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Gigi M. wrote:

fdm wrote:Looks like a bunch of cardboard to me. (Blech.)

As much as I've said I love digipaks, for once I have to agree with you. I accidentally drop my Varda set and got an ugly dent. So yes, no more cardboard please, Criterion. Your packages are lovely but very expensive.

It's your fault for dropping the package.
Take responsibility for your own mistakes.
Read some existential philosophy.
I have it on good authority Sartre loved digipaks.

godardslave wrote:

Gigi M. wrote:As much as I've said I love digipaks, for once I have to agree with you. I accidentally dropped my Varda set and it got an ugly dent. So yes, no more cardboard please, Criterion.

It's your fault for dropping the package.
Take responsibility for your own mistakes.
Read some existential philosophy.
I have it on good authority Sartre loved digipaks.

Agreed. I think we can`t get enough digipacks

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Cover to Paddle to the Sea is up at Amazon.

Where are the Criterion year and label bars on the left hand side and the magic "C"?

Antoine Doinel wrote:Where are the Criterion year and label bars on the left hand side and the magic "C"?

These are Janus releases, not Criterions.

Antoine Doinel wrote:Where are the Criterion year and label bars on the left hand side and the magic "C"?

It looks like they are being released on a Janus Films label without falling under the Criterion or Eclipse banners. This is similar to the Janus properties that were released under the auspices of the "Classic Collection" joint venture between Criterion and Home Vision, but that project died with Home Vision. I expect they will be something like The Rocking Horse Winner, which has the Janus coin logo on the spine. There is some discussion of this in the Red Balloon/White Mane thread. I'm still deciding where to put those threads. I'll wait until Criterion/Janus make their plans more clear.

well... I think these should be categorized however the Merchant Ivory Collection was.

miless wrote:well... I think these should be categorized however the Merchant Ivory Collection was.

Those were produced by Criterion, but distributed by Home Vision so they were in the HV thread. If it looks like this trend will continue, we can make a Janus Films thread in the "Boutique Labels" forum, or even create a new forum in the Criterion subsection along with the Criterion and Eclipse forums. Of course, if these end up being the only three titles, that might be kind of silly.

Can we get one of our forum members with a valid e-mail "in" with Criterion to ask about these titles?

For what it's worth, this was included in an email press release announcing the April titles:

Criterion takes a walk on the dark side this April, with two extraordinary films on DVD for the first time: the seminal melodrama Death of a Cyclist, directed by Juan Antonio Bardem (Javier Bardem’s uncle and icon of Spanish cinema), and Allen Baron’s brutal, low-budget New York City noir Blast of Silence, a personal favorite of Scorsese’s that’s sure to become one of the most talked-about buried treasures of the year. And Janus Films moves out of the shadows and off into the sky with the release of three children’s classics, never before released on DVD, including the beloved original masterpiece The Red Balloon.

So Janus is releasing their own films now?

Criterion wrote:And Janus Films moves out of the shadows and off into the sky with the release of three children’s classics, never before released on DVD, including the beloved original masterpiece The Red Balloon.

Not strictly true.

Kinsayder wrote:

Criterion wrote:And Janus Films moves out of the shadows and off into the sky with the release of three children’s classics, never before released on DVD, including the beloved original masterpiece The Red Balloon.

Not strictly true.

Yeah, I have this US DVD of The Red Balloon, which came out a few year ago. It has a really strange animated film that accompanies it about a bubble person world with a villain made of pins. Odd stuff.

The Austin Chronicle interview with Marc English, and variations on the Walker cover.

colinr0380 wrote:The Austin Chronicle interview with Marc English, and variations on the Walker cover.

As well as a hint (perhaps) that Criterion will be handling Linklater's Suburbia.

I believe, though, that Linklater has stated that Sony(?) will be handling it and has promised him they will try to out-Criterion Criterion.

kaujot wrote:I believe, though, that Linklater has stated that Sony(?) will be handling it and has promised him they will try to out-Criterion Criterion.

You're correct: checking IMDB, it looks like it's going to be out from Warner or Sony in September. My mistake.

Cronenfly wrote:

kaujot wrote:I believe, though, that Linklater has stated that Sony(?) will be handling it and has promised him they will try to out-Criterion Criterion.

You're correct: checking IMDB, it looks like it's going to be out from Warner or Sony in September. My mistake.

It's Warner. And that might as well refer to September... 2006.

jaredsap wrote:

Cronenfly wrote:

kaujot wrote:I believe, though, that Linklater has stated that Sony(?) will be handling it and has promised him they will try to out-Criterion Criterion.

You're correct: checking IMDB, it looks like it's going to be out from Warner or Sony in September. My mistake.

It's Warner. And that probably refers to September... 2006.

This board posting linked to an IGN article that says it's coming in September 2008. Whether that will actually come to pass or not remains to be seen (as it seems to be so long delayed).

Cronenfly wrote:

jaredsap wrote:It's Warner. And that probably refers to September... 2006.

This board posting linked to an IGN article that says it's coming in September 2008. Whether that will actually come to pass or not remains to be seen (as it seems to be so long delayed).

Wrong thread for this, but the IGN article refers to September 2007. And before that there were articles that said it was coming out in 2006.

jaredsap wrote:Wrong thread for this, but the IGN article refers to September 2007. And before that there were articles that said it was coming out in 2006.

Wrong thread for this, but the IGN article refers to September 2007. And before that there were articles that said it was coming out in 2006.[/quote]
I won't post any more about it here. Linklater did say "next September" in the IGN article (from March 2007), which could be construed (however tenuously) as 2007 or 2008 (though as you say, jaredsap, most likely 2007). In any case, there's never been any official confirmation, so I guess that it really doesn't matter.

Sorry for starting this here, mods: feel free to move these posts to the random speculation thread.

Don't know if this has been posted before, but here's an interview with Eric Skillman, about the use of comic book artists on Criterion covers.

Does anyone know when we can expect the new titles to be announced?