Criterion Additions

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.

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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

cool on Ingrid, have only seen two of those.

Looks like a confirmation for Bull Durham in the latest newsletter.

What do y’all think the Bergman box will be? Blu upgrade of the box with Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Solstice and... another one I’m blanking on

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Oh, goddammit.

just put $200 of blurays into a cart, gradually whittled down the order stage by stage to my darling clementine and weekend, then cancelled it entirely. that was close

yikes!

I got The Double Life of Véronique, Life is Sweet, and Straw Dogs.

MAY: Moonrise; The Other Side of Hope; Graduation; Beyond The Hills; Midnight Cowboy; and upgrades of Mishima and Au hasard Balthazar

Nice upgrades

You liked Graduation that much, Grisso?

I...haven't seen it! It played here briefly last summer and I was either (A). sick, (B) out of town, or most likely (C) broke.

Only Mungieu I've seen is 4M,3W,2D, which I do consider essential. viewing. It's supposedly been in the CC pipeline for eons, and it's kind of surprising that it wasn't announced alongside the other two today.

Everyone had been predicting a trilogy box set, so yeah, that's a little surprising.

MAY: Female Trouble; Bowling For Columbine; El sur; Manila In The Claws of Light; and an upgrade of The Virgin Spring.

Aw, I was holding out for a 4K upgrade of Bowling for Columbine.

Or rather: whut?

took the briefest of naps during a screening of wild strawberries at the rep cinema last week (saw it after writing an exam) but thought it was really terrific

Female Trouble!!!! Nice. One of my favorite movie theme songs https://youtu.be/M5xziMBpf0Q

OK ... They timed this one out to be released specifically on my birthday!

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Also in July:

A Matter of Life or Death
Dragon Inn
Bull Durham
Sex, Lies & Videotape

Life AND Death, sorry

very nice

what's with the Bergan box? Ingmar not Ingrid. wasn't confirmed but someone thought one of the clues in the NYE drawing was a Bergman box? what else is there that CC hasn't put out? just upgrades right?

The precedent is that those big boxes come out for Xmas.

That Sternberg/Dietrich cover is so lush.

I can wait for a Bergman box. Especially since Dietrich/Sternberg is already maybe the most thrilling box they’ve released since Bergman/Rossellini.

The Sternberg-Dietrch stuff has been out on non-Criterion editions for a while, no? I've had no trouble checking them out of libraries in the last fifteen years.

I mean, there's plenty of Ingmar Bergman on YouTube.

XP Sure, they've been available, but usually with indifferent presentations--now they are available in restorations on Blu with contextual supplements, which is kind of a big deal for whom that would be a big deal (and also Shanghai Express has been the CC pipeline since the first W administration)

Baal too tempting not to check out of the library.

Doesn't look like it's made it to this thread yet, but the quasi-confirmed hubbub on the grapevine is that Criterion is prepping a whole slew of Godzilla-related discs, possibly a box set. They have the rights and the intention but I don't know how far along the actual product is rn.

Wow, that sounds great. Haven't seen any of the original Japanese Godzilla movies since I was a little kid.

I don't have Filmstruck but I guess all of the Toho stuff Criterion has the rights to is up there now.

these? http://www.godzilla-movies.com/news/criterion-godzilla-films-stream-filmstruck-this-month

(i bought about half a dozen of these in the last couple of years with both the japanese versions and the bastardised english language versions on the same disk. english versions only watched for the commentary, done by people who really knew their stuff. would like a copy of 'vs mechagodzilla' though, it appears to be unavailable here (on amazon for 60+ quid)

I'm fairly certain Mechagodzilla is intended to be among Criterion's releases, as well as...Son of Godzilla? I think that's the other one that's currently way out of print.

(And among the reasons why I'm assuming this will be a Zatoichi-esque box set, because I cannot imagine an individual Criterion release of Son of Godzilla.)