Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

[ellipsis7]

Not getting this yet... Just this resonance so far from Pink Floyd (obviously not a movie & simply wrong)...

[swo17]

The Hungarian film MY WAY HOME, by Miklos Jancso? I believe it is about cows.

I think it might be the right kind of cow too:

[ptatler]

Perhaps a five-disc Jancso Eclipse set? Makes a little more sense than the Tarr. But it'd make better sense if they were sheep, given the subject matter of MY WAY HOME.

[jwd5275]

I hope this clue is better than the groan-worthy "The Thin Blue Line" (the thin bovine) non-joke that is coming to mind. If not, then shame on you wacky pic scribbler!

That would definitely be keeping with the "thin red lion" clue for The Thin Red Line...

[gandskid]

Perhaps a collection of the films of Noel "Cow"ard or something featuring "Herd" Hatfield?

[ellipsis7]

Met that Hurd Hatfield back in the 90's for an i/v on DORIAN GRAY... Unsettled the film crew when he asked them if they had an eyebrow pencil that he could borrow (as you do)...

[Brian C]

"Lisa the Vegetarian"

Don't kid yourself Jimmy - if a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about.

[Peacock]

Come on guys it's clearly Satantango, the cow shot is pretty famous, at least, among those who have seen it or read about it and many of the other suggestions above are really stretching it to work their title into the cow idea. Also, the fact that there are multiple cows knocks off a bunch of other guesses.

Means Werckmeister Harmonies is coming too at some point!!

Crazy to think they are doing Out 1 (going by that MoC tweet) and Satantango in the first third of 2012 though!

[Perkins Cobb]

Crazy to think they are doing Out 1 (going by that MoC tweet) and Satantango in the first third of 2012 though!

Wait, come again? Is that for real?

[knives]

Yep, Criterion has been working with about four different companies on a restoration that they'll release sometime next year.

[swo17]

Out 1 is likely coming at some point, but no way it's ready for 1Q 2012. Everything else Peacock said is no less of a stretch than anyone else's guesses.

[joshua]

Come on guys it's clearly Satantango, the cow shot is pretty famous, at least, among those who have seen it or read about it and many of the other suggestions above are really stretching it to work their title into the cow idea. Also, the fact that there are multiple cows knocks off a bunch of other guesses.

Means Werckmeister Harmonies is coming too at some point!!

Crazy to think they are doing Out 1 (going by that MoC tweet) and Satantango in the first third of 2012 though!

This would be great if true, but what about The Facets discs still being in print? Are they (Facets) still selling backstock even though they no longer hold the rights then?

[ellipsis7]

Out 1 (oughwee...!) explain however please why it might actually come in 2012...

[knives]

I believe the German disc has been announced for third (?) quarter of next year.

[swo17]

Someone on Facebook made the observation that there are five cows configured in the shape of the number 4. In case that helps anyone figure this out.

[eerik]

I believe the German disc has been announced for third (?) quarter of next year.

Amazon.de has this for November 30th, this year.

[knives]

So sooner than later I guess. Criterion is probably just 'fine' tuning and adding more extras. I still don't think we'll get it until second quarter though.

[ellipsis7]

More misleading cow images, but maybe he's just laughing at us... (also rather Nouvelle Vague in post-modernist sense)...



It's cheesy because it's a cheese!...

[Peacock]

My release date for Out 1 wasn't made up by me..

It's coming out in France shortly after, and then U.S.

Shortly after the German release that is.

Also, I apologise for being an idiot above, I didn't realise the Facets Tarr's were in-print, has to be the 2012 clue pic, Jancso Eclipse then right?

Wonder what the other titles will be seeing as several are in-print in the US already. Guessing The Round Up, Red Psalm and a random other?

[Ovader]

The five cows may indicate five films in a boxset for Eclipse or mainline CC edition.

[Tom Hagen]

Re: Cows.

There is this possibility:

Procession, 1976 / 4' / colour / silent

"The understandable fascination with Frampton's intellect can blind one to the frequent down-home dimension of his imagery. Here, in a most rigorously formal, even mathematical procession, we see frame clusters of light blue sky, green grass, and red (filter red) leaves; then frame clusters of the backs of dairy cows; and finally frame clusters of portions of a shiny vehicle (we can see people, objects in bulbous reflection). A trip to the New York State Fair filtered through a most rarified formal film." - Scott MacDonald

More here.

I haven't seen any of Frampton's work, so I have no idea. The dairy cows and math seem to fit; the skinny aspect, not so much. zedz?

[oh yeah]

I'm going with Satantango and nothing will convince me otherwise, until it's revealed that it's not in fact Satantango, at which point I will proclaim LA LA LA LA I can't hear youuuu!

[agnamaracs]

Someone on Facebook made the observation that there are five cows configured in the shape of the number 4. In case that helps anyone figure this out.

Films produced by Channel Four (Criterion already licensed NAKED from them, so...)

The first thing I thought of was Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother," if that means anything... (One of the two Barbet Schroeder films they soundtracked, perhaps?)

[mteller]

Vacas?

[Peacock]

Clip from 'My Way Home'

Ovader is probably right with the number of titles being the same as the number of cows.