Forthcoming Criterion & Criterion Channel Titles
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:07 pm
Here is a list of titles expected to be forthcoming from Criterion according to various forms of communication: be that through announcements, newsletters (the one at the end of each month), emails, blogs, websites, social media, and non-official sources with valuable creditability. Please see Criterion's own site for titles already announced, but not yet released.
Criterion announces new titles at their website, http://www.criterion.com on the 15th of every month, unless that date falls on a weekend, holiday, or there is just a delay.
Even if a film is listed below, this list is not an indicator that the film will be announced immediately. Criterion releases are often held up by a multitude of factors: restorations, director approval, supplements, cover art, etc. Expecting or demanding that a certain film be announced at a certain time is a fruitless endeavor. It is better to wait and enjoy the titles that have been announced, so that the film you are hoping for can receive the best edition possible. You should not see this list as 100% guaranteed confirmation of anything, as things can and do change, even when a film has already been announced officially (see Contempt + Ran blu-rays).
This forthcoming list is grouped by the source of information. Generally, the list trends downwards (separated by "-------") in terms of strength of information, source, and immediacy / expectation of announcement.
If you have any information regarding a film addition to the list, corrections, broken links, or if you just feel like chatting about Criterion forthcoming speculation - please send me a private message.
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Newsletter: (Based on the best/most agreed upon interpretation of the clue)
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Janus Films touring -Official Janus tour, different than simply playing somewhere with a Janus logo.
L'Atalante (possible redux edition??)
Compensation
El
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Flow
Il Grido
Thank You and Good Night
Chaplin:
First National shorts
The Pilgrim (1923)
Woman of Paris (1923)
King in New York (1958)
Kiarostami Retrospective:
The Bread and Alley
Breaktime
Case No. 1, Case No. 2
The Chorus
The Colors
The Experience
Fellow Citizen
First Graders
How to Make Use of Leisure Time
Orderly or Disorderly
Shirin
So Can I
Solution
Toothache
Tribute to Teachers
Two Solutions for One Problem
A Wedding Suit
Wenders Retrospective:
3 AMERICAN LPs (1969)
ALABAMA (2000 LIGHT YEARS) (1969)
Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
POLICE FILM (1969)
Reverse Angle: Ein Brief aus New York
State of Things, The
Wong Kar-wai Retrospective
The Hand
-----------------------------
Upgrades (blu-ray or other new editions): - please also check the "Speculation / Recent Restorations" below to see more possibilities. These are just the confirmed titles, not the upgradeable titles that have received restorations.
Brand Upon the Brain - Maddin confirmed upgrade coming in 2020
Burmese Harp - Janus tour
I Know Where I'm Going! - Wexner Center confirmation (eventually)
Nanook of the North (confirmed by Flaherty relation + Mulvaney)
Wages of Fear - Janus 4k tour
-----------------------------
Press, screening, or employee official confirmations
Berlanga Eclipse set
Big Heat - Eddie Mueller confirmation
Boy (Oshima)
Brother from Another Planet - Director confirmation
Burn! (Pontecorvo) - KL confirmation
Choose Me - Alan Rudolph confirmation
Classic Bollywood films / Guru Dutt - Indian article (Pyaasa - Venice 2015 restoration)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Maybe confirmed???
The Devil and Danial Johnston
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Harold Lloyd - Talkies set, Criterion plans to release all Harold Lloyd shorts/films eventually
High Hopes (1988) - Mike Leigh color grading Criterion instagram photo
Hud - TCM Film Festival
I Shot Andy Warhol - director confirmation
In Fabric - Employee confirmation
King Lear (1987)
The Learning Tree - NYT diversity article
Li Li-Hua Films
Man Who Wasn't There - Lee Kline confirmation
Medicine for Melancholy - NYT diversity article
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Netflix Deal - Atlantics, American Factory, The Other Side of the Wind
Studio Canal deal - see FrauBlucher's investigative work here + Movielocke's list here
Thank You and Good Night (1991)
Warner Bros deal - SubUrbia seems likely (director expressed interest) + 2nd round of speculation
W.C. Fields Films - Kino Insider confirm
Welcome II The Terrordome - Guardian Article confirmation
World Cinema Foundation - more boxsets coming. See list below
World's Greatest Sinner.
