The Criterion Collection

[MifuneFan]

Vermiglio (2024) (Janus Contemporaries)

Release Date: August 26, 2025

https://www.criterion.com/films/34803-vermiglio

Secrets swirl beneath the surface of a remote Italian community in Maura Delpero’s exquisite wartime drama, winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. In a majestic Alpine village touched only faintly by the upheavals of modern life, a strict schoolteacher’s family undergoes a profound shift when a mysterious Sicilian soldier arrives fleeing the front lines of World War II. As the seasons change, the family’s three very different daughters will each find their lives transformed. Blending historically grounded realism with painterly grace, Delpero draws from her own family’s history for an at once intimate and momentous vision of a world suspended between the patriarchal past and the stirrings of a new future.

INCLUDES

• Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Maura Delpero
• Trailer

VERMIGLIO - Official Trailer - YouTube

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by fred25_Ca

I really hope we don't get another Kurosawa blu ray to UHD upgrade. How about those that never got a blu ray in the first place, like Stray dog or Drunken Angel? I've been waiting for those for 15 years now. High and Low's blu ray still looks wonderful.

I'm with you. The one I really want to see is The Bad Sleep Well, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, and Red Beard next. Almost 100% the next release will be High and Low, and I'm actually still pretty happy with the current Blu-ray and the 4K master isn't enough of an improvement for me to jump on it.

[HipsterTrash]

Originally Posted by dwk

Oh yeah, August's announcements are next week. I'll predict:

High and Low UHD upgrade
Compensation
Saving Face
Point Blank
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Kenji Misumi's Sword Trilogy

I'll vibe into existence: more Scorsese and more Wes Anderson.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by dwk

Oh yeah, August's announcements are next week. I'll predict:

Kenji Misumi's Sword Trilogy

Getting this and the second Shinobi No Mono set in August would be bonkers and I would love it. Six Raizo films in a month would be a dream come true.

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

more Wes Anderson.

Yeah, really, the poor guy's been so marginalized by the label.

[Sommerswerd]

Speaking of Kurosawa, for it's 40th anniversary Ran is getting a re-release in select theaters starting on May 23rd: https://www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/ran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5_rAEEIYMw

[NeoNical]

My theater announced the 40th anniversary screenings for Ran a week or two ago but this post helped me to remember to get my tickets for the screening! This is admittedly one of the few classics that I could never get into but the last time I saw this (And my only time) was the old 2002 Fox Lorber DVD with the weird aspect ratio (One of the worst looking DVDs I've ever watched alongside the original Sorcerer).

Hopefully, this rewatch of this film with a 4K restoration I still have yet to watch (Despite owning the Best Buy Steelbook) will make me a fan of the movie.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by NeoNical

My theater announced the 40th anniversary screenings for Ran a week or two ago but this post helped me to remember to get my tickets for the screening! This is admittedly one of the few classics that I could never get into but the last time I saw this (And my only time) was the old 2002 Fox Lorber DVD with the weird aspect ratio (One of the worst looking DVDs I've ever watched alongside the original Sorcerer).

Hopefully, this rewatch of this film with a 4K restoration I still have yet to watch (Despite owning the Best Buy Steelbook) will make me a fan of the movie.

I think it took me at least 2 viewings to really appreciate it. I've seen it several times now, including the restoration twice in theaters, and I consider it a late masterpiece for Kurosawa. It's definitely a slow-burn kind of film, and quite theatrical/stagey given the Shakespearean framework behind it, so I can understand why it doesn't click with some people.

[Bolo Seagull]

The gates of Disney starting to open up combined with the clout of Scorsese has boosted my hopes for 'The Color of Money'. Other random guesses are
'The Crying Game'
' The Cincinnati Kid'
'Gozu'
'Sid and Nancy' 4k upgrade

[RevolverOcelScott]

Originally Posted by fred25_Ca

I'm sure you're also impatiently waiting for Stray dog, judging by your avatar. :P
Yeah, I hadn't realised how great the new 4k master looked, I might cave too lol (I'm a sucker for Kurosawa, probably my favorite director of all time). Still, I really wished Toho would have put the priority on the other ones. It is what it is, at least something is finally happening with Kurosawa.

Stray Dog and Red Beard have been insanely neglected. I REALLY hope we get some 4K releases of those. Skip Blu, move right up.

