The Criterion Collection

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by xochipilli

I thought the opposite: that Warner got it back, leading Kino to lose it and discontinue their release. I was wondering if a new restoration could eventually come from the Archive Collection.

You could very well be right. I thought it was with MGM/UA because the rights lapsed back to its original distributor.

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I would send requests to Criterion via their email: suggestions@criterion.com I've used it a few times, and I know at least one occasion they used my suggestion.

Thanks! I just suggested Freaks (1932), The Incredible Shrinking Man and Winchester '73

[Show spoiler]in 2020

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[klauswhereareyou]

Any word on a potential Blu-ray upgrade to Pickup on South Street from Criterion?

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Any word on a potential Blu-ray upgrade to Pickup on South Street from Criterion?

Crickets.

[Scottie]

RE: The possible films in the Agnès Varda box set

Main Features

• La Pointe Courte (1955)
• Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
• Le Bonheur (1965)
• Lions Love (...and Lies) (1969)
• Daguerréotypes (1976)
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) - the standalone release will continue to exist.
• Documenteur (1981)
• Mur Murs (1981)
• Vagabond (1985)
• Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)
• Kung-Fu Master! (1988)
• Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
• One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
• The Gleaners and I (2000)
• Cinévardaphoto (2004)
• The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
• Agnès Varda: From Here to There (2011)
• Faces Places (2017) -- will Criterion release this? It already has a Blu-ray from Cohen.
• Varda by Agnès (2019)

Short Films Collection (similar to Jacques Tati set)

• Along the Coast (1958)
• Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958)
• O saisons, ô châteaux (1958)
• Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires) (1961)
• Elsa la rose (1966)
• Uncle Yanco (1967)
• Black Panthers (1968)
• Women Reply: Our Bodies, Our Sex (1975)
• The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)
• 7p., cuis., s. de b., ... à saisir (1984)
• The So-Called Caryatids (1984)
• You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (1986)
• Le lion volatil (2003)

Extras

• The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
• The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
• The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)

Anyone else have any thoughts/ideas?

I do think we'll also see a re-release of 4 by Agnès Varda in similar vein as A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman.

[kvnbhovis]

Watched 1917 yesterday. Very very good film though not the best WW1 film. That honor might apply to All Quiet of the Western Front, The Big Parade and a number of others.

My plea to Criterion is please rerelease James Whale's 1930 production of Journey's End with Colin Clive and Raoul Walsh's 1926 production of What Price Glory? with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe plus the 4 sequels that followed.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by kvnbhovis

Watched 1917 yesterday. Very very good film though not the best WW1 film. That honor might apply to All Quiet of the Western Front, The Big Parade and a number of others.

My plea to Criterion is please rerelease James Whale's 1930 production of Journey's End with Colin Clive and Raoul Walsh's 1926 production of What Price Glory? with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe plus the 4 sequels that followed.

My votes for best WWI films would probably go to All Quiet on the Western Front, Wooden Crosses, La Grande Illusion, Wings, and The Big Parade. With an extra mention for the original The Dawn Patrol.

As for What Price Glory? you have to wonder how much work it would need and I think it's also with Fox so now Disney.

[kvnbhovis]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

My votes for best WWI films would probably go to All Quiet on the Western Front, Wooden Crosses, La Grande Illusion, Wings, and The Big Parade. With an extra mention for the original The Dawn Patrol.

As for What Price Glory? you have to wonder how much work it would need and I think it's also with Fox so now Disney.

Never heard of Wooden Crosses. I'll have to look it up I have Wings but have yet to sit down and watch it plus not sure what pile of movies it is in. I would imagine What Price Glory? does need a lot of work and ,yeah, you're right, I don't see Disney doing jacks$!# with it. Damn Mouse.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

My votes for best WWI films would probably go to All Quiet on the Western Front, Wooden Crosses, La Grande Illusion, Wings, and The Big Parade. With an extra mention for the original The Dawn Patrol.

As for What Price Glory? you have to wonder how much work it would need and I think it's also with Fox so now Disney.

I would add in Paths of Glory and Gallipoli. I have yet to see The Big Parade. Must fix that.

[nitin]

Yes Gallipoli always seems to get left out of great WWI films talk but it is essential.

[tatterdemalion]

Another WWI film that gets forgotten is Rex Ingram's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, long overdue by a boutique label for a re-release.

[evilive]

Wooden Crosses is great and features some pretty intense combat scenes. Westfront 1918 is also a good one. There's also the made-for-tv film The Lost Battalion from 2001. Remember catching on tv a couple of times.

[hoytereden]

One of my favorite WWI films is a 1931 gem-The Last Flight directed by William Dieterle. A postwar story of four expatriates in Paris who survived the war together but not without wounds both physical and psychological. Available as a Warner Archive DVD and it has been shown on TCM.

[BluProofie]

I hope we get Written on the Wind this year.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by belcherman

I would add in Paths of Glory and Gallipoli. I have yet to see The Big Parade. Must fix that.

Yeah Paths of Glory is a must IMO. Don’t know how I omitted that one since it’s one of the most powerful films there is on the subject. Haven’t seen Gallipoli.

[SeanJoyce]

When it comes to WWI, I'm also a huge fan of the Christmas movie Joyeux Noel...still one of the most miraculous things ever, and this beautiful film does it justice.

[jshaide]

Saw a screening of CURE the other night with a Janus logo. Didn't realize Janus had this one. Would be a terrific release, film was awesome!

[Modman]

Funny that Lawrence of Arabia fails to even get a mention when it comes to WW1 movies.

[dancerslegs]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

My votes for best WWI films would probably go to All Quiet on the Western Front, Wooden Crosses, La Grande Illusion, Wings, and The Big Parade. With an extra mention for the original The Dawn Patrol.

As for What Price Glory? you have to wonder how much work it would need and I think it's also with Fox so now Disney.

Originally Posted by belcherman

I would add in Paths of Glory and Gallipoli. I have yet to see The Big Parade. Must fix that.

Perhaps the greatest "unknown" WWI film would be Forest of the Hanged (Pădurea spânzuraților), a devastating Romanian masterpiece which, sadly, never seems to have exported much beyond that country's borders. (Its director, Liviu Ciulei, won Best Director at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.) It's never been released on home video in any English-speaking country, that I know of.

Clips from the Forest of the Hanged:

youtube.com/watch?v=dgtETphAxVs

[nitin]

It is hard to comprehend how Sam Fuller’s White Dog was considered to be ‘controversial’ and ‘pro-racism’ enough to outright be banned in America.

Release shenanigans aside, it’s a terrific film and one that seems to be still quite underrated in Fuller’s body of work. I have read some criticisms about some of the acting, a script without narrative focus and a lack of nuance. Well anyone criticising that last aspect has clearly never seen a Fuller film because this is like all of his other work: brash, to the point and on the nose, but also made with a furious ferocity.

And as to those other criticisms, some of the acting is indeed spotty but Burt Ives and Paul Winfield perform well and the dog itself is a marvel to behold. The script does seem to shift around narratively, and sometimes also awkwardly moves between genre picture and something more, but it has a pretty clear thematic focus at its core and I found it compelling enough to hold it all together. Another terrific Ennio Morricone score helped a lot too.

I saw it off Eureka’s blu which is from an older HD master prepared by Criterion for their DVD but it still holds up pretty well. Being a Paramount film, unless Criterion get access to a new restoration, the Eureka will probably be the best way to view the film but hopefully Criterion can find a way to release it from a new restoration.