The Criterion Collection

[latehong]

I don't have high hopes since Criterion cherry-picked Woman in the Dunes from the Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara DVD set, but maybe, just maybe...

[latehong]

Or I'd love a Blu upgrade of this.



Or a 4K upgrade of Seconds (I know, I know, the title itself doesn't have any facial features, but...), preferably with The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May as well, to complete John Frankenheimer's paranoia trilogy all at once.

[speedracer5]

Originally Posted by latehong

Or I'd love a Blu upgrade of this.



Or a 4K upgrade of Seconds (I know, I know, the title itself doesn't have any facial features, but...), preferably with The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May as well, to complete John Frankenheimer's paranoia trilogy all at once.

Ooh I didn't realize there was a second paranoia trilogy. I have all these films too. Good to know, thank you!

[lamotta]

Pretty Striking Artwork for the "Eyes Wide Shut" cover

[NeilZ]

Originally Posted by latehong

I don't have high hopes since Criterion cherry-picked Woman in the Dunes from the Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara DVD set, but maybe, just maybe...

Long overdue.

[sherlockjr]

Originally Posted by speedracer5

Fingers crossed for somebody to release a blu ray/4k of "Red Headed Woman" and "Red Dust" !

Feltenstein has very recently said--on the WAC "Extras" podcast--that Warner Archive is currently working on several Jean Harlow releases. The BEAST OF THE CITY release is just the first of several.

RED DUST and RED HEADED WOMAN would both be pretty obvious ones to work on releasing. If the archived film elements are in good enough shape for a quality BD.

[joshinminn]

I’m going to blind-buy the Eclipse in the sale. Seems like a pretty reasonable price for 17 pictures across three discs. This is newly issued, right? It’ll be interesting to see how often they roll out reissues and new entries.

[Areyakiddin]

Criterion has released/announced quite a few of the Universal-owned movies that were in the past frequently rumored to be with them this year:
Winchester '73
Midnight
Hell's Angels
...And the four Lubitsch musicals that Criterion released on DVD are on the way.

Trying to figure out what's left that's been speculated to be with Criterion in the past:
Trouble in Paradise
Ruggles of Red Gap
Hail the Conquering Hero
Lady in the Dark(?)
A Time to Love and A Time to Die

Anything else that I'm forgetting?

[latehong]

Originally Posted by joshinminn

I’m going to blind-buy the Eclipse in the sale. Seems like a pretty reasonable price for 17 pictures across three discs. This is newly issued, right? It’ll be interesting to see how often they roll out reissues and new entries.

Abbas Kiarostami is hands-down one of the greatest directors in the history of (modern) cinema, but if you want to test the waters before blind-buying the set (presuming you're not familiar with the director), Criterion Channel has his 12 shorts and 10 features right now, as well as many supplementary materials.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Areyakiddin

Criterion has released/announced quite a few of the Universal-owned movies that were in the past frequently rumored to be with them this year:
Winchester '73
Midnight
Hell's Angels
...And the four Lubitsch musicals that Criterion released on DVD are on the way.

Trying to figure out what's left that's been speculated to be with Criterion in the past:
Trouble in Paradise
Ruggles of Red Gap
Hail the Conquering Hero
Lady in the Dark(?)
A Time to Live and A Time to Die

Anything else that I'm forgetting?

Specific films - Captain Blood, Lolita, and O Lucky Man! are the biggest.

Criterion Premieres - Caught by the Tides, Cloud, It's Not Me, The Love That Remains, Magellan, Peter Hujar's Day, Resurrection, Two Prosecutors

Czech films - Criterion had a 30 film deal, and they haven't released that many yet. The Cassandra Cat should have been out already. I expect the rest of the deal will be backfilled with upgrades of "Pearls" Eclipse set and the Milos Forman films.

Dual-Format re-releases (DVD dropped) - A Brief History of Time, The Freshman, The Great Beauty, Judex, Jules and Jim, Like Someone in Love, The Long Day Closes, Master of the House, Il Sorpasso

Eclipse Series - Lubitsch and Saura upgrades, new releases of Kazuo Hara/Sachiko Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Ruben Ostlund

Jia Zhangke - box set with Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World, and Still Life

Kino 4K re-releases - 12 Angry Men, Dressed to Kill, The Great Escape, Killer's Kiss, The Killing, The Manchurian Candidate, The Night of the Hunter, Paths of Glory

Michael Haneke - box set with Three Paths of the Lake, Lemmings 1/2, and The Rebellion

World Cinema Project - basically everything not yet released so far.

There are loads more rumored titles. I highly suggest checking out the Criterion Forum as they've been pretty thorough throughout the years. I'll eventually get around to browsing all their posts, compiling a list, and posting sources/attributing credit where due, but that won't be for some time.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by joshinminn

I’m going to blind-buy the Eclipse in the sale. Seems like a pretty reasonable price for 17 pictures across three discs. This is newly issued, right? It’ll be interesting to see how often they roll out reissues and new entries.

Just saying, a number of them are short films; this is essentially a 3-BD set. But yeah a very reasonable price to get a sense of the early works of a master.

[Areyakiddin]

Originally Posted by Scottie

Specific films - Captain Blood, Lolita, and O Lucky Man! are the biggest.

Criterion Premieres - Caught by the Tides, Cloud, It's Not Me, The Love That Remains, Magellan, Peter Hujar's Day, Resurrection, Two Prosecutors

Czech films - Criterion had a 30 film deal, and they haven't released that many yet. The Cassandra Cat should have been out already. I expect the rest of the deal will be backfilled with upgrades of "Pearls" Eclipse set and the Milos Forman films.

