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Does Joshua Goldberg post here?

I think Barmy was his nom de plume.

Whatever it was, he's certainly annoying.

I asked this @ Facebook:

I still haven't purchased THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST because of its eventual BD release - will you guys consider it?

Their reply:

Yes.

Right. But later someone asked:

"Any chance for a Bresson (Mouchette, Diary Country Priest, Balthazar) box set, maybe a blu-ray upgrade? I know all are released individually. Honest recommendation whether I should spring for them now or wait for a potential blu-ray release, I know Bresson might not be highest on the list so that's why I ask."

And they responded with:

"There are 500 titles in the collection at the moment. If we manage to get a couple of catalog Blu-rays into every month on top of our new release slate, it would take us 20 years to get to them all. We're trying to ramp up our capacity, but if you want to see these films, waiting is not going to be a good strategy."

Granted, LToC is probably on a higher priority schedule due to it being so well known, but them saying they'll consider it for an eventual Blu-ray release is a bit vague, and possibly not soon. (Though an Easter release would be an interesting cross promotion....)

In response to Ian, Criterion wrote:We do love our Don Siegel...

I really hope this hints at something. Of course INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS would be Criterion's first choice, but Universal's THE BEGUILED and CHARLEY VARRICK are both OOP and eminently worthy of their attention as well. An HD transfer of THE BEGUILED already exists and Universal only saw fit to release CHARLEY VARRICK in a hideously cropped full frame edition (now going for $100 on Amazon!).

Someone asked:

Belle du jour?

Criterion responded

Shhh...

I take that as good news.

CSM126 wrote:I take that as good news.

As do I! [-o<

I hope so. I have the Alliance disc (which is a port of the Miramax) and it's dreadful. The "bilingual" packaging is also one of the funnier ones I've come across: Alliance places the title twice on the cover, once is supposed to be the English text, the other is supposed to be the French text, and both say "Belle du jour". Good job!

Criterion says that neither Cronos or Stagecoach will be ready for March, and "...we have high hopes that we'll make a killing with some Kubrick some day."

In a reply to someones Naruse enquiry Criterion have asked what titles people think should be released.

Get your asses over there pronto!!!

(Paul) Cox blocked.

"Sorry, but no."

Well, they said that The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was a "very long longshot," so I'm bummed.

Peacock wrote:In a reply to someones Naruse enquiry Criterion have asked what titles people think should be released.

Get your asses over there pronto!!!

What day was this posted and by whom? I've been looking for it for 10 minutes.

Yesterday at 12.23

George Papamarg (who I believe is a poster here)
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The Naruse and Gosha hints are music to my ears.

Flike wrote: "...we have high hopes that we'll make a killing with some Kubrick some day."

Bah, I just bought this from DD, so I guess you're welcome everyone Still great news if the hint means something is actually in the works.

DanV wrote:The Naruse and Gosha hints are music to my ears.

If they're just now asking for Naruse title suggestions, it means they've barely begun work on releasing anything. It will probably be a minimum of a year from now before we see another Naruse title from Criterion.

brendanjc wrote:

Flike wrote: "...we have high hopes that we'll make a killing with some Kubrick some day."

Bah, I just bought this from DD, so I guess you're welcome everyone Still great news if the hint means something is actually in the works.

looks like we double-teamed it. still, the $6 i spent is worth getting a criterion edition....

Matt wrote:

DanV wrote:The Naruse and Gosha hints are music to my ears.

If they're just now asking for Naruse title suggestions, it means they've barely begun work on releasing anything. It will probably be a minimum of a year from now before we see another Naruse title from Criterion.

No, i think they are preparing more than one Naruse set, probably an Eclipse set plus mainline titles.

perkizitore wrote:

Matt wrote:

DanV wrote:The Naruse and Gosha hints are music to my ears.

If they're just now asking for Naruse title suggestions, it means they've barely begun work on releasing anything. It will probably be a minimum of a year from now before we see another Naruse title from Criterion.

No, i think they are preparing more than one Naruse set, probably an Eclipse set plus mainline titles.

That's fine as a speculation, but I didn't read any eidence of that in their posts. They called Naruse Eclipse a "credible guess," for March, and then asked other people's preferences for Naruse. That could just be chit-chat!

Ben Cheshire wrote:

perkizitore wrote:

Matt wrote:If they're just now asking for Naruse title suggestions, it means they've barely begun work on releasing anything. It will probably be a minimum of a year from now before we see another Naruse title from Criterion.

No, i think they are preparing more than one Naruse set, probably an Eclipse set plus mainline titles.

That's fine as a speculation, but I didn't read any evidence of that in their posts. They called Naruse Eclipse a "credible guess," for March, and then asked other people's preferences for Naruse. That could just be chit-chat!

I was just being sarcastic

sounds like one of us needs to take control of this company and clean it up.

aox wrote:sounds like one of us needs to take control of this company and clean it up.

I doubt that anyone with such a large banking account is posting here!

Too bad C.F. Kane went into another media enterprise.