The Criterion Collection

[Namuhana]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

Has anyone actually confirmed the Barnes & Noble Criterion sale for July? A Google search, and search of this topic, doesn’t show definitively.

Originally Posted by Reddington

Probably a tad too early. Even before the pandemic, I don't think we had confirmation in May - although we used to have an "insider" employee with the company who posted info here (Namuhana?).

I'm working on the assumption there will be one. And making my list accordingly.

I went in on Friday afternoon and asked about it, but the booksellers haven't been notified of one yet. We talked about it some and decided that it will probably happen, but there's been no confirmation so far. But I'll keep you all updated if I hear anything!

[Member-682067]

Spellbound, Alfred Hitchcock needs CC treatment.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents... tv show would be sweet to get on BD too.

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by TV2693

Spellbound, Alfred Hitchcock needs CC treatment.

It's been anticipated for a couple of years now, especially after the upgrades for Rebecca and Notorious. Not quite sure what the delay is.

[F-O]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Made an interesting afternoon project and a bit more complicated than the Bluray sets since I don't really have a full database of Canadian Criterion DVD releases.

Criterion.com has 994 DVD releases in it's filtered list with 80 listed OOP so 914 In-print DVD

Unobstructed View has 797 spots listed, but approx 21 or so are blank slots at the end of a page and another 22-23 are duplicated listings. Remove those, add a dozen Preorders which aren't included in their filter and a dozen+ BD/DVD combos which are missed by the filters. I ended up with 771 in-print Criterion DVD matching on the Criterion.com list and UV site.

There are 3 additional DVD on the UV site which aren't part of the Criterion's database - older+newer releases of Tunes of Glory and The Lady Eve, plus Rosemary's Baby DVD which is in the Criterion OOP pile

That leaves 143 Criterion DVDs unaccounted for on UV -- some were produced and may be OOS on UV or OOP in Canada (I could only find hard release dates for less than 10 of the missing titles and I know there's more than that). The rest were either never released by Criterion in Canada or aren;t in my database searches.

[Show spoiler]
2 extra titles at UV that aren't on Criterion.com and appear to be Earlier releases
The Lady Eve 16-Oct-2001 (+ replacement version released 14-July 2020)
Tunes of Glory (Out of Print) 17-Feb-2004 (+ replacement version 3-Dec 2019)


Not Available on Criterion DVD at UV. Dates are release dates for those items I could find with a specific CA release (I'm not 100% confident in those however).
1984
100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
45 Years
8½
A Brief History of Time
A Christmas Tale
À nos amours
À nous la liberté
A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu
A Woman Under the Influence
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Anatomy of a Murder Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
And God Created Woman
Antichrist
Armageddon 4/20/1999
Bad Timing
Beyond the Hills
Black Orpheus Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Boyhood
Brand upon the Brain!
Breaking the Waves Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Carlos
Certain Women
Certified Copy
Chasing Amy
Che
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Classe tous risques
Closely Watched Trains
Close-up
Crazed Fruit
Dheepan
Diabolique
Double Suicide
Downhill Racer Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
Eclipse Series 44: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties
Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller 5/14/2007
Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein
Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films
Everlasting Moments
Faces
Fanfan la Tulipe
Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version
Fish Tank
Following
Foreign Correspondent
Frances Ha
Gomorrah
Graduation
Gray’s Anatomy
Great Adaptations
Green for Danger
Harakiri Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
History Is Made at Night
Hunger
I Married a Witch
I vitelloni
I, Daniel Blake
Inside Llewyn Davis
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Juliet of the Spirits
King of the Hill
La bête humaine
La promesse
La strada
Late Spring Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Le deuxième souffle
Le million
Le notti bianche
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
Les enfants terribles
Let the Sunshine In
Life During Wartime
Like Someone in Love
Loves of a Blonde
Made in U.S.A
Mamma Roma 6/29/2004
Masculin féminin Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Missing
Mon oncle Antoine
Mouchette Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Murmur of the Heart
My Winnipeg
Naked
Onibaba
Paddle to the Sea
Pan’s Labyrinth
People on Sunday
Pina
Police Story/Police Story 2
Ratcatcher
Scanners
Shadows
Shoot the Piano Player
Sólo con tu pareja
Stagecoach
Still Walking
Summer Hours
The Breakfast Club Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
The Brood
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Devil’s Backbone
The Double Life of Véronique
The Exterminating Angel Available only on BD at Unobstructed View 2/10/2009
The Flowers of St. Francis
The Forgiveness of Blood
The Friends of Eddie Coyle Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
The Great Beauty
The Importance of Being Earnest 10/1/2002
The Kid with a Bike
The Killing Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Koker Trilogy Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
The Lower Depths
The Rock
The Secret of the Grain
The Shop on Main Street
The Wages of Fear
Three Colors
To Be or Not to Be
Topsy-Turvy Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Two Days, One Night
Umberto D. Available only on BD at Unobstructed View 7/29/2003
Under the Roofs of Paris
Under the Volcano
Videodrome Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
Visions of Eight
Walker
Weekend (Haigh) Available only on BD at Unobstructed View
White Material
Wildlife
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Y tu mamá también 10/19/2014
Yojimbo 10/1/2002


