The Criterion Collection

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by jw007

Well, it could pertain to the region of the world you live in. Aren't you in the UK, jayembee? I think the elderly women over there can handle just about anything!

Nope, not UK. I'm a New Ham(p)ster.

[pro-bassoonist]

Happy New Year, guys

I wish you all the best - plenty of personal and professional successes.

And hopefully in 2014 you will see many of your favorite films on Blu-ray

Pro-B

[The Narrator]

According to @CriterionCorner, Criterion is not releasing It's a Wonderful Life (which most likely means it's Breaking the Waves), but they do have the rights to A Hard Day's Night.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Gusto-Guus

So when can we expect Trainspotting to be given the Criterion treatment? I assume it's getting it because it's trailer is included in the Shallow Grave blu.

The Trainspotting teaser trailer included on the Shallow Grave disc is there because it was part of the original VHS release of Shallow Grave in the UK. It's explained on the disc. Sadly I don't take it as any sign that Criterion will eventually be releasing Trainspotting.

[ShellOilJunior]

Criterion Collection 2013 - Final Poll Results

Best Cover Art

Winner - Lord of the Flies (20 Votes)

Tied- Second (15 Votes Each)
Repo Man
The Uninvited

Worst Cover Art

Winner - City Lights (12 Votes)


2nd - Frances Ha (9 Votes)
3rd - 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman (7 Votes)

Best Catalog Upgrade

Winner (T-1st) - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (10 Votes)
Tokyo Story (10 Votes)


Others of note -

John Cassavetes: Five Films (8 Votes)
Eyes Without a Face (7 Votes)

Worst Catalog Upgrade

Winner - The Earrings of Madame de... (20 Votes, 36% of all votes)


(I wasn't disappointed in anything I bought this year) (17 votes)
Ice Storm, The (6 Votes)

Best New Spine

Winner - On the Waterfront (19 Votes)


City Lights (16 Votes)
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (15 Votes)

What were they thinking?

Winner - Frances Ha (8 Votes)


Others-

I Married a Witch (5 Votes)
La Cage aux Folles (3 Votes)

Favorite Blind Buy (NO CONSENSUS)
4 Votes:
Frances Ha
A Man Escaped
3 Votes:
Pierre Etaix
Seconds
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Most Anticipated 2014 Release:
Winner - Persona (11 Votes)

Thief (7 Votes)
Throne of Blood (6 Votes)

And lastly...


Best Release of the Year

(Voters picked a top 5. 5 pts awarded to 1st place, 4 pts for 2nd place, etc)

*First Place Votes in Parenthesis

Winner - On the Waterfront 123 pts (12)

2nd - Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman 75 pts (7)

3rd - Tokyo Story 43 pts (2)

4th - City Lights 40 points (3)

5th - John Cassavetes: Five Films 38 pts (4)


Noteworthy: Nashville 35 pts (3), Marketa Lazarova 34 (3).


Thank you to all for participating. Have a great 2014!

[The Narrator]

Who voted for Frances Ha and I Married a Witch in the "What were they thinking" category? Whoever they are, they're going down.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

Interestingly*, a search for Tati's films on Criterion's website whilst excluding Out of Print titles still includes Playtime, almost as if it may come back into print...

But if you look up the page for Playtime, it does say "Out of Print" for both the Blu-ray and DVD.

(Also, it also appears Howards End is marked as OOP at the Criterion website but I see no indication of that from anywhere else...)

If you mean that you can get it cheaply enough at Amazon (well, actually, from an Amazon Marketplace seller), that just means their are unsold copies available. If you go to your search engine of choice and plug in "criterion merchant ivory", you'll get numerous links to articles detailing the lawsuit between Merchant Ivory and Janus Films, and mentioning that all of the MI titles from Criterion have gone OOP.

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Originally Posted by The Narrator

According to @CriterionCorner, Criterion is not releasing It's a Wonderful Life (which most likely means it's Breaking the Waves), but they do have the rights to A Hard Day's Night.

Sounds promising!

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

Well I suppose it's possible, but the only thing Criterion would bring to the table is new special features because unlike a title like Brazil, I don't think there are alternate versions of the film. Or are there?

Well, it could be old special features. They could haul out the extras they had on their laserdisc release of the film.

In that case, it would be disappointing because I hate when Criterion extends their energy in releasing something that's already out there when there are so many other titles that haven't been given the blu treatment yet.

I can't disagree with that. I'd love a CC release of IaWL, but I would prefer the effort be put into something else.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Nope, not UK. I'm a New Ham(p)ster.

They're even tougher there then!

[jw007]

Originally Posted by 14728

Well there are a lot of U2 fans out there (including myself), so some of us would enjoy it. And plus, I'm 99% positive it means Red Sun.

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Heck, I could think of fifty New Wave affiliated bands who I would rather see get a criterion concert release . . .

U2 is like the musical equivalent of Paul Haggis: On occasion their work can touch me deeply, but most of the time it's all overwrought phony baloney.

14728: If any U2 film should be brought to Criterion, it would be their Rattle & Hum film by Phil Joanou. It captures U2 at their most pretentious and brazen. Of all the concert films though, I'd say that their next release, ZooTV: Live in Sydney, would be the best choice since they were at their apex then.

