The Criterion Collection

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

. Does this shade of blue have any connection to any Romero 'Dead' movie?

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I remember this guy being pretty blue...

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[shimmy]

Originally Posted by Flex_MythoMass

I have no more space

You are lying to yourself not to us. You have dedicated two shelves to displaying your films sideways and it looks like the blu rays on one of them are engaged in social distancing, you are by no means out of space. Its ok, there is nothing to be afraid of. Everyone here will forgo maintaining the aesthetics of their collection sooner or later and shelf tetris can be a fun, stimulating activity if you pretend it is for long enough.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by shimmy

You are lying to yourself not to us. You have dedicated two shelves to displaying your films sideways and it looks like the blu rays on one of them are engaged in social distancing, you are by no means out of space. Its ok, there is nothing to be afraid of. Everyone here will forgo maintaining the aesthetics of their collection sooner or later and shelf tetris can be a fun, stimulating activity if you pretend it is for long enough.

I'm actually playing shelf Jenga with my collection right now. It's terrifying everytime I want to watch a movie from the middle of the stack.

[BrokenGlass41]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I'm actually playing shelf Jenga with my collection right now. It's terrifying everytime I want to watch a movie from the middle of the stack.

[fdm]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

It looks like they're still teasing something. It would be really dumb for all this hype to be for a UK release, especially after it's already official, so I have to wonder if it's for something else. Does this shade of blue have any connection to any Romero 'Dead' movie?

Just borrowing from domino, but many of the releases in the picture are still out of print… More coming back to life? (In one form or another…) A few already have.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by fdm

Just borrowing from domino, but many of the releases in the picture are still out of print… More coming back to life? (In one form or another…) A few already have.

I noticed that too. I feel like that could also be an indirect sign to point to Dawn of the Dead, which has been long OOP now in the US, coming back in print. Martin is the other possibility there. I don't imagine it's anything outside of Romero since this news is stemming from a NotLD FB page. I'm continuing not to get my hopes up however.

I just checked myself, and they're definitely using the Out of Print search filter at the site to get those titles shown.

https://www.criterion.com/shop/brows...r=out-of-print

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I noticed that too. I feel like that could also be an indirect sign to point to Dawn of the Dead, which has been long OOP now in the US, coming back in print. Martin is the other possibility there. I don't imagine it's anything outside of Romero since this news is stemming from a NotLD FB page. I'm continuing not to get my hopes up however.

I just checked myself, and they're definitely using the Out of Print search filter at the site to get those titles shown.

https://www.criterion.com/shop/brows...r=out-of-print

I could definitely see The Killer and Hard Boiled getting new Blu-Rays and 4K releases from Criterion at the end of this year, or next year. I think we are either getting Martin, or Dawn of the Dead in 4K UHD most likely the latter title if I have to guess.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I'm actually playing shelf Jenga with my collection right now. It's terrifying everytime I want to watch a movie from the middle of the stack.

Mine are just stacked everywhere. Getting ready to move soon and I’m not looking forward to boxing these all up.

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I'm actually playing shelf Jenga with my collection right now. It's terrifying everytime I want to watch a movie from the middle of the stack.

[BrokenGlass41]

In a shocking plot twist, all of the films seen in the image are re-entering the Collection as part of Criterion’s first slate of 8K UHD BLU-RAY DISCS — SICKENINGLY HIGH RESOLUTION!

[ravenus]

Just watched Querelle (on the UK disc from Artificial Eye). Call me a philistine but, its baroque-experimental sets and gorgeous Vilos Zsigmond style smoky cinematography notwithstanding, I found the movie as awkward, emotionally distant and excruciatingly dull as a clumsy art student project

[Flex_MythoMass]

Originally Posted by shimmy

You are lying to yourself not to us. You have dedicated two shelves to displaying your films sideways and it looks like the blu rays on one of them are engaged in social distancing, you are by no means out of space. Its ok, there is nothing to be afraid of. Everyone here will forgo maintaining the aesthetics of their collection sooner or later and shelf tetris can be a fun, stimulating activity if you pretend it is for long enough.

