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Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) seems to be in the works via Facebook response.

ianungstad wrote:Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) seems to be in the works via Facebook response.

Not really

It's high on our list but not 100% sure thing yet

But logically speaking, that means that it may be as high as a 99% sure thing. And when you think about it that way, the odds seem pretty good.

i've said it before, and i'll say it again...A balls out Night of the Hunter 2 disc set would easily take the greatest use of a spine # for me....one of my favorite films of all time.


What i really came in to ask, however, was that i dvr'd Korda's The Drum w/ Sabu a few weeks back on TCM and just started it and was surprised to see the Janus logo beforehand. Is there some kind of British Empire set in the works or something? A Sabu Eclipse set would rock!

Brian C wrote:But logically speaking, that means that it may be as high as a 99% sure thing. And when you think about it that way, the odds seem pretty good.

or as low as 0%

HistoryProf wrote:i've said it before, and i'll say it again...A balls out Night of the Hunter 2 disc set would easily take the greatest use of a spine # for me....one of my favorite films of all time.

One of mine too. I practically never double-dip (hell, I barely buy DVDs at at all these days come to think of it), but this is one readily-available film that NONE of us would object to seeing a Criterion release of. Just look at the fake Criterion art thread, seems half the mock-ups are for Hunter.

HistoryProf wrote:What i really came in to ask, however, was that i dvr'd Korda's The Drum w/ Sabu a few weeks back on TCM and just started it and was surprised to see the Janus logo beforehand. Is there some kind of British Empire set in the works or something? A Sabu Eclipse set would rock!

They aired this a few months back too. I thought the print looked pretty crummy- the colors were really worn. I didn't see it this most recent time. Did it look OK? I'm not sure why I'm even asking as I'm not a huge fan of this kind of film, but yeah, a British Imperialism Eclipse seems inevitable with The Jungle Book and some of those other Korda films in the pipeline. I wish Criterion would stop wasting their time with this stuff and just get on with actual Indian films but I suppose these are cheap and easy to release, but are these endless Kordas big sellers? I'm open to all types of cinema from all eras, but does anyone under the age of 70 really care about these films?

And yes, before anyone brings it up, of course I love The Thief of Bagdad. Who doesn't?

Has anyone asked about the possibility of seeing THE TRIAL (Orson Welles) released by Criterion? If nobody did, could someone please ask them and post the reply here? I would really appreciate it. The Trial deserves Criterion treatment, being Orson Welles' greatest movie!

You need to stop asking.

Would have been outrageous if the period was a link too.

It is.

As long as no one has any follow-up questions or comments, I've heard that Welles's THE TRIAL is due October, 2017, with a joint, newly recorded commentary by Tony Perkins, Franz Kafka, and Welles himself.

Brian C wrote:As long as no one has any follow-up questions or comments, I've heard that Welles's THE TRIAL is due October, 2017, with a joint, newly recorded commentary by Tony Perkins, Franz Kafka, and Welles himself.

With the Devil moderating.

Anyone hear anything about the possibility of seeing Das Schloß (Michael Haneke) released by Criterion?

Update on "Cronos," from ShockTillYouDrop:

"Cronos is evolving nicely," says Del Toro. "We are including a NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE version of Geometria (1987) the short that I made for 1 thousand bucks and that I was never able to finish the way I wanted it. NOW I re-finished it for this disc (don't worry, no CGI or fancy stuff) and I like it- I never did before- but now I do."

"Cronos has never looked so beautiful," continues Del Toro. "And we found dozens of photographs of the making of the device, etc."

Also has some good news regarding a "Mimic" Director's Cut.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/to ... p?id=12022

-BJ

hidaniel wrote:Anyone hear anything about the possibility of seeing Das Schloß (Michael Haneke) released by Criterion?

Extremely unlikely. Kino only released it on DVD in the US in 2007.

I just received a reply from Mulvaney, no "immediate" plan for The Quiet Man. But the Blu-ray packaging exchange will start in early October.

The Quiet Man, if I remember right, could desperately use a new transfer.. Criterion's gonna have to pick up the pace before the world ends in 2012

Napier wrote:But the Blu-ray packaging exchange will start in early October.

Awesome! thanks!

onedimension wrote:Criterion's gonna have to pick up the pace before the world ends in 2012

Stupid Mayans.

Stupid Mayans

And pretty much every other prophecy.

Nostradumbass has spoken.

Stupid enough they couldn't prophecize their own demise.

Not being able to prophesize = stupidity? And what exactly do you mean by "their own demise"?

Gregory wrote:Not being able to prophesize = stupidity? And what exactly do you mean by "their own demise"?

You haven't seen Apocalypto yet? Because that's totally what happened.

Not really interested in movies about heathens.

The Jews killed em.