The Criterion Collection

[queen_kitty]

I'd love to see Hitchcock's Spellbound re-enter the collection with at least a blu-ray. And also, a few more off-the wall suggestions: Marie Antoinette (2006) on 4k and re-mastered bluray, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), and Top Hat (1935).

[FindOneInEveryCar]

Originally Posted by Winslow Leach

Yes! "Cape Feare" must be included, but it's with Fox unfortunately. One of the best episodes of the show!

"I will send you to heaven before I send you to hell!"

[Colonel Blimp]

Originally Posted by raphph

I am having a hunch that a 4K of Johnny Guitar is gonna be a Criterion release. Saw it in the cinema today at the BFI in London and the 4K that they sourced the Eureka UK bluray from is very good.

I just got the Olive DVD so I assume that will be announced today.

[shimmy]

4K upgrade?

[starman15317]

Eyes Wide Shut for November please!

[ophone]

Originally Posted by jt839

Napoleon Dynamite is also rumored to be coming at some point right?

I'm keeping myself from upgrading to vanilla Blu-ray because this very site here says there's an upcoming 4K release.

[javy]

House Party and Napoleon Dynamite? Seriously? Lol

[Yearbook]

Originally Posted by traths

I will definitely get it as long as it’s not that censored version.

I've seen (personally unverified) reports that the digital version has reverted to the uncensored theatrical cut, which bodes well for a future release.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by Yearbook

I've seen (personally unverified) reports that the digital version has reverted to the uncensored theatrical cut, which bodes well for a future release.

I believe its recent run on the Criterion Channel was uncensored.

[jt839]

Originally Posted by javy

House Party and Napoleon Dynamite? Seriously? Lol

Considering how much Wes Anderson they do, I see no problems with Criterion doing Napoleon Dynamite.

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by javy

House Party and Napoleon Dynamite? Seriously? Lol

House Party isn't one that does it for me but is a monumentally important film, broad accessible comedy or not. Black agency in mainstream film had until that point been very conditional - outside of underground film and blaxsploitation, even huge megastars like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy were often kept on a very short leash and when they attempted to hit out as writer-directors there was what felt like industry sabotage to paint them as egotists with an Icarus complex. House Party finally took what had been happening in music for decades and applied it to studio film - the result being an undiluted product of people answering to nobody except their own creative instincts, and the huge financial success of this approach massively changed the entertainment industry in terms of how people of colour were then able to kickstart their own projects.

Napoleon Dynamite (which is 21 years old now, thank you) typifies a group of films that represented the DVD boom, a fascinating bubble in Hollywood history in which leftfield indie films and mid-budget experiments were emboldened to exist and be greenlit, because the DVD releases became more important than their theatrical runs and were successful enough to make hits out of what otherwise would have been flops in any other era. As a result this created a good couple of dozen films which were objectively of a high quality, important for the revolution they represented, and absolutely are of a feel and standard that would qualify them for Criterion consideration - others might include Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, Superbad, Idiocracy, Sideways, Jennifer's Body, District 9, Lost In Translation, several Gondry films etc etc etc. Some of these films already are Criterions - Life Aquatic, Punch-Drunk Love! - and whether you like it or not this is an era of filmmaking which is going to feature more highly in the Criterion Collection in the coming years.

So, yeah, House Party and Napoleon Dynamite. Great choices.

[queen_kitty]

Originally Posted by darrellmaclaine

House Party isn't one that does it for me but is a monumentally important film, broad accessible comedy or not. Black agency in mainstream film had until that point been very conditional - outside of underground film and blaxsploitation, even huge megastars like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy were often kept on a very short leash and when they attempted to hit out as writer-directors there was what felt like industry sabotage to paint them as egotists with an Icarus complex. House Party finally took what had been happening in music for decades and applied it to studio film - the result being an undiluted product of people answering to nobody except their own creative instincts, and the huge financial success of this approach massively changed the entertainment industry in terms of how people of colour were then able to kickstart their own projects.

Napoleon Dynamite (which is 21 years old now, thank you) typifies a group of films that represented the DVD boom, a fascinating bubble in Hollywood history in which leftfield indie films and mid-budget experiments were emboldened to exist and be greenlit, because the DVD releases became more important than their theatrical runs and were successful enough to make hits out of what otherwise would have been flops in any other era. As a result this created a good couple of dozen films which were objectively of a high quality, important for the revolution they represented, and absolutely are of a feel and standard that would qualify them for Criterion consideration - others might include Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, Superbad, Idiocracy, Sideways, Jennifer's Body, District 9, Lost In Translation, several Gondry films etc etc etc. Some of these films already are Criterions - Life Aquatic, Punch-Drunk Love! - and whether you like it or not this is an era of filmmaking which is going to feature more highly in the Criterion Collection in the coming years.

So, yeah, House Party and Napoleon Dynamite. Great choices.

Thank you so much for these beautiful and detailed explorations of why both of these movies are important. Neither are my kind of thing to purchase, but that's just because my interests lie in different directions. I had no idea that Napoleon Dynamite only had a $400,000 budget. I've actually never watched it for some reason, but I remember friends being absolutely obsessed with it when I was in high school. I recently rewatched Little Miss Sunshine and I remember it being good, but it REALLY held up well imho. I actually would love to see more 90s and early 00s movies in the collection.

[MifuneFan]

House Party was also one of 25 movies to be added to the National Film Registry back in 2022. Others that year include When Harry Met Sally, Charade, Iron Man, Carrie, and Superfly. Films are selected for their cultural, historic, or aesthetic importance.

https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2...film-registry/

[Ishai]

Originally Posted by ophone

I'm keeping myself from upgrading to vanilla Blu-ray because this very site here says there's an upcoming 4K release.

When a movie get upgraded to 4K on digital it immediately goes on my "wait for a 4K disc" list...

[Rizor]

Some rumored titles for November/December:

[Show spoiler]The Breakfast Club upgrade
Hell's Angels
Dead Man upgrade
Kiss of the Spider-Woman
Birth
Eyes Wide Shut

[apricissimus]

Originally Posted by Rizor

Some rumored titles for November/December:

[Show spoiler]The Breakfast Club upgrade
Hell's Angels
Dead Man upgrade
Kiss of the Spider-Woman
Birth
Eyes Wide Shut

Birth would be great.

[ParamountChris]

I doubt this would happen anytime soon but I’m still going to keep wishing for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Just recently watched that and was quite won over.

[Gacivory]

It’s criminal how long it has taken Birth to get a Blu-Ray. They should pair it with a new release of Sexy Beast (not same set but release both in the same month).

I would also love an upgrade of Beast Boys Video anthology.

Don’t know if possible but speaking of upgrades of music videos. A Blu-Ray upgrade of the directors label series of music videos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Label

[Ishai]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Don’t know if possible but speaking of upgrades of music videos. A Blu-Ray upgrade of the directors label series of music videos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Label

I still have some of those DVDs but in the age of Youtube, I don't know if anyone will think about releasing that, and licensing might be more complicated today.

[backwater]

Originally Posted by Rizor

Some rumored titles for November/December:

[Show spoiler]The Breakfast Club upgrade
Hell's Angels
Dead Man upgrade
Kiss of the Spider-Woman
Birth
Eyes Wide Shut

When did Birth get rumored?