Criterion Newsletter (Part 2)

[fiddlesticks]

Anyone else get the Criterion Gift Guide sent to them twice?

Yep. What they think I'll do with two copies of Koko: A Talking Gorilla is beyond me.

[zedz]

Anyone else get the Criterion Gift Guide sent to them twice?

Yep. What they think I'll do with two copies of Koko: A Talking Gorilla is beyond me.

Earrings.

[Matt]

by the way it is odd that there isn't an end of a year thread this year.

You mean like this one?

[eerik]

[tavernier]

Love that wacky eclipse.

[Fierias]

more Oshima and a L'Eclisse blu?

[Gigi M.]

Eclipse blu-ray?

or

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse?

[ianungstad]

Criterion said on Facebook in the past they would be releasing an Oshima Eclipse set. Seems like the obvious answer.

[Harmonov]

Mamoru Oshii perhaps? Oshima seems far more likely.

EDIT: Someone beat me to Oshii as I was posting...

[What A Disgrace]

Looks like The Sun's Burial to me?

[miless]

I'm totally wrong... but I wish this was for Werckmeister Harmonies

[James]

Criterion said on Facebook in the past they would be releasing an Oshima Eclipse set. Seems like the obvious answer.

Any ideas which titles it was to include?

[Matt]

Seems like the obvious answer.

That won't stop people from filling up 3 more pages of this thread with alternate, unlikely possibilities.

[Magic Hate Ball]

It's totally gotta be The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover.

[aox]

Finally! Antonioni's Blow-Up!

[swo17]

The Flower That Drank the Moon?

[Cinephrenic]

It's just a sun saying "oh shit". Lol.

It is Oshima set on Eclipse, and probably alluding to his The Sun's Burial in the trilogy on the main line.

[heredity4me]

That movie where Jim Carrey plays that guy from Taxi...

[HistoryProf]

A Trip to the Moon anchoring an early silents box!

[mteller]

It's clearly a "Complete Works of Satyajit Ray" box set, referencing Kurosawa's comment "To have not seen the films of Ray is to have lived in the world without ever having seen the moon and the sun."

[heredity4me]

Is this to discourage us from wanting a Bright Summer Day?

[Dr. Geek]

Guys, guys . . . it's Twilight: Eclipse.

Criterion is just mentioning it early to drum up hype.

[aox]

I don't know, Twilight would be a huge moneymaker. I doubt that would be relegated to the Eclipse line. :-k

[Caged Horse]

That movie where Jim Carrey plays that guy from Taxi...

That movie doesn't get half as much love as it deserves. The original Universal DVD had a good number of bonus features already, though.