Criterion Newsletter: Clues and More, Volume Four

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ptatler · #551 Post by **ptatler** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:46 pm

I don't suppose they'd do a Killers-esque set and pair it with To Have And Have Not?

dustybooks · #552 Post by **dustybooks** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:51 pm

Breakin' 2

FrauBlucher · #553 Post by **FrauBlucher** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:01 pm

domino harvey wrote:
jwd5275 wrote:The Breaking Point
Has to be-- long rumored and actually a solid left-field acquisition from WB, unlike a lot of their choices lately

That would mean more Curtiz in the Collection, but John Garfield's first entry.

*It just dawned on me that the #2 could stand for the director's second film in the Collection.

colinr0380 · #554 Post by **colinr0380** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:08 pm

Bill Condon in Top Ten wrote:Make Way for Tomorrow by Leo McCarey

This film was a favorite of my late friend Damien Bona, and always reminds me of him. A humanist classic, it inspired another classic, Ozu’s Tokyo Story.

I just wanted to highlight this as it came as quite a shock to me that Damien Bona had passed away back in 2012 at only 56. He wrote the Inside Oscar books, but I was most aware of him from his great posts on the auteurist-focused a_film_by group (and later comments at Dave Kehr's blog when the group members mostly moved there) back in the mid 2000s.

The link has been long since broken, but luckily thanks to the Internet Wayback machine, which captured the webpage back in 2004, here is a link to Bona's essay Make Way for Tomorrow and The Awful Truth: Leo McCarey and the Sacred Region of Romantic Love.

Newsnayr · #555 Post by **Newsnayr** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:48 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:
domino harvey wrote:
jwd5275 wrote:The Breaking Point
Has to be-- long rumored and actually a solid left-field acquisition from WB, unlike a lot of their choices lately
That would mean more Curtiz in the Collection, but John Garfield's first entry.

*It just dawned on me that the #2 could stand for the director's second film in the Collection.

It could also possibly represent the second adaptation of To Have and Have Not.

#556 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:52 pm

Or, it could just indicate it's a pencil

FrauBlucher · #557 Post by **FrauBlucher** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:57 pm

LightBulbFilm · #558 Post by **LightBulbFilm** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:18 pm

domino harvey wrote:Or, it could just indicate it's a pencil

Perhaps just a vague nod to Hemingway?

jsteffe · #559 Post by **jsteffe** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:50 pm

domino harvey wrote:
jwd5275 wrote:The Breaking Point
Has to be-- long rumored and actually a solid left-field acquisition from WB, unlike a lot of their choices lately

Tellingly, the Warner Archive DVD appears to be out of print, too. It's no longer listed on the WB site, and only used copies are available on Amazon.

flyonthewall2983 · Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:50 pm

The 2nd season of The Leftovers

Werewolf by Night · Sat Apr 01, 2017 12:02 am

ptatler wrote:I don't suppose they'd do a Killers-esque set and pair it with To Have And Have Not?

Probably not, as the Warner Archive Blu-ray just came out a few months ago, but they could do a more literal Killers-esque set and pair it with the Don Siegel version from 1958 with Audie Murphy.

Cronenfly · #562 Post by **Cronenfly** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:42 am

Any Hemingway-related features at least are probably applicable no matter how many versions they are putting out, so this may well work as a good stealth special edition/companion piece to the Warner Blu of To Have and Have Not.

Ribs · #563 Post by **Ribs** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 3:50 am

I think it's reasonable to expect they'll have some feature not dissimilar to what was on Here Comes Mr. Jordan that goes over the numerous adaptations in some detail

onedimension · #564 Post by **onedimension** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:50 pm

Henry David Thoreau was the heir to a pencil-making business - Jonas Mekas' 'Walden' "breaks" from Thoreau's original.

....

A Breaking Point/To Have combo is a great idea. There's an argument for Bigelow, too - Point Break, like Near Dark, has admirers.

Point Break also made me think of Boorman's 'Point Blank'.

whaleallright · #565 Post by **whaleallright** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:21 pm

At least, no one can ever again say the discussion here is pointless.

#566 Post by **swo17** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:03 pm

jwd5275 · #567 Post by **jwd5275** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:04 pm

Fire Walk with Me

#568 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:16 pm

I doubt it. What could they possibly add and why is there a steak?

dwk · #569 Post by **dwk** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:17 pm

fire wok meat

jsteffe · #570 Post by **jsteffe** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:17 pm

Walk (wok) + stake (steak) + flames = The Passion of Joan of Arc.

criterion10 · #571 Post by **criterion10** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:19 pm

jsteffe wrote:Walk (wok) + stake (steak) + flames = The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Could just as easily be The Devils (a man can dream, can't he?)

rwaits · #572 Post by **rwaits** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:19 pm

T Bone Walker.

#573 Post by **DarkImbecile** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:22 pm

"Fire wok with meat" is the best solution I've seen so far, but I'm with Domino that it seems like an odd choice, and I keep unsuccesfully looking for something else.

Jgh8xxx · #574 Post by **Jgh8xxx** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:24 pm

Yikes, undoubtedly "Fire Wok with Meat"

What the hell could Criterion possibly add to this release?

I guess they have to keep the lights on in order to put out releases like Rosselini's War Trilogy...and we all know kids these days are buying all the Lynch films!

Can we have LOST HIGHWAY or THE ELEPHANT MAN instead though, please?

criterion10 · #575 Post by **criterion10** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:37 pm

I hoping that there's a chance this clue will be a redux of the Midnight Cowboy/Il Sorpasso conundrum.

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