Even if we are to get a proper release/restoration of Devi I will be thrilled. It is a beautiful movie, and when I viewed it on the channel when it first premiered it was painfully rough to watch.kekid wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:09 pmMay 2021 is a most awesome month on the Criterion channel.
I hope a box set including all the films of Satyajit Ray being shown this month comes out later this year. This is Satyajit Ray at 100.. His time has come.
If it does, all other Criterion problems will be forgiven.
The Criterion Channel -- Film and Content Discussion
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- Michael Kerpan
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Alas -- none of the rarer stuff I am dying to see is showing up there.
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Its encouraging that classic Fox titles have begun to show up with some regularity.
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Are there any DVDs anywhere of the Vittorio De Seta films currently on the channel?
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There will be.
- Drucker
- Your Future our Drucker
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Pretty vague reply, you have inside evidence these will be an upcoming release?
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How does criterion channel handle new releases? Last time I was a member they had In the Mood for Love and Mirror, but I’m guessing they don’t just automatically get the recent restorations, or do they? Are there any of the WKW “restorations” up?
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Don't own the WKW set, but In the Mood for Love appears to be the old version. Almost positive Happy Together and Fallen Angels are the recent restorations (as one would expect). The Mirror isn't currently available. Obviously if a film becomes available on the service after the Blu-ray release, it'll be the same restoration. If it's added shortly preceding the physical release there's a good chance it will be the same restoration. Streaming versions of some of the older Blu-ray releases are still SD. Films that have been on the channel for a long time and haven't gotten a physical release yet may be either SD or restored HD.
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Happy Together and Fallen Angels are playing the old versions, not the new restorations.
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Didn't know there were Criterion-licensed old versions. My bad.
- yoloswegmaster
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Coming to the Channel in June 2021.
- therewillbeblus
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The Solid Gold Cadillac and Vigil in the Night are welcome inclusions, hopefully pointing toward physical releases
- Michael Kerpan
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I believe I last watched Solid Gold Cadillac some time in the 60s....
- domino harvey
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Solid Gold Cadillac is worth it for the murderer's row of supporting That Guys occupying the office
- Blutarsky
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Hoping Pink Flamingos is at least restored. Mink Stole had mentioned years back that Criterion were going to do an edition of it, then John c. 4 years ago had mentioned Warner Archive was preparing it for a blu. Since then, silence.
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Well, next year is its 50th anniversary, so let's see.
This is a pretty cool Pride Month lineup of films.
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The Judy Holliday series is enormously welcome. Bells are Ringing is a masterpiece, top-shelf Minnelli. It Should Happen to You is tier one Cukor. Phffft and The Solid, Gold Cadillac are solid matinees. Her more dramatic ones—Full of Life and The Marrying Kind—are something of a slog, but at least Cukor slid a slick dream sequence in the latter.
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The Pride lineup here is spectacular. The Epstein/Friedman program and the Riggs films would be enough, but BPM ("the best film I've ever seen about gay people," said Larry Kramer), a double feature of Tom of Finland and Daddy and the Muscle Academy (I haven't seen the former, but it can't be as good as the latter, a genuinely arousing and visceral explication of/tribute to the artist), the Orphic Trilogy, Cruising, and more more more? I'll subscribe for the first month in months.
- therewillbeblus
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I totally missed Quine's Full of Life too- which is mid-tier Quine, but still interesting compared to his themes of interest. Also, between a recent blu-ray release and a Channel-acquisition, Robson's worst film, the appropriately-titled Phffft, is getting some questionable love
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Aya of Yop City, which debuts on June 23rd, is fantastic. Extremely heartfelt and very funny movie about a young woman's yearning for self-determinism in post-colonial Ivory Coast. It would make a nice double bill with Another Day of Life, another recent animated feature about sub-Saharan Africa in the 1970's.
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Given that the old DVD is long out-of-print, I wonder if Criterion might consider Gypsy 83 -- currently on the Channel -- for disc release. The original had some good features, but they could certainly expand with new interviews and more material on the music.
