... Ophuls, Max 1953 302
Edward II Jarman, Derek 1991 189
El Cid Mann, Anthony 1961 304
Emperor Jones Murphy, Dudley 1933 202
The English Patient Minghella, Anthony 1996 336
The Entertainer Richardson, Tony 1960 312
Evergreen Saville, Victor 1934 204
Evita Parker, Alan 1996 337
F for Fake Welles, Orson 1975 260
Fallen Idol Reed, Carol 1948 164
Fellini Satryricon (CAV) Fellini, Federico 1969 35
Fellini Satyricon (CLV) Fellini, Federico 1969 230
Fires on the Plain Ichikawa, Kon 1959 276
Fisher King Gilliam, Terry 1991 149
Five Corners Bill, Tony 1987 346
Five Easy Pieces Rafelson, Bob 1970 81
Flesh for Frankenstein Morrissey, Paul 1974 288
Floating Weeds Ozu, Yasujiro 1959 76
Forbidden Games Clement, Rene 1952 30
Forbidden Planet Wilcox, Fred 1956 53
French Can Can Renoir, Jean 1955 163
From Russia with Love (CAV) Young, Terence 1963 131
From Russia with Love (CLV) Young, Terence 1963 131A
The Game Fincher, David 1997 365
Get out your Handkerchiefs Blier, Bertrand 1978 203
Ghostbusters (CAV) Reitman, Ivan 1984 75
Ghostbusters (CLV) Reitman, Ivan 1984 75A
The Golden Coach Renoir, Jean 1952 162
Goldfinger (CAV) Hamilton, Guy 1964 132
Goldfinger (CLV) Hamilton, Guy 1964 132A
Good Morning Ozu, Yasujiro 1959 368
The Graduate (CAV) Nichols, Mike 1967 17
The Graduate (CLV) Nichols, Mike 1967 68
Grand Illusion (CAV) Renoir, Jean 1937 25
Grand Illusion (CLV) Renoir, Jean 1937 25A
The Great Escape Sturges, John 1963 95
Great Expectations Lean, David 1946 262
Green for Danger Gilliat, Sidney 1946 170
Halloween (CAV) Carpenter, John 1978 247
Halloween (CLV) Carpenter, John 1978 310
Hamlet Olivier, Laurence 1948 296
Hard Boiled (CAV) Woo, John 1992 245
Hard Boiled (CLV) Woo, John 1992 308
A Hard Day's Night (CAV) Lester, Richard 1964 20
A Hard Day's Night (CLV) Lester, Richard 1964 20A
The Harder They Come Henzell, Perry 1973 147
Help! (CAV) Lester, Richard 1965 16
Help! (CLV) Lester, Richard 1965 16A
Henry V Olivier, Laurence 1944 258
Here Comes Mr. Jordan Hall, Alexander 1941 135
Hidden Fortress (CAV) Kurosawa, Akira 1958 11
Hidden Fortress (CLV) Kurosawa, Akira 1958 232
High and Low Kurosawa, Akira 1963 382
High Noon (CAV) Zinnemann, Fred 1952 7
High Noon (CLV) Zinnemann, Fred 1952 7A
Hobson’s Choice Lean, David 1954 259
The Horse's Mouth (CAV) Neame, Ronald 1958 42
The Horse's Mouth (CLV) Neame, Ronald 1958 292
How to Get Ahead in Advertising Robinson, Bruce 1989 340
I am Cuba Kalatozov, Mikhail 1964 295
I Know Where I’m Going Powell, Michael Pressburger 1945 237
Ikiru Kurosawa, Akira 1952 114
Importance of Being Earnest Asquith, Anthony 1952 265
In Which We Serve Coward, Noel 1942 263
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (CAV) Siegel, Don 1956 8
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (CLV) Siegel, Don 1956 8A
It's a Wonderful Life Capra, Frank 1946 18
Jason and the Argonauts Chaffey, Don 1963 160
Jour de Fete Tati, Jacques 1948 94
Jules and Jim Truffaut, François 1961 165
The Killer (CAV) Woo, John 1989 211
The Killer (CLV) Woo, John 1989 284
The Killing Kubrick, Stanley 1956 64
King Kong (CAV) Cooper, Merian 1933 2
King Kong (CLV) Cooper, Merian 1933 2A
King of Hearts de Broca, Philippe 1966 115
King of Kings De Mille, Cecil B. 1927 152
Knife in the Water Polanski, Roman 1962 134
Kwaidan Kobayashi, Masaki 1964 119
The Lacemaker Goretta, Claude 1977 112
Lady for a Day Capra, Frank 1933 137
The Lady Vanishes Hitchcock, Alfred 1938 4
The Last Laugh Murnau, F.W. 1924 226
The Last Metro Truffaut, François 1980 158
Last Picture Show Bogdanovich, Peter 1971 139
Last Tango in Paris Bertolucci, Bernardo 1972 122
Last Temptation of Christ Scorsese, Martin 1988 352
Lawrence of Arabia (CAV) Lean, David 1962 78
Lawrence of Arabia (CLV) Lean, David 1962 78A
League of Gentlemen Dearden, Basil 1959 318
Letter from an Unknown Woman Ophuls, Max 1948 151
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Powell, Michael Pressburger 1943 37
Life of Brian Jones, Terry 1979 353
Life of Oharu Mizoguchi, Kenji 1979 329
Lola Montes (CAV) Ophuls, Max 1955 12
Lola Montes (CLV) Ophuls, Max 1955 12A
Lolita (CLV) Kubrick, Stanley 1962 103
Long Good Friday Mackenzie, John 1980 331
Lord of the Flies Brook, Peter 1963 185
M Lang, Fritz 1931 356
The Magic Flute Bergman, Ingmar 1975 273
The Magician Bergman, Ingmar 1958 303
The Magnificent Ambersons (CAV) Welles, Orson 1942 9
The Magnificent Ambersons (CLV) Welles, Orson 1942 9A
Makioka Sisters Ichikawa, Kon 1983 195
Man Bites Dog Belvaux, Remy Bonzel 1992 215
The Man Who Fell to Earth Roeg, Nicolas 1976 169
Menace II Society Hughes, Albert and Allen 1993 219
Midnight Cowboy Schlesinger, John 1969 146
Miracle in Milan De Sica, Vittorio 1951 83
Mon Oncle Tati, Jacques 1958 101
Mona Lisa Jordan, Neil 1986 347
Montenegro Makavejev, Dusan 1981 317
Monterey Pop (CLV) Pennebaker, D.A. 1969 43
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Gilliam, Terry Jones 1975 168
Mr. Hulot's Holiday Tati, Jacques 1953 21
Naked Leigh, Mike 1993 234
The Naked Kiss Fuller, Sam 1964 77
A Night at the Opera (CAV) Wood, Sam 1935 31
A Night at the Opera (CLV) Wood, Sam 1935 31A
The Night of the Hunter Laughton, Charles 1955 28
Night Porter Cavani, Liliana 1974 359
A Night To Remember Baker, Roy 1958 250
North by Northwest (CAV) Hitchcock, Alfred 1959 45
North by Northwest (CLV) Hitchcock, Alfred 1959 45A
Nostalghia Tarkovsky, Andrei 1983 344
Notorious (CAV) Hitchcock, Alfred 1946 100
Notorious (CLV) Hitchcock, Alfred 1946 100A
Odd Man Out Reed, Carol 1947 280
Oliver Twist Lean, David 1948 267
Olympia I &II Riefenstahl, Leni 1938 338
Once Were Warriors Tamahori, Lee 1994 282
Onibaba Shindo, Kaneto 1964 369
Osaka Elegy Mizoguchi, Kenji 1936 221
Othello Welles, Orson 1952 220
Parade Tati, Jacques 1974 129
Paths of Glory Kubrick, Stanley 1957 57
Peeping Tom Powell, Michael 1960 156
