The Criterion Collection

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by jayembee

I'd agree that Alien³ is Fincher's worst, but I quite liked his version of Dragon Tattoo. Even preferred it to Oplev's original. With the caveat that I haven't seen The Social Network yet (and don't plan to), I'd say the only film of his other than Alien³ that I don't like unreservedly is Gone Girl.

I think you are missing big time not seeing The Social Network, but maybe not so much if you didn't liked Gone Girl

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

I think you are missing big time not seeing The Social Network, but maybe not so much if you didn't liked Gone Girl

It's just that I have absolutely no interest in seeing a movie about Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook.

I didn't dislike Gone Girl, I just didn't like it much, either.

[Oscar Rothman]

A Brighter Summer Day...about time!

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by jayembee

It's just that I have absolutely no interest in seeing a movie about Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook.

I didn't dislike Gone Girl, I just didn't like it much, either.

I could care less about Facebook or Zuckerberg, but The Social Network is fantastic. I also didn't care for Gone Girl.

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I could care less about Facebook or Zuckerberg, but The Social Network is fantastic. I also didn't care for Gone Girl.

Yeah, I didn't watch it for Zuckerberg, watched for Fincher, same with Steve Jobs, although I haven't seen that yet, it's Danny Boyle

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

Yeah, I didn't watch it for Zuckerberg, watched for Fincher, same with Steve Jobs, although I haven't seen that yet, it's Danny Boyle

I don't care for Steve Jobs, Apple, or Danny Boyle, but I will definitely see it for Fassbender.

[Namuhana]

Hmm, I found The Social Network to be incredibly boring, but I really enjoy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl.

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I don't care for Steve Jobs, Apple, or Danny Boyle, but I will definitely see it for Fassbender.

Well as they say on The Rules of the Game:

Everyone has their reasons

Fassbender is certainly a plus for me too, but not enough to watch Centurion

[CriterionBlues]

I love when someone quotes The Rules of the Game.

Also, guess what? I love all the phantom pages and buying them all!

[substance]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Sorry, but that's like asking for the results of next November's US elections. There isn't anybody here (or possibly even at Criterion itself) that can say for certain what will or won't be released down the road.

Generally speaking, the only reason any Criterion title goes OOP is because Criterion lost the rights to it. And while it's possible that they might re-acquire the rights (it's happened, but not often), chances are they won't. So I wouldn't count on any of their OOP titles coming back. It's actually happened more often with titles they originally had on laserdisc, but never put out on DVD than with DVD-only titles that went OOP.

I was looking for a speculation more like in your second paragraph. They still have more than 120 titles on Laserdisc which didn't make it to DVD. I have some of them. DVD OOP titles are about 60 and majority of them are Studio Canal. StudioCanal collection releases seems have slowed down a lot, maybe they don't want to be their own criterion anymore and let CC release their titles like used to. I remember reading CC was very close to releasing Ran on BD, they even had the master ready but StudioCanal decided to release it on its own in StudioCanal collection. CC later released Kagemusha instead.

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by SkyAntoine

What is the earliest a film has been released on Criterion following the original studio release? I thought there has always been a 3 year plan on other titles (i.e Moonrise, Llewyn Davis).

No surprise it is coming, but I wouldn't expect until 2017.

Inside Llewyn Davis wasn't actually that long either. The first disc came out March 2014, so its just under two years old when the Criterion hits.

[pedromvu]

It's weird that Criterion being so secretive, is having all these early phantom pages like last month, maybe no one there reads this thread? or maybe they are just doing it for films that will not be announced tomorrow to confuse us?

Either way we will know tomorrow, 4 titles so far, the other has to be an upgrade.

[pedromvu]

About A Brighter Summer Day

Originally Posted by SkyAntoine

Goo! 237 minutes?

I bet it will be one of those rare 2 disc releases, unless they plan to not have any supplements.

[diskspinner]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

About A Brighter Summer Day



I bet it will be one of those rare 2 disc releases, unless they plan to not have any supplements.

Only today I was reading the entry of 'A Brighter Summer Day' in that 1001 movies you must see before you die book...and there it is...

[buffetfroid]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I may be in the minority on this, but I don't really consider Night of The Hunter to be film noir.

...at least not in the traditional sense as I personally view the genre.

I'm with you

[MifuneFan]

Scottie stop ruining Christmas

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

Well as they say on The Rules of the Game:

Everyone has their reasons

Fassbender is certainly a plus for me too, but not enough to watch Centurion

Hah. I saw Centurion on Netflix, not just for Fassbender, but several other people I like in the cast. I liked it well enough, but don't have a strong desire to revisit it.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by substance

I was looking for a speculation more like in your second paragraph. They still have more than 120 titles on Laserdisc which didn't make it to DVD. I have some of them.

The problem there is that because LDs were a niche format, the studios weren't as invested in it, and were happy to license titles out to Criterion. When DVD came out of the gate running, the studios felt that it was in their better interests to release their catalogs themselves instead. So Criterion didn't retain the rights for a lot of those titles for DVD. Plus, at the time, all of the MGM and pre-1949 Warner films were owned by Ted Turner and controlled (on home video) by MGM/UA, who were happy to license to Criterion. Once Turner sold his library to Time Warner, Criterion lost the rights, and aren't likely to get them back.

DVD OOP titles are about 60 and majority of them are Studio Canal. StudioCanal collection releases seems have slowed down a lot, maybe they don't want to be their own criterion anymore and let CC release their titles like used to. I remember reading CC was very close to releasing Ran on BD, they even had the master ready but StudioCanal decided to release it on its own in StudioCanal collection. CC later released Kagemusha instead.

The problem here is that StudioCanal decided that they wanted to license the US rights to their entire catalog at once to a single company. Criterion didn't want to do that, preferring to license specific titles individually. StudioCanal ended up making a deal with Lionsgate. Lionsgate dropped out a number of titles early on, but obviously they didn't sell enough copies to keep at it.

Word is that Lionsgate is more interested in digital platform distribution of the StudioCanal titles than physical media, so it's unclear what that would mean in terms of Criterion being able to reacquire the rights to specific titles. Again, I wouldn't count on that happening.

[Akijama]

They are releasing Boyhood before, well...Before trilogy?

That probably means that The Before Trilogy will be released in Q4; hopefully not in '17.

[Ray Jackson]

Not trying to ruffle any feathers here, but I think Boyhood is the most overrated movie of the last ten years.

Maybe even the last 20 years.

Admirable concept...mediocre result.