Guess the April 2014 Releases

[Brian C]

In my haste I neglected to include The Lady from Shanghai. I have a feeling this is the month we will finally see it. At least, I hope so. We all know, more or less certainly, that it's coming eventually, so I think that the Current article by Peter Cowie about Welles *might* mean nothing, it probably means Lady from Shanghai--if not this month--will be showing up very soon.

You could hardly have picked a worse time to make this prediction. Sorry.

[sir_luke]

Correction: they couldn't have picked a worse time to release it. They couldn't have waited a few days until this thread was locked and my post was forgotten?
Sarcastic PS: at least the cover art is great.

[Sandman]

Just for the heck of it, I'm going to guess Z.

[rrenault]

I'm guessing we'll see a L'AVVENTURA Blu in April or May - the playdates of the new Janus distributed resto are coming to an end...

I can't wait anymore for this upgrade. I only hope that they make an exception by not using the Janus poster as their new cover art.

I think they should just keep the old cover. Why fix something if it ain't broke?

[FrauBlucher]

Ok, my turn at wasting key strokes...
Beyond the Hills
Red River
Soft Skin
Boy
Boudu Saved From Drowning (upgrade)
And a desperate reach- Day of Wrath (stand alone upgrade)

[colinr0380]

You know, I've been thinking that I'd love to see Insomnia get a Blu upgrade at some point! So that would be my guess for the month!

[bamwc2]

Oh, let's go with

Midnight Cowboy
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Tootsie
Antoine Doinel BDs
Hamlet BD
Ace in the Hole BD
A Les Blank Eclipse

[Sam T.]

Boy
Lady Eve and Sullivan's Travels dual format upgrades
Two English Girls
Like Someone in Love
"Naruse in Color" Eclipse
Breathless quad-format upgrade including laser disc, dvd, blu, and yet-to-be-invented 4k mind-transfer

[Bando]

The Trout
The Big Chill
Red River
Life Aquatic BD
Peter Weir Upgrade Spectacular (Picnic at Hanging Rock and the Last Wave BD)
Les Blank Eclipse

[boywonder]

So this is how it is going down. 100% accurate!

McCabe & Mrs Miller & The Long Goodbye
Performance
Les amantes du pont neuf
Beau travail
My Darling Clementine
upgrade: the BDR set & Alexanderplatz

[JimmyTango]

So this is how it is going down. 100% accurate!

McCabe & Mrs Miller & The Long Goodbye
Performance
Les amantes du pont neuf
Beau travail
My Darling Clementine
upgrade: the BDR set & Alexanderplatz

Crosses fingers in hopes for "Les amantes du pont neuf", especially considering Carlotta's plans to release remasters of "Mauvis sangue" & "Boy Meets Girl''. This would complete the Alex trilogy.

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[lacritfan]

Limelight
The Kid
Red River
Scanners
Picnic at Hanging Rock Blu
Taste of Cherry Blu

[ryannichols7]

I can't wait to see the Berlin Alexanderplatz upgrade.

Out 1

[jindianajonz]

I can't wait to see the Berlin Alexanderplatz upgrade.

Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this shot on video or something else that would render a blu release superfluous?

[swo17]

It was shot 16mm, which makes for the best kind of Blu-rays actually.

[knives]

It was shot on 16mm and I believe the restoration was from the negative rather than SD tapes, but I could be wrong on that considering the FPS issue.

[Askew]

Berlin Alexanderplatz was also released on bluray in Japan last year.

[Matt]

The frame rate issue has already been discussed in depth on the forum. The restoration was done (from film elements) in 2K, which is about as good as you can hope for 16mm. A Blu-ray upgrade would be very welcome, but this would be one release that I'd hate to buy as a dual-format. All those discs.

[swo17]

With Grey Gardens, there's precedent for just doing a Blu-ray upgrade as opposed to a dual format one.

[jindianajonz]

The frame rate issue has already been discussed in depth on the forum. The restoration was done (from film elements) in 2K, which is about as good as you can hope for 16mm. A Blu-ray upgrade would be very welcome, but this would be one release that I'd hate to buy as a dual-format. All those discs.

Don't worry, the slots will make it even thinner than the original release!

[ryannichols7]

April:

Red River
Like Someone in Love
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Kikujiro
Picnic at Hanging Rock (dual)
The Last Wave (dual)
L'Avventura (dual)
Eclipse 41: Varda in California

[ShellOilJunior]

Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Party
Scanners
Satyricon
Hiroshima mon amour

Popular guesses that I think are slated for July:

Red River
Hulot box

[Perkins Cobb]

I have a piece due today in which I remark upon Criterion's persistent Rivettelessness, which would require hasty rewrites if that were to change all of a sudden. So maybe....