Forthcoming Lists Discussion and Random Speculation Vol. 5

[Matt]

Whew. I was this close to buying the MGM DVD.

[domino harvey]

Well, someone did if it's finally getting released!

[jindianajonz]

Wow, #691? Looks like we are going to get another box set, since that is at least 7 new spine numbers.

Why do you hate my wallet, Criterion?

[matrixschmatrix]

Housemaid is spine #690- Thief comes immediately after it. That's why the trick works.

[jindianajonz]

Ahhh, whoops, my mistake. I didn't realize the WCF titles had individual spine numbers.

[John Doe]

#691 Thief (linked on The Housemaid page)

So, Battlefield Earth is coming from Criterion also? They're just trolling us.

http://www.criterion.com/films/28024-battlefieldearth" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[jindianajonz]

So, Battlefield Earth is coming from Criterion also? They're just trolling us.

http://www.criterion.com/films/28024-battlefieldearth" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you type in any random film into the URL, you'll get that same error message. But Criterion has created a link (from the Housemaid page) that goes to the Thief page that eerik has mentioned; it wasn't just some page that he typed in himself.

EDIT: To see it yourself, just scroll down to the bottom of The Housemaid page and click the link for "Spine 691"

[giovannii84]

Housemaid is spine #690- Thief comes immediately after it. That's why the trick works.

They've unpublished the link now

[swo17]

We've already seen everything.

[FrauBlucher]

That's probably it Frau Blucher *whinnny*

Moe, I hope CC puts a smile on your face tomorrow.

[domino harvey]

Because they're releasing the complete series of Happy Endings

[FrauBlucher]

The Guardian has an article about the restoration of The Lady from Shanghai which just played the London film festival. Grover Crisp states that it will be released on blu in the near future. I assume this will be from either Criterion or Twilight Time.

This looks like it will be coming directly from SONY.

[ianungstad]

That bluray.com article is just rehashing the news from The Guardian. I wouldn't make the assumption that it's going to be Sony. They hardly release anything themselves these days.

[ianungstad]

Restorations of Mauvais Sang and Boy Meets Girl are set to debut at NYFF in a few weeks. On home video; these were Fox Lorber titles that have been long unavailable. Janus has picked up most of the Lorber library. Wouldn't be surprised if they grabbed these Leo Carax titles for eventual release.

Fingers definitely crossed over here, Ian. I'm hoping to hear some good news on this front, sometime before I'm relegated to an eldercare facility, where all anyone ever wants to watch is Cocoon, over and over.

French distributor Carlotta has launched Carlotta USA. They will acquire films for repertory release. I assume they'll find an existing distributor to partner with for physical media. (Criterion, Kino, who knows?)

Their initial rollout for 2014 includes the two Carax titles and Sidewalk Stories (Charles Lane).

[FakeBonanza]

That's probably it Frau Blucher *whinnny*

Moe, I hope CC puts a smile on your face tomorrow.

You shouldn't ever hope for Tootsie to be announced.

[knives]

I hope when they release that the extras are just a drunken Terri Garr laughing about how sexist Hoffman and Pollack were.

[domino harvey]

If drunken Teri Garr is going to enter the collection, it needs to be Dick!

[knives]

True, but in that case we would need an in-character commentary for Dan Hedaya.

[domino harvey]

I am entirely certain that I could record a track of me reciting the film word for word from memory

[Moe Dickstein]

That's probably it Frau Blucher *whinnny*

Moe, I hope CC puts a smile on your face tomorrow.

You shouldn't ever hope for Tootsie to be announced.

Oh we should all hope for Tootsie - if you haven't heard the commentary from the Criterion LD it's a master class in developing story structure from chaos and random ideas, as well as in Pollack's style.

But if we see Tootsie, that will just be gravy to the one I'm talking about.

[FrauBlucher]

Moe, I hope CC puts a smile on your face tomorrow.

You shouldn't ever hope for Tootsie to be announced.

Oh we should all hope for Tootsie - if you haven't heard the commentary from the Criterion LD it's a master class in developing story structure from chaos and random ideas, as well as in Pollack's style.

But if we see Tootsie, that will just be gravy to the one I'm talking about.

For me Madx4 World is an unfunny novelty, but Tootsie definitley has some strong merits, and therefore has a place in the annals of 1980s American Cinema that came out of the studios.

[MichaelB]

Tootsie is a superb film - in fact, I remember it opening amid widespread predictions that it would be a disaster (didn't something like 32 writers have some input into the script?), only for words to be eaten en masse when critics actually got to see the finished article.

[FrauBlucher]

I do remember the over whelming critical acclaim it received upon it's release. Especially, for Hoffman.

[hearthesilence]

I wonder how much of Elaine May's writing made it to the end? I'm tempted to think she made it something.

[kekid]

I think Criterion are waiting for the approval of the Tea Party to announce their January lineup.