The Criterion Collection

[GenPion]

Originally Posted by ParamountChris

Challengers would actually be a fire addition for Criterion.

Great point. Challengers would be a great addition to the Criterion Collection. It didn't get a 4K release from WB directly, either. It would be possible with the WB deal.

[Gunsnroses092789]

Originally Posted by GenPion

Great point. Challengers would be a great addition to the Criterion Collection. It didn't get a 4K release from WB directly, either. It would be possible with the WB deal.

Feels like a Shout Factory 4K release like they've done with a lot of MGM title—even Guadagnino's Bones and All.

[Brad1963]

Not sure about Challengers with Criterion, but Licorice Pizza is still missing in action on UHD and does not appear to be amongst the Shout Factory Selects. It feels like Criterion may have it.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Detective Flass

Wonder if we are in for Challengers and Megalopolis announcements soon

You think Megalopolis? Felt like that was going to go the video route of all his recent releases like The Conversation restoration.

[Hotel Garma]

I recently went through a rewatch binge of the Michelangelo Antonioni films in the Collection and, while I dearly love the trilogy and Red Desert and Blow-Up (and yes Le Amiche, too), I've come to realize that Identification Of A Woman is perhaps my favorite Antonioni. Such a mysterious and intriguing film. The music is so perfect, from the moody synth score to the early 80s bands to the Scriabin Etude being played in the Venice hotel lobby.

Such a shame that this BD from Criterion is so bare-bones (just a trailer). But a great movie, nonetheless.

[Scottie]

Walter Salles’s Closet Picks - YouTube

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Hotel Garma

I recently went through a rewatch binge of the Michelangelo Antonioni films in the Collection and, while I dearly love the trilogy and Red Desert and Blow-Up (and yes Le Amiche, too), I've come to realize that Identification Of A Woman is perhaps my favorite Antonioni. Such a mysterious and intriguing film. The music is so perfect, from the moody synth score to the early 80s bands to the Scriabin Etude being played in the Venice hotel lobby.

Such a shame that this BD from Criterion is so bare-bones (just a trailer). But a great movie, nonetheless.

I would love to see a solid release of IL GRIDO, a real favorite of mine and pretty elusive outside of an old, creaky DVD.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

I would love to see a solid release of IL GRIDO, a real favorite of mine and pretty elusive outside of an old, creaky DVD.

It should be coming this year.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by Areyakiddin

They were talking about doing a Kubrick 4K boxset that fell through because they lost the license and mentioned that those rights for all three of those movies are now with Criterion.

The Killing (with Killer's Kiss), Paths Of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Barry Lyndon are all still in print.

Now Criterion has Blu-ray and 4K rights for the three MGM titles.

I think it's very likely that Criterion acquire the rights to Fear And Desire (I know it's PD but I don't know who owns the elements and restorations), Spartacus, Lolita, 2001, ACO, The Shining, FMJ, and EWS.

1300 may be a big release. And with Kubrick having directed 13 movies, they may do something like that. At the very least he's the greatest American director of all time, at the most he's the greatest director of all. For his career-spanning sets to be long-OOP or cheap multi-film sets in your Walmarts and Targets...that simply cannot be the end of the line.

If the big Six don't come together like they did for the various sets over the years (1999, 2001, 2011, 2014, 2019), Criterion will definitely do this.

I can already hear "Queen Mary" in PCM mono...make it happen, Criterion.

[Shane Rollins]

I'd like to have the honor of starting the May, June, and July wishlist posts.

We need David Lynch on 4K.

-Eraserhead 4K (possibly with rough cut)
-The Elephant Man 4K
-Dune 4K (rough cut, four-hour two-tape VHS cut, TV cut, and theatrical cut, all fully restored)
-Blue Velvet (rough cut)
-Twin Peaks: From Z To A 4K (All special features, all episodes on both formats, all original episodes, both cuts of the pilot, both the theatrical cut and rough cut of Fire Walk With Me, The Return, everything. Make it a release that retires all other releases. This is my number one TV want from Criterion, and I will bang the drum for it until it happens.)
-Wild At Heart 4K (rough cut (with extended

[Show spoiler]Johnny Farragut torture

scene and uncensored

[Show spoiler]Bobby Peru death

scene), X-rated cut (first scene shortened, second scene uncut), and R-rated cut (both scenes heavily edited), all fully restored)
-On The Air: The Complete Series
-Hotel Room: The Complete Series
-Lost Highway (rough cut)
-The Straight Story 4K (Ain't gonna happen. Thanks Disney. Get the Imprint.)
-Mulholland Drive (all cuts fully restored)
-Inland Empire 4K (TL;DR, it can happen. See the spoilered opus below.)

