Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

[Tom Hagen]

I'm not seeing enough blue in that image...

I don't think they're going to put Blu in every cartoon from here on out. Didn't they say as much last month?

[swo17]

Plenty of hints from past months have not featured the color blue but the titles have been announced for Blu.

[Flike]

So, maybe in typical Criterion box fashion this is actually coming in December, as opposed to Nov? It'd be cruel to waste on a hint on something they'll be announcing in ten days...

[foofighters7]

I'm thinking more like next year. This year is already chock full.

[oldsheperd]

Reall good to see Head coming. Rhino did an excellent job releasing the tv show(except for housing the discs in fake album sleeves which made scratches easier). I suggest if you haven't seen the show to see them. The show got really weird but thoroughly enjoyable towards the end of the second season since they knew they were pretty much canceled allowing for more freedom. It would be cool to get a greatest hits disc as well since my cds are pretty banged up.

BTW, Fvck Mickey Dolenz and his Tea Party lovin' ass!!!!

[Toshiro De Niro]

Head or.. The Wild Ones?

[oldsheperd]

HEAD!!!!!!!

There is both a Rafelson/Nicholson connection here since Nicholson and Rafelson wrote the screenplay for Head. Kind of OT, but does anyone else strongly believe that the guy Peter Fonda buys the dope from at the airport in Easy Rider is Michael Nesmith?

[MyNameCriterionForum]

YES! Greatest rock film of all time! And more Timothy Carey!

[Matt]

I wonder what, if anything, the presence of Xavier Dolan in this newsletter portends.

[Napier]

I wonder what, if anything, the presence of Xavier Dolan in this newsletter portends.

I'd bet my newly acquired copy of Fanfan that a CC edition of Heartbeats is in the pipeline.

[glaswegian tome]

You guys are all wrong. Don't you remember the scene with the monkeys riding the motorcycle in Jumanji?

[oldsheperd]

Head hands down: wackymonkees.jpg

[Brian C]

I feel as if there must be some other, significantly less likely explanation. There always is!

[eerik]

Blu-ray release is more than likely since it's licenced from Sony.

[Matt]

I'd bet my newly acquired copy of Fanfan that a CC edition of Heartbeats is in the pipeline.

Considering that IFC has yet to schedule a theatrical release (and his last film just opened in NYC), I'll start keeping my eyes peeled for that CC release sometime in mid-2012.

[Matt]

Blu-ray release is more than likely since it's licenced from Sony.

Come on, guys, really? This release has been common knowledge on this forum for a while.

[Cinephrenic]

Monkeys also refer to Chaplin's The Circus.

[zedz]

Rules are: it can't be one of those mythical double (or triple) clues unless one of the films it's referencing is The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and I don't recall any monkeys in that.

[oldsheperd]

wackymonkees.jpg refers to the encoding of the image so it is definitely Head or Most Valuable Primate

[domino harvey]

wackymonkees.jpg refers to the encoding of the image so it is definitely Head or Most Valuable Primate

Oh man, you can all thank me because I of course just bought MVP

[oldsheperd]

Criterion finally caved after Mulvaney got tired of getting emails from CC fans asking him to give them Head.

[adamhopelies]

Monkeys on a bike? Monkey Bike? Thats the type of bike ridden by Freddy in Bruno Dumont's La Vie De Jesus.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

It would be cool to get a greatest hits disc as well since my cds are pretty banged up.

Stop wishing and start clicking here.

[swo17]

The image of monkeys on a motorcycle is obviously an allusion to how ridiculous (or cute?) we look when we guess that the clue is in reference to something other than what it is obviously in reference to.

[HistoryProf]

I wonder what, if anything, the presence of Xavier Dolan in this newsletter portends.

I'd bet my newly acquired copy of Fanfan that a CC edition of Heartbeats is in the pipeline.

I got excited for a second...thought you said HeartBEEPS.

So very excited to have Head confirmed by Criterion, even though it was already basically confirmed by someone else here a while ago... Frank Zappa gets a spine #!!! \:D/