The Criterion Collection

[Sifox211]

I've just used Deep Discount promo code HEARTS (expires soon!) to get 15% off UHDs of The Sacrifice and The Searchers to be delivered to my Stackry address, so that's me in prep for the hopefully forthcoming flash sale

Hopes for this week's annoucements:

Any Powell & Pressburger - but most especially A Canterbury Tale and IKWIG! Pretty please Mr Criterion!

Also Zabriskie Point

[Ned Brainard]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

One possibility could be a Von Stroheim triple like the Von Sternberg and Tod Browning ones with Greed, The Merry Widow, and The Wedding March. Blind Husbands has a new restoration that will probably come from Kino or Flicker Alley, Milestone is working on Queen Kelly.

That's a possibility I've brought up before to try to make sense of Criterion "sitting on" its license for The Wedding March for so long. The licensing arrangement behind the Browning set (two films from WB and one from GEM) makes a Stoheim set with two films from WB and one from Paramount seemingly plausible. I'm not saying that it is happening, but it's not a "wacko" idea at least.

[HipsterTrash]

I'm sitting in my pentagram circle and making it so that more Wes Anderson films get announced.

[tama]

I'm predicting Friday will be announcements

[apricissimus]

Originally Posted by ErickRPG

Thanks, I'll go with City Lights and Goldrush for now.

There are really no wrong choices with Charlie Chaplin. (Well, Monsieur Verdoux...)

[edmoney]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

One possibility could be a Von Stroheim triple like the Von Sternberg and Tod Browning ones with Greed, The Merry Widow, and The Wedding March. Blind Husbands has a new restoration that will probably come from Kino or Flicker Alley, Milestone is working on Queen Kelly.

Originally Posted by Nazca

Blind Husbands (1919) was also digitally restored in 4K by the Austrian Filmmuseum, also my personal favorite Stroheim in terms of restoration. Genuinely fantastic stuff! Though as you stated, that's a film I see Flicker Alley and/or Eureka releasing. I am also quite interested in Milestone's release of Queen Kelly (1929).

For I Am Cuba, Milestone did the restoration while Criterion released it on 4K UHD/Blu-ray. Perhaps it's possible that Queen Kelly also gets released on disc by Criterion?

[DukeTogo84]

With Monday being a holiday, kinda hoping we get reveals on Friday this week.

[Somebuddy]

Announced for Friday id love to see:

Dead Presidents
New Jersey Drive
SubUrbia
Killers of the Flower Moon
Eyes Wide Shut
Sling Blade

[Watershipdownisgood]

Honestly, Criterion has been quite unpredictable for me so I'm just going to pick random films. Yes really so my guesses are

A random Japanese film
Rage in Harlem
Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains
A random French film
A random Italian Film
A big silent film that hasn't gotten a Blu-Ray release yet

I'm probably wrong on most of these, but after February there just hasn't been any new to Blu-Ray titles that have excited me.

[jt839]

Something Wild 4k
Moonstruck 4k
Sling Blade
I Know Where I'm Going!
Killers of the Flower Moon

[sherlockjr]

Originally Posted by ErickRPG

Thanks, I'll go with City Lights and Goldrush for now.

Let me strongly recommend THE CIRCUS (1928). Chaplin wasn't too happy with it due to his personal life at the time he made it--so he ignored it after initial release and it wasn't distributed for decades so became less remembered. But that was unfair to the work: it is very good and was very successful at the time. Nominated for three Academy Awards but then the very early Academy took him out of the first competition by giving him a special award "for writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus".

THE CIRCUS has a fantastic comedic hall of mirrors sequence that has to be the inspiration for Orson Welles's tense thriller hall of mirrors sequence in THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI 19 years later.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by sherlockjr

Let me strongly recommend THE CIRCUS (1928).

He already owns it.

[Jobla]

I'd like to see:

8 WOMEN (aka 8 FEMMES, Francois Ozon)
HIGH AND LOW (with readable subtitles this time)
EYES WIDE SHUT
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (Sidney Lumet)
RETURN OF THE SEACAUCUS SEVEN
M (1951)
BLACK SUNDAY (1960, from the Alfredo Leone restoration)
WISE BLOOD (upgrade to Blu-ray if not 4K)
THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE (upgrade to Blu-ray if not 4K)
NASHVILLE (4K)

[DukeTogo84]

Here is my hopes for this month

Cyrano De Dergerac
Kenji Misumi Sword Trilogy
Killers of the Flower Moon
Da 5 Bloods
and the wild card Max My Love

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by dex14

The Shape of Water.

And was that a one-off request by GDT, or has Disney finally woken up?

I know AOUS was the same thing as WALL-E, where the director was the driving force.

I'm also shocked Disney didn't shoot both directors down. I guess that's been my real question all along. Not how did it happen, I know that answer, but why did Disney even allow it, and why don't they allow more of their stuff out?

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

One possibility could be a Von Stroheim triple like the Von Sternberg and Tod Browning ones with Greed, The Merry Widow, and The Wedding March. Blind Husbands has a new restoration that will probably come from Kino or Flicker Alley, Milestone is working on Queen Kelly.

The thought of a several-dozen-disc, multi-cut, Stroheim triple feature, with Greed as its main attraction makes me wet...

[Shane Rollins]

Despite my Spidey senses being weak with the Criterions this month, here's my predictions:

Definitely:
-Something from Japan
-At least one of the Best Picture nominees, most likely either Emilia Perez or Flow
-At least one Blu-to-4K upgrade, not sure of the age

Maybe:
-P&P, Kubrick, Scorsese
-Brazil 4K
-The Wild Bunch 4K
-Maybe one non-Japanese DVD makes the jump
-Something silent???

Not happening:
-No LD-exclusive title makes the jump this go-round

Six total releases.

[zackisthewalrus]

They’re not gonna release Emilia Perez

[ilenewoodsfan99]

All I want is
That Hamilton Woman (Blu Ray or 4K)
Trouble in Paradise
Imitation of Life (4K)
Major silents like The Wind and The Crowd.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by zackisthewalrus

They’re not gonna release Emilia Perez

Who has the rights in the US?