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beamish14 wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:36 am

ShempTCat wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:06 am I also love Pee-Wee and would be thrilled to have Criterion release it. It is also probably the only reasonable Tim Burton film they could release since Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands are both owned by Disney.

Mars Attacks! would like a word

Hud - world premiere restoration
"DCP courtesy of Paramount Pictures Archive and Janus Films."

FrauBlucher wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 9:31 pm Coming to the Collection...

per the TCM Film Festival

Hud - world premiere restoration
"DCP courtesy of Paramount Pictures Archive and Janus Films."

crimlaw wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 2:56 pm I wonder when we’ll finally see the long rumored Catch 22 enter the collection.

Elizabeth Corday wrote:I am distressed. I fear we will never get the Kinuyo Tanaka boxset. It sounds silly I know. I am hoping though, with the success of shows like Shogun, games like Assassin's Creed Shadows, etc that Criterion realizes Japanese media is currently in vogue.

Elizabeth Corday wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:09 pm I am distressed. I fear we will never get the Kinuyo Tanaka boxset. It sounds silly I know. I am hoping though, with the success of shows like Shogun, games like Assassin's Creed Shadows, etc that Criterion realizes Japanese media is currently in vogue.

• His job starts once the title has been chosen and scheduled and is typically assigned to a particular title
• Commentaries are now starting to come back after focusing on video pieces for years
• Some living filmmakers don’t want commentary tracks and just want essays
• If doing interviews with people involved with the film, then they want there to be a bit of distance of time between the interview and from when it was released. If interviewed close to the release date, then the interviewee is still in press mode and gives the same answers they did when they were on the press tour
• For GvB, Toho is very controlling of Godzilla and want to know what is being said on the commentary
• One of the criteria for the commentator is that they are inviting and that they can provide information that can be digested for people watching it for the first time
• They create a script for the film, then send it to Toho’s Godzilla expert, the expert goes over the script, and they cannot deviate from that script
• This is the same for the liner notes
• Says he’s a fan of labels like Third Window and Radiance. Specifically praises Adam from Third Window for renegotiating contracts so that the people involved with the film get more money, as well as releasing titles that haven’t been released since VHS
• Also praises the The Hitcher release from Second Sight and says he watched it with a colleague at the Criterion viewing room
• One challenging title to work on was the Equinox due to the internal workload (e.g. QC, editorial process), but he still had a lot of fun working on it
• Another challenging release to work on was Barry Lyndon due to the scale of the work and how much time he was allowed. He created a lot of video pieces that had to be cut down, as well as getting access Stanley Kubrick’s library but not getting full approval by the estate on what images to add to the release
• All the extras had to be approved by Jan Harlan
• He worked at Kubrick’s house and was mandatory lunch at 12:30 together
• Dining room table is The Shining table
• Most proud release to work on was Rumble Fish, and said biggest challenge was trying to create extras that wouldn’t duplicate from the extras that already existed
• They don’t add extensive galleries anymore since the images are already added to visual essays
• Joe Lynch was the biggest reason why Shout released The Blob, as he kept asking them to do it
• There is a limit now on how many titles guests can take when they are in the Closet
• Dream release for Curtis is for Devil’s Temple by Kenji Misumi and would be thrilled if he could have a hand in the restoration for it

crimlaw wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:04 pm No Quarantined Monthly Forum for July?

domino harvey wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 6:45 pm That's a Janus Contemporary title, they always get announced separate from the mainline releases. We have a thread going here for it