The Criterion Collection

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

Maybe someone else has the sources but I suspect Criterion is sitting on these films...



and for those long shot box sets...

[Show spoiler]

If memory serves, I believe someone said Spellbound was in bad shape and needed a lot of work before it was anywhere close to being released.

I get the feeling that also have the rights to and/or plan to release:

Dead Presidents
Eat Drink Man Woman
French Connection II (with TFC1 release)
In the Bedroom
Lost in Translation
Sling Blade
This Is Spinal Tap
The Wedding Banquet

[dbhl3000]

I really want Cost-of-Graves' Missing with Jack Lemmon Peel and Sissy Space Cadet to get the Criterion Collection 4K treatment.

[BorisKarloffice]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

And finally here are releases previously released in HD in the US, but are new to Criterion:

Godzilla vs Biollante
The Grifters
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring
Night Moves
Performance
Sorcerer
The Wind Will Carry Us
The Wiz

I think Biollante deserves an asterisk because the prior US Blu-rays and DVDs have been out of print for far longer than they were in print. For a lot of people this will be the first opportunity to own it on disc at all.

[bonehica]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms

Carrie Coon fleecing the closet is no shock. It's very well known that her and her husband, Tracy Letts, have a massive collection. Some great choices here and a couple I will need to pickup during tomorrow's sale.

[Shane Rollins]

July Predictions:

This June slate really messed up my predictions, since I truly expected Brazil to be the big title of a July or November slate, similar to Pat Garrett last year.

The total is somewhere between six and eight releases.

Highly likely:
-Barry Lyndon 4K
-I Know Where I'm Going! 4K and Blu-ray
-Flow 4K and Blu-ray

Somewhat likely:
-Monty Python And The Holy Grail 4K and Blu-ray
-Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 4K and Blu-ray
-Who's That Knocking At My Door 4K and Blu-ray
-Eyes Wide Shut 4K and Blu-ray (the actual director's cut, which has never been released in any form)
-Lolita 4K and Blu-ray
-High And Low 4K
-Tokyo Drifter 4K
-A Bergman 4K for the first time in a while (I'd prefer either Wild Strawberries of The Virgin Spring, but I'll take any of them)
-Burn! 4K and Blu-ray
-Dog Day Afternoon 4K
-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 4K
-The Aviator 4K and Blu-ray
-The Irishman 4K
-Goodfellas 4K and Blu-ray (proper DV/HDR grade)
-Forbidden Planet 4K and Blu-ray
-The Right Stuff 4K and Blu-ray
-Star 80 4K and Blu-ray
-Private Benjamin 4K and Blu-ray
-Cabaret 4K and Blu-ray
-Hairspray 4K and Blu-ray
-Desperate Living Blu-ray (per John Waters, Criterion wants Hairspray first, so the question is how fast did they move on one to get to the other)
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off 4K and Blu-ray
-Planes, Trains And Automobiles 4K
-Some Kind Of Wonderful 4K and Blu-ray
-Fast Times At Ridgemont High 4K
-The Breakfast Club 4K
-Tokyo Story 4K
-That Hamilton Woman Blu-ray (come on, someone has to have this)
-The Man Who Came To Dinner Blu-ray
-Scanners 4K
-Spartacus 4K and Blu-ray
-Life Of Brian 4K and Blu-ray
-Godzilla: Minus One 4K, 3D Blu-ray, and Blu-ray
-Testament 4K and Blu-ray
-Threads 4K and Blu-ray (makes Testament look like The Wizard Of Oz)
-Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom 4K (good news, it has a 4K restoration, bad news, it's from L'Immagine Ritrovata, worse news, that's not a joke)
-The Wild Bunch 4K and Blu-ray (all cuts and both soundtracks fully restored)
-Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia 4K (those burned in subs everyone hated were originals...restore them)
-At least one of those 4K Fellini restorations on UHD
-Individual 4K and blu-ray releases of the films in the America Lost And Found: The BBS Story set, if not a 4K release of the entire set
-Bonnie And Clyde 4K
-All The President's Men 4K and Blu-ray
-Always 4K and Blu-ray
-Havana 4K and Blu-ray
-Amistad 4K and Blu-ray
-American Beauty 4K and Blu-ray
-All Pink Panther films on 4K and Blu-ray
-Lisztomania 4K and Blu-ray
-The Music Lovers 4K and Blu-ray
-Women In Love 4K
-On Golden Pond 4K and Blu-ray
-Bugsy 4K and Blu-ray
-Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 4K and Blu-ray
-Goodbye Mr. Chips 39 4K and Blu-ray
-This Is Spinal Tap 4K and Blu-ray
-When Harry Met Sally 4K and Blu-ray
-The Misfits 4K and Blu-ray
-Sid & Nancy 4K
-Midnight Cowboy 4K
-Love Story 4K and Blu-ray
-A Place In The Sun 4K and Blu-ray
-Bugsy Malone 4K and Blu-ray
-Nashville 4K
-Ragtime 4K
-Ordinary People 4K and Blu-ray
-The War Of The Worlds 53 4K
-The Damned 4K
-The Counterfeit Traitor 4K and Blu-ray

