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During the screening yesterday of The Emigrants and The New Land at The Rafael, the programmer mentioned that, according to Jan Troell, Criterion have been trying to acquire those two films. At best they're probably more than a year away, so take this for what it's worth.

DeusEx wrote:During the screening yesterday of The Emigrants and The New Land at The Rafael, the programmer mentioned that, according to Jan Troell, Criterion have been trying to acquire those two films. At best they're probably more than a year away, so take this for what it's worth.

that's FANTASTIC news! I've only been asking for about 8 years so far!

Well, they are still owned by Warners, so even if Criterion is trying, doesn't mean it's gonna happen.
Would be nice though. They are good, and Warner's eternal inaction with them is disgraceful.

Jan Troell is still alive, so with his input Warner is willing to license titles to Criterion. It's better than these titles going Warner Archives, for sure.

DeusEx wrote:During the screening yesterday of The Emigrants and The New Land at The Rafael, the programmer mentioned that, according to Jan Troell, Criterion have been trying to acquire those two films. At best they're probably more than a year away, so take this for what it's worth.

LOVE this possibility!!!! Been dreaming of it for some time. =D>

My June picks:

Night Train to Munich (Reed)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Bicycle Thieves (DeSica)
The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger)

ShellOilJunior wrote:My June picks:

Night Train to Munich (Reed)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Bicycle Thieves (DeSica)
The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger)

Guesses or inside knowledge?

TMDaines wrote:

ShellOilJunior wrote:My June picks:

Night Train to Munich (Reed)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Bicycle Thieves (DeSica)
The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger)

Guesses or inside knowledge?

"Educated" guesses. Quite often films that screen at the Cleveland Cinematheque arrive on Criterion blu-ray within 6 months. Coincidentally, The Red Shoes and Bicycle Thieves show next month. The same has been the case for Marienbad, Montes, 8 1/2, Revanche, Days of Heaven, etc.

I may be wrong but I hope I'm right as it would be a terrific June, in my opinion.

I can't see them putting out that many re-releases in one month, and in line with a pretty accurate list another member posted, I expect something like Night Train to Munich, The Red Shoes, Red Desert and Secret of the Grain. Also, they're putting a lot of work into their Kurosawa celebration, so I'd be surprised if we didn't see some kind of announcement, like a Rashomon Blu or Eclipse set. May be wishful thinking...

Would love for you to be right about Bicycle Thieves.

ShellOilJunior wrote: The Bicycle Thieves (DeSica)

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Please, no more Kurosawa for at least another 6 months.

I love Kurosawa, but got to admit that Criterion has a big hard-on for him.

I'd imagine Leon Morin (Melville) will eventually see a release-- maybe later in the year or early next year. I saw a terrific Rialto print of it last year and enjoyed the film a lot. Belmondo and Riva are outstanding together. Loved seeing Belmondo in an atypical role.

I can't remember seeing it mentioned on these boards so I thought I'd share that bit of information.

JUNE 2010:
Mystery Train DVD & BR
Red Shoes BR
Cronos or Following DVD & BR
AND
Kurosawa (Madadayo?)
IFC film (Everlasting Moments?)
(Japanese) Eclipse set?

HelenLawson wrote:Please, no more Kurosawa for at least another 6 months.

Argh! Have you ever seen any watchable "Madadayo"-disc outside the Ak100-set? This is my most desired CC title for this year for sure, even if I wouldn't mind an Eclipse set with those unreleased early films either.

Red Desert and I'll be happy.

ShellOilJunior wrote:I'd imagine Leon Morin (Melville) will eventually see a release-- maybe later in the year or early next year. I saw a terrific Rialto print of it last year and enjoyed the film a lot. Belmondo and Riva are outstanding together. Loved seeing Belmondo in an atypical role.

Isn't Leon Morin controlled by StudioCanal? That makes a Criterion release a lot to hope for.

ShellOilJunior wrote:My June picks:

Night Train to Munich (Reed)
The Leopard (Visconti)
The Bicycle Thieves (DeSica)
The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger)

not to mention they've pretty much promised Mystery Train and Red Desert for summer releases too

Brian C wrote:

ShellOilJunior wrote:I'd imagine Leon Morin (Melville) will eventually see a release-- maybe later in the year or early next year. I saw a terrific Rialto print of it last year and enjoyed the film a lot. Belmondo and Riva are outstanding together. Loved seeing Belmondo in an atypical role.

Isn't Leon Morin controlled by StudioCanal? That makes a Criterion release a lot to hope for.

Can someone confirm/deny this?

I hope to God Studio Canal doesn't own this one. It already pains me that they own some Melvilles ](*,)

ShellOilJunior wrote:

Brian C wrote:

ShellOilJunior wrote:I'd imagine Leon Morin (Melville) will eventually see a release-- maybe later in the year or early next year. I saw a terrific Rialto print of it last year and enjoyed the film a lot. Belmondo and Riva are outstanding together. Loved seeing Belmondo in an atypical role.

Isn't Leon Morin controlled by StudioCanal? That makes a Criterion release a lot to hope for.

Can someone confirm/deny this?

I hope to God Studio Canal doesn't own this one. It already pains me that they own some Melvilles ](*,)

The BFI issue of Leon Morin has a Studio Canal logo on the back cover.

Studio Canal definitely own "Leon Morin". It's in their Melville box set, and the disc and extras are identical to the BFI.
There's probably no chance of any more Melville from Criterion in the near future, because, aside from the ones they have already released, the rest are owned by Studio Canal.
Why worry anyway? The SC Melville's are all good transfers with plenty of extras, featuring commentaries by the excellent Ginette Vincendeau.

Le Samurai on blu would be quite welcome!

tojoed wrote:Studio Canal definitely own "Leon Morin". It's in their Melville box set, and the disc and extras are identical to the BFI.
There's probably no chance of any more Melville from Criterion in the near future, because, aside from the ones they have already released, the rest are owned by Studio Canal.
Why worry anyway? The SC Melville's are all good transfers with plenty of extras, featuring commentaries by the excellent Ginette Vincendeau.

I asked specifically about Leon Morin and Mulvaney said no dice. This was about 6 months ago. There wasn't even a "keeps your fingers crossed" or anything like that.

tojoed wrote:Why worry anyway? The SC Melville's are all good transfers with plenty of extras, featuring commentaries by the excellent Ginette Vincendeau.

Seconded. The whole Criterion-Studio Canal upheaval on this forum (see thread StudioCanal Snatches It All Away) is very 'emotional attached'.

perkizitore wrote:Le Samurai on blu would be quite welcome!

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