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Who knows?

EDIT: Wait, what about Les rivières pourpres?

It's Downhill Racer II, isn't it?

TMDaines wrote:It's Downhill Racer II, isn't it?

Part III.

Part II was money-grabbing exploitation schlock.

Are we sure it's not a three-disc Seven Samurai-esque special edition of Downhill Racer? One of the discs can be a DIGITAL COPY

If you want my guess, it's Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed) which Criterion has already confirmed to be in the works. I haven't seen the film but according to a google search the climax of the film takes place in a moutain cable car in the Swiss Alps.

Pretty sure it's Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich.

EDIT: Ian beat me to it.

NilbogSavant wrote:

LOL

ianungstad wrote:If you want my guess, it's Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed) which Criterion has already confirmed to be in the works. I haven't seen the film but according to a google search the climax of the film takes place in a moutain cable car in the Swiss Alps.

I believe we have a winner.

someone from IMDb wrote:The action culminates in a skillfully directed chase scene, climaxing on the Swiss border, where the term "cliff-hanger" takes on literal meaning.

Also, apparently, Night Train to Munich was co-written by Sidney Gilliat, who made the wonderful Green for Danger. Color me excited!

There's a part of me that's excited, but then there's that part of me that hoped it really was the Rock Hudson/Mia Farrow Roger Corman pic

Night Train to Munich is a fun film (from rusty memory - but I didn't even remember the cable car, so there you go), along the lines of The Lady Vanishes II, but with Rex Harrison subbing for Michael Redgrave and Charters and Caldicott promoted to full-flegded supports.

Hello.

I've just registered to post this news. I often check this website for news of upcoming releases and thought members would like to know that a Hollis Frampton release is in the works from Criterion. This weekend I attended a conference at the University of Chicago dedicated to Hollis Frampton and Bill Brand announced that Criterion is going to release the Hollis Frampton set in the next year.

Cool!

sunless wrote:Hello.

I've just registered to post this news. I often check this website for news of upcoming releases and thought members would like to know that a Hollis Frampton release is in the works from Criterion. This weekend I attended a conference at the University of Chicago dedicated to Hollis Frampton and Bill Brand announced that Criterion is going to release the Hollis Frampton set in the next year.

Cool!

I know nothing of this name, but from the looks of IMDB, more experimental work on Eclipse?

Cinephrenic wrote:

sunless wrote:Hello.

I've just registered to post this news. I often check this website for news of upcoming releases and thought members would like to know that a Hollis Frampton release is in the works from Criterion. This weekend I attended a conference at the University of Chicago dedicated to Hollis Frampton and Bill Brand announced that Criterion is going to release the Hollis Frampton set in the next year.

Cool!

I know nothing of this name, but from the looks of IMDB, more experimental work on Eclipse?

Yeah, a quite prominent NY experimental artist whose work I haven't seen. This is very exciting news.

IMDB seems to be incomplete. From Wikipedia:

* Clouds Like White Sheep (1962) 25 min 16mm (reported destroyed)
* A Running Man (1963) 22 min 16mm (reported destroyed)
* Ten Mile Poem (1964) 33 min 16mm (reported destroyed)
* Obelisk Ampersand Encounter (1965) 1:30 min 16mm (reported lost)
* Information (1966) 4 min 16mm
* Manual of Arms (1966) 17 min 16mm
* Process Red (1966) 3:30 min 16mm
* Heterodyne (1967) 7 min 16mm
* Maxwell's Demon (1968) 4 min 16mm
* Snowblind (1968) 5:30 min 16mm
* Surface Tension (1968) 10 min 16mm
* Artificial Light (1969) 25 min 16mm
* Carrots and Peas (1969) 5:30 min 16mm
* Lemon (1969) 7:30 min 16mm
* Palindrome (1969) 22 min 16mm
* Prince Rupert Drops (1969) 7 min 16mm
* Work and Days (1969) 12 mins 16mm
* States (1967, Revised 1970) 17:30 min 16mm
* Zorns Lemma ( 1970) 60 minutes 16mm
* Clouds of Magellan (1971) 16mm
* Critical Mass (1971) 25:30 min 16mm
* (nostalgia) (1971) 36 min 16mm
* Travelling Matte (1971) 33:30 min 16mm
* Appartus Sum (1972) 3 min 16mm
* Given: . . . (1972) 28 min 16mm
* Hapax Legomena (1971-1972) 3 hrs 22 min 16mm
* Ordinary Matter (1972) 36 min 16mm
* Poetic Justice (1972) 31:30 min 16mm
* Public Domain (1972) 18 min 16mm
* Remote Control (1972) 29 min 16mm
* Special Effects (1972) 10:30 min 16mm
* Tiger Balm (1972) 10 min 16mm
* Yellow Springs (1972) 5 min 16mm
* Less (1973) 1 sec 16mm
* Autumnal Equinox (Solariumagelani) (1974) 27 min 16mm
* Banner (1974) 40 sec 16mm
* INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT (1974) 61:30 min 16mm
* Noctiluca (Magellan's Toys: #1) (1974) 3:30 min 16mm
* SOLARIUMAGELANI (1974) 92 min 16mm
* Straits of Magellan (1974) 51:15 min 16mm
* Summer Solstice (1974) 32 min 16mm
* Winter Solstice (1974) 33 min 16mm
* Drum (1975) 20 sec 16mm
* Pas de Trois (1975) 4 min 16mm
* For Georgia O'Keeffe (1976) 3:30 min 16mm
* Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate (1976) 54 min 16mm
* "Magellan: Drafts and Fragments"
* "More Than Meets The Eye"
* "Otherwise Unexplained Fires"

