Criterion Additions

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.

I didn't have the FWWM b/c I had the not-quite-complete Twin Peaks on DVD. And, yes, any bonus features at all on one of the greatest movies of all time would be nice.

was curious to see The Lure when it was out; that's a fast transition from theater to criterion!

Same with Personal Shopper.

Yowzah http://gothamist.com/2017/08/03/nypl_bpl_library_card_criterion_collection.php#photo-1

NOVEMBER: The Philadelphia Story; Desert Hearts; Jabberwocky; and Le samourai on Blu.

Now that it's clear that Night of the Living Dead's going to be in the collection, I'm getting impatient.

That said, October's going to be a three-title month for me, so I'm fine with a zero-title November.

You forgot to mention the 32-disc box set 100 Years of Olympic Films:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/stills/132442-6056f9217f1687b51e28b2fbadb098af/Olympics_Product_Horizontal_logo_doublesize_original.jpg

Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Summer and Winter Games, this one-of-a-kind collection assembles, for the first time, a century’s worth of Olympic films—the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. These documentaries cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering sprinting world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean Claude-Killy dominating the slopes of Grenoble in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the first-ever women’s marathon on the streets of Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the work of Bud Greenspan, the man behind an impressive ten Olympic features, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such landmarks of the documentary form as Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, along with lesser-known but captivating contributions by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also serves as a fascinating window onto the formal development of cinema itself, as well as the technological progress that has enabled the viewer, over the years, to get ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, and reflecting as well the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable marathon of films offers nothing less than a panorama of a hundred years of human endeavor.

^^December release.

Tom Jones confirmed in the latest newsletter. Appropriate hemming and hawing over at the CC forum that this most likely won't be the theatrical cut which Tony Richardson's estate has blocked from release.

Sounds like Payne's Election may be on the way: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=296377

DECEMBER: Election (A. Payne); 100 Years of Olympic Films box; and remasters of Monterey Pop & General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait

Caaaaaalled it.

Silence of the Lambs blu-ray unofficially announced (alongside unofficial announcement of blu-ray upgrades of some other out of print DVDs, people speculating Spinal Tap as a possibility).

i know of at least one CC that included a copy of the novel -- The Man Who Fell to Earth -- and they should do it for Election; would delineate where Payne sitcommed it.

I'd be down (Picnic at Hanging Rock and the original release of Short Cuts also include books of the source material).