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A Zed and Two Noughts?

Criterion needs to release more experimental cinema. I don't care who releases it, but I do want a Warhol set.

Cinephrenic wrote:A Zed and Two Noughts?

Zeitgeist, next February, same time as "Draughtman's Contract". No idea what the specs will be.

glaswegian tome wrote:I don't think they could release Prospero's Books if they wanted to. The rights to it are owned by Miramax, who've been sitting on it forever

Miramax licensed the video rights way back when to Live, which became Artisan, and which is now Lionsgate. So you got a whole other layer of hell to dig thru to get the rights cleared on that one.

-BJ

miless wrote:I could see them possibly releasing Prospero's Books, The Pillow Book or Drowning By Numbers (as most of the others are far too obscure to be straight up Criterion... if even they're interested). Eclipse would be a godsend regarding his rarer fare (hell, anyone other than Facets would due at this point... and Zeitgeist seems the most likely source for any upcoming Greenaway DVD's)

The Zeitgeist releases are all just ports of discs released by the BFI, so I don't think they'll put out something 'on their own'. That said, why do you think that the other Greenaway films are 'far too obscure' for Criterion? I can't imagine that "Baby of Macon" or the "Suitcases" Trilogy (not to speak indeed of "Prospero") would sell far less than the Makavejevs or "Jubilee", for example. After all, all these films basically cater to the same audience. And the Greenaway films are all far too complex and deserving of good bonus materials to put them out as barebones Eclipse releases. However, Eclipse would be better than nothing of course. Greenaway probably is one of the most unjustly neglected directors around these days.

And we definitely need a correctly framed "Pillow Book".

Tommaso wrote:And we definitely need a correctly framed "Pillow Book".

(From around many doors and corners, encased in bathroom reverb, sounds of a cross between a gurgling scream and a heave, then a toilet flush.)

Sorry Tom.. it's just my dopey way of getting around the fact that I'm not supposed to like you anymore for liking this picture.

Well, that sounded a little like "Vomit and eternity".. ahm..."venom". But at least I appreciate that you also like that Isou film. And that certainly might be more dubious a film than anything PG ever made.

I know that the February announcements are only a day or two away, but all the same...It would seem that The Last Emperor and Pierrot le Fou are very likely (if the .com inside-trackers are to be trusted), and I hope that Mishima squeezes through (though that Mishima's scheduled for the first half of 2008 has me worried- memories of Drunken Angel being projected for late this last summer come to mind, and Mishima seems to have been in the works for some time now, so another delay wouldn't be unfathomable [or at least a very late release in the first half of the year]).

Plus the Lubitsch musicals Eclipse set... I'm envisioning a purple box for this, not sure why tho

domino harvey wrote:Plus the Lubitsch musicals Eclipse set... I'm envisioning a purple box for this, not sure why tho

well played...

*special bow*

My arbitrary assumption is that Criterion's big Naruse box will be a six film Fumiko Hayashi adaptation set.

And that all films will be available separately, too. [-o<

How about Bernard Rose's Paperhouse? As far as I know, it's never had a R1 DVD release (the only DVD for it listed on Amazon is an Australian R4 import). According to Amazon.co.uk, there was an R2 version released in Sept. of this year, but you can't buy it new anymore.

According to IMDB, Image handled the laserdisc. I would love for Criterion to release it, especially with a Rose commentary (his track on Immortal Beloved is really good).

I sense this would never happen, given the rights issues involved, but...

I'd love to see Eclipse do a box set of Joan Micklin Silver's 1970s features. Since Chilly Scenes of Winter is owned by UA (and HVe just did a release of Hester Street), I doubt a box would happen, but to my knowledge, she still owns the rights to Between the Lines. Maybe Criterion could do a release of that...?

So, six titles from Universal within a three-month span. Can Make Way for Tomorrow be so far off?

Just noticed today that Cronenberg's Crash, owned by Image, was also a Jeremy Thomas production. With the release of The Last Emperor and the three other titles Image acquired is there a possibilty Crash will be getting a release?

If Criterion had the rights, I think it would be out by now, no?

We seriously need a update...guys with the sources?

Narshty wrote:So, six titles from Universal within a three-month span. Can Make Way for Tomorrow be so far off?

Man, I really hope so, and I think you might know is coming since you've been right on the money with upcoming releases.

According to Dr. Daniel Kletke, the Fassbinder Foundation are currently doing restoration work on "Welt am draht" (World on a string) and "Frauen auf New York". Could be candidates for future Criterion releases...

Fantastic news! I have been longing to watch WELT AM DRAHT for years.

Excellent, Welt am Draht sounds great, I'd love to see Fassbinder do Sci-fi!

The Belcourt Theater in Nashville, TN is showing prints of six Imamura films in late Jan and early Dec...Pigs and Battleships, The Insect Woman, The Pornographers, Profound Desire of the Gods, Vengeance Is Mine, and Black Rain. Janus Films is credited for these releases.

I don't believe Black Rain was mentioned on these boards before as being a Criterion speculative?

Oddly, the little tribute festival is missing its namesake film, A Man Vanishes.

Are your referring to this page because it's not clear that Black Rain is Janus.

it's good to see someone's willing to drop 2700 bucks on a three-night booking of Pigs and Battleships

Who has the rights to The Savage Innocents?

Would Quadrophenia be a possibility? The Rhino DVD is OOP (Putney Swope came out from Rhino first, went OOP, and then got an HVE release), and I believe it was Susan Arosteguy who expressed interest in it long ago in an interview. Seems an unlikely release (to me, at least), but stranger things have happened.

I haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere, but in the Nikolai Burlyaev interview on the Ivan's Childhood disc, you can clearly see lots of Andrei Rublyov's work behind him, and there is *no* mention of his work in Tarkovsky's film on Rublyov...

To me, that points to a possible supplement for an upcoming Andrei Rublyov re-release... =P~