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I think it took me at least 2 viewings to really appreciate it. I've seen it several times now, including the restoration twice in theaters, and I consider it a late masterpiece for Kurosawa. It's definitely a slow-burn kind of film, and quite theatrical/stagey given the Shakespearean framework behind it, so I can understand why it doesn't click with some people.

It definitely clicked with me I'm a fan of Shakespeare plays minus Romeo and Juliet so while it was super long it was an amazing masterpiece. I really need to pick up that 4K that Studio Canal released in the US a few years ago as I still have the old Blu-Ray.

[HenryHill]

Originally Posted by NeoNical

My theater announced the 40th anniversary screenings for Ran a week or two ago but this post helped me to remember to get my tickets for the screening! This is admittedly one of the few classics that I could never get into but the last time I saw this (And my only time) was the old 2002 Fox Lorber DVD with the weird aspect ratio (One of the worst looking DVDs I've ever watched alongside the original Sorcerer).

Hopefully, this rewatch of this film with a 4K restoration I still have yet to watch (Despite owning the Best Buy Steelbook) will make me a fan of the movie.

You have such a treat in store! RAN is one of my top 5 Kurosawa films, not merely a late career resurgence but an all-time great film. It's based both on King Lear and on real Japanese history from the Sengoku era, and the makeup for Lord Hidetora and Lady Kaede were drawn from Noh masks. I saw it in the theater back in 1985 and I promised myself I would visit Japan one day--and a decade later I did! I spent a day at one of the filming locations, Himeji Castle.

Current Top 5 Kurosawa films:
1. Seven Samurai
2. Ikiru
3. Kagemusha
4. Ran
5. Yojimbo

[aladdin123]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

I'm with you. The one I really want to see is The Bad Sleep Well, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, and Red Beard next. Almost 100% the next release will be High and Low, and I'm actually still pretty happy with the current Blu-ray and the 4K master isn't enough of an improvement for me to jump on it.

What? The 4K master is easily one of the biggest leaps in quality I have ever seen! The Criterion blu-ray is borderline unwatchable for me, it has horrendous black crush and blown-out whites (every white shirt looks awful, there are DVDs that look better), the contrast is way too high, and the UHD's image is far more pleasing even without taking into account the extra detail. If the Toho UHD is not enough of an improvement to be worthy updating to, then there's no UHD release worth upgrading to and we might as well kill the format. For the movie itself, it is perhaps Kurosawa's greatest blocking, which means a lot, and it is wonderful to enjoy his compositions in such superior image quality.

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...212556&i=1&l=1

Also, many people for years strongly criticized and made fun of Criterion for being so reluctant to go for UHD. Look at the thread for the Do The Right Thing's UHD from Universal, it's filled with people mocking Criterion and calling them backwards for not having released the new 4K master as an UHD to begin with, for not having gotten into the UHD format yet. And even Criterion got into UHD, there were still regular criticisms that Criterion didn't release enough UHDs.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by aladdin123

What? The 4K master is easily one of the biggest leaps in quality I have ever seen! The Criterion blu-ray is borderline unwatchable for me, it has horrendous black crush and blown-out whites (every white shirt looks awful, there are DVDs that look better), the contrast is way too high, and the UHD's image is far more pleasing even without taking into account the extra detail. If the Toho UHD is not enough of an improvement to be worthy updating to, then there's no UHD release worth upgrading to and we might as well kill the format. For the movie itself, it is perhaps Kurosawa's greatest blocking, which means a lot, and it is wonderful to enjoy his compositions in such superior image quality.

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...212556&i=1&l=1

Also, many people for years strongly criticized and made fun of Criterion for being so reluctant to go for UHD. Look at the thread for the Do The Right Thing's UHD from Universal, it's filled with people mocking Criterion and calling them backwards for not having released the new 4K master as an UHD to begin with, for not having gotten into the UHD format yet. And even Criterion got into UHD, there were still regular criticisms that Criterion didn't release enough UHDs.

I don't know about all of that, but I will say I'm happy and content with the current Blu-ray of High and Low that I don't think the improvements warrant another purchase for me personally.

EDIT: Also to call the current BD nearly borderline unwatchable just seems like a bit of hyperbole. Not sure if you remember how the very first DVD of the film looked compared to this Blu-ray. I think it's a bit sad how good we have it right now, yet people will continue to find imperfections for the sake of it seems. I feel like trying to find an ever lasting satisfaction is like trying to find ever lasting happiness that will never happen. Technology will constantly evolve as well expectations to the find a perfect product that will never exist. What we have now is great if you think about it, but apparently what was good before is not good enough now.