LOL well you are right in a sense. The films on the shelves are there because I ran out of room on the media shelves. It’s a bookshelf, or it was supposed to be. But now it has more films than books.

[BrokenGlass41]

Originally Posted by Flex_MythoMass

But now it has more films than books.

As it should be, my friend. As it should be.

[UHDLoverForever]

Originally Posted by BrokenGlass41

In a shocking plot twist, all of the films seen in the image are re-entering the Collection as part of Criterion’s first slate of 8K UHD BLU-RAY DISCS — SICKENINGLY HIGH RESOLUTION!

Nah, everyone will be receiving 15-perf 70mm film prints!

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by BrokenGlass41

...Criterion’s first slate of 8K UHD BLU-RAY DISCS — SICKENINGLY HIGH RESOLUTION!

It will be so hi-res, you won't see any image at all, you will only see grain swarming around like microscopic creatures under a high-powered lens

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by fdm

Just borrowing from domino, but many of the releases in the picture are still out of print… More coming back to life? (In one form or another…) A few already have.

Just to list some of them that have already gotten Blu-Rays, or 4K UHDs or both
Mona Lisa
The Harder They Come
The Milky Way I’m selling my copy of this on Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber not a title I want to keep it just isn’t a title that appeals to me.
Alphaville
The Long Good Friday
Floating Weeds
Bob Le Flambeur
Billy Liar
The Phantom of Liberty
Le Circle Rouge

[BudtheChud]

Originally Posted by Watershipdownisgood

I could definitely see The Killer and Hard Boiled getting new Blu-Rays and 4K releases from Criterion at the end of this year, or next year. I think we are either getting Martin, or Dawn of the Dead in 4K UHD most likely the latter title if I have to guess.

Would be great but seems highly unlikely at this point since the rights owners don’t seem particularly interested in making any reasonable deals with anyone.

[randian]

Originally Posted by BudtheChud

Would be great but seems highly unlikely at this point since the rights owners don’t seem particularly interested in making any reasonable deals with anyone.

Do the OCNs of The Killer and Hard Boiled even exist anymore, let alone in good condition? I've heard Golden Harvest and the like have historically taken pretty poor care of their films.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by randian

Do the OCNs of The Killer and Hard Boiled even exist anymore, let alone in good condition? I've heard Golden Harvest and the like have historically taken pretty poor care of their films.

A ton of Golden Harvest films have gotten pretty good remasters recently as have a lot of HK films in general thanks a company setting up base in HK to do restorative work. A Better Tomorrow recently got a remaster, so I would think the Killer and Hardboiled which are pretty massive films probably have a good chance of still having the OCN.

[NeoNical]

Since people are talking about the John Woo movies again, I would like to give some news for those who aren't caught up on the two:

- The Killer has been restored in 4K recently in China. This was part of a selection of Hong Kong movies that were restored by China Film Archive including Stephen Chow's King of Beggars and Jackie Chan's Operation Condor (AKA Armour of God II). Unfortunately, these films were restored in collaboration with Volcano Engine, which is a company that is trying out AI upscaling and is connected to the social media platform, TikTok. I think it is safe to conclude two things: The Killer will be restored with AI software and that fans will be screwed from ever getting a filmic or accurate restoration of the film.

- There is a Japanese Blu-ray for Hard Boiled coming out next week that is supposedly a new 2K remaster though we have no word on the quality yet. Fingers crossed it turns out to be good, not that the remaster for the current HK and German Blu-rays is bad to begin with IMO.

- So if Criterion releases these two, we can only hope that the restorations do turn out well as it seems that no one in the forums have yet seen these new versions yet. I would be very skeptical of the quality of The Killer but I still have some hope for Hard Boiled.

- Regardless of restoration, these films have been stuck in distribution hell for markets outside of Asia and we will probably not see a release for these films for a while based on what we know. This is a story that has been told many times (You can search through the forums for the films on this site or watch a video/tweet that explains the situation). Even John Woo has addressed this issue and hoped that he could restore these films himself. No clue if he was involved in anything relating to these two films lately.