Criterion Additions

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.

Hmmm. Filmstruck added The Lodger a couple of months ago and then pulled it within a couple of days.

OL, u gotta listen to me re NYC Film Forum 4K engagements = Criterion additions

I did, Morbz, I did. My thanks to Criterion for upgrading at my request was a joke but my thanks to you for the heads up are sincere.

NYC Film Forum 4K engagements = Criterion additions

Is there a full list of these anywhere?

http://filmforum.org/coming_soon/category/repertory

JULY: Lost In America; L'Argent; Stalker; and Rosselini's War Trilogy on Blu.

Now THAT's a crazy good month.

The Welles Othello set has been delayed: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=21181

AUGUST:The Breaking Point; La Poison; Meantime; a Sid & Nancy reissue; Hopscotch on blu; and Othello (for real this time)

The Breaking Point is terrific, upper-tier Garfield and Curtiz

SEPTEMBER: Certain Women; Festival; The Piano Teacher; Rebecca; David Lynch: The Art Life; and Othello (for real this time)

50% off B+N sale is go.

I have three picked out, but I lost my copy of All That Jazz and will need to rebuy that