Personal Journey w/ Martin Scorsese Through American Movies Scorsese, Martin 1995 326
Picnic at Hanging Rock Weir, Peter 1975 383
Pink Flamingos Waters, John 1972 341
The Player Altman, Robert 1992 175
Polyester Waters, John 1981 210
Prince Of Tides Streisand, Barbara 1991 227
Princess Bride (CAV) Reiner, Rob 1987 320
The Princess Bride (CAV) Reiner, Rob 1987 40
The Princess Bride (CLV) Reiner, Rob 1987 40A
The Producers Brooks, Mel 1968 36
Pulp Fiction Tarantino, Quentin 1994 271
Purple Noon Clement, Rene 1960 324
Pygmalion Howard, Leslie Asquith 1938 33
Raging Bull (CAV) Scorsese, Martin 1980 120
Raging Bull (CLV) Scorsese, Martin 1980 120A
Rashomon Kurosawa, Akira 1950 49
Rebecca (CAV) Hitchcock, Alfred 1940 98
Rebecca (CLV) Hitchcock, Alfred 1940 98A
Red Balloon and White Mane Lamorisse, Albert 1952 N/A
Red Beard Kurosawa, Akira 1965 82
The Red Shoes Powell, Michael Pressburger 1948 249
Replusion Polanski, Roman 1965 212
Return of Martin Guerre Vigne, Daniel 1982 315
Richard III Olivier, Laurence 1954 190
The River Renoir, Jean 1951 70
Robinson Crusoe on Mars Haskin, Byron 1964 184
Robocop (CAV) Verhoeven, Paul 1987 198
Robocop (CLV) Verhoeven, Paul 1987 311
The Rock Bay, Michael 1996 334
Rome: Open City Rossellini, Roberto 1946 257
La Ronde Ophuls, Max 1950 264
The Rules of the Game (CAV) Renoir, Jean 1939 50
The Rules of the Game (CLV) Renoir, Jean 1939 50A
Sabotage Hitchcock, Alfred 1936 22
Saló Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1975 209
Salt of the Earth Biberman, Herbert 1954 213
Samurai Trilogy part 1 Inasaki, Hiroshi 1954 176
Samurai Trilogy part 2 Inasaki, Hiroshi 1955 177
Samurai Trilogy part 3 Inasaki, Hiroshi 1956 178
Sanjuro Kurosawa, Akira 1962 218
Sansho the Bailiff Mizoguchi, Kenji 1954 223
Scaramouche (CAV) Sidney, George 1952 32
Scaramouche (CLV) Sidney, George 1952 32A
Scenes from a Marriage Bergman, Ingmar 1973 293
Secret Agent Hitchcock, Alfred 1936 23
Secret Honor Altman, Robert 1984 161
Seven Fincher, David 1995 298
Seven Samurai (CAV) Kurosawa, Akira 1954 67
Seven Samurai (CLV) Kurosawa, Akira 1954 67A
The Seventh Seal (CAV) Bergman, Ingmar 1957 10
The Seventh Seal (CLV) Bergman, Ingmar 1957 10A
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (CAV) Soderbergh, Steven 1989 108
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (CLV) Soderbergh, Steven 1989 108A
Shampoo Ashby, Hal 1975 79
She’s Gotta Have It Lee, Spike 1986 229
Shine Hicks, Scott 1996 335
Shock Corridor Fuller, Sam 1963 15
Shoot the Piano Player Truffaut, François 1960 43
Short Cuts Altman, Robert 1993 231
Show Boat (CAV) Sidney, George 1936 44
Show Boat (CLV) Sidney, George 1936 44A
Sid & Nancy Cox, Alex 1986 241
Silence of the Lambs (CAV) Demme, Jonathan 1991 192
Silence of the Lambs (CLV) Demme, Jonathan 1991 314
The Silence Bergman, Ingmar 1963 166
Silverado (CAV) Kasdan, Lawrence 1985 118
Silverado (CLV) Kasdan, Lawrence 1985 118A
Singin' in the Rain (CAV) Kelly, Gene Donen 1952 52
Singin' in the Rain (CLV) Kelly, Gene Donen 1952 52A
Slingblade Thornton, Billy Bob 1996 350
Smiles of a Summer Night Bergman, Ingmar 1955 86
Soft Skin Truffaut, François 1964 243
Some Like It Hot (CAV) Wilder, Billy 1959 74
Some Like It Hot (CLV) Wilder, Billy 1959 74A
Sonatine Kitano, Takeshi 1993 N/A
Spartacus Kubrick, Stanley 1960 155
La Strada Fellini, Federico 1954 29
Stranger than Paradise Jarmusch, Jim 1984 307
Stray Dog Kurosawa, Akira 1949 370
Summertime Lean, David 1955 116
Bloody Sunday Sunday Schlesinger, John 1971 148
Supercop Tong, Stanley 1992 327
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassssss Song Van Peebles, Melvin 1971 316
Swept Away Wertmuller, Lina 1975 313
Swing Time (CAV) Stevens, George 1936 6
Swing Time (CLV) Stevens, George 1936 6A
Switchblade Sisters Hill, Jack 1975 N/A
Sword of Doom Okamoto, Kihashi 1966 294
Tales of Hoffman Powell, Michael Pressburger 1951 157
Taxi Driver (CAV) Scorsese, Martin 1976 109
Taxi Driver (CLV) Scorsese, Martin 1976 109A
That Obscure Object of Desire Bunuel, Luis 1977 113
The Third Man Reed, Carol 1949 5
This is Spinal Tap (CAV) Reiner, Rob 1984 238
This is Spinal Tap (CLV) Reiner, Rob 1984 319
This Sporting Life Anderson, Lindsay 1963 306
Three Cases of Murder Eady, David 1955 261
Throne of Blood (CAV) Kurosawa, Akira 1957 106
Throne of Blood (CLV) Kurosawa, Akira 1957 239
Through A Glass Darkly Bergman, Ingmar 1961 246
Time Bandits Gilliam, Terry 1981 354
Tokyo Drifter Suzuki, Seijun 1966 362
Tokyo Olympiad Ichikawa, Kon 1965 117
Tootsie (CAV) Pollack, Sydney 1982 145
Tootsie (CLV) Pollack, Sydney 1982 145A
Trainspotting Boyle, Danny 1996 325
Tristana Buneul, Luis 1970 299
Tunes of Glory (CLV) Neame, Ronald 1960 41
Two English Girls Truffaut, François 1971 225
Ugetsu Mitzoguchi, Kenji 1953 174
Umberto D. De Sica, Vittorio 1952 107
Umbrellas of Cherbourg Demy, Jacques 1964 328
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kaufman, Philip 1988 357
Vagabond Varda, Agnes 1985 363
Variety Lights Fellini, Federico 1950 279
Vengeance Is Mine Imamura, Shohei 1979 34
Victim Dearden, Basil 1961 358
Virgin Spring Bergman, Ingmar 1960 277
Vivre Sa Vie Godard, Jean-Luc 1962 345
Wages of Fear Clouzot, Henri 1953 127
Walkabout Roeg, Nicolas 1971 351
Waltz of the Torreadors Guillermin, John 1962 300
West Side Story (CAV) Wise, Robert 1961 72
West Side Story (CLV) Wise, Robert 1961 72A
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For the East? Yong-kyun, Bae 1989 286
Wild Strawberries Bergman, Ingmar 1957 85
Winter Light Bergman, Ingmar 1963 254
Withnail & I Robinson, Bruce 1987 339
The Wizard of Oz LeRoy, Mervyn 1939 59
Woman Next Door Truffaut, François 1981 236
Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown Almodovar, Pedro 1988 348
Yojimbo Kurosawa, Akira 1961 105
Young and Innocent Hitchcock, Alfred 1937 24
Zulu Endfield, Cy 1964 54

