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#2076 Post by Mooney » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:49 pm

So Clint Eastwood enters the Criterion Collection with, The Eiger Sanction.

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#2077 Post by zedz » Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:17 pm

Drucker wrote:It does NOT perfectly match the peaks on the cover of Night Train to Munich...so Gold Rush?
With a giant stylized Chaplin head featuring a beak in place of the moustache. You heard it here first!

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#2078 Post by captveg » Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:28 pm

I'm definitely thinking The Gold Rush.

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#2079 Post by Jeff » Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:07 pm

zedz wrote:With a giant stylized Chaplin head featuring a beak in place of the moustache. You heard it here first!
Seriously would not be surprised if the stylized shading on the mountains makes a Chaplin face.

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#2080 Post by Harmonov » Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:33 pm

Could be something like this:

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#2081 Post by Feego » Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:20 pm

Or it could be something like this:

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#2082 Post by htshell » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:11 pm

Drucker wrote:I thought the supposed Nanook clue turned out to be Letter Never Sent?
Not saying that this is wrong, but Nanook of the North was presented at last summer's Flaherty Film Seminar in a 4k scan, so it does exist in a new HD master.

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#2083 Post by duck duck » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:41 am

Sorry, I missed the post on the umbrella.
I say if it isn't Gold Rush, then someone sends Criterion a virus that turns all their pictures into posters for The Gold Rush.
Unless, they announce City Lights... But after that...

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#2084 Post by GG Pan » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:04 am

What about a BD upgrade for Downhill Racer? Is that a ski-iable JPEG?

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#2085 Post by Finch » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:03 pm

They posted a lot about Polanski and Knife in the Water lately so I wonder if that's due for a Blu upgrade in their June lineup.

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#2086 Post by swo17 » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:05 pm

It's the 50th anniversary of its premiere.

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#2087 Post by kinjitsu » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:07 pm

BFI twittered the same.

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#2088 Post by SamLowry » Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:51 pm

Wishful thinking time: Prisoner Of The Mountains is MGM & OOP.

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#2089 Post by krnash » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:35 pm

Criterion is posting like mad about L'Avventura on their Facebook page today. Seems ripe for an upgrade, could this be in lieu of a beginning-of-the-month hint?

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#2090 Post by swo17 » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:43 pm

Once again, it's the anniversary of the film's premiere. I wouldn't read too much into it.

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#2091 Post by ellipsis7 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:54 am

It's also I understand a film for which Janus/Criterion own North American rights outright since that premiere 41 years ago, so it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that this is coming to Blu imminently...

And it's the 100th anniversary of Antonioni's birth in September too...

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#2092 Post by ellipsis7 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:09 am

Just noticed the L'avventura clip in the Youtube video inlay on Criterion's new website page The Dawn of L'avventura can be run in HD 1080p resolution... Another pointer to a Blu Ray coming?...

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#2093 Post by jwd5275 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:42 am

ellipsis7 wrote:Just noticed the L'avventura clip in the Youtube video inlay on Criterion's new website page The Dawn of L'avventura can be run in HD 1080p resolution... Another pointer to a Blu Ray coming?...
Once again, reading too much into it. Over half of the movies on Hulu are HD 1080p including much of the Eclipse sets....

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#2094 Post by domino harvey » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:46 am

But we know the Eclipse sets are sourced from hi-def transfers. The reason most have been floating as to why L'Avventura hasn't been upgraded yet is their original master used for the DVD wasn't hi-def

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#2095 Post by eerik » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:47 am

ellipsis7 wrote: can be run in HD 1080p resolution... Another pointer to a Blu Ray coming?...
No. They have HD masters for almost all of their titles. Recently they've uploaded 1080p clips from The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Naked Lunch, Knife in the Water, Vampyr, etc.

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#2096 Post by ellipsis7 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:50 am

Compare and contrast...

Criterion's L'avventura trailer streamed on Youtube (in 2006) at just 360p...

To stream at 1080p you presumably need an HD 1080p master, which in L'avventura's case means a new transfer... The original 2001 transfer was a 'stunning new digital transfer' in SD, just before they started making HD transfers.... All those clips you mention, Eerik, already had HD transfers extant...

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#2097 Post by dwk » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:32 pm


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#2098 Post by The Narrator Returns » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:39 pm

In a perfect world, this would mean The Unbearable Lightness of Being is getting rereleased. But that isn't happening.

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#2099 Post by The Elegant Dandy Fop » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:52 pm

Actually, if it were a perfect world, it would be a Criterion edition of The Wanderers, but that's never going to happen!

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#2100 Post by Gregory » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:10 pm

Henry & June would look quite nice on Blu.

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