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I just watched Scanners last night, and wondered when Criterion will release an Eclipse set titled, "The First Films of David Cronenberg".

- The Brood
- Rabid
- Shivers
- Crimes of the Future

Given that there are already HD masters (and BluRay releases) of "Shivers", "The Brood", and apparently "Rabid" (forthcoming from Arrow), it is unlikely to be released as an Eclipse set, which is DVD only.

I suspect that "Crimes of the Future" will appear on some future Criterion Cronenberg BluRay release as a supplement, as it was once issued as such on the Criterion LaserDisc of "Crash" IIRC.

I would dearly love to see "Dead Ringers" and "Crash" come back into the Criterion fold.

Valin Kenobi wrote:Television films? *ears perk up* Not familiar with those, but I could see them getting Eclipsed since they would likely not be HD ready.

I don't know the specific details, but before Shivers he made a few films, they sound like educational works, for Canadian television.

Gotta say I would watch those.

TCM fest announced today that they'll be showing a brand new restoration of Spartacus come 2015.

Fingers crossed that means a re-issue is on the way. The current Blu-ray is a huge bust.

They were done for the CBC as filler content. He made quite a few touching on various subjects. Most ran between 15-30 minutes. I don't think they've ever been available on home video or likely seen since they aired during the 70's.

Sounds like prime bonus disc fodder (and I don't mean that in a negative way).

c0bbz wrote:TCM fest announced today that they'll be showing a brand new restoration of Spartacus come 2015.

Fingers crossed that means a re-issue is on the way. The current Blu-ray is a huge bust.

I can't deny that a reissue would be a good thing, although I'd likely stick with the current DVD. I want to want to upgrade, since ancient history pictures are one of my top genres, but that movie is such a bore. Perhaps I should try one of the edited versions without the half-hour of extra footage.

Criterion's Facebook shares a restoration example from Pather Panchali

This was just added to Criterion's Instagram page. I don't recognize it, but given Satyricon is around the bend. I would assume it's a supplement for that disk.

Criterion just posted a picture on Instagram of Vilmos Zsigmond and colorist Joe Gawler together at their office. Caption says they're working on something "very exciting".

Criterion just posted a picture on Instagram of Vilmos Zsigmond and colorist Joe Gawler together at their office. Caption says they're working on something "very exciting".
Post Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 5:14 pm

Please let it be McCabe & Mrs Miller.

Scarecrow is my guess.

DeprongMori sounds right. This is just about the only Vilmos Zsigmond shot film I can think of that would be something of a surprise but also still qualify as "very exciting."

I hope it's McCabe and Mrs Miller if just to stop people on this forum from asking every four days if it might be coming from Criterion

domino harvey wrote:I hope it's McCabe and Mrs Miller if just to stop people on this forum from asking every four days if it might be coming from Criterion

So basically it's the new Bottle Rocket.

And here I thought it was the new Badlands.

At least it's keeping people from asking about The Devils.

Don't forget The Decalogue.

Gotta be McCabe. Excepting those films that aren't available on disc at all, this has been my "white whale" film for Criterion treatment.

EDIT: Even though I'd certainly buy the disc, I'm hoping that it's not just Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, A Film by Michael Cimino as some are speculating in the Instagram comments. They're submitting the deer in last year's New Year's clue as evidence, though I think the conventional wisdom is that it was pointing to the upgraded All That Heaven Allows.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but I would think Truffaut's Day for Night would be near the top of any list of films that Criterion would be interested in releasing from Warners Bros.

jwd5275 wrote:I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but I would think Truffaut's Day for Night would be near the top of any list of films that Criterion would be interested in releasing from Warners Bros.

...and that would be just below Akira Kurosawa's Dreams and A Face In The Crowd and just above Blowup.

A Face in the Crowd would be a slightly different situation because they only have distribution rights and don't actually own the film. It is technically with Castle Hill if memory is correct. Same thing with Baby Doll.

Warner has both titles (A Face in the Crowd and Baby Doll) on Warner Archive Instant in HD, so at least they own streaming rights.

That's still a matter of distribution.

Apologies to Cinephrenic, but the Forthcoming Criterion Lists & Hulu Titles - No Speculation! thread is absolutely pathetic. It is missing many titles that have been confirmed either by newsletter, Janus, Criterion employees, directors, etc. Hell, I don't even think a Le Samourai upgrade has ever been hinted at (the New Years drawing was for Zatoichi, not Le Samourai). I do also miss the Hulu list (it was wonderfully helpful), but it was kind of a huge pain to keep updated accurately (unless someone wants to work on that).

As that thread is perhaps one of the more important ones on this forum (people who don't post here, or read anything else will check that thread to see what is forthcoming), and since it is used to fuel discussion/speculation and stop people from persistently asking if some movie is coming out, I propose a serious update. My suggestion is to include all films that have been confirmed at some point by an official source (newsletter, Janus tour, director, newspaper, employee, etc), and sort them by the source of the information. Based on that, I would offer the following list:

Newsletter:

Midnight Cowboy
Mulholland Drive (April, 2015)

New Years clues:

The Brood
Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas)
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lady Snowblood
The New World
Room with a View - Confirmed by Julian Sands
Speedy (Harold Lloyd) - Confirmed by Tribeca article


Not 100% sure from the clue:
Cure
Koker Trilogy
One Eyed Jacks (possibly that Jellyfish Eyes movie instead)
One, Two, Three (possibly After Hours)
This is Spinal Tap
Tom Jones / Napoleon / Barry Lyndon / Les Miserables
Wenders - Road Movie Trilogy - Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, Kings of the Road


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Janus Films touring -Official Janus tour, different than simply playing somewhere with a Janus logo.

