The Criterion Collection

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Any De Palma fan that doesn't at least like those two movies is a weirdo tbh.

Yeah, Sisters is pure, uncompromising De Palma, in the kind of early-career state that his admirers cling to.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Any De Palma fan that doesn't at least like those two movies is a weirdo tbh.

I’m a big De Palma fan. I loved Sisters, but Obsession is pretty lame.

[Levon]

Ride The Whirlwind and/or The Shooting would be pretty awesome.

EDIT.

Just realised I am in the North America Criterion thread, sorry about that fellers!

[Banned User]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

Quite similar in tone to another Hawks' romp, Bringing Up Baby, Monkey Business is one of those films I want to own. It has high re-watch value for me. Rarely have I seen two leads have such fun in front of the camera. Ginger Rogers was a delight; she and Cary Grant were a joy to watch, and completely believable as a married couple.

Really this far into Bluray's lifespan I'm still puzzled why we don't have Bringing up Baby, Monkey Business, Mr Blanders Build His Dream House and a personal favorite of mine Arsenic and Old Lace.

I'm sure I could think of a lot more. This is one of the reasons I'm not that excited when I keep seeing new bluray releases of titles we already have only with a 4k scan.

[Darth Marcus]

I've gone a bit overboard this sale... and I'm picking up Some Like It Hot next week...

[Trace17]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

I hope I'm not the only one waiting for A Story from Chikamatsu to come out, and wondering why we haven't seen a review since the release date is this Tuesday. I thought I would take a glance on Criterion's site only to see this message: 'On backorder, available Dec 2, 2018'

I'm sure this hasn't sold out before release, it would be the 1st time, so assuming it's been delayed.

Originally Posted by Trace17

I'm with you SpiderBaby, was planning on picking up Tues at BN. Criterion's site still lists 11/13 as the release but on backorder. No change yet from BN, just 11/13. If it was delayed (again) I think criterion would have changed the "Available xx.xx.xxxx" date on the coming soon page like they did the first time. I wonder if it's just stock issues.

FYI my BN had stock this morning. Looks like bn.com and criterion.com are in stock too.

[The Great Owl]

I want Criterion to stop torturing us and upgrade Equinox to Blu-ray at long last. I’ve got the DVD set, and the source material does not leave much room for improvement, but a good high definition transfer would polish it up nicely. I want this one for my glorious exploitation collection.

Also, let’s get Fiend Without a Face on Blu-ray. That’s such a great movie.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by CrossRhodes94

Okay. So, I just finished watching Mulholland Drive for the first time. I’ve never been so confused and drawn to a film. Honestly? I couldn’t even tell you what the plot is. It messed with my head that much! Just when I thought I understood it, the rug was pulled from under me!

[Show spoiler]Diane wins a jitterbug contest and gets to go to Hollywood for a movie audition. She meets Rita who is also there for the part and they end up having a bit of a fling. Rita gets picked over Diane, who also runs off with Adam Kesher the director. Diane sits in misery left with nothing and begins to have a series of fantasies and dreams as Betty the up-and-coming Hollywood starlet who finds Rita literally fall into her lap memoryless. She takes Rita under her wing to figure out what happened to her and they fall in love while they're at it. "Diane" was supposed to get the part but it was a conspiracy by shady Hollywood executives not to pick her and go with Rita instead.

At this point the fantasies and dreams start leeching into Diane's reality, and things go wrong when the truth reveals itself and won't go away. Rita turns on her for the director, etc. During this time Diane has a hit called out on Rita who is murdered and possibly left to rot behind Winkie's Diner as a dirty little secret. Diane continues to shift the blame in her head because she doesn't want to admit everything got out of hand from her own failings, and eventually the old people (I assume casting agents, the ones who got her to Hollywood) begin showing up as phantoms and it all culminates in her suicide.

"A poison letter to Hollywood" indeed. (also I make no claim to objectivity with the above, that's just how I saw the film chronologically)

[ChampagneTaste]

I'm surprised that no one has talked about how Kino Lorber Insider just recently announced on the KL Studio Classics thread that they acquired 130 titles from StudioCanal. They mentioned two other labels having deals with StudioCanal, after all, and Criterion has more clout than it did when the last SC titles went OOP...

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Any De Palma fan that doesn't at least like those two movies is a weirdo tbh.

Originally Posted by demonknight

I’m a big De Palma fan. I loved Sisters, but Obsession is pretty lame.

Other way around for me. I really liked Obsession but couldn't even finish Sisters. Maybe it will win me over someday but I'm not loving its chances.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I want Criterion to stop torturing us and upgrade Equinox to Blu-ray at long last. I’ve got the DVD set, and the source material does not leave much room for improvement, but a good high definition transfer would polish it up nicely. I want this one for my glorious exploitation collection.

Also, let’s get Fiend Without a Face on Blu-ray. That’s such a great movie.

I’m with you on that! I was also thinking that with recent additions to the collection featuring Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt, the time could be right for the Criterion edition of Gargoyles (1972).

[DukeTogo84]

I truly hope we get the Human Condition Trilogy upgrade soon. Fantastic films.

