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[Brad1963]

I have my wishlist and set for today. It is mostly titles from the past that I have kept putting off purchasing.

[Brad1963]

[Show spoiler]

Originally Posted by 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.

There are many head scratchers on this list. But I do think there are some that are logical. Flow is a sure thing IMO in July for the B&N Sale. High and Low 4k I would say yes to also. I'm thinking that Nashville will return to Criterion in 4k for its 50th instead of Paramount Presents and July is the date it opened in Los Angeles 50 years ago.

[bsend]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

There are many head scratchers on this list. But I do think there are some that are logical. Flow is a sure thing IMO in July for the B&N Sale. High and Low 4k I would say yes to also. I'm thinking that Nashville will return to Criterion in 4k for its 50th instead of Paramount Presents and July is the date it opened in Los Angeles 50 years ago.

A Criterion Collection 4K release of Mannequin is all I want now and all I will think about.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

July Predictions:

Yeoman’s work! A lot to chew on.

I will say that I *am* the one who desperately wants a Criterion 4k of 2001. 2001 was one of the earliest Criterion LDs and I always believed its presence was one of the titles that gave ongoing legitimization to the whole collection. (Plus it had a wonderfully unique set of supplements that I’d love to see ported over.) Anyway, yeah, I know it’s redundant as hell but it would be my ongoing vote.

Some notes:

From what I understand, WB is working on their own 4k of The Right Stuff. I would just that as unlikely.

High and Low is a lock but it will be tied to the release date of the Spike Lee version. I think July is too early. Likewise, if Spinal Tap arrives, it’ll probably be tied to Spinal Tap II.

No chance for Some Kind of Wonderful. Same for Havana and Always.

I think a King Kong 4K is very likely for the November Citizen Kane slot, but maybe not this year.

(Also? As a connoisseur / addict of nuclear warfare films, Threads is a nightmare but Testament is the one that got into my emotional space. )

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by 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.

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 4K is still with Kino. That one even includes a BD.

[Brad1963]

[Show spoiler]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Yeoman’s work! A lot to chew on.

I will say that I *am* the one who desperately wants a Criterion 4k of 2001. 2001 was one of the earliest Criterion LDs and I always believed its presence was one of the titles that gave ongoing legitimization to the whole collection. (Plus it had a wonderfully unique set of supplements that I’d love to see ported over.) Anyway, yeah, I know it’s redundant as hell but it would be my ongoing vote.

Some notes:

From what I understand, WB is working on their own 4k of The Right Stuff. I would just that as unlikely.

High and Low is a lock but it will be tied to the release date of the Spike Lee version. I think July is too early. Likewise, if Spinal Tap arrives, it’ll probably be tied to Spinal Tap II.

No chance for Some Kind of Wonderful. Same for Havana and Always.

I think a King Kong 4K is very likely for the November Citizen Kane slot, but maybe not this year.

(Also? As a connoisseur / addict of nuclear warfare films, Threads is a nightmare but Testament is the one that got into my emotional space. )

July is not too early for High and Low if Highest 2 Lowest supposed to have a Summer 2025 release. My thinking is that it will premiere at Cannes this May and perhaps a retro screening of Kurosawa's film as well.

The sucky part is that Highest 2 Lowest is an A24 / Apple Tv+ release. So I guess we can count out a UHD and BD release for it.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

July is not too early for High and Low if Highest 2 Lowest supposed to have a Summer 2025 release. My thinking is that it will premiere at Cannes this May and perhaps a retro screening of Kurosawa's film as well.

The sucky part is that Highest 2 Lowest is an A24 / Apple Tv+ release. So I guess we can count out a UHD and BD release for it.

I think it’s probably gonna get slotted for August or early September. Any earlier and it might fade too much for Oscar season.

On the disc release, I guess it depends on who has control. If it’s A24, we’ll likely get a one. If it’s Apple, yeah, odds are real low.

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

I think it’s probably gonna get slotted for August or early September. Any earlier and it might fade too much for Oscar season.

On the disc release, I guess it depends on who has control. If it’s A24, we’ll likely get a one. If it’s Apple, yeah, odds are real low.

Perhaps A24 has the rights for physical media and will do a release in with their shop. Fingers crossed.

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Perhaps A24 has the rights for physical media and will do a release in with their shop. Fingers crossed.

It's bizarre how Joel Coen's MACBETH and CAUSEWAY still have not gotten physical releases. The only one of those that has is ON THE ROCKS.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by Scottie

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

Spellbound's restoration is already finished and screened last year.


Spinal Tap's rights were picked up by Bleecker Street

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by MovieBuff647

It's bizarre how Joel Coen's MACBETH and CAUSEWAY still have not gotten physical releases. The only one of those that has is ON THE ROCKS.

