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I'm sure if we start complaining from now until tomorrow we can get Night train to Munich on blu making it Criterion's first official month where all their releases are both SD and BD. Start now people!

Last month already did that, there was actually more Blu releases than SD, not that it ultimately matters.

This is tremendous news! EM is visually ravishing, and CU is simply one of the greatest and most enthralling films to come out of Iran in the past couple of decades or so (which is saying a great deal!) HD is a fitting way to see these gems at home. =D>

So what's the first Eclipse set that will get a Blu-ray treatment? Discuss.

Ashirg wrote:So what's the first Eclipse set that will get a Blu-ray treatment? Discuss.

None. They didn't even get the Criterion treatment.

Blu-ray.com is reporting that Image just picked up the Handmade Films library. Could this put How to Get Ahead in Advertising back in print?

Good show. EM and Close-up are available on both formats. The consumer gets to pick and everyone is happy

Now if we could just get them to release The Fugitive Kind on blu-ray...

arsonfilms wrote:Blu-ray.com is reporting that Image just picked up the Handmade Films library. Could this put How to Get Ahead in Advertising back in print?

Seems highly likely to me. Should also give Criterion the opportunity to remaster the in print titles originating from Handmade, as they are all subpar.

Have there been any updates about the relationship between the WCF and Criterion? I know A Brighter Summer Day has been entangled in rights nonsense, but I also thought Criterion was supposed to release Housemaid.

ianungstad wrote:

arsonfilms wrote:Blu-ray.com is reporting that Image just picked up the Handmade Films library. Could this put How to Get Ahead in Advertising back in print?

Seems highly likely to me. Should also give Criterion the opportunity to remaster the in print titles originating from Handmade, as they are all subpar.

The DVD may indeed go back into print, but this announcement seems to indicate that future Blu-ray releases will come from Image directly. Unless I'm reading this wrong...

captveg wrote:The DVD may indeed go back into print, but this announcement seems to indicate that future Blu-ray releases will come from Image directly. Unless I'm reading this wrong...

Possibly, but don't forget about this precedent.

Matt wrote:

captveg wrote:The DVD may indeed go back into print, but this announcement seems to indicate that future Blu-ray releases will come from Image directly. Unless I'm reading this wrong...

Possibly, but don't forget about this precedent.

True.

any chance that the Wim Wenders Road Trilogy will be a boxset or just individual releases? i'm hoping for the latter.

panicprevention wrote:any chance that the Wim Wenders Road Trilogy will be a boxset or just individual releases? i'm hoping for the latter.

I don't think that there's any reason to believe that Criterion has anything beyond Alice in the Cities right now. I believe that guesses about the other two coming were due to some misinterpretations of Facebook comments that actually only referred to Alice.

There's been a real proliferation of 'trilogies' lately. Where did this Wenders 'Road Trilogy' come from? And, more to the point, which of his many road movies are excluded from it (and why)?

Wenders considers Alice in the Cities, The Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road to be his "Road Movie Trilogy." He refers to them as such on his official website, which you can see at the bottom of this page for Alice.

I guess trilogies are a great marketing hook. It's a shame he couldn't have shoehorned Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick in there as well so there was a greater incentive to get it released!

ianungstad wrote:

arsonfilms wrote:Blu-ray.com is reporting that Image just picked up the Handmade Films library. Could this put How to Get Ahead in Advertising back in print?

Seems highly likely to me. Should also give Criterion the opportunity to remaster the in print titles originating from Handmade, as they are all subpar.

Thinking about what happens with Life of Brian makes my bwaaain huurt.

Jeff wrote:I don't think that there's any reason to believe that Criterion has anything beyond Alice in the Cities right now. I believe that guesses about the other two coming were due to some misinterpretations of Facebook comments that actually only referred to Alice.

I definitely asked about the whole trilogy, and I received the cryptic response of "no fun trying to keep secrets from you people." I know what I meant, but I'm still not sure what they meant.


In other news, the Forthcoming List only lists an SD release of House-oo. Not making this one Blu would be a shame, even if I read elsewhere on the forum that the first reel doesn't look as good as the others.

Flike wrote:You're now all expected to purchase the Everlasting Moments Blu that was just posted on the site.

I will. I just caught up, surprised at the furor over my comment. The movie has a particular tonal palatte that I think bluray will really show off the nuance of. What's more, it doesn't really make sense to buy dvds of new release movies when I have bluray capacity. I've got more movies than I need and many I don't get around to watching for a long while. So it's no great problem to put off buying a new release film like Everlasting Moments on the hopes that it will come out in blu down the line (still waiting on Z, probably a lost cause, but oh well, I've got dozens of unwatched movies I own and netflix and tcm to turn to instead). I do buy things I feel will NEVER be released on blu, such as the Golden Age of Television, all the eclipse sets and Make Way for tomorrow, for example. I vote with my dollars, so to speak. I spend far more on theatrical screenings a year than I do buying home video, although I've watched only about fifty movies so far this year (really low for me) forty of them have been in a theatre, most of those repertory screenings. So to me, it is less about having it to watch in my own home as it is about being able to watch it at all. I don't really ever expect to see Everlasting Moments in a theatre again, so when I do watch it again, I'd like it to be closer in quality to the film experience than what dvd offers. DVD is very very good, but my career has me working with compressed video every day, I see compression in blurays too--and in films that have had 2k Digital intermediates in the theatre, and I simply much prefer watching a 24hz 1080p image because it does not distract me as much as DVDs do.

Aren't all the Rudiger Vogler movies connected in spirit, since his characters have the same surname in all of them?

agnamaracs wrote:I definitely asked about the whole trilogy, and I received the cryptic response of "no fun trying to keep secrets from you people." I know what I meant, but I'm still not sure what they meant.

"You people"? What's that supposed to mean, Criterion? Paging Armond White....

What do you mean 'you people'?

What's the film in that photo Criterion just posted on twitter? :-k

Criterion : Anybody recognize the screenshot? RT @benlim: http://twitpic.com/1a8o5m" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - Screening the HD master of an upcoming release...