The Criterion Collection

[BluCollector13]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

Neon just announced these for Criterion:
- Alice Diop’s Saint Omer
- Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness
- Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream
- Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman
Source: http://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/stat...VZ-77N6X5S5Q0Q

Wish the news about "Moonage Daydream" had been made sooner but that's a solid lineup of additions.

[Snicket]

Really excited for those Criterion pickups, especially because Neon opted to not do a box set this year.

Reminds me there are still announced (via press release) Netflix titles that have still not released.

[dkelly26666]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

Neon just announced these for Criterion:
- Alice Diop’s Saint Omer
- Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness
- Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream
- Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman
Source: http://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/stat...VZ-77N6X5S5Q0Q

But no David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future"???? Duuuuude....

[SilverScreen96]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

But no David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future"???? Duuuuude....

Acclaimed art house films tend to be their preferred selections among contemporary films. They don't really do genre films.

[SilverScreen96]

This is my personal list of movies I want Criterion to release from my Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/rss96/list/mo...elease-on-blu/

I think Criterion should be releasing more rare foreign films, especially from outside the usual spheres of Europe and Japan. Films that themselves are typically unavailable to even be seen!

There are plenty of labels that will release a lot of the titles I typically see people on this site want Criterion to release, titles that are often American and more comparatively well known and popular and often already available digitally. And there are plenty of labels for trashy genre films.

[Penti Mento]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

I would love to see Youth of the Beast get a US upgrade to Blu-ray. It's actually my favorite Suzuki film. A very solid film and one of my first Criterion DVD's.

My favorite as well. The UK MOC/Eureka disc is an improvement on the DVD, but I'd jump all over a UHD.

[Creeper3455]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

neon just announced these for criterion:
- alice diop’s saint omer
- laura poitras’ all the beauty and the bloodshed
- ruben östlund’s triangle of sadness
- brett morgen’s moonage daydream
- celine sciamma’s petite maman
source: http://twitter.com/thefilmstage/stat...vz-77n6x5s5q0q

hello, mama

[Axl Rose]

Ugh no Titane.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

But no David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future"???? Duuuuude....

Second Sight are releasing a UK UHD, while NEON/Decal are already double dipping by doing a 4K release. I don’t see the need for them to license to a US label.

These are the other NEON/Super LTD films without a US BD currently announced:

The B-Side, Before We Vanish, This One’s for the Ladies, Honeyland, Luce, Clemency, Spaceship Earth, The Painter and the Thief, Big Time Adolescence, Palm Springs (Hulu), Totally Under Control, Shirley, Notturno, Dear Comrades, Billie Eilish (Apple TV+), Night of the Kings, Gunda, Quo Vadis Aida, The Killing of Two Lovers, All Light Everywhere, The First Wave, A Chiara, Beba, Fire of Love (National Geographic Documentary Films/Disney+), Three Minutes: A Lengthening, The Quiet Girl, Enys Men

[jedidarrick]

I would be down for a better release/UHD of Pig.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Space is the Place (1974) added to Janus' site

https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2109

It’s been on the cards for a long time, it’s streamed on Criterion Channel reportedly with Janua/Criterion logos.

Will it be the same REM restoration released in Germany?

Originally Posted by Scottie

Eight Deadly Shots

https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2108

Janus were already linked with it for the NYFF screening.

Originally Posted by exzachary

It looks like The Man Who Fell to Earth wasn't one of the Studio Canal titles Criterion reacquired.

Really not a fan of this art, much prefer StudioCanal’s design.

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

I don't know why they retired doing these. I mean I know the artist sadly passed away. But they could at least hire someone new in honour of them to do it again but with a different style.

While I agree, if you’ve built up a close personal relationship with someone, it’s probably harder to pass the torch onto someone else.

Originally Posted by jw007

Though the documentary only follows his work up until Eraserhead, I think the film wisely avoids trying to cover too much, and focuses mainly on his early years. The film offers some good insight on the director and I would definitely recommend David Lynch: The Art Life to any fan of his.

The same filmmakers were behind lynch(one), which is included on INLAND EMPIRE. Criterion/Janus also has Lynch/Oz on the horizon - which just got a UK Blu-ray including a commentary at the end of last year.

[umop apisdn]

Originally Posted by SilverScreen96

This is my personal list of movies I want Criterion to release from my Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/rss96/list/mo...elease-on-blu/

I think Criterion should be releasing more rare foreign films, especially from outside the usual spheres of Europe and Japan. Films that themselves are typically unavailable to even be seen!

