Forthcoming Lists Discussion and Random Speculation Vol. 5

[criterion10]

That's not what he said. He was mainly talking about subUrbia.

Yeah, exactly. In a nutshell, subUrbia probably won't be coming to DVD anytime soon.

[johnnysnatchclub7]

Speaking of, Linklater says Slacker Blu is coming and leaves door open for Before trilogy. Though it's kind of just more wishful thinking on his part.

http://collider.com/slacker-blu-ray-cri ... linklater/

[sorrysomehow]

Linklater did an AMA on Reddit today, and when asked about a Criterion release of the Before trilogy said:

Yeah, I think there will be a box version in our future, I'm sure on Blu-ray. Not sure when.

Sounds like this is almost definitely happening, so now it's just a matter of how long we have to wait for it.

[MongooseCmr]

Does that rule out a fourth movie then? I think I recall reading that they are leaving the possibility open, but I doubt Linklater would endorse an "official" boxset if there were plans on it being obsolete in the future, albeit 9 years from now

[rspaight]

I dunno, this could be sort of like Apted's 7 Up series, in which case waiting for it to be "done" would be futile.

[onedimension]

I'm sure they can reissue it on Brain-D red ray in 2022, no?

[Moe Dickstein]

the "up" series certainly does have an endpoint, the lives of the subjects...

[zedz]

Does that rule out a fourth movie then? I think I recall reading that they are leaving the possibility open, but I doubt Linklater would endorse an "official" boxset if there were plans on it being obsolete in the future, albeit 9 years from now

Doesn't this thing happen all the time? "Complete Series" box sets come out for TV shows while they're still running, then another "Complete Series" box comes out the next season. Surely nobody thought "well, that's the end of that franchise" when the last James Bond box set was released. Or the one before that. Or the one before that.

Plus, at the rate Linklater completes these films, I'm pretty sure any release'll be due for an upgrade / re-release when or if he gets around to releasing a fourth installment.

[dex14]

I think he was commenting more on having them released on bluray in general. I've seen more than one interview with him commenting how he wants them out on BR, whether it be CC or not. I hope it does end up on CC though.

[ianungstad]

I know nothing about the people making these claims:

1) A individual on the facebook wall is claiming they have a source inside Criterion and that The Devils will be a 2014 release.
2) Another individual over on the home theater forum who is claiming to have inside information says that Criterion is going to release a special edition of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

[Brian C]

I know nothing about the people making these claims:

1) A individual on the facebook wall is claiming they have a source inside Criterion and that The Devils will be a 2014 release.
2) Another individual over on the home theater forum who is claiming to have inside information says that Criterion is going to release a special edition of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Of those two, the second seems more plausible than the first.

[Cinephrenic]

We're still waiting for Eisenstein: The Silent Years from 1998 to be announced.

[Moe Dickstein]

Don't forget Cousin, Cousine.

[knives]

And Augustine of Hippo.

[Lowry_Sam]

And the 4 hour version of The Loved One.

If Criterion is going to release another Warner Bros. title, hopefully Akira Kurosawa's Dreams was included in the deal.

[bamwc2]

Hey, if Vampyre and Tales of Hoffman can happen after a decade, who knows what the future holds. For what it's worth way back when Cousin, Cousine and Cocktail Molotov were announced and failed to show up after a year I emailed Mulvaney to ask him about them. The response was something like "Don't hold you're breath waiting for them".

[flyonthewall2983]

2) Another individual over on the home theater forum who is claiming to have inside information says that Criterion is going to release a special edition of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Would love to see this happen.

[tayperk]

Hulu just put up an announcement regarding a difference from their usual weekly updates.

"For 101 Days of Summer, we will be highlighting a new title every day, starting today and continuing through Labor Day; each film will remain free (with ads) to non Hulu Plus subscribers for forty-eight hours.

To kick off this exciting summer of cinema, we’ve chosen a Harold Lloyd classic: Harold Lloyd’s Speedy. This silent comedy, in which Lloyd plays a go-getter whose many jobs include cabdriver and soda jerk, is the only Oscar-nominated film in the slapstick icon’s oeuvre. It features some incredible on-location New York shooting (including a scene set at Coney Island and a car chase through the Washington Square Park arch) and a cameo by none other than Babe Ruth."

Does this suggest another possible Lloyd film coming out soon?

[Jeff]

Hey, here’s something stupid in which I predict Criterion’s releases for the next 16 months for no reason in particular.

September 2013
The First Films of Peter Weir (The Plumber, The Cars That Ate Paris, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave)
Frances Ha
Limelight
A King in New York
All that Heaven Allows Blu Upgrade
Eclipse: Roots of the Czech New Wave

October 2013
The Brood
Scanners
I Married a Witch
Eraserhead
Sleeping Beauty
Grey Gardens Blu upgrade

November 2013
Tess
The Soft Skin
La Cage aux Folles
Paris Belongs to Us
Autumn Sonata redux
On the Road with Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities, The Wrong Move, Kings of the Road, The American Friend

December 2013
Barton Fink
Foreign Correspondent
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Kid and Chaplin's Other Adventures at First National Pictures
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Blu upgrade

January 2014
Ride the Whirlwind
The Shooting
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Room at the Top
A Brighter Summer Day
Eclipse: Oshima’s Cruel Stories of Youth

February 2014
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Beyond the Hills
Days and Nights in the Forest
Mikey and Nicky
Burn!

March 2014
The 47 Ronin
The Freshman
Speedy
The Long Voyage Home
Le Samourai Blu upgrade

April 2014
Nanook of the North
Louisiana Story
The King of Hearts
A Woman of Paris
Flowing

May 2014
Europa Europa
The Emigrants
The New Land
The Crime of M. Lange
Eclipse: Kinoshita

June 2014
Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line; Vernon, Florida; Gates of Heaven
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Like Someone in Love
Odd Man Out
Toni with A Day in the Country

July 2014
Moonrise Kingdom
The Circus
Red River
Thief
Eclipse: Echos of the Czech New Wave

August 2014
L'Argent
Something in the Air
The Angels’ Share
Breaker Morant
History is Made at Night

September 2014
My Beautiful Laundrette
Hotel du Nord
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Roma
Satyricon

October 2014
The Tenant
Mahler
Phantom of the Paradise
You Only Live Once
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

November 2014
The Apu Trilogy
Late Chrystanthymums
Like Father, Like Son
The Conformist
Blue is the Warmest Color

December 2014
City Lights
Chaplin 125
The Complete Zatoichi

I'm bored.

[zedz]

Are you laid up in bed with broken limbs or something, Jeff? If so, my condolences. If not, then where do I subscribe to your version of Criterion? And where's Out 1?

[SpiderBaby]

No Limite Jeff?

[dwk]

Hey, here’s something stupid in which I predict Criterion’s releases for the next 16 months for no reason in particular.

December 2014
The Complete Zatoichi

This would be amazing.

[johnnysnatchclub7]

Pretty accurate list, all things considered. But just further reminder that it will take forever to get to all these things we know about. You're bored but now I'm depressed. We can only hope that it all goes down like this.

[Jeff]

Are you laid up in bed with broken limbs or something, Jeff?

Just busying my mind with stuff I shouldn't be doing to avoid the stuff I should be doing.

where's Out 1?

No Limite Jeff?

December 2015, with the Rossellini/Bergman set!

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Thief will probably be much sooner. I'm sure by the end of this year.