Criterion Additions

trench warfare, detention, Fordian Americana, Brit miserabilism, yes

can anyone tell me about Autant-Lara? never even heard of him

answered myself by reading this: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/07/news.obituaries

I was also ignorant on Autant-Lara and a "this dude was a fascist" obit isn't an intro that's making me run to buy the set (Criterion also referes to the films as "romantic escapism during Occupation"). I mean I'm sure the movies are probably great but.

Apparently Chabrol was friends with Le Pen, too.

http://www.worldofreel.com/2017/10/does-breakfast-club-deserve-criterion.html

"Is it Criterion-worthy? Of course not."

If we are going to cite Kael-approval as grounds for inclusion, then a lot of better films than The Breakfast Club are going to need to be tossed out of the Criterion Collection.

I'm never going to begrudge them their Breakfast Clubs and their Armageddons if it helps them to finance the release of more obscure stuff.

Same, and even more so if it justifies them putting out a Dressed to Kill set.

Wheeler & Woolsey box or bust

Benjamin Button, lol

I'm surprised there hasn't been a Bulldog Drummond box, since they've had 10 of those streaming for years on Hulu and Filmstruck.

sounds like an Eclipse

Dead Man confirmed in latest newsletter.

50%-off B&N sale is go.

I can't with these back-to-back sales.

I know, I also cannot.

ownership is overrated

free your ass and your library will follow

I've seen the people at the library, and don't wish to free my ass anywhere near that.

tsk tsk! be one of the Library People, Eric

I'm already skeeved about the people who hang out around my home library.

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

"BAD TIMING....that is going to be stuck in the bag right away."

<3

I really hope that lots of people buy the DVD of Bad Timing based on this video. Huppert is unflappable as always, doesn't really give a shit about being in the closet, and the movie she's most enthusiastic about is Bad Timing, love it

anyway hoping for a blu-ray reissue soon

what’s the comedy with the dog walking scene she refers to?

I'm sure that the bulk of people who make it a point to buy Criterions are, like me, no longer actively buying DVD versions if they think there's the possibility of an upgrade.

Finally, Night of the Living Dead and the Silence of the Lambs reissue!

Also: The Hero (S. Ray), Tom Jones, An Actor's Revenge, and Elevator to the Gallows on BR.

what’s the comedy with the dog walking scene she refers to?

I forget which, but it's a Pierre Etaix film

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/947-pierre-etaix

Wonder if Isabelle will move some Etaix units. I've seen a couple, he's funny; Jerry Lewis liked him.

Thank you. She sold me, library request submitted.

It must've been Yoyo --- she kept saying that in the video, but I figured it was the name of her assistant...

Yoyo? Sounds like someone who'd answer to Isabelle Huppert on the daily.

Dead Man and Women In Love both confirmed in this week's newsletters.

Dead Man and Women In Love

would watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI

Ha, I watched this and the four video recs afterwards were three closet videos and a live Neil Young clip and I realized I'd totes watch a Neil Young Criterion Closet video.

Maybe they can bring him in for something on Dead Man?

MARCH: King of Jazz; Women In Love; Baal; The Age of Innocence; and an upgrade of The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Age of Innocence!

King of Jazz! I saw the restoration earlier this year, and it was dazzling.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/images/9411-98f0db0af71fcf5f5c67c7776f7b53d9/Wacky_animal_large.png

New Year's Drawing

As much as everyone thinks the bullets and Bowling ball represent the (unwelcome) intrusion of Bowling for Columbine into the collection, I'm going to just hope for awhile longer that the ten bullets = ten shots = Kiarostami's Ten. (Yeah, there were more than ten shots in that movie, I know, I know.)

Really really happy to see confirmed upgrade on Scarlet Empress though.

my initial thought on the vise with the red "M" (is it an M though??) was Casino but only because the dude whose head is in the vise gives up a character named Charlie M.

But of course, Scarlet empress. I'm terrible at these.

The only ones I'd guessed on my own before heading to the Criterion Forum were Tree of Life, Color of Pomegranates and The Other Side of Hope.

ugh yea my heart sank @ tree of life

Looking for any Bergman... there’s a lot of restorations and theatrical re-releases planned by Janus this year. Through a Glass Darkly & Winter Solstice are due for an upgrade

also, The Sacrifice? New 4K restoration being shown here in March...

Curious if the CC Tree of Life is gonna be that extended mega-version Malick was supposedly putting together for BluRay.

https://criterioncast.com/news/wacky-new-years-drawing-hints-at-the-criterion-collections-2018-line-up

T. Running bottles = Virgin Suicides

maybe Virgin Spring?

April 2018:

Dead Man
The Virgin Suicides
The Color of Pomegranates
The Awful Truth
Eclipse Series 48: Ingrid Bergman's Swedish Years