The Criterion Collection

[Brad1963]

My predictions for July:

Down by Law (upgrade; rumored for July)
Grey Gardens (upgrade; was a newsletter hint a while back)
Purple Noon (The Hulu addition seems like a hint that it is coming so I am adding in my predictions until it does)
Le Havre
Eating Raoul
Y Tu Mama Tambien

I think L'Avventura will end up in a Trilogy Box Set in the future. I've read they are trying to find good elements for the films. Week End I strongly think will have a release very, very soon and is my alternate if Purple Noon is not July. The Soft Skin I think will be the Fall with perhaps a Jules et Jim upgrade. Lonesome I think will be sometime soon also, maybe in the Fall. Umberto D. maybe August?

[blkhrt]

Philip Kaufman in the closet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFH...ature=youtu.be

[octagon]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

Octagon and I have been mentioning this one almost every month.

Fail-Safe has a decent shot (probably better than decent, actually) but In a Lonely Place really does feel like when and not if.

I like our chances. A lot.

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Hmmm...I must have missed those posts. The only time I noticed it begin discussed was when Twilight Time hinted that it is coming soon...and during a brief discussion of studios. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has been listing it every month.

I thought they went after it but Sony shot them down.

I started thinking it might be seriously in play after the Anatomy of a Murder release but the Twilight Time blurb (I want to say Yami posted it here) sort of sealed it for me. Sony certainly isn't going to release it themselves and if they're not licensing it to Twilight Time that doesn't leave a lot of likely suspects.

(Though I certainly wouldn't complain if somebody like Kino snagged it.)

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by octagon

Fail-Safe has a decent shot (probably better than decent, actually) but In a Lonely Place really does feel like when and not if.

I like our chances. A lot.



I thought they went after it but Sony shot them down.

I started thinking it might be seriously in play after the Anatomy of a Murder release but the Twilight Time blurb (I want to say Yami posted it here) sort of sealed it for me. Sony certainly isn't going to release it themselves and if they're not licensing it to Twilight Time that doesn't leave a lot of likely suspects.

(Though I certainly wouldn't complain if somebody like Kino snagged it.)

I meant that Twilight Time hinted it was coming soon, but not that it was coming from them...so yeah

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Philip Kaufman in the closet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFH...ature=youtu.be

Nice I love his version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[octagon]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

I meant that Twilight Time hinted it was coming soon, but not that it was coming from them...so yeah

Ah, gotcha.

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Nice I love his version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I always think Cronenberg did that version for some reason.

[Darkcritic]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

Hopefully we get some of his films he did in Mexico in the 50's.

It is a real shame to see much of his Mexican input stays just in Mexico because of rights issues. Los Olvidados is probably one of the best titles that should be in the Collection. That film is a crowning masterpiece for Buñuel, everyone should see it. There are lots and lots of other films (In fact, he did 20+ films in Mexico) that must be seen. His Mexican period is hands-down his best, in my opinion.

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Philip Kaufman in the closet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFH...ature=youtu.be

Hope that means he was meeting with Criterion to work on new supplements for The Unbearable Lightness of Being on Blu ray.

[Yami]

Being serious for a moment, I wouldn't expect an upgrade for Joan of Arc until after the 2K restoration Gaumont are conducting next year.

Hopefully, Criterion will make it 4D compatible so that the room heats up with the burning

[Hendershot737]

Originally Posted by Yami

Being serious for a moment, I wouldn't expect an upgrade for Joan of Arc until after the 2K restoration Gaumont are conducting next year.

Hopefully, Criterion will make it 4D compatible so that the room heats up with the burning

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[EricJ]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

Cat People Three-film set - Cat People (1942), Curse of the Cat People, Cat People (1982)

Have they even remotely hinted anything about that??

The Val Lewton Cat '42 and Curse are still owned by Warner, AFAIK (and the W-word now stands for "Archive", if they used to come out on boxset)--
And the Universal Cat '82....oh good lord, please tell me you're not still on those dopey guesses everyone got wrong because they couldn't get the "Panther woman" hint for Island of Lost Souls.
We buried the Pulp Fiction goof when Kiss Me Deadly came out, can we bury THIS one now by mass consent, please?

