Re: Criterion Discussion and Random Speculation Volume 7
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:05 pm
No, he's getting a box set of three movies
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doubtful they'd do both like that.dwk wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:37 pm Why not both? Koker Trilogy early in the year and big set in November.
On the website of "MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA DI VENEZIA" appeared the list of recently restored movies, two of them are in collaboration with Criterion, here they are:
MORTE A VENEZIA (Death in Venice)
di LUCHINO VISCONTI (Italia, Francia, USA, 1971, 130’ , Colore)
restauro: Cineteca di Bologna e Istituto Luce - Cinecittà in collaborazione con Warner Bros. e *The Criterion Collection*
I'm very excited about this news!!!Noodles1984 wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 2:32 pm Yes, it's very OOP, the biggest hope is to have, as i said before, Visconti German Trilogy Box...for a lot of reasons..The Damned is from MGM/Warner, it's OOP and even in Europe the Dvd is in bad quality often censored and rare, it was restored years ago by Cineteca but the restoration was never published(i don't know if 2k or 4k),then we have the OOP Death in Venice and Ludwig, published in a great blu release by Arrow...there is also the first movie of the director, Ossessione, now restored in 4k, the last dvd is great but a blu is necessary.
I assume this means they at least have the rights to Police Story 2 then? Would any other quality films (Chan or otherwise) come from the same licensor / deal?The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:49 pmForgot to include it with the original post. If you follow their posts, you'll see that they were trying to figure out the rights for a few weeks.yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:24 pmDo you have a link?The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:14 pm I think everyone is too distracted with theoretical box sets to care, but according to someone on the Blu-ray.com forums (hell on Earth, I know), someone curious about the rights to Jackie Chan's Police Story did a bit of sleuthing and claims that Janus Films owns the rights to it following the 4K restoration that played at MoMA.
Sure, but I don't know how much of a one. But, we'll see what happens next year.domino harvey wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:47 pm Do you really see no commercial difference between these two?
Yes, part 3 is still with Miramax and part 4 is with Warner Brothers. Fortune Star ( click here if you want to see what other films they own, but, again, some of these are already owned by other companies in the US) only did new 4K restorations for the following:Minkin wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 1:24 am I see that Criterion released Super Cop "Police Story 3" on Laserdisc - so that might explain things (would this still be tied up with Miramax?). I wonder how many of the films in the series that they plan to release? Just the four original films? Include the Michelle Yeoh spin-off? The two reboot films? Its an interesting development.
Disappointed that 'The Killer' hasn't gotten a 2K or 4K restoration but happy that 'A Better Tomorrow' has gotten one. Will it be released in NA soon?dwk wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 1:46 pmSure, but I don't know how much of a one. But, we'll see what happens next year.domino harvey wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:47 pm Do you really see no commercial difference between these two?
Yes, part 3 is still with Miramax and part 4 is with Warner Brothers. Fortune Star ( click here if you want to see what other films they own, but, again, some of these are already owned by other companies in the US) only did new 4K restorations for the following:Minkin wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 1:24 am I see that Criterion released Super Cop "Police Story 3" on Laserdisc - so that might explain things (would this still be tied up with Miramax?). I wonder how many of the films in the series that they plan to release? Just the four original films? Include the Michelle Yeoh spin-off? The two reboot films? Its an interesting development.
Police Story 1-3
A Better Tomorrow
the Bruce Lee catalog
Once Upon a Time in China 1-3 (I think Sony has these in the US)
They did new 2K restorations of these:
A Chinese Ghost Story
Running Out of Time
Running Out of Time 2
The Story of Riki
The Adventurers
Iron Monkey (this is probably still with Miramax)
Black Mask (Lionsgate)
Black Mast 2
The Cannonball RUn
Battle Creek BRAWL
Armour of God (Miramax)
City Hunter
Project A (Miramax)
Project A 2 (Miramax)
Wheels on Meals
Once Upon a Time in China and America
Dr. Wai in "The Scriptures with No Words"
Agreed. There's always been something of a special relationship between Janus Films as a company and Bergman, going back to (IIRC) distributing THE SEVENTH SEAL. So a Bergman box makes sense in the context of the company's history in a way that other filmmakers don't, except maybe Kurosawa, who not coincidentally got the AK100 set.MongooseCmr wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:30 pm I wouldn’t bank too hard on special anniversaries for box sets going forward. Harold Lloyd’s 125th birthday was last April, and since they’re clearly not rushing to give his films individual releases anymore I would guess the inevitable box set isn’t being timed for this year either.
If these “[auteur]’s cinema” filmography “books” become a thing, I could see them issuing an annual one for the canonical art house filmmakers hat make up criterions cornerstone editions like Kurosawa, ozu, Truffaut and Welles. Such a set of five or six of these “books” would be quite striking, and a good way to push out some of the languishing back catalog films.dwk wrote:I'd add Truffaut to the list of important to the company filmmakers. Hell, Criterion's softball team is/was named after him (True Foes)
Shoot. I shouldn't have caved and bought the Arrow release earlier this year.