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#451 Post by arsonfilms » Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:30 pm

fiddlesticks wrote:Peter Becker discusses the unusual treatment of The Red Balloon and White Mane, including the revelation that both will receive the full Criterion treatment in the near future (not Paddle to the Sea, however).
I'm really glad that they've cleared all this up well in advance of the releases. There was no way I was going to buy stripped down versions of both separately, but I absolutely would buy them with the appropriate contextual materials, etc. They are certainly doing the right thing in essentially telling us that the April releases are for the kids and that we should wait. Bravo.

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#452 Post by s.j. bagley » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:09 pm

arsonfilms wrote: There was no way I was going to buy stripped down versions of both separately, but I absolutely would buy them with the appropriate contextual materials, etc. They are certainly doing the right thing in essentially telling us that the April releases are for the kids and that we should wait. Bravo.
agreed. i think it's an interesting and commendable decision on their part.

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#453 Post by sidehacker » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:24 pm

New post in which Issa Clubb discusses working on the supplements for The Ice Storm.

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#454 Post by Ashirg » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:48 am

And now I have to book a flight to Copenhagen, where I’ll be returning to the primary pleasures of being a Criterion DVD producer: working with cinema scholars and sifting elbow-deep through film archives.
Hmmm, what movie this might be? Let the speculations begin!

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#455 Post by Jeff » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:57 am

Ashirg wrote:
And now I have to book a flight to Copenhagen, where I’ll be returning to the primary pleasures of being a Criterion DVD producer: working with cinema scholars and sifting elbow-deep through film archives.
Hmmm, what movie this might be? Let the speculations begin!
Vampyr

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#456 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:27 am

Well Ozu never made a Danish film so clearly Issa got mixed up

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#457 Post by Des Esseintes » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:40 am

Every time I try to access this latest blog, Firefox crashes. Am I the only one?

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#458 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:41 am

Des Esseintes wrote:Every time I try to access this latest blog, Firefox crashes. Am I the only one?
I'm on Firefox and it's fine for me-- there's some flash videos in the blog post though, try updating at Macromedia

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#459 Post by Zazou dans le Metro » Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:01 am

Ashirg wrote:
And now I have to book a flight to Copenhagen, where I’ll be returning to the primary pleasures of being a Criterion DVD producer: working with cinema scholars and sifting elbow-deep through film archives.
Hmmm, what movie this might be? Let the speculations begin!
Von Trier Box set. (searching for an 'Irony' emoticon)

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#460 Post by miless » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:19 am

Copenhagen archives... this has to be Phantom Carriage. Vampyr is another possibility (to get other language cuts of the film, perhaps) but the restoration for that film was done in Italy, I believe.

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#461 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:23 am

the Phantom Carriage is Swedish though, Copenhagen is in Denmark.

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#462 Post by Jeff » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:26 am

miless wrote:Copenhagen archives... this has to be Phantom Carriage. Vampyr is another possibility (to get other language cuts of the film, perhaps) but the restoration for that film was done in Italy, I believe.
Our own justeleblanc reported on his blog a couple of weeks ago that Criterion was beginning work on Vampyr, and that they would be doing their own restoration from scratch.

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#463 Post by a.khan » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:28 am

domino harvey wrote:Well Ozu never made a Danish film so clearly Issa got mixed up
Ha ha, loving the recurring digs at Criterion and their Ozu obsession!

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#464 Post by miless » Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:25 am

domino harvey wrote:the Phantom Carriage is Swedish though, Copenhagen is in Denmark.
I am mistaken. god-damned Scandinavia (it must be noted that I am mistaken in my Phantom Carriage knowledge, of which I have none, as I am well aware of the location of Copehagen, having visited the 'lovely' 'town').

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#465 Post by tryavna » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:05 pm

miless wrote:
domino harvey wrote:the Phantom Carriage is Swedish though, Copenhagen is in Denmark.
I am mistaken. god-damned Scandinavia (it must be noted that I am mistaken in my Phantom Carriage knowledge, of which I have none, as I am well aware of the location of Copehagen, having visited the 'lovely' 'town').
FWIW, the first and (so far) only time I visited Copenhagen, I flew into the airport and promptly got on board the wrong train and the next stop was in Sweden! So Copenhagen is a lot closer to Sweden than it is to much of the rest of its own nation.

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#466 Post by jaredsap » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:41 pm

Becker throws down on THE LAST EMPEROR.

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#467 Post by Jeff » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:07 pm

Tamara's latest musings confirm the summer release of Mishima's Patriotism (as a supplement to the Schrader film, I'm assuming. But who knows).
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#468 Post by justeleblanc » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:12 pm

Jeff wrote:Tamara's latest musings confirm the summer release of Mishima's Patriotism.
Or Patriotism as a special feature for this summer's release of Schrader's MISHIMA.

EDIT: our posts crossed.

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#469 Post by jaredsap » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:12 pm

Am I nuts or does this confirm both the Patriotism short and the novella will be included? Why else would Tamara be transcribing the novella? This is going to be quite a package.

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#470 Post by a.khan » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:25 pm

Her "beloved cat" was named...Jackie Chan?

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#471 Post by Ashirg » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:52 pm

Latest Eric Skillman blog:

The cover for the original novel The Furies that's being packaged with the DVD.

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#472 Post by sidehacker » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:20 am

First comment: "hey what's up with the weird "Mishima" cover? is that really the finalized design? If so, what was the thinking behind it?"

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#473 Post by Donald Brown » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:42 am

sidehacker wrote:First comment: "hey what's up with the weird "Mishima" cover? is that really the finalized design? If so, what was the thinking behind it?"
That poster has clearly mistaken that forum for this one. Somebody direct him here for all his petulant cover bitching needs.

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#474 Post by domino harvey » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:46 am

I tried talking about it on other boards but I gotta tell you, the ESPN March Madness forum was not as interested in Mishima as I'd figured

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#475 Post by Tribe » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:27 am

domino harvey wrote:I tried talking about it on other boards but I gotta tell you, the ESPN March Madness forum was not as interested in Mishima as I'd figured
Dude, you are killing me! :lol:

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