The Criterion Collection

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Sommerswerd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c

Wow. A genuine living legend visiting the closet. And showing some Renoir love, a director who time seems to be passing by lately. Now that they got Charles in there, maybe we'll see Scorsese soon?

[sherlockjr]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

Wow. A genuine living legend visiting the closet. And showing some Renoir love, a director who time seems to be passing by lately. Now that they got Charles in there, maybe we'll see Scorsese soon?

Scorsese doesn't really need the Criterion closet. Scorsese has his own very large film collection on actual--mostly 35mm--film. So large that he has an archival collection manager to oversee it. His nitrate collection is housed at the Eastman Museum--I've seen a few of those prints there--don't know about his safety film.

It does seem a bit curious that Scorsese has never done a Criterion Closet. It's not like he'd have to travel far to get to it! Just hop on the subway. However, he does have a very nice set of Scorsese Recommends selections on the Criterion website. Sadly without the commentary to go with them:

https://www.criterion.com/shop/colle...ese-recommends

No idea how recent that list is.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by sherlockjr

Scorsese doesn't really need the Criterion closet. Scorsese has his own very large film collection on actual--mostly 35mm--film. So large that he has an archival collection manager to oversee it. His nitrate collection is housed at the Eastman Museum--I've seen a few of those prints there--don't know about his safety film.

It does seem a bit curious that Scorsese has never done a Criterion Closet. It's not like he'd have to travel far to get to it! Just hop on the subway. However, he does have a very nice set of Scorsese Recommends selections on the Criterion website. Sadly without the commentary to go with them:

https://www.criterion.com/shop/colle...ese-recommends

No idea how recent that list is.

Yes, I know most of this about Scorsese. I only used him as an example of someone with the cache of Charles Burnett. I didn’t mean it literally. There just aren’t that many legendary directors left anymore. Coppola visited the closet already. Maybe Spielberg?

[Rayjg]

I think Spielberg and Lucas are just too big to visit Criterion’s closet. Has any other billionaire been in it?

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Rayjg

I think Spielberg and Lucas are just too big to visit Criterion’s closet. Has any other billionaire been in it?

Coppola. (Less from his films than his winery empire.)

[Rayjg]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Coppola. (Less from his films than his winery empire.)

He’s worth over a billion? I do admire him putting his own dough into his movies. No way Spielberg ever does that.

[CinemaBlu]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

Wow. A genuine living legend visiting the closet. And showing some Renoir love, a director who time seems to be passing by lately. Now that they got Charles in there, maybe we'll see Scorsese soon?

Originally Posted by sherlockjr

Scorsese doesn't really need the Criterion closet. Scorsese has his own very large film collection on actual--mostly 35mm--film. So large that he has an archival collection manager to oversee it. His nitrate collection is housed at the Eastman Museum--I've seen a few of those prints there--don't know about his safety film.

It does seem a bit curious that Scorsese has never done a Criterion Closet. It's not like he'd have to travel far to get to it! Just hop on the subway. However, he does have a very nice set of Scorsese Recommends selections on the Criterion website. Sadly without the commentary to go with them:

https://www.criterion.com/shop/colle...ese-recommends

No idea how recent that list is.

Scorsese did a Criterion Top 10 list a long time ago, with commentary. It's worth checking out.

https://www.criterion.com/current/to...rsese-s-top-10

Also, Scorsese is a big Criterion fan. If you see video interviews of him in his home office, he's got Criterions displayed on his bookshelves. I specifically remember seeing the Leave Her to Heaven BD displayed there. But yeah, he's got a big print collection and doesn't really need Criterion, but he does very much care about the films being out there and accessible.

[reggieau]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

That's disappointing, especially since their site prominently notes all three films are from 4K restorations. Any chance of screenshots?

Henry V:

[Show spoiler]

Hamlet:

[Show spoiler]

Richard III:

[Show spoiler]

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

Coppola. (Less from his films than his winery empire.)

Originally Posted by Rayjg

He’s worth over a billion? I do admire him putting his own dough into his movies. No way Spielberg ever does that.

He's worth a lot, but not a billionaire.

[MifuneFan]

Aside from the value of his assets, Coppola is actually largely broke right now in terms of liquidity due to the mega failure of his self-financed film Megalopolis.

[Jackie Scanlon]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Aside from the value of his assets, Coppola is actually largely broke right now in terms of liquidity due to the mega failure of his self-financed film Megalopolis.

Yeah, he sold off a massive chunk of his vineyards and remortgaged some others, so he's far from cash rich right now. Mind you, he's spent far more of his life scrabbling around for money than he has being fully financially secure, so I doubt he's particularly worried about it. And he's always got Sofia and Roman - both worth a few quid themselves - to look after him.

