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Therewolf
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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#676 Post by Therewolf » Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:36 am

According to B&N, the following will be getting blu ray only releases.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 6/8
Y tu mama tambien 6/8
Love Streams 6/29
Breaking the Waves 6/29
King if the Hill 6/29
Frances Ha 6/29

I bring this up because I kinda regret not picking up the cool Persona digipak.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#677 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:11 am

Therewolf wrote:
Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:36 am
I bring this up because I kinda regret not picking up the cool Persona digipak.
You're in luck. The Persona bluray only will still be a digipak.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#678 Post by tasa » Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:12 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:
Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:11 am
Therewolf wrote:
Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:36 am
I bring this up because I kinda regret not picking up the cool Persona digipak.
You're in luck. The Persona bluray only will still be a digipak.
Unfortunately it's not. I saw it at B&N last week and it was in the plastic case.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#679 Post by Luke M » Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:00 pm

Therewolf wrote:According to B&N, the following will be getting blu ray only releases.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 6/8
Y tu mama tambien 6/8
Love Streams 6/29
Breaking the Waves 6/29
King if the Hill 6/29
Frances Ha 6/29

I bring this up because I kinda regret not picking up the cool Persona digipak.
Happy to King of the Hill coming back. Thought something fishy be going on when Kino released their own version of Underneath.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#680 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:41 pm

tasa wrote:
Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:12 pm
FrauBlucher wrote:
Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:11 am
Therewolf wrote:
Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:36 am
I bring this up because I kinda regret not picking up the cool Persona digipak.
You're in luck. The Persona bluray only will still be a digipak.
Unfortunately it's not. I saw it at B&N last week and it was in the plastic case.
Oh, that's too bad. Bluray.com has it listed as a digipak. I wonder what happened to the booklet.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#681 Post by omegadirective » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:36 am

I contacted Criterion because I was interested to see a list of all the dual format releases, and this is what they responded with.
I’ve recently come back to collecting criterion and was contemplating if I should buy the dual releases or not.
(Modified post for formatting)

Out Of Print
400 Blows, The
Ace in the Hole
All That Heaven Allows
All That Jazz
Breaking the Waves
Breathless.
City Lights
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Foreign Correspondent
Frances Ha
George Washington
Hidden Fortress, The
Insomnia
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
King of the Hill
L'ECLISSE
Love Streams
Nashville
Persona
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Red River
Rififi
SCANNERS
Tess
THE BIG CHILL
Thief
Throne of Blood
Tokyo Story
Y tu mamá también
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman



Currently Available
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
The Essential Jacques Demy
Riot in Cell Block 11
Pickpocket
Master of the House
Brief History of Time, A
Freshman, The
Great Beauty, The
Hard Day's Night, A
Hearts and Minds
Il Sorpasso
Judex
Jules and Jim
La vie de bohème
Like Someone in Love
Long Day Closes, The
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#682 Post by swo17 » Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:39 pm

For anyone who cares, the BD-only releases of King of the Hill, Breaking the Waves, and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion are all in plastic cases, while Y tu mamá también is in a digipak

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#683 Post by ianthemovie » Sat Jul 16, 2022 4:31 pm

I believe this was also mentioned in another thread, but listings can be found several different places online for an August 2 reissue of the Jacques Demy box, with the number of discs now listed as 6 instead of 13.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#684 Post by FrauBlucher » Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:12 pm

omegadirective wrote:
Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:36 am
Currently Available
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
The Essential Jacques Demy
Riot in Cell Block 11
Pickpocket
Master of the House
Brief History of Time, A
Freshman, The
Great Beauty, The
Hard Day's Night, A
Hearts and Minds
Il Sorpasso
Judex
Jules and Jim
La vie de bohème
Like Someone in Love
Long Day Closes, The
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3
Hearts and Minds, Like Someone In Love and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down appear next for exiting the dual format

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#685 Post by agnamaracs » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:29 am

This list needs to be updated. I actually have the Blu-only Demy box. It's still pretty nice.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#686 Post by Walter Kurtz » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:38 pm

Criterion: "I anticipate that IL SORPASSO will be in plastic once it's updated to standalone Blu-ray and that this update will occur sometime in the next year."

Dual packaging nerds please buy this up to hasten its demise.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#687 Post by criterionsnob » Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:49 pm

agnamaracs wrote:This list needs to be updated. I actually have the Blu-only Demy box. It's still pretty nice.
I’m curious if the width of the Blu-ray only Demy box changed?

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#688 Post by agnamaracs » Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:00 pm

It did.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#689 Post by ianthemovie » Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:03 pm

criterionsnob wrote:
Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:49 pm
I’m curious if the width of the Blu-ray only Demy box changed?
It's about 1.7" wide, almost half the size of the dual-format version. I'm going to save the freed-up shelf space for the Pasolini box.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#690 Post by criterionsnob » Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:09 pm

Great, thanks. I could save the room too. I’ll have to pick it up at the next flash sale.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#691 Post by FrauBlucher » Thu Mar 30, 2023 5:17 pm

I went through the list recently. I should've posted. So, here we go..... Currently, Like Someone in Love and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! are both listed as DVD only... I could see them leaving the MS World Cinema Projects as dual format... A Hard Days Night has three versions. The only one that has gone UHD

Brief History of Time, A
Freshman, The
Great Beauty, The
Hard Day's Night, A 
Hearts and Minds
Il Sorpasso
Judex
Jules and Jim
La vie de bohème
Like Someone in Love
Long Day Closes, The
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 1
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4
Master of the House
Pickpocket
Riot in Cell Block 11
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#692 Post by ryannichols7 » Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:26 pm

looking at that list, I'll admittedly say these are all titles I can't imagine sold through print runs, A Hard Day's Night being the exception. I worked at B&N during the period all these came out, and none of them were particular movers. just pure speculation as to maybe why 10+ years on, they still exist in dual format only editions (the WCF sets aside, which I do agree will probably stay DF)

Il Sorpasso is coming from Radiance with a new 4K scan, if anyone is interested in that one.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#693 Post by ianthemovie » Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:35 pm

I'm not sure about Tie Me Up, but Like Someone In Love has been DVD-only for at least several years now. So I'm not sure what happened with that title but it hasn't been dual-format for a long time, and Criterion does not seem to be in any hurry to (re)release it on Blu-ray... have they ever done this before with any other title?

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#694 Post by FrauBlucher » Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:48 pm

Pickpocket is listed as DVD only joining Like Someone in Love and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down as DVD only, which have both been in this category for a long while. Not sure what any of this means for potential bluray only releases

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#695 Post by ianthemovie » Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:13 pm

I happened to notice today that Hearts and Minds is listed as "currently unavailable" on the Criterion store, so a single-format reissue may be on the way.

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Re: Criterion and Dual Format

#696 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:40 pm

I updated the list to create a DVD only section that was originally dual format. I wonder if the DVD only will jump right to the UHD format

Dual Format
Brief History of Time, A
Freshman, The
Great Beauty, The
 Il Sorpasso
Judex
Jules and Jim
La vie de bohème
Long Day Closes, The
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 1
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4
Master of the House
Riot in Cell Block 11


Dual Format to DVD only
Hearts and Minds
Like Someone in Love
Pickpocket
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!


Still Dual Format but now including UHD
Hard Day's Night, A

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