Criterion Discussion and Random Speculation Volume 7

[beamish14]

I really hope there are more Naruse Mikio films that will get collected in a box. Floating Clouds will probably be a stand-alone, but great films which really show the full scope of his work like Moment of Terror and the hilarious Traveling Actors

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

That's something I'm surprised they haven't done, some sort of Nouvelle Vague starter kit. They seem more inclined to do boxes with films from different licensors, and this would make for a much more sensible gift item for a budding cinephile than the CC40 box.

As I recall, one of the first announced titles for the Eclipse series was a French New Wave box, but presumably those films found release later in other editions from Criterion

I wonder what was planned to be included. Perhaps some of the less popular Truffaut and Godard films that got releases like The Soft Skin and Every Man For Himself.

[Peter McM]

That's something I'm surprised they haven't done, some sort of Nouvelle Vague starter kit. They seem more inclined to do boxes with films from different licensors, and this would make for a much more sensible gift item for a budding cinephile than the CC40 box.

As I recall, one of the first announced titles for the Eclipse series was a French New Wave box, but presumably those films found release later in other editions from Criterion

I wonder what was planned to be included. Perhaps some of the less popular Truffaut and Godard films that got releases like The Soft Skin and Every Man For Himself.

I remember Every Man For Himself was being my first Criterion blind buy. There are other films Godard made during the 80s and 90s during a less political period--that Kino Lorber once had available, but seem to be OOP now. I'm thinking specifically of First Name Carmen, Detective, and Oh, Woe Is Me. I'd like to see Criterion do a set of these more dramatic narrative, less political works of Godards'.