There are plenty of labels that will release a lot of the titles I typically see people on this site want Criterion to release, titles that are often American and more comparatively well known and popular and often already available digitally. And there are plenty of labels for trashy genre films.

You're in luck because Criterion has been working on the films of Bimal Roy.

Prints of Dilip Kumar’s ‘Madhumati’, ‘Devdas’ to get new life.

The director’s son Joy Roy said, “Restoration costs are prohibitive. Early this year, Criterion Collection restored Do Bigha Zameen’, ‘Bandini’, ‘Madhumati’ and ‘Devdas’ at the own expense. We also wanted to give 'Sujata', but they didn’t have the budget for a fifth film. For 10 years, Criterion has taken distribution rights for home video and theatrical screening.We own the satellite and internet rights.”

[SilverScreen96]

Originally Posted by umop apisdn

You're in luck because Criterion has been working on the films of Bimal Roy.

Prints of Dilip Kumar’s ‘Madhumati’, ‘Devdas’ to get new life.

I just heard about that today actually, that's awesome! Always great to see more classic Indian cinema getting released, especially considering just how big and diverse India's cinematic legacy is. It's comparable to the cinematic legacies of America, Italy, France, and Japan. It's more than just Bollywood as Satyajit Ray's Bengali parallel cinema has illustrated.

Madhumati, Do Bigha Zamin and Bandini all sound great. Besides these Bimal Roy films (which actually are on my Letterboxd Criterion wishlist). I'd really love for them to give us more Satyajit Ray (I cannot get enough of him), especially his rarer 70's films like Days and Nights in the Forest and the Calcutta trilogy and Ritwik Ghatak as well as some Mani Kaul and Mrinal Sen. And the Palm D'Or winner Neecha Nagar and Pyaasa.

[umop apisdn]

Originally Posted by SilverScreen96

I just heard about that today actually, that's awesome! Always great to see more classic Indian cinema getting released, especially considering just how big and diverse India's cinematic legacy is. It's comparable to the cinematic legacies of America, Italy, France, and Japan. It's more than just Bollywood as Satyajit Ray's Bengali parallel cinema has illustrated.

Madhumati, Do Bigha Zamin and Bandini all sound great. Besides these Bimal Roy films (which actually are on my Letterboxd Criterion wishlist). I'd really love for them to give us more Satyajit Ray (I cannot get enough of him), especially his rarer 70's films like Days and Nights in the Forest and the Calcutta trilogy and Ritwik Ghatak as well as some Mani Kaul and Mrinal Sen. And the Palm D'Or winner Neecha Nagar and Pyaasa.

I am of Bengali descent, so I have been watching all the Bengali film directors since I was a kid on old VHS tapes and terrible DVDs that are so prevalent for Indian films.

My father met Satyajit Ray in the early 1950s when he came to tea at my grandparent's house. This was while he was still a commercial artist and looking for financing for Pather Panchali. I wish my father had more memories of that visit outside of Mr. Ray having a wonderful speaking voice and being extremely tall for a Bengali of that era.

I really prefer those types of films to the Bollywood fare. I do love old Bengali and Hindi film songs from the 1950s through the 1970s, since that is what my parents listened to while I was growing up.

Pyaasa has a restoration that was screened in Venice in 2015, and it has stayed past the standard Criterion Channel availability period along with Guru Dutt's other films. So I suspect that Pyaasa is a possibility for a standalone release.

I am glad more and more Indian films are being restored and really appreciate Scorsese's efforts with the Film Foundation. I was rather surprised at the huge lack of Indian films on the S&S lists and it probably has to do with bad prints and a general lack of availability.

[SilverScreen96]

Originally Posted by umop apisdn

I am of Bengali descent, so I have been watching all the Bengali film directors since I was a kid on old VHS tapes and terrible DVDs that are so prevalent for Indian films.

My father met Satyajit Ray in the early 1950s when he came to tea at my grandparent's house. This was while he was still a commercial artist and looking for financing for Pather Panchali. I wish my father had more memories of that visit outside of Mr. Ray having a wonderful speaking voice and being extremely tall for a Bengali of that era.

I really prefer those types of films to the Bollywood fare. I do love old Bengali and Hindi film songs from the 1950s through the 1970s, since that is what my parents listened to while I was growing up.

Pyaasa has a restoration that was screened in Venice in 2015, and it has stayed past the standard Criterion Channel availability period along with Guru Dutt's other films. So I suspect that Pyaasa is a possibility for a standalone release.

