Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

[mteller]

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

Token DEI title: Uptown Saturday Night

Token: Young Soul Rebels/Looking for Langston

Fucking stop this shit.

[TechnicolorAcid]

I have to agree with everyone that it’s weird for him to have a Token slot (why?) but I will say that I would definitely love for Criterion to release Looking for Langston which is a delightfully dreamlike haze of a film.

[Finch]

Token: Young Soul Rebels/Looking for Langston

Another post like this and you're out.

[Peter McM]

Lost in Translation 4K
Lovers On the Bridge 4K
The English Patient 4K
(for a Juliette Binoche triple month) The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Therewolf]

Kill Bill the Whole Bloody Affair 4k
The Proposition 4K
The Right Stuff 4K
12 Angry Men 4K
Hidden Fortress 4K
Girl Shy

Lubitsch Musicals eclipse
Trouble in Paradise

Bogdanovich eclipse (Noises off; They All Laughed; Saint Jack)
What’s Up Doc

[olmo]

Pressure 1976 blu ray.
Scarecrow UHD.
Ishtar UHD.
Four Nights of a Dreamer UHD.
Minnie & Moskowitz blu ray.

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

Are we assuming titles are today or Monday?

[Peter McM]

Are we assuming titles are today or Monday?

When the 15th falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the norm is to wait til Monday. Occasionally, however, we get lucky...

[ryannichols7]

Dog Day Afternoon
The Sweet Hereafter
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Cache
Kagemusha 4K
The Life of Oharu 4K
Midnight Cowboy 4K

eclipse: Kinuyo Tanaka

[Yakushima]

Eclipse set of Kira Muratova films.
Pedro Almodóvar 4K box set
Salome's Last Dance 4K
Red Beard 4K
Paterson 4K
The Sweet Hereafter 4K.

[justeleblanc]

Shoplifters
Taking Off
Trouble in Paradise
West Indies
L'Amour fou

[WrathOfAguirre]

Interjecting with the following thought (apologies if this doesn’t fit the purity of the predictions posts here):

All of the “what if” potential 4K upgrades are preventing me from pulling the trigger on some long-neglected titles during the current B&N sale. Someone posted Kagemusha, and I literally almost added it to my cart last night, but thought to myself “you should just wait.” :exasperated:

In keeping with the purpose of this thread, my only guess is:

Early Fassbinder Eclipse upgrade

[Close The Door, Raymond]

4K:
Powell & Pressburger Early Films Box Set: The Spy in Black, Contraband, 49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Charles Dead or Alive
Emilia Perez
Manji
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Yoru no kawa (Undercurrent)

Blu-ray Only:
I May Destroy You
The Sealed Soil

[RSTooley]

The Brother from Another Planet
Hud
Lolita
The Sweet Hereafter
Two Films by Med Hondo -- West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty / Sarraounia

[FrauBlucher]

Bressonaire

[tolbs1010]

Eat Drink Man Woman 4K
Distant Thunder 4K
Quiz Show 4K
You, The Living 4K
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Viridiana (4K upgrade)

[beamish14]

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

One can wish. Fox/Disney and WB have done shitty jobs with most of Kazan’s films

[Bressonaire]

Frau Blucher:

I've had a haircut since that video clip you posted.

I'm not going to make predictions this month, but a couple observations. When the Eclipse revival was announced, it specifically mentioned the Kiarostami films and Lubitsch musicals. If they were ready to go back then, why is everyone not guessing the Lubitsch upgrade as the next Eclipse box? It's likelier than anything else to be the on-deck release. And if it is, I think we might get a Trouble in Paradise upgrade to go with it. (I guess that's a semi-prediction.)

Four Nights of a Dreamer is still on tour--it won't play in Berkeley till later this month. It's at least two or three months too soon to come up for a physical release, from what I've observed over the years. The Fall of Otrar had a relatively quick turnaround from its Film Forum presentation, so it's not impossible, but most movies take a lot longer, it seems to me.

Again, Frau Blucher, thanks for the flattering portrait!

[Lowry_Sam]

but most movies take a lot longer, it seems to me.

so maybe Il Boom in 2026?

[m_montana]

Adam's Rib
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
All the King's Men
It Was Just an Accident
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

[rrenault]

Frau Blucher:

I've had a haircut since that video clip you posted.

I'm not going to make predictions this month, but a couple observations. When the Eclipse revival was announced, it specifically mentioned the Kiarostami films and Lubitsch musicals. If they were ready to go back then, why is everyone not guessing the Lubitsch upgrade as the next Eclipse box? It's likelier than anything else to be the on-deck release. And if it is, I think we might get a Trouble in Paradise upgrade to go with it. (I guess that's a semi-prediction.)

Four Nights of a Dreamer is still on tour--it won't play in Berkeley till later this month. It's at least two or three months too soon to come up for a physical release, from what I've observed over the years. The Fall of Otrar had a relatively quick turnaround from its Film Forum presentation, so it's not impossible, but most movies take a lot longer, it seems to me.

Again, Frau Blucher, thanks for the flattering portrait!

Or Criterion could just "sit on" Four Nights of a Dreamer as they're wont to do with a lot of their properties. We still haven't gotten a physical release of Antonioni's Il Grido for instance.

I have a funny suspicion they'll also "sit on" the 4K restoration of Viridiana. Ordet also received a 4K restoration ages ago.

[Beloved Aunt]

lol, it appears that Garden State is in the pipeline, or something. it's on the Criterion website! Ack!

[agnamaracs]

When the Eclipse revival was announced, it specifically mentioned the Kiarostami films and Lubitsch musicals. If they were ready to go back then, why is everyone not guessing the Lubitsch upgrade as the next Eclipse box?

They mentioned the Flamenco Trilogy too...

[ryannichols7]

When the Eclipse revival was announced, it specifically mentioned the Kiarostami films and Lubitsch musicals. If they were ready to go back then, why is everyone not guessing the Lubitsch upgrade as the next Eclipse box?

They mentioned the Flamenco Trilogy too...

can't argue with Bressonaire, we'll get a Lubitsch month for sure. but yes, they mentioned Saura, Tanaka, and Kazuo Hara as well in the announcement, so any of those can be expected

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

lol, it appears that Garden State is in the pipeline, or something. it's on the Criterion website! Ack!

I think it’s for the channel?