YES! Late Spring WITH Tokyo Ga! Best "EXTRA" (if that's what you wanna call it) since Werner Herzog eats his shoe on Burden of Dreams. So I guess this means we won't be getting any Ozu box sets as once predicted.....
I'm as pleased to be getting a bonus Tokyo-Ga as the next guy, but it's hardly the definitive Ozu documentary. In fact, I don't think I'd even classify it as an Ozu documentary (just as I wouldn't classify Sans Soleil as a Hitchcock documentary), so I don't think we should be reading anything about Criterion's long-term Ozu plans into its inclusion here. I'm still idiotically expecting that Ozu silents box set sometime around 2017.
Finally Tokyo-ga =D> I had the privilege of visiting Ozu-san's grave last September... An Autumn Afternoon, if you will. Any fellow pilgrims on the board?
While amazon.com doesn't have Late Spring listed as a DVD just yet, End of Summer and Late Autumn are (listed, but nothing much in the way of details). I may be overexcited, but what the hey - can we expect anything?
King of Kong wrote:While amazon.com doesn't have Late Spring listed as a DVD just yet, End of Summer and Late Autumn are (listed, but nothing much in the way of details). I may be overexcited, but what the hey - can we expect anything?
Those are definitely not Criterion releases. CC doesn't give product info to Amazon that far in advance (after all, Late Spring isn't up on Amazon yet even though it's already on their Coming Soon page).
I'm very encouraged by those Amazon listings (I especially love Late Autumn), but there's really nothing conclusive we can take from this. Take for example this Amazon listing for Rosetta, which has been up since 2002.
A lovely transer, but is anyone else bemused/baffled/depressed at the fact they only windowboxed the feature and not Tokyo-Ga? As if Wenders can somehow take the cropping but Ozu can't?
