Criterion Discussion and Random Speculation Volume 7

[RSTooley]

The Brood

[Harmonov]

My Own Private Idaho and Kwaidan...finally.

[domino harvey]

The big news was clearly A Special Day, because it has the word "Special" in it

[knives]

I'm surprised they didn't add that Franco re-edit to the van Sant.

[ryannichols7]

hell yes Kwaidan at last!

[Harmonov]

Mulholland Drive

[ryannichols7]

a criterion month with Lynch, Cronenberg, and Van Sant has to be an all time low for me. can't stand any of those three

Kwaidan is great news and the italian movie looks like it's worth checking out

[chrisandy]

a criterion month with Lynch, Cronenberg, and Van Sant has to be an all time low for me. can't stand any of those three

Kwaidan is great news and the italian movie looks like it's worth checking out

Are you going to be OK? You poor thing..

[DeprongMori]

I'm a bit confused about their Kwaidan announcement. It says "New 2K digital restoration of director Masaki Kobayashi’s original cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray", but then it still says "161 minutes" under runtime. I'm hoping this is just a detail they missed on the web page and that it is in fact the 183 minute version.

[solaris72]

I'm a bit confused about their Kwaidan announcement. It says "New 2K digital restoration of director Masaki Kobayashi’s original cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray", but then it still says "161 minutes" under runtime. I'm hoping this is just a detail they missed on the web page and that it is in fact the 183 minute version.

The description explicitly says it's the original 3-hour cut, I'm sure the 161 minute runtime is just leftover from the last release.

[knives]

I believe criterion has been in the past pretty adamant that the shorter cut is the director's cut.

[solaris72]

I believe criterion has been in the past pretty adamant that the shorter cut is the director's cut.

The description says "This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States." so I'd bet on this being the longer version.

[criterion10]

Wait, I'm confused -- didn't Criterion say there was going to be a "big" announcement today?

I mean, I love Mulholland Dr. as much as the next person, but it's not exactly this is a surprise, or "big" in the way that that word hints at.

[swo17]

I believe criterion has been in the past pretty adamant that the shorter cut is the director's cut.

The description says "This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States." so I'd bet on this being the longer version.

They're also touting it on their front page as "available for the first time in its original three-hour cut."

[knives]

Wait, I'm confused -- didn't Criterion say there was going to be a "big" announcement today?

I mean, I love Mulholland Dr. as much as the next person, but it's not exactly this is a surprise, or "big" in the way that that word hints at.

Big here means very highly requested and will make them more money for them in a week than A Special Day will in the entire time it is in print.

[mfunk9786]

People have been clamoring for Lynch's films to be added to the collection for years and years and years, and now that they're being added, those same folks are shrugging it off? Fuck that - it's about as big an announcement as I could ask for, whether Criterion have hinted at it or not.

[FrauBlucher]

Yeah, I think Mulholland Drive is pretty huge. No complaints here. It's always at the top of the best films of the 2000's lists.

[swo17]

The big announcement will surely be a box.

Still not a single one of those this year, unless you count the Gregory/Shawn repackage.

[Amazing Goose]

just remind yourself that Apu is coming next month...

[FrauBlucher]

just remind yourself that Apu is coming next month...

Yes, mark it down, Monday, August 17.

[dwk]

While they might release another one in December, it is looking like The Apu Trilogy in Nvember is going to be the only true box set this year. A far cry from 2013 where they released five box sets (Pierre Etaix, 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman, John Cassavetes: Five Films, Zatoichi The Blind Swordsman, and Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project Volume 1)

[domino harvey]

Who needs boxsets when we can have Jellyfish Eyes?!!

[ryannichols7]

what if they did multiple boxsets in Nov/Dec? no way it happens but that would really be something.

Apu and Wenders

[Newsnayr]

Isn't The Before Trilogy coming out this year?

[Gregory]

Sheesh, it's now been more than a year and half since they announced a silent film for the main line.