The MGM redux of the month:
-The Silence Of The Lambs 4K
-The Killing/Killer's Kiss 4K
-Paths Of Glory 4K
-12 Angry Men 4K
-The Manchurian Candidate 4K
-The Great Escape 4K

Rumored:
-The French Connection 4K and Blu-ray
-Captain Blood 35 4K and Blu-ray

Way out of left field:
-Mannequin 4K and Blu-ray
-The Secret Of NIMH 4K and Blu-ray
-Charlotte's Web 4K and Blu-ray
-The Blob 4K
-Christine 4K and Blu-ray
-The Robe 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts)
-A Room With A View 4K
-The Wild One 4K and Blu-ray

The obligatory reprint that no one asked for:
-Taxi Driver 4K and Blu-ray
-2001: A Space Odyssey 4K and Blu-ray
-Dr. Strangelove 4K
-It Happened One Night 4K
-Annie 4K and Blu-ray
-As Good As It Gets 4K and Blu-ray
-Rain Man 4K and Blu-ray
-Almost Famous 4K and Blu-ray

Unlikely:
-A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket 4Ks and Blu-rays (restored mono tracks, all cuts, all ARs, all special features)
-Ben-Hur 59 (already restored)
-Doctor Zhivago (already restored)
-The Wizard Of Oz 4K and Blu-ray (with the mono track restored and a boatload of features)
-King Kong 4K and Blu-ray
-Dances With Wolves 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts)
-Gettysburg 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts)
-The Unbearable Lightness Of Being 4k and Blu-ray
-At Play In The Fields Of The Lord 4K and Blu-ray
-Peggy Sue Got Married 4K and Blu-ray
-The Ten Commandments 23 Blu-ray (I'm thinking someone's trying to find better color sources, since the "color footage" I've seen is sourced from a raggedy tape, which itself is sourced from a raggedy film print with more issues than even I can list)
-Gypsy 4K and Blu-ray
-Saturday Night Fever 4K and Blu-ray (new restoration of all cuts)
-The Dirty Dozen 4K and Blu-ray
-The Women 4K and Blu-ray
-What Ever Happened To Baby Jane 4K and Blu-ray (how many times have Bette and Joan even made it into the collection?)
-Summertime 4K (but what AR will it be?)
-Memento 4K and Blu-ray
-The Year Of Living Dangerously 4K and Blu-ray
-The Mosquito Coast 4K and Blu-ray
-Around The World In 80 Days 4K and Blu-ray (at least the 24fps and 30fps cuts fully restored, assuming the project moved faster than we thought it would)
-Glengarry Glen Ross 4K and Blu-ray
-Once Were Warriors 4K and Blu-ray
-American History X 4K and Blu-ray (at least the theatrical cut, at most all cuts)
-Sling Blade 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts fully restored)
-California Split 4K and Blu-ray (preferably the original cut)
-Heaven's Gate 4K (preferably all cuts)
-In Cold Blood 4K
-Capote 4K and Blu-ray