This can happen and should happen. David Lynch is not a man who was a legend. He remains a legend in death as he was in life. It's time we bring out the big hits we all want.

Surely one of these by July is reasonable.

And Twin Peaks would absolutely be a Disc of The Year candidate.

-

[Show spoiler]Inland Empire was shot on SD digital video, upscaled to HD, then sent back through a ringer of steps before the final Lynch-approved transfer was approved.

The original speed of the camera was 30fps.

Go backwards in the restoration steps and go back to the point where the film was playing at the 30fps speed, instead of the readjusted 24fps speed.

At that point, restore the film anew, at 30fps, and get to the final steps where it looks identical to the Blu-ray transfer. The finished file will be massively upscaled to 4K.

Then, line the file up so it plays at 60fps, with each of the 30 frames doubled (1, 2, 3... becomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...).

Drop that 4K, 60fps file - really a SD, 30fps file in a 4K, 60fps container - onto a Blu-ray with proper encoding.

It can be done.

Someone needs to experiment with this, and what better film than this one, and what better time than now?



https://x.com/Criterion/status/1638566778245611522?mx=2

Opus endus.

[Shane Rollins]

I'd like to close tonight's run of the Criterion thread with some videos of Lynch and his impact.

Shockingly, stunningly, frankly inexcusably, he never recorded a Closet video. If he has, either I'm unable to find it, or it's new and hasn't been posted yet.

Jon Nguyen on Capturing David Lynch - YouTube

DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE - Janus Films Trailer - YouTube

Justin Theroux on the Magical Mysteries of David Lynch - YouTube

Directed by David Lynch • Criterion Channel Teaser - YouTube

And last but certainly not least, who could forget when David Lynch told us exactly why we should never, ever, ever watch a movie on our phone?

David Lynch on iPhone - YouTube

Rest in peace, David Lynch. You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten. <3

[Scottie]

Cloud is coming.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/break...source=twitter

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

I'd like to have the honor of starting the May, June, and July wishlist posts.

We need David Lynch on 4K.[/SPOILER]

Agreed on most of these! Great comprehensive list. Why do you think The Straight Story isn’t happening? I thought there were at least some signs of promising openings with Disney, but maybe I missed something.

I really, really hope an extended Dune doesn’t happen, if we’re really respecting Lynch’s wishes. His pseudonym Judas Booth should tell everyone exactly what he thought of them. (And every one of the extended versions feels like they were spliced together by a sixth-grader who learned editing on their grandpa’s Super 8 splicer. The new interminable prologues with the two or three endlessly recycled pre-production paintings and the cowboy-sounding narrator had me rolling on the floor. )

I would have loved it if Lynch himself had taken a crack at it, though. The last few years, he sounded like he was finally coming a little bit to terms with it. I still remember the enthusiasm in his voice on the legendary Waldenbooks interview he did with Frank Herbert. It wasn’t the voice of someone who sounded like he was selling out.

[dwk]

I don't think Criterion would ever do anything that would be against David Lynch's wishes, so no alternate cuts or critic essays/interviews/commentary tracks, chapter stops, etc. They'll continue to present the films as he wished.

Now, I could see Universal allowing the extended Dune to get released in the US.

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Agreed on most of these! Great comprehensive list. Why do you think The Straight Story isn’t happening? I thought there were at least some signs of promising openings with Disney, but maybe I missed something.

The Straight Story being mostly controlled by Disney, including in the US, but the major restoration and 4K remaster being done by StudioCanal (who own it in the non-Disney territories), is probably creating a bit of an impasse. The SC restoration doesn't look like it's from secondary elements either - it looks like it's straight off the neg - so I'd be curious to know what Disney hold. They clearly have no interest in the fact they own it.