Still so many that haven't been released on DVD....

yeah, i'm pretty sure those are the same (as facets distributes a number of polart titles)

there's a whole, whole lot of stuff on that list that would be great on a criterion dvd, but by the looks of it they've gotten to more than i realized (discounting those titles that are already out through warner, etc.)

I would love to see "David Holtzman's Diary" given proper treatment, as well as some of the John Waters' films.

A Chris Marker set (as mentioned above) would be fantastic, and I wish Criterion would take over the Kenneth Anger project that Fantoma failed to get off the ground. And it's still at least a year away, but I can't wait for Brakhage vol. 2.

Is this an actuality?

dunno about chimes, but on the a_film_by list a couple of weeks ago, j. rosenbaum mentioned he was recording a commentary track for a criterion version of mr. arkadin/confidential report, so that one's in the pipeline...

i would also love to hear more about a potential brakhage 2 - know anything else, jay? if it does come to pass, i really, really hope to see anticipation of the night on there (my fave brakhage).

The following, which was originally posted on Frameworks a couple months back, is some interesting news for Brakhage fans--

Howdy folks,

A number of you already know that I do film
preservation work at the Academy Film Archive in L.A.
I have an announcement.

Especially in light of all the Brakhage-related
discussion on the list lately, it seemed incredibly
silly and artificial for me to wait any longer to
bring this up. I’ve been waiting for what was
intended to be an official press release, but in the
process of the publicity department and the Archive
creating one that would be comprehensive enough to
answer the many possible questions, it has gotten
dangerously close now to the “blackout period” during
which the Academy prefers to limit press releases to
issues relating to the Oscars ceremony in February. I
enjoy and respect this important community (with
Frameworks as its inclusive, de facto
gathering-place), and don’t see the point in
withholding this information any longer, especially if
it means waiting until March.

I’d like to informally announce that a few months ago,
56 boxes containing Stan Brakhage’s original film
materials were transported from a commercial storage
facility in Kansas to the Academy Film Archive in Los
Angeles. The intention is to conserve and
preserve/restore all of Stan’s films.

This collection was deposited at Academy by Marilyn
Brakhage. The collection basically comprises the
edited originals for nearly all of Stan’s work.

It would be ridiculous for me to try to describe the
honor with which we’ll be overseeing this collection
and the inventory, inspection, care and preservation
of these films. I have already begun this work (about
a month ago), and have closely inspected and
catalogued the originals for about 25 films, including
The Wonder Ring, Black Vision, “He was born, he
suffered, he died.”, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular,
Anticipation of the Night, The Weir-Falcon Saga, Agnus
Dei Kinder Synapse, Fox Fire Child Watch, Window Water
Baby Moving... There is an enormous amount of
material to go through. Additionally, some
interesting discoveries have already been made, and
with Marilyn’s blessings, I eagerly look forward to
sharing this information with everyone, and hope that
disseminating it periodically through Frameworks won’t
be an annoyance to folks on the list.

The reasons I am announcing this informally to this
list... As I said, I enjoy and respect the community
represented here, and I know many of you are intensely
passionate about and interested in Stan’s work. Many
of you were students, admirers, friends, loved ones of
Stan, and care dearly about him, his films, and his
legacy.

Another reason is that I look forward to the potential
assistance from folks in this community who I am sure
will prove a caring and valuable resource in this
endeavor. Having already begun work, it’s important
for me to know that there’s a channel of communication
open. For instance, I hope we can count on folks out
there who may oversee personal or public collections
including prints of Stan’s work to potentially be able
to provide loan access to original reversal prints of
Stan’s work of the 1980s and earlier, where available.
These reversal prints will prove invaluable to the
faithful preservation of these films... Anecdotal
information and stories about the making or showing of
these films will also be requested and appreciated,
and will prove a valuable contribution to this
project.

I can’t think of anything further to specifically
mention right now, other than to welcome anybody’s
thoughts, questions, suggestions, ideas, concerns,
etc. about what I’ve written here. You can reach me
at either fiddybop@yahoo.com (personal) or
mtoscano@oscars.org (work).

Mark Toscano

p.s. the restoration/preservation route taken with
Stan’s films will be a photochemical one, not a
digital one, in case some of you were wondering.

p.p.s.
1. Window Water Baby Moving was shot on Ansco reversal
film
2. Black Vision is a radical revision of a film Stan
made for KRMA-TV around 1962 called ‘Sartre’s Nausea’,
the originals for which exist intact.
3. A large number of the cuts in The Act of Seeing
With One’s Own Eyes are actually in-camera edits.
4. The *original* 35mm source rolls for Garden of
Earthly Delights still exist, and they smell amazing.

As for Chimes : my boot is an Ebay purchase from a Japanese laserdisc. Gorgeous print but marred by vertical Japanese subtitles on the righthand side of the picture. Who owns the rights to Chimes ?

i haven't seen it yet, but i'm going to go ahead and agree here.

I really don't understand the Wes Anderson backlash. If you don't try to get too much out of his films, they're cute & fun and the cinematography is always fantastic. And how can you not like the roles he writes for Bill Murray?

That said, I'm pretty sure I'll be slightly annoyed by TLA because it seems to be just pushing the profitable Wes formula of hip 70's soundtrack & kitschy sets.

... but ultimately it's not that big a deal, and i wish that criterion had a few more rivals at their particular level of their niche so that people (i include myself) wouldn't pore over their choices all the time.

and that said, i think warner's been kicking everybody's ass the last few months with their box sets.

I assume that Criterion would like to put out more new films, but can't get companies to license them out. Better to make your own $10 on a barebones release than split that with Criterion, I suppose.

http://www.wellesnet.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=422d15fb2793ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=84;st=40

I'm eagerly awaiting the Peckinpah box, and I've got my fingers crossed for a Bonnie & Clyde 2-disc.

**grumble**

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

where the fuck are the eisenstein silents?!?

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.

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.

"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."

Now about 322...

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

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)

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

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.

But I saw High School and Meat both in the theater, and that will be hard to beat.

http://www.criterionco.com/content/images/titles/331_title.gif

Not the hilarious Will Ferrell soccer vehicle?

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=336

339 - Yi Yi

also i really hope the sweet movie rumors are true.

http://www.shillpages.com/movies/playtime1967dvd.gif

BTW, I was just browsing the Deep Discount site, and they have the Amarcord (a two-disc) and Seven Samurai remasters listed for September, in addition to a single disc edition of Brazil.

The link for it:

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=2

[i'm going to start posting all my film dork crap on here instead of ILE...]

Looks like Brazil is getting rereleased in anamorphic, too.

Zipporah Films is making the Frederick Wiseman documentary films available in VHS format at greatly reduced prices until September 30, 2006.

Order any combination of titles --
5 films for $1,500
10 films.....$2,000
15 films.....$2,500
20 films.....$3,000
25 films.....$3,500
30 films.....$4,000
plus shipping & handling charges

thanxx.

I THINK I worked on the sequel to this... I THINK...

i just ordered 'hands over the city'

now if only they'll do "Weekend"....

-- jay blanchard (jay blanchard)

Cryptic confirmation of Days of Heaven in the newsletter.

September: Stranger Than Paradise, Night On Earth, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, The Threepenny Opera, and Martha Graham: Dance on Film.

Apparently there's a confirmation for Two-Lane Blacktop in the new newsletter.

October:Under the Volcano, Breathless, Mala Noche, and Days of Heaven.

BREATHLESS?

I would loooove to see Soy Cuba (possibly bundled with the documentary they did about it)

Yup, that Breathless. Not this one.

Confirmation for Sawdust and Tinsel in Criterion's obit.

C. Grisso/McCain-- do you have any connection to Criterion at all? Can you get them to release Hans Richter's "Dreams that Money Can Buy"?

any news on 'alexanderplatz'? it seems to have a UK release through second sight on 22 oct + The Making of - A Mega-Movie and it's Story - The Restoration - The Restoration - Before and After - Stills and Productions Photos Gallery - The Original Recaps - Berlinale 2007 trailer.

There's been some rumors floating around the web that Alexanderplatz might/should be out for Christmas, which of course would mean either a November or December release. December is traditionally a quiet month with only a couple of titles, one of which is sometimes has a high-profile.

Cryptic confirmation of a Maurice Chevalier/Jeanette MacDonald film in the new newsletter.

BTW, as much as I'd like to, I don't actually work for Criterion.

November: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Sawdust and Tinsel, Drunken Angel, and a remaster of The Lady Vanishes.

...and MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS confirmed in the blog.

Criterion! Where's La Chienne??!??

...and MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS confirmed in the blog.

!!!

White Dog confirmed for '08 Criterion release in the latest newsletter.

People on Sunday confirmed in the blog.

I've been meaning to see that for decades.

http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/so07/fassbinder.htm

Old news by now, but December: Two-Lane Blacktop and Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks (The Seventh Seal, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Virgin Spring, and Wild Strawberries in a box for 100 bucks).

TWO-LANE BLACKTOP hooooraaayyy!!!

i wish they could do 'Stalker,' 'Nostalghia,' and 'The Sacrifice.'

Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey coming in January '08...

January: The Naked Prey, Miss Julie, This Sporting Life, and "4 x Agnes Varda", a box set featuring Le bonheur, La Pointe Courte, and exclusive remasters of Cleo from 5 to 7 and Vagabond.

stoked for the varda!

fuck 'this sporting life' though.

I thought about buying Robinson Crusoe On Mars today. Adam West's cameo scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a youth.

February: Pierrot le fou, The Last Emperor (a 4-disc box), & Walker. Also on tap, Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals (The Love Parade, Monte Carlo, One Hour With You, & The Smiling Lieutenant).

Confirmed in the newsletter: White Mane/The Red Balloon & The Thief of Bagdad.

which thief of bagdad

The Michael Powell one.

