The Criterion Collection

[HipsterTrash]

Originally Posted by jw007

With no more Criterion New Years clues, here is my list of films I want to see come on blu-ray in 2021 (if not Criterion, then anyone else):

After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Hard Eight (P.T. Anderson)
Suburbia (Richard Linklater)
The Straight Story (David Lynch)
Witness (Peter Weir)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
The Devils (Ken Russell)
On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski)

The Beach (Danny Boyle)
Killing Zoe (Roger Avary)


With blu-ray upgrades to these titles:

The Last Wave (Peter Weir)
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
The Element of Crime (Lars Von Trier)
Secret Honor (Robert Altman)

I want the above so bad. Especially Hard Eight, though PTA said that it's unlikely to be on Criterion. But maybe he changed his mind.

Though I doubt the underlined titles would get a Criterion release. Not to say I wouldn't but I don't see Disney and Lionsgate giving up those titles. And if so, I don't think Criterion would take them. Maybe Kino.

As for re-releases, absolutely to those selected. Add in Red Beard.

And oh man, would I love more Altman on Criterion. California Split is rumoured yet I think there's music issues with it. Hopefully that gets a release.
I would also like to see his Fox 70s titles get released (A Wedding, Quintet, A Perfect Couple). They got and released 3 Women, so maybe but with the Disney-Fox merge, who knows.

[bergman864]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Not what they did with the Fellini set.

...curious as to how they make those choices.

The emphasis in the Fellini box set was him, showing him with his megaphone perfectly represents him.

I guess it would depend on the theme of the set.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by bergman864

The emphasis in the Fellini box set was him, showing him with his megaphone perfectly represents him.

I guess it would depend on the theme of the set.

I just think it’s interesting how they chose to focus on one shot from Persona for the Bergman set, but did a drawing of Fellini himself for that set.

I’m curious as to what their artistic decision making process is for the covers.

...and what they might do for a Kurosawa set.

[amputd]

Originally Posted by acroyear2

Ok Criterion.

It's 2021.

Satyajit Ray was born 100 years ago (this May).

You know what to do.

Make it happen.

Yes!!!!

[beamish13]

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

I have The Last Picture Show on my Amazon Germany wishlist. I'm just waiting until I have enough on that wishlist to make the international shipping easier to swallow. Live in the USA.

I can't tell which one looks better.

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&...108866&i=6&l=0

I really hope Texasville is on the horizon. Bogdanovich’s laserdisc director’s cut is wonderful

[beamish13]

Originally Posted by amputd

Yes!!!!

The AMPAS’ restorations of his oeuvre look incredible. Dying to have
The Adversary on Blu

[beamish13]

It’s maddening how the phenomenal Dutch Oscar-winning classic The Assault (1986) doesn’t have an HD release anywhere in the world. MGM owns it. Make it happen, Criterion

[Ned Brainard]

What I would like to see this year:

The Wedding March(1928): multiple existing recorded scores + a restored DCP done by Paramount and the Library of Congress + already licensed by Criterion = let's see it already!

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Bringing up Baby (1938)

People Will Talk (1951) - note: I've never heard anything about Criterion doing anything with the film, but it does strike me as a film that Criterion would find interesting. Plus there's a DCP for it. However, it is a Disney/Fox title now.

Maybe one of the more notable, unreleased Errol Flynn titles like Captain Blood.

The Chaplin First National shorts.

Another Harold Lloyd title.

Napoleon (1927)

The MGM Marx Bros. films

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I just think it’s interesting how they chose to focus on one shot from Persona for the Bergman set, but did a drawing of Fellini himself for that set.

I’m curious as to what their artistic decision making process is for the covers.

I think it's as simple as even most film buffs not knowing what Bergman looked like while most would recognize Fellini. Unlike many other legendary directors there are no really iconic photos of Bergman: most are pretty innocuous.

[A113]

Inland Empire needs to get a Criterion release this year.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Aclea

I think it's as simple as even most film buffs not knowing what Bergman looked like while most would recognize Fellini. Unlike many other legendary directors there are no really iconic photos of Bergman: most are pretty innocuous.