I am glad more and more Indian films are being restored and really appreciate Scorsese's efforts with the Film Foundation. I was rather surprised at the huge lack of Indian films on the S&S lists and it probably has to do with bad prints and a general lack of availability.

That is so cool that your father got to meet Satyajit Ray back in the 50's. I got into Indian cinema with Ray many years ago when I saw The Music Room on Hulu, as well as Devi and both blew me away. At the time I was just beginning to get into classic cinema so I figured that if I could sit through and enjoy a slow black and white film from the 50's like The Music Room, then I could sit through any old black and white movie. And I didn't just like it, I loved it. It didn't just get me into Bengali Parallel Cinema, it got me into old black and white cinema in general. And it remains an all time favorite.

The Apu trilogy had yet to be released at the time and the print of Devi on the channel was pretty rough looking. I wrote a review for the Criterion release of Devi describing how it seeing it again from this Blu-ray felt like a revelation compared to the worn out master I previously seen of it several years prior and why I felt that had scored it a little low.

Yeah I agree that bad prints are certainly a problem effecting availability of a lot of classic Indian films. I saw Ritwik Ghatak's Subarnarekha on MUBI last summer and it looked pretty rough. I too am really glad that Martin Scorsese and the Film Foundation have been working to preserve and restore Indian films and get them out into the wider world.

There's a whole world of incredible cinema from India that a lot of Western films just don't know about or can't see that's waiting to be discovered.

[FragnitoM]

Originally Posted by SilverScreen96

Acclaimed art house films tend to be their preferred selections among contemporary films. They don't really do genre films.

Can’t agree with that. They do genre films quite often actually

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by BluCollector13

Wish the news about "Moonage Daydream" had been made sooner but that's a solid lineup of additions.

I agree - I recently bought the UK Blu-ray edition with the fantastic Dolby Atmos mix

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by SilverScreen96

Also, on Letterboxd I found a great guide someone made of likely future Criterion titles you might find helpful:

https://letterboxd.com/mattheweg/lis...r-4k-releases/

I forgot about some of these titles. Ikarie XB 1 first showed up on the Janus web page at least 2 years ago, or longer.

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

I forgot about some of these titles. Ikarie XB 1 first showed up on the Janus web page at least 2 years ago, or longer.

Sometimes I wonder if they are working on a bigger Czech New Wave set but then something wil be released standalone and I’m skeptical again

[SilverScreen96]

Originally Posted by FragnitoM

Can’t agree with that. They do genre films quite often actually

In terms of recent films, films that are new or released within the past few to several years, it's largely art house features, which have long been Criterion's bread and butter. The genre films they have released have been classics, not contemporary ones like the new David Cronenberg.

Also, I'm just tired of people complaining about "such and such well known American or western director (like Martin Scorsese, who literally got two releases last year, or Roman Polanski) is not being released or released enough through Criterion."

And it only gets worse when I hear people complain about Criterion "going woke" or "releasing films no one cares about (?) or knows (that's a good thing)," especially if they release films by lesser known non-white film makers (I for one was very happy when they released a few "films no one knows," Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), Devi (1960) and After Life (1998).

Sure, there are American and European films I want Criterion to release, be they harder to see European films like the whole filmography of Theo Angelopoulos or most Andrzej Żuławski films or American films like The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Greed (1924), The Crowd (1928), The Wind (1928), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) and Paper Moon (1973).

But I really do want to see more films from Latin America, Africa, the Arab world, and literally the rest of Asia outside of Japan because of how so many of these films are hard to see in general.

Like the Keeper of Promises/The Given Word (1962), one of the most acclaimed Brazilian films of all time and the only Brazilian film to win the Palm D'Or, it's quite rare and hard to see. The same goes for another Brazilian film, Black God, White Devil (1964).

I've already talked about all the Indian cinema I'd love to see them release and it appears they're already heading in that direction and they are working towards more films from Africa like those of Ousmane Sembène as I think they have the rights to most of his films as well The Night of Counting the Years (1969), a masterpiece from Egypt and Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) from Algeria, the only African and Arab language film to win the Palm D'Or as both films have been restored by the world cinema project. And I really like what the latest World Cinema Project box set has to offer, I just wish they'd release the rest of the films in the set on the channel already.

And there's still plenty of great Japanese cinema I want them to release, especially the movies of Shūji Terayama. But at least most of the ones I want them to release, like the aforementioned Mikio Naruse films and Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937), I can stream on the channel.