According to an article I read in the paper last weekend, Mafioso will be one of the March titles.

Hehe, the question that never dies, now posed to Ebert:

Q. What do you think has prompted the Criterion Collection to release "Armageddon" on DVD? I've always admired Criterion for its selection of films, but why "Armageddon"?
Anoop Raj, Philadelphia

A. Actually, "Armageddon" is a superb example of its type, I smiled.

March: Mafioso, Antonio Gaudí, & The Ice Storm

The Furies confirmed in the newsletter.

I appreciate these posts since I don't like newsletters.

April: Death of a Cyclist, Blast of Silence & from Eclipse, "The Delirious Fictions of William Klein"(The Model Couple, Mr. Freedom, Who Are You, Polly Magoo?)

Looking forward to the Lubitsch.

Cryptic confirmation of Tati's Trafic for this summer in the newsletter. Adding to the intrigue, DVDBeaver is reporting that in April, Criterion will also drop discs of The Red Balloon, White Mane, and Paddle To The Sea, plus an "Silent Ozu" set from Eclipse.

It's sort of like Criterion and Eclipse have switched places.

May: The Lovers, The Fire Within, and The Thief of Bagdad.

Mon Oncle Antoine confirmed in the newsletter.

Old news by now, but: JUNE- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Patriotism, Classe tous risques, The Furies & Before the Rain.

More old news: A so far unknown Guy Maddin title was confirmed in the latest newsletter.

"a real blast of silence"

MY WINNIPEG was really, really, really great

Xpost: "A so far unknown Guy Maddin title" - which is?

He's done about a zillion shorts, most with outrageous titles. I'd like to see those compiled.

many of them have appeared on the discs of his features.

DVDbeaver is reporting that July will be: Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971), Trafic (Jacques Tati, 1971), Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932) and a reissue of High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963).

I've wanted to see the first two for awhile. The Vampyr DVD on the market is really poor, glad they're doing a better version.

Trafic is only Tati feature I havent seen.

According to the Tribeca note on the Criterion homepage, the Guy Maddin title will be Brand Upon The Brain!. In other old news, the latest newsletter hint regards a Late Rossellini set (probably from Eclipse).

I haven't actually got the new newsletter yet, but I've come across the text, and boy o boy have they got a bombshell to drop:

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,

We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.

Here’s what’s in the pipeline:

The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear

Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we’ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg’s outback masterpiece at the same time.

August: Brand Upon The Brain!, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Small Back Room, & Twenty-Four Eyes.

...and Eclipse Series 11 will be two films by Larisa Shepitko: The Ascent & Wings.

Salo reish will probably piss off collector scum

The Max Ophuls box confirmed for this fall in the newsletter.

Ophuls September: La Ronde, Le Plasir, & The Earrings of Madame de . . .. All three available individually, not in a box.

Oh, and coming from Eclipse in September: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, & The Match Factory Girl).

One more thing--September will also bring a budget line of "Essential Arthouse" titles. In another words, bare bones editions of:
Grand Illusion
Beauty & The Beast
Rashomon
Wild Strawberries
Knife In The Water
Lord of The Flies

will hit the streets with a list price of 20 bucks each (or all six in a box for a cool 100).

Well, one more (for real this time): Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon will also be out in September, it just isn't on the "coming soon" page yet.

"Essential"? Are they chosen by Robert Osborne?

somewhat arbitrary selection to qualify for a box.

"Essential"? Are they chosen by Robert Osborne?

I think what they are doing is reissuing the stripo titles from the Janus 50 films box (which was titled "Essential Arthouse") so somebody that wanted, say Knife In The Water, but figured they didn't want to shell out the extra 20 bucks for bonus features that they'd watch once (if at all), could have an option to get a cheaper edition. So perhaps every few months, more of those films (like The Rules of The Game and L'Avventura) will get a similar treatment. I do imagine though that the folks at criterion arived at their selection for this line by drawing titles for the set out of a hat.

Confirmation of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold in the latest newsletter.

That essential arthouse line is the dumbest thing they've done in awhile.

October: Le Doulos, Le deuxieme souffle, Missing, plus standalone editions of A Woman Under The Influence & The Killing of A Chinese Bookie, and a cheaper version of Short Cuts*.

Meanwhile over at Eclipse, Series 13 will be "Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women" (Naniwa erejî, Gion no shimai, Akasen chitai& Yoru no onnatachi)

*Which looks like the old version sans the paperback book.

...or we could use the English titles for the Mizoguchi films-Osaka Elegy, Sisters of The Gion, Women of The Night & Street of Shame

the CC Mishima is GORRRRRRRRRRRRRRGEOUS

Fanfan La Tulipe confirmed for November in latest newsletter

Magnificent Obsession confirmed in the latest newsletter.

November: Fanfan le Tulipe, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Bottle Rocket, Chungking Express.

We also get the initial wave of BluRays (Bottle Rocket, Chungking, Third Man, Man Who Fell From Earth, and The Last Emperor) in November. There was no Eclipse announcement.

what is the msrp of the blurays?

$39.95 each on the Blurays (or $31.96 if you buy direct)

Chungking is sooorely lacking in extras, especially one commanding a $39.99 MSRP.

Chungking is sooorely lacking in extras, especially one commanding a $39.99 MSRP. (actually, it's been a few years)

(old news)December:White Dog & Europa.
It also looks like The Exterminating Angel & Last Year At Marienbad are confirmed for Feb. in the latest newsletter.

Man, it seems like it's taken them forever to get out White Dog.

Marienbad! I just saw this again on the big screen and wondered why it was still out of print.

Damnit; I just bought the UK DVD a few months ago. I figured it'd be Criterion'd eventually since Rialto just distributed a print of it.

uk one is pretty dece though, nice extras.

One of the fanboys over at the criterion forum wrote the company and got a response confirming a box set of Rossellini's "War Trilogy" for next year.

January: The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Magnificent Obsession, & El Norte (the latter in both standard and Blu-Ray editions). Also out-Eclipse Series #14: ROSSELLINI’S HISTORY FILMS
RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT

More fanboy news: Some reps @ Paramount have gone on record that Criterion will be handling The Confession and Wings.

http://sharetv.org/images/wings-show.jpg

When is Sextette coming out on Criterion? I'm available for commentary.

Finally, Simon of the Desert! (Plus The Exterminating Angel)

...and Hobson's Choice, altough I doubt anyone (Lean/Laughton devotees aside) was waiting for that. Also more ala carte Cassavetes (Faces & Shadows) and no Eclipse WTF?

The Friends of Eddie Coyle confirmed in the latest newsletter.

gr8

http://www.criterion.com/

i just wasted 5 minutes watching that intro movie. all it says: they have some full movies up on a partnered site called The Auteurs, which i can't use because i'm not in the us.

Pigs and Battleships confirmed for May in the latest newsletter.

Why the hell does anyone think 'Eyes Without a Face' is a good movie? Could someone explain to me why it is supposed to be decent?

It doesn't sound like you will agree with this, but it's a remarkably effective horror film in tone and very unique, influential, and forward-thinking for 1960 - it invented the bizarre genre of surgical horror, and the combination of ideas (serial killing of women supported by a murderous, but well-intentioned family to prop up their upper class family ideal, which is a weird farce of doctor/assistant/mutilated daughter) is pretty striking. But I can easily see the movie not working for everybody, especially without a certain historical interest in the genre and a kind of patience for it.

Really my problem was the pacing, which was painfully slow. The face removal sequence did make me really squeamish in a way unique to any movie I've seen. But if that's the best thing I can say about the movie ("part of it made me nauseous")...then...

Also I had a problem telling apart the doctor (Jacques) and the detective, and keeping track of things in general (ie I thought the head-bandaged girl trying to escape the house was his daughter – "but she just got a new face! Why did she kill herself?"). This made the movie unwatchable. I didn't finish it.

Also the director seems unaware of the establishing shot – he'd show entire uneventful car drives, everyone ascending or descending the entire staircase and hallway, the entire walk from the back of the property to the house, etc., every time. I could see this with the scenes of the daughter in the house – her shy, embarrassed lurking through her own house – but sheesh, do we need to see the doctor walk up the entire staircase every time? Do I need to see each car drive uphill and park in a garage every time? It became maddening!

March: lI Generale della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, 1959), Dodesukaden (Akira Kurosawa, 1970), The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980), The Last Metro [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1980), Danton (Andrzej Wajda, 1983), Eclipse Series 15 - Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu

Very happy we're finally getting a good dvd of Dodesukaden
Totally shocked at the Shimizu set - super glad I'd yet to pick up the 130 dollar Japanese version

It became maddening!