I don't understand why Netflix and Apple+ do not license titles. It is understandable at first they want people to tune in on their platforms, but once the interest in these films die down they are forgotten about. 4k and BD releases will keep the titles current and collectors would show interest owning them. Some of the Apple+ films were produced by Sony, Paramount and Argylle was Universal. At least let them release discs.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

I don't understand why Netflix and Apple+ do not license titles. It is understandable at first they want people to tune in on their platforms, but once the interest in these films die down they are forgotten about. 4k and BD releases will keep the titles current and collectors would show interest owning them. Some of the Apple+ films were produced by Sony, Paramount and Argylle was Universal. At least let them release discs.

Netflix certainly does. Off the top of my head, there's Beasts of No Nation, Roma, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Okja, The Power of the Dog and I'm forgetting some. And there's still at least one more, Atlantics, confirmed to still be coming.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Netflix certainly does. Off the top of my head, there's Beasts of No Nation, Roma, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Okja, The Power of the Dog and I'm forgetting some. And there's still at least one more, Atlantics, confirmed to still be coming.

Yeah, 10 releases to date

Roma
Marriage Story
The Irishman
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Beasts of No Nation
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Okja
The Power of the Dog
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Mudbound

Besides Atlantics, the Oscar-winning documentary American Factory (2019) was also confirmed at one point to be coming to Criterion, though I'm not sure if that's changed now.

[freesnake]

Speaking of Spellbound, I've said this already in a Charlie Chaplin thread, and I will say it again here: I lost the enthusiasm with Criterion as a whole sometime in the half-2010s.

I only care about a few of directors that they have: Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa... And I feel like they won't ever finish what they have of them. A Kurosawa 27-film, or 20-film set isn't happening. Remaining Hitchcock and Chaplin aren't happening either. So it's over for me.

I enjoyed the Bruce Lee box a lot... I was actually surprised at the time that they did it, because those are the kind of "popular movies" not usual from Criterion... But I think that, most importantly, Criterion became overpriced. They don't include 40-page booklets anymore (at least not in the titles that I checked and interested me), but sell at a price equivalent to thick-packaged special editions, or multi-film boxsets, from other distributors. Not to mention, other boutique labels have more popular, mid-to-low quality (critics-wise) titles and aren't ashamed of them. Criterion seems too much absorbed in the somewhat-elitist aesthetics of "intellectual"/"arthouse" film and audience.

[dwk]

I am curious about July, because Brazil is 100% something that they'd normally save for July/November release. (And Sorcerer), too, seems like a classic July/November title.) So do they have a bigger title(s) planned or are they going to shift from overloading July/November with big titles?

[Wackotaco]

Just a few minutes now...

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by dwk

I am curious about July, because Brazil is 100% something that they'd normally save for July/November release. (And Sorcerer), too, seems like a classic July/November title.) So do they have a bigger title(s) planned or are they going to shift from overloading July/November with big titles?

That's the same thing I said about their April lineup. That one easily could have been a July / November slate, with 7 releases / 8 Films, and major stuff too.

Chungking Express 4K
Anora 4K
Ugetsu 4K
Basquiat 4K
Some Like it Hot 4K
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring 4K
Prince of Broadway Blu-ray

There was at least one other month earlier too that I recall being a lot more packed than usual. I just think Criterion have a lot of big titles they're planning to release, so they can't just save them all for the major months anymore. I also wouldn't be surprised if they're also clearing the path for a big box set for one of those months too.

[dbhl3000]

Originally Posted by Wackotaco

Just a few minutes now...

I have butterflies in my stomach because I have no life.

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by freesnake

I enjoyed the Bruce Lee box a lot... I was actually surprised at the time that they did it, because those are the kind of "popular movies" not usual from Criterion... But I think that, most importantly, Criterion became overpriced. They don't include 40-page booklets anymore (at least not in the titles that I checked and interested me), but sell at a price equivalent to thick-packaged special editions, or multi-film boxsets, from other distributors. Not to mention, other boutique labels have more popular, mid-to-low quality (critics-wise) titles and aren't ashamed of them. Criterion seems too much absorbed in the somewhat-elitist aesthetics of "intellectual"/"arthouse" film and audience.

They're putting out Jackie Chan films on the regular and Sammo Hung just a couple months ago. Yes, their actual mission statement from day one is putting out *important* contemporary and classic films, which means that it probably wasn't aimed at you to begin with, but they have fun all the time. Winchester 73 is pure Western goodness. Crossing Delancey is the very definition of contemporary crowd-pleaser. We got a new Godzilla film this month! The wildly entertaining Musketeers movies hit soon, and The Wiz was critically drubbed but is pure escapist fun. Shaft and Double Indemnity! The Girl Can't Help It! Risky Business was a huge, popular comedy hit. The Incredible Shrinking Man is not far off in the past.

I get if none of these are your taste, but Criterion dips its toes into all sorts of film experiences all the time.