No signs of happening, but I want them anyway:
-The Devils 4K (117-minute director's cut)
-Twin Peaks 4K and Blu-ray
-High Society 4K and Blu-ray
-O Lucky Man! 4K and Blu-ray
-Kundun 4K and Blu-ray
-THX-1138 4K and Blu-ray (include proper versions of the 1971 DC, 1971 TC, and 1976 DC, and Lucas can do whatever he wants with the rest)
-Blade Runner 4K and Blu-ray (all cuts fully restored)
-Once Upon A Time In America 4K and Blu-ray (all surviving cuts fully restored)
-The Rock 4K and Blu-ray
-Armageddon 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts)
-Pearl Harbor 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts)
-Gone With The Wind 4K and Blu-ray (what would've been laserdisc #385)
-The Hustler and The Color Of Money 4Ks and Blu-rays
-The Exorcist 4K and Blu-ray (the 1973 theatrical cut, with the correct color timing, with the original mono track)
-The Alamo 4K and Blu-ray (all cuts fully restored)
-Greed Blu-ray (at least the 1987 Thames Silents cut and the 1999 TCM cut, fully restored)
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show 4K and Blu-ray (possibly with Shock Treatment as a bonus feature?)
-Last Summer 4K and Blu-ray (all three cuts fully restored)
-Woodstock 4K and Blu-ray (preferably with all surviving footage included as a bonus feature)
-Manhunter 4K and Blu-ray (the original theatrical cut)
-Quo Vadis 4K and Blu-ray
-Fiddler On The Roof 4K and Blu-ray
-West Side Story 4K and Blu-ray
-Pink Floyd - The Wall 4K and Blu-ray
-Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi 4Ks and Blu-rays (original theatrical cuts)
-El Cid 4K and Blu-ray
-Hawaii 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts fully restored)
-Lawrence Of Arabia 4K and Blu-ray (all cuts fully restored)
-Ryan's Daughter 4K and Blu-ray (both cuts fully restored)
-The Magnificent Ambersons 4K (with the laserdisc special features included)
-Killers Of The Flower Moon 4K and Blu-ray
-CODA 4K and Blu-ray
-Fully uncut, fully intact, fully authorized Blu-rays of John Waters' shorts, Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, and Pink Flamingos
-The Filth And The Fury/The Great Rock 'N' Role Swindle Blu-ray (Filth has the better story, Swindle has great music, both are absent on Blu)
-Show Me Love (aka F*cking Åmål, Raus aus Åmål) 4K and Blu-ray
-Frankie And Johnny 4K and Blu-ray
-My Cousin Vinny 4K and Blu-ray
-Gran Torino 4K and Blu-ray
-The Bridges Of Madison County 4K and Blu-ray
-And Justice For All 4K and Blu-ray (where "You're out of order!" really came from)
-The Day The Earth Stood Still 51 4K and Blu-ray
-Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 4K and Blu-ray
-The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford 4K and Blu-ray
-A History of Violence 4K and Blu-ray
-Romancing The Stone and The Jewel of The Nile 4Ks and Blu-rays
-Pirates Of Silicon Valley 4K and Blu-ray (yes, I know it was a TV movie, but it was a damn good one)
-American Hot Wax 4K and Blu-ray (due to a major clerical error, no music was ever authorized for this film at all, which likely means it will never be released again)
-All cuts of all of Michael Jackson's music videos and Moonwalker on 4K and Blu-ray
-All cuts of all the rest of the Ultra-Panavision 70 films, fully restored, on 4K and Blu-ray (aside from Ben-Hur, none of them are currently being worked on, and only one, Raintree County, has a small ray of hope from WB's George Feltenstein, but not an outright approval)
-Sunset Boulevard 4K and Blu-ray

So...6-8 releases total, and at least four of them are in this list.

[Scottie]

Diary of a Country Priest should be coming out to HD in the foreseeable future.

Criterion just released it in HD on Apple TV.

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

-The Filth And The Fury/The Great Rock 'N' Role Swindle Blu-ray

This would be the release of the year for me...

[Shane Rollins]

CC40 is at $445.60 on our homepage. Is this a price match due to the sale, or has the price (wisely) gone down?

