Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

[John Cope]

Amadeus
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Drive My Car
Faya Dayi
Querelle
Voyage of Time

[Mr. Deltoid]

Welcome II the Terrordrome
Young Soul Rebels/Looking For Langston
Hud
Bad Timing [UHD]

and . . . Drive My Car, just 'cos everyone else is chipping in with it!

[Roscoe]

PANDORA'S BOX and all that...
CHILDREN OF MEN
DRIVE MY CAR
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

[Blutarsky]

Los Olvidados
Barry Lyndon UHD release
Drive My Car
The Man Who Fell to Earth UHD
The Velvet Underground UHD

[RSTooley]

It's July, so it'll likely be a really big month. [-o<

Drive My Car
Lost Highway [4K only]
Mean Streets
Once Upon a Time in America
Wings of Desire [4K UHD upgrade / Blu-ray combo]

There's no way it'll get that good though. Additionally, there has been no speculation on Once Upon a Time in America, I'd just welcome it.

Also, I'm still hoping for an Eyes Wide Shut release after all of those hints were dropped by Janus a couple of years back. We shall see.

[MV88]

The Double Life of Veronique (UHD)
Drive My Car (UHD)
Kiarostami box set
The Dead
Macario

[Clarence]

Drive My Car
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
2046 + The Hand (standalone)
Talk to Her
After Hours UHD

[ryannichols7]

drive my car UHD
inland empire
arsenic and old Lace
los oliviados
Eric Rohmer's four seasons
breathless UHD
the long good Friday BD

[justeleblanc]

Trouble in Paradise (4K)
Contempt (4K)
The World
Xala
Drive My Car

[tolbs1010]

The Servant 4K
The White Ribbon 4K
After Hours 4K
I Know Where I'm Going upgrade
The Horse's Mouth upgrade

[beamish14]

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Still with Kino Lorber, which continues to hold theatrical and home video rights in the U.S. I think it's in need of a major restoration.

[beamish14]

The Ceremony
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Lone Star
Los Olvidados

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Still with Kino Lorber, which continues to hold theatrical and home video rights in the U.S. I think it's in need of a major restoration.

There was a restoration in 2015 for the 50th anniversary of the premiere. No idea how it looks, though—it was scanned at 4K but finished to 2K, so there's room for improvement there. I assume the Japanese BD from 2018 used that restoration, but it's OOP and I can't find any confirmation one way or the other (the packaging just says "HD REMASTER").

[ryannichols7]

today doesn't seem like announcement day. wonder if they'll take tax day Monday as a holiday too?

[starmanof51]

The Servant 4K
The White Ribbon 4K
After Hours 4K
I Know Where I'm Going upgrade
The Horse's Mouth upgrade

This is the guess of someone trying to get on my good side

[criterionsnob]

Monday it is.

[senseabove]

And looks like that's a still from Summertime

[ryannichols7]

wow at there being a Summertime upgrade. definitely one of the earliest titles not bumped up

[movielocke]

I wonder what aspect ratio summertime will be in? From its initial announcement on the trades to its premiere Summertime was described as David Lean’s first foray into widescreen, but it looks really well composed at 1.33, so who knows.

I seem to remember discussing this one years and years ago when it became the last remaining in-print 1998 dvd issue (every other release from that year has been reissued in a new edition or gone OOP). Glad to see it finally (hopefully) get revisited.

Of course that also begs the question about the other two early spine number David lean dvd only versions, Oliver Twist and Great expectations. Maybe they’ll hit all three at once?

Or maybe a cutesie summer theme and we get a 4K release of Early summer and rohmers four seasons alongside summertime lol.

[Calvin]

The Complete Works of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Drive My Car (I doubt they'll do a UHD for this one - if they were going to upscale 2K DIs, they surely would have for Worst Person)
Inland Empire
Medicine for Melancholy
Breathless UHD

Still with Kino Lorber, which continues to hold theatrical and home video rights in the U.S. I think it's in need of a major restoration.

There was a restoration in 2015 for the 50th anniversary of the premiere. No idea how it looks, though—it was scanned at 4K but finished to 2K, so there's room for improvement there. I assume the Japanese BD from 2018 used that restoration, but it's OOP and I can't find any confirmation one way or the other (the packaging just says "HD REMASTER").

It's a 2K restoration of a 4K scan. I think that it's the same restoration that's available on VoD from some sources (such as Takflix) and it looks great, particularly when allowing for the limitations of streaming.

[andyli]

I'm gonna arbitrarily make it the pick-up-Japanese-exclusive-stuff month.

Tanaka set (4k restorations)
The Devil, Probably (4k restoration)
The Family Game (4k restoration)
René Clair set (Sous les toits de Paris, À nous la liberté, Le million, Les Grandes Manœuvres, 4k restorations)
The Life of Matsu the Untamed (4k restoration, fix the god-awful color hue)

[ryannichols7]

I wonder what aspect ratio summertime will be in? From its initial announcement on the trades to its premiere Summertime was described as David Lean’s first foray into widescreen, but it looks really well composed at 1.33, so who knows.

I seem to remember discussing this one years and years ago when it became the last remaining in-print 1998 dvd issue (every other release from that year has been reissued in a new edition or gone OOP). Glad to see it finally (hopefully) get revisited.

Of course that also begs the question about the other two early spine number David lean dvd only versions, Oliver Twist and Great expectations. Maybe they’ll hit all three at once?

Or maybe a cutesie summer theme and we get a 4K release of Early summer and rohmers four seasons alongside summertime lol.

maybe they will include both ratios like they did for For All Mankind. seems like a possibility. I feel like the two Lean adaptations would definitely be packaged together, I don't think there's a whole lot of reason for them to be individual. but we shall see

Early Summer is a top 3 Ozu film for me and there's a 4K restoration from Shochiku just waiting to be put out into the English speaking world, with Donald Richie's commentary as a nice supplement. hopefully they add a bonus film on there as well, and a video essay from Bordwell/Thompson. I hope that happens (and have asked for it a few months now), and I do think the Rohmer box will happen. we're way overdue for a boxset.

anyway, Summertime's page has been updated with a new trailer and new stills. we're close!

[Fortisquince]

We are probably just waiting on a UHD upgrade of Hopscotch.

[Computer Raheem]

Summertime now states "Blu-ray cover by Lauren Tamaki; DVD cover by Gordon Reynolds".

Looks like they're just taking their sweet, sweet time announcing today... [-o<

[tolbs1010]

The Servant 4K
The White Ribbon 4K
After Hours 4K
I Know Where I'm Going upgrade
The Horse's Mouth upgrade

This is the guess of someone trying to get on my good side

It's the wish list of someone with no insider status and zero knowledge as to which companies own the rights to which films. But it's nice to know that Carnac the Magnificent agrees with my wishes. Now that I'm on your good side, please tell me if any of them are correct.