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The Two of Us BD upgrade

The Breakfast Club
True Stories
Written on the Wind
100 Years of Olympic Films

I'm sorry, i don't understand why the Olympic films are in this guessing thread!
There is already a set date about them, isn't there?

But if you guess them you are already at least like 90% right.

They are December releases. I think my guess and the others that include it are fairly representative of the opinion that due to that release we're going to have at the most two more releases, likely both for December 12th. I could kind of imagine if there'll be another Eclipse it'd pop up, though.

Graphist wrote:Have there been rumors about A Matter of Life And Death?

There was a recent restoration supervised by Grover Crisp of SONY, to be exhibited internationally in December. I might be a bit early on this one. More likely to be announced in a month or so (if I understand the rights situation. Is "Park Circus" a barrier to US release if SONY is doing the restoration?)

Here's the announcement of the screenings.

I'd expect it'll do a tour as it'd undoubtedly be a title that's fairly likely to do weeklong runs around the US with a new restoration. If Tales of Hoffman could merit it then certainly this one could. Could easily see it as a June/July release though.

DeprongMori wrote:(if I understand the rights situation. Is "Park Circus" a barrier to US release if SONY is doing the restoration?)

Park Circus just administers rights on behalf of the owners; for example, if I wanted to do a theatrical screening of Agent Cody Banks, I would book it through them rather than MGM directly. It's not a barrier to a Criterion release, and in the case of A Matter of Life and Death, Park Circus doesn't administer any of the U.S. rights, only the "International" (read non-U.S.) rights via their arrangement with ITV. (Columbia bought the U.S. rights in the '70s when they were thinking about doing a remake.)

I've randomly guessed A Matter of Life and Death a few times before just out of hope. It has the Christmas association, so maybe they'll release it in December.

100 Olympic Discs
Lady Eve
Spellbound
Queen of Spades
Paterson

John Hughes Collection
Election

Dragon Inn
Written on the Wind Blu

I've been seeing lots of guesses this month and many previous months for a Written on the Wind upgrade (some of them even mine.) Is this an expectation that there is some evidence for, or just an outside hope? I'd love to see the rest of the Criterion Sirk films in Blu myself.

They've repeatedly tweeted a screenshot from the movie (of curtains blowing in the breeze) apropos of nothing. The movie itself has been restored by someone other than Criterion in at least high-definition, as a region free French blu-ray exists.

Come and See
Dersu Uzala
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club

Tiny Furniture UHD
Daddy Long Legs
Don't Worry Baby
H.Korine Box Set - Gummo / Julien Donkey Boy / Mister Lonely

100 Years of Olympics Films (low-hanging fruit; easy picking)

Sixteen Candles

The Breakfast Club

Bonjour Tristesse

DeprongMori wrote:I've been seeing lots of guesses this month and many previous months for a Written on the Wind upgrade (some of them even mine.) Is this an expectation that there is some evidence for, or just an outside hope? I'd love to see the rest of the Criterion Sirk films in Blu myself.

For me it's just a low spine number that hasn't been upgraded yet.

phantomforce wrote:Tiny Furniture UHD

This is physical violence.

How about an American adolescent themed December? Not likely all will come out in same month, but maybe one will.
John Hughes Box (Sixteen Candles/Breakfast Club/Weird Science/Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Election
Thirteen
Welcome To The Dollhouse
The Slums Of Beverly Hills

Since there are no phantom pages up yet, I guess we can forget about announcements today?

Not necessarily. Last month they started going up around 1:15 PM Pacific.

They postponed until Monday. Someone posted on FB.

Graphist wrote:They postponed until Monday. Someone posted on FB.

Somebody posted to Criterion's FB that they announced on their blog that announcements were postponed. No indication of what blog they were talking about, however.

Well, on Criterion's Twitter feed they've announced Election, an upgrade of General Idi Amin Dada, and Monterey Pop along with the Olympics box.