The Criterion Collection

[dex14]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

In for Last Hurrah for Chivalry, but I am wondering whats going on with the Heroic Trio. Feel like we should have had that by now.

They have a couple of HK titles on docket and have been deciding on what to release and when. Expect another title that Eureka already released to come too.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by bergman864

4K restoration = / = UHD disc. It could play in theaters or what not.

Still, it's important to preserve these. Better to create a higher resolution copy for using than to constantly tap the source.

Your posts are a treasure

[thornhill]

Originally Posted by bergman864

4K restoration = / = UHD disc. It could play in theaters or what not.

Still, it's important to preserve these. Better to create a higher resolution copy for using than to constantly tap the source.

I'm all for preservation, so I guess we just have to focus on that, and not that we won't be able to own the film in 4K. Regardless, I neither understand nor agree.

[dallywhitty]

Gonna go back and delete all the posts where I said Inland Empire would definitely get a UHD, lmao.

[bergman864]

Originally Posted by Kyle15

Your posts are a treasure

They come from my booty.

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Gonna go back and delete all the posts where I said Inland Empire would definitely get a UHD, lmao.

Ive already archived them for an upcoming UHD

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Gonna go back and delete all the posts where I said Inland Empire would definitely get a UHD, lmao.

Don’t delete just say you were trapped in the Black Lodge and your doppelgänger posted those!

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by bergman864

They come from my booty.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by dex14

They have a couple of HK titles on docket and have been deciding on what to release and when. Expect another title that Eureka already released to come too.

Hmm. Does it begin with the letter E?

[dkelly26666]

Well, an overall solid month of great titles. But I mostly have them, already.

I have the TT "Chilly Scenes" BD; the Eureka "Last Hurrah" (with 'Hand of Death'); and the Criterion "Mildred Pierce" BD.

The only one I have had only a DVD of is "Inland Empire" , and it's one I've been waiting for. So, that is the one I'm most excited for.

[hainesdogg]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Hmm. Does it begin with the letter E?

All Signs Point To Yes

[mikesncc1701]

What a shame about Inland Empire after the work that was done. Even if it was never going to look all that great resolution wise, it could have still benefited from an HDR/Dolby Vision pass. Oh well. It'll still be an upgrade over the DVD so it'll be bought during a sale.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Hmm. Does it begin with the letter E?

Encounters of the Spooky Kind?

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Encounters of the Spooky Kind?

That MIGHT be with Arrow. It's Eastern Condors that should be with Criterion.

[hoytereden]

I’m disappointed that no upgraded dvd title was announced. Maybe next month…..

[dex14]

At Lincoln Center in February:

Chocolat
Claire Denis, 1988, France/West Germany/Cameroon, 105m
English and French with English subtitles
The great Claire Denis made her debut with this semi-autobiographical feature, based on her childhood in colonial French Africa as the daughter of a civil servant. France (Mireille Perrier) reminisces about her childhood in Cameroon as her father (François Cluzet) comes and goes on call, which leads to the strengthening of her friendship with their devoted house servant, Protée (Isaach de Bankolé), and to the escalating sexual tension between him and her mother, Aimée (Giulia Boschi). As Protée increasingly becomes an object of desire and of scorn, France’s memories become more and more ambivalent. Prefiguring the concerns of Denis’s later films (Beau Travail, White Material) and establishing the tactile sensuality and elliptical style for which she is known, Chocolat today stands as a modern classic. A Janus Films release.
New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Claire Denis, with a mono soundtrack. Restoration made by the laboratory Eclair Classics from the original feature negative with the colorist Bruno PATIN and Diego MERCURIALI and with the DoP Robert ALAZRAKI.


Also, mentioned previously in the thread, screening in March 2023:


Drylongso
Cauleen Smith, 1998, USA, 86m
Cauleen Smith’s 1998 feature debut, a landmark in American independent cinema, follows Pica (Toby Smith), a woman in a photography class in Oakland, as she begins photographing the young Black men of her neighborhood, having witnessed so many of them fall victim to senseless murder and fearing the possibility of their becoming extinct altogether. This project serves as a point of departure for Smith to explore Pica’s relationship with her family, as well as her relationship with a friend (April Barnett) who becomes the victim of an enigmatic and elusive serial killer lurking in the background. An enduringly rich work of DIY filmmaking, Drylongso remains a resonant and visionary examination of violence (and its reverberations), friendship, and gender. An NYFF60 Revivals selection. A Janus Films release.

4K restoration undertaken by the Criterion Collection, Janus Films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Supervised by director Cauleen Smith.
Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses film, video, installation, public performance, and sculpture. Drawing from the rich lineages of structuralist filmmaking, Third Cinema, and Afrofuturism, since the late 1980s Smith’s short films have touched on the many concerns of our times—systemic racism, class, gender violence, and colonization among them—with a rigor and intrepid formal experimentation that has become all too rare. This March, we are honored to screen a selection of Smith’s short works, some newly restored and presented on 16mm, alongside the release of the new 4K restoration of her 1998 debut feature, Drylongso, and with Smith in person.

[Gacivory]

YES!!!!! More Denis films!!!!!

[dkelly26666]

I had missed earlier this year that Janus Films announced on Twitter that they had acquired the entire Jean Eustache catalog. Including "The Mother and the W****" and "My Little Loves".

I hope we see some physical Criterion releases of this stuff before Autumn 2030.

[Burt Lancaster]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I like the Mildred Pierce pick for UHD. It's very encouraging seeing a 1940s b/w movie get a 4k release.

I was tempted to predict The Last Temptation of Christ UHD for March. Additionally, I almost made reference to a certain director being born in March and how that might affect the March release slate, but I did not.

The disc certainly shows it's age.

Mildred Pierce is a brilliant drama for those who haven't seen it.

[Burt Lancaster]

Originally Posted by omahajon

One final B&N run and got Lost Highway 4K, Police Story I & II, and Infernal Affairs set.

Buy the eureka set instead. The compression on the criterion is appalling, even by their standards.

Look how pixelated it is:https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x...3&l=0&i=1&go=1