No self-respecting film buff doesn’t know the image of a young Bergman wearing the black beret.

...that’s a more iconic image than any photo I’ve ever seen of Fellini.

[Aclea]

Speak for yourself. I'll bet most film buffs couldn't pick him out in a lineup (even the photos on the volume in the Criterion set holding the discs look like a series of photobooth passport shots), but they can recognise the odd iconic image from his films.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Speak for yourself. I'll bet most film buffs couldn't pick him out in a lineup (even the photos on the volume in the Criterion set holding the discs look like a series of photobooth passport shots), but they can recognise the odd iconic image from his films.

*shuffles nervously*

I...didn't recognize the image until I finally got to Persona in my most recent rewatch of the film through the set. I'd only seen it once before and the image just hadn't stuck with me.

I can't imagine forgetting it now, though.

[Aclea]

True, but I'd wager the first image that comes to most minds when Bergman's name is mentioned is Max playing chess with Death or Death leading the dance on the hill at the end of Seventh Seal, not Ingmar in a beret. Unlike Fellini or Hitchcock or von Stroheim or De Mille or the more recognizable classic directors, he was never the front and center PR showman.

[mja345]

A Peter Bogdanovich boxset must be adorned not with a picture of the man himself, but with a picture of the clothing item that defined the man.

[jjhunsecker]

Originally Posted by Ned Brainard

What I would like to see this year:

The Wedding March(1928): multiple existing recorded scores + a restored DCP done by Paramount and the Library of Congress + already licensed by Criterion = let's see it already!

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Bringing up Baby (1938)

People Will Talk (1951) - note: I've never heard anything about Criterion doing anything with the film, but it does strike me as a film that Criterion would find interesting. Plus there's a DCP for it. However, it is a Disney/Fox title now.

Maybe one of the more notable, unreleased Errol Flynn titles like Captain Blood.

The Chaplin First National shorts.

Another Harold Lloyd title.

Napoleon (1927)

The MGM Marx Bros. films

"People Will Talk" is a very interesting film...I probably last saw it over 30 years ago, and would love to see it again . My fear is that we'll never see another classic Fox title on hard media again, as a result of the Disney takeover

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by mja345

A Peter Bogdanovich boxset must be adorned not with a picture of the man himself, but with a picture of the clothing item that defined the man.

And indeed, instead of the traditional leaflet or booklet, the liner notes must instead be hand embroidered on the finest Ascot Criterion's budget can afford. The discerning cinephile collector would expect no less.

[Ned Brainard]

Originally Posted by jjhunsecker

"People Will Talk" is a very interesting film...I probably last saw it over 30 years ago, and would love to see it again . My fear is that we'll never see another classic Fox title on hard media again, as a result of the Disney takeover

People Will Talk is certainly one of the quirkiest films made during the production era. Given the combination of the director Joseph Mankiewicz, the star Cary Grant, and the film's somewhat veiled take on the then current McCarthyism (handled in a surprisingly light and dry comedic manner), you would think someone at Criterion would be interested in it. I could be wrong, and again I've never heard anything about about any potential blu-ray for it. It has long been a favorite of mine, and I try to revisit my DVD of it every two to three years.

[Warm Gun]

Originally Posted by jjhunsecker

"People Will Talk" is a very interesting film...I probably last saw it over 30 years ago, and would love to see it again . My fear is that we'll never see another classic Fox title on hard media again, as a result of the Disney takeover

How did Leave Her to Heaven (2020) on Blu-ray come to be? Did Criterion acquire it before Disney bought Fox?

[Ned Brainard]

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

How did Leave Her to Heaven (2020) on Blu-ray come to be? Did Criterion acquire it before Disney bought Fox?

Until the Disney buyout, Fox seemed to be open to licensing its properties to firms like Twilight Time, Kino, Criterion, etc. That changed with the buyout (at least for the time being). I presume that the occasional Fox titles we've been seeing from Criterion were acquired before the Disney acquisition.