Agreed on Putney Swope, maybe, but is Daisies really more prominent than any of the other Czech films in that set, except among pointy-headed cinephiles (most of whom probably have the Second Run or the Facets anyway)?cdobbs wrote:I suspect that since there was likely no chance of the other Downey/Czech New Wave films in those sets making it to the mainline, they just decided it was preferable to use Putney Swope and Daisies as possible sales hooks for Eclipse rather than give them their own release.
With the Downeys I would wager we're just seeing the budget aspect of the Eclipse line rearing its head, and that Criterion reached a point where they just threw together whichever films had acceptable masters, and cut the rest loose. Unless they held back Pound for a standalone, perhaps conditional depending on how well the Eclipse sells? Or else that and/or Greaser's Palace (does Criterion have that?) will turn up on Hulu concurrent with the Eclipse set, a la the two Matarazzo leftovers.