[octagon]

Originally Posted by EricJ

And the Universal Cat '82....oh good lord, please tell me you're not still on those dopey guesses everyone got wrong because they couldn't get the "Panther woman" hint for Island of Lost Souls.

It had nothing to do with the Island of Lost Souls hint. It's the result of a fun stream of consciousness conversation that started last December with this post and ended with BG's excellent box set idea (though granted I don't think either of us factored Warner into the equation).

Originally Posted by octagon

Just picking one new spine request would be really tough...

Selfish choice that will likely get a good-to-very-good release from somebody else so why bother except I'd freaking love for them to do it: Double Indemnity, Glengarry Glen Ross, Seven Days in May, Shadow of a Doubt

Selfish choice that will probably never get even a decent upgrade to the absymal DVD: Charley Varrick

Semi-campy, Semi-cool stylish 80s horror: The Hunger (I could definitely see this one happening someday), The Lair of the White Worm (bonus: Ken Russel), Cat People

God I wish Warner would let stuff go: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Rope

Originally Posted by EricJ

We buried the Pulp Fiction goof when Kiss Me Deadly came out, can we bury THIS one now by mass consent, please?

If by 'bury THIS one' you mean never mention Cat People again, eh, no, request denied.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Philip Kaufman in the closet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFH...ature=youtu.be

Philip Kaufman directed one of the most glorious and uplifting films ever made. The fact that it is missing on blu-ray is a crime, I tell ya'. I wonder how many pilots today were inspired as kids by The Right Stuff? Even if it never inspired you to fly, Kaufman's magnificent homage to courage and daring called to us all to be giants on the earth.

"But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."

Damn, I love that film.

[monque]

Originally Posted by Darkcritic

It is a real shame to see much of his Mexican input stays just in Mexico because of rights issues. Los Olvidados is probably one of the best titles that should be in the Collection. That film is a crowning masterpiece for Buñuel, everyone should see it. There are lots and lots of other films (In fact, he did 20+ films in Mexico) that must be seen. His Mexican period is hands-down his best, in my opinion.

I totally agree.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by oildude

Philip Kaufman directed one of the most glorious and uplifting films ever made. The fact that it is missing on blu-ray is a crime, I tell ya'. I wonder how many pilots today were inspired as kids by The Right Stuff? Even if it never inspired you to fly, Kaufman's magnificent homage to courage and daring called to us all to be giants on the earth.

"But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."

Damn, I love that film.

The Right stuff truly is THE greatest astronaut movie by a large margin, sorry Apollo 13 (although excellent too). Armageddon and The Astronauts Wife won't do for now? Yeesh

[rkish]

Originally Posted by oildude

Philip Kaufman directed one of the most glorious and uplifting films ever made. The fact that it is missing on blu-ray is a crime, I tell ya'. I wonder how many pilots today were inspired as kids by The Right Stuff? Even if it never inspired you to fly, Kaufman's magnificent homage to courage and daring called to us all to be giants on the earth.

"But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."

Damn, I love that film.

I bought the last DVD version of that film, when it was released a few years ago. Agreed...a great film that still manages to give me a lump in my throat. I was born the year Ike started NASA and have been a follower of all things space since then...which was capped off by watching the first Moon landing on a B&W TV in a campground in the Catskills as an 11 year old.

With all of the other docs and films about the space program that have been released...it's a crime that The Right Stuff has yet to make to move to blu...

[lowry_sam]

Perhaps Criterion will do a twofer: Quills & Henry and June.

I'll go with

The Soft Skin
A Man Escaped
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Porgy & Bess
The Apu Trilogy
Naked Lunch

[Narcissus]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

I'm hoping for the following:
Fail-Safe

Knowing there is virtually no shot that "Rosemary's Baby" will happen,
Fail Safe would be a great release. My dvd looks ok but a Criterion tune up would be

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by lowry_sam

I'll go with

The Apu Trilogy

Most likely way too early, but I'll go with ya. Besides the "We have more Godard coming" comment, Apu Trilogy is the last confirmed title from that interview they did last Fall that hasn't been announced yet.

[*DrStrangelove*]

I'm not even gonna bother trying to predict so here's what I'm hoping for:

L'avventura
Band of Outsiders
The Bad Sleep Well
The BRD Trilogy
Possession (I'm just throwing this in here)
4 months 3 weeks and 2 days

Now if Criterion would just put out what I want I would be happy