Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

News on Criterion and Janus Films.
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Peacock
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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2051 Post by Peacock » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:23 pm

abintra wrote:If it is 'The Gold Rush', is it likely Criterion will be able to include both cuts of the film plus the extras from the MK2/WB DVD?
Extremely, judging by the other Criterions and the fact that Janus is screening the silent Gold Rush currently (right?). Although then I'm a bit confused; the European Blus don't include the silent cut in HD right? So are Criterion creating their own master...? (I hope so, as personally I think almost all the Chaplin MK2 Blus so far are very average).

I wonder if the delay in Chaplin releases is partly due to MK2 not having restored anymore in a year so Criterion is preferring to spread the releases out themselves so that they don't reach a stage where they have to wait 2 years to release the other major titles... I mean there hasn't been a new Blu since The Circus in 2010 right? Leaving Limelight, Verdoux, Woman of Paris and others still to be done...

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2052 Post by Drucker » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:34 pm

Peacock wrote:
abintra wrote:If it is 'The Gold Rush', is it likely Criterion will be able to include both cuts of the film plus the extras from the MK2/WB DVD?

Extremely, judging by the other Criterions and the fact that Janus is screening the silent Gold Rush currently (right?)
Playdates: Dec 23-29th at The Film Forum, NY!

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2053 Post by htshell » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:58 pm

NYFF Gold Rush screening was silent, yes.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2054 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:24 pm

I guess it is likely to be The Gold Rush, but this does give me the opportunity to link to the final scene of Stroszek!

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2055 Post by stroszeck » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:14 pm

colinr0380 wrote:I guess it is likely to be The Gold Rush, but this does give me the opportunity to link to the final scene of Stroszek!
and that my friends is the greatest ending of all time.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2056 Post by knives » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:49 pm

Big ego.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2057 Post by SamLowry » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:34 pm

Peacock wrote:I wonder if the delay in Chaplin releases is partly due to MK2 not having restored anymore in a year so Criterion is preferring to spread the releases out themselves so that they don't reach a stage where they have to wait 2 years to release the other major titles... I mean there hasn't been a new Blu since The Circus in 2010 right? Leaving Limelight, Verdoux, Woman of Paris and others still to be done...
I'm hoping it is because Criterion is doing their own transfers.... Am I the only one who has been disappointed with Criterion's mk2 transfers?

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2058 Post by kinjitsu » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:04 pm

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2059 Post by Tom Hagen » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:06 pm

Grey Gardens upgrade.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2060 Post by matrixschmatrix » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:08 pm

Got to be

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2061 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:10 pm

Excellent, excellent. Time to sell off the DVD set!

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Matt
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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2062 Post by Matt » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:10 pm

Yessssssssssss. Now all I have to do is find this Libra man.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2063 Post by Cinephrenic » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:21 pm

Scanners just confirmed?

Criterion said "have you scanned" new years drawing...

Lol

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2064 Post by Tom Hagen » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:29 pm

Hopefully they do Salesman while they're at it.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2065 Post by bdsweeney » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:17 pm

kinjitsu wrote:Image
Of course! However, silly me took the rhyming option at first and thought 'What rhymes with "blue raccoon"? I know ... Blue Lagoon'. Then I thought "What?"

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2066 Post by htshell » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:25 pm

I would not be surprised if there was another Maysles release to coincide with the upgrade.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2067 Post by captveg » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:42 pm

Very nice. Will definitely pick it up.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2068 Post by videozor » Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:18 pm

Looks like nobody paid attention to the screenshot from A Man Escaped!? It was rumored as coming 2-3 years ago, but there were no updates recently. Maybe it's finally happening!

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2069 Post by Drucker » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:01 pm

There's been a Bresson retrospective going on at NYC's Film Forum all month. It could easily be taken elsewhere, I'd assume, as well. They already have the rights to it and it's on Hulu+...so I wouldn't assume that means that an update is any more impending.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2070 Post by cysiam » Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:56 pm

That retrospective is going to at least 12 other cities.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2071 Post by Brian C » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:04 pm

Starts here in Chicago ... um, tomorrow.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2072 Post by htshell » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:51 pm

Condensed version of the retro. in Philadelphia to be announced soon.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2073 Post by Jeff » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:03 pm

Forthcoming Bresson retro dates from Andrew O'Heir:

Jan. 19 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif.
Jan. 20 at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Mass.
Jan. 21 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago
Jan. 31 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson N.Y.
Feb. 9 at the TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto
March 1 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
March 3 at the Cleveland Cinematheque and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
March 6 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.
March 9 at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville
April 4 at the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver, Canada
April 13 at BAM in Brooklyn, N.Y.
May 1 at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle
May 10 at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles

Further venues and dates may follow.

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2074 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:22 am

I'm surprised to see Nashville on there. I hope at the least they'll have Four Nights of a Dreamer and Lancelot. I'd drive a few hours just for one Bresson, though!

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Re: Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

#2075 Post by What A Disgrace » Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:35 am

If they have Four Nights of a Dreamer in freaking Nashville, I'm going to have to break my vow not to see movies at places which charge for parking.

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