Additional directors to expect titles from:
Almodovar - "Most, if not all of his films"
Assayas - "some other early titles", Irma Vep (=Janus owned)
Erice - Quince Tree Sun
Forman, Milos - Black Peter, Taking Off
Gomez, Sara - boxset forthcoming
Haneke - like Kieslowski, Kino lost the rights to these films, and Criterion has started announcing them, expect more!
Itami, Juzo - All of his films (Twitter confirmation)
Jarmusch, Jim - Coffee and Cigarettes (Q&A confirm)
Kiarostami - "all his films"
Kieslowski - former Kino titles
Kusturica, Emir
Lee, Spike - 4 Little Girls + She's Gotta Have It (confirmation via Lee)
Papatakis, Nikos - Les Abysses, The Shepherds of Disorder, Gloria Mundi, The Photograph, Walking A Tightrope
Ray, Satyajit - Most all of his films, Devi is being worked on next (after Apu Trilogy)
Reygadas, Carlos - confirmed - Batalla en el cielo (2005)
Sayles, John - The Secret of Roan Inish (confirmed via director)
silenciosa (2007) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Sembene, Ousmane - five other films - Guelwaar = Janus owned
Welles - It's All True - confirmed by Criterion producer
Wenders - Director has confirmed that nearly everything he has made will be coming at some point.
Zhangke - Platform
-----------------------------------
Criterion UK Forthcoming Titles
-----------------------------
Confirmed, but (eternally) Delayed
Carnival in Flanders
Dersu Uzala - Looking for film elements
Hard Eight (PTA busy with other projects at the moment)
Thief of Baghdad - Waiting on film elements
The Wedding March
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Played with Janus Logo / available on Amazon or Itunes (not the Criterion Channel!)
Do note: Some of these are/will be touring with Janus, but don't have a page yet on Janus' website (frontpage banner). Once they are added to the website, they get bumped up to the Janus section closer to the top.
Amazon / Itunes / Starz:
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Played on TV / Elsewhere:
Boy and Bicycle
Gösta Berlings Saga - Played on TCM with Janus logo
Intimate Lighting (1965) - Played on TCM with Janus logo
Jane B.
One of the Missing
Profumo di donna (1974, Risi) - Played on TCM with Janus logo
The Walls of Malapaga (1949) - Played on TCM with Janus logo
-----
Janus Touring / logo found:
After Life (1998, Kore-eda)
Black Peter (Forman)
Chocolat (1988, Denis)
Christiane F.
The Entertainer (Richardson)
La Fièvre Monte à El Pao (1959, Buñuel)
The Left-Handed Woman (1978, Handke)
More (1969, Schroeder)
I Mostri (1963, Risi) - Played at MOMA in 2016 with new restoration with credit to Janus
Serpent's Path (1998)
Smooth Talk
Sweet Hereafter
The Thief of Paris (1967, Malle)
La Vallée [Obscured by Clouds] (1972, Schroeder)
Czech National Film Archive: (See here and here)
All My Good Countrymen
Black Peter
A Boring Afternoon
The Cassandra Cat (When the Cat Comes)
Courage for Every Day
The Cry
Distant Journey
The Ear
From Saturday to Sunday
Ikarie XB1
Intimate Lighting
Something Different
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Transport from Paradise
World Cinema Project films: (See here)
Raid into Tibet (1966), Adrian Cowell
Pickpocket (1997) - Jia Zhang-ke
The Phantom of the Monastery (1934), Fernando de Fuentes - Mexico
Los Olvidados (1950), Luis Buñuel - Mexico
The Night of Counting the Years (1969), Shadi Abdel Salam
Nidhanaya (1970), Lester James Peries
La Femme au couteau (1969), Timité Bassori
The Eloquent Peasant (1969), Shadi Abdel Salam
Enamorada (1946), Emilio Fernández
Eight Deadly Shots (1972), Mikko Niskanen
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975), Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina - Algeria
Boys from Feng-kuei (1983), Hou Hsiao-hsien
Alyam, Alyam (1978), Ahmed El Maanouni
------------------------------------------------------
Speculation / Recent Restorations:
After Hours
Alexander Nevsky (Venice 2015 restoration)
Day After, The
Former Laserdisc titles
Godard Boxset
Gueule d'Amour (CNC restored)
Hotel du Nord
Image Entertainment's "vast video library" (from AudioBrandon, Films Inc. and others)-link
