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McCabe & Mrs Miller phantom pages are up.

Phantom pages for Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words are up.

And A Taste of Honey and Chimes at Midnight

doh286 wrote:Phantom pages for Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words are up.

Would this be for Gaslight? A Notorious upgrade?

I can't see them adding this to a Renoir: Stage and Spectacle upgrade.

They should upgrade Bergman’s trilogy! It’s overdue!

The Immortal Story is there too...

FakeBonanza wrote:

doh286 wrote:Phantom pages for Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words are up.

Would this be for Gaslight? A Notorious upgrade?

I can't see them adding this to a Renoir: Stage and Spectacle upgrade.

If Notorious then Criterion got back the MGM/Selznick titles which would be great.

Our local art house is having a mini Ingrid Berman festival this summer, with the titles being Journey to Italy, Autumn Sonata, Casablanca, and Gaslight, accompanying that documentary- given that two of the movies are already with Criterion and that one of them is Casablanca, I'd bet it's for Gaslight.

ellipsis7 wrote:The Immortal Story is there too...

Surely this will be included as a supplement for Chimes at Midnight. Do we think the Ingrid Bergman doc will be a mainline release?

McNulty wrote:

ellipsis7 wrote:The Immortal Story is there too...

Do we think the Ingrid Bergman doc will be a mainline release?

Doubtful. It's almost certainly going to be an extra feature. I don't see them going back to the Bergman Island-type cheapo separate release strategy again (if it were viable they surely would have done so for Liv & Ingmar, for one example).

CSM126 wrote:

McNulty wrote:

ellipsis7 wrote:The Immortal Story is there too...

Do we think the Ingrid Bergman doc will be a mainline release?

Doubtful. It's almost certainly going to be an extra feature. I don't see them going back to the Bergman Island-type cheapo separate release strategy again (if it were viable they surely would have done so for Liv & Ingmar, for one example).

Agreed and hopefully you're right because the possibilities here are tantalizing.

McNulty wrote:

ellipsis7 wrote:The Immortal Story is there too...

Surely this will be included as a supplement for Chimes at Midnight.

Based on what I have read about the film on this forum, isn't The Immortal Story more likely a separate release, with different versions and extras (The Dreamers footage?), instead of being attached to another film as an bonus feature? Chimes and Immortal may well be the twofer releases Criterion used to do a lot.

andyli wrote:

McNulty wrote:

ellipsis7 wrote:The Immortal Story is there too...

Surely this will be included as a supplement for Chimes at Midnight.

Based on what I have read about the film on this forum, isn't The Immortal Story more likely a separate release, with different versions and extras (The Dreamers footage?), instead of being attached to another film as an bonus feature? Chimes and Immortal may well be the twofer releases Criterion used to do a lot.

I assume because of the runtime (60 mins) that it would be, perhaps Chimes will be a 2 disc set? Or maybe a The Killing/Killer's Kiss, Close-Up/The Traveler, etc type release? Nonetheless, it's not unprecedented that a short feature receives a standalone release, like A Day in the Country.

Strictly from a commercial standpoint, I'd be shocked if the market for Immortal Story as a standalone exists. Chimes has a lot going for it: many perceive it to be his masterpiece and it was sorely underseen for decades. There's a reason to seek it out. Immortal Story is for Welles-die hards, and any extras about unreleased footage from that era is as well.

The thing is tho, that I would think anyway that there is a ton of stuff, pre-existing and not, that could be added as extras to a Chimes at Midnight release, without benefit of The Immortal Story. Hmm!

And I think Criterion sometimes releases things that they know won't make any money. I think the question is, is Immortal Story a significant/good enough film to merit a stand-alone release.

Randall Maysin wrote:And I think Criterion sometimes releases things that they know won't make any money. I think the question is, is Immortal Story a significant/good enough film to merit a stand-alone release.

I think Immortal Story is a great film, though not as great as most of Welles' true feature-length films. It was part of a planned series that got scrapped. Chimes with a new commentary, Immortal as a bonus film, and a good visual essay would be a superb double-disc release.

What are the chances of it being included on a set of Othello and Chimes at Midnight? I'd be very surprised if Othello and Chimes weren't sequential spines at the least.

Where will Too Much Johnson end up?

FrauBlucher wrote:Where will Too Much Johnson end up?

More importantly, who exactly has the rights to Too Much Johnson?

Black Girl
Blow Up
Pans Labyrinth
Blood Simple
The Whale and the Squid

Boyhood
Camera Buff
Cat People
War Trilogy

Left-field guess: Time After Time

last month lacritfan wrote:Cat People
Dragon Inn
The Squid and the Whale
Exterminating Angel Blu

0 for 4 so why not try again.

Blood Simple
Boyhood
Dreams (one of them, at least)
Heart of a Dog
Story of Last Chrysanthemums
Made in USA / 2 or 3 Things upgrades

Pan's Labyrinth
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
Black Girl

War Trilogy
Written on the Wind

Long shot:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off