The Criterion Collection

[HipsterTrash]

Originally Posted by traths

I wonder if the Criterion digipack is going out of print and it will be released in a regular clear plastic case.

Box set perhaps?

[apricissimus]

It's strange to me that anyone would prefer digipacks. But I expect that they're more expensive to produce, so I guess Criterion must be thinking that they're meeting a real market desire?

Even more perplexing is one-off packaging types, like the Citizen Kane gatefold thing. Do they really think that the unusual packaging is going to be so appealing that it's going to offset the additional cost?

[Smegma]

Originally Posted by apricissimus

Even more perplexing is one-off packaging types, like the Citizen Kane gatefold thing. Do they really think that the unusual packaging is going to be so appealing that it's going to offset the additional cost?

It's so unappealing to me, that I've held off on purchasing Citizen Kane and Trainspotting 4ks, waiting for a switch to regular packaging. So it's costing them sales as well.

[hoytereden]

I think opening the puzzle box in Hellraiser was easier than trying to open the Citizen Kane packaging.

[Scottie]

Chiara Mastroianni’s Closet Picks - YouTube

[busaikuknee]

Originally Posted by apricissimus

It's strange to me that anyone would prefer digipacks. But I expect that they're more expensive to produce, so I guess Criterion must be thinking that they're meeting a real market desire?

Even more perplexing is one-off packaging types, like the Citizen Kane gatefold thing. Do they really think that the unusual packaging is going to be so appealing that it's going to offset the additional cost?

I appreciated the Guillermo Del Toro blu ray set packaging but that was about it as far as the "oooh look how clever the box is" goes for me.

[Querelle]

I would say I prefer digipaks, but I think that goes back to the days of collecting CDs. I always got more excited about a digipak; jewel cases were dull because they were much more commonplace. I like the digipaks where there's a place to put the booklet, though. It's annoying if the booklet is just kinda floating

[Scottie]

John Lithgow’s Closet Picks - YouTube

[NeoNical]

I hope to see a closet video of Geordie Greep, though I don't know if every person visiting the closet gets a video. Julia Fox one should also be pretty interesting given the suitcase and all lol

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

I agree that I don't trust him, but he was just echoing what Lynch's own producer Sabrina Sutherland had been saying earlier this year. She said that she was hoping he would come back to it in some fashion, but he was in his art and music mode. (And it's clear Lynch didn't think he was going to die soon, because he was apparently booking Zoom engagements into the spring.)

They DID pass on his animated film Snootworld, but by all accounts, the Netflix project interrupted by COVID sounded like a plausible concern by most participants, even with the emphysema difficulties.

Sadly, even with the emphysema, I think he was doing fine until the fires. Sometimes when you're sick the slightest little thing can literally kill you, and that last shock from the fires, that last awful drop in air quality, was probably the final straw for him health-wise, and he just couldn't take it.

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

That's great. When I was a teenager in the dark ages before cable my only chance to see non-comedy silent films was on the local PBS station in Chicago. They would run them on Saturday afternoons under the listing: "MISC. SILENT MOVIES."

The only time I remember this was in roughly 2014-2015, when one of my PBS stations WYBE played endless Charlie Chaplin movies. They were all sourced from awful prints, and I forget exactly which ones they were, but I remember loving them and wanting to see everything he did. Probably my first silent movies that I watched end-to-end.

Originally Posted by traths

The Elephant Man is currently unavailable everywhere. The Criterion and Barnes and Noble websites don't have it either.

Worst case scenario, that contract is ending. The film already has a 4K release overseas, so there's a 99% chance it gets one here, either from Paramount, Paramount Presents, Criterion, or another boutique.

Originally Posted by traths

I wonder if the Criterion digipack is going out of print and it will be released in a regular clear plastic case.

Originally Posted by dwk

This is entirely possible, especially if they are planning on releasing it on UHD.

Originally Posted by Maxflier

God, I hope so. I loathe digipacks.

Originally Posted by Querelle

I would say I prefer digipaks, but I think that goes back to the days of collecting CDs. I always got more excited about a digipak; jewel cases were dull because they were much more commonplace. I like the digipaks where there's a place to put the booklet, though. It's annoying if the booklet is just kinda floating

Digibooks and Digipacks are okay if one, there's a standard option available day-and-date, and two, the Digibook/Digipack is competently designed. WHV, for example, had tons of them. Off the top of my head, there's A Clockwork Orange, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Color Purple, Bonnie And Clyde, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest...there's hundreds just from WHV. The discs frequently left a lot to be desired, but the Digibooks were great.

Criterion's Digipacks, on the other hand, are abject disasters. I remember when I opened The Silence Of The Lambs, I was shocked at how utterly stupid the box was. If you leave the book in the box, it messes up the book. If you take the book out, it messes up the box. And there's dozens of other releases like this from Criterion, if not hundreds.