maybe a Brakhage-like set will be released

It's hard to say. One of his most popular has already been released on one of those avant-garde sets ((nostalgia)), so who knows what they'll do.

Hollis was very good friends with Michael Snow, occasionally collaborating on films, as well as having a major 'role' in Wavelength. Would be nice if Snow is involved in this set somehow. Frampton also has an amazing film, nostalgia, in the recent Treasure from the American Avant-garde set (EDIT: as James mentioned above). I wonder if that will be brought over to this criterion set, since it's one of the essential Framptons.

I've never heard of Hollis Frampton prior to these posts. Is he related to Peter Frampton by any chance (FYI, I'm not being cute, I just want to know; OK, maybe I am just a little bit)?

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ianungstad wrote:If you want my guess, it's Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed) which Criterion has already confirmed to be in the works. I haven't seen the film but according to a google search the climax of the film takes place in a moutain cable car in the Swiss Alps.

You may be right but the climax of Night Train to Munich is a very small-scale, mostly studio-bound affair with unconvincing model work. If it is that film, I'd argue that cover art promises a lot more alpine spectacle than it delivers!

sunless wrote:Hello.

I've just registered to post this news. I often check this website for news of upcoming releases and thought members would like to know that a Hollis Frampton release is in the works from Criterion. This weekend I attended a conference at the University of Chicago dedicated to Hollis Frampton and Bill Brand announced that Criterion is going to release the Hollis Frampton set in the next year.

Cool!

Thanks for the head's up. I look forward to it.

Gotta love someone calling out Jeff's comment on Skillman's blog for stealing his guess from... his own post on this forum!

My only frame of reference for Hollis Frampton is he was mentioned in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest in connection with the fictional auteur James O. Incandenza.

Fierias wrote:Hollis was very good friends with Michael Snow, occasionally collaborating on films, as well as having a major 'role' in Wavelength. Would be nice if Snow is involved in this set somehow. Frampton also has an amazing film, nostalgia, in the recent Treasure from the American Avant-garde set (EDIT: as James mentioned above). I wonder if that will be brought over to this criterion set, since it's one of the essential Framptons.

Hollis Frampton is a great filmmaker. We just completed a five-part series of his films here in Los Angeles (same time as the symposium in Chicago), and that didn't cover half of his films.
http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Curren ... edule.html

It might be like another Brakhage set. His films are quite rigorous, usually with a pre-determined editing structure, with beautiful use of color, light, and form. As his career progressed, he also developed an interest in more encyclopedic projects in film, as manifested in ZORNS LEMMA, the HAPAX LEGOMENA series (of which (nostalgia) is part 1, and the uncompleted MAGELLAN series.

He was also a really good film scholar, and there is a new collection of his writings on photography and film and video, ahead of his time:
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters
http://tiny.cc/3wKrG

Our five-part series did not even cover half of his films. The Hapax Legmoena series was just restored and reprinted, so I would assume that they would be including that. But a couple of those films might be pretty tough slogs to watch on a small screen - they even are on a big screen. Poetic Justice, Zorns Lemma, and Gloria are all magnificent mixes of text and image. One comes out of Zorns Lemma feeling like one has seen the whole world, for example.

We also performed Frampton's A LECTURE, which is a written text by Frampton on the nature of light, projection, and film, pre-recorded [original voice was also Michael Snow, as with (nostalgia)], with a projector in the room running at silent speed with the performer putting various things in the gate. Pretty sure that one won't be in the set , but one can read the text in the book mentioned above.