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onedimension wrote:

ryannichols7 wrote:for what it's all worth, Ryan just posted trailers from Lord of the Flies and Band of Outsiders. I know he says take everything he says lightly, but knowing these two titles were probably on the way as upgrades...makes a ton of sense.

Huh. Could've sworn 'Band..' was a Studiocanal/Lionsgate?

It's Gaumont.

This surely means nothing, but That Hamilton Woman is the only non-Eclipse ITV Global Entertainment licensed film yet to get upgraded to Blu. It's obviously a post-#450 title, of which we've only seen one upgrade (The Last Days of Disco), but with Colonel Blimp announced I wouldn't be shocked to see it released in 2013-14.

Well, Criterion has posted two Guillermo del Toro things on facebook recently, so I'm gonna guess

Devil's Backbone
Peter Weir box set
Wild Strawberries Blu
Band of Outsiders Blu
Lord of the Flies upgrade
Pierre Etaix

I will guess:

Band of Outsiders blu
Lord of the Flies blu
Schizopolis blu
The Soft Skin
Repo Man
Wild Strawberries / Y Tu Mama Tambien boxed set that when you open it contains a disc-shaped IOU

but That Hamilton Woman is the only non-Eclipse ITV Global Entertainment licensed film yet to get upgraded to Blu.

Just off the top of my head there is also Great Expectations/Oliver Twist and Canterbury Tale /49th Parallel/Thief of Bagdad don't forget -yet to get upgrades..there may be more but can't recall at the moment..

Regarding Troell, I had heard that Criterion picked up the rights to Here's Your Life (1966) after the restoration played at Telluride and elsewhere. If "more Troell is in the works" is the only hint that points toward The Emigrants and The New Land, then they could have meant the earlier film instead.

I haven't done this before, but why not:

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Repo Man
The Soft Skin
Grey Gardens BD
Summertime BD
Eclipse Etaix

Where are all the prognostications for THE SOFT SKIN coming from? Was there a recent announcement?

All bets are off today. We're going to get a very late announcement, possibly not even until tomorrow cuz they're at last minute pulling together in an Oshima at ATG eclipse set to fit in...

Please tell me you're not joking.

Boy
Death By Hanging
The Sun's Burial
Cruel Story Of Youth
Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief
Taboo (wishful thinking, though New Yorker will probably never get this out on blu)
The Man Who Put His Will On Film (more likely)

Swap Cruel Story with Night and Fog, and Taboo with The Ceremony. Then it becomes my dream boxset.

knives wrote:Please tell me you're not joking.

Not joking. Just saying what I would do today if I was them. Plus I don't think that it's too far out of the realm of possiblity, since Eclipse doesn't demand any planning for extras.

Even if they had planned on announcing some Oshima films I imagine that would be postponed. Criterion would more than likely want to avoid being seen as crass, exploitative, or attempting to "cash in" so close to the director's death.

It'd be totally impossible for them to announce a release on a moment's notice. Even with no extras and less work done on the transfers, Criterion still have to design covers, get marketing copy and announcements/listings prepared, etc. etc. The only way they could do a release like that is if they had been working toward it anyway.

Which is exactly what I was assuming since Boy is up on Hulu and The Ceremony, Death by Hanging and The Man Who Left his Will on Film are all Janus properties...

That leaves at least one film off though for a complete set.

@jwd5275: I guess I misunderstood what you meant by pulling a set together at the last minute. The idea of it is tantalizing, and I'd welcome it anytime.

Steven H wrote:Criterion would more than likely want to avoid being seen as crass, exploitative, or attempting to "cash in" so close to the director's death.

Totally agree. In fact, I would think that if they had BOY or an Oshima Eclipse set planned for today, they'd think twice about announcing it for that very reason.

knives wrote:That leaves at least one film off though for a complete set.

If you're talking about Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, I think that's always going to be an odd one out, since it's not entirely an ATG film but was co-produced with the Kinokuniya Book Store. Lord only knows what kind of rights complication that represents.

Unless you mean Dear Summer Sister.

jwd5275 wrote:Which is exactly what I was assuming since Boy is up on Hulu and The Ceremony, Death by Hanging and The Man Who Left his Will on Film are all Janus properties...

Surely they wouldn't relegate those titles to Eclipse. They all deserve main line releases. (Night and Fog in Japan, The Sun's Burial and Cruel Story of Youth are also up on Hulu.)

zedz wrote:

knives wrote:That leaves at least one film off though for a complete set.

If you're talking about Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, I think that's always going to be an odd one out, since it's not entirely an ATG film but was co-produced with the Kinokuniya Book Store. Lord only knows what kind of rights complication that represents.

Unless you mean Dear Summer Sister.

I meant the later.

filmyfan wrote:

but That Hamilton Woman is the only non-Eclipse ITV Global Entertainment licensed film yet to get upgraded to Blu.

Just off the top of my head there is also Great Expectations/Oliver Twist and Canterbury Tale /49th Parallel/Thief of Bagdad don't forget -yet to get upgrades..there may be more but can't recall at the moment..

You know what I did? I forgot about the films that have the DVDs licensed from Rank/Carlton and Granada but would presently be licensed by ITV Global for new editions.

ptatler wrote:

Steven H wrote:Criterion would more than likely want to avoid being seen as crass, exploitative, or attempting to "cash in" so close to the director's death.

Totally agree. In fact, I would think that if they had BOY or an Oshima Eclipse set planned for today, they'd think twice about announcing it for that very reason.

I know I hate it when companies cash in on artists' deaths by making high-quality editions of their work more available than ever!