Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

[tolbs1010]

Payday (1973)

Loooong overdue for a release. Great movie with Rip at his IDGAF best. Feels like a Kino release, though, considering they did Daryl Duke's The Silent Partner.

[Finch]

Benediction BD
The Adventures of Robin Hood 4K
Port of Shadows 4K
Yi Yi 4K
Desperate Living BD
The Sweet Hereafter 4K
The Straight Story 4K

[Matt]

Bright Star 4K
Oscar and Lucinda 4K
René Clair box set
Julien Duvivier's 1930s
Jungle Fever 4K

[Close The Door, Raymond]

Box sets:
Early Films of Pedro Almodovar: Pepi Luci Bom, Labyrinth of Passion, Dark Habits, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Matador, Law of Desire

Frederick Wiseman 1960s: Titicut Follies, High School, Law and Order, Hospital

World Cinema Project Volume 5: Boys from Fengkuei, Camp de Thiaroye, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, Eight Deadly Shots, Kummatty, Macario

4k upgrades:
Cries and Whispers 4k upgrade
Double Life of Veronique 4k upgrade
Playtime 4k upgrade

New to Criterion:
Raising Arizona 4k

[Mr. Deltoid]

I Know Where I'm Going! (4K, upgrade)
A Mike Leigh title (Bleak Moments/Nuts in May?)
Coen's 'Serious Men' Box (Barton Fink/Man Who Wasn't There/A Serious Man) - yeah, right?
Short Cuts (4K)
Hud (4K)

Token DEI title: Uptown Saturday Night

[Finch]

Token DEI title

Seriously?

[onedimension]

Amazed no one has released Curtiz' Robin Hood yet. Perfect for 4K/Dolby.

Do we think Zipporah would ever license to Criterion?

They've been sitting on a bunch of Mike Leigh, there's a UHD Naked disc ready to go.

Powell & Pressburger would be perfect for a 4K box set, seems inevitable but not likely to happen this year. Decembers are usually light.

[flyonthewall2983]

Manhunter feels within reach with how much it’s on the channel.

[Big Ben]

Manhunter feels within reach with how much it’s on the channel.

I would really like that as a possibility but I would hope that Criterion would be able to include multiple cuts of the film. Furthermore wasn't Mann working on yet another cut that yet to materialize?

[flyonthewall2983]

I’ve read reports of a new 4K of the theatrical cut floating around and that he was preparing a definitive cut of some sort.

[beamish14]

I’ve read reports of a new 4K of the theatrical cut floating around and that he was preparing a definitive cut of some sort.

A new 70mm print was struck, but I’m unsure if it’s from a 4K restoration. Mann is working on a 3rd version, but I don’t believe the negatives from any of the cut footage exists

[beamish14]

Amazed no one has released Curtiz' Robin Hood yet. Perfect for 4K/Dolby.

Do we think Zipporah would ever license to Criterion?

They've been sitting on a bunch of Mike Leigh, there's a UHD Naked disc ready to go.

Powell & Pressburger would be perfect for a 4K box set, seems inevitable but not likely to happen this year. Decembers are usually light.

I’d kill for Zipporah to finally let go of Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World. The Library of Congress’ restoration from ages ago is beautiful

[Lowry_Sam]

King Kong (1933)
The Wedding Banquet (1994)
The Act Of Killing/The Look Of Silence
The Killing Fields
Cyclo
July Rhapsody
A City Of Sadness
What Time Is It There?
Save The Green Planet
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Yi Yi upgrade
Jia Zhangke box
Teshigahara 4k upgrade box

Would love it if Criterion would play catch up one month, but just 2 titles & I'd still be happy.

[DeprongMori]

I’d kill for Zipporah to finally let go of Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World. The Library of Congress’ restoration from ages ago is beautiful

Although I do hope that Milestone would be able to do the release as a retirement gift to Dennis Doros and Amy Heller to complete their Project Shirley collection.

[Peter McM]

December is generally a pretty quiet month approaching Christmas. I project three, maybe four 4K releases; none of them particularly landmark, but at least two of them involving the luminous Juliette Binoche: The English Patient, and Lovers On the Bridge. One might also wish for a long awaited upgrade to The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but not holding one's breath.

[ryannichols7]

China Lost and Found: Five Films by Jia Zhangke
Dog Day Afternoon
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Open Your Eyes
Il Grido
Spellbound 4K

and to end the year with the biggest shocker/crowd pleaser/cliffhanger of all...
Kagemusha 4K

[Roscoe]

I'd settle for SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR.

[mteller]

. . and this month's token choice, how about that Spike Lee joint from a few years back, Da 5 Bloods?

I mean, sans House Party, that would be a dream month for me.

Token DEI title: Uptown Saturday Night

So basically you're a piece of shit. Got it.

[soundchaser]

Lolita UHD
Atlantics
So This is Paris
They All Laughed (TWBB double guess)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Upgrade)
Trouble in Paradise (Upgrade)
+Lubitsch Eclipse

[Buttery Jeb]

I'd settle for SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR.

I'm guessing we'll see a Roy Andersson Eclipse set in the next year or two, given Criterion/Janus has picked up a number of his films.

[jazzo]

I Know Where I’m Going Upgrade
The Waterdance
Hud
Birth
An Even Bigger Splash

and because I like to dream up potential box sets, one of the following:

Lost & Found: Three Films by Walter Salles - Foreign Land / Central Station / I’m Still Here

Rotoscoped: The Animated Meditations of Richard Linklater - Waking Life / A Scanner Darkly / Apollo 10 1/2 - A Space age Childhood

Circles into Squares: The Films of Tamara Jenkins - The Slums of Beverly Hills / The Savages / Private Life

[crimlaw]

Criterion is sitting on a few Woodfall films, so a box set of the following early titles would work as an Eclipse set:

Look Back in Anger
The Entertainer
Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Girl with Green Eyes
The Knack

[agnamaracs]

China Lost and Found: Five Films by Jia Zhangke
Dog Day Afternoon
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

I got confused by the way you formatted this. "Hey, Jia didn't make... oh, wait."

There is a high chance one of the titles will be Eclipse. Hope it's Lubitsch.

[Finch]

. . and this month's token choice, how about that Spike Lee joint from a few years back, Da 5 Bloods?

I mean, sans House Party, that would be a dream month for me.

Token DEI title: Uptown Saturday Night

So basically you're a piece of shit. Got it.

mteller, I'd have preferred you to disagree with Deltoid differently. I get the frustration but don't call people names.

But let me make this abundantly clear to Deltoid and anyone else like-minded: cut the crap about perceived token releases and DEI pandering. There are plenty other places where you will find a more receptive audience for this. It's not this forum.

[ryannichols7]

China Lost and Found: Five Films by Jia Zhangke
Dog Day Afternoon
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

I got confused by the way you formatted this. "Hey, Jia didn't make... oh, wait."

There is a high chance one of the titles will be Eclipse. Hope it's Lubitsch.

I honestly wasn't even sure how to format that since I usually only bold titles

you are right about Eclipse, I should've guessed one. I do think it's clear we may get one a month for awhile, given how many they name dropped in the announcement