The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages

[John Doe]

It's funny that some ppl believe that WB would actually license Blade Runner to CC, especially with the new movie coming out. CC couldn't top the WB release anyway. Yeah, I know, Dr. Strangelove spring to mind, but WB is not Sony.

I'm sure it's Thelma & Louise, especially with all the feminist BS that's going around lately.

[Big Ben]

What about the Scott's The Duelists? Is that a possibility?

[Feego]

What about the Scott's The Duelists? Is that a possibility?

No, that's been released by Shout Factory.

[ZizouJuve]

What about the Scott's The Duelists? Is that a possibility?

No, that's been released by Shout Factory.

Tried to buy it last week but was out of print on Shout Factories website.


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[Costa]

Oh my God, that clue really was for West Side Story

West Side Story is of course famous for having all of its songs composed using only the notes A, B, C, and E.

Huh? who told you this?
This is not true..

If West Side Story is indeed released, I hope it's corrected THIS time!

[cdnchris]

He's joking. It's a reference to the pans on the wall in the New Year's clue.

[Costa]

He's joking. It's a reference to the pans on the wall in the New Year's clue.

Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!! I see!
So, i guess this is what the 2nd Cuba flag with notes around it referred to, as was pointed out by someone i think!

By the way,
do all these people with phantom pages get releases?
Becuase i thought there are some from long ago, that haven't got any Criterion releases.

[domino harvey]

Not always. Once a full page was discovered for Rossen's Alexander the Great, which was eventually released years later by a Twilight Time

[Werewolf by Night]

especially with all the feminist BS that's going around lately.

That’s kind of an unnecessary statement to make, no? If you don’t like the film, say so, but there’s no need to go all MRA on it.

[domino harvey]

Maybe he meant it was some Beautiful Stuff

[swo17]

That's even worse.

[Costa]

For Norman Jewison, i would hope the release is Moonstruck or The Thrill of it all (although I doubt it much about the 2nd).

Could it be for Agnes of God? I haven't seen it.

[domino harvey]

It's with Mill Creek, so a Sony license. So not impossible if Mill Creek's rights lapse, though I'm not sure it's in Criterion's wheelhouse (good film though, assuming you don't have it spoiled in advance)

[vidussoni]

Not always. Once a full page was discovered for Rossen's Alexander the Great, which was eventually released years later by a Twilight Time

I believe there was also a page for The File on Thelma Jordon, which Olive ended up releasing.

[CSM126]

Watch the Scott turn out to be 1492.

[PfR73]

Watch the Scott turn out to be 1492.

Already announced by Kino Lorber

[Close The Door, Raymond]

François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain for Logorama (a short) which should be a supplement. For what, is the question?

Logorama featured the voices of David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker and Bob Stephenson. The film all three have in common? Se7en

^ Those all seem like they could be connected to MGM titles so perhaps a new deal has been struck.

The key to the rest is the studio/company they share in common as souvenir pointed out.

All the directors have a title owned by MGM (which owns United Artists, Orion and post-1986 MGM titles among others):

Donna Deitch: Desert Hearts via Samuel Goldwyn Co.

Michael Radford: 1984 (released by Twilight Time); Another Time, Another Place

Ron Shelton: Bull Durham via Orion

Joan Micklin Silver: Chilly Scenes of Winter via United Artists

Euzhan Palcy: A Dry White Summer

Bryan Singer: Usual Suspects

Jerome Robbins: West Side Story

John Sturges: both Magnificent Seven and Great Escape (also Hallelujah Trail, Hour of the Gun & Ice Station Zebra - all highly unlikely compared to the first two) via United Artists

Norman Jewison: multiple productions through United Artists - but all popular titles have already been released on blu-ray: Russians Are Coming (released by Kino Lorber), In the Heat of the Night (MGM blu release), Thomas Crown Affair (MGM blu release), "Gaily, Gaily" (very unlikely), Fiddler on the Roof (MGM blu release), Rollerball (released by Twilight Time), F.I.S.T. (very unlikely); and one from MGM: Moonstruck (MGM blu-ray release) Note that Warner owns "Cincinnati Kid".

Ridley Scott: The only MGM titles are Thelma & Louise and Hannibal

[beamish13]

Sony has Ridley Scott's terminally under appreciated Someone to Watch Over Me, which I'm hoping gets the Criterion treatment.

[GaryC]

Bring on a proper version of Performance, then, if they are already revisiting Warner Blu titles.

I was intrigued to see that Warners have submitted an "additional material" item to the BBFC, which was passed this week - "Memo from Turner", running 4:52, rated 12. So maybe something is on the way?

[Forrest Taft]

Sony has Ridley Scott's terminally under appreciated Someone to Watch Over Me, which I'm hoping gets the Criterion treatment.

If it's one he directed, I wouldn't mind if it's this one, but the page could also be for Scott the producer (Jesse James ).

[Costa]

Probably out of the question, but I'd like a Criterion of Black Hawk Down coming from a 4K scan.

[xoconostle]

Re: "Ron Shelton", don't forget that White Men Can't Jump was a favorite film of Stanley Kubrick.

BFI: Stanley Kubrick, cinephile

Pardon a tangent ... I was following those USENET threads back then. Katharina Kubrick-Hobbs presented a list, off the top of her head, of films that her father had recently expressed enjoying. It wasn't really an all-time favorites list. "White Men Can't Jump" stood out as something of a surprise but a good one. Kubrick could enjoy contemporary populist film as much as the pantheon classics.

The family's main intent in temporarily contributing to that group appeared to be not only to connect with the audience and fans at a time of grief (Christiane, on her husband's recent death lamented "It's just so unfair") but moreover to set the record straight: Stanley was not some crazed hermit, he was a humane and loving family man who was loyal to friends, loved animals, and was intensely dedicated to film. That's now generally understood but at the time of Kubrick's death the dark rumors about him still attended mainstream media reputation.

[Supporting_Character]

Another possible Joan Micklin Silver title is Between The Lines (1977), which had a DVD-R release through MGM that has since gone out of print.

[flyonthewall2983]

Probably out of the question, but I'd like a Criterion of Black Hawk Down coming from a 4K scan.

I wouldn't be too surprised to see Sony putting out one themselves, since they're putting out new editions of catalog titles. That one is very likely due an overhaul since it was one of the first Blu-rays to hit the market.

[FrauBlucher]

War/combat films are few and far between in the Criterion Collection. Can't see Black Hawk Down making it at all.