Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

[Clarence]

• The Trial
• Chocolat
• Devi
• I Know Where I'm Going!
• Taipei Story standalone release

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

My guess is a Powell and Pressburger boxset, given they still have Thief of Bagdad, 49th Parallel, A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I’m Going, The Small Back Room, Tales of Hoffman, and Peeping Tom to upgrade, plus whatever else they can get their hands on.

Peeping Tom is with Lionsgate, so unless there's been something solid to the contrary I wouldn't assume it's in the pipeline. But of the actual P&P collaborations there are certainly enough that Criterion either already has or don't seem to be spoken for in the U.S.

Inland Empire (UHD)

Why stop here? If they really want to launch their UHD line with a bang, they should release this alongside Festen. Maybe get Unknown Pleasures out there as well.

[guyetgenevieve]

Arsenic and Old Lace
One Night in Miami
Welcome II the Terrordome
Citizen Kane
The Other Side of the Wind
Solo con tu pareja (upgrade)

[RSTooley]

My predictions are a result of lazy wishful thinking this month...

Atlantics
Citizen Kane (Or, do they skip spine 1100 and wait for November?)
I Know Where I'm Going! [upgrade]
Inland Empire
The Other Side of the Wind

[Therewolf]

Ikarie XB-1
Winchester '73
Demon Lover
Blast of Silence (upgrade)

I had predicted that Isle of Dogs would be their first 4K. Forget that. I'm swinging for the fences:
Pulp Fiction (UHD)

[black&huge]

I had predicted that Isle of Dogs would be their first 4K. Forget that. I'm swinging for the fences:
Pulp Fiction (UHD)

If this somehow comes true I will buy you a copy.

[Bressonaire]

An upgrade of a sci-fi, supernatural, or horror film, like Onibaba or The Devil and Daniel Webster
A title new to Criterion but also in the sci-fi, supernatural, or horror genre; I won’t pick because I’m hopeless with titles in those genres
The Sea Hawk (When was the last Warner’s Golden Age title with one of their big stars? I think it was Bette Davis in Now, Voyager two years ago. Feels like something’s due, and Flynn is not yet in the collection.)
Nine Queens
Devi

[DeprongMori]

An upgrade of a sci-fi, supernatural, or horror film, like Onibaba or The Devil and Daniel Webster
A title new to Criterion but also in the sci-fi, supernatural, or horror genre; I won’t pick because I’m hopeless with titles in those genres
The Sea Hawk (When was the last Warner’s Golden Age title with one of their big stars? I think it was Bette Davis in Now, Voyager two years ago. Feels like something’s due, and Flynn is not yet in the collection.)
Nine Queens
Devi

Given that Warner Archive just released The Sea Hawk on Blu in December 2018, I’d be surprised.

OTOH, given that I just finally acquired an inexpensive used DVD of the otherwise-unavailable and fabulously expensive Nine Queens, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

[willoneill]

My guess is a Powell and Pressburger boxset, given they still have Thief of Bagdad, 49th Parallel, A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I’m Going, The Small Back Room, Tales of Hoffman, and Peeping Tom to upgrade, plus whatever else they can get their hands on. It seems like several of these have been rumored to be getting upgraded, so why not do them all at once?

Would they throw Thief of Bagdad and Peeping Tom into a P&P boxset? That seems clumsy to me. That said, either way I'd buy it just for all the upgrades.

[FrauBlucher]

A title new to Criterion but also in the sci-fi, supernatural, or horror genre; I won’t pick because I’m hopeless with titles in those genres

Atlanics fits into the supernatural genre. It’s been confirmed as coming and it’s new to Criterion. So here you go

[yoloswegmaster]

Freaks
Time
Distant Journey
Miracle in Milan
The Devil and Daniel Webster (upgrade)

[Walter Kurtz]

A Trip to the Moon
The Sheltering Sky
The Enemy Below
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Burn!

[bottlesofsmoke]

Would they throw Thief of Bagdad and Peeping Tom into a P&P boxset? That seems clumsy to me. That said, either way I'd buy it just for all the upgrades.

I agree, especially in the case Thief of Bagdad, but it doesn't seem impossible, so it seemed worth mentioning. I could see them doing non-chronological sequencing, like the Bergman and Varda sets, in order to tell the story of their collaboration by theme or subject (war films, musicals), and have a section of "Powell without Pressburger" or something like that.

[olmo]

Forbidden Games upgrade
After Hours
Straight Time
The Mattei Affair
The Other Side of the Wind

[FlickeringWindow]

Citizen Kane (Blu/UHD)
Mulholland Drive (UHD)
King Kong ‘33 (Blu/DVD)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (Blu upgrade)
Mr. Arkadin (Blu upgrade)
Unfinished Welles (The Other Side of the Wind, Hopper/Welles, It’s All True, The Deep, The Merchant of Venice, etc) (Blu/DVD)

[Roscoe]

My monthly PANDORA'S BOX wish goes right here.

UHDs of CITIZEN KANE etc. would be nice, but I suspect they'd be released in November, which as I recall is usually their month for Big Releases.

[movielocke]

Normal month guesses:

Devil and Daniel Webster
Mr. Arkadin

Adventures of Robin Hood
Gohatto
Four Little Girls
Hard Eight

If UHD announcements happens (I am skeptical)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (UHD)
Seven Samurai (UHD)

King Kong (UHD)
Citizen Kane (UHD)
Boogie Nights (UHD)
Mudbound (UHD)

[black&huge]

Morgiana
After Hours
Hud
Whatever happened to Baby Jane

Peeping Tom upgrade
Equinox upgrade

[TraverseTown]

I'll be contrarian and only guess things no one else mentioned yet

5 Films by Kazuo Hara
High Hopes
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
The Secret of Roan Inish
Ratcatcher
Shoot the Piano Player

[Caligula]

Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Olympia
Lloyd or Chaplin box set

[Lemdog]

Citizen Kane (Box set with DVD/Blu/4K)
Something Oshima (Youth Trilogy/The Ceremony?)
Two English Girls
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Brand Upon the Brain

[ShellOilJunior]

Blast of Silence
Citizen Kane UHD
Devi
Mulholland Dr. UHD
Onibaba
The Silence of the Lambs UHD

[FrauBlucher]

Citizen Kane (duh)
The Trial
Atlantics
Box Set (Hong Kong)
Blast of Silence (Upgrade)

[yoloswegmaster]

Citizen Kane UHD
One Night in Miami
OUATIC boxset
Miracle in Milan
I Know Where I'm Going (upgrade)

[dwk]

Citizen Kane UHD
Mulholland Dr. UHD
Once Upon a Time in China collection
Mississippi Masala
Love Jones
Medicine for Melancholy