The Criterion Collection

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by tisdivine

I feel exactly like that with almost all Visconti I've seen so far (The Leopard & Senso). I had the Arrow edition of Ludwig on preorder but chickened out and cancelled bc Visconti always always gets rave reviews but it's just not my type of film but as you also mentioned Im not a fan of Gone With The Wind either. So I guess different strokes right lol

Visconti's Rocco & His Brothers is essential. I would recommend seeking that one out.

[monorail91]

Looking through my past blogs, I found that I did really enjoy Visconti's White Nights. It's the kind of moody, introspective black-and-white drama I love from that era of Italian cinema.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by monorail91

Looking through my past blogs, I found that I did really enjoy Visconti's White Nights. It's the kind of moody, introspective black-and-white drama I love from that era of Italian cinema.

Le Notti Bianche is an excellent movie.

I caught it on TCM a few years ago and it's stuck with me ever since.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

July Predictions 2017

The Circus
Dragon Inn
Red Beard
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tree of Life

I think Tree of Life is being delayed - autumn/winter release now...

But its just a rumour so hopefully not!

[Hoke Moseley]

Maybe a sign that Lost in America will be out in July? https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/853968807282581509

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Maybe a sign that Lost in America will be out in July? https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/853968807282581509

Probably

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Maybe a sign that Lost in America will be out in July? https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/853968807282581509

Say it! Say it! Say "I lost the nest-egg." Go on, say it!

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by deepseababy

Quality over quantity.

Although you could argue every title released by Criterion has its merits.

Except Tiny Furniture.

[shadedpain4]

So what is everyone's gut feeling? Does Criterion celebrate "Easter Monday" as a holiday, or is this just a regular Monday for them?

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

Visconti's Rocco & His Brothers is essential. I would recommend seeking that one out.

Whatever happened to this? It said that Milestone was going to released it but then nothing. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=263699

[Vinyl]

Originally Posted by sasdragon

My humble little collection

That's a great start, showing off some titles I have been interested in picking up because they are pretty essential.

[CQD84]

Would it be too early for Personal Shopper to be included in July's slate? Who knows if it will ever get the Criterion treatment, but I hope it does.

[ShellOilJunior]

The Cleveland Cinematheque will screen a Melville series showing Late May/June.

Le Samourai (Print from France)
The Silence of the Sea (DCP)
Les Enfants Terribles
Second Breath
Two Men in Manhattan (DCP)
Leon Morin, Priest (DCP)

Also, it looks like 4K restorations of Monterey Pop and Solaris are now touring.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by CQD84

Would it be too early for Personal Shopper to be included in July's slate? Who knows if it will ever get the Criterion treatment, but I hope it does.

Pretty good chance of it coming, but it's definitely too early.

I'd say Fall 2017 at the earliest if true.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by CQD84

Would it be too early for Personal Shopper to be included in July's slate? Who knows if it will ever get the Criterion treatment, but I hope it does.

Would be great to see this in collection, brilliant performances and mesmerising film only thing I hated was

[Show spoiler]when they showed the stupid ghosts, took away all realism and made it feel a bit silly...

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Would be great to see this in collection, brilliant performances and mesmerising film only thing I hated was

[Show spoiler]when they showed the stupid ghosts, took away all realism and made it feel a bit silly...

I thought

[Show spoiler]she was crazy or delusional and hallucinated that. Having a vision would take away from the realism of ones reality. For me, seeing the actual ghost, worked quite well.

incredible film though. Hope so much that Criterion releases it.

[SammyJankis]

Assayas discusses your spoiler and give fairly solid reason for the decision.

[Show spoiler]Again, I was really surprised by the computer-generated ghost. I’d like to know about your deciding how much would be shown.

Yeah, I know. That, of course, was a question. I knew I wanted to show the ghost, in the sense that… because, somehow, I wanted to emphasize the fact that it exists and does not exist — both things. To create the notion that it does not exist and is really something happening within her. What happens in her has to have a physical reality, in a sense that her anxieties and fears are both real and abstract. Whatever creates anxiety within us is not tangible, but still it affects our body. So, in that sense, I think what scares Maureen has to have a name and a visual expression.

