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Luke M wrote: -an Almodovar: All About My Mother or Talk To Her

A perfect pair of Almodovar movies are "Law of Desire" (1987) and "Bad Education" (2004)
I would love a boxset with the two movies, or two separate editions with consecutive spine.

Dead Man
4 Devils
Grand Budapest Hotel
Armageddon (upgrade)
Virgin Suicides

Phat-Daddy Bergman Centennial Collection (Upon opening a white light fills the room & teleports you into the morgue from Persona)

Predictions:

The Awful Truth
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Cristian Mungiu Box Set: (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days; Beyond the Hills, and Graduation receive spine numbers; Tales from the Golden Age may be an extra)
Dead Man
The Other Side of Hope
Written on the Wind [upgrade]

JSC wrote:

But what would really surprise me is if they include This Can't Happen Here
which Bergman stated as being his worst film and which as far as I know has not
been publicly screened in any Bergman retrospective.

It's pretty bad, but IMO All These Women is even worse.

Dead Man
Dragon Inn
Harold Lloyd Talkie Box
The Lady Eve Reissue
Written on the Wind Reissue

FWIW, a Bergman set would likely be a November/December release (the audience probably being more holiday gifting/collectors than the standard base, and this would give time for retrospectives to tour) and include all the films listed in Film Forum's Bergman restoration, excepting those with "courtesy of Swedish Film Institute/TV," which are with companies other than Janus/Criterion.

Those non-Janus films (so again, probably not coming from Criterion) include: It Rains on Our Love, A Ship Bound to India, Prison, Brink of Life, Face to Face (on an Olive DVD), The Serpent's Egg, Karin's Face (on the US bluray of Best Intentions), After the Rehearsal, and Saraband. In addition, In the Presence of a Clown and the other late TV works are not listed, nor is This Can't Happen Here.

Not included in the Film Forum retro, but listed on that Janus ad posted in the Janus thread, is Woman Without a Face, so that would likely also be in a boxset. No clue about the other early Bergman-penned films (i.e., Eva).

Toby Dammit wrote:

Luke M wrote: -an Almodovar: All About My Mother or Talk To Her

A perfect pair of Almodovar movies are "Law of Desire" (1987) and "Bad Education" (2004)
I would love a boxset with the two movies, or two separate editions with consecutive spine.

Yes, this would be perfect.

Shrew wrote:FWIW, a Bergman set would likely be a November/December release (the audience probably being more holiday gifting/collectors than the standard base, and this would give time for retrospectives to tour) and include all the films listed in Film Forum's Bergman restoration, excepting those with "courtesy of Swedish Film Institute/TV," which are with companies other than Janus/Criterion.

Won't this be an enormous set?
Has ever been a set like this for films? (counting out the Olympic set)

AK100?

Morbii wrote:AK100?

Oh, Ok. Didn't know about that.

also the Zatoichi set

50-disc Janus box

Also 10 Years of Rialto Pictures

I got zero correct this month.

So goes another month with somehow neither Written on the Wind nor The Lady Eve upgraded. Why? How? A forum is left to search for answers, until next month, when just about everyone and his brother in this thread will probably guess them again.

Toby Dammit, dshooker, and myself win the month. We can split this copy of Fanfan la tulipe that I purchased from a Friends of the Library sale ($2) and inexplicably decided to watch today---a Snow Day.

Speaking of Fanfan la tulipe, does StudioCanal own it too? I would love if the film gets upgraded to Blu.

I don't think so. I just checked the back of my copy and there's no logo like there's on my copy of Diary of a Country Priest.

EDIT: TFI International

May 2018

-The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi)
-All These Women or The Touch (Bergman)
-Teorema (Pasolini)
-The Tree of Life
-Berlanga Eclipse

UPGRADE
-Bergman's Faith Trilogy: Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence.

Talk to Her
Dersu Uzala
Shampoo
Three by Mungiu

A Matter of Life and Death
Memories of Underdevelopment

Graduation
L'amor
Bull Durham
The Scarlet Empress (upgrade)
Written on the Wind (upgrade)

A Matter of Life and Death
Girl Shy
The Stunt Man
The Headless Woman
Bull Durham
Scarlet Empress upgrade

Minbo
Ikarie XB-1
Red Beard upgrade
Mishima upgrade
The Tree of Life
Godzilla box set

The Tree of Life
Shame
Bull Durham
Cristian Mungiu box set

Bergman's trilogy (upgrade)