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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:26 pm 
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Weren't there rumors about CALIFORNIA SPLIT as well?


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:30 pm 
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Jeff wrote:
The first few pages of this thread are an interesting read, as they offer lots of speculation (including a couple of ridiculous lists made by yours truly) as to what those titles might be.

If anything, I really want Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. The DVD been OOP forever and I never got around to picking it up.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:07 pm 
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Aren't most of the early Dogme films OOP now? Wonder if they'd pick up Mifune from Sony for a R1 equivalent of the OOP Nordic Dogme box?


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:02 pm 

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justeleblanc wrote:
Weren't there rumors about CALIFORNIA SPLIT as well?

Yeah. Here's the mooting of that release from earlier (page four, Feb. 2009) in this thread:

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I asked Mike at Sony about a few titles. ... He also said that Altman's California Split has been put back into print.

However to my knowledge, that repress never actually happened, and--unless "Classics By Request" starts doing repressed reissues ala Warner Archive--I don't see it happening. ](*,)

That said, I've heard reports that Netflix and/or Hulu are streaming the original cut of the film, which has never appeared legitimately on any home video format. Which could bode well for something.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:15 pm 

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I watched California Split on Netflix in late June 2009; not sure if it was the original cut or not but it was taken down at the end of the month and I've not seen it on Instant Views since.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:23 pm 

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I would be happy if Sony would let Criterion have that Capra/Stanwyck set that never materialized. Meh, Sony had an impressive run for awhile there; I guess those box sets and martini movies didn't sell very well.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:35 am 
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Still hoping for Losey's "The Go-Between" the most.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:34 am 

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Yeah, restoring the music cuts to California Split would be an essential Criterion chore. Here's hoping.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:00 pm 
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Mr. Ned wrote:
I watched California Split on Netflix in late June 2009; not sure if it was the original cut or not but it was taken down at the end of the month and I've not seen it on Instant Views since.

CALIFORNIA SPLIT had been on Crackle recently (a free streaming service with commercial interruption every 10 or 11 minutes); not sure if it's still available. Unfortunately, the 2.35:1 aspect ratio gets whittled down to approximately 1.78:1 after the opening credits.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:19 pm 

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Can anyone clarify the significance of 'Sony Pictures Classics' catalog as opposed to 'Sony'? Does it include Columbia Classics?


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:48 pm 
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domino harvey wrote:
Aren't most of the early Dogme films OOP now? Wonder if they'd pick up Mifune from Sony for a R1 equivalent of the OOP Nordic Dogme box?

Seconded! Though it would be nice to see Criterion go further and maybe collate the rest of the Dogme films as well into an 'acolyte' box! Or at least the next two in the series (#5 - Lovers directed by Jean-Marc Bar starring Élodie Bouchez and #6 - Julien Donkey-Boy)!


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:32 pm 

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Can anyone clarify the significance of 'Sony Pictures Classics' catalog as opposed to 'Sony'? Does it include Columbia Classics?

Sony Pictures Classics is the indie/foreign/arthouse division of Sony Pictures. It has been pointed out elsewhere on this thread that despite being part of the same company, Criterion has had to work out deals w/both distributors independently.

"Columbia Classics" was merely a line branding that Sony used for vintage films on DVD, not unlike "Martini Movies" or "Collector's Choice", and--like w/those two lines--it appears to have been phased out.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:16 pm 

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I would suggest, then, "In A Lonely Place" and "The Lady from Shanghai" as potential Criterion acquisitions..


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:55 pm 

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colinr0380 wrote:
domino harvey wrote:
Aren't most of the early Dogme films OOP now? Wonder if they'd pick up Mifune from Sony for a R1 equivalent of the OOP Nordic Dogme box?

Seconded! Though it would be nice to see Criterion go further and maybe collate the rest of the Dogme films as well into an 'acolyte' box! Or at least the next two in the series (#5 - Lovers directed by Jean-Marc Bar starring Élodie Bouchez and #6 - Julien Donkey-Boy)!

There is a DVD collection of the Jean-Marc Barr trilogy that started with Lovers. The second film is unwatchably bad, but I really enjoyed Being Light, which is very reminiscent of Darjeeling Limited and stars Romain Duris.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:03 pm 

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'The Awful Truth' (great, overlooked Leo Mccarey screwball comedy w/ Cary Grant & Irene Dunne) and 'Only Angels Have Wings' would be possibilities, as well.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:09 pm 

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It's a very good month for Angelenos who want to see Sony-owned masterpieces that Criterion won't get. \:D/


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:07 pm 

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Optimistically, it's good to know there's a new transfer of the Burnett film and that Sony has clearly established rights..increases the odds it'll come out at some point


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:34 am 
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LA Rebellion will be a touring series and, as Jan-Christopher Horak said last week at the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference, he hopes they will be able to get some additional funding/grant money to work on a box set.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:27 am 
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Twilight Time on In a Lonely Place: One of our faves, and of course we requested it, but were turned down. It's quite possibly been licensed to another label...

Could it be Criterion?


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:07 pm 
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ShellOilJunior wrote:
Twilight Time on In a Lonely Place: One of our faves, and of course we requested it, but were turned down. It's quite possibly been licensed to another label...

Thank God...


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:26 pm 
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I'd really love to see this happen, but "quite possibly" doesn't seem to mean anything in this context except "our best guess".


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:02 pm 
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Come on...we all know that Warner Brothers licensed it for the Archive's Sony Choice Collection.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:23 pm 
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Sony has licensed ~250 titles to Mill Creek.

Probably similar to their deals with Image and Twilight Time.


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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:25 pm 
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It is Mill Creek's turn to butcher classics now after Echo Bridge. These companies are even more incompetent than Facets...
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 Post subject: Re: Criterion and Sony
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:39 pm 
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Mill Creek has done an OK job with their Disney titles. Sony is more than likely providing the authoring elements from Sony DAC like they do with the Image and Twilight titles, so I'm not too worried about it.


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