Criterion Newsletter (Part 3)

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#226 Post by movielocke »

domino harvey wrote:
rwiggum wrote:It Happened One (k)Night

"Behold the Walls of Jericho! Maybe not as thick as the ones that Joshua blew down with his trumpet, but a lot safer. You see, I have no trumpet."
If you were going to do It Happened One Night, your clue would be a drawing of one knight, not this complicated pictogram
I think it works, you wouldn't just use a drawing of one night because the title is a little bit of a Dirty Joke, so you want to also illustrate the all important "It" that happened one night, you would have One Knight and a visual representation of "the walls of Jericho -coming- down" (the walls of Jericho being the metaphor the film uses for sex).
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#227 Post by Tuco »

ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO? No Dino or George Peppard in the collection... :D
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#228 Post by ptatler »

Tuco wrote:ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO
Is this out of the running? Because it seems more relevant to the clue.
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#229 Post by shaky »

A HARD DAY'S (K)NIGHT
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#230 Post by Jeff »

ptatler wrote:
Tuco wrote:ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO
Is this out of the running? Because it seems more relevant to the clue.
As I said initially, it's probably not something Criterion would release.

It Happened One Night is almost certainly correct.
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#231 Post by Cinephrenic »

Wasn't Capra's It's a Wonderful Life also one of the New Years drawing? So we can expect many Sony Capra's.
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#232 Post by Drucker »

Was that the angels? And didn't that turn out to be the Demy box?
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#233 Post by Askew »

Cinephrenic wrote:Wasn't Capra's It's a Wonderful Life also one of the New Years drawing? So we can expect many Sony Capra's.
That was for Breaking the Waves.
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#234 Post by captveg »

Besides, It's a Wonderful Life is a Paramount (Republic Library) title, not Sony.
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#235 Post by sir_luke »

Also, I would think that It's a Wonderful Life is way too bankable for Paramount to want to license out to any boutique label, even one as successful as Criterion. Of course, I've thought that about a few of Criterion's recent releases...
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#236 Post by FrauBlucher »

One more vote for It Happened One Night.
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#237 Post by Rustle »

Distinctive brick pattern is Cabiria bond.
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#238 Post by ptatler »

That's cool. I like IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and all but I'm one of those dickheads that would prefer a shitty B Western over something that's well-represented.
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#239 Post by captveg »

I'm really hoping it's a sign that Criterion picked up all the Capra titles from Sony. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a particular favorite of mine.
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#240 Post by Cinephrenic »

Perhaps some Hawks or Cukor will follow.
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#241 Post by Gregory »

Did we ever figure out what this one was from a few years ago?

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I've always thought that Blu upgrades of Stray Dog and Drunken Angel would be pretty unlikely because the condition of the elements would make it difficult to impossible to get an impressive-looking transfer.
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#242 Post by swo17 »

Anatomy of a Murder
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#243 Post by EddieLarkin »

Gregory wrote:I've always thought that Blu upgrades of Stray Dog and Drunken Angel would be pretty unlikely because the condition of the elements would make it difficult to impossible to get an impressive-looking transfer.
They posted a few years ago an image of a Drunken Angel film can, implying it was getting a new transfer. Maybe they're just sitting on it.
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#244 Post by Gregory »

swo17 wrote:Anatomy of a Murder
Ah, that's right. Thanks.
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#245 Post by ianungstad »

I would like to see Criterion invite Kim Cattrall to come up with a top 10 list for one of these newsletters. She's always plugging art films and often praises Criterion and Janus films. You don't see many women championing speciality pictures and geeking out over Criterion discs.
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#246 Post by mteller »

ianungstad wrote:I would like to see Criterion invite Kim Cattrall to come up with a top 10 list for one of these newsletters. She's always plugging art films and often praises Criterion and Janus films. You don't see many women championing speciality pictures and geeking out over Criterion discs.
It would be fun to see people taking it as a sign that Criterion is going to release Porky's
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#247 Post by giovannii84 »

mteller wrote:
ianungstad wrote:I would like to see Criterion invite Kim Cattrall to come up with a top 10 list for one of these newsletters. She's always plugging art films and often praises Criterion and Janus films. You don't see many women championing speciality pictures and geeking out over Criterion discs.
It would be fun to see people taking it as a sign that Criterion is going to release Porky's
'porkys' is an important film in its genre :)
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#248 Post by CSM126 »

mteller wrote:
ianungstad wrote:I would like to see Criterion invite Kim Cattrall to come up with a top 10 list for one of these newsletters. She's always plugging art films and often praises Criterion and Janus films. You don't see many women championing speciality pictures and geeking out over Criterion discs.
It would be fun to see people taking it as a sign that Criterion is going to release Porky's
No, it's clearly Mannequin.
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#249 Post by Yaanu »

In a surprise twist, it's actually a hint for City Limits.
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#250 Post by domino harvey »

CSM126 wrote:
mteller wrote:
ianungstad wrote:I would like to see Criterion invite Kim Cattrall to come up with a top 10 list for one of these newsletters. She's always plugging art films and often praises Criterion and Janus films. You don't see many women championing speciality pictures and geeking out over Criterion discs.
It would be fun to see people taking it as a sign that Criterion is going to release Porky's
No, it's clearly Mannequin.
Unfortunately, Meshach Taylor is one classic Hollywood Criterion isn't interested in
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