[Egbert Souse]

Originally Posted by reggieau

Henry V:

[Show spoiler]

Hamlet:

[Show spoiler]

Richard III:

[Show spoiler]

That is incredibly disappointing! And their site still says they're new 4K restorations! Sort of makes sense given I can't find any information online on Henry V or Hamlet receiving new restorations other than the Imprint page. Perhaps Criterion will come to the rescue, but it doesn't even sound like those restorations exist yet.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

That is incredibly disappointing! And their site still says they're new 4K restorations! Sort of makes sense given I can't find any information online on Henry V or Hamlet receiving new restorations other than the Imprint page. Perhaps Criterion will come to the rescue, but it doesn't even sound like those restorations exist yet.

I don't believe they said they were new restorations on their site.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by Rayjg

He’s worth over a billion? I do admire him putting his own dough into his movies. No way Spielberg ever does that.

Spielberg hasn't had to do that so far, not even for his 'different' films like Schindler's List and Munich. He has always found studios willing to throw money his way. But I'm sure if at any time in the future he had to, he would.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Aside from the value of his assets, Coppola is actually largely broke right now in terms of liquidity due to the mega failure of his self-financed film Megalopolis.

He might now cave in and put out the linear Godfather Saga on 4K, which might make him a fair chunk of dough.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I don't believe they said they were new restorations on their site.

They say they’re from 4K restorations.

https://viavision.com.au/shop/lauren...TfrkGCnsauRmL6

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Aside from the value of his assets, Coppola is actually largely broke right now in terms of liquidity due to the mega failure of his self-financed film Megalopolis.

He sold a *part* of his winery, and got $500 million plus for it. And though it wound up coming out of his own money, he only spent $20 million on the advertising campaign for the very limited release of the $120 million film. (Which the box office almost covered.) So he's very, very, very much in the pink. The sale really finances all the films he wants to do for the rest of his life, and his Inglenook winery remains an ongoing and very profitable concern. IIRC, he said he's already working on his next film.

So yeah, it's not Lucas or Spielberg money, but he's not broke like after his early 80s disasters.

[Rayjg]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

He sold a *part* of his winery, and got $500 million plus for it. And though it wound up coming out of his own money, he only spent $20 million on the advertising campaign for the very limited release of the $120 million film. (Which the box office almost covered.) So he's very, very, very much in the pink. The sale really finances all the films he wants to do for the rest of his life, and his Inglenook winery remains an ongoing and very profitable concern. IIRC, he said he's already working on his next film.

So yeah, it's not Lucas or Spielberg money, but he's not broke like after his early 80s disasters.

This is more in line with what I’ve read about him lately. He also sold, or is in the process of selling, the old Zoetrope headquarters in San Francisco. That should net him a pretty penny too.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

They say they’re from 4K restorations.

https://viavision.com.au/shop/lauren...TfrkGCnsauRmL6

Right, just not new. I can't find info on the other two, but the Criterion release of Richard III is from a 4K restoration, so this is using that same source. It is interesting that Richard III is the only one that they go into details about with regards to the restoration, and that's the only one we know for sure had a 4K restoration.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by DimitriL

He sold a *part* of his winery, and got $500 million plus for it. And though it wound up coming out of his own money, he only spent $20 million on the advertising campaign for the very limited release of the $120 million film. (Which the box office almost covered.) So he's very, very, very much in the pink. The sale really finances all the films he wants to do for the rest of his life, and his Inglenook winery remains an ongoing and very profitable concern. IIRC, he said he's already working on his next film.

So yeah, it's not Lucas or Spielberg money, but he's not broke like after his early 80s disasters.

I'm going by what Coppola himself says:

Francis Ford Coppola Says He Doesn’t Have “Any Money” for His Post-Megalopolis Movie

Francis Ford Coppola has run out of vineyards to sell. The director of The Godfather, The Conversation, and more iconic films is hard at work on his next movie, but he recently told Rick Rubin on his Tetragammaton podcast that it’s going to have a smaller budget than his previous film, Megalopolis, because “I don’t have any money.”

Coppola described his next project, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel Glimpses of the Moon, as a “’30s-style strange musical” when interviewed by the Washington Post last December. Now, he’s facing the budget limitations from Megalopolis’s failure to recoup the $120 million he invested in it. Said Coppola on the podcast:

“It’s as though Noel Coward adapted an Edith Wharton novel in England which is why I’m here in the UK. I’m actually in pre production. I don’t have any money because I invested all the money, that I borrowed, to make Megalopolis. It’s basically gone. I think it’ll come back over 15 or 20 years, but I don’t have it now. So I don’t have any money. I have to do this film very cheap, which is what I’m doing.”