The Criterion Collection

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by Areyakiddin

These are the lists I've seen in the past:

Thanks so currently what has been released from both lists so far are these titles.
Pat Garrett
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bringing Up Baby
Dreams
Round Midnight
Arsenic and Old Lace
I Walked with a Zombie
Gummo
The 7th Victim
Lone Star
Mean Streets
Barry Lyndon
The Roaring Twenties
The Philadelphia Story
Plus everything else from that second list that was already confirmed previously

Not confirmed yet
I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
O Lucky Man
The Year of Living Dangerously
Petulia
The Lusty Men
Captain Blood
Scaramouche

So that leaves us with 7 titles not confirmed yet. I find it highly unlikely that this is a coincidence at this point. I wonder what titles from this list will get confirmed next. I'm betting on The Year of Living Dangerously, and Captain Blood, plus I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, and also possibly O Lucky Man! to be confirmed next.

[aladdin123]

What label do you think will eventually release UHDs of Warner titles like The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Big Sleep, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, White Heat, Strangers on a Train, Forbidden Planet, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter?

WAC? WHV? Criterion? Arrow?

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by aladdin123

What label do you think will eventually release UHDs of Warner titles like The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Big Sleep, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, White Heat, Strangers on a Train, Forbidden Planet, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter?

WAC? WHV? Criterion? Arrow?

Almost certainly nobody for most of those.

[Areyakiddin]

Originally Posted by Watershipdownisgood

[Show spoiler]Thanks so currently what has been released from both lists so far are these titles.
Pat Garrett
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bringing Up Baby
Dreams
Round Midnight
Arsenic and Old Lace
I Walked with a Zombie
Gummo
The 7th Victim
Lone Star
Mean Streets
Barry Lyndon
The Roaring Twenties
The Philadelphia Story
Plus everything else from that second list that was already confirmed previously

Not confirmed yet
I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
O Lucky Man
The Year of Living Dangerously
Petulia
The Lusty Men
Captain Blood
Scaramouche

So that leaves us with 7 titles not confirmed yet. I find it highly unlikely that this is a coincidence at this point. I wonder what titles from this list will get confirmed next. I'm betting on The Year of Living Dangerously, and Captain Blood, plus I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, and also possibly O Lucky Man! to be confirmed next.

I know it won't happen, but a Mervyn LeRoy Pre-code crime boxset with I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Five Star Final, Three on a Match, and maybe a new remaster of Little Caesar from Criterion would be pretty cool.

[aladdin123]

Originally Posted by koberulz

Almost certainly nobody for most of those.

You think most of those titles won't ever have UHDs? Which ones, and why? I think almost all titles I mentioned are only a matter of when, not if. By far the most unlikely of those is Ryan's Daughter.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by aladdin123

You think most of those titles won't ever have UHDs? Which ones, and why? I think almost all titles I mentioned are only a matter of when, not if. By far the most unlikely of those is Ryan's Daughter.

WAC is only doing a handful of UHDs a year, only for absolute top-tier stuff, so that rules them out for Treasure, Heat, and Planet. Being a Hitchcock might get Strangers over the line, and I wouldn't rule out Sleep entirely but I would be very surprised to see that come from WAC. I'm not familiar with Daughter, does that one have source issues? Zhivago probably isn't big enough to crack the UHD category at WAC either.

That leaves a boutique for those, and I don't see there being the right combo of boutique interest, Warner interest, and market demand getting many of them over the line. Sleep and Strangers, maybe—though they may be more likely to be in that awkward spot where they're not big enough for Warners to do directly but too big to licence out*—but I doubt you'd see Treasure or Heat, personally.

Warners having loosened up on licensing of late is the obvious wildcard here, so they might be more likely to come from boutiques than they would have been a couple of years ago but I would be shocked if we got more than a couple of them from Warners direct.


*I know they licenced Kane, but they also did a UHD themselves for international markets and I'm not sure the same approach would fly with those films, so it would potentially be a case of them only having boutique releases which makes it a bit different.