So it worked, eh?

Old news, but APRIL: The Hit, In the Realm of the Senses (also due on BluRay), Empire of Passion, & Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé--plus a BluRay of Wages of Fear. No news from Eclipse.

Wings of Desire confirmed in the latest newsletter.

MAY: WISE BLOOD, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE & "PIGS, PIMPS & PROSTITUTES:
3 FILMS BY SHOHEI IMAMURA" (PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS, THE INSECT WOMAN & INTENTIONS OF MURDER all exclusive to the box).

Also, Ran on Blu-Ray. No news from Eclipse.

Better late than never, the May release from Eclipse will be "Eclipse Series 16:
Alexander Korda's Private Lives" featuring The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Rise of Catherine the Great, The Private Life of Don Juan & Rembrandt.

Think I just might have to get that one.

http://criterion_images.s3.amazonaws.com/Other/ImagesneedingURLs/wackydinner1.jpg

I sure wish this was a confirmation of a deluxe Waiting For Guffman featuring hours and hours of outtakes instead of what it's really confirming ...

endless hours of improvisation, doesn't get funnier than that

"Not Guffman" confirmed for June, along with Marienbad, Seventh Seal remaster (both also in Blu-Ray) and Bergman Island.

Sort of brilliant cover for Marienbad, btw:

http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2125/478_box_348x490.jpg

Would I be wrong to suspect that they might release Huston's "The Dead"?

Or hope so, at least.

lol can't think of my dinner with andre w/o thinking of action figures

i thought the cover of marienbad wasn't even up on the site yet until i squinted a little - pretty sure i love it now as a result

Ingmar is kinda surprising in Bergman Island.

They've also got another round of "Essential Art House" titles coming, including a vanilla Ashes & Diamonds, the back in print Variety Lights, and the original Last Holiday.

Zzzzzzzzzzz

http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/7249/release-date-cover-art-for-criterion-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button

better than Army of Shadows (maybe -- close call, actually)

you were expecting Bruce LaBruce?

Looks like a confirmation for del toro's Cronos in the latest newsletter.

Looks like a confirmation for Monsoon Wedding in the latest newsletter. Criterion be digging (reasonably) late-model stuff.

Holy Shit July: Replusion (standard & Blu), The Human Condition & Made In The USA (the Godard one) plus For All Mankind on Blu (plus a standard reish). No Eclipse announcement (yet?)

man, i know dudes have to make a buck, but Benjamin Button is a huge crock of shit. worse than chasing amy or armageddon or any of the other big movies they sometimes work

Old news, but July also brings a Criterion edition of Two or Three Things I know About Her.

And another Godard, Made in USA, as well as Polanski's Repulsion on DVD and Blu-Ray.

...Which I would've seen just a few posts above me had I read a bit further back. WHY YUO SABOTAGE ME TINY BLACKBERRY SCRN

nothing CC could do is worse than Chasing Amy

ok, remembering now to take this board off my Site New Answers list

So after reading the list of Criterion LDs upthread, I just realized: they don't have a single animated film out on DVD, do they? Unless you REALLY want to stretch and count some of the Brakhage shorts.

Confirmation for a fall release of the Rossellini "War Trilogy" box in the latest newsletter.

August: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles & The Last Days of Disco

Plus Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir Featuring: I Am Waiting, Rusty Knife, Take Aim At The Police Van, Cruel Gun Story & A Colt Is My Passport.

No new Blu-ray news.

Actually, scratch that last statement, there are two new blu-rays for August: Playtime & Kagemusha.

they don't have a single animated film out on DVD, do they?

Not that I'm aware of. Really annoying as there are so many brilliant, unfortunately obscure animated films that are almost impossible to get. I just watched Bartosch's L'Idée (fantastic) on the internets and I'm kind of perplexed why this isn't easily available.

link for the curious: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xevud_lidee-1932

I would love a Criterion of Planete Sauvage- there's never been a good Region 1 dvd, and not only did the most recent one have a mediocre transfer and compatibility issues on some players, it's already out of print.

xpost omg thanks!

have been reading about that recently. made in the 'studio' above the theatre vieux colombier iirc.

I would love a Criterion of Planete Sauvage- there's never been a good Region 1 dvd, and not only did the most recent one have a mediocre transfer and compatibility issues on some players, it's already out of print.

was gonna say that eureka/masters of cinema did it for r2, but maybe that's a problem. i am not a dvd geek but their choice of stuff to put out is perfect.

Late news: the deluxo treatment for Soderbergh's Che confirmed for this fall in the latest newsletter.

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ehhzu7.gif

Che was better than I expected, but ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Old news September: Homicide & That Hamilton Woman (both sd) plus The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (the full box and the ala carte Film & Hendrix/Otis discs) & Pierrot le fou come to Blu-ray. No announcement for Eclipse.

Also: Le Jour se lève has been added to the "Essential Art House" line.

i'm pretty psyched for homicide tbh, i always liked that one

...as have Gervaise & Mayerling.

x-post

Criterion to present House (Haussu), Hunger, Mystery Train, and Paris, Texas @ This Year's ATP.

Looks like we now know some of early 2010 titles (in addition to all the Fall stuff that hasn't come out yet).

I'm more excited for this week's release of the Nikkatsu Noir box set than I have been for anything Criterion has released in a long time.
Some trailers and info http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/655

2010 news

I'm reading that Linklater's "subUrbia" is getting a Criterion release. Can anyone confirm/deny?

^^ he was responsible for that one?

The one with Parker Posey and naked Giovanni Ribisi (that's STILL ONLY AVAILABLE ON USED VHS), not the one from the 80's.

If Criterion finally release Hausu I will sing hosannahs. That movie is totally fucking bugshit in all the best ways.

The Linklater subUrbia has been in the pipeline for awile. Warner Bros. (who distributed it) were gonna give it the deluxe treatment but I believe it got farmed out to Criterion.

u mean Bogosian/Linklater

Yeah. Breaking news re:IFC

Looks like after 10+ years of releasing DVDs they've run out of classics :(

Lole Montes confirmed in latest newsletter.

Lola Montes that is

From The Onion AV Club today:

Just in time for holiday gift-buying, The Criterion Collection is compiling 25 films by Akira Kurosawa (including four never before released on DVD) for the box set AK 100, a celebration of what would've been the Japanese master's 100th birthday. Here's the line-up, in chronological order:
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)*
Sanshiro Sugata, Part II (1944)*
The Most Beautiful (1944)*
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)*
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Stray Dog (1949)
Scandal (1950)
The Idiot (1951)
Rashomon (1951)
Ikiru (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
I Live in Fear (1955)
The Lower Depths (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Kagemusha (1980)
Madadayo (1993)

The *-ed items are the previously unreleased ones. The box set also comes with a thick book about Kurosawa. List price is 400 bucks, but perhaps you and your neighbors can pool your money, Seven Samurai-style.

d-d-damn

Amazon is selling preorders for $100 off. Seriously considering this! It helps that I've only got a few Criterion Kurosawas.

8 1/2 on BluRay confirmed in latest newsletter.

really wish someone would put out decent versions of Badlands and Night of the Hunter.

my god, i need the AK boxset like, now.

January: Che (standard & blu), Paris, Texas (ditto), and Roberto Rossellini’s
War Trilogy box set. 8 1/2 also comes to blu. Also: Eclipse Series 19:
Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, featuring La chambre, Hotel Monterey, News From Home, Je tu il elle, and Les rendez-vous d'Anna.

So, what are the best movies released under the Eclipse line so far? i've only rented the steel helmet, which i liked.

Brakhage II confirmed (on blu!) in the latest newsletter.

Somewhere, Jay Blanchard is busy being very very happy.

Old news, but February: Revanche, Lola Montes, Hunger (all three standard & Blu) & Make Way For Tomorrow. Also out: Eclipse Series 20: George Bernard Shaw on Film.

Also, a standard edition version of Howard's End drops so the fanboys can stop bitchin' about it having a spin # and being a spined blu.

March: Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa (Ossos, In Vanda's Room & Colossal Youth), Bigger Than Life (standard+Blu) & Dillinger Is Dead.

Yojimbo/Sanjuro Box Set also goes Blu.

No Eclipse or Essential Arthouse.

Oshima Eclipse set confirmed in latest newsletter.