- yoloswegmaster
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Coming to the Channel next month:
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2046, Wong Kar Wai, 2004
Across 110th Street, Barry Shear, 1972
Alice, Jan Švankmajer, 1988
Alois Nebel, Tomáš Luňák, 2011
American Movie, Chris Smith, 1999
Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger, 1959
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, Andrei Tarkovsky, 2019
As Tears Go By, Wong Kar Wai, 1988
Being There, Hal Ashby, 1979
Belladonna of Sadness, Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973
The Bedroom Window, Curtis Hanson, 1987
Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint, Halina Dyrschka, 2019
The Big Sleep, Michael Winner, 1978
A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan, 1973
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, John Badham, 1976**
Black Fury, Michael Curtiz, 1935
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, Göran Olsson, 2011
Blow Out, Brian De Palma, 1981
Body Double, Brian De Palma, 1984
Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan, 1981
Bombay, Mani Ratnam, 1995
Born Yesterday, George Cukor, 1950
Brick, Rian Johnson, 2005**
Chico & Rita, Tono Errando, Fernando Trueba, and Javier Mariscal, 2010**
Chinatown, Roman Polanski, 1974**
Clockwatchers, Jill Sprecher, 1997
Commandos Strike at Dawn, John Farrow, 1942
Consuming Spirits, Chris Sullivan, 2012
Cotton Comes to Harlem, Ossie Davis, 1970
Cutter’s Way, Ivan Passer, 1981
Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar Wai, 1990
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, Philip Haas, 1988
Delirious, Tom DiCillo, 2006
Drums Along the Mohawk, John Ford, 1939
Earth, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2019
Ernest & Celestine, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner, 2012**
Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, 1978
Farewell, My Lovely, Dick Richards, 1975
Faust, Jan Švankmajer, 1994**
Film, Alan Schneider, 1965
The Girl Without Hands, Sébastien Laudenbach, 2016
The Grand Bizarre, Jodie Mack, 2018
The Hand, Wong Kar Wai, 2004
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell, 2001
Homo Sapiens, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016
Hoop Dreams, Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, 1994
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932
The Incident, Larry Peerce, 1967
It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, 2012
János vitéz, Marcell Jankovics, 1973
Kannathil muthamittal (A Peck on the Cheek), Mani Ratnam, 2002
The King of Pigs, Yeon Sang-ho, 2011
Knock on Any Door, Nicholas Ray, 1949
The Last Angry Man, Daniel Mann, 1959
The Last Seduction, John Dahl, 1994
The Life of Emile Zola, William Dieterle, 1937**
Living in Oblivion, Tom DiCillo, 1995
The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman, 1973
Manhunter, Michael Mann, 1986
Mary and Max, Adam Elliot, 2009
Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon, 2001
Mind Game, Masaaki Yuasa, 2004
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Henry Koster, 1962
Nayakan, Mani Ratnam, 1987
Night Moves, Arthur Penn, 1975
No. 7 Cherry Lane, Yonfan, 2019
Nocturna, Adrià García, Víctor Maldonado, 2007
Notfilm, Ross Lipman, 2015
The Onion Field, Harold Becker, 1979
Othello, Orson Welles, 1951
Paprika, Satoshi Kon, 2006**
The Painting, Jean-François Laguionie, 2011**
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007**
The Plague Dogs, Martin Rosen, 1982
Practice, Iyabo Kwayana, 2017
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, Lili Horvát, 2020
The Rabbi’s Cat, Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux, 2011**
Rocks in My Pockets, Signe Baumane, 2014**
A Room with a View, James Ivory, 1985
Scarface, Howard Hawks, 1932
Slacker, Richard Linklater, 1990
Son of the White Mare, Marcell Jankovics, 1981
A Song to Remember, Charles Vidor, 1945
The Story of Louis Pasteur, William Dieterle, 1936
Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 1993
Swimmer, Lynne Ramsay, 2012
Swoon, Tom Kalin, 1992
Tatsumi, Eric Khoo, 2011
Tess, Roman Polanski, 1979
Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott, 1991
This Magnificent Cake!, Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels, 2018
Too Late for Tears, Byron Haskin, 1949
Tower, Keith Maitland, 2016
A Town Called Panic, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2009**
Trouble in Mind, Alan Rudolph, 1985
Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, 1934
The Wanted 18, Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali, 2014**
The Wolf House, Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León, 2018
Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008**
You Will Die at Twenty, Amjad Abu Alala, 2019
Across 110th Street, Barry Shear, 1972
Alice, Jan Švankmajer, 1988
Alois Nebel, Tomáš Luňák, 2011
American Movie, Chris Smith, 1999
Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger, 1959
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, Andrei Tarkovsky, 2019
