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Ovader wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 4:19 am I was checking out Criterion's Oshima page and Diary of a Shinjuku Thief is listed as part of the Criterion Channel amongst the previously released DVDs/Blu-rays. News to me but perhaps not to anyone else?

FrauBlucher wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:58 am I had no idea about the Wayback Machine. Really cool. Oh well. I could've sworn I had not seen those pages before.

Anyway, Roger Deakins will be interviewing Lee Kline on his next Team Deakins podcast. I'm sure will get some news out of this.
So many great Deakins shot films that would be worthy Criterion releases. I personally would love to see The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford or Coens' A Serious Man

Ribs wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:06 pm When they discussed the idea of a 4K restoration pipeline, Kline threw out Seven Samurai as an example but it's not clear if it was literally that it's happening or if it was just an example of a canonical movie. It comes up repeatedly so I can't help but shake the idea it might be on his mind due to them working on it again.

Ribs wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:06 pm The Lee Kline interview is now available - mostly a pretty technical discussion about past releases. When they discussed the idea of a 4K restoration pipeline, Kline threw out Seven Samurai as an example but it's not clear if it was literally that it's happening or if it was just an example of a canonical movie. It comes up repeatedly so I can't help but shake the idea it might be on his mind due to them working on it again. He also mentioned they are interested in doing "a Bollywood box" of around ten titles but they have been talking to experts and etc to figure out what titles would be best to include in such a thing. Repeats the release of Amores Perros as happening. He says the Man Who Wasn't There is on the schedule (and has been for a while) but they haven't gotten to it at all yet. He says Criterion is "ready" to do 4K releases but still lists the same caveats he has in the past - I'm not sure if this indicates that they're definitely happening in the near future, but it seems a little more encouraging than it has in the past.

There's a good story about the Eraserhead fade error that David Lynch watched their restoration ten times and didn't catch it and when it released and they pointed it out to him Lynch responded essentially "oops, guess that's how it will look now!"

FrauBlucher wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:14 am This was really a good listen. His telling about The Lady Eve was interesting. Becker forced Kline to go ahead and restore the film without Kline having a satisfying print which he had been looking for for a very long time. He said it's good but not the best it can be. Anyone into film restorations will enjoy listening to this.

cdnchris wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2020 11:56 pm Look a couple of posts up...

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider View Post
Eva, Les Bonnes Femmes and a couple of others were released by KL through Studiocanal. Both are part of the separate Hakim Brothers library SC represents, which includes Belle De Jour and Purple Noon. The whole library is with Criterion, so they may get to it one day.

The Ginsberg deal was a direct deal with him, we lost the rights a long time ago and have no current plans of re-releasing it.