Criterion Random Speculation Vol.3

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Cinephrenic · #451 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:28 pm

Both Janus films and Criterion's sites are offline. Do you think they might be adding the Eclipse section? Interesting...

CSM126 · #452 Post by **CSM126** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:42 pm

Cinephrenic wrote:Both Janus films and Criterion's sites are offline. Do you think they might be adding the Eclipse section? Interesting...

Perhaps they're also finally getting the full Janus catalogue posted as they promised when they launched that site five thousand years ago.

Antoine Doinel · #453 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:52 pm

It's back online. No changes.

#454 Post by **kinjitsu** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:14 pm

We hope to have an Eclipse website up soon.
Thanks for your support.

Best,
Kim Hendrickson

Musashi219 · #455 Post by **Musashi219** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:50 pm

www.criterion.com/eclipse

Narshty · #456 Post by **Narshty** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:32 pm

Nice to see that La Haine has been licensed from Universal, even if Criterion are only getting about one title a year from them now. Make Way for Tomorrow may yet appear.

#457 Post by **Jeff** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:50 pm

Narshty wrote:Nice to see that La Haine has been licensed from Universal, even if Criterion are only getting about one title a year from them now. Make Way for Tomorrow may yet appear.

The Universal titles have indeed slowed to a trickle. Prior to La Haine, I believe the most recent was last June's Dazed and Confused. Of course we have Under the Volcano to look forward to later this year.

Tribe · #458 Post by **Tribe** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:21 pm

So, with the Image deal, is it more than sheer speculation to think we might see a Criterion release of The Sheltering Sky?

Tribe

The Fanciful Norwegian · #459 Post by **The Fanciful Norwegian** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:06 am

I doubt it was part of the deal. It's an RPC production but the Warner DVD is still very much in print.

justeleblanc · #460 Post by **justeleblanc** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:10 am

July announcement today?

a.khan · #461 Post by **a.khan** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:13 am

Isn't it always on the third Friday of every month?

Musashi219 · #462 Post by **Musashi219** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:09 pm

justeleblanc wrote:July announcement today?

If we go off the Forthcoming thread and what we've been told through various e-mails, July should be the month of: Ace in the Hole, Les Enfants Terribles, and Ivan's Childhood. I hope for all three and that there be more than just those releases.

miless · #463 Post by **miless** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:38 pm

Musashi219 wrote:
justeleblanc wrote:July announcement today?
If we go off the Forthcoming thread and what we've been told through various e-mails, July should be the month of: Ace in the Hole, Les Enfants Terribles, and Ivan's Childhood. I hope for all three and that there be more than just those releases.

god, July is going to fuck with my wallet...

Cinephrenic · #464 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:59 pm

What you mean, Criterion fucks us every month, expecially with Eclipse now.

Musashi219 · #465 Post by **Musashi219** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:09 pm

Cinephrenic wrote:What you mean, Criterion fucks us every month, expecially with Eclipse now.

June is going to be the first month since January (didn't purchase Border Radio) where I haven't picked up everything they released, as I'll just Netflix the Makavejev titles. They've been burning a hole in my wallet for months now and Eclipse just makes the fire run rampant. Not to mention the previously released titles I purchase every now and then, such as the six DVDs I picked up during DVDPlanet's 40% off sale.

jbeall · #466 Post by **jbeall** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:57 pm

Musashi219 wrote:June is going to be the first month since January (didn't purchase Border Radio) where I haven't picked up everything they released, as I'll just Netflix the Makavejev titles ...

I know how y'all feel. I'll be netflixing all of the June titles. I'm about to pre-order Army of Shadows, and having just rented Becket from the Rutgers library, I'm going to buy that one as well. I could probably afford just a criterion habit; it's all those non-criterions that bankrupt me!

Anyway, I'll probably blind-buy Ace in the Hole, and I know this sounds horrible, but I honestly hope criterion doesn't release anything I'm interested in again until around Christmas. This has already been an awesome year for them, but for the sake of their less affluent audience, they need to knock it off!!!

justeleblanc · #467 Post by **justeleblanc** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:56 pm

Sorry I posted this in the wrong thread.

3 Penny Opera

CSM126 · #468 Post by **CSM126** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:05 pm

justeleblanc wrote:Sorry I posted this in the wrong thread.

3 Penny Opera

I think my heart just exploded with pure, rapturous joy.

Cinephrenic · #469 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:07 pm

Well there is a Ophuls boxset in the works.

HerrSchreck · #470 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:08 am

justeleblanc wrote:Sorry I posted this in the wrong thread.

3 Penny Opera

YO! CC is kicking fucking ASS if this is true... what a year!!! Phew... looks like 2004 is getting knocked over as the year to beat.

Sure are making up for METROPLOLITAN, KICKING & SCR et al.

justeleblanc · #471 Post by **justeleblanc** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:23 am

The only way for them to beat the Cassavetes box from 2004 would be to release a Rivette box with his first four features (including both versions of Out 1) -- and unfortunately that just isn't happening.

Though to read into things, I stopped hearing back from the folks at Criterion when I started asking about Rivette. Could it be they are working on trying to score a deal with Rivette and they don't want to say anything? You think they could be getting Barbet to help in the process?

miless · #472 Post by **miless** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:52 am

justeleblanc wrote:The only way for them to beat the Cassavetes box from 2004 would be to release a Rivette box with his first four features (including both versions of Out 1) -- and unfortunately that just isn't happening.

Though to read into things, I stopped hearing back from the folks at Criterion when I started asking about Rivette. Could it be they are working on trying to score a deal with Rivette and they don't want to say anything? You think they could be getting Barbet to help in the process?

well, there have been Rivette retrospectives playing around (at least there was one here in Portland... so I'm assuming that it made it elsewhere) and we had similar retrospectives (Teshigahara, Malle, etc...) that have made their way to CC DVDs

mikeohhh · #473 Post by **mikeohhh** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:53 pm

Those Teshigahara, Malle and Mizoguchi retros that have been touring have been brought to you by Janus Films. That's the key difference. As far as I know, Paris nous appartient is the only Rivette that Janus holds the rights to, although I imagine most of his films are up for grabs. I'd say Rivette is a possibility but not a certainty.

cysiam · #474 Post by **cysiam** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:56 pm

Got this response about more Spanish films.

We'd love to get some more Spanish films in the collection. Right now we have a few things in the works. Saura's CRIA CUERVOS will be in stores in late July/early August and we hope to get a few more of his films out there as well.

Thanks for your interest.

Best,
Kim Hendrickson

ranaing83 · #475 Post by **ranaing83** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:04 pm

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I have been wishing for a criterion release of Cria for quite a while, and I'm really eager to see some more Saura. Cria was a film that really left an imprint in my mind, and I find myself mentally returning to certain scenes over and over again. I'd love to do a double feature with Spirit of the Beehive. The two films work so well together, even apart from the amazing perfs by Torrent.

For people in NYC, Lincoln Center's doing a pretty extensive retro on Saura that started yesterday. I'm guessing the prints that have the janus logo attached will be the other titles Hendrickson's talking about.