April: Vivre Sa Vie*, Ride With The Devil*, The Fugitive Kind & Summer Hours*

Plus Essential Art House 5: Brief Encounter, 8 1/2, Loves of A Blonde, Jules and Jim, Floating Weeds & Kapò

No news from Eclipse

*Standard & Blu

Ride with the devil is such a catastrophe...

Criterion deletions: they're losing a load of titles to Lionsgate of all people at the end of next month. Some big ones, too- Grand Illusion, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, the Orphic trilogy, etc. Would copy/paste list but I'm on my phone atm.

hmm. i have alphaville -- pretty bare-bones.

transfer's awful too

here's the list

http://www.collider.com/2010/02/02/oop-criterion-sale-purchase-studiocanal-dvd-and-blu-ray-criterions-before-lionsgate-owns-them/

that said, I doubt that lionsgate will "care" as much criterion did

xp

Alphaville
Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse Series 6)
Le corbeau
Coup de torchon
Diary of a Country Priest
The Fallen Idol
Forbidden Games (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Gervaise (Essential Art House edition)
Grand Illusion (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Le jour se lève (Essential Art House edition)
Last Holiday (Essential Art House edition)
Mayerling (Essential Art House edition)
The Orphic Trilogy
Peeping Tom
Pierrot le fou (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
Port of Shadows
Quai des Orfèvres
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Trafic
Le trou
Variety Lights (Essential Art House edition)
The White Sheik

guess I should grab a copy of that pierrot le fou blu-ray

this will kinda fuck up their janus box too iirc.

wonder how many years lionsgate will take to re-release these, if they even bother to do it at all

a fair number of these are on R2 (british) dvd already, though without the nice extras (not all of these are well extra'd up tho -- don't think the carne is). must see 'the fallen idol'.

May: BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME TWO, Stagecoach & a reissue of Walkabout all standard & Blu. Plus M on Blu & ECLIPSE SERIES 21: OSHIMA'S OUTLAW SIXTIES (PLEASURES OF THE FLESH, VIOLENCE AT NOON, SING A SONG OF SEX, JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE & THREE RESURRECTED DRUNKARDS)

i can't imagine the person that watches stan brakhage movies on blu-ray

Blanchard!

i'd rent it. i like to know that what i'm watching was in the original film and isn't a compression artifact.

3-disc Hollis Frampton set off in the distance!!!!! (And maybe even a Kuchar?)

June: Close-Up, Mystery Train*, Everlasting Moments, Red Desert* & Night Train to Munich plus The Leopard on Blu. No Eclipse or Essential Art House titles to report.

*Standard & Blu

Please, oh please let them get the rights for a blu-ray of Blow-Up...or hell, even Zabriskie Point.

What is up with the cover to Red Desert... glad the movie is finally coming out, but that has gotta be the worst Criterion cover yet....
http://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert

http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2731/522_box_348x490.jpg

nagl

the english bluray of that is excellent

There been some grumblings about a Criterion Zabriskie. I can't confirm a source but I recall hearing something about Steven Soderbergh claiming during a junket for Che that he'd cut a commentary track for the then forthcoming DVD. Fast forward some months and Warner's has issued a disc w/no commentary and the MGM's adjusted ending (w/the Orbison song instead of additional Pink Floyd). If it gets done I imagine those errors would be corrected. However I don't thing there has ever been a solid confirmation of WB finally working w/Criterion (Stagecoach was a third party acquisition).

Got the Pedro Costa box early and now I'm thinking he's director of the decade material...

wow, did not know that was forthcoming. sight & sound in particular are pretty fond with him as one of the guys of the last decade.

Goddamn, the subtitles that Polanski himself wrote for Knife in the Water are shit! They should keep him in prison just for these fucking subtitles.

ZOMG OMG RED DESERT!!! FWIW I think the cover looks very nice on its own but is an awful fit for the film.

Antichrist confirmed for this fall in the latest newsletter.

They've hinted a confirmation of Fish Tank on Facebook.

are artificial eye dvds/blu-rays region free? you could always import fish tank. so annoying that criterion chose to region lock their BDs

still need to pick up red road myself

are artificial eye dvds/blu-rays region free?

don't think so

i don't have a blu-ray but a seven-y-o could have hacked my dvd player + vlc 4 lyfe

blu-ray is p.nice tho

id be in2 it if i had a job

but even then dvds are awesome enuf for me really

July: The Only Son/There Was a Father: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu, The Secret of the Grain*, and reissues of The Red Shoes* & Black Narcissus*. Plus Eclipse Series 22:Presenting Sacha Guitry (The Story of a Cheat, The Pearls of the Crown, Désiré & Quadrille)

* Standard & Blu

they fucked up the original issue of black narcissus with colors being way off. glad to see they're giving it another go.

americans u shd see 'fish tank', very good film

I will look into "Fish Tank". Anyone know the story of why Criterion never released "Night of the Hunter"? Rights issues? Also WHEN IS HOUSE/HAUSU COMING!!

I want DAVID LYNCH BLU RAYS please

It took long enough to get Lynch DVDs, my hopes aren't too high for timely blu-rays :(

Anyone know the story of why Criterion never released "Night of the Hunter"?

What I heard was that MGM planned to do their own special edition but because of the companies recent financial woes, it's been on hold. Supposedly Criterion was going to pick it and some other similarly fated MGM projects (Last Tango... & Kiss Me Deadly had been mentioned) but IIRC I've never seen a solid confirmation on it.

BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME TWO

hello

The Fugitive Kind came out yesterday! I'm pretty surprised. Why this one? It's a terrible film. In fact, it's quite possibly the worst Tennessee Williams film adaptation ever (Last of the Mobile Hot Shots had less potential overall [Lumet again, for one] and was thus less disappointing). Still, I keep returning to it in hopes it will turn into a film maudit. Hasn't yet. Maybe the extras and David Thomson's essay will do it for me this time.

Best Tennessee Williams film adaptation ever: beyond easily Boom (which just might be Joseph Losey's best film too).

oh man a "kiss me deadly" disc would own

think im going to get high and watch "boom" to see if it really is better than all of the better losey films

Make sure you provide some evidence for the better films' betterness. For serious.

Suddenly Last Summer is really really good. Haven't seen Boom.

Hepburn's perf in that one defines "brittle."

KJB, you're mad. F'rinstance, the Tenn Williams film that came out last December is much worse than TFK.

Wait, which one is that?

This one.

Wow! That totally passed me by. Yeah, it looks worse but I'm still going to check it out.

Amazon has a bunch of unannounced Criterion blu-rays listed without release dates- Videodrome, The Thin Red Line, Antichrist, Seven Samurai, and The Darjeeling Limited.

Breathless confirmed for Blu in the latest newsletter.

August: Crumb*, Louie Bluie, L’enfance nue & THREE SILENT CLASSICS BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG box set (Underworld, The Last Command & The Docks of New York), plus black Orpheus on Blu and ECLIPSE SERIES 23: THE FIRST FILMS OF AKIRA KUROSAWA (Sanshiro Sugata, The Most Beautiful, Sanshiro Sugata Part 2 & The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail).

*Standard & Blu

im hugely pumped for the sternberg

whoa

Another vote for the Sternberg.

Added: Black Orpheus is getting a standard reish as well.

THREE SILENT CLASSICS BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG box set (Underworld, The Last Command & The Docks of New York)*

Fuck the silents. I want THUNDERBOLT (1929), an infinitely superior remake of Underworld which does for sound what the Dietrich extravaganzas did for visuals.

* But yeah, Docks is long overdue for a Criterion.

The Docks of New York

Olga Baclanova AND Betty Compson rowr rowr.

Also, those Sternbergs are originally Paramount titles, aren't they? It would be great if more Paramount silent titles came out on DVD, they're pretty scarce, officially anyway.

hitchcock rated 'the last command' as one of the top ten films of all time

as of 1939

The only new titles in the latest round of announcements are DVD and blu-ray releases of The Thin Red Line and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and a long, depressing list of titles going OOP:

Billy Liar
Bob le flambeur
Diary of A Chambermaid
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Man Who Fell to Earth (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
The Milky Way
The Phantom of Liberty
That Obscure Object of Desire
Touchez pas au grisbi
A Woman Is a Woman

Fuck! I better pick up Discreet Charm soon...

anyone know about this Bob le flambeur dvd?

http://www.maplepictures.com/home_video_detail.aspx?id=37248

They've also got an new Eclipse set for September: Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King.

That's a bummer about that new wave of deleted titles. I've got most of 'em already but I guess I'll have to get the others too, as they are faves I've slept on.

Oh, and Charade is coming to blu as well.

