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[DeprongMori]

If I were to guess, I’d place the Flash Sale on the date in March when the corrected A Hard Day’s Night is finally available. It would provide an excellent recovery for a botched high-profile release.

[ryannichols7]

looks like we're going to have Criterion, Kino, Indicator, and potentially Arrow all have sales in March. can't help but wish some of these were spaced out a little better...

[criterionsnob]

Janus seems to be teasing a Lost Highway release.

[therewillbeblus]

Janus seems to be teasing a Lost Highway release.

Is Criterion perhaps doing what Kino has been doing to their titles, getting the rights to release a 4k UHD (*only*) of Lost Highway against KL's (as far as I know, still in-print) blu? That would be one way to bypass the long-gestated issue between Lynch getting what he wants from the label he wants...

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Any chance it's a situation where the rights with Universal have lapsed and now Janus owns it? I'm not quite sure how that happened with Mulholland Drive.

[Forrest Taft]

Hope they release it, and if the do, I hope they put the Pretty as a Picture-doc and some deleted scenes on a second disc. One can dream.

[therewillbeblus]

I'm happy with my KL blu, but I realize I'm in the minority. Happy to double dip and take more extras and an enhanced 4k image to boot

[Ribs]

Any chance it's a situation where the rights with Universal have lapsed and now Janus owns it? I'm not quite sure how that happened with Mulholland Drive.

This is definitely possible - the timing will vary depending on the individual contract but from what I can tell it was an independent production primarily funded by Ciby 2000 that sold the movie to Universal prior to its premiere and it released a few weeks after Sundance in 1997 and the rights likely reverted back to them or to Lynch. They also funded titles like Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, The Piano, Secrets & Lies, and Kansas City we've seen lapse back into other hands then initially handled them in US release recently. And also the timer is probably coming up on Disney's acquisition of The Straight Story to revert back to the original producers also as it followed only two years later from the same company.

Lynch seemed to indicate in what we had heard he was planning to supervise a release of the film down the line and he might have known this to be coming up and that may be why he seemed so upset someone went and released it without him approving.

[FrauBlucher]

Whether KLSC rights expired or not, it's clear that Criterion has gotten the UHD rights. Being that Mulholland Drive was one of their first UHD releases tells me Lynch is all in on UHD. Inland Empire will probably be a UHD release as well.

Wasn't it mentioned somewhere the KLSC rights (released June of 2019) were for 3 years?

[Finch]

I don't recall where I saw it exactly but I remember reading that Kino's license for Lost Highway was for a comparatively short time only.

INLAND EMPIRE in UHD makes no sense to do because Lynch shot it on a crummy Sony DSR-PD150 camera. You can safely lump this in with Festen and Blair Witch Project as a title where the benefits of an upgrade end with the Blu-Ray.

[MitchPerrywinkle]

Count me in as someone who's glad for the fans of Lost Highway for a potential UHD Blu from Criterion more than I am personally excited for it myself (I've never found it a wholly satisfying experience, even if aspects and even sequences from it are some of the peaks in Lynch's filmography). If the transfer isn't goofed up it'll look and sound absolutely spectacular.

[colinr0380]

Hope they release it, and if the do, I hope they put the Pretty as a Picture-doc and some deleted scenes on a second disc. One can dream.

With their ability to get BBC material it would be nice if they could put the Moving Pictures segment from 1996 on there too.

[ryannichols7]

the return of Le Mepris/Contempt?

mind you, none of the "good morning" hints they've posted so far have seen fruition yet, but the majority are films that haven't been upgraded, or were out of print and likely to come back (Withnail, Contempt)

[colinr0380]

Charlotte Gainsbourg in the Criterion closet!

[colinr0380]

Minnie Driver in the closet

[FrauBlucher]

She's so damn cool

[dwk]

Kyle MacLachlan was at Criterion's office today.

[therewillbeblus]

Showgirls confirmed

[yoloswegmaster]

As much as I wish it's for Showgirls, it's more likely that he's there for the Adventures in Moviegoing series on the Channel.

[Calvin]

A Twin Peaks 4K set is probably not outwith the realm of possibility either given their relationship with Lynch

[senseabove]

If he was there to make extras, I'd bet on a Blue Velvet 4k before anything else. Since it was a fairly recent BD that fans had probably already bought at least once on BD, I could see them plumping the 4k upgrade with a few new extras. It doesn't look like he was involved in any of them for the BD release.

I will happily eat crow if it's Showgirls or a complete Twin Peaks UHD set, though.

[CSM126]

Showgirls confirmed

Don’t tease me

[beamish14]

Showgirls confirmed

Don’t tease me

I’d love to finally have it with commentaries from Verhoeven and Eszterhas

[yoloswegmaster]

SpoilerShow

Joe Eszterhas comes again

[therewillbeblus]

I was going to guess The Hidden but then I remembered this isn't Arrow