The Criterion Collection Thread

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

Tampopo is a fine film, wouldn't mind a BD of that. Between that, Carnival of Souls and Cat People, Criterion are finally releasing quite a lot of stuff I want after a long time of drought.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

There is a chance that they have more of Jí»zí´ Itami's films as they have pages up for Masayuki Suo, who directed making of docs for A Taxing Woman and A Taxing Woman's Return and Akira Nakao, who was in Minbí´ no onna

[Tom Clark Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tom Clark]

Carnival of Souls: “Thinkin' Like That, Don't It Give You Nightmares?”

Great stuff as always from Kier-La Janisse.

[Paul L Scholar of Sleaze Find all posts View Profile Close Paul L]

Really excited to finally get my mits on Criterion's CARNIVAL OF SOULS Blu.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

October 11
Pan's Labyrinth


Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro


October 18
Short Cuts


Boyhood


October 25
The Tree of Wooden Clogs


The Executioner

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A heads up about that del Toro trilogy set is not just a slip box over the individual releases, the Blu-ray version has "A 100-page hardcover book featuring an introduction by author Neil Gaiman and essays by critics Michael Atkinson, Mark Kermode, and Maitland McDonagh, along with production notes and sketches by del Toro and illustrators Carlos Giménez and Raíºl Monge"

The critic essays are in the individual releases and the individual Cronos release has "excerpts from del Toro's notes for the film," but the Gaiman introduction and the sketches and illustrations are exclusive (and I suspect that there will be production notes for all three films not just the ones for Cronos).

So now I have to think long and hard about getting the trilogy set, as I already have The Devil's Backbone and Cronos, but since I won Cronos from Criterion, I only paid for The Devil's Backbone so its not like I'm re-buying both films. And the trilogy will only be $50 during the November B&N 50% off sale..

[Terry C Tiger Fists Find all posts View Profile Close Terry C]

In the same boat here, but I'll decide to bite on the box. I love PL and DB while I like Cronos, and I can always give the single releases away as a present or just sell them off. Our wallets will hate us, but this is too good to turn down.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

This is 3 years old, but it's great stuff;

https://www.criterion.com/lists/1782...talk-directors

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Criterion UK's October releases:
10th - The Emigrants/The New Land
24th - Day for Night

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Criterion Cast tweeted that McCabe & Mrs. Miller has been pushed back to October, with no firm release date.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

I still haven't seen McCABE but I've got the DVD. Recently I've been plowing through Altman's filmography and I'm saving that one, because most people agree it's among his best.

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So Filmstruck is in beta and word has it that Criterion has the the following films (the art is either branded with the C or the film opens with the Janus/Criterion logo(s):
TOM JONES (1963)
BIENVENIDO MR. MARSHALL! (1952)
DERSU UZALA (1975)
MEANTIME (1984)
LA POISON (1951)
THE OFFICIAL STORY (1985)
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (1960)
HIGH HOPES (1988)
ROBINSON CRUSOE (1954)

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

I wonder how Dersu Uzala looks. I don't believe there is a single good home video release of it, like much of Soviet cinema. It's a great film though, probably one of Kurosawa's best.

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Criterion Cast tweeted that McCabe & Mrs. Miller has been pushed back to October, with no firm release date.

It's still listed as August on Amazon but if it is moved to October it would coincide with Criterion's split releases of Nashville and Short Cuts. I'm not sure why Short Cuts is listed as they just released it a few years ago.

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I wonder how Dersu Uzala looks. I don't believe there is a single good home video release of it, like much of Soviet cinema. It's a great film though, probably one of Kurosawa's best.

At the Wexner talk earlier this year they showed a reel of various titles they were restoring/remastering and DERSU UZALA was rumored to be one of the titles, so hopefully we get A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY or APU TRILOGY level restoration. (Kurosawa is my favorite filmmaker, but I've never see DERSU UZALA, so I hope they get it finished and on Blu soon.)

It's still listed as August on Amazon but if it is moved to October it would coincide with Criterion's split releases of Nashville and Short Cuts. I'm not sure why Short Cuts is listed as they just released it a few years ago.

I believe that the Short Cuts DVD is a whole new release that is using the new 4K master but it (like the forthcoming Blu-ray) is losing "A segment from BBC television's Moving Pictures tracing the development of the screenplay" that was on the first DVD.