Night of The Hunter confirmed in latest newsletter.

OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!

Confirmation of The Sweet Smell of Success on Facebook.

White Dog is worth the money.

Any word on when House is coming out?

criterion is doing house now?

http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/house-hausu/

Well considering Janus just rereleased a print and Criterion is selling House shirts on their website and there's STILL no stateside release, it only makes sense.

Though that MoC House is apparently NTSC (albeit R2)

Confirmation of Broadcast News in the latest newsletter.

B&N currently has 50% off all criterion dvd & bluray

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/holiday-gifts/collection.asp?pid=31880

the days of heaven blu-ray in particular but really all the criterion blu-rays in general (that ive seen obv) are just ~amazing~

words fail really

October: The Magician, Paths of Glory, House & The Darjeeling Limited*-plus Seven Samurai on blu. No news from Eclipse or Essential Art House.

*All standard & blu

I found an error on the closed captioning/subtitles of the Short Cuts DVD, do I win a prize? Gimme a cookie!

house!

and Paths of Glory! Hopefully this means they'll begetting the other MGM Kubrick titles too...

Wings of Desire bd is $20 on amazon.com lightning deals right now.

amazon.ca has night and the city dvd for $16.75

The hint in the latest newsletter is a bunch of monkeys on a motorcycle; image name is "wackymonkees." Head, maybe?

are there 12 monkeys?

Haven't seen them recently but not too long ago there used to be these guys selling screenplays on the streets of New York and they always had one for "Twelve Monkees."

Four, actually. And the motorcycle maybe = Easy Rider = Jack Nicholson?

I really want a Criterion of Head, is what I'm driving at here.

Sounds possible! I've never successfully deciphered one of those clues

The people over at Criterion Forum seem convinced it's Head, and they're right more often than not. And apparently Sony/Columbia licensed Head and some other New Hollywood pictures, possibly all together in a box set- Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show, King of Marvin Gardens, A Safe Place, and Drive, He Said.

Yeah, rumor has it a BBS box is coming in December.

Where's subUrbia already??

had never heard of 'louie bluie' but 'crumb' is srsly an all time fav. it's hard for me to resist not buying it again just 2 hear the new commentary

NOVEMBER: Night of The Hunter, Antichrist, Modern Times & America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (7 films, 9 discs). All on Standard & Blu (The standard BBS box drops in December tho)

No Eclipse or Essential Art House titles.

Yeah the Crumb disc looks nice. I don't really buy DVDs, though

Any ideas on the bird/football pic in the Sept. newsletter?

not seen the pic ur referring to, but... 'kes'? it has a bird, and football.

Sept. newsletter just hit my inbox a couple hours ago. And I think you're right. Criterion forums seem to think it's Kes too.

Folks on the criterion forum think it's Kes as well.
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that would be great! I've never seen that and it's not available in the US afaik

I have seen Kes twice, I think

December: The BBS box (standard def), Cronos (standard & blu), and Videodrome (blu).

No Eclipse or Essential Art House.

January: reissues of Shock Corridor & The Naked Kiss plus Broadcast News (all standard& blu) and also Army of Shadows & Robinson Crusoe On Mars as stand-alone blus.

Not to mention Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden’s London Underground (SAPPHIRE, THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, VICTIM & ALL NIGHT LONG)

Awesome Dan Clowes packaging for those new Fuller discs.

new cartoon clue: an owl wearing headphones saying "what?"

?

Blow Out?

oh man, that would be awesome.

having dinner with president of criterion nxt week

get me a job there!

Help me convince them to release a John Paizs box set!

February: Fish Tank, Still Walking, Sweet Smell of Success & Senso (all standard & blu), plus Amarcord & The Double Life of Véronique on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

March: Au Revoir les Enfants and Yi Yi on blu, The Times of Harvey Milk, Topsy Turvy and The Mikado on standard and blu, Mikio Naruse set from Eclipse.

Pale Flower confirmed in latest newsletter.

big <3 for Criterion releasing the Allan King set, that's some fucking brilliant filmmaking

https://i2.createsend1.com/ei/r/2F/C1E/21E/082523/wackynewyear_2010a.jpg

Lots of 2011 hints in here. I'm usually terrible at these, but I'm guessing a Wild Strawberries blu-ray, the Monroe/Einstein figure is practically a confirmation of Insignificance, and the globe/balloon s/he's playing with might be The Great Dictator? Also, reeeally hoping the suitcase with a sun inside is Kiss Me Deadly...

that guy is carlos, right

Boca del Cielo = Y tu mama tambien

That drawing has been circulating since New Years. Here is a key made by the folks @ Criterioncast.

Although they are missing the voluptuous dancing chick, which has been sourced elsewhere as (most likely) Silvana Magano in Bitter Rice or possibly Harriet Andersson in Summer With Monika. And the Sunday calendar has also been linked to People On Sunday.

And also the knife/coffee can is most likely White Material.

i watched insignificance recently - it's a pretty bad movie imo

it's ok but not crying out for the criterion treatment

iirc there's already an edition with a roeg commentary out there

they shd do _the front page_

There is, but it's a R2 PAL disc. I wish they were doing Eureka instead, but that's readily available (and for STUPID cheap too- just checked out Amazon to refresh my memory re: special features on the existing DVD, and they're selling it for $3 and change).

calendar could also be le cercle rouge

April: White Material, Kes & Blow Out (all standard & blu) Plus Fear & Loathing... & Sweetie on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

Should also note that Kes will have Cathy Come Home as a bonus feature.

oh, and Le cercle rouge is also coming to blu.

Should also note that Kes will have Cathy Come Home as a bonus feature.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, January 14, 2011 10:44 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

This is ridiculously awesome.

http://ow.ly/i/7O6t

Magnificent Ambersons

oh, wait, apparently they're just taking a bunch of photos of "ancient reels from the laserdisc days".

criterion selling the old solaris for $14

We will be announcing new Blu-ray and DVD editions of Solaris as part of our May lineup. We now know that the black-and-white scenes in the film were meant to be tinted blue, and we have updated the feature accordingly. The supplements from the original DVD will not change.

The old DVD edition is officially out of print. However, we are offering it at a 65% discount from the SRP at criterion.com (use the promotion code RHEYA at checkout). We have a limited supply and will fulfill orders as soon as we can.

May: Something Wild, Pale Flower (stadard & blu), and remasters of Diabolique & Solaris (standard & blu), plus Smiles of A Summer Night & Fat Girl on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

Just added: The Great Dictator on standard & blu.

Malle's Black Moon confirmed in the latest newsletter, plus a plug for the Janus release of Truffaut's The Soft Skin, so it'll probably be getting the Wacky C treatment down the road.

JUNE: Insignificance, The Makioka Sisters, Kiss Me Deadly, People On Sunday, Zazie dans le métro & Black Moon (all standard & blu)

Also-Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas

So now, with a half-year of announcements in the can, here's what's yet to come from the New Year's Cartoon:

Cul de sac
Wild Strawberries blu
Sunday Bloody Sunday (which may have been wishful thinking)
Carlos
Kuroneko
Bitter Rice or Summer With Monika
Y tu mama tambien
Jean Vigo collection

Life During Wartime confirmed on Facebook.

The Killing confirmed in the latest newsletter.

Life During Wartime- the Solondz movie? Hm :(

yeah... can't say people are crying out for it.

Jean Vigo collection

!!!!!!

you used to be able to get this vigo collection in fopp for abt £12 but looks like its oop now, judging by the silly money price on amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jean-Vigo-Collection-disc-Collectors/dp/B00009Z52C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300451827&sr=1-1

Life During Wartime is another one of Criterion's IFC acquisitions (ala Antichrist, Fish Tank etc).

http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=330801#p330801

Last week while I was at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in New Orleans I spoke with some Criterion reps and was delighted to learn that Criterion plans to release Lonesome (1928) with talking sequences and tinted sequences either late this year or some time next year. It is my favorite picture and I was so excited that I started doing some of the film’s dialogue. When I asked whether I could mention this online, I was assured that it would be perfectly OK.

Wow, looking forward to this.

Old news now, but The Music Room was confirmed on FB the other day.

I inherently, by nature, don’t trust 99% of the news I read on April 1st, but I promise you – this one is the real deal. Criterion has just announced that they are going to be releasing 1984′s cult classic horror flick C.H.U.D to Blu-ray.

http://www.brutalashell.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Chud-BD-213x300.jpg

so, Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture in early 2012 apparently.

