Criterion Additions

omg i wd LOVE tampico omg

Is there a good restoration of Stalker that's been released before now? The only versions I've seen desperately needed work

i was just looking at dvdbeaver's comparison a few days ago and they're all still rubbish i think

yeah you can stream it on YouTube in the same quality

I downloaded the filmstruck app to see what they have in their catalog (not subscribing right now)

AND STALKER IS THERE AS A CRITERION RELEASE

it doesn't let you preview, maybe I'll do the free trial now just to see how it looks

They just added Me And You And Everyone We Know on Filmstruck as well.

Also: Janus is touring Tampopo, so that's a lock.

yeah, it just did a run at film forum

I thought the Jeanne Dielman resto was was for the OG criterion? did they rly do another one in the last couple of years???

I can't find the info now, but Janus sponsored a 2 or 4K restoration that they toured around the time Akerman died. The original DVD (from 2009) was slightly controversial among fanboys because it was DVD-only when they were starting to do simultaneous Blu/Standard releases, and there were some reports that they used too much compression squeezing the main feature onto one disc, resulting in image issues on higher-end playback systems.

APRIL: Woman of The Year; The Buena Vista Social Club; Tampopo; and Rumble Fish.

...and standalones of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort.

Are any ILXors also posters at criterionforum.org?

I lurk there, occasionally post, but not on the reg.

Taipei Story confirmed in latest newsletter.

MAY: Ghost World; Dheephan; Othello (Welles); World Cinema Project Vol. 2 (Dual-Format box); a remaster of Good Morning; and Jeanne Deilmann on Blue.

Deets on WCP set: https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2

Other Notes: I Was Born, But... is a bonus on the Good Morning reish; and Othello includes both the '52 & '55 cuts.

omg

Supposedly a flash sale's happening today?

If that's true, I'm ordering:

the Before trilogy
In a Lonely Place
Heart of a Dog
Muriel

Damn it, they always wait until the moths are fluttering around my outturned pockets.

Maybe swap in Mildred Pierce for Muriel. Don't know what brand of romantic melodramatic suffering I'm in the mood tbh.

I know they hold their cards a little closer to the vest when it comes to new releases, but do they ever discuss longer-term projections wrt which titles they plan on releasing on Blu-ray? When I see, for example, the OOP Ugetsu DVD selling for hundreds of dollars, I'm torn on whether I should pounce on something like the increasingly-expensive Peeping Tom DVD or whether I should just chance it and wait for a possible future upgrade.

At this point, it's senseless to spend a lot on their early DVDs, some of which have picture quality that would make old school Koch Lorber blush. (I've had fingers crossed for a Taste of Cherry upgrade for a decade running.)

There's a more than acceptable Region 2 DVD of Taste of Cherry still in print - multi-region players are your friends:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taste-Cherry-DVD-Homayon-Ershadi/dp/B00080Z3NQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1488295469&sr=1-1&keywords=taste+of+cherry

BR or better.

VR Taste of Cherry or GTFO

I was going to pick up the Mulholland Dr. blu-ray but a) it's streaming in HD on netflix b) my library has the Criterion DVD and I just rented it to watch the features! Problem solved!

Also the Chungking blu-ray is already OOP? And the DVD is not?? wtf????

brb locking my copy in a sealed fire-proof safe

Turns out I also had a $50 gift certificate through loyalty points after I ordered. So I got three more -- The Long Day Closes, Orpheus and Fox and His Friends. Arty gay qualities.

Barry Jenkins's Criterion closet episode makes me laugh. He has the right approach: take as much as you can until it gets embarrassing, "out of respect for the form."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY

Yeah, 8-12 seems the most acceptable haul. I do like that Volker Schlondorff only took two movies: L'eclisse and All That Jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI

That clip just made me fall in love with Barry Jenkins a bit.

yeah, lord love a film nerd

FYI (look closely at the images pinned to the wall in the photo)

https://twitter.com/Ahesbert/status/838862209300250625

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6Q8um4WUAAsL8p.jpg

Cover design mock ups for Stalker, Straw Dogs & Lost in America

Has anyone with Filmstruck watched Stalker yet? I'm assuming it's the restored version and they just haven't announced the disc

I watched it. Thought it looked great, but had never tried watching it pre-restoration on archive.org or whatever.

if it looks at all passable then it's a restoration, because... no other copy looks anywhere near decent

I had the RUSCICO DVD from quite awhile ago and, yes, barely passable.

I feel bad for the restoration team, really

that movie looks SO BAD

holy shit, y'all, the whole thing is on YouTube w/ english subs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRDYpCmMcM

huh, maybe they updated it because I swear the russian youtube one looked worse

oh wow, published in january... they did!

Stalker (1979): The story of a man who looks for a place that grants wishes and returns with a dog.

JUNE: They Live By Night; The Marseille Trilogy; The Lodger (w/Downhill); Straw Dogs reissue; and Ugetsu remaster.

The Lodger (w/Downhill)

Does that make then the first of the "Hitchcock 9" silent restorations to come out on disc since the theatrical release? I was sure there'd be an all-inclusive box or something...

Kudos to Criterion on announcing Ugetsu two weeks after I inquired ITT. I had no idea they could crank out a remaster that quickly or that they were so responsive to individual fans on obscure message boards!

XP IIRC, there are different licensors on those silent Hitchcock's, which prevents a box containing all of them.