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Zot! wrote:"Something Wild" is just fantastic, thanks for the info!

Darn, I was hoping it was Jack Garfein's SOMETHING WILD, from 1961.

Nothing against the other one, I haven't seen it, so I will probably take a chance on it anyways.

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Almost all of Demme's films have very good editions except this one.

Really? Hopefully I'm missing something- Citizen's Band/Handle With Care seems never to have been put on DVD, and stuff like Melvin and Howard and Married to the Mob have been out of print for a while- do they have worthwhile releases?

(While looking up stuff for this, I found out the Walken version of Who Am I This Time? was directed by Demme- neat!)

matrixschmatrix wrote:

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Almost all of Demme's films have very good editions except this one.

Really? Hopefully I'm missing something- Citizen's Band/Handle With Care seems never to have been put on DVD, and stuff like Melvin and Howard and Married to the Mob have been out of print for a while- do they have worthwhile releases?

(While looking up stuff for this, I found out the Walken version of Who Am I This Time? was directed by Demme- neat!)

We can certainly argue semantics, but notice the word "almost". Married to the Mob and Melvin and Howard had good editions with commentary. Just because they're out of print doesn't mean they never existed.

EDIT: Married to the Mob actually doesn't have a good edition. It's on par with Something Wild. That's one I haven't seen though.

Hell, I'm not going to argue, I'm going to go buy those discs- I hadn't been able to find out whether they were decent releases or not.

Here's hoping Citizen's Band is an extra on Something Wild...

jwd5275 wrote:At the Mystery Train event yesterday at the Wexner Center in Ohio, the Criterion rep (I think it was Lee Kline) let it slip that Criterion is working on 'Something Wild' by Jonathan Demme.

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Excellent. Criterion is releasing a film that I legitimately hate.

At least the Feelies are in it.

Not surprisingly, "The Darjeeling Limited" was also confirmed last night at Wexner, and I overheard Lee Kline talk about the "Thin Red Line" set - some deleted scenes, no such thing as the 4 hour "Director's Cut."

Those two were much less dish-y than Kim was last year, but it was still a great event.

Excellent. Criterion is releasing a film that I legitimately hate.

Regardless of how legitimate your hatred might be, I thought you're required to qualify statements like this on this forum?

agnamaracs wrote:Excellent. Criterion is releasing a film that I legitimately hate.

I haven't seen Something Wild, but rest assured, the CC has its share of stinkers. You'll get over it.

Zot! wrote:

Excellent. Criterion is releasing a film that I legitimately hate.

Regardless of how legitimate your hatred might be, I thought you're required to qualify statements like this on this forum?

Seems okay to say you hate a film without justifying it. It would be another thing if agnamaracs said it was a terrible film without saying why.

I thought Something Wild was pretty good. Certainly a better 'yuppie in love with a kooky girl followed by psycho figures from her past who then proceeds to systematically destroy his entire life' film than Who's That Girl? with Madonna and John Mills.

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:Great news to know it's a hundred percent sure! In their pre-Facebook days, I e-mailed them a good five times about Something Wild. Almost all of Demme's films have very good editions except this one. They hinted that they were working on this on their Facebook page a few months ago, but again, glad to here it's a for sure thing!

I remember liking Something Wild quite a bit back in the day...I wonder whether or not if its held up after all these years.

Matt wrote:

Zot! wrote:

agnamaracs wrote:Excellent. Criterion is releasing a film that I legitimately hate.

Regardless of how legitimate your hatred might be, I thought you're required to qualify statements like this on this forum?

Seems okay to say you hate a film without justifying it. It would be another thing if agnamaracs said it was a terrible film without saying why.

Sorry, wasn't trying to invoke admin involvement, just curious why agnamaracs hated it. It seems like a pretty harmless movie that would be unlikely to invoke hatred.

I was hoping for Last Embrace to get the CC treatment. Oh well. Maybe next time.

Zot! wrote:

Excellent. Criterion is releasing a film that I legitimately hate.

Regardless of how legitimate your hatred might be, I thought you're required to qualify statements like this on this forum?

Things I liked about it:
--The title song ("Loco De Amor" by David Byrne)
--The Feelies are in it
--I generally like Ray Liotta

Things I didn't like about it
--Melanie Griffith
--Any part of the story

Qualified enough?

jwd5275 wrote:http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7510675

That's an interesting interview for Criterionophiles in general. Kline mentions that he really had to push for Last Year at Marienbad to get the Blu treatment, but that now the general policy is to do simultaneous Blu and DVD for almost everything. There's a little bit of behind the scenes info and Criterion history there too.

The story about Fumiko Takagi translating for negotiations to Japanese companies and how Lee Kline does it better by NOT knowing how to speak Japanese is a funny story.

Lee Kline and Kim Hendrickson, right? Or was that woman someone else?

Susan Arosteguy, producer of the disc.

A glut of announced-for-2010 titles (plus some others that I think are fairly far along), coupled with some early summer ennui, compels me to randomly speculate how I think Criterion will fill the final third of what has surely been their greatest year thus far.

September
House (DVD + Blu)
Antichrist (DVD + Blu)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (DVD + Blu)
Four Feathers (DVD only)
Videodrome Blu upgrade

October
Fish Tank (DVD + Blu)
Cronos (DVD + Blu)
Picnic at Hanging Rock redux (DVD + Blu)
People on Sunday (DVD only)
Charade Blu upgrade

November
Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider's New Hollywood (DVD + Blu)
The Thin Red Line (DVD + Blu)
The Darjeeling Limited (DVD + Blu)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (DVD + Blu)
Seven Samurai Blu upgrade

December
City Lights (or another major Chaplin) (DVD + Blu)
The Night of the Hunter (DVD + Blu)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (DVD + Blu)
Fanny and Alexander Blu upgrade
Breathless Blu upgrade

Of course some of those will inevitably get pushed in to next year and there will probably be a couple of surprises (and hopefully another Eclipse set or two) as well. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, Something Wild, Design for Living, Following, Still Walking, Alice in the Cities, Taking Off, or The Game make it in place of a couple of those. Surely all are due by first quarter of 2011.

I wouldn't be too hopeful for Picnic at Hanging Rock and Fanny and Alexander for this year. Also, i think Seven Samurai cannot be later than October.

perkizitore wrote:I wouldn't be too hopeful for Picnic at Hanging Rock and Fanny and Alexander for this year. Also, i think Seven Samurai cannot be later than October.

Why and why?

They have too many things on their slate right now for these titles (which require quite a lot of work) and of course Seven Samurai will have been released by the time the November B&N sale starts!

It wouldn't shock me to see Following arrive in November-ish to coincide with the DVD/BLU release of Inception.

perkizitore wrote:They have too many things on their slate right now for these titles (which require quite a lot of work) and of course Seven Samurai will have been released by the time the November B&N sale starts!

Fanny & Alexander is a perfect holiday title, though (esp. since it's set largely around the holiday season). For that matter, Seven Samurai is too. I think they'll happen this year.

Don't forget Still Walking, this will be released by the end of the year too.