The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages

[domino harvey]

If Zemeckis is there for the confirmed Hand, maybe Bassett's there for What's Love Got to Do With It, which was rumored a couple years ago

[colinr0380]

Or maybe Angela Bassett is there for Boyz N' The Hood, especially since its getting a bit of attention recently due to its upcoming 25th anniversary. It would also be another Criterion laserdisc release to get rescued.

[beamish13]

I'm thinking Bassett is for John Sayles' City of Hope

[The Narrator Returns]

Again, guys, Bassett is a leftover from Kindergarten Cop's page.

[flyonthewall2983]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand seems like something more suited for Twilight Time or Shout! Factory than Criterion.

[Werewolf by Night]

But Criterion's built such a niche for themselves with Baby Boomer nostalgia (Beatles, Dylan, Monterey Pop, Kennedy, The Big Chill, et al).

[doh286]

Frank Tuttle
George Marshall

[vidussoni]

Veronica Lake fans, rejoice!

[Jeff]

Veronica Lake fans, rejoice!

Alan Ladd fans, for that matter. It could indeed be sequential spine numbers of This Gun for Hire and The Blue Dahlia, but Destry Rides Again seems like the more likely Criterion acquisition from Marshall. If they were going for the Ladd/Lake pairings, it seems like they'd throw The Glass Key in there too, but there's no page for Stuart Heisler.

[FrauBlucher]

Whatever it is, it's wonderful that Criterion keeps adding 30s and 40s Hollywood to their catalogue.

[vidussoni]

Veronica Lake fans, rejoice!

Alan Ladd fans, for that matter. It could indeed be sequential spine numbers of This Gun for Hire and The Blue Dahlia, but Destry Rides Again seems like the more likely Criterion acquisition from Marshall. If they were going for the Ladd/Lake pairings, it seems like they'd throw The Glass Key in there too, but there's no page for Stuart Heisler.

Now i'm dreaming of a Lake/Ladd boxset - with the three titles you mentioned and maybe the rarely seen Saigon - similar to the Rossellini/Bergman trilogy.

[domino harvey]

Does Universal own Saigon like the other three? I kind of doubt Criterion would ever do such an awesome thing but would love to be proven wrong

[knives]

Yes they do. It like the others was transferred over to Universal and it has been shown (sparsely) on television with Universal tags since the sale.

[Buttery Jeb]

Kirsten Johnson

Janus already mentioned that they're releasing Cameraperson later this year. Don't know if there's anything else that might involve her coming down the pike.

[Cinephrenic]

Looks like Universal noirs are on the way via Criterion. This Gun for Hire and The Blue Dahlia.

[vidussoni]

Buichi Saitô
Edward Sedgwick
Tod Browning
Harmony Korine
John Cameron Mitchell
Raoul Walsh
Mervyn Leroy
Irving Rapper
George Sidney

[Cinephrenic]

Floodgates open wide....

[The Narrator Returns]

Cameron Mitchell's is probably for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (although it would be most welcome if they managed to sort out the mess of Thinkfilm's rights situation), but Korine's I got no clue on, because everything he's directed besides Trash Humpers could be a likely possibility (Mister Lonely is IFC, julien donkey-boy and Gummo are Warner Bros., they've praised A24 enough that Spring Breakers would be probable as well).

[Cinephrenic]

Korine is probably Julien donkey-boy and/or Gummo. Spring Breakers is at Lionsgate. Browning could be Freaks or some of his lesser horror films in a set like monsters and madman.

[domino harvey]

Seems like Kids would be the obvious choice as the most high-profile and Criterion-worthy Korine title

[Zot!]

If it were Kids, wouldn't they add Larry Clark as well?

[John Doe]

Kids is with Lionsgate, so nuh. Probably for Gummo.

Tod Browning - Freaks (it went OOP recently)

[DarkImbecile]

Could their solution to the spoiling of announcements with these phantom pages be to just randomly post names so that obsessives will never know which pages are actually tied to an impending release?

[Werewolf by Night]

Could be. Bruno Dumont and Ken Russell both showed up about 4 years ago and still nothing has come of that. Several more no-shows just on the first page of this thread alone. So we might never see anything from Robert Zemeckis in the collection after all!

[bainbridgezu]

Both Dumont and Russell are just a matter of waiting: Peter Becker confirmed years ago that Criterion had acquired the rights to both Humanité and La vie de Jésus. Russell's Mahler is with Janus Films, in addition to speculation from Kino and Twilight Time that Criterion also has Women in Love and The Music Lovers.

That's not to say that there aren't some wacky pages that won't amount to anything (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), but every new director that has entered the collection since they first appeared has had one well in advance of any formal announcement (with actors and other crew added later on).

Of this new crop, Buichi Saitô is almost certainly for the already-confirmed Lone Wolf and Cub.