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FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:16 pm Wishlist....

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pepe Lo Moko
Coup de Torchon
Paterson
Shoplifters
There Will Be Blood

A guess...
Some kind of box or collection in time for the B&N sale. Maybe an Eustache set

Le Samourai 4K (because I just bought Pathe's French disc on fnac)
Godzilla 1954 4K
Trouble in Paradise BD
The Mission 4K & BD
Classe tous risques BD
Birth (2004) BD

Now watch me being wrong about all of those!

EDIT: swapped Buster Scruggs out for Godzilla 1954

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid UHD
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs UHD
How to get Ahead in Advertising
King Lear
Eastern Condors

Sick of the normie shit they’re putting out lately, they will next month release the “Matt gets to upgrade some DVDs” collection:

Jacques Nolot’s La chatte à deux têtes
Sébastien Lifshitz’s Wild Side
Gaël Morel’s Le clan [Three Dancing Slaves]
Marina de Van’s In My Skin
Erick Zonca’s The Dreamlife of Angels and Le petit voleur

Atlantics UHD
So This is Paris
Some other normie shit — what’s NEON got? Pig?
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (UHD Upgrade)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Upgrade)
Trouble in Paradise (Upgrade)

Killers of the Flower Moon 4K
Le Samouraï 4K
Jean Eustache Set
Born in Flames
Trouble in Paradise Upgrade

Atlantics [UHD]
May December [UHD]
Bound [UHD]
Playtime [UHD]
The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache

The Elephant Man (1980) 4K UHD upgrade
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
Monster (2003) 4K UHD
Perfect Days (2023)
Winchester '73 (1950)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (upgrade)
Bad Timing (upgrade)
The Taste of Things
The Hand of God
Eustache box

Godzilla Minus One UHD
Bound UHD
Dead Man UHD upgrade
Happiness
Bunuel in Mexico box set

I wonder if we'll see FWWM this soon because the European editions were supposed to be out in late 2023 and already got postponed twice. The first delay probably had to do with there being a fix required for the film's restored master file but now at least the German edition got delayed again until late October which led some people on BR.com to speculate that Criterion asked for everyone else's release to be concurrent with theirs, which if true, is probably because they don't want US-based customers splurge on the French or German steelbooks instead and forego the domestic version. Which, if I'm honest, I might because the French steelbook looks very nice (and I usually do not go for steelbooks!) and I'm not keen on Fred Davis's changes to the theatrical poster's font design etc.

Atlantics 4K
Pratidwandi
My Sex Life, or How I Got Into an Argument
Eustache box
They All Laughed 4K
Blue Velvet 4K upgrade

The Lovers on the Bridge 4K

Laurie Anderson Home of the Brave

Back Doors to Hell: Two Noirs by Richard Fleischer (Armored Car Robbery and The Narrow Margin)

Shirkers

Taboo (1999)

MV88 wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:39 am Dead Man UHD upgrade

I like your thinking! Dead Man would be a lovely UHD upgrade so long as the right person at NewSpex gets assigned the encode.

Godzilla Minus One might not be available within the US for a while due to a contract Toho have with Legendary who've got their own new Godzilla movie from Adam Wingard coming up very soon and supposedly Toho agreed upfront that Minus One would be out of theaters and not available on home video while Legendary's version was in theaters. Toho didn't expect Minus One to do as well as it did in the US (better than in their own market, even).

I did not put a 4K for Godzilla 1954 in my predictions this month which probably means that it's going to be announced in a few days. But I absolutely would not complain: Japanese imports are hideously expensive, Toho's UHD isn't English-friendly and I can't be bothered to have to add SRT files.

edit: fuck it, I'm swapping Buster Scruggs for Godzilla.

Paramount/Criterion wishlist:

Hud UHD
Visconti’s The Stanger ‘67
Catch 22 UHD
Paper Moon UHD
Real Life

Bunuel in Mexico box-set
North by Northwest UHD
Le Jour Se Leve blu ray
Hard Eight UHD
Jubilee upgrade

And I know this might not ever happen, but as the Olympics are coming up...

Olympia with a LOT of historical context

Treasure Of The Sierra Madre 4K
The White Ribbon 4K
Circle Of Deceit
Eat Drink Man Woman
Secret Honor (upgrade)

Doing all pride month guesses knowing some will be wrong

Dog Day Afternoon 4K
Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy 4K
Farewell My Concubine 4K
Born in Flames
Chocolate Babies

Buster Scruggs (4K)
The Man Who Wasn't There (4K)
Smoke/Blue in the Face (4K)
Pressure (1976)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (4K)

The Proposition
Winchester ‘73
Ikarie XB-1
The Deep
Body Double
Peter Bogdanovich box set

Trouble in Paradise Upgrade
Tanaka Box
The Wind Will Carry Us
Querelle
Da 5 Bloods

PANDORA'S BOX Blu at long last....?
DOG DAY AFTERNOON 4K upgrade
Oshima's BOY, please
THE WEDDING MARCH
CHILDREN OF MEN

On The Waterfront - (Upgrade) - UHD
Dog Day Afternoon - UHD
Pink Floyd: The Wall - UHD
Roger & Me
Spellbound - (Upgrade)

The Lacemaker (Goretta)
Nothing Lasts Forever (Schiller)
Head-On (Akin)
Dracula 2000 4K (Lucier)
Coffret Alain Tanner (Tanner '88)

& a Tracy Letts at-home Closet Picks.