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I kinda hope it's for Marie Antoinette instead.

Luke M wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:06 am I kinda hope it's for Marie Antoinette instead.

Sony released it as part of the Choice Collection, so I doubt it’s going to any US distributor since they’ve relegated it to their own boutique line.

Chocolat and Beau Travail are screening courtesy of Janus at the American Cinematheque next month. Not sure if we already knew that they were Janus titles?

ianungstad wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:10 am Chocolat and Beau Travail are screening courtesy of Janus at the American Cinematheque next month. Not sure if we already knew that they were Janus titles?

Secrets and Lies as well!

ianungstad wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:10 am Chocolat and Beau Travail are screening courtesy of Janus at the American Cinematheque next month. Not sure if we already knew that they were Janus titles?

I'd prefer I Can't Sleep, Friday Night or Trouble Every Day to Chocolate, but bring on Beau Travail!

This is far too exciting news to not have a link, y'all!

http://www.americancinemathequecalendar ... nts?page=4

I guess this is part of the reason why people transplant to places like L.A., Seattle, et al., huh?

Absolutely excited for Beau Travail!

Do you, guys, think there could be a Denis boxset in the making, similar to 4 by Agnes Varda (which they should hurry and upgrade to Blu already)?

It would be more exciting if these involved 4K restorations. I’ve been hoping to replace my Beau Travail and Secrets & Lies dvd’s With Criterion editions for a while now, however I’d be a little less enthusiastic if it were just “new HD transfers” of the same old prints.

I’m sure these will be 2k/4K transfers when they are released on home video. But like the New Beverly, the American Cinematheque likes to show prints (whenever possible and depending on the quality of the prints). When I saw COME AND SEE, which was listed as a Janus Films title, they showed an older Kino Lorber film print.

The current R1 DVD of Beau Travail (Strand?) is so atrocious I can't even bear to watch it, so a Criterion edition would be welcome.

The schedule for the 2019 San Francisco Silent Film Festival features Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN, a "4k digital restoration undertaken by The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros. and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna."

Will Keaton finally be joining the Criterion Collection?

Roscoe wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2019 12:52 pm The schedule for the 2019 San Francisco Silent Film Festival features Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN, a "4k digital restoration undertaken by The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros. and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna."

Will Keaton finally be joining the Criterion Collection?

Fantastic news! One of my favorite Keaton films and the perfect way to finally include him in the collection.

The Wedding March has also been restored, wasn't that a title confirmed to be released by Criterion years ago?

To echo domino Harvey's comments about To Sleep with Anger a bit: Jonathan Demme's Citizens Band, aka Handle with Care, while not as great as To Sleep with Anger, is absolutely one of the very best American films of the 1970s, for me (and John Simon!) easily in the top 10, and has actually been even more underrecognized and underseen all its sad little life than TSWA, and so if Criterion were to release it, it would absolutely be one of the best things they've ever done. Go for it Criterion!!!

Glowingwabbit wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:07 pm

Roscoe wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2019 12:52 pm The schedule for the 2019 San Francisco Silent Film Festival features Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN, a "4k digital restoration undertaken by The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros. and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna."

Will Keaton finally be joining the Criterion Collection?

Fantastic news! One of my favorite Keaton films and the perfect way to finally include him in the collection.

The director, Edward Sedgwick had a phantom page, so we assumed eventually this would come. Being this will be the only Keaton (unless CC gets Spite Marriage) in the Collection this should be loaded to the gills with extras.

There's a placeholder page for La Main du Diable. Has this always been here?

Me, talking? Hello? Citizens Band? Hello, is anyone there? Could anyone be a dear and say whether the film has been restored? I couldn't find any info about any such thing on Google.

Titles are up:
Swing Time
L'humanite
La vie de Jesus
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
War and Peace

EDIT: And The Faith Trilogy upgrade, which wasn't there when I originally checked.

RIP an Astaire/Rogers box

Lowry_Sam wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:57 pm It would be more exciting if these involved 4K restorations. I’ve been hoping to replace my ... Secrets & Lies dvd’s With Criterion editions for a while now, however I’d be a little less enthusiastic if it were just “new HD transfers” of the same old prints.

There's already an HD master for Secrets and Lies that was issued on a budget-priced Blu-Ray in the UK. (It's one of the reasons why I got a region-free BD player - I sold the U.S. DVD for more than $50, so "upgrading" to the UK BD alone essentially paid for the region-free modification.) It's a good master, but it wasn't made from a 4K transfer.

It looks like the 146-minute documentary "Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie" is not included in the Faith Trilogy upgrade. Unless the listing is incorrect. It was included in the original DVD box set and as a bonus feature on the "Winter Light" blu-ray disc in the "Bergman's Cinema" box set.

It’s listed under the special features.

Minkin wrote: 246 Blu upgrades remain.

I think they were at around spine 450 when they started making Blu-ray, so with June’s 5 spines upgraded, that puts their total upgrades at around 200 spines overall.

Give it another year and criterion will be halfway done

We're not counting all the Bergman films as being upgraded?

In terms of reaching the upcoming inevitable (but totally just a rumor) LD 1&2 upgrades of Citizen Kane / King Kong as spine 1000 & 1001 milestone releases:

Assuming they want to hit the milestone in November, there are 16 spines left to spread out over four months.

That’s easy, four new releases each in July-October makes the last October release spine 999.

But that would probably mean no koker trilogy in those four months because it would be four spines by itself and wouldn’t be the only new release in any of those months.

On the other hand, if their pace in the next three announcements exceeds 4 new releases, we could see them pre-announce spine 1000 Citizen Kane (before the October releases are announced )with a separate press release trumpeting the milestone, (much like both the olympics set and ingmar bergmans cinema were both pre announced in separate press releases trumpeting then.)