Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

[Brianruns10]

People, people you've got it all wrong.

The Criterion hint is CLEARLY a reference to the Clint Howard classic "The Ice Cream Man!"

[tajmahal]

Sunday Bloody Sunday

The first thought that comes to mind is just desserts.

any help?

[eerik]

Sunday Bloody Sunday

The first thought that comes to mind is just desserts.

any help?

Sundae, just like the filename says.

[rossen]

Cesar Aira How I Became a Nun?

[britcom68]

Was there anybody like that back then though. It seems really prescient now, but perhaps there was an equivalent at the time.

Likely modeled on Arthur Godfrey.

And Will Rogers.

Face in the Crowd came out the same year as Sweet Smell of Success too; one is prescient of radio/television, the other of print. Yet why is it that Face in the Crowd has so rarely been mentioned alongside Sweet Smell of Success?

[britcom68]

Still have the Criterion laserdisc of the movie which was released many years ago and then coppied the broadcast version when it played on the MGM-HD channel a few months ago and it looked very nice and a good movie too.

It would be tremendous if Criterion got back Darling considering they released it on Laserdisc as with Sunday Bloody Sunday. This year has already seen some multipple offerings by the same director in the same month (theSpaldings, Promesse/Rosetta, the Frejos). Although the MGM dvd of Darling is still current, after Criterion releasing 12 Angry Men when the non-Criterion special edition of it was still technically in-stock I've given up trying to guess at what really is available for Criterion to relase and when to release it. Odds are though that Darling will not make it back to Criterion for the foreseeable future due to the complex rights it faces now.

Regardless though, the one special feature for a Criterion Sunday Bloody Sunday release I hope gets addressed is the appearance of Daniel Day Lewis as a hoodlum. It would be interesting to hear what, if anything, he learned from working on this film and with Finch and Schlesinger in particular.

[gcgiles1dollarbin]

Face in the Crowd came out the same year as Sweet Smell of Success too; one is prescient of radio/television, the other of print. Yet why is it that Face in the Crowd has so rarely been mentioned alongside Sweet Smell of Success?

For me, at least, Face in the Crowd rankles because of the self-righteous, patently voice-of-reason, old-school-liberal characterization of Walter Matthau's Mel Miller (unsuccessfully attempting, I think, a kind of Jack Burden from All the King's Men). There is nothing nearly that bald to correct the nihilism in Sweet Smell of Success, thank goodness. But, of course, this is far afield from the newsletter.

[britcom68]

But, of course, this is far afield from the newsletter.

This is so true and yet, good conversations like these are only possible by reflecting what is in the newsletter versus what we wanted to be in the newsletter.
Now what did that bloody sunday clue represent?

[Lemmy Caution]

Was there anybody like that back then though. It seems really prescient now, but perhaps there was an equivalent at the time.

Likely modeled on Arthur Godfrey.

And Will Rogers.

When they are trying to persuade Rhodes to go on television, Will Rogers is specifically referenced as an antecedent and an example of the kind of powerful folksy media player Lonesome Rhodes could become. Rhodes also improvises the ad copy and razzes his sponsors in much the way that Arthur Godfrey did.

[Perkins Cobb]

Finally, a newsletter clue so obvious that even I got it!

[ryannichols7]

of course they give us the clue to a movie we already know is coming.

i wasn't a fan of the film at all on first watch, but the extras should be among Criterion's best.

[ianungstad]

Alfonso Cuaron must be doing the top 10 list this month?

[swo17]

Isn't this Heaven's Gate?

[Cold Bishop]

EDIT: why are there no good .gifs of Walter White's "Crawl Space" laugh? Because that's how I feel right now.

[eerik]

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[Tom Hagen]

Can't wait for the extras on this.

[oldsheperd]

Well in that case. I'm interested to see this film. I guess it bankrupted a studio and is like a million hours long?

[onedimension]

Xanadu!

[knives]

I guess you don't watch Tarkovsky movies either.

[Lowry_Sam]

Is this a clue for this year's big box set?

Re-evaluting the 1980s: Restoring & reassessing 1980s flops:

Heaven's Gate
Raise The Titanic
Ishtar
One From The Heart
Revolution
Popeye

[knives]

Not likely. Not only have they shown that they produced some very long extras specific to Heaven's Gate, but that is a whole mess of different rights holders.

[warren oates]

There's no rule of thumb for the "newsletter clue to how long it freakin' takes to come out in number of months later ratio," right? I can't wait to see this again on Blu-ray. Probably the release of the year for me, whatever year it comes out.

[knives]

Unless a delay occurs it is usually three or four months from clue to a films official announcement. That means in all likelihood it will be either a December or January release assuming no delays.

[hearthesilence]

Excellent news. I remember hearing John Kirk talking about his work on this. The late Bingham Ray gave him the greenlight not long before he was pushed out of MGM/UA. When it was done, the studio did little to promote it and it barely got shown.

[jedgeco]

There's no rule of thumb for the "newsletter clue to how long it freakin' takes to come out in number of months later ratio," right?

Aren't we still waiting on "Wacky Drunk Dog" from last September?