As Tears Go By, Wong Kar Wai, 1988
Being There, Hal Ashby, 1979
Belladonna of Sadness, Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973
The Bedroom Window, Curtis Hanson, 1987
Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint, Halina Dyrschka, 2019
The Big Sleep, Michael Winner, 1978
A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan, 1973
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, John Badham, 1976**
Black Fury, Michael Curtiz, 1935
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, Göran Olsson, 2011
Blow Out, Brian De Palma, 1981
Body Double, Brian De Palma, 1984
Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan, 1981
Bombay, Mani Ratnam, 1995
Born Yesterday, George Cukor, 1950
Brick, Rian Johnson, 2005**
Chico & Rita, Tono Errando, Fernando Trueba, and Javier Mariscal, 2010**
Chinatown, Roman Polanski, 1974**
Clockwatchers, Jill Sprecher, 1997
Commandos Strike at Dawn, John Farrow, 1942
Consuming Spirits, Chris Sullivan, 2012
Cotton Comes to Harlem, Ossie Davis, 1970
Cutter’s Way, Ivan Passer, 1981
Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar Wai, 1990
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, Philip Haas, 1988
Delirious, Tom DiCillo, 2006
Drums Along the Mohawk, John Ford, 1939
Earth, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2019
Ernest & Celestine, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner, 2012**
Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, 1978
Farewell, My Lovely, Dick Richards, 1975
Faust, Jan Švankmajer, 1994**
Film, Alan Schneider, 1965
The Girl Without Hands, Sébastien Laudenbach, 2016
The Grand Bizarre, Jodie Mack, 2018
The Hand, Wong Kar Wai, 2004
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell, 2001
Homo Sapiens, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016
Hoop Dreams, Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, 1994
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932
The Incident, Larry Peerce, 1967
It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, 2012
János vitéz, Marcell Jankovics, 1973
Kannathil muthamittal (A Peck on the Cheek), Mani Ratnam, 2002
The King of Pigs, Yeon Sang-ho, 2011
Knock on Any Door, Nicholas Ray, 1949
The Last Angry Man, Daniel Mann, 1959
The Last Seduction, John Dahl, 1994
The Life of Emile Zola, William Dieterle, 1937**
Living in Oblivion, Tom DiCillo, 1995
The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman, 1973
Manhunter, Michael Mann, 1986
Mary and Max, Adam Elliot, 2009
Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon, 2001
Mind Game, Masaaki Yuasa, 2004
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Henry Koster, 1962
Nayakan, Mani Ratnam, 1987
Night Moves, Arthur Penn, 1975
No. 7 Cherry Lane, Yonfan, 2019
Nocturna, Adrià García, Víctor Maldonado, 2007
Notfilm, Ross Lipman, 2015
The Onion Field, Harold Becker, 1979
Othello, Orson Welles, 1951
Paprika, Satoshi Kon, 2006**
The Painting, Jean-François Laguionie, 2011**
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007**
The Plague Dogs, Martin Rosen, 1982
Practice, Iyabo Kwayana, 2017
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, Lili Horvát, 2020
The Rabbi’s Cat, Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux, 2011**
Rocks in My Pockets, Signe Baumane, 2014**
A Room with a View, James Ivory, 1985
Scarface, Howard Hawks, 1932
Slacker, Richard Linklater, 1990
Son of the White Mare, Marcell Jankovics, 1981
A Song to Remember, Charles Vidor, 1945
The Story of Louis Pasteur, William Dieterle, 1936
Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 1993
Swimmer, Lynne Ramsay, 2012
Swoon, Tom Kalin, 1992
Tatsumi, Eric Khoo, 2011
Tess, Roman Polanski, 1979
Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott, 1991
This Magnificent Cake!, Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels, 2018
Too Late for Tears, Byron Haskin, 1949
Tower, Keith Maitland, 2016
A Town Called Panic, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2009**
Trouble in Mind, Alan Rudolph, 1985
Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, 1934
The Wanted 18, Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali, 2014**
The Wolf House, Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León, 2018
Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman, 2008**
You Will Die at Twenty, Amjad Abu Alala, 2019
- dwk
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I don't know if they are taking the older versions down or not, but since the WKW revisions are going up on the channel next month, it might be wise to revisit any of them you've been meaning to (or listen to Tony Rayns' Chungking Express commentary if you don't have the original release.)
- FrauBlucher
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I'm glad to see they are doing a Paul Muni retrospective this month. I always thought he needed to be in the Collection. Maybe this is a precursor to that happening. My personal choice would be I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang