2015 New Year's Day Drawing

[cdobbs]

Don't ask me what the appeal to Criterion might be, as I haven't seen the film, but John Guillermin's The Bridge at Remagen appears to be all about blowing up bridges, and Guillermin has a phantom page.

Very good, very underrated film, kind of Aldrich-y - I can't believe no one voted for it on the War list poll. Very interesting about the phantom page.

I see it's the only film with a screenplay credited to Richard Yates

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Was there a follow up to A bridge too far? A bridge not far enough?

[Jeff]

Could that be Cassavetes' Gloria next to the bridge? She's over-armed I suppose, but other than that, she's dressed for the part. Their relationship with Gena Rowlands makes it seem like a likely acquisiton.

It's tough to tell from the drawing. Maybe those aren't even all guns she's carrying, but some of this other crap.

[rockysds]

Gloria is coming from Mill Creek in February (dvd only sadly) packaged with the Lumet remake, so it presumably won't be available to Criterion for a while.

[Valin Kenobi]

Is that what people are calling blood? I thought that was for a gate of hell kind of thing - looks like an opening in the ground with smoke coming out.

Jigoku?

[Adam X]

Could that be Cassavetes' Gloria next to the bridge? She's over-armed I suppose, but other than that, she's dressed for the part.

It's clearly a clue for the wonderfully trashy Lady Terminator!

[Lowry_Sam]

...or maybe Lady & Rose & mansion in distance = Black Lizard + Black Rose Mansion.

[R0lf]

Could that be Cassavetes' Gloria next to the bridge? She's over-armed I suppose, but other than that, she's dressed for the part. Their relationship with Gena Rowlands makes it seem like a likely acquisiton.

It's tough to tell from the drawing. Maybe those aren't even all guns she's carrying, but some of this other crap.

Some of *this* other crap:

[R0lf]

...or maybe Lady & Rose & mansion in distance = Black Lizard + Black Rose Mansion.

I've been nagging ARROW for these (also obligatory BUT BLACK LIZARD IS ON HULU comment).

[ryannichols7]

MOMA doing a Wenders retrospective....the bridge is definitely for Until the End of the World, in that case.

have to imagine the Road Trilogy will come first after we've waited this long, but what a nice bonus.

[colinr0380]

I was just wondering if the rose could signify The Age of Innocence?

[jfish226]

The woman with the gun could be a hint for

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Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep

.

[zedz]

The woman with the gun could be a hint for

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Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep

.

That would make this the worst drawing of

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Maggie Cheung (blonde? who knew?)

imaginable.

So why not?

[jfish226]

Just a thought. I'm still unsure of what it would be. The Kinji Fukasaku films are a good bet too but like zedz pointed out the drawing is blonde. The rose and the woman are puzzling. I put my two cents in and now I think I will just play the "wait and see" game.

[Lowry_Sam]

18th Century soldiers (maybe NAPOLEON or BARRY LYNDON or LES MISERABLES)

I feel like if it were Napoleon, the solider in the lead would be noticeably shorter than the rest of the army.

The soldiers are from Wajda's Popioly (fingers-crossed, while it's clear I can't hope for another 2014, it'd be nice if there were at least one film in the new year's drawing I could be excited about, though the original Les Miserables would work just as well & I doubt Napoleon would be ready this soon).

It would be nice if the window was A Room With A View or The Adjuster, but on closer inspection it doesn't look anything like the window in those films.

[captveg]

So, in retrospect The River Blu-ray upgrade was rather obvious... (and a couple people did suggest it)

[swo17]

Also, the heavily armed woman is clearly Harriet Andersson: Vampire Hunter. Not sure how we missed that before.

[theflirtydozen]

Earlier today on the Facebook page, criterion linked to an article on the title sequence for DR. STRANGELOVE. I don't know about you, but my new favorite explanation for that hole in the ground (or whatever it is) in the NYD clue is it was caused by a nuclear bomb.

[Drucker]

Roughly a 0% chance of that happening.

[Cinephrenic]

It's possible because it's Sony, but why would they need to release it in the first place?

[johnnysnatchclub7]

Because...Kubrick. Redundant as it may be. They're not going to not release a Kubrick if they can.

[theflirtydozen]

The BD has been OOP for a while. In fact, according to MMM, the only in-print version is a Kubrick collection from WB. It was a laserdisc title as well.

[Drucker]

I repeat, a 0% chance of it being the case. In those rare circumstances where Sony puts out the beautiful editions themselves, why would they go ahead and license it out to someone else after the fact?

And it's Kubrick. And it's Strangelove.

[Finch]

I love Strangelove (even have a t-shirt with the "cartoon" poster) but I'd much rather Criterion get Barry Lyndon from Warner in the correct aspect ratio and with some contextualising extras. A Strangelove Crit is going to be as redundant as their Llewyn Davis disc.

[Feego]

The BD has been OOP for a while. In fact, according to MMM, the only in-print version is a Kubrick collection from WB. It was a laserdisc title as well.

There's also a Best Buy-exclusive steelbook edition.