The Criterion Collection

[BluMonday]

Well played on Criterion's part with Nightmare Alley being that Guillermo Del Toro's remake comes out at the end of the year. I'm in for that and Merrily We Go to Hell.

[ponytail]

strongest Criterion lineup in a while for me. I’m in for everything except Trances.

[HipsterTrash]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

It was in a boxset. Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project.

If they're releasing individual films from those sets, I hope that means they get to Taipei Story. More Yang is always good.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by kvnbhovis

I'm in for Nightmare Alley, Fast Times and Merrily We Go to Hell.

I'm definitely in for those three. Nice month!

[jw007]

What a fabulous lineup for May! Fast Times at Ridgemont High will be a must-buy for me, as I once wrote about that film back in the early 2000s for my "Youth Film" class in the Film Studies program at my university. Nightmare Alley is also on my to-buy list as I find it to be a pretty offbeat film noir. As for the others, I'm not as interested, although Trances is a film I want to see.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

If they're releasing individual films from those sets, I hope that means they get to Taipei Story. More Yang is always good.

I was wondering if they were considering a boxset. He didn’t release that many films.

[traths]

I'm in for Nightmare Alley.

[BluProofie]

Nightmare Alley is a terrific noir. We are getting spoiled with all of these great noir releases this year.

[Scottishguy]

Bets on Universal will drop a UHD for Fast Times next year.

Swerve!

[HipsterTrash]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

I was wondering if they were considering a boxset. He didn’t release that many films.

I know when box sets were the big talk some months back, his name was being thrown around a bit.
Myself was one of those demanding this.

He made 7 films and 3 are on the label. I'm sure they can/could get the others.

[jayembee]

By the by, these are the Criterion titles (so far) licensed from Fox. That I know of; I'm sure I'm missing some.

[Show spoiler]3 Women
All About Eve
All That Jazz
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Bigger Than Life
Broadcast News
Claudine
Cluny Brown
The Darjeeling Limited
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Forty Guns
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Gunfighter
Heaven Can Wait
The Ice Storm
The Innocents
Kagemusha
Leave Her to Heaven
The Leopard
My Darling Clementine
Naked Lunch
Night and the City
Night Train to Munich
Nightmare Alley
Pickup on South Street (DVD-only)
The Rose
The Story of Temple Drake
Thieves' Highway (DVD-only)
The Thin Red Line
The Tree of Life
Unfaithfully Yours (DVD-only)
An Unmarried Woman
Valley of the Dolls
Young Mr. Lincoln

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

I know when box sets were the big talk some months back, his name was being thrown around a bit.
Myself was one of those demanding this.

He made 7 films and 3 are on the label. I'm sure they can/could get the others.

The question, though, is in what condition are the elements?

[Ray Jackson]

Good god, that cover art for Fast Times.

...are they serious?

[Hellspawn28]

I still hope Criteron will pick up more titles from Netflix such as Ballad of Buster Scruggs and The Forest of Love (With both cuts). I love Forest of Love and I feel like Criteron will be our only hope to release it on home video in North America.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Considering Criterion's notoriety of sitting on licenses they've probably had "Nightmare Alley" for a long time.

Maybe they can bring it out in the UK in lieu of Signal None

Originally Posted by Hellspawn28

I still hope Criteron will pick up more titles from Netflix such as Ballad of Buster Scruggs and The Forest of Love (With both cuts). I love Forest of Love and I feel like Criteron will be our only hope to release it on home video in North America.

Or Pretend it’s a City

[FragnitoM]

Originally Posted by Hellspawn28

It's a great movie and one of my favorite movies of 1991. It's one of his more obscure movies because it never got a DVD release in North America. It has been stuck in VHS Hell since the 90s and I had to import the Region 2 DVD to watch the movie.

Soderbergh is releasing a 4k box set himself of Kafka, Schizopolis, Gray's Anatomy, Full Frontal, Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience, and And Everything is Going Fine.

[Hoke Moseley]

Just Nightmare Alley for me.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Good god, that cover art for Fast Times.

...are they serious?

I actually like it.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by The Sovereign

I actually like it.

I’m with you.

[Shanghai Express]

Why does Criterion insist on cartoons as covers for their classics, though? Fredric March was a handsome young man when he made Merrily We Go To Hell but he looks like a completely different, and much older, much less attractive person on the cover. And poor Sylvia Sidney looks like she's in the middle of a spell of Bell's palsy. Why Criterion is so averse to doing artfully re-arranged original publicity photos or using poster art for their classics, I don't know.

This screams boutique label cover art to me:

[Show spoiler]

The cover vs. the still photo it's based on:

[Show spoiler]

EDIT: Just skimming over the Criterion website, it seems Swing Time, The Story Of Temple Drake, and Show Boat were the only "vintage" Hollywood titles in the last few years to use either a photo or the original art.