The Criterion Collection

[jlk5844]

Excellent news about the Lady Snowblood films! Wow, couldn't have gone to a better NA distributor. That's an announcement that gets me excited, been wanting to dig into Meiko Kaji's filmography for years, and with this and Arrow's releases of Blind Woman's Curse and the Stray Cat Rock Collection, 2015 is proving to be quite a year for her in the U.S. Hopefully we'll see a Yojimbo/Sanjuro style box set in October or November. As others have mentioned, we just need the Female Convict Scorpion films to come out on Blu-ray.

[cakefactory]

My guesses definitely do not include Mulholland Dr or Blue is the Warmest Color or The Brood. :P

Two Days, One Night would be my hope, I loved that movie.

[jlk5844]

I doubt Mulholland Drive will be announced today, one member in here who has connections said he hasn't heard anything about that title being worked on. I'd love to be proven wrong though!

[jlk5844]

Honestly at this point I'm wondering if Blue is the Warmest Color's Special Edition won't come out for another 2-3 years, maybe to allow some distance not only from the current barebones release but also from the film for the actresses who didn't enjoy the experience.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

As my predictions are pretty much all things that are guaranteed to come, I'll actually add in Take the Money and Run. There's plenty of phantom pages for it...

That would be a fascinating release. Criterion has said they wouldn't release a Woody Allen film unless they can secure and/or produce extras. Maybe they'd give us two films? Add Bananas to the release maybe?

[italy12]

Totally forgot today was announcement day!!!!!!!

Only 4 more hours left!!!!!

Yay!!!!!

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

I see what the main problem is what that article:

"But the worst problem is the directors themselves."

and then in the table below:

"Criterion disc is recolored based on input from the director."

and that director is..... Terrence Malick!! Oh no, he di'nt!! doesn't he/she know that Malick is Cinema Jesus?!

well it's not entirely untrue that directors tamper with their films, excited maybe by the new technology.
Cameron teals up his films, there were 2 versions of French Connection approved by Friedkin, so with all these changes we won't know in a few years, what were the original colors of the films.

Anyway, back to criterion announcements discussion!
Still curious if one of them is New World, what cut(s) will it include!

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by italy12

Totally forgot today was announcement day!!!!!!!

Only 4 more hours left!!!!!

Yay!!!!!

You don't have the early scoop on the announcements?

[Bates_Motel]

Because I already bought the UK editions of The Adventures of Antoine Doniel, Rosselini's War Trilogy and pre-ordered the Dreyer box Set, I'm sure one of those will be released. There's so many titles already out in Europe that Criterion has the rights to - Shoot the Piano Player, Thief of Bagdad, The Killers (both versions), Bernard's Wooden Crosses & Les Miserables, Scenes From a Marriage, Pickup on South Street coming in August - that you have to think all these will eventually be upgraded. But really, IMO, Criterion should try to get them out close to the same time, or they are just losing sales to the people who import and don't want to wait several years to get this stuff in HD.

[ShellOilJunior]

Thief of Bagdad would make for a great summer release.

[Dragun]

Blue is the Warmest Color thread

Originally Posted by Norange

Appearantly there aren't any plans at this moment to release an extended edition of Blue Is The Warmest Color. So why does this thread even exist in the first place? I wrote to Criterion to enquire about this, and got this reply:

"To the best of my knowledge, there are no immediate plans to release
the full Criterion treatment version of BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR. We
do try to announce our upcoming releases as far in advance as
possible, so the best way to stay up-to-date on our future release
plans is to check our "Coming Soon" section and e-newsletter."

[LPMA]

I think comparing old DVDs to blu-rays is never a good idea anyways.

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Thief of Bagdad would make for a great summer release.

I almost ordered it today but decided to wait for announcements, lol.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

Speaking of Badlands, here's an interesting article about teal on Blurays and generally alterations on classic films, that refers to Badlands too:

[Show spoiler]http://notonbluray.com/blog/orange-and-teal/






well, if the colors on the top image aren't that way because they are faded but becasue they are the original colors, then i see a huge revisionism that alters the aesthetics of the film completely.

I tend to be rather blasé about the whole teal issue.

The way that I figure it, many theatrical showings of movies probably do not display the movies in the way that was intended by the filmmakers, due to projector lighting, environment, and such, so I won't get my butt in a blender if a movie happens to have a slight color teal on the high definition presentation.

The director's approval for the Criterion Blu-ray of Badlands is good enough for me. I'm also perfectly content with the Criterion Blu-ray of Le Cercle Rouge, although the color timing on the Studiocanal disc is widely considered to be more accurate to the intent of the filmmakers.

I currently own 1006 movies on Blu-ray, and I can count on one hand the number of times when I was underwhelmed by the high definition presentation of a movie. I even have a couple of fingers to spare on that one hand.

[soarinsteven]

Originally Posted by thismightbezach

Rocco and His Brothers

Originally Posted by iScottie

Positive? That means it will be coming.

Oh my god?!?! That's been my number ONE request for years now.

Originally Posted by Gusto-Guus

Hope we get Little Children but I doubt it.

That would be a pleasant surprise. Or In the Bedroom, but it's a Miramax title so probably not likely. =/ Todd Field needs to make more films!

[italy12]

They're up!!!

The OOP MGM Box
#13 Silence of the Lambs
#20 Sid & Nancy
#23 RoboCop

#765 Moonrise Kingdom
#766 The Ice Pirates
#767 Brotherhood of the Wolf
#768 Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Eclipse Series #43: The DVDs of David Lynch
Raising Arizona
Lost Highway
Mulholland Dr.
Inland Empire

[Gusto-Guus]

Originally Posted by italy12

They're up!!!

The OOP MGM Box
#13 Silence of the Lambs
#20 Sid & Nancy
#23 RoboCop

#765 Moonrise Kingdom
#766 The Ice Pirates
#767 Brotherhood of the Wolf
#768 Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

The f-ck?

[filmmusic]

I would love a Criterion The Silence of the Lambs!

[ccg1978]

Originally Posted by italy12

They're up!!!

The OOP MGM Box
#13 Silence of the Lambs
#20 Sid & Nancy
#23 RoboCop

#765 Moonrise Kingdom
#766 The Ice Pirates
#767 Brotherhood of the Wolf
#768 Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Eclipse Series #43: The DVDs of David Lynch
Raising Arizona
Lost Highway
Mulholland Dr.
Inland Empire

they see me trolling they hatin

[italy12]

Only Shell would understand.

It's been way too long!!