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ianungstad wrote:Rumor has it that the rereleases of Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor will be amongst the January titles.

well that's kind of cool.

Domino is right though, they usually make January a big month w/ a box set. Maybe my dream of The Emigrants and New Land from Jan Troell will be it!

I think Criterion must send out the solicits the day before to retail organizations and that's how Criterion Cast gets their information.

Seems odd that it's an all Hollywood month and that there is only one new title to the collection. (if the Criterion Cast teasers hold up, which past months indicte they will)

Hopefully the blus of Days of Heaven and Robinson Crusoe on Mars indicate that Criterion went for another chunk of the Paramount catalog and we'll see some of those titles that went OOP show up in the collection.

ianungstad wrote: Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Wasn't joking earlier? Well now I'm just giddy.

The teasers posted were for: Broadcast News, Shock Corridor, Naked Kiss, Robinson Crusoe on Mars.

well we probably still have an eclipse to be surprised by, three months is about their max without releasing one, and they always release on in january...

I'm thinking Rossellini history films volume 2 maybe.

How 'bout the long-awaited Naruse eclipse? I'm just sayin'...

movielocke wrote:well we probably still have an eclipse to be surprised by, three months is about their max without releasing one, and they always release on in january...

I'm thinking Rossellini history films volume 2 maybe.

I think the Rossellini/Bergman boxset would come before that.

I'm a big Wenders fan, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for a Road Movie trilogy.

the mad circle wrote:How 'bout the long-awaited Naruse eclipse? I'm just sayin'...

nah, it'll never happen.

petevoelker wrote:

movielocke wrote:well we probably still have an eclipse to be surprised by, three months is about their max without releasing one, and they always release on in january...

I'm thinking Rossellini history films volume 2 maybe.

I think the Rossellini/Bergman boxset would come before that.

Hope so, too. But the Rossellini/Bergman films deserve much better than Eclipse.

The last 2 years there was significant Rossellini in January, for what it's worth... In 2009 there was the Eclipse History Films set and the CC LOUIS XIV, while in 2010, this year, it was the CC WAR TRILOGY...

ianungstad wrote:I think Criterion must send out the solicits the day before to retail organizations and that's how Criterion Cast gets their information.

If this is true, why is no one else leaking this information?

Also, how can we intercept his mail so we can find out the announcements a few hours earlier?

I had all but given up on the Fuller reissues. Christ, they were promising those like three or four years ago!

Out1 on blu?

Re: the Fullers, I'm trying to save my excitement for the actual announcement, but assuming it pans out, that's one helluva way to start out the year!

I wish Pickup on South Street was in contention for a blu-upgrade.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, Thieves Highway, Night and the City and Rififi. Jules needs the BD love too!

swo17 wrote:Re: the Fullers, I'm trying to save my excitement for the actual announcement, but assuming it pans out, that's one helluva way to start out the year!

Perhaps with these re-issues, we'll see Park Row as well?

CriterionCast just posted the trailer for Basil Deardon's Victim...

Harmonov wrote:CriterionCast just posted the trailer for Basil Deardon's Victim...

That would certainly qualify for the out of nowhere release, wouldn't it?

domino harvey wrote:

Harmonov wrote:CriterionCast just posted the trailer for Basil Deardon's Victim...

That would certainly qualify for the out of nowhere release, wouldn't it?

I don't know. They released it on laser and I was always sort of surprised Home Vision ended up handling it on DVD originally.

Speaking of Fuller, it'd be nice if Forty Guns was afforded the BR it so richly deserves. I can't believe that it wouldn't be in the running the next time Criterion licenses a set of titles from Fox.

Via CriterionCast:

Will @Criterion spine # 552 be James L Brooks' Broadcast News? Signs point to yes.

No surprise, of course.

In response to a Facebook question concerning the status of the Andrei Rublev restoration today, Criterion said, "Still working on it..."

I can survive for another decade, probably, on that crumb of Andrei Rublev hope.

Criterion Cast also posted trailers for Basil Dearden's Sapphire and The League of Gentlemen.