In case you guys didn't realize it, I own one of the oldest/most popular U2 fan websites on the internet. I am about to redesign the whole thing soon. It is celebrating its 17th year online now. http://www.U2Station.com is the URL.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by bgart13

The raisin isn't an obvious clue for a Will Vinton animation comp?

That's possible (and it was my first thought as well), but I have to agree with the others that it's more likely to be A Raisin in the Sun (a Columbia title, which would likely be licensed to Criterion).

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Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Criterion Collection 2013 - Final Poll Results

[Show spoiler]Best Cover Art

Winner - Lord of the Flies (20 Votes)

Tied- Second (15 Votes Each)
Repo Man
The Uninvited

Worst Cover Art

Winner - City Lights (12 Votes)


2nd - Frances Ha (9 Votes)
3rd - 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman (7 Votes)

Best Catalog Upgrade

Winner (T-1st) - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (10 Votes)
Tokyo Story (10 Votes)


Others of note -

John Cassavetes: Five Films (8 Votes)
Eyes Without a Face (7 Votes)

Worst Catalog Upgrade

Winner - The Earrings of Madame de... (20 Votes, 36% of all votes)


(I wasn't disappointed in anything I bought this year) (17 votes)
Ice Storm, The (6 Votes)

Best New Spine

Winner - On the Waterfront (19 Votes)


City Lights (16 Votes)
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (15 Votes)

What were they thinking?

Winner - Frances Ha (8 Votes)


Others-

I Married a Witch (5 Votes)
La Cage aux Folles (3 Votes)

Favorite Blind Buy (NO CONSENSUS)
4 Votes:
Frances Ha
A Man Escaped
3 Votes:
Pierre Etaix
Seconds
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Most Anticipated 2014 Release:
Winner - Persona (11 Votes)

Thief (7 Votes)
Throne of Blood (6 Votes)

And lastly...


Best Release of the Year

(Voters picked a top 5. 5 pts awarded to 1st place, 4 pts for 2nd place, etc)

*First Place Votes in Parenthesis

Winner - On the Waterfront 123 pts (12)

2nd - Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman 75 pts (7)

3rd - Tokyo Story 43 pts (2)

4th - City Lights 40 points (3)

5th - John Cassavetes: Five Films 38 pts (4)


Noteworthy: Nashville 35 pts (3), Marketa Lazarova 34 (3).

Thank you to all for participating. Have a great 2014!

Good overall results. Interesting that Frances Ha scored high in both the "What were they thinking?" and "Favorite Blind Buy" categories.

Thanks for putting this together (again).

[starman15317]

Maybe the dancing people is from Mulholland Drive. *crosses fingers*

[starman15317]

Originally Posted by 14728

It's a long shot, but it'd be cool.

Yes please!

[ShellOilJunior]

The world will be a better place with The Beatles in the Criterion Collection.

I'm getting excited just thinking about the potential extras. I guess it's time to sell the Canadian blu-ray.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by 14728

And could the jazz band represent All that Jazz?

(Darn, someone at CriterionCast already beat me to Jazz on a Summer Day...
That red sun sure is hot, isn't it? )

Originally Posted by bgart13

The raisin isn't an obvious clue for a Will Vinton animation comp?

Originally Posted by joie

I'll take credit for Raisin in the Sun. They posted after I did. That is not an easy clue unless you've been in Cali. and seen the animated raisin cartoon ads.

Is there some specific connection to ARitS? I remember Vinton's California Raisins were rather annoyingly all over the place in the 80's, and wore out their pop-goodwill shortly after the TV Christmas special and Saturday-morning cartoon.
The craze sparked a brief renaissance for Vinton's weird artsy claymation in the late 80's, which is why I thought it was the bigscreen Vinton retrospective that played art theaters at the time (aw, c'mon, you don't remember Rex & Herb?) And Magnolia already owns "Adventures of Mark Twain".

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

The world will be a better place with The Beatles in the Criterion Collection.
I'm getting excited just thinking about the potential extras. I guess it's time to sell the Canadian blu-ray.

Sell it or burn it?

Pretty sure Apple Corps didn't own a production stake in AHDN the way they did in Help, Yellow Submarine and Let It Be (the first Beatles movie was someone else's idea), so we can't expect a private Apple/Capitol in-house disk as with the other three.
Voyager was first out with that CD-Rom, but thought AHDN had changed hands since then in the US...Although there's no more Miramax to release the DVD.

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Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

The world will be a better place with The Beatles in the Criterion Collection.

I'm getting excited just thinking about the potential extras. I guess it's time to sell the Canadian blu-ray.

I couldn't agree more! I know it's overused, but "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"

[ShellOilJunior]

So if we go by the UK release of AHDN (July 6th, 1964) then we may be hearing something in April's announcements?

A potential release also falls nicely in the window of a BN sale...

[fahrenheit290]

Originally Posted by joie

At least one is double-M, MM, for Marilyn Monroe?

If McCabe & Mrs. Miller came out this year (MM?), I would be thrilled. Wonderful film. It not being on the AFI Top 100 for American films basically invalidates the list's already dubious standard.