Ivan the Terrible 1 + 2
Maîtresse (CNC restored)
MGM licensed films - Narrowed down speculation
A Night at the Opera (WB disc OOP)
The Other Side of the Wind
Red Beard (Venice 2015 restoration)
Studio Canal pickups (Kino Insider points to: Le Trou and Forbidden Games) + a possible list here
Twentieth Century (Hawks)
Two Things or Three Things I Know About Her (CNC restored)
+ rest of Handmade Films
Z
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Distinct Possibilities (don't look at me, these are from the old list)
BRESSON, Robert - LE PROCES DE JEANNE D’ARC , THE DEVIL PROBABLY
KURYS, Diane - Cocktail Molotov - 1980 - France - Confirmed in a catalog back in like 2000
Fuller, Samuel - PARK ROW
Hou Hsiao-hsien - ("possibility, yes")
Khan, Mehbook - MOTHER INDIA (Criterion is trying to get this)
OSHIMA, Nagisa - 'YOUTH TRILOGY ’ - NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN, CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH, THE SUN’S BURIAL and A TOWN OF LOVE AND HOPE
Powell & Pressburger - more rarer films that have not been released
Renoir, Jean - THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE
Shima, Koji - GOLDEN DEMON
SKOLIMOWSKI, Jerzy - DEEP END
TACCHELLA, Jean Charles - Cousin, Cousine - 1975 - France - Confirmed in a catalog back in like 2000
Tsai Ming-Liang - ("looking into some")
================================
EDITS
Removed a bunch of announced stuff finally, will try to go through backlog and add titles eventually, I'm 4 years behind! - Nov, 2024
Criterion announces new titles at their website, http://www.criterion.com on the 15th of every month, unless that date falls on a weekend, holiday, or there is just a delay.
Even if a film is listed below, this list is not an indicator that the film will be announced immediately. Criterion releases are often held up by a multitude of factors: restorations, director approval, supplements, cover art, etc. Expecting or demanding that a certain film be announced at a certain time is a fruitless endeavor. It is better to wait and enjoy the titles that have been announced, so that the film you are hoping for can receive the best edition possible. You should not see this list as 100% guaranteed confirmation of anything, as things can and do change, even when a film has already been announced officially (see Contempt + Ran blu-rays).
This forthcoming list is grouped by the source of information. Generally, the list trends downwards (separated by "-------") in terms of strength of information, source, and immediacy / expectation of announcement.
If you have any information regarding a film addition to the list, corrections, broken links, or if you just feel like chatting about Criterion forthcoming speculation - please send me a private message.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsletter: (Based on the best/most agreed upon interpretation of the clue)
-------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Janus Films touring -Official Janus tour, different than simply playing somewhere with a Janus logo.
L'Atalante (possible redux edition??)
Compensation
El
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Flow
Il Grido
Thank You and Good Night
Chaplin:
First National shorts
The Pilgrim (1923)
Woman of Paris (1923)
King in New York (1958)
Kiarostami Retrospective:
The Bread and Alley
Breaktime
Case No. 1, Case No. 2
The Chorus
The Colors
The Experience
Fellow Citizen
First Graders
How to Make Use of Leisure Time
Orderly or Disorderly
Shirin
So Can I
Solution
Toothache
Tribute to Teachers
Two Solutions for One Problem
A Wedding Suit
Wenders Retrospective:
3 AMERICAN LPs (1969)
ALABAMA (2000 LIGHT YEARS) (1969)
Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
POLICE FILM (1969)
Reverse Angle: Ein Brief aus New York
State of Things, The
Wong Kar-wai Retrospective
The Hand
-----------------------------
Upgrades (blu-ray or other new editions): - please also check the "Speculation / Recent Restorations" below to see more possibilities. These are just the confirmed titles, not the upgradeable titles that have received restorations.
