Criterion Newsletter (Part 3)

[Noiradelic]

Since 5 is an odd number, shouldn't the runner be wearing it? Guess they felt the goofy outfit was "odd" enough.

[swo17]

Maybe the 5 stands for how many days people will still keep making guesses after the clue has been solved. One can hope anyway.

[eerik]

[domino harvey]

Ride the Pink Horse! Wow! I hope they pair it with Montgomery's superb (much better, in fact) romantic comedy Once More, My Darling as a bonus film

[knives]

Better than my guess of Vadim's La Ronde.

[Perkins Cobb]

Wow; unexpected but welcome. What would really have me over the moon is the inclusion (a la The Killers set) of Don Siegel's made-for-TV remake, The Hanged Man, also from 1964.

[domino harvey]

It's total absence from the DVD market has been really puzzling, I figured there was some sort of rights issue. But it's Universal so it makes sense that Criterion would be able to go after it, I just thought they'd abandoned their film noir pursuits (though this makes two noir newsletter teases in a row). It's an imperfect film with a bit of an inflated reputation due to its scarcity, but I welcome a wider release and an opportunity to revisit

It would be perverse but fantastic if one of the titles they acquired from Warners was Lady in the Lake. Put it with this and the also commercially unavailable Once More My Darling, Eye Witness (which is OOP from VCI), and rescue the Gallant Hours from MGM's DVD-R and you could have a great Complete Robert Montgomery as Director set. Which will never happen. But oh man, can you imagine

[neeb]

Better than my guess of Vadim's La Ronde.

Don't feel bad- I guessed Max Ophuls' La Ronde on blu. But then there should be something blue in the clue.

[ordinaryperson]

I don't know if it is RtPH. Montgomery doesn't have a phantom page (if he does, send me a link to the page).
Here are some notable films that come up when Carousel is searched as a keyword on IMDb: Strangers On A Train, Grand Budapest Hotel, Mommie Dearest, and Los Olvidados.

[domino harvey]

It is 100% guaranteed Ride the Pink Horse, there is no way they'd draw that clue in that way for anything else

[How rude!]

Ridley Scott's little seen early work, Black Horse Down (look at those hind legs)

[Gregory]

Finally something for us bronies. Pinkie Pie 4 ever!

[FrauBlucher]

It is 100% guaranteed Ride the Pink Horse, there is no way they'd draw that clue in that way for anything else

I'm with Domino on this. What kind of supplements could they come up with for this.

[EffinghamHuffnagel]

Here are some notable films that come up when Carousel is searched as a keyword on IMDb: Strangers On A Train, Grand Budapest Hotel, Mommie Dearest, and Los Olvidados.

Yeah, I thought of Strangers on a Train, too, as well as Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, and I submitted Los Olvidados a few years as a possible double release with City of God, but I think the others are right. Well, I'm looking forward to this one - a Criterion treatment of a Noir film I've somehow never heard of.

[CSM126]

I don't know if it is RtPH. Montgomery doesn't have a phantom page (if he does, send me a link to the page).
Here are some notable films that come up when Carousel is searched as a keyword on IMDb: Strangers On A Train, Grand Budapest Hotel, Mommie Dearest, and Los Olvidados.

Well, they do have phantom pages pertaining to Mommie Dearest:

Faye Dunaway
Diana Scarwid
Frank Perry

Just sayin'...

[domino harvey]

A clue for Mommie Dearest would be a wire hanger with a red NO sign over it. Failing that, it would be anything other than a pink riding horse. Perry's film may also be coming but this does not indicate it. I thought we put "double clue" speculation behind us

[CSM126]

A clue for Mommie Dearest would be a wire hanger with a red NO sign over it. Failing that, it would be anything other than a pink riding horse. Perry's film may also be coming but this does not indicate it. I thought we put "double clue" speculation behind us

I wasn't really positing a double-clue. Really I was bringing it up as a gag (although I would fully support Mommie Dearest getting a spine, mind you).

[Jeff]

Montgomery doesn't have a phantom page (if he does, send me a link to the page).

Many (most?) Criterion releases don't start getting "phantom pages" until right before they are announced.

What kind of supplements could they come up with for this.

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary by film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini
• The 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents live television adaptation, starring Montgomery and Gomez
• The complete 1947 broadcast of the Lux Radio Theater adaptation, starring Montgomery, Hendrix, and Gomez
• Restored high-definition digital transfer of The Hanged Man, a 1964 television remake directed by Don Siegel
• Trailer
• PLUS: A big folded essay by Chuck Stephens

[Cold Bishop]

Is the Dorothy Hughes novel still in print? It's a masterpiece of the genre and would be perfect if Crit hasn't completely sworn off booklets.

[Lowry_Sam]

This sounds interesting, I'd certainly love it if Criterion resurrected more obscure titles. My first thought was an upgrade for La Ronde.

[Fred Holywell]

It is 100% guaranteed Ride the Pink Horse, there is no way they'd draw that clue in that way for anything else

Actually, there is one other possibility...

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

No doubt it is pink horse but for a moment I hoped it could be Allegret's 1950 'Manèges' with Simone Signoret and Bertand Blier. Hope springs eternal but probably not this time round.

[Perkins Cobb]

For the doubters: A Criterion freelancer confirmed it's Ride the Pink Horse.

[domino harvey]

[ptatler]

• PLUS: A big folded essay by Chuck Stephens

This was my first thought, too. Chuck's an amazing writer and particularly insightful when it comes to unheralded noir gems.