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beamish14 wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 1:41 am including the original French-language version of Quick Change

Is Hold-Up worth seeing? I've had it in my queue for a while but can't imagine it holding up to Quick Change

I had no idea it was a remake! Great cast in it at any rate

beamish14 wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 12:48 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 12:31 am Let It Ride would be cool

God, I love that film so much. Unbelievable performances from Dreyfuss and Garr

This was fun, thanks primarily to Dreyfuss' go-for-broke perf (handily one of his best) and a rather audacious premise followed through to the end without compromise. You have to respect a film that demands you leave your expectations for a morality tale at the door and never wilts on that agenda!

I watched it again after seeing the uptick in discussion here, and mostly stand by what I wrote but I wouldn’t be hurt if Kino or someone else put it out either. The movie was a bomb but under what steam it was made at all really puts in perspective how things have changed.

The English Patient is forthcoming in 2025 according to Bill Hunt.



https://x.com/billhuntbits/status/18738 ... 22178?s=46

As it just so happens, Binoche and Fiennes were in the Criterion closet very recently. I'd been hoping foolishly that she'd been asked to talk about The Taste of Things instead for a BD and 4K release (IFC only released on DVD in the US).

If I’m not mistaken, The English Patient was previously released by Criterion as a laserdisc. I could be wrong.

They did

A movie that was so overhated in its time that it’s become underrated. Considering its budget, it looks absolutely incredible

I’m also a rare fan on this board. It’s a great ode to classic epic melodramas

crimlaw wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 1:12 am If I’m not mistaken, The English Patient was previously released by Criterion as a laserdisc. I could be wrong.

Yup

nicolas wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:01 am The English Patient is forthcoming in 2025 according to Bill Hunt.



https://x.com/billhuntbits/status/18738 ... 22178?s=46

What a weird coincidence that he announces this news right after the Closet video with Binoche and Fiennes drops, which was done as a part of the press tour they were doing for The Return. I'm not saying that they aren't going to release it but I am saying that Bill Hunt is not as credible as he used to be.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 11:03 am I'm not saying that they aren't going to release it but I am saying that Bill Hunt is not as credible as he used to be.

To be fair to Bill Hunt, he’s broken news on some Criterion titles recently. He had advance word on The Fisher King, Thelma & Louise, and No Country for Old Men before they were officially announced.

Buttery Jeb wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 5:57 pm

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 11:03 am I'm not saying that they aren't going to release it but I am saying that Bill Hunt is not as credible as he used to be.

To be fair to Bill Hunt, he’s broken news on some Criterion titles recently. He had advance word on The Fisher King, Thelma & Louise, and No Country for Old Men before they were officially announced.

He's also said that Criterion were going to release Inland Empire and Amadeus on 4K, as well as Manhunter being released by KL (even though the Insider had outright denied it multiple times).

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 6:27 pm He's also said that Criterion were going to release Inland Empire and Amadeus on 4K, as well as Manhunter being released by KL (even though the Insider had outright denied it multiple times).

Didn't remember any of those items. I thought Hunt might have speculated that Criterion might be doing Amadeus; not outright announcing Criterion would be releasing the film.

Buttery Jeb wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 7:56 pm

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 6:27 pm He's also said that Criterion were going to release Inland Empire and Amadeus on 4K, as well as Manhunter being released by KL (even though the Insider had outright denied it multiple times).

Didn't remember any of those items. I thought Hunt might have speculated that Criterion might be doing Amadeus; not outright announcing Criterion would be releasing the film.

Yes, I thought the same. Hunt also just called NCFOM.

CSM126 wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 2:48 am

crimlaw wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 1:12 am If I’m not mistaken, The English Patient was previously released by Criterion as a laserdisc. I could be wrong.

Yup

Criterion's laserdisc commentary track did later get licensed out and appeared on the mid-2000s Miramax DVD so that will hopefully reappear. Although I might be hoping for too much for the inclusion of the in my mind essential Adam & Joe stuffed toy version of the film!

(I love the English Patient, but more for the Kristin Scott-Thomas and Ralph Fiennes parts than the French bits)

nicolas wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:01 am The English Patient is forthcoming in 2025 according to Bill Hunt.



https://x.com/billhuntbits/status/18738 ... 22178?s=46

Bill Hunt mentioned on The Digital Bits yesterday that Criterion has also licensed Cold Mountain from Miramax. Here's to hoping some more less mainstream Miramax licenses will happen at some point.

How are Jackie Brown and Kill Bill still Lionsgate titles?

Buttery Jeb wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 4:51 pm

nicolas wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:01 am The English Patient is forthcoming in 2025 according to Bill Hunt.



https://x.com/billhuntbits/status/18738 ... 22178?s=46

Bill Hunt mentioned on The Digital Bits yesterday that Criterion has also licensed Cold Mountain from Miramax. Here's to hoping some more less mainstream Miramax licenses will happen at some point.

I love Cold Mountain, but that's a rather surprising announcement-- doesn't really strike me as Criterion material at all. It just got a new Blu-ray not that long ago too. They really are leaning into Shout's model these days, aren't they

I wouldn’t say that the film’s latest Blu-Ray release year of 2012 is not that long ago though unless there’s a newer release I have no idea about.

Paramount put it out in 2021. It may be a port, but it's still a recent release

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 4:59 pm How are Jackie Brown and Kill Bill still Lionsgate titles?

The rights reverted to Tarantino and he licensed thevfilms to Lionsgate.

English Patient and Cold Mountain? I'm in. Might even buy them and increase my physical media holdings by 20%. The kind of movies I went to the movies for when I was a kid instead of the current environment of going to the movies and seeing nothing but fucking video games.

Cold Mountain might be because they’ve been seemingly in a bit of a Nicole Kidman mood these past two years.