There's been alot of grumbling about that over @the ccforum. It's kind of weird that it'll take that long (the film went off IFC On Demand like six weeks ago). Maybe the 7d footage already needs an upgrade (ala Che, which was delayed because the RED software changed and Soderbergh made an all-new transfer using it).

Personally I enjoyed the movie, care fuck-all about whatever connections/silver spoons Dunham has, and hope the best for her in the future. However, something tells me getting her initial flick in the CC will do her no favors.

Also, I must thank her Twitter feed for my new display name.

is that really the big complaint with tiny furniture? that lena dunham is... rich?

One of the things. A lot of it boils down to "She's from New york and her parents are connected and she used those connections to finance & make a film about being from New York and having a family that's connected and how terrible that is because nothing's real anymore and nobody gets me, man."

The other big point of contention from the same leaked IFC info on the ccforum is that they won't* be doing Certified Copy, because Peter Becker feels it's "Minor Kiarostami."

On the bright side, it was also more or less confirmed that Errol Morris' Gates of Heaven, Vernon, Florida and The Thin Blue Line are in the pipeline.

*At least anytime soon.

there's a bunch of kiarostamis they shd do before 'certified copy' but that news on the same day as the lena durham thing is a bad look

Exactly. The Kiarostami thing is particularly incongruous in the context of the IFC deal because up til now that haven't exactly been that discriminating in what they put out by them. By that I mean in the cases of, say, White Material or Summer Hours (or Life During Wartime or...), they might not necessarily be ideal films to introduce their directors into the collection, but they were what was available to them via IFC. These films can provide a starting point for further investigation, and anyway the disc production shouldn't be too hard since these are new films and in many cases they've just ported the extras from R2 editions. They've already done some Kiarostami, but Certified Copy has certainly been as well-received as any other IFC acquisition they have made, and you would think on those grounds alone it would get picked up.

The guy who leaked that "minor Kiarostami" quote started backing off of it on the criterionforum when it got some attention. I find it extremely unlikely Becker would say something so laughably arrogant about a director they've revered in the past.

tiny furniture is pretty bad. i really wanted to like it! but man it's just shitty and charmless and lacks ~heart~. it gave me the impression that she got into directing just so she could make out with ~cute boys~

oh wow i really liked tiny furniture!! i dunno i saw it last month not knowing _anything_ abt her or her mom or her fam or anything and i was like, hey, what a nice little movie.

I thought the movie was pretty OK, but the boys in it were not cute.

I'm wondering if "minor"="not a priority at this time".

July: Life During Wartime, Leon Morin, Priest & The Music Room (all standard+blu), plus Beauty & The Beast, Naked & High & Low on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

The Phantom Carriage confirmed in latest newsletter.

the sjostrom?

ja

The Phantom Carriage has already been uploaded to Criterion's Hulu channel, along with numerous other films that they've yet to brand on disc.

A list (taken from the Criterion Forum, natch):

2. The Plough and the Stars [Ford, John (1:07:09) 1936]
3. The Challenge [Rosmer, Milton (1:13:46) 1938]
6. The Plumber [Weir, Peter (1:17:18) 1979]
7. Wedding Rehearsal [Korda, Alexander (1:18:56) 1932]
8. The Spy In Black [Powell, Michael (1:22:18) 1939]
10. The Cars That Ate Paris [Weir, Peter (1:27:59) 1974]
11. Fire Over England [Korda, Alexander and William Howard (1:29:08) 1937]
12. The Europeans [Ivory, James (1:30:57) 1979]
13. The Divorce of Lady X [Whelan, Tim (1:31:14) 1938]
14. I Was a Teenage Zombie [Michalakis, John Elias (1:31:25) 1987]
16. An Ideal Husband [Korda, Alexander (1:32:59) 1947]
17. The Drum [Korda, Zoltan (1:33:24) 1938]
18. Cousin, Cousine [Tacchella, Jean-Charles (1:35:50) 1975]
19. Things To Come [Menzies, William Cameron (1:37:04) 1936]
20. Obsession [Dmytryk, Edward (1:37:51) 1939]
23. Jungle Book [Korda, Zoltan (1:45:20) 1942]
25. Samurai Saga [Inagaki, Hiroshi (1:51:26) 1959]
27. The Four Feathers [Korda, Zoltan (1:55:16) 1939]
28. Seance on a Wet Afternoon [Forbes, Bryan (1:56:12) 1964]
29. Spitfire (a.k.a. The First of the Few) [Howard, Leslie (1:59:15) 1942]
30. Madadayo [Kurosawa, Akira (2:14:20) 1993]
31. Hunter in the Dark [Gosha, Hideo (2:17:29) 1979]
32. Death Shadows [Gosha, Hideo (1:56:00) 1986]
33. Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice [Misumi, Kenji (1:29:36) 1972]
34. Hanzo the Razor: The Snare [Masumura, Yasuzo (1:28:51) 1973]
35. Hanzo the Razor: Who’s Got the Gold? [Inoue, Yoshio (1:23:46) 1974]
36. The Scarlet Pimpernel [Young, Harold (1:37:41) 1934]
39. Cruel Story of Youth [Oshima, Nagisha (1:36:28) 1960]
40. The 47 Ronin: Part 1 [Mizoguchi, Kenji (1:51:45) 1941]
41. The 47 Ronin: Part 2 [Mizoguchi, Kenji (1:50:59) 1942]
42. The Organizer [Monicelli, Mario (2:09:50) 1963]
43. Three Cases of Murder [Eady, David (1:39:51) 1955]
44. The Phantom Carriage [Sjöström, Victor (1:47:15) 1921]
45. Identification of a Woman [Antonioni, Michelangelo (2:10:08) 1982]
46. Kuroneko [Shindo, Kaneto (1:39:22) 1968]

I took the liberty of dumping a couple films that appear as extras on other CC dvds, and the original poster omitted the Zatoichi titles already. Also note that some of these titles are availible under the Home Vision banner, but since Pale Flower crossed over, these too can be considered in play.

damn

what are the transfers like?

i've seen "11. Fire Over England [Korda, Alexander and William Howard (1:29:08) 1937]" on an absolutely appalling dvd

doubt criterion's hulu channel is available here :/

haha while im on -- u seem to know what's going on at criterion -- dyou know why 'the third man' is oop?

they lost the rights to lionsgate

August: Cul-De-Sac, The Killing*, Secret Sunshine, The Complete Jean Vigo & a remaster of Orpheus (all standard & blu), plus The Battle of Algiers & If... on blu.

Also: Eclipse Series 28: The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara (five films)

*w/Killer's Kiss as an extra.

wonder when carlos is coming

I'm wondering too. Hopefully they are whipping up some awesome supplements.

Anyhoo, here's what's left from the New Years cartoon:

Wild Strawberries blu
Sunday Bloody Sunday (which may have been wishful thinking)*
Carlos
Kuroneko
Bitter Rice or Summer With Monika
Y tu mama tambien

*I kept this on since it is an important MGM title that one would think Criterion would be interested in putting out.

Sunday Bloody Sunday wasn't the clue. It was People On Sunday + Le Cercle Rouge.

I know that, but something tells me it could still be in play, even if it wasn't really the clued title(s) (FWIW, in the linked upthread Criterion Cast spec list, they thought it was SBS, and it seems highly likely it's one of the MGM titles in the pipeline. Triple clue anyone?).

Looks like a confirmation for Island of Lost Souls in the latest newsletter.

Criterion shared a still from Three Colors: Red on FB this morning. Color that a confirmation on the trilogy.

three "collars" in the email newsletter

September: Le beau serge, Les cousins, The Phantom Carriage and Carlos (all standard & blu), plus My Life As A Dog and 3 Women on blu.

No Eclipse announcement.

Wow. Rolling out the early Chabrols! And Sjostrom (sp)! Niiice.

fyi Barnes and Noble 50% off sale is on.

Gonna preorder "The Music Room" today. One of my favorite Satyajit Ray's.

I know I must be done with physical media when I'm not even remotely tempted by this anymore.

does criterion do streaming now or

yeah, on hulu+

not criterion but kino released a 3-disc buster keaton shorts collection today.

October: The Four Feathers, Kuroneko, Identification of A Woman & Island of Lost Souls (which for some reason is on the main page but not the "Coming Soon" page)--all standard & blu, plus Harakiri & Salo on blu.

Also: Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys

D'oh! Silly me missed the tiny "page two button", where Island... & a Dazed and Confused blu are listed.

Belle de jour hinted in the newest email newsletter.

my god the double disc Sweet Smell of Success is a thing of beauty.