Dual-Format re-releases (DVD dropped) - A Brief History of Time, The Freshman, The Great Beauty, Judex, Jules and Jim, Like Someone in Love, The Long Day Closes, Master of the House, Il Sorpasso

Eclipse Series - Lubitsch and Saura upgrades, new releases of Kazuo Hara/Sachiko Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Ruben Ostlund

Jia Zhangke - box set with Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World, and Still Life

Kino 4K re-releases - 12 Angry Men, Dressed to Kill, The Great Escape, Killer's Kiss, The Killing, The Manchurian Candidate, The Night of the Hunter, Paths of Glory

Michael Haneke - box set with Three Paths of the Lake, Lemmings 1/2, and The Rebellion

World Cinema Project - basically everything not yet released so far.

There are loads more rumored titles. I highly suggest checking out the Criterion Forum as they've been pretty thorough throughout the years. I'll eventually get around to browsing all their posts, compiling a list, and posting sources/attributing credit where due, but that won't be for some time.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I was referring to movies licensed to Criterion from Universal specifically.

On the subject, I just remembered that both Cape Fear movies are rumored to be with Criterion as well.

[Sifox211]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

The last seven months have been pretty chaotic.

[Show spoiler]My father slipped on black ice while out walking our dog in January, and suffered a traumatic brain injury. After rallying, he passed away in mid May after COVID, and a UTI from an incorrect catheter insertion exploded into kidney damage and bilateral pneumonia. My entire focus over that time has been taking care of my family, so movies and collecting movies has taken a back seat.

But while I miss him tremendously-he was my example of what a man should be, and my North Star, really-life has begun again. When I was at my lowest point, and just trying to help my Mom through his passing after nearly sixty years together, God sent me a beautiful Colombian angel; she is incredibly supportive, and has taken to my love of film, so I am thinking about things like the Criiterion Collection again.

The incredible healing power of art, and community, is precisely what I have been needing, so I am happy to be back here again with all of you.

Welcome back! Sorry to hear about your dad. It's bad enough when they pass away but for it to be partially due to medical mistakes is galling. Almost the same thing happened to my father in law - incorrectly administered drugs caused kidney failure which led to a swift decline. (It happened in a Glasgow hospital nicknamed "Suddenlys" - due to the number of newspaper notices that begin "Suddenly passed away...").

[hawkikwah]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

So in for Él. Loving the Mexican films. Give me all of Buñuel’s Mexican films, maybe even an Eclipse set.

Yeah just saw El in the theater over the weekend. Really whet my appetite to see some more from his Mexican period, which don’t seem that steadily available for the most part. They seem to be either only on vhs or import dvd’s.

But does anyone got any recs or faves from the Bunel Mexi era?

[hawkikwah]

And speaking of EWS, curious about and whats going on w SK13: Kubrick's Endgame directed by Tony Ziera, who previously did FILMWORKER, the Leon Vitali doc.

[Vinyl]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

I wasn’t aware, thank you! I have had Double Whoopee on my DVR forever. I’m going to watch it tonight to whet my appetite.

The last seven months have been pretty chaotic. My father slipped on black ice while out walking our dog in January, and suffered a traumatic brain injury. After rallying, he passed away in mid May after COVID, and a UTI from an incorrect catheter insertion exploded into kidney damage and bilateral pneumonia. My entire focus over that time has been taking care of my family, so movies and collecting movies has taken a back seat.

But while I miss him tremendously-he was my example of what a man should be, and my North Star, really-life has begun again. When I was at my lowest point, and just trying to help my Mom through his passing after nearly sixty years together, God sent me a beautiful Colombian angel; she is incredibly supportive, and has taken to my love of film, so I am thinking about things like the Criiterion Collection again.

The incredible healing power of art, and community, is precisely what I have been needing, so I am happy to be back here again with all of you.

Welcome back to the club! I was wondering why I hadn’t seen your posts in a long while. Glad you are coming out of your chaotic times. That time in life is rough, but it makes people grow stronger. It sounds like you are already feeling mentally stronger. I lost my dad a few years ago and it took me two years to truly understand how amazing a parent and person he was, even if he was always perceived as a bit gruff.

This last few months has been a huge boon, physical media-wise, to some of us - capped off by this new announcement of November releases. Criterion has really been shining this year.

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by Areyakiddin

A Time to Live and A Time to Die

Are you referring to the Sirk film?

[gekats]

Originally Posted by hawkikwah

Yeah just saw El in the theater over the weekend. Really whet my appetite to see some more from his Mexican period, which don’t seem that steadily available for the most part. They seem to be either only on vhs or import dvd’s.

But does anyone got any recs or faves from the Bunel Mexi era?

You might already be aware, but just wanted to highlight the Radiance collection Nothing is sacred, which brings together Bunuel’s last three Mexican films. If you haven’t checked it out yet, it's well worth your attention.

As for recommendations, Simon of the desert is probably my personal favourite, not just from his Mexican films, but from all of Bunuel’s work. It’s short, strange, and completely unforgettable. Los Olvidados might be the most powerful of his Mexican films though (and the most popular, I guess), at least from the ones I've had the chance to see.

And if you're into Dario Argento, don’t skip The criminal life of Archibaldo de la Cruz and pay close attention to the music: some surprising musical quotations from there might catch your ear.

[Brad1963]

It has been an endless wait for Hud on Blu-ray in the U.S. I really thought November would be the month with a 4k release. Now I am thinking December?

[Areyakiddin]

Originally Posted by MovieBuff647

Are you referring to the Sirk film?

Yes, despite my late-night typo.