Brand Upon the Brain - Maddin confirmed upgrade coming in 2020
Burmese Harp - Janus tour
I Know Where I'm Going! - Wexner Center confirmation (eventually)
Nanook of the North (confirmed by Flaherty relation + Mulvaney)
Wages of Fear - Janus 4k tour
-----------------------------
Press, screening, or employee official confirmations
Berlanga Eclipse set
Big Heat - Eddie Mueller confirmation
Boy (Oshima)
Brother from Another Planet - Director confirmation
Burn! (Pontecorvo) - KL confirmation
Choose Me - Alan Rudolph confirmation
Classic Bollywood films / Guru Dutt - Indian article (Pyaasa - Venice 2015 restoration)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Maybe confirmed???
The Devil and Danial Johnston
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Harold Lloyd - Talkies set, Criterion plans to release all Harold Lloyd shorts/films eventually
High Hopes (1988) - Mike Leigh color grading Criterion instagram photo
Hud - TCM Film Festival
I Shot Andy Warhol - director confirmation
In Fabric - Employee confirmation
King Lear (1987)
The Learning Tree - NYT diversity article
Li Li-Hua Films
Man Who Wasn't There - Lee Kline confirmation
Medicine for Melancholy - NYT diversity article
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Netflix Deal - Atlantics, American Factory, The Other Side of the Wind
Studio Canal deal - see FrauBlucher's investigative work here + Movielocke's list here
Thank You and Good Night (1991)
Warner Bros deal - SubUrbia seems likely (director expressed interest) + 2nd round of speculation
W.C. Fields Films - Kino Insider confirm
Welcome II The Terrordome - Guardian Article confirmation
World Cinema Foundation - more boxsets coming. See list below
World's Greatest Sinner.
Additional directors to expect titles from:
Almodovar - "Most, if not all of his films"
Assayas - "some other early titles", Irma Vep (=Janus owned)
Erice - Quince Tree Sun
Forman, Milos - Black Peter, Taking Off
Gomez, Sara - boxset forthcoming
Haneke - like Kieslowski, Kino lost the rights to these films, and Criterion has started announcing them, expect more!
Itami, Juzo - All of his films (Twitter confirmation)
Jarmusch, Jim - Coffee and Cigarettes (Q&A confirm)
Kiarostami - "all his films"
Kieslowski - former Kino titles
Kusturica, Emir
Lee, Spike - 4 Little Girls + She's Gotta Have It (confirmation via Lee)
Papatakis, Nikos - Les Abysses, The Shepherds of Disorder, Gloria Mundi, The Photograph, Walking A Tightrope
Ray, Satyajit - Most all of his films, Devi is being worked on next (after Apu Trilogy)
Reygadas, Carlos - confirmed - Batalla en el cielo (2005)
Sayles, John - The Secret of Roan Inish (confirmed via director)
silenciosa (2007) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Sembene, Ousmane - five other films - Guelwaar = Janus owned
Welles - It's All True - confirmed by Criterion producer
Wenders - Director has confirmed that nearly everything he has made will be coming at some point.
Zhangke - Platform
-----------------------------------
Criterion UK Forthcoming Titles
-----------------------------
Confirmed, but (eternally) Delayed
Carnival in Flanders
Dersu Uzala - Looking for film elements
Hard Eight (PTA busy with other projects at the moment)
Thief of Baghdad - Waiting on film elements
The Wedding March
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Played with Janus Logo / available on Amazon or Itunes (not the Criterion Channel!)
Do note: Some of these are/will be touring with Janus, but don't have a page yet on Janus' website (frontpage banner). Once they are added to the website, they get bumped up to the Janus section closer to the top.
