The Criterion Collection

[FragnitoM]

Per HTF podcast next year will be the year of Fellini to celebrate his centennial. I’M OFFICIALLY DEAD! So happy!

[Purplenoon]

A Thousand Clowns, perhaps? Anne Of a Thousand Days?

[145gtw]

Been waiting years for a La Strada upgrade.

[BluProofie]

Guessing they aren’t releasing anything else in October and are waiting for Comic Con to announce Godzilla.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by captveg

From the HTF podcast, Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala has been held up by element issues, and may still be a while before a release.

I would think that would delay a Kurosawa boxset or they just release the unreleased on Blu AKs individually? Next year is also Fellini's 100th birthday and I wonder if they do something for him that year? I know La Strada has yet to get a US release and I seem to remember the KL Insider saying that they didn't have it.

If we get a Godzilla set as it seems, then I could live without an AK box this year even though that's one I want big time.

[SteelyTom]

Originally Posted by 145gtw

Been waiting years for a La Strada upgrade.

Would love that, and a Written on the Wind upgrade-- no rights issues with that one, presumably.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by Gambit1138

From HTF: There's a lot of "maybes" in the podcast, but a Pandora's Box re-print/upgrade is a "good maybe."

This one is just a matter of when with the recent restoration last year and it has been making the rounds on TCM more regularly the past six months.

[captveg]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Next year is also Fellini's 100th birthday and I wonder if they do something for him that year? I know La Strada has yet to get a US release and I seem to remember the KL Insider saying that they didn't have it.

The podcast confirmed 2020 Year of Fellini, though it's short on exact details.

[Bronson13]

So is it becoming more likely that we aren't getting announcements this month?

Its really unprofessional of Criterion to do this without telling us.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by Bronson13

So is it becoming more likely that we aren't getting announcements this month?

Its really unprofessional of Criterion to do this without telling us.

Its only the 16th....

[captveg]

Originally Posted by Bronson13

So is it becoming more likely that we aren't getting announcements this month?

Its really unprofessional of Criterion to do this without telling us.

They'll announce October titles when they are ready to announce them. The "announcements on the 15th" has never been a steadfast rule or promise.

[Bronson13]

Yeah but people expect it now and they know that. They should at least address that they will announce them soon.

Im just saying its unprofessional. I don't care when they announce it.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by captveg

They'll announce October titles when they are ready to announce them. The "announcements on the 15th" has never been a steadfast rule or promise.

Then they should not have set years of precedence, holidays aside.

[Cremildo]

It's likely they'll still announce today, although it's getting late. They've done it on the 16th many times before.

[CQD84]

Prediction: Criterion will announce the October titles sometime before October.

[Hoke Moseley]

Very unprofessional of them. I'm selling off my entire Criterion collection in protest of having to wait more than 24 hours for new announcements.

[Creasy47]

Originally Posted by CQD84

Prediction: Criterion will announce the October titles sometime before October.

You might be on to something here.

[145gtw]

Originally Posted by CQD84

Prediction: Criterion will announce the October titles sometime before October.

Big if true.

[Bronson13]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Very unprofessional of them. I'm selling off my entire Criterion collection in protest of having to wait more than 24 hours for new announcements.

It's definitely unprofessional. When you have set a certain pattern for your company for a number of years and people expect that pattern to continue and you break that pattern and not mention anything about breaking said pattern.... that's considered unprofessional.

And anyways, it's not unprofessional yet. If they don't announce then in the next few days without saying anything about it then it will be unprofessional.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by Bronson13

It's definitely unprofessional...

And anyways, it's not unprofessional yet.

Ok chief.