'Forthcoming' Lists Discussion and Random Speculation Vol.1

[psufootball07]

Criterion trailer of a film not yet announced on YouTube? Last Days of Disco, I know this is likely to be confirmed or released soon, anyways found this on YouTube.

[Harmonov]

Criterion trailer of a film not yet announced on youtube?

I might wonder if this was something that some adoring fan put together to tease, but since it's on Image's account, this may be the real deal.

This release would make my year on top of all of the others already scheduled. I guess all of those copies of the original DVD on ebay going for $100 are now worth nothing.

[jaredsap]

This release would make my year on top of all of the others already scheduled. I guess all of those copies of the original DVD on ebay going for $100 are now worth nothing.

I just hope they include the OOP novel.

[Harmonov]

I just hope they include the OOP novel.

Surely they will, yes? Bookfinder.com has some cheap-ish copies available ($21-$40).

[Cinephrenic]

Anyone can easily montage a Criterion logo in front of a trailer you know. I don't think it holds much merit.

[Antoine Doinel]

Yeah, but it would be seem odd for whoever manages the Image Entertainment YouTube channel to go to all the trouble of adding a Criterion logo to the beginning of a trailer as a nerdy gag.

[knives]

Did you forget the 23 Swimming horses?

[Matt]

Did you forget the 23 Swimming horses?

Why does everyone keep insisting that that was a joke? It was used in the final packaging art.

[knives]

True, but as the front cover?

[domino harvey]

Anyone can easily montage a Criterion logo in front of a trailer you know. I don't think it holds much merit.

Considering that we already knew it was coming from Criterion and that this is on the Image YouTube channel, I feel pretty secure in the assumption that this is on the level

[bearcuborg]

I just got my Film Forum calender in the mail, and they announce Alien as a Criterion presentation.

[domino harvey]

That's Fox's thing, it's not the same as the Criterion Collection

[Person]

Criterion trailer of a film not yet announced on YouTube? Last Days of Disco, I know this is likely to be confirmed or released soon, anyways found this on YouTube.

Wow, I have not seen this film and I am fan of Disco, but this film looks awful. Which year is it supposed to be set in - 1981 ? The make-up on the women looks very 90s. It just looks like another of those plotless 'recent history' pieces which dull characters. A made-for-TV version of Boogie Nights but without the porn. But then again, trailers can be misleading.

[bigP]

Wow, I have not seen this film and I am fan of Disco, but this film looks awful. Which year is it supposed to be set in - 1981 ? The make-up on the women looks very 90s. It just looks like another of those plotless 'recent history' pieces which dull characters. A made-for-TV version of Boogie Nights but without the porn. But then again, trailers can be misleading.

I'd ordinarily agree the trailer really failed to sell the film for me, but i also found the trailer to Whit Stillman's Metrolpolitan, sugar coated and utterly drab, only to become utterly charmed by it's playfullness and its acidic bite in the rump of the over-priviledged and ignorant pseudo-intellectual post-teenage brie-clubs. As a reluctant fan of Metropolitan I guess I had bias viewing the trailer overall, but I did happen to catch much of that same playfullness in dialogue and humour that made Metropolitan such a delight, and I had this feeling throughout that this may be just another example of a trailer not playing up to the films potential.

[Tom Hagen]

Did you forget the 23 Swimming horses?

Why does everyone keep insisting that that was a joke? It was used in the final packaging art.

Perhaps they wanted to memorialize the joke in some way. At least that's what I want to believe.

RE: Last Days of Disco trailer. I have never seen the film (due to the lack of availability), but I was delighted to discover that Matt Ross is in the cast. He's great in Big Love where, coincidentially enough, he plays the creepy older brother of Chloë's character in the series.

[fdm]

Well, okay. I did import Last Days Of Disco fairly cheaply (from Australia) several months ago. Had never seen it. Just had to satisfy my curiousity...

I thought it was pretty awful, that trailer isn't really too far off from what the whole film is like. The best thing going for it was the nostalgia it invoked wrt the music (and my grad school days). (And of course there is Kate...) The blond's acting was annoyingly stiff. The script was terrible. Surprises me Criterion is considering this at all...

[Close The Door, Raymond]

You can watch "Last Days of Disco" for free at hulu.com courtesy of Focus Features.

[bearcuborg]

Thanks for clearing that up Dom, I couldn't see how Criterion had anything to do with Alien.

Anyway, The Last Days of Disco is def. coming to Criterion, Mulvaney said so... The film is one of the best comedies of the 90's and Whit Stillman is a genius. It goes much deeper than the joke that is Boogie Nights.

[ehimle]

So, can I ask of the likely-hood of Suzuki films like Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter being reissued?

I know there was talk of it a while ago along with other potential Suzuki films.

[mfunk9786]

It goes much deeper than the joke that is Boogie Nights.

Yeah, for a movie about disco, it sure focused a lot of its energy on the porn industry.

[Harmonov]

With the certainty of The Last Days of Disco coming to the collection, anyone's thoughts that Barcelona might also be added, thus completing the Doomed Bourgeois in Love Trilogy on Criterion? Warner's holds the right to Barcelona, yes?

I would be overly ecstatic if this were to happen. While I love both Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco, I feel Barcelona is Stillman's strongest film. But what do I know?

[justeleblanc]

Was Barcelona the film (I barely remember it) where there was some incident with secretly hiding money in a book, almost identically to the incident in Suzanne's Career? Or was it another Stillman film and another Rohmer film?

[domino harvey]

With the certainty of The Last Days of Disco coming to the collection, anyone's thoughts that Barcelona might also be added, thus completing the Doomed Bourgeois in Love Trilogy on Criterion? Warner's holds the right to Barcelona, yes?

Barcelona's DVD is anamorphic and it has a commentary. Why do people keep clamoring for titles that are already out in good editions?

[swo17]

Why do people keep clamoring for titles that are already out in good editions?

For the same reason that I recently had a wacky C tattooed on my forehead.

[Harmonov]

With the certainty of The Last Days of Disco coming to the collection, anyone's thoughts that Barcelona might also be added, thus completing the Doomed Bourgeois in Love Trilogy on Criterion? Warner's holds the right to Barcelona, yes?

Barcelona's DVD is anamorphic and it has a commentary. Why do people keep clamoring for titles that are already out in good editions?

I have the Warner's edition already. I just figured since the other two are on Criterion, why not the the third of the trilogy? Since the DVD has been out for 7 years, and the movie itself was released 15 years ago, it could probably garner some new material.