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It's been a while since the last Chaplin, so I'll throw my hat into that ring.

City Lights
Belle de Jour
Y tu Mama Tambien
Bitter Rice
eclipse 31: John Ford

upgrades:
Autumn Sonata
Magic Flute
Wild Strawberries
or
Drunken Angel
Stray Dog
Rashomon

I'd say:

City Lights
Belle de Jour
Y tu Mama Tambien
Bitter Rice
World on wire
eclipse 31: Pierre Étaix

upgrades:
Wild Strawberries
Tokyo story

they've been dropping lots of Godzilla hints...I'd throw that one in there.

Didn't they also just have a Nanook of the North on facebook? I'd throw in Robert Flaherty Collection...

Cinephrenic wrote:Eclipse Series 31: Michael Bay: Explosions and Popcorn

Still waiting for the Transformers trilogy. Dreamworks/Parmount releasing the third one with no special features is obviously a sign that Criterion is working on it. :-k

I'm wondering whether the David Leans may be due for a Blu upgrade. I'd personally like Brief Encounter more (maybe with a new-to-the-Collection release of In Which We Serve or Blithe Spirit while my head is in the speculative clouds!) but assume if this does happen then it would more likely be the Great Expectations/Oliver Twist Leans.

doh I completely forgot about the Nanook and Godzilla clues.

David Lean upgrades would make me happier than any of the other randomness I guessed above.

Has anything but Brief Encounter shown up on Blu Ray elsewhere? (Summertime/Great Expectations/Oliver Twist ?)

Drucker wrote:Has anything but Brief Encounter shown up on Blu Ray elsewhere? (Summertime/Great Expectations/Oliver Twist ?)

Great Expectations was released in 2008 in the UK on a region-free ITV BD.

City Lights
Belle de Jour
Le Trou
After Hours (why not? And in Blu-Ray it'd be great)

upgrades to Blu:
Viridiana
Cléo de 5 à 7
Le Samourai

Is there a reason that everyone is going with City Lights for the next Chaplin?

I saw the new, restored print of The Gold Rush (with Cineteca Bologna + CC in the opening credits) yesterday at NYFF with live score by members of the NY Philharmonic. So, that one is forthcoming obviously, I just may have missed a clue about City Lights coming first.

Belle de Jour
World on a Wire
Lili Marleen
Bitter Rice
Wild Strawberries
and whatever that pic on Facebook was (Nanook of the North?)

Spine 600 will prob be Gojira in February (The same month will prob see the next Chaplin).

leo_floyd wrote: Le Trou
After Hours (why not?)

Because it's Warners. You're aware CC lost the rights to Le Trou?

I bought Le trou the other day, so you can thank me if Criterion regained the rights and decided to release a Blu-ray. You can also hail rrenault's prescience regarding the total collapse of the Studio Canal/Lionsgate/etc. deal.

Thought it'd be too soon for a World on a Wire announcement, but apparently the last tour date for the Janus run is Jan 14.

Flike wrote:Thought it'd be too soon for a World on a Wire announcement, but apparently the last tour date for the Janus run is Jan 14.

I'm just ready for more Fassbinder to enter, as I got 2 on my guessing list. I think it's been a good amount of time. I can see Weekend coming around the end of Spring.

htshell wrote:Is there a reason that everyone is going with City Lights for the next Chaplin?

I saw the new, restored print of The Gold Rush (with Cineteca Bologna + CC in the opening credits) yesterday at NYFF with live score by members of the NY Philharmonic. So, that one is forthcoming obviously, I just may have missed a clue about City Lights coming first.

Criterion told someone to expect City Lights sooner rather than later or something to that effect.

triodelover wrote:

Drucker wrote:Has anything but Brief Encounter shown up on Blu Ray elsewhere? (Summertime/Great Expectations/Oliver Twist ?)

Great Expectations was released in 2008 in the UK on a region-free ITV BD.

Have the blu-ray copy of "Great Expectations"...great looking blu-ray and would recomend anybody who loves the film to buy it. Speaking of Lean i am sure Columbia will release "Lawrence Of Arabia" on blu-ray next year for it's 50th anniversary and did see a sneak preview when it was shown on one of the HD movie channels a couple of months ago.

Flike wrote:Thought it'd be too soon for a World on a Wire announcement, but apparently the last tour date for the Janus run is Jan 14.

I don't know if it really works like that. The theater where I work is playing World on a Wire in December, but sometimes we play newly-restored Janus titles a year before they come out on CC (such was the case with the Phantom Carriage) and sometimes we even end up playing something after the disc is out, which will perhaps be the case for Weekend (we definitely won't slot it until July 2012 at the earliest, since we've programmed our monthly Janus screening through the end of the fiscal year, though we plan to play Weekend at some point). All theaters have different means of scheduling and different patterns of programming and something like World on a Wire could be played in a run as a new restoration print or as a one-off repertory screening, which would not be limited to a certain timeframe. Something like Le Havre, which is a new release, wouldn't necessarily operate on the same model that I'm suggesting, but older titles could.

Not 100% that this is Criterion related, but a few hours ago Sam Smith tweeted the following:
"Getting paid to look at Charlotte Rampling."

Upgrade of The Night Porter? Swimming Pool joining the collection?

dwk wrote:Not 100% that this is Criterion related, but a few hours ago Sam Smith tweeted the following:
"Getting paid to look at Charlotte Rampling."

Upgrade of The Night Porter? Swimming Pool joining the collection?

Could be Max mon Amour? It would also incidentally mark another appearance by Pierre Etaix alongside Le Havre and the Eclipse set.

Night Porter is one of the few remaining non anamorphic dvds, iirc.

The Knack... and How to Get It?

dwk wrote:Not 100% that this is Criterion related, but a few hours ago Sam Smith tweeted the following:
"Getting paid to look at Charlotte Rampling."

Upgrade of The Night Porter? Swimming Pool joining the collection?

FINALLY!