[Querelle]

Originally Posted by Driver78

there is NO dearth of Japanese films making their way to disc. Japanese cinema is still being very generously represented if you don't limit yourself to one continent.

I would certainly agree with this, assuming we're not just talking about Criterion and are factoring in other boutique labels. I stopped paying attention to Eureka there for a while because it seemed like all they put out was Japanese samurai/martial arts stuff, which isn't my jam. I would never call Japan an underrepresented country when it comes to English-friendly home video

[Watershipdownisgood]

Honestly, I really don’t know what to expect with Criterion this year like at all since May, and June had titles that came out of nowhere I have no idea what we’re getting in July, or beyond. Meaning I have a strong feeling certain titles are going to be on the table that I thought would never happen.

That being
White Dog
Dead Presidents
Secret Agent
Sabotage
The Year of Living Dangerously A couple of Peter Weir films are already getting restorations this year one being the Cars that Ate Paris so I wouldn’t put it past Criterion to put this out.
Rosewood I can definitely see it possibly happening it has been a really big year for African American cinema on Blu-Ray, and 4K so why not Rosewood too.
High Society I really definitely see Criterion putting this out not WAC
Power and The Hill from Sidney Lumet both of these titles fit Criterion so well so why not
The Defiant Ones
The Long Voyage Home
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist

Also Once Were Warriors already got a Blu-Ray this year from a VS partner label so it would be up to that label to put out a 4K not Criterion as Criterion doesn’t own that title anymore.

[Scottie]

Keep in mind that July and November should be big months for releases.

[Areyakiddin]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

[Show spoiler]Maybe someone else has the sources but I suspect Criterion is sitting on these films...



and for those long shot box sets...

[Show spoiler]

It would be interesting if the reason we haven't seen Warner Archive release a Bette Davis title in a while is because Criterion is planning on doing a Bette Davis box set.

[Shane Rollins]

The first two of you gave me more ideas.

Originally Posted by Querelle

I would certainly agree with this, assuming we're not just talking about Criterion and are factoring in other boutique labels. I stopped paying attention to Eureka there for a while because it seemed like all they put out was Japanese samurai/martial arts stuff, which isn't my jam. I would never call Japan an underrepresented country when it comes to English-friendly home video

We need a 4K of Querelle. I literally don't even care that the Blu-ray dropped in June of 2024. That disc sucked, and despite the great movie, the poor PQ made me regret buying it. (For reference, there was some American Dad episode, I forget which one, where Stan said something sucks and loudly dragged out the word "sucks" for about ten seconds. That's what I thought of the picture quality of Querelle.) I might've accepted that disc in 2005, but it's well below the .500 mark in 2024-2025.

If Querelle got a 4K, I'd happily shout down anyone saying "all Criterion does is rerelease Blu-rays".

Originally Posted by Watershipdownisgood

Honestly, I really don’t know what to expect with Criterion this year like at all since May, and June had titles that came out of nowhere I have no idea what we’re getting in July, or beyond. Meaning I have a strong feeling certain titles are going to be on the table that I thought would never happen.

That being
White Dog
Dead Presidents
Secret Agent
Sabotage
The Year of Living Dangerously A couple of Peter Weir films are already getting restorations this year one being the Cars that Ate Paris so I wouldn’t put it past Criterion to put this out.
Rosewood I can definitely see it possibly happening it has been a really big year for African American cinema on Blu-Ray, and 4K so why not Rosewood too.
High Society I really definitely see Criterion putting this out not WAC
Power and The Hill from Sidney Lumet both of these titles fit Criterion so well so why not
The Defiant Ones
The Long Voyage Home
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist

Also Once Were Warriors already got a Blu-Ray this year from a VS partner label so it would be up to that label to put out a 4K not Criterion as Criterion doesn’t own that title anymore.