Apu Trilogy
Burroughs: The Movie
A Poem Is a Naked Person (Les Blank - confirmed by Blank's website / Janus tour in July)
War Trilogy (Rome: Open City on current Janus tour in new 4k remaster Blu-ray upgrade imminent)

The Kid
The Pilgrim
Woman of Paris
The Circus
King in New York

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Upgrades (blu-ray or other new editions):

Andrei Rublev (multi-year restoration work, will come out sooner or later)
Bicycle Thieves
Kwaidan
Mishima - Criterion's done a new 2k restoration, director confirms
Pandora's Box
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Le Samourai
The Silence (Bergman)
Tales of Hoffman - Thelma Schoonmaker confirmation!!


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Press, screening, or employee official confirmations

Before Trilogy
Boy (Oshima)
Boyhood
Chimes at Midnight - credited to Janus + Beatrice Welles confirmation
Harold Lloyd Talkies set
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Othello - Orson Welles
La Verite (Clouzot)
Warner Bros deal - Barcelona + Suburbia seem likely (directors expressed interest)
World Cinema Foundation - more boxsets coming. See list below

Additional directors to expect titles from:

Erice - El, Quince Tree Sun
Forman, Milos - Black Peter, Taking Off
Kieslowski
Kusturica, Emir
Malick
Passolini -Most likely Teorema
Ray, Satyajit - Most all of his films, Devi is being worked on next (after Apu Trilogy)
Renoir - La Chienne (New restoration being presented by Janus)
Wenders - Director has confirmed that nearly everything he has made will be coming at some point.

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Confirmed, but eternally Delayed

A Brighter Summer Day
Carnival in Flanders
Macunaíma (1969)
Shanghai Express
The Wedding March
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Distinct Possibilities (don't look at me, these are from the old list:

BRESSON, Robert - LE PROCES DE JEANNE D’ARC , THE DEVIL PROBABLY
Fuller, Samuel - PARK ROW
Hou Hsiao-hsien - ("possibility, yes")
Khan, Mehbook - MOTHER INDIA (Criterion is trying to get this)
OSHIMA, Nagisa - 'YOUTH TRILOGY ’ - NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN, CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH, THE SUN’S BURIAL and A TOWN OF LOVE AND HOPE
Powell & Pressburger - more rarer films that have not been released
Renoir, Jean - THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE
Rivette, Jacques - PARIS BELONGS TO US, FOOL‘S MATE
Shima, Koji - GOLDEN DEMON
Siodmak, Robert - CRY OF THE CITY
SKOLIMOWSKI, Jerzy - DEEP END
Tsai Ming-Liang - ("looking into some")
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Played with Janus Logo / available on Amazon or Itunes (not Hulu!)
Downhill (Hitchcock)
Lodger (Hitchcock)
Sabotage (Hitchcock)
Young and Innocent (Hitchcock)

Evergreen (1934)
Intimate Lighting (1965) - Played on TCM with Janus logo
Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song Of Vengeance
Madeline (1950)
Man of Aran (1934)
The Passionate Friends (1949)
Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
The Seventh Veil (1945)
Tiger Bay (1959)

Czech New Wave films:
All My Good Countrymen
Courage for Every Day
The Cremator
The Cry
Diamonds of the Night
The Ear
Something Different
Transport from Paradise

World Cinema Project films:

Two Girls on the Street (1939), André de Toth
Revenge (1989), Yermek Shinarbayev
The Night of Counting the Years (1969), Shadi Abdel Salam
Nidhanaya (1970), Lester James Peries
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Apichatpong Weersethakul
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), Lino Brocka
Limite (1931), Mário Peixoto
The Law of the Border (1966), Ömer Lütfi Akad
Kalpana (1948), Uday Shankar
Insiang (1976), Lino Brocka
Forest of the Hanged (1964), Liviu Ciulei
The Eloquent Peasant (1969), Shadi Abdel Salam
Downpour (1971), Bahram Bayzai
Color of Pomegranates (1969), Sergei Parajanov
But Film is My Mistress (2010), Stig Björkman
A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Edward Yang
Borom Sarret (1963), Ousmane Sembène
Black Girl (1966), Ousmane Sembène
After the Curfew (1954), Usmar Ismail
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Speculation / Recent Restorations:
Classic Bollywood films / Guru Dutt - Indian article
Daisies (rescue from Eclipse)
Elevator to the Gallows
Hotel du Nord
Ivan the Terrible 1 + 2
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Withnail and I
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edit-removed announced titles - May 18, 2015
Removed Out1, guess it wasn't meant to be
Added czech + WCP films - Apr 29, 2015

I know that I am missing some titles that have been confirmed at some point (I got bored scouring through the Forthcoming thread; wasn't the Wenders boxset confirmed by somebody at some point? If so, which titles?). So, I ask everyone to remind me of which titles I've left off (not just speculation, or someone saying things like "hey that deer in the new years clue =Deer Hunter). Also, perhaps suggestions for better organizing the titles, in case you don't like the system I created (I like this system, as it gives a rough idea of how soon a title will likely come out - since it will most likely take longer for the titles further down (newsletter clues being the most imminent, with some exceptions). Once we have ironed everything out, the above can be edited into the official thread.

This latest Wexner talk also confirmed more Wes Anderson is coming, which seems to likely be Moonrise Kingdom at this point.