Amazon / Itunes / Starz:
-----
Played on TV / Elsewhere:
Boy and Bicycle
Gösta Berlings Saga - Played on TCM with Janus logo
Intimate Lighting (1965) - Played on TCM with Janus logo
Jane B.
One of the Missing
Profumo di donna (1974, Risi) - Played on TCM with Janus logo
The Walls of Malapaga (1949) - Played on TCM with Janus logo
-----
Janus Touring / logo found:
After Life (1998, Kore-eda)
Black Peter (Forman)
Chocolat (1988, Denis)
Christiane F.
The Entertainer (Richardson)
La Fièvre Monte à El Pao (1959, Buñuel)
The Left-Handed Woman (1978, Handke)
More (1969, Schroeder)
I Mostri (1963, Risi) - Played at MOMA in 2016 with new restoration with credit to Janus
Serpent's Path (1998)
Smooth Talk
Sweet Hereafter
The Thief of Paris (1967, Malle)
La Vallée [Obscured by Clouds] (1972, Schroeder)
Czech National Film Archive: (See here and here)
All My Good Countrymen
Black Peter
A Boring Afternoon
The Cassandra Cat (When the Cat Comes)
Courage for Every Day
The Cry
Distant Journey
The Ear
From Saturday to Sunday
Ikarie XB1
Intimate Lighting
Something Different
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Transport from Paradise
World Cinema Project films: (See here)
Raid into Tibet (1966), Adrian Cowell
Pickpocket (1997) - Jia Zhang-ke
The Phantom of the Monastery (1934), Fernando de Fuentes - Mexico
Los Olvidados (1950), Luis Buñuel - Mexico
The Night of Counting the Years (1969), Shadi Abdel Salam
Nidhanaya (1970), Lester James Peries
La Femme au couteau (1969), Timité Bassori
The Eloquent Peasant (1969), Shadi Abdel Salam
Enamorada (1946), Emilio Fernández
Eight Deadly Shots (1972), Mikko Niskanen
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975), Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina - Algeria
Boys from Feng-kuei (1983), Hou Hsiao-hsien
Alyam, Alyam (1978), Ahmed El Maanouni
------------------------------------------------------
Speculation / Recent Restorations:
After Hours
Alexander Nevsky (Venice 2015 restoration)
Day After, The
Former Laserdisc titles
Godard Boxset
Gueule d'Amour (CNC restored)
Hotel du Nord
Image Entertainment's "vast video library" (from AudioBrandon, Films Inc. and others)-link
Ivan the Terrible 1 + 2
Maîtresse (CNC restored)
MGM licensed films - Narrowed down speculation
A Night at the Opera (WB disc OOP)
The Other Side of the Wind
Red Beard (Venice 2015 restoration)
Studio Canal pickups (Kino Insider points to: Le Trou and Forbidden Games) + a possible list here
Twentieth Century (Hawks)
Two Things or Three Things I Know About Her (CNC restored)
+ rest of Handmade Films
Z
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Distinct Possibilities (don't look at me, these are from the old list)
BRESSON, Robert - LE PROCES DE JEANNE D’ARC , THE DEVIL PROBABLY
KURYS, Diane - Cocktail Molotov - 1980 - France - Confirmed in a catalog back in like 2000
Fuller, Samuel - PARK ROW
Hou Hsiao-hsien - ("possibility, yes")
Khan, Mehbook - MOTHER INDIA (Criterion is trying to get this)
OSHIMA, Nagisa - 'YOUTH TRILOGY ’ - NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN, CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH, THE SUN’S BURIAL and A TOWN OF LOVE AND HOPE
Powell & Pressburger - more rarer films that have not been released
Renoir, Jean - THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE
Shima, Koji - GOLDEN DEMON
SKOLIMOWSKI, Jerzy - DEEP END
TACCHELLA, Jean Charles - Cousin, Cousine - 1975 - France - Confirmed in a catalog back in like 2000
Tsai Ming-Liang - ("looking into some")
================================
EDITS
Removed a bunch of announced stuff finally, will try to go through backlog and add titles eventually, I'm 4 years behind! - Nov, 2024