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Narshty · #201 Post by **Narshty** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:30 pm

The Two of Us (via Rialto), surely?

Anthony · #202 Post by **Anthony** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:39 pm

Maybe their set to release Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring... that would be cool (except that they'll release it in windowboxed form... which would suck).

Subbuteo · #203 Post by **Subbuteo** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:26 pm

kieslowski wrote:
Abbey Lustgarten and Alex Mabilon reported back on their interview with Claude Berri ("short and sweet").
Anyone care to speculate as to what that might have been for?

Don't give a damn about the Berri, but Abbey Lustgarten, what a sweet name!. Sorry folks but it is late over here in England.

skuhn8 · #204 Post by **skuhn8** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:40 pm

Not a damn thing of interest in the latest blog until the very last line:

Zoo (About human/horse sex)

I have to go check with my agent and attorney, see where my scripts been floating around.

miless · #205 Post by **miless** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:59 pm

skuhn8 wrote:
Zoo (About human/horse sex)
I have to go check with my agent and attorney, see where my scripts been floating around.

it's a documentary. and it sounds really interesting. It's playing at the Portland International Film Festival in few weeks (along with a number of really big foreign films)...

Derek Estes · #206 Post by **Derek Estes** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:01 pm

I just got back from Sundance and Zoo was one of the highlights for me. It is a flawed film for sure, but I think Rob Devor did quite a brilliant job at treating the subjects humanely and poetically. Quite Thought provoking.

Derek Estes · #207 Post by **Derek Estes** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:06 pm

miless wrote:it's a documentary. and it sounds really interesting. It's playing at the Portland International Film Festival in few weeks (along with a number of really big foreign films)...

You are right miless Zoo will be playing PIFF and so are a couple of my other Favorites from Sundance, Andrea Arnold's Red Road, and Portland's own Irene Taylor Brodsky's Hear and Now which just won the Audience award for best documentary. I highly recommend catching them if you can.

justeleblanc · #208 Post by **justeleblanc** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:02 pm

Did this blog die already?

Tribe · #209 Post by **Tribe** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:58 pm

justeleblanc wrote:Did this blog die already?

I was thinking the same thing. They haven't been diligent about posting....but then again, it's not an uncommon thing for new bloggers to run out of steam quickly.

Tribe

Cinesimilitude · #210 Post by **Cinesimilitude** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:16 pm

could just be busy getting ready to launch eclipse next month. I don't think they'll keep up two a week, but we should get another update soon.

arsonfilms · #211 Post by **arsonfilms** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:40 pm

The new title announcements for May should be happening within the next week (by Friday), and we've got a newsletter coming soon, too. I'd venture to guess that adding a second line to the collection while still maintaining an impressive output on the regular end of things is putting a strain on the workforce. A box-set a month is an impressive feat on its own, not even taking into consideration how many deals they must be brokering just to maintain the new ramped-up output. I mean, they still haven't even formally announced the Malle box, outside of the "coming soon" mention in the blog, and the only thing they've released on the Bergman set is a pdf of the sellsheet. Wouldn't be surprised if an Eclipse website were in the works, too.

Buttery Jeb · #212 Post by **Buttery Jeb** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:04 pm

There's been a few references in the "On Five" blog that Criterion's website's about to undergo a re-revamping in the near future (possibly to include information on Eclipse). The recent silence on their end is probable a result of that.

-BJ

justeleblanc · #213 Post by **justeleblanc** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:38 pm

Buttery Jeb wrote:There's been a few references in the "On Five" blog that Criterion's website's about to undergo a re-revamping in the near future (possibly to include information on Eclipse). The recent silence on their end is probable a result of that.

I'm waiting for them to start including YouTube clips on their blog. Then it'll REALLY take off.

cgray · #214 Post by **cgray** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:16 pm

Tribe wrote:but then again, it's not an uncommon thing for new bloggers to run out of steam quickly.

Yeah... I don't get it, though. They didn't plan more than 7 blogs into the future? I was excited just for a regular journal entry about growing up with the movies, having different staffers write, etc.

They don't have to release some news each time, but I feel like the blog was supposed to give fans a little more of an idea of the Criterion ethic and community. They started that, but...

It seems to me that the possible topics are innumerable.

starmanof51 · #215 Post by **starmanof51** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:42 pm

New entry up. Lots on Berlin Alexanderplatz (oh those Criterion jetsetters!), reference to an Eclipse website.

a.khan · #216 Post by **a.khan** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:45 pm

Welcome back, you were missed.

Jean-Luc Garbo · #217 Post by **Jean-Luc Garbo** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:47 pm

The mention of William Klein sounds promising - I hope!

arsonfilms · #218 Post by **arsonfilms** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:15 pm

New post by Eric Skillman. One of the more interesting entries, which is saying something.

ArchCarrier · #219 Post by **ArchCarrier** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:17 pm

Great new entry up. This is the kind of material I wanted them to post since the first 'personnel post' appeared. Great stuff for graphic designers!

Edit: darn, two minutes late!

a.khan · #220 Post by **a.khan** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:22 pm

Fantastic entry! I appreciate Eric including rejected artwork for "Night and the City" and "Thieves' Highway" to illustrate his process, concept to completion.

How easy it is for us to say that a cover sucks! ("Border Radio," I still can't figure you out.)

justeleblanc · #221 Post by **justeleblanc** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:50 pm

Notice the original logo in the rejected artwork.

gubbelsj · #222 Post by **gubbelsj** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:35 pm

And how cool is it that the great Mike Watt helped influence a Criterion cover, however indirectly? (Which begs the question, why didn't somebody dig out their old SST Minutemen albums to help design a better cover for Border Radio?

miless · #223 Post by **miless** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:51 pm

gubbelsj wrote:And how cool is it that the great Mike Watt helped influence a Criterion cover, however indirectly? (Which begs the question, why didn't somebody dig out their old SST Minutemen albums to help design a better cover for Border Radio?

or even old Black Flag, Meat Puppets or Sonic Youth (all of whom were at least once part of SST).

gubbelsj · #224 Post by **gubbelsj** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:15 pm

miless wrote:or even old Black Flag, Meat Puppets or Sonic Youth (all of whom were at least once part of SST).

Yes, a "Slip It In" homage would have been pretty great.

starmanof51 · #225 Post by **starmanof51** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:02 pm

The blog archives are starting to look forlorn - one post for Feb, one post for March.

Oh well.

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