Oh, and All About Eve? That one took the cake.

When I get my stuff together, I might seriously start designing standard case variants for Criterions. I've been meaning to get Freaks for over a year now, and I'm 99% sure the case is the exact same as TSOTL.

Oh, and Querelle's username reminds me, when is that going to be remastered? That disc may have been DVD of the year in 2006, but that is not even almost good for a Blu-ray released in 2024.

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

Box set perhaps?

It's probably between a Lynch box set and a Kubrick box set for my most wanted set from an American filmmaker. Hopefully Criterion will make it happen.

I really hope a Twin Peaks 4K happens soon.

Originally Posted by apricissimus

It's strange to me that anyone would prefer digipacks. But I expect that they're more expensive to produce, so I guess Criterion must be thinking that they're meeting a real market desire?

Even more perplexing is one-off packaging types, like the Citizen Kane gatefold thing. Do they really think that the unusual packaging is going to be so appealing that it's going to offset the additional cost?

Originally Posted by Smegma

It's so unappealing to me, that I've held off on purchasing Citizen Kane and Trainspotting 4ks, waiting for a switch to regular packaging. So it's costing them sales as well.

Originally Posted by hoytereden

I think opening the puzzle box in Hellraiser was easier than trying to open the Citizen Kane packaging.

While I admittedly don't have Trainspotting or Hellraiser, the Citizen Kane 4K package was an abject disaster, and whoever made it should be fired. That box should've never left the factory.

It would likely be easier to translate the Rosetta Stone than it is to extricate those discs from the box.

Between the stupidity of the box in general, the demand for the title, the stature of the title, and it's significance in all ways, it was easily the worst package of the year, and one of the worst of all time.

[Gacivory]

Janus & Sideshow picked up Ira Sach’s film, Peter Hujar’s Day!

https://www.indiewire.com/news/festi...ld-1235086958/

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by Scottie

Janus is promoting the 4K restoration of Picnic at Hanging Rock

No one has made it clear whether this is a brand new 4K restoration or the same one from 2023 that's been DNR'd to death.

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by jshaide

The chaos if Criterion does Emilia Perez would be worth the spine.

I genuinely think we are more likely to see a Criterion release of BLONDE, which I would 100% buy day one. Controversial take, but a stone-cold masterpiece.

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Besides Nickel Boys, I'd say The Seed of the Sacred Fig (NEON) and Emilia Pérez (Netflix) are two other possibilities.

I'd definitely bet on SACRED FIG happening this summer, similar to PERFECT DAYS last year.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

Sadly, even with the emphysema, I think he was doing fine until the fires. Sometimes when you're sick the slightest little thing can literally kill you, and that last shock from the fires, that last awful drop in air quality, was probably the final straw for him health-wise, and he just couldn't take it.

I think you’re on the money. My feeling is he was basically homebound bc of how little it would take to hurt his lungs, but he was healthy on the whole. As someone with bronchial issues, I know how little crap in the air it can take to just wallop you, and I don’t have anything close to emphysema. Losing him at all - but especially like this - may never stop breaking my heart.

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by jshaide

The chaos if Criterion does Emilia Perez would be worth the spine.

Even funnier if they did it now.

[DrBabylon]

Anyone else think (or hope) that the Flash Sale will coincide with the release of Performance 4K on the 25th?

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by MovieBuff647

No one has made it clear whether this is a brand new 4K restoration or the same one from 2023 that's been DNR'd to death.

99.9% sure it's the existing restoration.

[latehong]

Originally Posted by MovieBuff647

No one has made it clear whether this is a brand new 4K restoration or the same one from 2023 that's been DNR'd to death.

Judging by the trailer Janus released last month to promote it, it's the same master.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK - 4K Restoration Trailer - YouTube

It was Peter Weir who wanted the DNRed look during the restoration. I would be surprised if Janus prepared and released yet another restoration master against the director's wishes.

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by latehong

Judging by the trailer Janus released last month to promote it, it's the same master.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK - 4K Restoration Trailer - YouTube

It was Peter Weir who wanted the DNRed look during the restoration. I would be surprised if Janus prepared and released yet another restoration master against the director's wishes.

If that's what he did with that film I shudder thinking about what he would to do with a Blu-Ray release of The Year of Living Dangerously, which is one of my favorite Mel Gibson films of all time. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up doing that to Master and Commander too. I really hope he doesn't end up putting out bad DNR restorations of those films as well. Not to mention The Mosquito Coast as well another one of his films still missing on Blu-Ray.

[bonehica]

Originally Posted by DrBabylon

Anyone else think (or hope) that the Flash Sale will coincide with the release of Performance 4K on the 25th?

My hunch is the 18th. Charlie Chaplin and Godzilla are a formidable duo.