Criterion DVDs listed OOP on Criterion.com
3 Films by Louis Malle
A Woman Is a Woman
AK 100: 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa
Alphaville
Billy Liar
Blood for Dracula
Bob le flambeur
Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set
Chungking Express
Contempt
Coup de torchon
Days of Heaven
Dead Ringers
Diary of a Chambermaid
Diary of a Country Priest
Don’t Look Now
Eclipse Series 6: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy
Eisenstein: The Sound Years
Flesh for Frankenstein
Forbidden Games
Gervaise
Grand Illusion
Hamlet
Hard Boiled
Harold and Maude
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Howards End
Il Generale Della Rovere
Kapò
Kind Hearts and Coronets
La dolce vita
Last Holiday
Last Year at Marienbad
Le cercle rouge
Le Corbeau
Le doulos
Le trou
Léon Morin, Priest
Mafioso
Mayerling
Mona Lisa
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Nanook of the North
Nashville
Nights of Cabiria
Olivier’s Shakespeare
Pandora’s Box
Peeping Tom
Port of Shadows
Pygmalion
Quai des Orfèvres
Ran
RoboCop
Rosemary’s Baby -- Rosemary's Baby DVD still listed at UV
Spellbound
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
The Bank Dick
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
The Confession
The Fallen Idol
The Firemen’s Ball
The Harder They Come
The Killer
The Long Good Friday
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Milky Way
The Orphic Trilogy
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Third Man
The Two of Us
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The White Sheik
This Is Spinal Tap
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Touchez pas au grisbi
Variety Lights
W. C. Fields—Six Short Films
Withnail and I
Z

Thank you so much! You have no idea how much this helps! It's not really worth buying from Criterion.com anymore since they switched to DHL with their $23 shipping fees and $18 duty fees but I have the $50 loyalty gift card so I'm going to place one last order during the next flash sale and I want to make the most of it.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by F-O

Thank you so much! You have no idea how much this helps! It's not really worth buying from Criterion.com anymore since they switched to DHL with their $23 shipping fees and $18 duty fees but I have the $50 loyalty gift card so I'm going to place one last order during the next flash sale and I want to make the most of it.

Has someone spoken with Criterion directly about the Canadian shipping issue and the specific problems? I will guess someone has, but if ALLIANCE is in full control of their disc shipping/distribution I'm not sure that would do a lot of good.

Don't suppose you're close enough to the US border to make a US PO Box worthwhile or using one of the Border Pickup addresses worth it -- or a friends address on the US side who visits often (once the border finally opens).

I would suggest B&N though won't help with the Loyalty Cert, but ALLIANCE does their shipping too.

[DaBargainHunta]

Expiring from The Criterion Channel TONIGHT - The Lady Eve (1941)



This is the second Preston Sturges film I've watched, and while it's not perfect, I thought it was far better than The Palm Beach Story. Barbara Stanwyck is to thank for that! Henry Fonda holds his own in a relatively early role, but this is Babs' show all the way! She's pitch-perfect in rattling off Preston Sturges' witty rapid-fire dialogue. Here she plays a con artist who tries to snare the naive Fonda in, only to end up falling in love with her mark.

[Show spoiler]Stanwyck's British accent in the second half definitely isn't up to snuff, and I can't tell if the ending was suppose to be romantic or a continuation of the long con presented in the rest of the movie.

(Subtitles/Captions: Yes!)