I forgot about so many of these. All of these, aside from Dead Presidents, Secret Agent, and Sabotage (first one's definitely owned by Disney, the other two I'm not sure), are likely with Criterion. I hope the other three are with Criterion, but I'm not holding my breath. Another recent podcast (I believe with Frank Tarzi but don't quote me) said that Disney is still refusing to make deals with anyone, because what they're doing now - sitting on film history, letting only a fraction of it out on Disney+, treating Fox and Touchstone and Hollywood like their ugly redheaded stepchildren, refusing to make deals with anyone besides the Mill Creek Coaster Factory - is working perfectly for them.

So...here's hoping they go down soon. They're approaching the plateau, the gains are less and less year after year, and the losses are more and more year after year. (The gains still outnumber the losses, but that can't last forever.) Once they hit that plateau, the only place to go is down.

Originally Posted by Scottie

Keep in mind that July and November should be big months for releases.

Keep in mind that we literally got Brazil in June. Brazil is one of Criterion's crown jewels. So if lowly June got lowly Brazil, July is going to whoop ass this year.

So...bigger than Brazil for July.

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

The first two of you gave me more ideas.



We need a 4K of Querelle. I literally don't even care that the Blu-ray dropped in June of 2024. That disc sucked, and despite the great movie, the poor PQ made me regret buying it. (For reference, there was some American Dad episode, I forget which one, where Stan said something sucks and loudly dragged out the word "sucks" for about ten seconds. That's what I thought of the picture quality of Querelle.) I might've accepted that disc in 2005, but it's well below the .500 mark in 2024-2025.

If Querelle got a 4K, I'd happily shout down anyone saying "all Criterion does is rerelease Blu-rays".



I forgot about so many of these. All of these, aside from Dead Presidents, Secret Agent, and Sabotage (first one's definitely owned by Disney, the other two I'm not sure), are likely with Criterion. I hope the other three are with Criterion, but I'm not holding my breath. Another recent podcast (I believe with Frank Tarzi but don't quote me) said that Disney is still refusing to make deals with anyone, because what they're doing now - sitting on film history, letting only a fraction of it out on Disney+, treating Fox and Touchstone and Hollywood like their ugly redheaded stepchildren, refusing to make deals with anyone besides the Mill Creek Coaster Factory - is working perfectly for them.

So...here's hoping they go down soon. They're approaching the plateau, the gains are less and less year after year, and the losses are more and more year after year. (The gains still outnumber the losses, but that can't last forever.) Once they hit that plateau, the only place to go is down.



Keep in mind that we literally got Brazil in June. Brazil is one of Criterion's crown jewels. So if lowly June got lowly Brazil, July is going to whoop ass this year.

So...bigger than Brazil for July.

The one thing that would top Brazil is releasing their laserdisc Hitchcock titles in a Blu-Ray box set along with an Akira Kurosawa new to Blu-Ray box set. I wonder hmmmmm

Also since someone else mentioned it a Bette Davis box set too would be pretty big as well. They did say we're getting more box sets so if I have to guess these three box sets I mentioned would make a lot of sense.

[RevolverOcelScott]

Originally Posted by backwater

Apparently Criterion confirmed at SXSW that Fire Walk with Me 4k will be released in November: https://www.hometheaterforum.com/com...2#post-5397604

Awesome news. Wish they were doing the entire series too.

[DrasticHandprint]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

-Nashville 4K
..
-The War Of The Worlds 53 4K

I’m not really sure how likely Nashville is. The only reason it went OOP the first time is because Paramount released it themselves in their own line, and if a 4k release were to happen it would almost definitely be there and not via Criterion.

TWOTW is also fairly unlikely imo, because it has its own standalone studio 4k, and I’m pretty sure it has all the extras from the Criterion edition, too. I am all for Criterion upgrading things, but I’d join in with the crowd being upset with a slot wasted on this one.

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

Maybe someone else has the sources but I suspect Criterion is sitting on these films...



and for those long shot box sets...

[Show spoiler]

This too:

[Rayjaymay]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

CC40 is at $445.60 on our homepage. Is this a price match due to the sale, or has the price (wisely) gone down?

That set lists for $799. The flash sale would have it for $400, so not a price match.

[RevolverOcelScott]

When does the flash sale normally go live? 10am est?

[latehong]

Originally Posted by RevolverOcelScott

When does the flash sale normally go live? 10am est?

Noon EST.