[jshaide]

Criterion had a couple of months a little while back where the announcements were delayed (kinda around when Mr. Becker died), but as far as I can recall this has not been the case for quite a long time. The joke that the announcements will be "whenever they feel like it" is a bit outdated, I would say.

[captveg]

In the hope that one of the "smaller deals with two other labels" that licensed StudioCanal titles is Criterion, here's the list SC OOP titles:

Alphaville
Army of Shadows (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Billy Liar
The Blood of a Poet
Bob le Flambeur
Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse)
Le cercle rouge (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Contempt
Le corbeau
Coup de torchon
Diary of a Chambermaid
Diary of a Country Priest
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Le doulos
The Fallen Idol
Forbidden Games
Gervaise (Essential Art House)
Grand Illusion
Le jour se lève (Essential Art House)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Last Holiday (Essential Art House)
Last Year at Marienbad (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Leon Morin, Priest (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Mafioso
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Mayerling (Essential Art House)
The Milky Way
Murderous Maids (Rialto set)
Nights of Cabiria
Peeping Tom
The Phantom of Liberty
Pierrot le fou (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Port of Shadows
Quai des Orfevres
Ran
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann
Testament of Orpheus
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Third Man (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Touchez pas au grisbi
Le Trou
Variety Lights
The White Sheik
A Woman Is a Woman


Lionsgate released BDs of the following in the US already, but they could definitely be improved upon:

Contempt
Grand Illusion
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Ran
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Third Man

[Scottie]

THE BAKER’S WIFE

(1938, Marcel Pagnol) When his drop-dead gorgeous young wife Ginette Leclerc (the disabled femme fatale of Clouzot’s Le Courbeau) runs off with a young shepherd, middle-aged Provençal village boulanger Raimu (César of Pagnol’s Marseilles Trilogy) goes on strike, refusing to produce another loaf until she comes back. The apotheosis of the great French actor Raimu (“The greatest actor of all time” – Marlene Dietrich; “For me, the greatest actor in history” – Orson Welles), in a film once extolled as the ne plus ultra of European filmmaking – with a risqué theme unimaginable in Hollywood movies at the time – but long unseen in any form. DCP restoration. Approx. 124 min.

Presented with support from the George Fasel Memorial Fund for Classic French Cinema

A JANUS FILMS RELEASE

https://filmforum.org/film/the-bakers-wife

[javy]

I would like to see announcements of Detour and Wanda soon.

Also, the folks at Criterion could be some real sweethearts and release After Hours already.

[dkelly26666]

Originally Posted by koberulz

If the 15th is a weekend or a holiday, the announcements are on the 16th or 17th. Otherwise they're on the 15th. It's not complicated.

That would be fine. But that is incorrect.


Many times, the 15th was a weekend, say, and then they still didn't post until Tuesday or Wednesday. Often times, there may be a holiday BEFORE or after the 15th, and it STILL offsets by a day. It shouldn't offset the whole week because there was a minor holiday, either. As many have said many times before, they know way ahead of time what they're releasing, already have the art work, already have the press releases, and so on. Way ahead of time. And it takes one person in their marketing dept or in charge of their social media minutes to post. But they will delay by a day or even several. Not to mention they have next to zero consumer interaction.

Anyway, we simply disagree on this. This is my final post to you on the subject.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by captveg

In the hope that one of the "smaller deals with two other labels" that licensed StudioCanal titles is Criterion, here's the list SC OOP titles:

Alphaville
Army of Shadows (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Billy Liar
The Blood of a Poet
Bob le Flambeur
Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse)
Le cercle rouge (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Contempt
Le corbeau
Coup de torchon
Diary of a Chambermaid
Diary of a Country Priest
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Le doulos
The Fallen Idol
Forbidden Games
Gervaise (Essential Art House)
Grand Illusion
Le jour se lève (Essential Art House)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Last Holiday (Essential Art House)
Last Year at Marienbad (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Leon Morin, Priest (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Mafioso
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Mayerling (Essential Art House)
The Milky Way
Murderous Maids (Rialto set)
Nights of Cabiria
Peeping Tom
The Phantom of Liberty
Pierrot le fou (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Port of Shadows
Quai des Orfevres
Ran
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann
Testament of Orpheus
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Third Man (Had previous Criterion BD release)
Touchez pas au grisbi
Le Trou
Variety Lights
The White Sheik
A Woman Is a Woman

According to the Kino Insider, Diary of a Chambermaid & A Woman Is a Woman are no longer StudioCanal.

[Knaldskalle]

Originally Posted by Scottie

THE BAKER’S WIFE



https://filmforum.org/film/the-bakers-wife

I caught this one at the PFA in Berkeley back in 2011 or so. It's a lot of fun and Raimu is indeed in top form as the baker who refuses to face the fact that his wife has run off with another. A worthy addition to the Criterion Collection.

[soarinsteven]

Originally Posted by demonknight

According to the Kino Insider, Diary of a Chambermaid & A Woman Is a Woman are no longer StudioCanal.

Does that mean Criterion or someone else can release them? I'm very eager to see more Buñuel on bluray.