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#2626 Post by jwd5275 » Tue Dec 01, 2015 2:19 am

Watch...he's just there filming an interview about the party scene in Midnight Cowboy.

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#2630 Post by hearthesilence » Fri Dec 25, 2015 6:47 pm

They should. Whoever has the rights has repackaged that thing ad nauseam and yet it's not only the same transfer, but the same horrendous use of DNR.

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#2631 Post by hearthesilence » Fri Dec 25, 2015 6:53 pm

This is High Hopes! Finally, it's one of my favorites and I'd argue it was Leigh's best work prior to Naked and his later masterpieces. It's been unavailable in the States for a very long time, and the only alternative was a crappy Blu-Ray in the UK that was clearly taken from not only a very old SD transfer (and upscaled to HD), but one of terrible quality, possibly a VHS master.

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#2632 Post by bainbridgezu » Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:00 pm

gorgeousnothings wrote:"The always entertaining Paul Morrissey stopped by today with some vintage publicity material in tow."

This is a link to an instagram post, but it's worth noting that the same post on twitter has the Andy Warhol Museum tagged.
I was looking for this post, only to discover it has been removed. Strange, as I don't remember them deleting anything similar, with the exception of David Lynch showing off the Eraserhead packaging -- which I assumed was something to do with Lynch (and Morrissey not being known for similar particularities).

I'm sure Criterion will eventually release the films regardless, but hope they haven't hit a roadblock by understandably wanting to foreground Warhol's involvement for marketing purposes -- as Morrissey quite famously resents the lack of credit for his filmic style and casting discoveries.

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#2633 Post by dwk » Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:37 pm

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Film technicians at the new Hong Kong branch of L’Immagine Ritrovata repairing original 35mm negatives of Chinese films.

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#2634 Post by zedz » Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:50 pm

dwk wrote:Image
Film technicians at the new Hong Kong branch of L’Immagine Ritrovata repairing original 35mm negatives of Chinese films.
Yes, those technicians do look eerily familiar:
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#2635 Post by Cinephrenic » Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:14 pm

Bring on King Hu.

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#2637 Post by Lowry_Sam » Sun Jan 31, 2016 6:55 pm

Film technicians at the new Hong Kong branch of L’Immagine Ritrovata repairing original 35mm negatives of Chinese films.
and here they are relaxing.
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#2639 Post by mizo » Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:00 am

criterion10 wrote:Kogonada takes on Godard
You know that's actually pretty good advertising. First, watching clips from great Godard films wrenched out of context and organized so that they slide neatly into narrow and reductive categories makes me angry. In my anger, I start idly forming arguments in my head about the vast array of ideas and projects these clips actually evoke. Thoughts about these films piling on top of each other, I'm overcome with a very pleasant nostalgia that makes me want to return to these films all over again. If I didn't already own all the Criterion Godards, they probably would've just made a sale.

Maybe :: kogonada is actually some kind of innovative marketing technique. :shock:

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#2640 Post by hollis » Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:48 pm

Via Twitter, a Criterion Current interview with Robert Eggers, director of The Witch.

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#2641 Post by hollis » Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:12 am

And another witch-related tweet. Can we take these as a hint for an upcoming release?

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#2642 Post by Minkin » Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:09 pm

I suppose its not out of line with reason for Criterion to release The Witch - if the New Years clue does end up being The Bling Ring.

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#2643 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:14 pm

A24 seems very much like a company that would love to work with Criterion for some of their films' releases.

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#2644 Post by dwk » Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:08 am

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When you're dealing with a murderers' row of cinematographers like this, you have to shoot in widescreen.
From left to right: Emmanuel Lubezki, John Bailey, Dean Cundey, Ed Lachman, John Seale, and Caleb Deschanel.

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#2645 Post by John Doe » Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:07 pm

The Witch will be distributed through Lionsgate. You guys are overestimating Criterion :P

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#2647 Post by Ribs » Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:06 pm

Criterion shared this image on their social media today, saying it was a single frame at the front of a reel they were working on.

Obviously indicates it's not from whatever they *are* working on, but on Tumblr they did attach a tag saying '1942'.

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#2648 Post by bakofalltrades » Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:24 pm

"When we receive scans for restoration of an original film element, they come in reels. Each reel has leader and countdown.
In this unusual case we discovered a single frame of something we hadn’t seen before, which was creepy and not-quite-human (fitting, for the film):"


This, along with the tag "1942" from Tumblr, has me hoping and a'praying it's Cat People.

(And if it's not, I'll still be hoping and a'praying anyway.)

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#2649 Post by Zot! » Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:31 pm

Man, they need to back off the dnr, that guys face looks totally waxy.

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#2650 Post by mizo » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:05 pm

Funny that after all those years of complaining about there being no animated films in the collection, here we are with Fantastic Mr. Fox, Watership Down, Fantastic Planet and soon Thunderbirds Are Go!

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