rwiggum wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 7:34 am
What’s the likelihood Soderbergh’s box set is with VS? His newsletter mentioned it being announced before the end of June, and being a limited edition run likely with someone distributing it. Is VS a likely home?
pretty sure he would just be self distributing through his website, no?
Brewster McCloud UHD would be incredible. Now can someone finally rescue HealtH?
rwiggum wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 7:34 am
What’s the likelihood Soderbergh’s box set is with VS? His newsletter mentioned it being announced before the end of June, and being a limited edition run likely with someone distributing it. Is VS a likely home?
pretty sure he would just be self distributing through his website, no?
Brewster McCloud UHD would be incredible. Now can someone finally rescue HealtH?
HealtH is with Disney. There might also be music rights issues on top of that.
Goodness I was blessed when the Sydney Film Festival managed to secure HealtH from Fox to close the 1981 festival and I was able to see it on the big screen. The audience loved the film - one of the best audiences responses I've ever seen.
ryannichols7 wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2026 10:16 pm
I also do not like Brewster McCloud at all despite usually being an Altman fan. and I like Houston too so the fact that it's a giant lead balloon to me is disappointing
Well, I love it and am a firm believer that even Altman’s worst work is far superior to most films. Brewster isn’t even close to his worst and speaks to Altman’s sense of experimentation and his need to take risks by following up his career altering hit with a film covered in birdshit.
It’s long out of print, but I recommend anyone look up the paperback tie-in to Brewster written by a MASH superfan than Altman invited to document his next production.
It’s absolutely top 5 Altman for me, too
I’ve read that book. Altman and Jordan Cronenweth really clashed a lot. You can clearly tell which scenes he shot (most notably the Astrodome finale). The film had a 70mm blowup print struck for its premiere at said venue, which makes it the only Altman film to get the 70mm treatment besides Short Cuts
I'm also a Brewster supporter, but it is absolutely weird and I see it more as a Bud Cort companion piece to Harold and Maude, rather than a Altman highlight, but it's good evidence that Altman was mad bastard as well as a formalist.
Brewster’s a near-perfect movie. Tarantino going out of his way to dismiss it in Cinema Speculation all because Altman wasn’t fawning over him at Cannes. His loss.
thebatman97080 wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 9:30 pm
Is Bananas a possibility for the controversial director title?
Sandpiper has all the UA/Orion films except for the four MGM released themselves, though Vinegar Syndrome seems to be allowed to release combo editions where Shout has not (Boxcar Bertha and Dirty Work, while Shout was stuck with 4K-only on the Sleepaway Camp sequels and Leaving Las Vegas).
One could make an argument that Annie Hall and Manhattan would be "early" films for Allen, by virtue of the fact that 85% of his films were made after those.
Peacock wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 3:04 pm
I mean is Waters’ Mondo Trasho (but with a new soundtrack) a possibility? Or would that get a theatrical release first?
I think The Hand is a good shout.
I don’t think Waters would want Mondo Trasho released. When people ask he usually replies “never”.
The clue clearly isn't Polansk (also because it's recent). I only raised the possibility of J'Accuse because people were mentioning Allen and its a title that has generated buzz after the isolated NYC screening and VS has released a Polanski (& The Last Tango In Paris on a sublabel.) & so it seems like VS & subsidiaries is the most likely outlet for it to ever get a US release.