Expiring from The Criterion Channel TONIGHT - The Railway Children (1970)



This is beyond old-fashioned, but it looks gorgeous and has charm for miles. Three children "become poor" after their father mysteriously leaves them, and they're forced to move from a palatial mansion to a "little" cottage in Yorkshire, where they become regulars at the railway station and have many adventures. The Railway Children is absolutely delightful and ended up being my surprise favorite of all the expiring movies I watched this month. Fun fact: The middle sister was already legally an adult and older than her "big sister" in the film. She was actually 20 but played 11, and did so fairly convincingly. I could tell the railway children were a little bit older than the ages they played in the film (the other two were almost 18 and 14 in real life), but I still thought they were all kids. (Subtitles/Captions: No. Thankfully, the English accents are clear and "posh" so I was able to understand 85-90% of the dialogue.)

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

Fun fact: The middle sister was already legally an adult and older than her "big sister" in the film. She was actually 20 but played 11, and did so fairly convincingly. I could tell the railway children were a little bit older than the ages they played in the film (the other two were almost 18 and 14 in real life), but I still thought they were all kids.

That was Sally Thomsett. She appeared the following year in Straw Dogs which leaves you with no doubt that she was not a child.

[JasonMichael]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

That was Sally Thomsett. She appeared the following year in Straw Dogs which leaves you with no doubt that she was not a child.

She was also in the British sitcom Man About the House (1973-1976) which was later remade in the U.S. as Three's Company.

[fred25_Ca]

Originally Posted by Reddington

It's been anticipated for a couple of years now, especially after the upgrades for Rebecca and Notorious. Not quite sure what the delay is.

It's Criterion, they make their fans wait for years sometimes. Look at the Chaplin releases, Kurosawa or Harold Lloyd. Maddening so it's not surprising they haven't released Spellbound.

[BluProofie]

Originally Posted by fred25_Ca

It's Criterion, they make their fans wait for years sometimes. Look at the Chaplin releases, Kurosawa or Harold Lloyd. Maddening so it's not surprising they haven't released Spellbound.

New restorations take time, and Spellbound’s current master is extremely problematic. Also, we technically don’t know if they have the rights to it.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

Also, we technically don’t know if they have the rights to it.

Those Hitchcock-Selznick titles are definitely a packaged deal (except for "The Paradine Case"). Plus, the only other label that might of released "Spellbound" is Kino and their old insider stated years ago that they didn't have it.

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Those Hitchcock-Selznick titles are definitely a packaged deal (except for "The Paradine Case"). Plus, the only other label that might of released "Spellbound" is Kino and their old insider stated years ago that they didn't have it.

You jogged my memory on this. I ran a quick search and back in 2017 Mister Lime confirmed KL did not have Straw Dogs, Rebecca, Notorious, or Spellbound - which was taken as "confirmation" that Criterion did.

[OrchidClub]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

New restorations take time, and Spellbound’s current master is extremely problematic. Also, we technically don’t know if they have the rights to it.

Most likely they are just spacing out their Hitchcock releases. Spellbound is less popular than Rebecca and Notorious, so that’s probably why they are putting it out last.

[MifuneFan]

Rebecca came out in 2017, and Notorious in 2019, so I'd say based on that pattern Spellbound would be "due" this year. Of course the pandemic may have delayed things, so who knows..

[ShellOilJunior]

If there's to be a 4th 'Before' movie and they stick with the every 9 years thing, I'd imagine production would begin this summer. Might be a long shot because I remember reading an article where Ethan Hawke said they wouldn't do the 9 year gap again.

[BluPat]

If this has been mentioned sorry, but is there going to be a Criterion sale at Barnes and Noble this this month?

[dvining]

Originally Posted by BluPat

If this has been mentioned sorry, but is there going to be a Criterion sale at Barnes and Noble this this month?

BN Criterion sale should be July.

[jjhunsecker]

Originally Posted by fred25_Ca

It's Criterion, they make their fans wait for years sometimes. Look at the Chaplin releases, Kurosawa or Harold Lloyd. Maddening so it's not surprising they haven't released Spellbound.

I suspect that Criterion is sitting on a hell of a lot of titles

[Namuhana]

Just saw on the B&N employee Facebook group that booksellers have gotten signage for the 50% off sale, but they still haven't been updated on the dates. One bookseller suggested July 2nd, as the sale usually starts on a Friday, but that's just speculation as of now.

I'll let you all know when there are official dates though!

[thatguamguy]

Originally Posted by Reddington

It's been anticipated for a couple of years now, especially after the upgrades for Rebecca and Notorious. Not quite sure what the delay is.

Haven't they indicated that the source materials are (at best) flawed and in need of significant clean-up work?