So that’s how I approached it is, yes, CGI, because that’s how you do that stuff, but what inspired me was 19th-century spiritist photography. There was this whole trend when people did believe in spiritualism: the medians would hire photographers to represent whatever they saw in the séances. So that’s the direction I wanted to go. I wanted it so that, when Maureen sees the ghost, this ghost will look like whatever the medians in the 19th century imagined they were seeing. We based so much on the images they created — and they are very beautiful; they are both very naive, but also very disturbing, in a certain way — and also the descriptions that medians would give of their experiences of hallucinating, certainly, but the visions they had of ghosts. That’s the world I wanted to connect with.

[senseabove]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

The Cleveland Cinematheque will screen a Melville series showing Late May/June.

Le Samourai (Print from France)
The Silence of the Sea (DCP)
Les Enfants Terribles
Second Breath
Two Men in Manhattan (DCP)
Leon Morin, Priest (DCP)

Also, it looks like 4K restorations of Monterey Pop and Solaris are now touring.

SFFILM + SFMOMA are also doing a combo JP Melville/Johnny To retrospective in July. No word on what's in it yet, but they've had slides up before recent movies at the SFMOMA theater, and their past two "Modern Cinema" series since SFMOMA re-opened have drawn heavily from Janus/Criterion:
Criterion Collection and Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Werner Herzog & Ecstatic Truth

AFAIK none of them have revealed new restorations to eagle-eyed source checkers—and now it strikes me as odd that a rather rough 35mm print was shown for Jeanne Dielman in October with the restoration and subsequent Blu following so close behind—but it may be worth paying attention to. Here's hoping that, with what appears to now be a touring Melville retro, we'll get some new announcements. I've yet to see any Melville, but between folks here salivating over him and a history of French film I recently read, I'm very, very curious. Le Silence de la Mer is on my shortlist for the next sale.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Assayas discusses your spoiler and give fairly solid reason for the decision.

[Show spoiler]Again, I was really surprised by the computer-generated ghost. I’d like to know about your deciding how much would be shown.

Yeah, I know. That, of course, was a question. I knew I wanted to show the ghost, in the sense that… because, somehow, I wanted to emphasize the fact that it exists and does not exist — both things. To create the notion that it does not exist and is really something happening within her. What happens in her has to have a physical reality, in a sense that her anxieties and fears are both real and abstract. Whatever creates anxiety within us is not tangible, but still it affects our body. So, in that sense, I think what scares Maureen has to have a name and a visual expression.

So that’s how I approached it is, yes, CGI, because that’s how you do that stuff, but what inspired me was 19th-century spiritist photography. There was this whole trend when people did believe in spiritualism: the medians would hire photographers to represent whatever they saw in the séances. So that’s the direction I wanted to go. I wanted it so that, when Maureen sees the ghost, this ghost will look like whatever the medians in the 19th century imagined they were seeing. We based so much on the images they created — and they are very beautiful; they are both very naive, but also very disturbing, in a certain way — and also the descriptions that medians would give of their experiences of hallucinating, certainly, but the visions they had of ghosts. That’s the world I wanted to connect with.

Ah sweet, thanks for sharing this still think it could have been approached better :P

[Show spoiler]I wish he approached it like in The Innocents, the CGI wasn't a very good visualisation in my option, but its nice to hear his reasoning behind it!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

The Cleveland Cinematheque will screen a Melville series showing Late May/June.

Le Samourai (Print from France)
The Silence of the Sea (DCP)
Les Enfants Terribles
Second Breath
Two Men in Manhattan (DCP)
Leon Morin, Priest (DCP)

Also, it looks like 4K restorations of Monterey Pop and Solaris are now touring.

Thanks for the heads-up. I Just checked, and NYC's Film Forum are doing a Melville retrospective too, from April 28-May 11. Definitely hope I can go to a screening of Le Samourai, and maybe a few others.

http://filmforum.org/series/melville-series

Here's the films they'll be showing:

Le Doulos
Le Samourai
Le deuxième souffle (Second Breath)
Le Silence de la Mer / 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Army of Shadows
Two Men in Manhattan
Un Flic
Les Enfants Terrible
Le Cercle Rouge
When You Read This Letter
Bob Le Flambeur

Leon Morin, Priest is also getting its own separate screening event from May 12-18, as it's coming from a new 4K restoration, and states that it's the "U.S. PREMIERE OF THE COMPLETE DIRECTOR’S CUT". I imagine this will get a new BD release from Studiocanal overseas. Whether it shows up in N.A. is another thing.

Wexner center in Columbus, OH are also showing a couple: http://wexarts.org/series/jean-pierre-melville-100