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I Know Where I'm Going!
Devi
Minbo
Spellbound
Le Trou

domino harvey wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 7:25 pm I don’t think anyone can watch it in the spirit intended and be offended, especially since it doesn’t try to apologize or romanticize the realities of production (well, these particular ones, at least!) and what was popular. I’m just saying, were Criterion to lose a bet and think about releasing it, they’d probably decide it’s not worth the potential headache. We can’t even get people to agree on Birth of a Nation itself right now, is there any hope for a film built around the idea of its brilliance?

I didn't even remember those parts, which goes to show how Bogdanovich's warm charms nullify any potential offense for me. I hear your point, though I don't think arguments around the merits of Birth of a Nation are in a similar vein. I know where you're coming from but that film is always going to elicit cries of importance vs offense when its entire presentation is rooted in context contrasting with a sharp culture shift to offensiveness that one needs to be willing to meet objectively to access its offerings. Nickelodeon is a series of scenes depicting Old Hollywood, and if one or two of those- I-don't-know, 100? -include some dated clashes of context, that may be easier to overlook, or compromise with, than an entire film chalk full of them.

Anyways, maybe a U.K. label will do it.

After hours
Dogville
Desperate Living
Mother kusters goes to heaven

Pierrot le fou reissue
Les enfants terrible upgrade

black&huge wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 9:00 pmDogville

I wonder what chance this eventually has of happening. This is still a Lionsgate property I'm assuming?

It's with LIONSGATE? Goddamnit....

The Other Side of the Wind
The Wind Will Carry Us
Written on the Wind Upgrade

lacritfan wrote: Tue May 12, 2020 2:34 pm The Other Side of the Wind
The Wind Will Carry Us
Written on the Wind Upgrade

Oh, let's add Key Largo to your windy list!

Why is everyone who is guessing Parasite not also including Memories of Murder? I can't imagine them not coming out together.

My choices:

Parasite
Memories of Murder
The Irishman
Written on the Wind upgrade
The Mirror

Amores Perros
"I Know Where I'm Going!"
The Irishman
Los Olvidados
The World
Written on the Wind [upgrade]

What I want to be announced, but won't be: Post Tenebras Lux.

I will stop guesssing Parasite this month so that it finally comes out:

Secrets And Lies
Flowers Of Shanghai
Amores Perros
The Big Heat

The Fireman's Ball upgrade

Luke M wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 4:07 am Why is everyone who is guessing Parasite not also including Memories of Murder? I can't imagine them not coming out together.

Neon wanted to do a theatrical run from what I understand so I'm guessing Criterion will hold off on releasing it till Neon can do that.

Weird that the Agnes Varda set was announced early - any thoughts on whether we'll still get a slate of films Friday or Monday?

I'm hoping for

* I Know Where I'm Going (or A Canterbury Tale) upgrade
* Written on the Wind upgrade
* W.C. Fields box set
* Something by Jia Zhangke (Still Life perhaps?)

schellenbergk wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 8:51 pm Weird that the Agnes Varda set was announced early - any thoughts on whether we'll still get a slate of films Friday or Monday?

That's how they have been announcing all of these sets.

Glowingwabbit wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 8:54 pm That's how they have been announcing all of these sets.

GTK - Thanks!

AndrewConger wrote:

Luke M wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 4:07 am Why is everyone who is guessing Parasite not also including Memories of Murder? I can't imagine them not coming out together.

Neon wanted to do a theatrical run from what I understand so I'm guessing Criterion will hold off on releasing it till Neon can do that.

Ah thanks for the info.

schellenbergk wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 8:51 pm* Something by Jia Zhangke (Still Life perhaps?)

Still Life is with Big World Pictures, the outfit that put out the Rebels of the Neon God resto a few years back. Janus/Criterion has the features from Xiao Wu through The World.

Platform
L'amour fou
Fucking Åmål
Spirit of the Beehive upgrade

modernmalaise wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 11:33 pm Fucking Åmål

If they release this with the proper title and not as Show Me Love, and give us a more X-rated Comfort of Strangers cover than the BFI, we'll know Criterion has beat the constraints of the climate. (neither of those will ever happen though)

Mr. Klein
Original Cast Album: Company
The Other Side of the Wind
Streetwise

Secrets and Lies
Toni
Claudine
Upgrade of Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Upgrade of Written on the Wind

(I'm with schellenbergk, though: we need some W.C. Fields! Especially some of Paramount's neglected gems from the first Depression: If I Had a Million, International House, and Six of a Kind.)

Bressonaire wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 9:57 am (I'm with schellenbergk, though: we need some W.C. Fields! Especially some of Paramount's neglected gems from the first Depression: If I Had a Million, International House, and Six of a Kind.)

I'd be happy with all your suggestions too - I saw Toni at the National Gallery of Art in DC on what I think is the best screen in town (take that AFI!!!) and it's a superb Renoir.

As for Fields - I like all the ones you mention and am also really fond of The Man on the Flying Trapeze, Million Dollar Legs and the Mack Sennett four. Personally - the one Fields films everyone seems to like that leaves me cold is My Little Chickadee - I find it middling Fields and middling-to-poor West.

Bressonaire wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 9:57 am Upgrade of Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Just looked at the page for this and there are 13 screenshots on it (compared to the 6 different screenshots that were there last year).

A much bigger confirmation that it’s coming is who posted it

I'm surprised that you didn't notice it considering you were able to spot the update for 'The Lady Eve' and 'Taste of Cherry' a day before it was announced.

Oh well.