'Forthcoming' Lists Discussion and Random Speculation Vol.1

[Thomas J.]

So tomorrow around dinner time (east coast) we should be able to see some more releases on the website?

What are they supposed to be releasing next, anyway?

More Japanese and French films due to the Quota. But the war trilogy would be great, yeah.

[denti alligator]

Wenders' Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire (DVD and Blu-ray) will most certainly be announced today.

[ouatitw]

I hope not

[Flike]

I also wouldn't mind Howard's End...



... to get it out of the way.

[jbeall]

As far as I can recall, Sept. is a "white" sale month. Bed linens are cheap, dvds not so much. So it's fine if they get the crappy releases out of the way then. Why the hell Criterion ever got the rights to the Merchant/Ivory films is beyond me.

I'll go out on a limb and predict the Scorsese shorts.

[knives]

Any guesses on rereleases? I'd bet either Howard's End or Walkabout since they seem to only be doing the rereleases for those going in Blu. Secretly hoping the Fullers or AR gets rereleased first though.

[videozor]

I'm surprised nobody mentions A Man Escaped as a possibility for Sep

[jbeall]

We just don't wanna get our hopes up.

[sherlockjr]

Would love to see some classic French (e.g., Renoir, Carne, Gremillion). Not a prediction, though. Just more of the continual wishin'

[Jeff]

Wenders' Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire (DVD and Blu-ray) will most certainly be announced today.

Maybe. We know that Wings is due in September, but I wonder if they might wait release Paris at another time. The Mulvaney had told me that both of those and Alice in the Cities were in the works. Of course, none of those films really go together, though Wings and Paris are of the same period and could conceivably be sequential spines. If that's the case though, it's odd that only Wings was mentioned in the Times article and the newsletter clue.

[knives]

Well, only Pigs and Battleships was directly alluded to in its hint, even if they obtusely suggested the others.

[JAP]

Titles that could/should have been released by now:

- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
- Gray's Anatomy
- Insignificance
- Shangai Express
- Jour de Fête
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
- People on Sunday
- Le Procés de Jeanne d'Arc
- Pedro Costa's set
- Jean-Pierre Gorin film(s)
- Jean Grémillon film(s)
- Maysles Brothers documentaries
- Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor re-releases
- Walkabout re-release plus Blu-Ray
- Gimme Shelter on Blu-Ray
- The Complete Monterey Pop on Blu-Ray

And probably in September none of the above will get a release...

[Cinephrenic]

Sept. My guesses:

Criterion:
Cronos
Dillinger Is Dead
That Hamilton Woman
Wings of Desire

Eclipse:
The Documentaries of the Maysles Brothers

Blu-ray:
Wings of Desire
Cronos

[aox]

Che?

[swo17]

Ignoring it won't make it go away:

Monsoon Wedding

[movielocke]

my guesses:

criterion:
Wings of Desire
That Hamilton Woman
something French
Life of Oharu

eclipse
out of left field, like an "early films of Michael Powell" or the french quota could be filled here.

bluray
Wings of Desire
Walkabout
Armageddon*

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Cronos and Howards End I suspect will be October, seems like an October release, Che I think will be november along with Monterey Pop. I'm wondering if we're going to get Grand Illusion on Bluray this year in November or December. that would be spectacular.

Che could very well be the main/only December release, spine 500 seems a likely candidate, but we'd need five-ish releases each in sept, oct and november to make that possible.

*(just fucking with ya)

[zedz]

I know what won't be coming: the Gorin box

The word on this is that Gorin is still working on the transfers, so if this is true: a) it's still happening; b) the delay isn't just Criterion sitting on it; and c) (the most dubious assumption) it might end up on Criterion rather than Eclipse after all, if they're going to this much trouble.

[kaujot]

Ignoring it won't make it go away:

Monsoon Wedding

Damn you. I had forgotten about it.

[justeleblanc]

Ignoring it won't make it go away:

Monsoon Wedding

Damn you. I had forgotten about it.

Chronos will come first, right?

[swo17]

Are you asking me? 'Cause I'm just some guy on a message board.

[ouatitw]

criterion is doing a Pedro Costa set? Is there any information on what is going to be on it?

[swo17]

Presumably Colossal Youth, No Quarto da Vanda, and Ossos.

Also, for future reference, see here and here.

[Highway 61]

Goddamnit! I just caved on the SD Pierrot le Fou last week.

[Dr. Snaut]

Pierrot on Blu!

Wow! What an awesome surprise!

[ZizouJuve]

Pierrot on Blu!

Now you are talking.