Quarantined Monthly Guessing Thread

[Never Cursed]

Monterey Pop
Chungking Express
Hughes (Sixteen Candles/Breakfast Club/Set)
Philadelphia Story
Night Of The Living Dead

[MichaelB]

I can't see 4K happening with boutique labels any time soon.

Prohibitive cost on the production end or lack of a market for the product?

At the moment, both.

[flyonthewall2983]

Monterey Pop
Grand Budapest Hotel or Tree Of Life
West Side Story or Princess Bride

Or maybe all five together, and give a strong lead-in to the Olympic box set.

[FlickeringWindow]

The Princess Bride isn't happening - MGM has a 30th anniversary edition coming in September.

[aox]

West Side Story is in play? I thought the BD released a few years ago was supposed to be pretty definitive and full of bonus material.

[Never Cursed]

From what I understand, that BD doesn't have the original 6-track mix, but rather a modern recreation derived from the 4-track mix.

[Omensetter]

Where's all the speculation for Toni Erdmann coming from? Did I miss something?

It just seems like a good educated guess, I guess. It's a solid film beloved by many, from Sony, a recent title that'll require less work, a big November title, and from a female director (Criterion, to their credit, have seemed to make a concerted effort to include quality films from female directors this year---four so far, compared to last year's one, which came in December and was also a recent title).

Desert Hearts
West Side Story
The Breakfast Club
Toni Erdmann
The Best Years of our Lives
The Lady Eve

Tiebreaker: The Best Years of our Lives will get the Cat People treatment.

[Morbii]

A good educated guess that you don't want to take part in

[lacritfan]

Sigh, cue Harold Faltermeyer...

"All 80's all month!" "OH YEAH!" (synthesizer music)
Desert Hearts
King Lear
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Stranger Than Paradise Blu

[DRW.mov]

A girl can dream, can't she?

John Hughes Box
Chinese Roulette
Klute
All About My Mother
Mona Lisa upgrade

[Lowry_Sam]

Busby Berkeley box
Raise The Red Lantern
Una vita difficile
Berlin Alexanderplatz upgrade
Elevator To The Gallows upgrade

[Perkins Cobb]

Where's all the speculation for Toni Erdmann coming from? Did I miss something?

I imported the UK Blu-ray last week, so that should pretty much confirm it for tomorrow's announcements.

[DFR]

Desert Hearts
Wong Kar-Wai boxed set
Notorious
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Written on the Wind or The Lady Eve (upgrade, please)

[Omensetter]

A good educated guess that you don't want to take part in

I'll change it to reflect the Guess Thread logic that Happy Together could not possibly be released since it's a Kino title and they just used their biennial Kino chip.

[kcota17]

Criterion has so much their sitting on, it's hard to make a guess. There will definitely be a surprise (like Barry Lyndon or last years Punch Drunk Love) and a huge upgrade

I'll say:
John Hughes Boxset (Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Weird Science)
My Desert Heart
West Side Story
Dragon Inn
The Circus

Upgrades:
The Virgin Spring
The Passion of Joan of Arc or
Stray Dog / Drunken Angel

Obviously not all those titles but those all seem possibly coming soon.

[knives]

I'm still hoping for Shinoda's Silence so that people can see a good version of that story.

[Graphist]

I guess no announcements today. Any news?

[swo17]

Just that the world is ending

[Graphist]

Well, that’s old news. Probably the oldest of them all.

[Zazou dans le Metro]

I guess no announcements today. Any news?

Here in France on the 15th August it is a national holiday to celebrate Assumption(The ascension of the Virgin Mary). In the US it seems that every 15th of the month is False Assumption

[FrauBlucher]

Just that the world is ending

Oh damn, right before the John Hughes boxset gets announced. Must be a cosmic thing.

[HitchcockLang]

Maybe they just assumed we would realize the Olympic box was supposed to tide us over until the January announcements.

[Big Ben]

I think Criterion would have said something if the Olympic set was the only thing being released. I mean they can't be that big of trolls can they?

[cdnchris]

The announcements this month are for November, right? Or am I just more behind on things than I thought?

[Ribs]

No, they are, but they skipped ahead either because of some weird Olympics-mandated time frame or just to explain why they'll be skipping over #900 in November.