If anyone wants TSS and is region free just get the German release. It looks astonishingly beautiful.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by darrellmaclaine

The Straight Story being mostly controlled by Disney, including in the US, but the major restoration and 4K remaster being done by StudioCanal (who own it in the non-Disney territories), is probably creating a bit of an impasse. The SC restoration doesn't look like it's from secondary elements either - it looks like it's straight off the neg - so I'd be curious to know what Disney hold. They clearly have no interest in the fact they own it.

If anyone wants TSS and is region free just get the German release. It looks astonishingly beautiful.

How's it stack up against the Imprint release?

[RojD]

Originally Posted by Scottie

Has anyone seen this before?

This awesome piece of artwork was done for a 2022 David Lynch retrospective at Chicago's Music Box Theatre.



The artist: https://x.com/ThatTallGinger

Mr. Mulvaney,

This illustration is real clear and easy to read, but reach out to this guy anyway and see if he can come up with ideas for re-starting the annual Jason Polan teaser for the New Year. We're missing it.

Sincerely,

A Fan

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

I'd like to have the honor of starting the May, June, and July wishlist posts.

We need David Lynch on 4K.

-Eraserhead 4K (possibly with rough cut)
-The Elephant Man 4K
-Dune 4K (rough cut, four-hour two-tape VHS cut, TV cut, and theatrical cut, all fully restored)
-Blue Velvet (rough cut)
-Twin Peaks: From Z To A 4K (All special features, all episodes on both formats, all original episodes, both cuts of the pilot, both the theatrical cut and rough cut of Fire Walk With Me, The Return, everything. Make it a release that retires all other releases. This is my number one TV want from Criterion, and I will bang the drum for it until it happens.)
-Wild At Heart 4K (rough cut (with extended

[Show spoiler]Johnny Farragut torture

scene and uncensored

[Show spoiler]Bobby Peru death

scene), X-rated cut (first scene shortened, second scene uncut), and R-rated cut (both scenes heavily edited), all fully restored)
-On The Air: The Complete Series
-Hotel Room: The Complete Series
-Lost Highway (rough cut)
-The Straight Story 4K (Ain't gonna happen. Thanks Disney. Get the Imprint.)
-Mulholland Drive (all cuts fully restored)
-Inland Empire 4K (TL;DR, it can happen. See the spoilered opus below.)

This can happen and should happen. David Lynch is not a man who was a legend. He remains a legend in death as he was in life. It's time we bring out the big hits we all want.

Surely one of these by July is reasonable.

And Twin Peaks would absolutely be a Disc of The Year candidate.

-

[Show spoiler]Inland Empire was shot on SD digital video, upscaled to HD, then sent back through a ringer of steps before the final Lynch-approved transfer was approved.

The original speed of the camera was 30fps.

Go backwards in the restoration steps and go back to the point where the film was playing at the 30fps speed, instead of the readjusted 24fps speed.

At that point, restore the film anew, at 30fps, and get to the final steps where it looks identical to the Blu-ray transfer. The finished file will be massively upscaled to 4K.

Then, line the file up so it plays at 60fps, with each of the 30 frames doubled (1, 2, 3... becomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...).

Drop that 4K, 60fps file - really a SD, 30fps file in a 4K, 60fps container - onto a Blu-ray with proper encoding.

It can be done.

Someone needs to experiment with this, and what better film than this one, and what better time than now?



https://x.com/Criterion/status/1638566778245611522?mx=2

Opus endus.

THE ELEPHANT MAN 4K already exists from StudioCanal UK.

And the release of THE STRAIGHT STORY to get is the 2024 4K restoration from StudioCanal Germany, not the dated Imprint.

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

How's it stack up against the Imprint release?

So much better, and was actually overseen by Lynch. Also a Fidelity in Motion encode!

[Rayjg]

I wonder why Hotel Rooms and On the Air never made it to DVD or Blu-ray. They remain the last of the major projects he did that I haven’t seen. Was he embarrassed by them?

[peschi]

would love to see a hotel rooms/on the air dvd/bluray