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The Two of Us (via Rialto), surely?

Maybe their set to release Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring... that would be cool (except that they'll release it in windowboxed form... which would suck).

kieslowski wrote:

Abbey Lustgarten and Alex Mabilon reported back on their interview with Claude Berri ("short and sweet").

Anyone care to speculate as to what that might have been for?

Don't give a damn about the Berri, but Abbey Lustgarten, what a sweet name!. Sorry folks but it is late over here in England.

Not a damn thing of interest in the latest blog until the very last line:

Zoo (About human/horse sex)

I have to go check with my agent and attorney, see where my scripts been floating around.

skuhn8 wrote:

Zoo (About human/horse sex)

I have to go check with my agent and attorney, see where my scripts been floating around.

it's a documentary. and it sounds really interesting. It's playing at the Portland International Film Festival in few weeks (along with a number of really big foreign films)...

I just got back from Sundance and Zoo was one of the highlights for me. It is a flawed film for sure, but I think Rob Devor did quite a brilliant job at treating the subjects humanely and poetically. Quite Thought provoking.

miless wrote:it's a documentary. and it sounds really interesting. It's playing at the Portland International Film Festival in few weeks (along with a number of really big foreign films)...

You are right miless Zoo will be playing PIFF and so are a couple of my other Favorites from Sundance, Andrea Arnold's Red Road, and Portland's own Irene Taylor Brodsky's Hear and Now which just won the Audience award for best documentary. I highly recommend catching them if you can.

Did this blog die already?

justeleblanc wrote:Did this blog die already?

I was thinking the same thing. They haven't been diligent about posting....but then again, it's not an uncommon thing for new bloggers to run out of steam quickly.

Tribe

could just be busy getting ready to launch eclipse next month. I don't think they'll keep up two a week, but we should get another update soon.

The new title announcements for May should be happening within the next week (by Friday), and we've got a newsletter coming soon, too. I'd venture to guess that adding a second line to the collection while still maintaining an impressive output on the regular end of things is putting a strain on the workforce. A box-set a month is an impressive feat on its own, not even taking into consideration how many deals they must be brokering just to maintain the new ramped-up output. I mean, they still haven't even formally announced the Malle box, outside of the "coming soon" mention in the blog, and the only thing they've released on the Bergman set is a pdf of the sellsheet. Wouldn't be surprised if an Eclipse website were in the works, too.

There's been a few references in the "On Five" blog that Criterion's website's about to undergo a re-revamping in the near future (possibly to include information on Eclipse). The recent silence on their end is probable a result of that.

-BJ

Buttery Jeb wrote:There's been a few references in the "On Five" blog that Criterion's website's about to undergo a re-revamping in the near future (possibly to include information on Eclipse). The recent silence on their end is probable a result of that.

I'm waiting for them to start including YouTube clips on their blog. Then it'll REALLY take off.

Tribe wrote:but then again, it's not an uncommon thing for new bloggers to run out of steam quickly.

Yeah... I don't get it, though. They didn't plan more than 7 blogs into the future? I was excited just for a regular journal entry about growing up with the movies, having different staffers write, etc.

They don't have to release some news each time, but I feel like the blog was supposed to give fans a little more of an idea of the Criterion ethic and community. They started that, but...

It seems to me that the possible topics are innumerable.

New entry up. Lots on Berlin Alexanderplatz (oh those Criterion jetsetters!), reference to an Eclipse website.

Welcome back, you were missed.

The mention of William Klein sounds promising - I hope!

New post by Eric Skillman. One of the more interesting entries, which is saying something.

Great new entry up. This is the kind of material I wanted them to post since the first 'personnel post' appeared. Great stuff for graphic designers!

Edit: darn, two minutes late!

Fantastic entry! I appreciate Eric including rejected artwork for "Night and the City" and "Thieves' Highway" to illustrate his process, concept to completion.

How easy it is for us to say that a cover sucks! ("Border Radio," I still can't figure you out.)

Notice the original logo in the rejected artwork.

And how cool is it that the great Mike Watt helped influence a Criterion cover, however indirectly? (Which begs the question, why didn't somebody dig out their old SST Minutemen albums to help design a better cover for Border Radio?

gubbelsj wrote:And how cool is it that the great Mike Watt helped influence a Criterion cover, however indirectly? (Which begs the question, why didn't somebody dig out their old SST Minutemen albums to help design a better cover for Border Radio?

or even old Black Flag, Meat Puppets or Sonic Youth (all of whom were at least once part of SST).

miless wrote:or even old Black Flag, Meat Puppets or Sonic Youth (all of whom were at least once part of SST).

Yes, a "Slip It In" homage would have been pretty great.

The blog archives are starting to look forlorn - one post for Feb, one post for March.

Oh well.