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Brian C wrote:

Mr Sausage wrote:They don't use the same IP addresses, although it looks like they share the same service provider.

... and desire to turn the Speculation threads into extensions of Criterion's facebook page.

I get it: I message too much. I'll cool it, but will check back in for the 15th. [I just want any rumors to stop.)

(Since this doesn't contribute to the thread, this comment can be removed.)

Gary Gnu wrote: I get it: I message too much. I'll cool it, but will check back in for the 15th. [I just want any rumors to stop.)

It's not that you message too much...it's that you're postings are in the wrong thread.

A new print of Altman's Come Back to the Five and Dime via UCLA, preservation funded by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, playing at DC's National Gallery in August. Not sure if this means anything in terms of a future Criterion release, though I figured I'd mention it.

justeleblanc wrote:A new print of Altman's Come Back to the Five and Dime via UCLA, preservation funded by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, playing at DC's National Gallery in August. Not sure if this means anything in terms of a future Criterion release, though I figured I'd mention it.

I asked about it on Facebook 2 years back and got something like "That'd be nice." in return.

stagefright50 wrote:

justeleblanc wrote:A new print of Altman's Come Back to the Five and Dime via UCLA, preservation funded by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, playing at DC's National Gallery in August. Not sure if this means anything in terms of a future Criterion release, though I figured I'd mention it.

I asked about it on Facebook 2 years back and got something like "That'd be nice." in return.

I consider "5 and Dime" one of Altman's least impressive films, but seeing as Paramount likely has no intention of releasing it any time soon, I'd say go for it, Criterion!

They've just put an article about The Lady Eve on the Criterion site. Possible upgrade?

Just about every title on this list has been released, or is to be in the CC.

Went the Day Well?, The Producers, and It Always Rains on Sunday are three of the very few that haven't. Could this mean anything?

Most of those titles are OOP and, including Went the Day Well, owned by Studio Canal. Its not totally out of the question (we are getting Melville Blus), but I wouldn't count on it.

Went the Day Well? is getting a UK release by Studio Canal if you are interested.

A more complete list of Rialto titles (including forthcoming)

I see Panique listed, one of Duvivier's finest with Michel Simon in sparkling form. A very different incarnation of M.Hire compared to Michel Blanc in Leconte's version. This would be wonderful scrubbed up and blu'd.

well they are asking about what we expect friday...i'll go:

The Emigrants/New Land Set
Kuroneko
Island of Lost Souls
Picnic at Hanging Rock blu
39 Steps blu
Y tu Mama Tambien

I Married a Witch
Kuroneko
The Soft Skin
Island of Lost Souls

Gremillon eclipse (a man can dream)

Island of Lost Souls
Kuroneko
The Game
Bitter Rice
Wild Strawberries Blu
The Lady Vanishes Blu

ooo, the Game...good one!

Island of Lost Souls
Koruoneko
Following
Bitter Rice
I Married a Witch
an eclipse release
Wild Strawberries
Blast of Silence

I'd take Emigrants/New Land over all the above.

I'm expecting another Chaplin before the end of the year, though I'd guess that will be for November. I'd say

Kuroneko
Island of Lost Souls
Bitter Rice
Mikey and Nicky
The Lady Vanishes/Sullivan's Travels Blus (spitballing on this one, but a man can dream)
Wild Strawberries Blu

Island of Lost Souls
Bitter Rice
Kuroneko
Kwaidan (new special edition)
Wild Strawberries Blu-ray
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Blu-ray
Eclipse set of the Bulldog Drummond films

dwk wrote: Eclipse set of the Bulldog Drummond films

I haven't gotten the nerve yet, but still I hope not.

I think we're finally going to get some J-Horror. Either an Eclipse with two or more versions of Yostuya Kaidan (at least both the Kinoshita and Nakagawa verions), or a set of sixties movies (Goke the Bodysnatcher - Sato, The Living Skeleton - Matsuno, The X from Outer Space - Nihonmatsu, The War of the Insects - Nihonmatsu)

With that I think:

The Game
I Married a Witch
Kuroneko
Island of Lost Souls
Kwaidan upgrade/blu
Wild Strawberries blu
Withnail & I blu

I understand that a lot of these guesses come from a variety of "reliable" sources, but have the last few months been stuff that was expected? I feel like there was nothing predicting the Vigo box or anything, and I'm just curious if that stuff is as out of the blue as it seems?

Drucker wrote:I understand that a lot of these guesses come from a variety of "reliable" sources, but have the last few months been stuff that was expected? I feel like there was nothing predicting the Vigo box or anything, and I'm just curious if that stuff is as out of the blue as it seems?

The Vigo box had been on the horizon for a long time. The other titles that have been tossed around are likely bets since many of them are appearing on Hulu.

jwd5275 wrote:I think we're finally going to get some J-Horror. Either an Eclipse with two or more versions of Yostuya Kaidan (at least both the Kinoshita and Nakagawa verions), or a set of sixties movies (Goke the Bodysnatcher - Sato, The Living Skeleton - Matsuno, The X from Outer Space - Nihonmatsu, The War of the Insects - Nihonmatsu)

Cure is up on Criterion's Hulu, isn't it? I would think that if they were going to release any J-Horror, they'd go for that one, since it's both a prominent movie and a prominent director (and if Kalat's not too busy, they could hopefully get him to do a commentary on it- it was one of the movies he really focused on in his J-Horror book.)

True.
However I was thinking of what would fit into an Eclipse set, being that we have been averaging one every other month and are now due...

jwd5275 wrote:Withnail & I blu

I thought this wasn't a possibility.