Criterion and Paramount

[onedimension]

Meanwhile the first thing that comes to my mind is Popeye

I keep catching parts of this browsing Netflix and liking it, even as a kind of novelty item.. but wondering about image restoration - was it originally meant to be muddy and dull or big and bright and crisp

[onedimension]

Liberty Valance seems Criterion worthy, but idk..

Paramount reissued these 10 two years ago - https://www.mediaplaynews.com/7797-2/

Lot of different ways to slice Lewis’ stuff - and Lewis+Tashlin, not all might make sense for Criterion or be possible - but Bellboy (1960) through Professor (1963) would give you five titles, including Ladies’ Man

[therewillbeblus]

Most of those titles would find a comfortable place in the collection (and I’d even take that Scorsese over most of those titles), and a Jerry Lewis box and the Lonergan need to find homes on blu ray, but just the idea of a Starting Over announcement feels like Christmas.

[domino harvey]

Liberty Valance seems Criterion worthy, but idk..

Paramount reissued these 10 two years ago - https://www.mediaplaynews.com/7797-2/

Lot of different ways to slice Lewis’ stuff - and Lewis+Tashlin, not all might make sense for Criterion or be possible - but Bellboy (1960) through Professor (1963) would give you five titles, including Ladies’ Man

What kind of monster stops before the Family Jewels

[FlickeringWindow]

I'd go for something like "Jerry Lewis Directs Jerry Lewis at Paramount" with The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, The Nutty Professor, The Patsy, and The Family Jewels.

[onedimension]

I'd go for something like "Jerry Lewis Directs Jerry Lewis at Paramount" with The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, The Nutty Professor, The Patsy, and The Family Jewels.

Yeah, better.. I just have a strange soft spot for Cinderfella.. but that kind of set sounds way more like something Arrow or Indicator would do... Criterion is more likely to peak at 1-3 of Bellboy, Ladies Man, and Professor..

Ideally they'd do those six, and Arrow does a Tashlin/Lewis box with the two with Martin thrown in..

[Calvin]

The restoration of Bresson's Une femme douce was credited to Paramount when I saw it last year - surely a prime candidate for Criterion.

[Buttery Jeb]

Been hoping for Deep End since Paramount first teamed up with Criterion; but I vaguely remember reading here on the Forum that Paramount had lost the rights to the film.

[domino harvey]

The BFI Blu is region free

[jazzo]

Some other possibilities:

7 Men from Now
Bad News Bears
Bringing Out the Dead
Chinatown
Jerry Lewis box
The Duellists
El Dorado
The Gambler
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Sabrina
Starting Over
There Will Be Blood
You Can Count on Me

A personal favourite of mine from childhood is Ronald Maxwell and Kimi Peck's very touching, very honest coming of age drama/comedy, LITTLE DARLINGS, which is finally available in a beautiful new HD transfer on Apple TV. I doubt Criterion would ever think about a release (seems more MVD or Kino's type of thing), but I'd love a physical copy.

[beamish14]

Some other possibilities:

7 Men from Now
Bad News Bears
Bringing Out the Dead
Chinatown
Jerry Lewis box
The Duellists
El Dorado
The Gambler
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Sabrina
Starting Over
There Will Be Blood
You Can Count on Me

A personal favourite of mine from childhood is Ronald Maxwell and Kimi Peck's very touching, very honest coming of age drama/comedy, LITTLE DARLINGS, which is finally available in a beautiful new HD transfer on Apple TV. I doubt Criterion would ever think about a release (seems more MVD or Kino's type of thing), but I'd love a physical copy.

Little Darlings is still impossible due to music licensing problems. I saw a beautiful 35mm print at UCLA a while back, and the
programmers said as much.

Gordon Parks' Leadbelly would be wonderful. It never even had a VHS release, I believe.

[jazzo]

Guess I'll stick with my Apple TV copy. Thanks for the info, Beamish.

[beamish14]

I hope Deadhead Miles is a possibility, too. It briefly streamed on Amazon.

[PfR73]

Paramount has Ordinary People, the only Best Picture Oscar winner since the 1950's not released on Blu-ray.
They also have The Greatest Show on Earth, though I know it's not held in high regard, unless you're Steven Spielberg.

Some additional Best Picture nominees from Paramount not on Blu-ray:

Alfie (recently on the Criterion Channel)
Heaven Can Wait
Children of a Lesser God
The Rose Tattoo
The Hours

[Finch]

Which version of Heaven Can Wait are you talking about? The Lubitsch original is available through Criterion. Do you mean the Beatty film?

[Ribs]

Seeing as it was the only one released by Paramount, that should surely be inherent?

[davidhuxley]

Just because they license THE WAR OF THE WORLDS from Paramount, why is everyone assuming this is a "new deal"? There is already almost two dozen films licensed from Paramount Home Entertainment. (Just look at the list of licensors on this very forum.) Now if you're talking about Paramount Pictures, almost all of the 1929-1949 films are owned and licensed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, not the current incarnation of Paramount.

[cdnchris]

The understanding is that Paramount licenses out in batches, so a label goes to them and requests some titles and then that's it, whereas I believe a studio like Universal does an on-the-go approach. If you look at Paramount licenses you'll notice there are big gaps in time when they release a batch of them. The last batch appears to have been Moonrise, Virgin Suicides, and Election. So when people say "new deal" they mean that Paramount is licensing out another batch to Criterion.

[flyonthewall2983]

Escape From Alcatraz would be a cool addition

[beamish14]

Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin would be incredible. It's probably another music rights casualty, though, which is an absolute shame.

[FlickeringWindow]

Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin would be incredible. It's probably another music rights casualty, though, which is an absolute shame.

That's apparently with Xenon Pictures and was supposed to be released by Vinegar Syndrome years ago.

[beamish14]

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is still with Paramount in North America. Talk about a brilliant film that has never gotten a proper home video release
(I thought the VHS was edited a bit).

[FrauBlucher]

Great to see Criterion has jumped on the new wave of Paramount licensing with The War of the Worlds.

The understanding is that Paramount licenses out in batches, so a label goes to them and requests some titles and then that's it, whereas I believe a studio like Universal does an on-the-go approach. If you look at Paramount licenses you'll notice there are big gaps in time when they release a batch of them. The last batch appears to have been Moonrise, Virgin Suicides, and Election. So when people say "new deal" they mean that Paramount is licensing out another batch to Criterion.

War of the Worlds, The Elephant Man and now The Parallax View all getting announced within 8 months. Hopefully there will be more considering Paramount has opened their vault to themselves as well

[Blutarsky]

I do hope that with Paramount titles being loaned we can get Von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly and The Wedding March. But, seeing how great Silent blu ray sales are, it is just wishful thinking

[beamish14]

One of these days, Deadhead Miles...one of these days