Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

[Drucker]

If it is 'The Gold Rush', is it likely Criterion will be able to include both cuts of the film plus the extras from the MK2/WB DVD?

Extremely, judging by the other Criterions and the fact that Janus is screening the silent Gold Rush currently (right?)

Playdates: Dec 23-29th at The Film Forum, NY!

[htshell]

NYFF Gold Rush screening was silent, yes.

[colinr0380]

I guess it is likely to be The Gold Rush, but this does give me the opportunity to link to the final scene of Stroszek!

[stroszeck]

I guess it is likely to be The Gold Rush, but this does give me the opportunity to link to the final scene of Stroszek!

and that my friends is the greatest ending of all time.

[knives]

Big ego.

[SamLowry]

I wonder if the delay in Chaplin releases is partly due to MK2 not having restored anymore in a year so Criterion is preferring to spread the releases out themselves so that they don't reach a stage where they have to wait 2 years to release the other major titles... I mean there hasn't been a new Blu since The Circus in 2010 right? Leaving Limelight, Verdoux, Woman of Paris and others still to be done...

I'm hoping it is because Criterion is doing their own transfers.... Am I the only one who has been disappointed with Criterion's mk2 transfers?

[kinjitsu]

[Tom Hagen]

Grey Gardens upgrade.

[matrixschmatrix]

Got to be

[mfunk9786]

Excellent, excellent. Time to sell off the DVD set!

[Matt]

Yessssssssssss. Now all I have to do is find this Libra man.

[Cinephrenic]

Scanners just confirmed?

Criterion said "have you scanned" new years drawing...

Lol

[Tom Hagen]

Hopefully they do Salesman while they're at it.

[bdsweeney]

Of course! However, silly me took the rhyming option at first and thought 'What rhymes with "blue raccoon"? I know ... Blue Lagoon'. Then I thought "What?"

[htshell]

I would not be surprised if there was another Maysles release to coincide with the upgrade.

[captveg]

Very nice. Will definitely pick it up.

[videozor]

Looks like nobody paid attention to the screenshot from A Man Escaped!? It was rumored as coming 2-3 years ago, but there were no updates recently. Maybe it's finally happening!

[Drucker]

There's been a Bresson retrospective going on at NYC's Film Forum all month. It could easily be taken elsewhere, I'd assume, as well. They already have the rights to it and it's on Hulu+...so I wouldn't assume that means that an update is any more impending.

[cysiam]

That retrospective is going to at least 12 other cities.

[Brian C]

Starts here in Chicago ... um, tomorrow.

[htshell]

Condensed version of the retro. in Philadelphia to be announced soon.

[Jeff]

Forthcoming Bresson retro dates from Andrew O'Heir:

Jan. 19 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif.
Jan. 20 at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, Mass.
Jan. 21 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago
Jan. 31 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson N.Y.
Feb. 9 at the TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto
March 1 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
March 3 at the Cleveland Cinematheque and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
March 6 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.
March 9 at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville
April 4 at the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver, Canada
April 13 at BAM in Brooklyn, N.Y.
May 1 at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle
May 10 at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles

Further venues and dates may follow.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

I'm surprised to see Nashville on there. I hope at the least they'll have Four Nights of a Dreamer and Lancelot. I'd drive a few hours just for one Bresson, though!

[What A Disgrace]

If they have Four Nights of a Dreamer in freaking Nashville, I'm going to have to break my vow not to see movies at places which charge for parking.

[Mr Sheldrake]

Condensed version of the retro. in Philadelphia to be announced soon.

Where would that be? I didn't realize we had any venues for such retros.