Criterion Additions

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

Actually, I have 10 picked out I'll need to whittle down to three (or maybe four):

MULTIPLE MANIACS
STALKER
GOOD MORNING
MURIEL
LA CHIENNE
CODE UNKNOWN
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
THE STORY OF THE LATE CHRYSANTHEMUM
BLACK GIRL
THE KILLING

Brakhage and Whit Stillman for me.

L'Argent bought and ready

Got a review copy of that one, otherwise it'd have topped my list.

FYI, it appears that Amazon is undercutting a lot of B&N's sale prices atm.

OCTOBER: Personal Shopper; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; Barry Lyndon; The Lure; and Vampyr on Blu.

Vampyr BR is exciting! There have been rumors floating about FWWM for a while, and I'm not sure I understand why it's happening. The version in the Twin Peaks set is about as definitive as it gets. But I'll take more definitive if Lynch has it to give.

Kubrick fandom is way overblown and sometimes gross but Barry Lyndon on criterion intrigues me

Sort of bummed the Night of the Living Dead rumors didn't come to fruition in October, but that's a monster slate.

both FWWM and Lyndon have ace transfers already (whice i've purchased) so i'm less than thrilled about this announcement. the BL blu-ray was light on special features iirc, so i guess there's that.