I have been out of the loop for a few months, but why are so many people speculating on De Sica? Was there a clue that I missed?

There was a newsletter clue of a dog holding onto a hat with its mouth

Specifically here

Edit: apparently you commented on it!

Ha! My life got turned upside down about two months ago, so this has been the last thing on my mind. Thanks for the reminder/link.

I have to say that this list seems the most likely overall of what we already know through NYTimes confirming Children in September, and facebook showing The Blob getting a Blu (what a serendipitous phrase that is, good title for a sequel). I just hope Grey Gardens and Beales of Grey Gardens will have their Blu releases in the same month.

I'm hoping that the GARDENS Blu coincides with an Eclipse dump of the Maysles shorts they've been sitting on (Truman, Brando, Welles, etc.).

Also: I imagine September will be a light month, a la July, given how heavy August is and how packed October is supposed to be.

September has historically been a big month, so don't count on it

So is July - and we got hosed this year.

October will only be packed if Blob's Blu and Rosemary's Baby both get their releases then, which would be so appropriate but is still up in the air- Rosemary's Baby could also get a December release and it would also befit the context of the film. But not every film can be released in a month that represents a significant theme or event of the film itself. After all, Grey Gardens, to me, is a film that ought to have been a summer release considering the majority of those two films are shot during those months. A Fourth of July release for Grey Gardens would've been ideal, all things being equal which they aren't; to paraphrase, "Did you know in East Hampton you can get arrested for watching Grey Gardens while wearing white shoes on a Sunday after Labor Day? I mean do you know that?"

Regardless of when these are released they will be released and that is what should matter most.

As if we needed more evidence, the order links for Children of Paradise have gone missing on Criterion's site.

They have the new art and a release date (9/18) posted.

Umberto D. is up on the site too for September 4th.

This is up:

http://www.criterion.com/films/28058-th ... tocomplete

Well, I guess we finally have confirmation that we're not going to see Zodiac despite the mysterious OOP status of the Paramount special edition.

Damn. When I made made predictions yesterday, I came within an inch of picking Les visiteurs du soir. I loved it on Hulu, but ultimately decided that it was likely pretty low on their 'to do' list.

Umberto D and 2 Carne's, cannae go wrong with that

Wenders, Wenders, werefore art thou Wenders

How do you figure?

Wenders be in Novembers...

Criterion typically pairs releases from the same director if they're simultaneously in the pipeline.

I have never seen the Game, but I am a fan of some of Fincher's films. With that said, the extras look unbelievable, and may persuade me.

Wasn't there a statement from Paramount recently that specifically stated that Zodiac was not being licensed to Criterion?

EDIT: It was David Prior.

"The very idea of a disc more exhaustive than the one we already did makes me exhausted... which isn't to say I wouldn't happily jump at the chance to get into Zodiac again. But there are no plans to revisit the project at this time. The disc going out of print has everything to do with 1) the film not catching fire at the box office and 2) the bloodshed going on in home video industry-wide. Sad as it makes me, the market has dramatically shrunk over the last few years, and it's become harder and harder to convince studios to invest in ambitious projects, let alone revisit past ones, particularly for films that didn't set their britches on fire to begin with.

All that said, I have no doubt that the special edition of Zodiac will find its way to market again eventually, if only to tie in with the release of some future Fincher project. In fact, I'm a little surprised they didn't re-release it to coincide with Dragon Tattoo. But unless the general customer base re-discovers the value of ownership and collectibility, I wouldn't expect too many full revisits of any but the most lucrative, blockbuster movies."

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/32056 ... st_3923897

And:

"I shot David Prior a PM on the Home Theater Forum. He said that Criterion are not releasing Zodiac and he's equally as frustrated about Paramount letting the title go out of print. He thinks it's too big of a title for Paramount to license out and that he thinks they'll reissue the disc eventually. As for the extras that didn't make the previous release. He said it wasn't another disc full of extras but only a few small pieces that would have made Paramount go to a third disc and they declined because it would have been cost prohibitive to release a third disc for only a small amount of content."

http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vie ... 66#p387766

Revisit? They just have to print more of what they already released

I'm curious if hope for a Lili Marleen Criterion is no more? Interesting enough, I found this post from a few years ago showing "Unannounced Criterion Releases" and for the most part we know the fates of all of them (though a case can be had for the other head scratching one, Olympia) except for Lili Marleen.

For the past five months, Criterion has announced paired releases (Bergman, Soderbergh/Gray, Stillman, Dardenne(s), Carné). While there's no reason to suspect they'll keep this going, I wonder if we might see another such set in the next round? Rosemary's Baby could be partnered with The Tenant (though my own Halloween dream is for an upgrade of Jigoku alongside an individual release of Nakagawa's Ghost Story of Yotsuya).