Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1001 Post by Never Cursed » Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:12 am

Monterey Pop
Chungking Express
Hughes (Sixteen Candles/Breakfast Club/Set)
Philadelphia Story
Night Of The Living Dead

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1002 Post by MichaelB » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:40 am

HJackson wrote:
MichaelB wrote:I can't see 4K happening with boutique labels any time soon.
Prohibitive cost on the production end or lack of a market for the product?
At the moment, both.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1003 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:49 am

Monterey Pop
Grand Budapest Hotel or Tree Of Life
West Side Story or Princess Bride

Or maybe all five together, and give a strong lead-in to the Olympic box set.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1004 Post by FlickeringWindow » Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:51 pm

The Princess Bride isn't happening - MGM has a 30th anniversary edition coming in September.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1005 Post by aox » Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:20 pm

West Side Story is in play? I thought the BD released a few years ago was supposed to be pretty definitive and full of bonus material.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1006 Post by Never Cursed » Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:23 pm

From what I understand, that BD doesn't have the original 6-track mix, but rather a modern recreation derived from the 4-track mix.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1007 Post by Omensetter » Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:44 am

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:Where's all the speculation for Toni Erdmann coming from? Did I miss something?
It just seems like a good educated guess, I guess. It's a solid film beloved by many, from Sony, a recent title that'll require less work, a big November title, and from a female director (Criterion, to their credit, have seemed to make a concerted effort to include quality films from female directors this year---four so far, compared to last year's one, which came in December and was also a recent title).

Desert Hearts
West Side Story
The Breakfast Club
Toni Erdmann
The Best Years of our Lives
The Lady Eve


Tiebreaker: The Best Years of our Lives will get the Cat People treatment.
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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1008 Post by Morbii » Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:24 pm

A good educated guess that you don't want to take part in :D

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#1009 Post by lacritfan » Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:33 pm

Sigh, cue Harold Faltermeyer...
lacritfan wrote:"All 80's all month!" "OH YEAH!" (synthesizer music)
Desert Hearts
King Lear
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Stranger Than Paradise Blu

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#1010 Post by DRW.mov » Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:57 pm

A girl can dream, can't she?

John Hughes Box
Chinese Roulette
Klute
All About My Mother
Mona Lisa upgrade

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1011 Post by Lowry_Sam » Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:09 pm

Busby Berkeley box
Raise The Red Lantern
Una vita difficile
Berlin Alexanderplatz upgrade
Elevator To The Gallows upgrade

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1012 Post by Perkins Cobb » Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:33 pm

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:Where's all the speculation for Toni Erdmann coming from? Did I miss something?
I imported the UK Blu-ray last week, so that should pretty much confirm it for tomorrow's announcements.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1013 Post by DFR » Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:58 pm

Desert Hearts
Wong Kar-Wai boxed set
Notorious
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Written on the Wind or The Lady Eve (upgrade, please)

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1014 Post by Omensetter » Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:21 pm

Morbii wrote:A good educated guess that you don't want to take part in :D
I'll change it to reflect the Guess Thread logic that Happy Together could not possibly be released since it's a Kino title and they just used their biennial Kino chip.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1015 Post by kcota17 » Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:22 pm

Criterion has so much their sitting on, it's hard to make a guess. There will definitely be a surprise (like Barry Lyndon or last years Punch Drunk Love) and a huge upgrade

I'll say:
John Hughes Boxset (Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Weird Science)
My Desert Heart
West Side Story
Dragon Inn
The Circus

Upgrades:
The Virgin Spring
The Passion of Joan of Arc or
Stray Dog / Drunken Angel

Obviously not all those titles but those all seem possibly coming soon.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1016 Post by knives » Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:25 am

I'm still hoping for Shinoda's Silence so that people can see a good version of that story.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1017 Post by Graphist » Tue Aug 15, 2017 6:58 pm

I guess no announcements today. Any news?

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1018 Post by swo17 » Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:00 pm

Just that the world is ending

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1019 Post by Graphist » Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:05 pm

Well, that’s old news. Probably the oldest of them all.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1020 Post by Zazou dans le Metro » Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:09 pm

Graphist wrote:I guess no announcements today. Any news?
Here in France on the 15th August it is a national holiday to celebrate Assumption(The ascension of the Virgin Mary). In the US it seems that every 15th of the month is False Assumption

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1021 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:24 pm

swo17 wrote:Just that the world is ending
Oh damn, right before the John Hughes boxset gets announced. Must be a cosmic thing.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1022 Post by HitchcockLang » Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:31 pm

Maybe they just assumed we would realize the Olympic box was supposed to tide us over until the January announcements.

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1023 Post by Big Ben » Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:14 pm

I think Criterion would have said something if the Olympic set was the only thing being released. I mean they can't be that big of trolls can they?

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1024 Post by cdnchris » Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:23 pm

The announcements this month are for November, right? Or am I just more behind on things than I thought?

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Re: Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

#1025 Post by Ribs » Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:27 pm

No, they are, but they skipped ahead either because of some weird Olympics-mandated time frame or just to explain why they'll be skipping over #900 in November.

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