The Criterion Collection

[Bronson13]

All I want is a Kubrick announcement this month. Is that too much to ask for Criterion??

[MKej]

Originally Posted by Bronson13

All I want is a Kubrick announcement this month. Is that too much to ask for Criterion??

So many other directors that need a Criterion rls..

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by MKej

So many other directors that need a Criterion rls..

That's true, but I wouldn't complain about a newly remastered Eyes Wide Shut BD by Criterion.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by Bronson13

All I want is a Kubrick announcement this month. Is that too much to ask for Criterion??

Same, Lolita needs an improved release. I would think Warner themselves would want to release A Clockwork Orange?

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by tisdivine

I have to agree with everyone else. Just watched La Verite and I LOVED it. So far Ive loved every Clouzot Ive seen. Wages of Fear, Diabolique, Arrow’s Inferno Documentary and now La Verite are all awesome. Does anyone know if Criterion has the rights to any other Clouzot’s films? I want to own them all.

I've really liked the Clouzot I've seen as well. That said, I'm still a bit hesitant to pull the trigger on The Early Works Kino set. I've been burned too often blind buying other directors early works.

Originally Posted by Cremildo

That's true, but I wouldn't complain about a newly remastered Eyes Wide Shut BD by Criterion.

Release of the year if they wrangle up that Original cut.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I've really liked the Clouzot I've seen as well. That said, I'm still a bit hesitant to pull the trigger on The Early Works Kino set. I've been burned too often blind buying other directors early works.

If I'm not mistaken, except for a short film or two, none of the films in that set were directed by Clouzot.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by dwk

If I'm not mistaken, except for a short film or two, none of the films in that set were directed by Clouzot.

You're right:

Contains the following movies : - The Terror of Batignolles (La Terreur des Batignolles) (1931) (15 Minutes) (Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - My Cousin from Warsaw (Ma Cousine de Varsovie) (1931) (86 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - Dragnet Night (Un Soir de Rafle) (1931) (103 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - The Unknown Singer (Le Chanteur Inconnu) (1931) (81 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - I'll Be Alone After Midnight (Je Serai Seule Après Minuit) (1931) (56 Minutes)(Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - Tell Me Tonight (La Chanson D'une Nuit) (1932) (84 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot) - Dream Castle (Château De Rêve) (1933) (86 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot)

[tisdivine]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

You're right:

Omg you guys are so right. I have had the title sitting in my Amazon cart for months but was hesitant about early works as well. I never noticed in all my times reading about and looking at it that not all were directed by Clouzot.

[yoloswegmaster420]

Someone on criterionforum was at a screening for 'Detour' with a skype call with an employee from Janus, and apparently he said that Janus was working with Wong Kar-Wai to restore ALL of his films in 4K. The user said to expect these to be released in 2020.

[nitin]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Revisited 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days after not having seen it since its release and was relieved to find that it still packs just as much of an impact. It was one of those seminal experiences for my filmgoing youth that changed my perception and pushed me into this gigantic cinematic rabbit hole and I was worried that it wouldn't do much for me given how much my taste has changed since. But man, does this thing start out on a high and never look down. It's kind of miraculous at how well it succeeds in the tight rope it walks. Everything is married together in such a way that it feels effortless; the response to the authoritarian context and the varying forms of expression towards it (the naive in the form of the friend, the willing in the protagonist, the obliviousness from the boyfriend, etc) results in a cinema that's as compelling for its formal ingenuity as it is for its harrowing content.

Even people that aren't accustomed to a cinema of this weight or rhythm are likely to be engaged from the beginning, I feel. (I'm usually terrible at judging the response from others, but my girlfriend sat through this without moving an inch.) Those long takes make the real time just excruciating to bear, even in the most mundane segments, such as that detour involving a dinner which is just perfectly conceived.

Perhaps an odd film to hold a great deal of love for, but it really floored me twelve years later and gave me a sense of relief that it wouldn't be relegated as a film that solely developed my taste. It's the kind of film where you feel like you've been holding your breath by the time it cuts to black.

Mungiu is a modern master, I personally think Beyond the Hills is even better (and one of my great films of this decade)

[yoloswegmaster420]

Buster Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN was restored in 4K with help from Criterion!!!!!!!!!

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by yoloswegmaster420

Buster Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN was restored in 4K with help from Criterion!!!!!!!!!

This is great news. I was just compiling in my head a list of directors who were conspicuous by their absence from the Criterion catalog and Buster Keaton was one of the first names I thought of.

[MifuneFan]

Here's Janus' poster for The Eyes of Orson Welles

[Show spoiler]

[professorwho]

My order of the Classic Hitchcock boxset and Rebecca from the flash sale shipped.

[Scottie]

An update on my December 30, 2018 Janus Films website post.

I last ended with ID #1908, which was a phantom page for La haine.

1909 - War and Peace
http://www.janusfilms.com/films/1909

1910 - The Kid Brother (phantom)
http://www.janusfilms.com/films/1910

1911 - Blank page

1912 - The Eyes of Orson Welles
http://www.janusfilms.com/films/1912

[taymo016]

The World Premiere Restoration of This Is Spinal Tap will be showing at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. I wonder if Criterion ends up releasing it.

[thebratpackwrangler]

June Predictions

Hedwig And The Angry Inch
The Baker's Wife
Polyester
Bamboozled
Original Broadway Cast:Company
The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by yoloswegmaster420

Buster Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN was restored in 4K with help from Criterion!!!!!!!!!

You just made my day. This is the best news of 2019.

[StarDestroyer52]

I really would love if Pandora's Box would be one of the June titles.

[Kyle15]

Obligatory hope post for the following titles:

-Lost Highway
-Crash
-The Tenant
-Lolita
-Gummo