[aladdin123]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

I don't know about all of that, but I will say I'm happy and content with the current Blu-ray of High and Low that I don't think the improvements warrant another purchase for me personally.

EDIT: Also to call the current BD nearly borderline unwatchable just seems like a bit of hyperbole. Not sure if you remember how the very first DVD of the film looked compared to this Blu-ray. I think it's a bit sad how good we have it right now, yet people will continue to find imperfections for the sake of it seems. I feel like trying to find an ever lasting satisfaction is like trying to find ever lasting happiness that will never happen. Technology will constantly evolve as well expectations to the find a perfect product that will never exist. What we have now is great if you think about it, but apparently what was good before is not good enough now.

There are many GREAT blu-rays. WAC and Indicator have so many of them. There are many great Criterion blu-rays too (Barry Lyndon immediately comes to mind). High And Low is not one of them.

For what being good before not being good enough now, that happens a lot in technology. DVDs were once upon a time good enough, but they look awful in modern OLEDs. Even blu-rays that looked decent in older LCDs, such as Batman The Animated Series, are now brutally exposed by OLEDs, showing many artifacts of bad encoding, such as banding and macroblocking.

You don't care about top quality as much as most users here do, and that's totally fine. An UHD with HDR can look truly incredible, so much nuance, it is perhaps the greatest improvement in picture quality since going from VHS to DVD (and B&W films benefit so much from HDR too, the grayscale becomes so much richer, almost like seeing copor in black and white). And even an SDR UHD can reproduce the texture of film like it was never possible before. Criterion's SDR UHDs of Seven Samurai and The Wages Of Fear come to mind, truly gorgeous. With all that said, I acknowledge that every top format has its snobs, it's no different than some PC gamers.

I admit I was hyperbolic regarding the Criterion blu of High And Low being "borderline unwatchable", but I stiĺl can't agree it looks wonderful. Much better blu-rays, such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Eyes Wide Shut, have been called awful in these forums. And the jump in quality from the blu-ray to the new 4K master of High And Low is as night and day as possible. It's such a gigantic jump, one of the greatest I've ever seen. The old blu-Ray has really whacked contrast, with awful black crush and overblown whites. Look at how much better all white shirts look in the new master, while they are all horribly nuked in the old BD.

Also, I believe that 4K HDR is the end of the line for most movies. The original negatives of 20th century movies, even 65mm, don't have any more detail beyond 4K, often not even 4K detail. A jump from 4K HDR to 8K HDR would not make sense at home, only in truly gigantic screens like the ones frok theaters. And even then, IMAX digital and Dolby Cinema are 4K. There are many movies that got 4K HDR transfers that we can safely call definitive or at least close enough that any new master could only offer marginal improvement, if that. Casablanca, Singin' In The Rain, Paths Of Glory, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, It's A Wonderful Life, My Fair Lady, Touch Of Evil, Fargo, Citizen Kane, Spartacus, The Wizard Of Oz, Days Of Heaven, The Last Picture Show, Anatomy Of A Murder, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot, Psycho, and I can go on...

Restoration technology has gotten to a point that it is disappointing when a transfer has easily avoidable flaws, such as the frozen grain halos in the new 4K masters of North By Northwest and The Searchers, though they are still such gigantic improvements over the old blu-ray, in regards to detail and even more when it comes to color, that I think no one should avoid buying them.

[CrimsonLegionVMCXIX]

I want Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Rashomon, and The Hidden Fortress in 4K. I don't care that they're upgrades. Hopefully they're released this year.

The one new to blu-ray Kurosawa release I would like is The Men who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, but it's not even a full length movie.

[Scottie]

Cloud added to Janus site.

https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2273

[eightslicesofpie]

After putting it on the Channel I now need Criterion (or SOMEBODY) to release Strange Days

[Gacivory]

4K Restoration of Christiane F. being presented by Janus Films

https://www.americancinematheque.com...iane-f-6-3-25/

The Sweet Hereafter also presented by Janus

https://www.americancinematheque.com...eafter-6-7-25/

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

4K Restoration of Christiane F. being presented by Janus Films

https://www.americancinematheque.com...iane-f-6-3-25/

The Sweet Hereafter also presented by Janus

https://www.americancinematheque.com...eafter-6-7-25/

Can't wait to watch Christiane F. for the first time.