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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#851 Post by onedimension » Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:29 pm

swo17 wrote:
Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:59 pm
Meanwhile the first thing that comes to my mind is Popeye
I keep catching parts of this browsing Netflix and liking it, even as a kind of novelty item.. but wondering about image restoration - was it originally meant to be muddy and dull or big and bright and crisp

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#852 Post by onedimension » Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:44 pm

Liberty Valance seems Criterion worthy, but idk..

Paramount reissued these 10 two years ago - https://www.mediaplaynews.com/7797-2/

Lot of different ways to slice Lewis’ stuff - and Lewis+Tashlin, not all might make sense for Criterion or be possible - but Bellboy (1960) through Professor (1963) would give you five titles, including Ladies’ Man

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#853 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:52 pm

Most of those titles would find a comfortable place in the collection (and I’d even take that Scorsese over most of those titles), and a Jerry Lewis box and the Lonergan need to find homes on blu ray, but just the idea of a Starting Over announcement feels like Christmas.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#854 Post by domino harvey » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:11 am

onedimension wrote:
Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:44 pm
Liberty Valance seems Criterion worthy, but idk..

Paramount reissued these 10 two years ago - https://www.mediaplaynews.com/7797-2/

Lot of different ways to slice Lewis’ stuff - and Lewis+Tashlin, not all might make sense for Criterion or be possible - but Bellboy (1960) through Professor (1963) would give you five titles, including Ladies’ Man
What kind of monster stops before the Family Jewels

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#855 Post by FlickeringWindow » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:30 am

I'd go for something like "Jerry Lewis Directs Jerry Lewis at Paramount" with The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, The Nutty Professor, The Patsy, and The Family Jewels.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#856 Post by onedimension » Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:57 am

FlickeringWindow wrote:
Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:30 am
I'd go for something like "Jerry Lewis Directs Jerry Lewis at Paramount" with The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, The Nutty Professor, The Patsy, and The Family Jewels.
Yeah, better.. I just have a strange soft spot for Cinderfella.. but that kind of set sounds way more like something Arrow or Indicator would do... Criterion is more likely to peak at 1-3 of Bellboy, Ladies Man, and Professor..

Ideally they'd do those six, and Arrow does a Tashlin/Lewis box with the two with Martin thrown in..

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#857 Post by Calvin » Thu Apr 16, 2020 3:06 am

The restoration of Bresson's Une femme douce was credited to Paramount when I saw it last year - surely a prime candidate for Criterion.

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#858 Post by Buttery Jeb » Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:20 am

Been hoping for Deep End since Paramount first teamed up with Criterion; but I vaguely remember reading here on the Forum that Paramount had lost the rights to the film.

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#859 Post by domino harvey » Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:24 am

The BFI Blu is region free

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#860 Post by jazzo » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:18 pm

swo17 wrote:
Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:22 pm
Some other possibilities:

7 Men from Now
Bad News Bears
Bringing Out the Dead
Chinatown
Jerry Lewis box
The Duellists
El Dorado
The Gambler
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Sabrina
Starting Over
There Will Be Blood
You Can Count on Me
A personal favourite of mine from childhood is Ronald Maxwell and Kimi Peck's very touching, very honest coming of age drama/comedy, LITTLE DARLINGS, which is finally available in a beautiful new HD transfer on Apple TV. I doubt Criterion would ever think about a release (seems more MVD or Kino's type of thing), but I'd love a physical copy.

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#861 Post by beamish14 » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:45 pm

jazzo wrote:
Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:18 pm
swo17 wrote:
Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:22 pm
Some other possibilities:

7 Men from Now
Bad News Bears
Bringing Out the Dead
Chinatown
Jerry Lewis box
The Duellists
El Dorado
The Gambler
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Sabrina
Starting Over
There Will Be Blood
You Can Count on Me
A personal favourite of mine from childhood is Ronald Maxwell and Kimi Peck's very touching, very honest coming of age drama/comedy, LITTLE DARLINGS, which is finally available in a beautiful new HD transfer on Apple TV. I doubt Criterion would ever think about a release (seems more MVD or Kino's type of thing), but I'd love a physical copy.

