The Criterion Collection

[Doctorossi]

2019 wishlist:

The Devils on UHD

[Jobla]

My wish-list:

WISE BLOOD (DVD upgrade)
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (standalone)
PRIVATE PARTS (1972, Paul Bartel)
M (1951)
A PERFECT COUPLE (Altman)
DEMENTIA 13 (BD mastered from 2018 4K restoration by Am. Zoetrope)
RED SKY AT MORNING (1970)

[octagon]

Originally Posted by RalphoR

Speaking of Godzilla.....the wait is killing me. Not even a morsel of information?

Originally Posted by MJD64

We're less than two weeks away from the New Year's Day Criterion drawing clue for their 2019 releases...hope they give us something!

I'm not all that hyped about a possible Godzilla release but if he's in there I hope he's trampling a really big clock.

Originally Posted by AaronJ

Agree so much. I gave it an A+, for two reasons: it is indeed a masterpiece, but also because I don't ever remember seeing anything like it before. It really effected me. It was like being transported to a different dimension or something.

Same. I spent the whole thing muttering 'what the hell am I watching' but very much in the Good Way.

[Hoke Moseley]

A few I'm hoping for in 2019:

Femme Fatale
Lone Star
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
House of Games and Homicide (upgrades)
The Hit (upgrade)
Rio Bravo (why not?)

and throwing rights-related issues out the window:

Le Trou (upgrade)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (upgrade)
Série noire
Coup de Torchon (upgrade)

[thatguamguy]

Hoping for:

California Split
The Circus
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Hard Eight
Kafka
The Lady Eve (upgrade)
Lost Highway
The Lost Weekend
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
She's Gotta Have It (LD upgrade)
La Strada (upgrade)
Trouble in Paradise (upgrade)
Tunes of Glory (upgrade)

+ more Hitchcock and John Ford

[MifuneFan]

My 2019 wishlist:

Floating Weeds
Nights of Cabiria
Mr. Arkadin
Ran
Roman Holiday
Bringing Up Baby
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Shop on Main Street
Chinatown (4K restoration)
Scorsese (Mean Streets, Raging Bull and/or After Hours)
Roma (2018)

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by octagon

Same. I spent the whole thing muttering 'what the hell am I watching' but very much in the Good Way.

Whatever one thinks of A Ghost Story, it's unique. That's for sure.

As to 2019 Wish List, I need to go walk to the store -- it's that, or begin the starvation diet -- I'll think about it then.

Although, two or three months ago I did make it 6 days without eating. It's funny, after a couple of days you really don't have an appetite anymore. Weird. Anyway, long story. Heh.

[octagon]

2019 wish list? Let's see...

The Big Clock
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Bad and the Beautiful
Red Beard
Drunken Angel
Stray Dog
The Bad Sleep Well
The Thin Man Box Set
The Element of Crime
House of Games
Mr. Arkadin

And of course all sorts of cool stuff that's not even on my radar.

[Cremildo]

Wish list? My usual answer: more classic Japanese cinema.

[The Sovereign]

I see lots of my favorite requests already listed, so I’ll just say: I’m rooting for all of you.

[dressedtokill]

2019 wishlist? More Sirk, more screwball comedies and noirs. As for some specific titles:

Magnificent Obsession
Written on the Wind
The Bad and the Beautiful
Bringing Up Baby
Arsenic and Old Lace
Freaks
The Lady Eve

[MJD64]

2019

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S CINEMA a la the Bergman set

Updates of:
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
THE LADY EVE
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
OLIVER TWIST
JIGOKU
THE HUMAN CONDITION

Whatever the rights issues, would love to see Von Trier's DOGVILLE, Assayas' DEMONLOVER, and the return of Woo's THE KILLER and HARD BOILED.

[Bates_Motel]

If Lost Highway does indeed get released, it better not be the same "restoration" Studio Canal just put out, which wasn't a restoration at all. Still needs a completely new scan.

[Ragnar_SK]

Eyes wide shut finally please

[Fallen_Angel]

The Last Starfighter anyone?

[Scottie]

Will 2019 be the year of the UHD?

[Bronson13]

Anything Kubrick.

But mainly Eyes Wide Shut and Lolita.

[latehong]

The Cameraman (1928, Buster Keaton)
The Crowd (1928, King Vidor)
Pandora's Box (1929, G. W. Pabst)
Twentieth Century (1934, Howard Hawks)
Fury (1936, Fritz Lang)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938, Michael Curtiz)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938, Ernst Lubitsch)
Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
The Roaring Twenties (1939, Raoul Walsh)
Now, Voyager (1942, Irving Rapper)
Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti)
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
The Heiress (1949, William Wyler)
The Passionate Friends (1949, David Lean)
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951, Ida Lupino)
A Place in the Sun (1951, George Stevens)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)
The Big Sky (1952, Howard Hawks)
The Lusty Men (1952, Nicholas Ray)
Rancho Notorious (1952, Fritz Lang)
The Naked Spur (1953, Anthony Mann)
Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk)
Written on the Wind (1956, Douglas Sirk)
Party Girl (1958, Nicholas Ray)
7 Women (1966, John Ford)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, Vittorio De Sica)
Sleuth (1972, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974, Martin Scorsese)
The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski)
Hunter in the Dark (1979, Hideo Gosha)
Prince of the City (1981, Sidney Lumet)
Typhoon Club (1985, Shinji Somai)
Crash (1996, David Cronenberg)

The Complete Thin Man Collection
The Complete Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Collection

Ayako Wakao + Yasuzo Masumura or Hideko Takamine + Mikio Naruse box set a la Dietrich + Von Sternberg set would be my dream come true, but who am I kidding? That's not gonna happen.

[octagon]

Oh, forgot about The Tenant.

That would be huge

[Purplenoon]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I went to the Landmark theater at 57th and 12th avenue. It's fairly far from the nearest subway. I took the Q train to 57th street (right by Carnegie Hall) at 7th avenue, and just walked straight up to 12th. It's about a 15-20 min walk.

It was my first time going to that theater, but it's pretty nice. They have reserved seating (through atom tickets at least), very nice recliner seats, and laser projection. The only downside is that they don't mask their screens, so the movie was letterboxed, but I actually didn't mind at all. It even gave it a more cinematic look in my opinion. The movie looked incredible on the laser projection. And the sound system was also great too.

I heard the one at the IFC center fills up nearly every showtime, and I didn't want to deal with that, and the lack of reserved seating. So I opted to go to Landmark. Tickets are like $18.50, but I got a discount code to use at atomtickets.com which saved a little (use the code BUZZ50 to get half off for new accounts).

The theater also looks pretty cool from the outside too. My showtime was at 11:15 am, and I got there at 10:55, and they were still closed. They don't open till 11 apparently, which is kind of crazy when they start movies less than 20 mins later. But it allowed me to cross the street to snap this pic, which I probably wouldn't have done anyway, so that worked out

Thanks. I’ve passed it on to him. I guess he struck out at the IFC. I moved out of the city 50 years ago. Can’t believe they’ve built this beautiful theater that far west on 57th. “Back in the day” you needed a bodyguard to head out into that neighborhood. No Roma in Wisconsin yet. Sounds like a real corker.