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Criterion probably have a huge task ahead of them at working to wipe off all of the dried blood from the negatives following that photo! (Blu-ray editions of all four of those films would be truly fantastic)

By the way I did like that Glenn Kenny piece a little while ago talking about the way that A Dangerous Method could be seen as a dramatic, rather than horrific, version of Rabid, with Keira Knightley in the Marilyn Chambers role! I have not seen A Dangerous Method yet to check on the accuracy of the comparison, but it was very amusing anyway!

colinr0380 wrote:By the way I did like that Glenn Kenny piece a little while ago talking about the way that A Dangerous Method could be seen as a dramatic, rather than horrific, version of Rabid, with Keira Knightley in the Marilyn Chambers role! I have not seen A Dangerous Method yet to check on the accuracy of the comparison, but it was very amusing anyway!

That's very interesting. I was kind of underwhelmed by A Dangerous Method, but I'll definitely give it a re-watch to look for parallels. I didn't see any the first time, but I haven't seen Rabid in years.

If this is an upcoming Cronenberg box, and The Golden Heart Trilogy does get a release in 2012, and half of those titles from the 2012 teaser photo get released next year; Criterion is screwed. How could they top themselves?!

[curmudgeon]By releasing films that haven't already been available on home video for more than ten years?[/curmudgeon]

Now that Blu-ray is in the picture, that argument doesn't hold nearly as much weight as it used to.

mfunk9786 wrote:Now that Blu-ray is in the picture, that argument doesn't hold nearly as much weight as it used to.

It's certainly ironic that Cronenberg is being given Blu-ray treatment... starting with Videodrome!!

I've seen Dancer In The Dark play on IFC a couple of times in HD, and it looked great. I thought Blu-ray would defeat the purpose of the quasi-Dogme 95 approach, but I was impressed. (Maybe I wouldn't be too enthusiastic to see The Idiots on Blu-ray, though...)

mfunk9786 wrote:Now that Blu-ray is in the picture, that argument doesn't hold nearly as much weight as it used to.

No dice. As far as I'm concerned, "best year evah!!!" (to the extent that this is a useful concept in the first place) is and always will be completely incompatible with "no new films" (and, for that matter, "no risks"). I'm here for the films, not the format.

As Knives pointed out, one of the Imamuras is totally new. Besides, it's not as though going after blus is just technology fetishism or something- it lets you see the movie, the thing you are after, in a clearer and more accurate way. I mean, even most of the 'never-been-released' stuff is watchable in some way on the backchannels, a TV or VHS rip or something, but 'watchable quality' is important.

Wrong thread chap. Zedz was reacting to Gnu calling rereleasing the Cronenbergs as the best year ever.

knives wrote:Wrong thread chap. Zedz was reacting to Gnu calling rereleasing the Cronenbergs as the best year ever.

Well, Cronenberg's my favorite director, and I've addressed in the past my disdain for the past treatment of Scanners and Cronenberg's other early work. (I'd hardly call it re-releasing if they never received a decent DVD transfer in the first place.) At the very least, it'd be a solid year. On top of that, though, I've got Heaven's Gate confirmed for next year. I've defended that movie for so long, and now it's finally getting the respect it deserves. My preliminary thoughts of 2012 are very positive thus far. (Most members on this forum felt the same way upon deciphering less than a 3rd of the titles on the twitter teaser photo.)

knives wrote:Wrong thread chap. Zedz was reacting to Gnu calling rereleasing the Cronenbergs as the best year ever.

Haha, the arguments about what Criterion should do and what MoC should do have gotten so similar that I've evidently lost the ability to distinguish between them.

Gary Gnu wrote:It's a few days old, but why hasn't this been brought up? (I doubt Criterion posted this photo for no reason.)

I've been excited for a reissue of Scanners for a long time now. I honestly hate The Brood, but it'd be nice if Criterion has the rights to all of these.

Wow. A box set would be phenomenal, though I'd have no complaints about individual releases stretched out over time either.

Anyone have any insights into whether this is likely? I'd imagine at least one of those films may be in Criterion's hands if they're tweeting that pic, right? Is there any other interpretation?

Same day, they also posted on facebook a picture of Cronenberg talking at New York Film Festival. I would think those two pics are related.

Linked on FB:

ARRI, Panavision and Aaton have all quietly ceased production of their film cameras to focus exclusively on the design and manufacture of digital cameras. Film? Fade to black.

This is very sad news.

kinjitsu wrote:This is very sad news.

Any film camera makers still in business?

The joy of celluloid accompanying Tacita Dean's installation FILM @ Tate Modern....

Criterion wrote:We're letting a giant cat out of the bag today... Stay tuned to: http://t.co/HeBExXTX

Looks like the tweet has since been deleted, but remains on the Criterion site Twitter feed. Unless Twitter isn't updating properly for me...

But yeah, Godziller?

Flike wrote:

Criterion wrote:We're letting a giant cat out of the bag today... Stay tuned to: http://t.co/HeBExXTX

Looks like the tweet has since been deleted, but remains on the Criterion site Twitter feed. Unless Twitter isn't updating properly for me

That tweet is still there

Le chat dans le sac would be awesome!

New contest to win this:



Expect Criterion's Facebook wall to be NSFW for the next few days.

swo17 wrote: Expect Criterion's Facebook wall to be NSFW for the next few days.

Yes. Lots of body horror already.

Haha, I'm entering this contest as hard as I can, but I've actually got most of those already.

Can we enter more than one image?

I've posted 6. But hurry, as 2 pictures I thought about and took screencaps of were uploaded by others before me. (Specifically Ritchie Tenenbaum's wrist slit overhead from "The Royal Tenenbaums", and Mickey Curtis getting shot just after his 'feast' in "Fires On The Plain")

Hail_Cesar wrote:Le chat dans le sac would be awesome!

I have a feeling Mon Oncle Antoine didn't sell in huge numbers. If that is the case, I fear that additional Quebecois classics won't be showing up any time soon. (Though I wonder if Mankiewicz's Le bons debarras / Good Riddance mightn't be a sleeper hit).