The Criterion Collection

[ilenewoodsfan99]

Speaking back on Greed, it's definitely one that should have at least gotten a DVD over here in the US at some point. Here's hoping for a Blu Ray.

[ilenewoodsfan99]

Also, TCM is airing the restoration of Duel in the Sun. Considering Scorsese and his connection to this movie (which was a Film Foundation project), maybe Criterion could provide us with a physical release for it.

The major issue being that it's with Disney...

[deatharcana]

Originally Posted by ilenewoodsfan99

Also, TCM is airing the restoration of Duel in the Sun. Considering Scorsese and his connection to this movie (which was a Film Foundation project), maybe Criterion could provide us with a physical release for it.

The major issue being that it's with Disney...

I mean if anyone is going to be able to convince Disney to actually let people restore/release their movies, it's probably going to be Criterion. They're the only ones I can imagine that have enough "pull" to make it actually go through.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by deatharcana

I mean if anyone is going to be able to convince Disney to actually let people restore/release their movies, it's probably going to be Criterion. They're the only ones I can imagine that have enough "pull" to make it actually go through.

I believe the few cases of Disney produced movies coming out recently on Criterion is when the filmmakers have had some input in the process, like Andrew Stanton with Wall-E.

[MifuneFan]

The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/82...nty-five-years

Wes Anderson’s first ten features represent twenty-five years of irrepressible creativity, an ongoing ode to outsiders and quixotic dreamers, and a world unto themselves, graced with a mischievous wit and a current of existential melancholy that flows through every captivating frame. This momentous twenty-disc collector’s set includes new 4K masters of the films, over twenty-five hours of special features, and ten illustrated books, presented in a deluxe clothbound edition.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWENTY-DISC 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES

• New 4K digital masters of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, and The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• Ten 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and ten Blu-rays with the films and special features
• Over twenty-five hours of special features, including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photography, discussions/analyses, and visual essays
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: Essays by Richard Brody, James L. Brooks, Bilge Ebiri, Moeko Fujii, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Geoffrey O’Brien, Martin Scorsese, and Erica Wagner

Design by Beth Mathews

[MifuneFan]

Isle of Dogs 4K

https://www.criterion.com/films/34340-isle-of-dogs

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital master, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Anderson and actor Jeff Goldblum
• Feature-length storyboard animatic
• The Making of “Isle of Dogs,” featuring animators, puppet makers, modelers, sculptors, set dressers, illustrators, production designers, and more
• The Visual Comedy of “Isle of Dogs,” a video essay by filmmakers Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou
• Jupiter in the Studio, featuring actor F. Murray Abraham touring the set
• Animation tests, visual-effects breakdowns, and behind-the-scenes and time-lapse footage
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Moeko Fujii and a poster by cover artist Katsuhiro Otomo

Illustration by Katsuhiro Otomo

[edmoney]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

Has anyone heard anything at all about the film Greed?

I heard years ago that an original film source did not exist. I saw the film back in the 1980's at Jersey City State College (now the New Jersey City University) at a History of Films class that I experienced there. I have always hoped that it would someday make it to blu-ray disc. I know that a DVD exists, but it is in French, which while I studied in high school, challenges me fluently.

Any comments would be appreciated. Thank you!

In 2020 George Feltenstein said in WAC podcasts that "it’s going to take time and we can’t tell you when, but there are good things to look forward to with those three films" (referring to Greed, The Wind, and The Crowd) and also "I do believe that there will be something new to talk about in regard to this motion picture in the future" (referring to Greed). At least that was the thinking in 2020.

[MifuneFan]

The French Dispatch 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/3433...as-evening-sun

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital master supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Anderson and collaborators Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman
• Selected-scene storyboard animatic
• Behind the Scenes of “The French Dispatch”
• No Crying: How to Overcome Blasé Ennui, a visual essay featuring the writing of film scholar David Bordwell
• Episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour featuring Anderson, New Yorker editor David Remnick, and actor Jeffrey Wright
• The French Splatter-School Action-Group, an interview with artist Sandro Kopp, who created Moses Rosenthaler’s paintings in the film
• “Aline” by Jarvis Cocker, a music video directed by Anderson and illustrated by Javi Aznarez
• The French Dispatch reads the New Yorker, featuring Wright and actors Bill Murray, Stephen Park, Elisabeth Moss, Owen Wilson, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton reading excerpts from classic works associated with the New Yorker
• “The French Dispatch”: Miniature Unit Berlin
• Accidentally Angoulême, a tour of the French town where the movie was made, by the team behind Accidentally Wes Anderson
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Richard Brody; excerpts from the limited-edition magazine issue of The French Dispatch, published to promote the film, including historical and production dispatches by writer Alex Pasternack and further-reading recommendations from Anderson; and a poster by Javi Aznarez featuring the French Dispatch magazine covers created for the film

New illustration by Javi Aznarez

[Bradsdadg]

Let's gooooooo!!!!

[eightslicesofpie]

Super happy about Isle of Dogs and French Dispatch standalone releases! 4k is great but I'd rather keep all my old individual ones than spend the money (and awkward shelf space) upgrading them just to get the two new flicks lol

[bergman864]

Can't believe all 10 will be on 4k. I need to start squirreling away my pennies now for this.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by eightslicesofpie

Super happy about Isle of Dogs and French Dispatch standalone releases! 4k is great but I'd rather keep all my old individual ones than spend the money (and awkward shelf space) upgrading them just to get the two new flicks lol

Ha ha, fair enough. Though honestly, since I never got a set of World Books, this might just scratch my itch to set something imposing and classical on my bookshelf.

[KrugerIndustrial]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

[Show spoiler]

The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/82...nty-five-years

I hope we get a similar set for Kurosawa as well.

[JupiterMission]

I'm going to wait until I get the set, but my first thought was that it'd be cool ("cool") to give the whole set its own shelf and mix in some of my old hardcover books that looks science-y. Carl Sagan, geology textbook, etc. Maybe a little miniature globe too, if I can find one that has Zaire or Soviet Union.

And a little coat rack on the side of the shelf for my scarves and ascots. Of course, I'd have to pull some ascots from my Bogdanovich shelving since I only have so many. Hm. Well, plenty of time to figure it out before September.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by JupiterMission

I'm going to wait until I get the set, but my first thought was that it'd be cool ("cool") to give the whole set its own shelf and mix in some of my old hardcover books that looks science-y. Carl Sagan, geology textbook, etc. Maybe a little miniature globe too, if I can find one that has Zaire or Soviet Union.

And a little coat rack on the side of the shelf for my scarves and ascots. Of course, I'd have to pull some ascots from my Bogdanovich shelving since I only have so many. Hm. Well, plenty of time to figure it out before September.

That is a FANTASTIC idea.

[jshaide]

Art for the complete set more muted than I would’ve expected

[HipsterTrash]

Praise the Cinema God's. It's wonderful looking set. It's also hella expensive so good for you rich people.

But thank God the last two films in the set are getting solo releases. Here's to the rest showing up after that.

[taylort3]

Kind if them giving me a few months to fund my Wes Anderson boxset swear jar

[Ishai]

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

Praise the Cinema God's. It's wonderful looking set. It's also hella expensive so good for you rich people.

But thank God the last two films in the set are getting solo releases. Here's to the rest showing up after that.

Yes, it's expensive, but, $50 a movie is their MSRP for 4Ks so $500 MSRP for a 10 movie 4K boxset just means they're pricing it the same. No discount for the bundle, not overpricing for a collector's set.

[jshaide]

It’ll be like 250 two or three weeks later during the flash sale.