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I don't know if it has been mentioned, but Criterion has confirmed that the set will include Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures.

These haven't been confirmed yet, but I think it will also include the following:
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Spielberg on Kubrick
Once Upon a Time...A Clockwork Orange

domino harvey wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 5:07 pm

Noiretirc wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:34 pm This is all very exciting, but unlike the Bergman and Varda boxes...I already have most of these films. So I need to be convinced that the extras here are truly outstanding.

But if I (and many of you) wait for details / reviews / sales, it done be gone.

No?

The one thing Criterion still has in its favor over other boutique labels is that they don’t capitalize on FOMO by only issuing limited releases at the outset. So you can absolutely wait a year to buy this if you want

This is a vastly underrated aspect of how Criterion does business in this particular climate. No limited slipcover, no /5000 run of these, whatever the case may be. Just buy it when it's a good time for you to buy it. Nobody needs to push you off the ledge sooner than you're comfortable with all the details and are ready to make the purchase (or not). As far as I'm concerned, that's a huge plus.

FYI for those who are brand loyalists, I have some good news and bad news as Orbit has just listed it...

The good news is the very reasonable price of $399.99.

The bad news is that the details they got from Criterion indicate that the set is very heavy, so much so that Orbit is only shipping it with UPS Ground (or 2-day or overnight). No Media Mail option, and at least for me to Florida, UPS is about $18. It's also ineligible to be ordered with another item/items.

Finch wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:15 pm

FrauBlucher wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:45 pm This from Mifumefan from Bluray.com:
All but BARRY LYNDON will be encoded by FiM

Here

Oh fucking hell.

Why would the Barry Lyndon be or need to be any different from the existing Criterion 4K?

The encode is fine except for the highlights. Still preferable (to me) to WB's encode and grading but this could and should have been re-encoded. I don't get why they didn't ask David to do one more disc. EWS was already done. Ah well.

FrauBlucher wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:45 pm This from Mifumefan from Bluray.com:
All but BARRY LYNDON will be encoded by FiM

ln other words, every film that Criterion has already released on 4K will use the same encode as before. All other films will receive a new encode by FiM

Finch wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 8:27 pm The encode is fine except for the highlights. Still preferable (to me) to WB's encode and grading but this could and should have been re-encoded. I don't get why they didn't ask David to do one more disc. EWS was already done. Ah well.

It's 11 features remaining (2 versions of one of them) plus 4 shorts (2 versions of one of those), and presumably both 4k and BDs on all of those. That is...an enormous job to do correctly. And the the oldest 4k in the set is barely a year old. So yeah, I get this decision, even if means the BL encode is problematic.

Since Orbit will only ship the set on its own, I wonder if Criterion will do the same and not bundle it with anything else if the order contains other discs?

They did ship the Wes Anderson set separately when I ordered it along with a bunch of other discs during the last sale.