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Very happy to see the Make Way for Tomorrow upgrade. That's two months in a row where they're upgrading previous DVD-only titles that were released after they started to release Blu-rays.

captveg wrote:Very happy to see the Make Way for Tomorrow upgrade. That's two months in a row where they're upgrading previous DVD-only titles that were released after they started to release Blu-rays.

Of course, upgrading Z would have done the same...

(not that I'm bitter about it or anything)

I've waited six years since they told me they were releasing State of Siege!

FrauBlucher wrote:The Fassbinders are coming fast and furious.

Keep em coming! Hopefully Olive can get The Stationmaster's Wife out this year.

Ribs wrote:Of course, upgrading Z would have done the same...

I hope that they'll pair that upgrade with Missing, a film I like just as much, and one that might benefit even more from the bump to HD.

Ribs wrote:

captveg wrote:Very happy to see the Make Way for Tomorrow upgrade. That's two months in a row where they're upgrading previous DVD-only titles that were released after they started to release Blu-rays.

Of course, upgrading Z would have done the same...

(not that I'm bitter about it or anything)

I'd have loved Missing to get upgraded also.

Perhaps this isn't a weak month (especially with an upgrade of Make Way for Tomorrow), but overall the title announcement today did not blow me away. This is the second month in a row that I have felt this way, but I have no doubt a big announcement is on the horizon.

RSTooley wrote:Perhaps this isn't a weak month (especially with an upgrade of Make Way for Tomorrow), but overall the title announcement today did not blow me away. This is the second month in a row that I have felt this way, but I have no doubt a big announcement is on the horizon.

June always tends to be a good release month for Criterion.

My S/O always expects Wes Anderson or some lovey dovey films to be announced around Valentines day every year, thus I don't think this month's selections will be too appreciated here. (well, perhaps The Rose and the Chaplin). I on the other hand look forward to everything, and had been putting off the MoC blu/Criterion DVD of MWFT for quite awhile now!

So, does this month's announcements quell some of the ire from last month?

It does look like their plowing through some of their directors, as we're getting several rather than just waiting a year(s) between them (Renoir, Fassbinder, Sturges, etc).

The Costa-Gavrases are the discs to beat so far this year.

I know that it ultimately means nothing at all, but I'm kicking myself because I came so very, veryclose to guessing an upgrade of Make Way for Tomorrow.

rrenault wrote:June always tends to be a good release month for Criterion.

July, not so much.

"The North American premiere of the restored “La Chienne” will be presented by the Franco-American Cultural Fund (FACF), Janus Films, La Cinémathèque Française and Les Films du Jeudi."

Cool, but still waiting for an English-friendly La Bete Humaine blu-ray!

Drucker wrote:Cool, but still waiting for an English-friendly La Bete Humaine blu-ray!

Every silver lining has a cloud, huh? But isn't La Chienne, which hasn't had an English-friendly release since way back in VHS days a FAR bigger priority, and fantastic news that doesn't deserve to be sidelined by bitching that you still have to watch a different Renoir in (shock! horror!) perfectly acceptable SD (or unsubbed HD)?

There is such a thing as good news.

At least bitch about other unavailable-in-HD Renoirs.

Where's my Crimes of M. Lange, Criterion? Peter Becker doesn't care about Jean Renoir.

"La nuit du carrefour" should be the very first choice. And "La chienne" could be filled up with "On purge bébé".

captveg wrote:Very happy to see the Make Way for Tomorrow upgrade. That's two months in a row where they're upgrading previous DVD-only titles that were released after they started to release Blu-rays.

Come on The Human Condition trilogy! [-o<

SpiderBaby wrote:

FrauBlucher wrote:The Fassbinders are coming fast and furious.

Keep em coming! Hopefully Olive can get The Stationmaster's Wife out this year.

[-o<

Dillinger Is Dead and Two or Three Things I Know About Her are probably my two most wanted blu-ray upgrades of DVD-only releases which came out after Criterion began releasing blu-rays. The Exterminating Angel would come in third. And there's also Jeanne Dielman and L'Enfance Nue, but somehow I feel those last two would be less of a priority for Criterion.

I think they said Human Condition elements didn't stand up to HD or something similar. The Paramount SD only releases were rights but the others I think were element-related.

Moe Dickstein wrote:I think they said Human Condition elements didn't stand up to HD or something similar. The Paramount SD only releases were rights but the others I think were element-related.

It's on HD on Hulu. It looks gorgeous.

They did say that about Rossellini's War Trilogy...which is coming to Blu-ray next month via new 4K restorations.

Moe Dickstein wrote:I think they said Human Condition elements didn't stand up to HD or something similar. The Paramount SD only releases were rights but the others I think were element-related.

I believe human condition was a sales projection not elements, they said they couldn't make the numbers work.

I believe the point of both of those was that they had already put years and countless manhours into restoring the films for DVD before Blu-ray was even in the picture. So it was either release them on DVD when they did, or sit on perfectly good DVD transfers for a few more years, eat all that cost, and start from scratch.