The Criterion Collection

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by soarinsteven

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

Depends on who owns the rights now.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

Anyway, we simply disagree on this.

Bullshit we simply disagree, there's data. This isn't a subjective matter.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by koberulz

Except....they don't. Which makes it a weird thing to rant about.

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.

Originally Posted by koberulz

Bullshit we simply disagree, there's data. This isn't a subjective matter.

Can you just stop now? Whatever it is you're trying to prove, nobody cares.

[1godzillafan]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

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

I totally read this as "Human Centipede" and was taken aback for a second.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Scottie

THE BAKER’S WIFE



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

I mentioned it last week

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15715106

Criterion already has a page up too: https://www.criterion.com/films/29390-the-baker-s-wife

[bsend]

Originally Posted by 1godzillafan

I totally read this as "Human Centipede" and was taken aback for a second.

We need a new a 4K scan but it would he on the top of every closet pick video which would ruin the variety.

[captveg]

Originally Posted by demonknight

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

Yeah, I saw that after I made that post. Very interesting. I bet those two are with their respective producer companies now.

[RockyIII]

I thought CC would be more expensive in UK. This looks like a decent deal:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-M...lu-ray/215979/

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

I thought CC would be more expensive in UK. This looks like a decent deal:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-M...lu-ray/215979/

Not everybody is region free Rocko.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Not everybody is region free Rocko.

Regardless, most UK-based folks usually voice how much more expensive CC is compared to other labels. Maybe that particular title is not the norm, but I thought the price was very reasonable and similar to what we pay here in the US

[theater dreamer]

Originally Posted by Banned User

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.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Home is also on my DVR, along with HBO’s Becoming Cary Grant documentary. I thought the doc on the North by Northwest blu-Ray was really well done, but I’m wondering what new information the HBO doc will come up with.

I’m a sucker for anything with Grant or Myrna Loy, so I’ll knock it off by this weekend.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I mentioned it last week

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15715106

Criterion already has a page up too: https://www.criterion.com/films/29390-the-baker-s-wife

Oops. Thanks for looking out.

[ChampagneTaste]

Guesses for February 2019 Releases

- The Baker's Wife (1938)
- The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
- My Brilliant Career (1979)
- West Side Story (1961)
- The Magic Flute (1975) (Blu)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) (Rerelease)

[demonknight]

Guesses:
Detour
Fists in the Pocket (upgrade)
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Polyester
To Sleep With Anger
Written on the Wind (upgrade)

[MifuneFan]

Last February was a huge month for Criterion with both Silence of the Lambs, and Night of the Living Dead coming out, in addition to Elevator to the Gallows, An Actor's Revenge, The Hero, and Tom Jones. I wonder if they have anything major for that month in 2019 too? Detour would certainly fit.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Last February was a huge month for Criterion with both Silence of the Lambs, and Night of the Living Dead coming out, in addition to Elevator to the Gallows, An Actor's Revenge, The Hero, and Tom Jones. I wonder if they have anything major for that month in 2019 too? Detour would certainly fit.

Detour would certainly be the Night of the Living Dead for 2019.

The "surprise" reintroduction of StudioCanal titles would make for a pretty big month. Not predicting that, but it would be very surprising to see Ran or Tales of Hoffmann to be dropped with little prior fanfare.

[StarDestroyer52]

A Rohmer Blugrade of Six Moral Tales would be great in time for the flash sale. Also while it's not very likely this early, it be nice if Le Cercle Rouge dropped as part of a Studiocanal deal. Also, I continue to hold out for Chungking Express and Detour.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

A Rohmer Blugrade of Six Moral Tales would be great in time for the flash sale. Also while it's not very likely this early, it be nice if Le Cercle Rouge dropped as part of a Studiocanal deal. Also, I continue to hold out for Chungking Express and Detour.

Since the Detour poster has dropped, I can predict it's announcement within the next 2-3 months.

[theater dreamer]

Per an earlier discussion, watching Montgomery Clift act alongside Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer is more than worth the $20 plus it will take to own the blu-Ray. Three fantastic talents at the top of their game. Hepburn, especially, is in rare form. One of my favorite performances of hers, for sure, up there with The Lion in Winter. She just floats effortlessly amongst Tennessee Williams’ dialogue. And I’m becoming a big fan of Montgomery Clift’s. There’s such an ease to his delivery, yet the viewer feels as if there’s a tidal wave of emotion just waiting to be loosed. In this film, he’s caught between his personal feelings for Taylor’s “Miss Catharine”, and his professional duties as a surgeon. With a lesser actor, you might feel he was a helpless pawn on Mrs. Venable’s chess board. But Clift oozes strength, compassion and integrity. I’ve about 40 minutes left, and I don’t see him falling to Hepburn’s steely demeanor.

Multiple films that were previously released by Twilight Time have been picked up by other distributors after their licensing run expired, some by Kino. I’d love to see Criterion get ahold of this in a few years.

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

Per an earlier discussion, watching Montgomery Clift act alongside Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer is more than worth the $20 plus it will take to own the blu-Ray. Three fantastic talents at the top of their game. Hepburn, especially, is in rare form. One of my favorite performances of hers, for sure, up there with The Lion in Winter. She just floats effortlessly amongst Tennessee Williams’ dialogue. And I’m becoming a big fan of Montgomery Clift’s. There’s such an ease to his delivery, yet the viewer feels as if there’s a tidal wave of emotion just waiting to be loosed. In this film, he’s caught between his personal feelings for Taylor’s “Miss Catharine”, and his professional duties as a surgeon. With a lesser actor, you might feel he was a helpless pawn on Mrs. Venable’s chess board. But Clift oozes strength, compassion and integrity. I’ve about 40 minutes left, and I don’t see him falling to Hepburn’s steely demeanor.

Multiple films that were previously released by Twilight Time have been picked up by other distributors after their licensing run expired, some by Kino. I’d love to see Criterion get ahold of this in a few years.

As you know, I'm as big a Clift fan as there is and Suddenly, Last Summer is pretty disposable as a "Clift movie"'. He's merely window dressing in a film dominated by its two female leads. He isn't "bad", but it's a pretty thankless role and he's not given much opportunity to do anything beyond mutter perfunctory dialogue.

I don't see Criterion picking up Suddenly, Last Summer when TT's license expires. The Heiress, A Place in the Sun and/or Freud would be great gets.