Criterion and Miramax

[ianungstad]

Echo Bridge has a slew of Miramax titles solicited on Amazon. It's mostly all minor genre titles. (most of the films are pretty bad too) The only surprise in the solicits is Jarmusch's Dead Man. Probably the only reason they were interested in the title is because Depp is in it.

[knives]

They also seem to have all of the Rodriguez films.

[mfunk9786]

Dead Man is practically screaming for a Criterion Blu-ray.

[knives]

It has to eventually revert back to Jarmusch right? Doesn't have that as a thing with all of his films?

[mfunk9786]

Criterion would like to announce the July release of the 4K plasmoid microdisc edition of Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch

[manicsounds]

It has to eventually revert back to Jarmusch right? Doesn't have that as a thing with all of his films?

Jarmusch owns all his original negatives of his films. Doesn't mean he has the rights to all of them.

[knives]

It was to my understanding that he had a clause set up for all of his films that would have the rights go back to him eventually.

[HistoryProf]

Can anyone tell me anything about the status of Matewan? there was a HORRIFIC Artisan P&S disaster of a disc 10 years ago, and then it was announced as a loaded SE to come out with Secaucus 7, Lianna, Brother, etc...but then it never materialized as the rest of Sayles' films did. it's the only one remaining to be released in any kind of a decent edition, and I don't understand why. They've responded with their usual brand of vagueness when it's suggested on fb, but i'm curious if it's an even remote possibility, and if not, what the hell happened to it?

[swo17]

I don't know of any update, but are you aware of this Canadian edition? I actually just barely picked it up myself. From sampling it, PQ seems decent, and it's in anamorphic widescreen.

EDIT: I see there's also a newer edition at amazon.ca from another company I've never heard of, but I can't vouch for the quality of it.

[Jeff]

Echo Bridge has a slew of Miramax titles solicited on Amazon. It's mostly all minor genre titles. (most of the films are pretty bad too) The only surprise in the solicits is Jarmusch's Dead Man. Probably the only reason they were interested in the title is because Depp is in it.

Apparently the Echo Bridge discs are public domain style disasters.

[knives]

That's god awful and I really hoped they could have just ported the old Disneys. Honestly how can you fuck something so simply so badly?

[captveg]

Echo Bridge has a slew of Miramax titles solicited on Amazon. It's mostly all minor genre titles. (most of the films are pretty bad too) The only surprise in the solicits is Jarmusch's Dead Man. Probably the only reason they were interested in the title is because Depp is in it.

Apparently the Echo Bridge discs are public domain style disasters.

Not a good sign - at all - but the Blu-ray discs are not mentioned here, only the DVDs. I can see them taking little care for the DVD compressions but not being as cheap with the Blu-rays. Maybe. We'll see....

[CSM126]

Not a good sign - at all - but the Blu-ray discs are not mentioned here, only the DVDs. I can see them taking little care for the DVD compressions but not being as cheap with the Blu-rays.

There's more wrong with those images than mere compression artifacts. Unless they went to the untold expense of creating completely separate masters for the BRs (I doubt it), the hi-def releases won't look great either.

[captveg]

My understanding is that any HD masters they receive are straight from Miramax and that Echo Bridge simply does the disc encoding. Of course, historically, Miramax has done some very poor HD masters for their home video releases, and I doubt they're doing any new ones for these Echo Bridge licensed titles.

[hearthesilence]

I just borrowed both the 'new' Echo Bridge DVD of "Dead Man" and the two-movie flipper with "Dead Man" and (jfc) "Texas Rangers." Both DVDs have the same mastering, they're most likely clones.

But they're SHITTY transfers. I compared them to the old Miramax DVD, which was never great to begin with. That old DVD had bonuses, was anamorphic, and even without the bonuses would've required a dual-layer disc to hold all the data. This new one is complete shit. LETTERBOX, not anamorphic, and it's got even more compression, enough to fit it on one single layer DVD with plenty of room to spare. And of course there's no bonus features on the new ones. Well, unless you count Texas Rangers.

[eerik]

If it's Kieslowski's "Red" then is it licensed from Miramax?

[domino harvey]

Oh man, if they've got the trilogy...

Edit: the original discs already have amazing academic extras, Criterion would prob just port over everything and charge a premium

[Peacock]

...then it means we might finally be able to get the Koker Trilogy.....

[matrixschmatrix]

Oh man, if they've got the trilogy...

Edit: the original discs already have amazing academic extras, Criterion would prob just port over everything and charge a premium

Well, the Chaplin discs had pretty excellent extras, and Criterion went above and beyond on those so far.

[cdnchris]

Oh man, if they've got the trilogy...

Edit: the original discs already have amazing academic extras, Criterion would prob just port over everything and charge a premium

Well, it will at least be on Blu, and there will be comfort in the fact Lionsgate can't fuck it up.

[swo17]

I would recognize Irene Jacob from, ahem, any angle. Astounding news!

...then it means we might finally be able to get the Koker Trilogy.....

[broken record]And Exotica![/broken record]

[eerik]

I suspect that Criterion's Facebook wall will soon be covered with the following words: pulp, fiction, jackie, brown, tarantino

[domino harvey]

Pulp Fiction is coming out via LionsGate next month

[onedimension]

Yeah, the Miramax DVDs of the trilogy were actually pretty good..odd that they'd license these to Criterion..

[aox]

Pulp Fiction is coming out via LionsGate next month

That still won't stop the 1000s of requests for it on CC's facebook.

IT'S GOT TO BE IN THE COLLECTION