Little Darlings is still impossible due to music licensing problems. I saw a beautiful 35mm print at UCLA a while back, and the
programmers said as much.

Gordon Parks' Leadbelly would be wonderful. It never even had a VHS release, I believe.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#862 Post by jazzo » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:51 pm

Guess I'll stick with my Apple TV copy. Thanks for the info, Beamish.

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#863 Post by beamish14 » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:54 pm

I hope Deadhead Miles is a possibility, too. It briefly streamed on Amazon.

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#864 Post by PfR73 » Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:31 pm

Paramount has Ordinary People, the only Best Picture Oscar winner since the 1950's not released on Blu-ray.
They also have The Greatest Show on Earth, though I know it's not held in high regard, unless you're Steven Spielberg.

Some additional Best Picture nominees from Paramount not on Blu-ray:

Alfie (recently on the Criterion Channel)
Heaven Can Wait
Children of a Lesser God
The Rose Tattoo
The Hours

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#865 Post by Finch » Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:10 pm

Which version of Heaven Can Wait are you talking about? The Lubitsch original is available through Criterion. Do you mean the Beatty film?

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#866 Post by Ribs » Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:17 pm

Seeing as it was the only one released by Paramount, that should surely be inherent?

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#867 Post by davidhuxley » Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:43 am

Just because they license THE WAR OF THE WORLDS from Paramount, why is everyone assuming this is a "new deal"? There is already almost two dozen films licensed from Paramount Home Entertainment. (Just look at the list of licensors on this very forum.) Now if you're talking about Paramount Pictures, almost all of the 1929-1949 films are owned and licensed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, not the current incarnation of Paramount.

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#868 Post by cdnchris » Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:10 pm

The understanding is that Paramount licenses out in batches, so a label goes to them and requests some titles and then that's it, whereas I believe a studio like Universal does an on-the-go approach. If you look at Paramount licenses you'll notice there are big gaps in time when they release a batch of them. The last batch appears to have been Moonrise, Virgin Suicides, and Election. So when people say "new deal" they mean that Paramount is licensing out another batch to Criterion.

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#869 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:26 pm

Escape From Alcatraz would be a cool addition

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#870 Post by beamish14 » Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:26 pm

Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin would be incredible. It's probably another music rights casualty, though, which is an absolute shame.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#871 Post by FlickeringWindow » Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:22 pm

beamish14 wrote:
Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:26 pm
Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin would be incredible. It's probably another music rights casualty, though, which is an absolute shame.
That's apparently with Xenon Pictures and was supposed to be released by Vinegar Syndrome years ago.

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#872 Post by beamish14 » Tue May 05, 2020 11:40 am

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is still with Paramount in North America. Talk about a brilliant film that has never gotten a proper home video release
(I thought the VHS was edited a bit).

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#873 Post by FrauBlucher » Fri Nov 13, 2020 4:34 pm

captveg wrote:
Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:41 pm
Great to see Criterion has jumped on the new wave of Paramount licensing with The War of the Worlds.
cdnchris wrote:
Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:10 pm
The understanding is that Paramount licenses out in batches, so a label goes to them and requests some titles and then that's it, whereas I believe a studio like Universal does an on-the-go approach. If you look at Paramount licenses you'll notice there are big gaps in time when they release a batch of them. The last batch appears to have been Moonrise, Virgin Suicides, and Election. So when people say "new deal" they mean that Paramount is licensing out another batch to Criterion.
War of the Worlds, The Elephant Man and now The Parallax View all getting announced within 8 months. Hopefully there will be more considering Paramount has opened their vault to themselves as well

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#874 Post by Blutarsky » Fri Nov 13, 2020 5:19 pm

I do hope that with Paramount titles being loaned we can get Von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly and The Wedding March. But, seeing how great Silent blu ray sales are, it is just wishful thinking :cry:

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#875 Post by beamish14 » Fri Nov 13, 2020 5:41 pm

One of these days, Deadhead Miles...one of these days

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