2018 New Years Drawing

[fiddlesticks]

Only the intercostal clavicle on the skeleton is a clue for Bringing Up Baby; the rest of the skeleton must signify something else. My bet is a stand-alone version of The White Stadium, the Olympic film about the 1928 St. Moritz games where, as everyone knows, the sport of skeleton was introduced.

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[miless]

I really wanted that river (of blood?) with the days to be the Shining

[nitin]

I'm thinking apart from Graduation and Beyond the Hills, the 9 hats (4+3+2) also suggests 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days perhaps for a Mungiu boxset.

[swo17]

The three dots representing his kevyip.

But in the realm of streaming, kevyip doesn't exist.

[bainbridgezu]

The three dots representing his kevyip.

But in the realm of streaming, kevyip doesn't exist.

With streaming, it's all kevyip.

[Morbii]

I'm pretty sure a streaming kevyip would be paying for Filmstruck (et all) and never using it.

[Morbii]

As the skeleton is upright and "alive", maybe it means Dawn of the Dead!

[JabbaTheSlut]

Could L knight be Bresson’s Lancelot du lac?

[Peter McM]

Apart from the prospect of seeing more Bergman, nothing confirmed from this drawing holds any immediate interest for me. In fact, I will go so far as to say that Michael Moore is the least deserving of Criterion status since Spike Lee.

[FrauBlucher]

Not many surprises here. Most of the clues we already knew were in the pipeline. They've become a bit stingy with the last few whacky drawings.

[Red Screamer]

The man on the raft (with a scarf?) looks like Peter Bogdanovich to me.

[John Shade]

The man on the raft (with a scarf?) looks like Peter Bogdanovich to me.

Someone guessed Paper Moon, right?

Is it really Bowling for Columbine? Was it already mentioned how it seems odd to make a silly cartoon drawing with that material (though I suppose there is the cartoonish segment in that movie); I was really hoping Lebowski would find its way to Criterion, but it seems a 4K is coming out from Universal later this year.

[apriori]

I think the skeleton is “Dead Man”, which Criterion recently announced was being restored.

[Rayon Vert]

Could L knight be Bresson’s Lancelot du lac?

That sounds right.

[phred2321]

I think the skeleton is “Dead Man”, which Criterion recently announced was being restored.

Wasn't Dead Man already a newsletter clue though? Or does that not matter

[Drucker]

I think the skeleton is “Dead Man”, which Criterion recently announced was being restored.

Wasn't Dead Man already a newsletter clue though? Or does that not matter

Doesn't matter. They've put stuff in the New Years clue that had already been officially announced!

[movielocke]

gotta get in the crazy somehow, right?

so that arrow, obviously not for Bowling for Columbine, right?

obviously it's an arrow pointing north-westerly, so North By Northwest in 4K is clearly coming!

[Graphist]

The woman and the crescent moon, could it be for The Virgin Spring upgrade? The girl is sitting on the young (crescent) moon and waiving a (Swedish?) flag.

Could it also signify a whole bunch of Bergman’s films since it’s his centennial and Janus is touring 25+ of his films?

[Morbii]

gotta get in the crazy somehow, right?

so that arrow, obviously not for Bowling for Columbine, right?

obviously it's an arrow pointing north-westerly, so North By Northwest in 4K is clearly coming!

I thought it was a literal arrow going through the Knight's head. Makes me think Monty Python and the Holy Grail even more if that wasn't the case (which would be totally welcomed by me). I never thought a pointed arrow was necessary for the bowling ball and bullets to mean Bowling for Columbine (since the bowling ball is in motion in that direction).

[Graphist]

And what if that’s not the crescent moon but the letter C for Bergman’s Centennial.

[johnnysnatchclub7]

The arrow is definitely on the knight as the bowling ball already has motion lines coming off of it.


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[Morbii]

I’m not so sure that it is, particularly given the lack of fletching.

[FrauBlucher]

Could L knight be Bresson’s Lancelot du lac?

That sounds right.

This was with New Yorker Films. Criterion have released a number of their former titles. So, this makes sense.

[John Shade]

Could L knight be Bresson’s Lancelot du lac?

That sounds right.

This was with New Yorker Films. Criterion have released a number of their former titles. So, this makes sense.

Were there clips of that on the A to Z feature on L'Argent? Can't remember now.

[Bressonaire]

Took me a while, but the moon one is Bergman. He was often referred to as "dämonregissören", roughly translated as "the daemon-director". And he had demons in his signature.
dame-moon -> daemon
And the flag is Swedish then.

The Swedish flag is undeniably a Bergman reference, but I'm not sure how the moon plays into it. Moreover, I think the little hatch marks above the moon indicate motion. There's a 1948 film called Moonrise that might be in the Criterion arsenal. The director is Frank Borzage.