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Like I said I haven't seen it, so I just assumed based on the similar titles they were related.

"Mr. Death" is a different personage than "Dr. Death". One designed execution devices, and later got in trouble for questioning the validity of gas chambers. The other was a psychologist who testified in hundreds of trials, often designating criminals as sociopaths and recommending the death penalty. I believe Morris's research on the latter lead him to interview Randall Dale Adams, deciding his was a more interesting story.

EDIT: Maybe Morris can make a documentary about that damn page break.

zedz wrote:I think we did have some oblique confirmation of those three early films, a long time ago, but I can't remember what it was.

If those films are released, I would love to see extras specifically devoted to the abandoned features out of which they evolved (e.g. the 'Nub City' and 'Doctor Death' documentaries). Morris can talk and talk, so I hope he's all over any release with commentaries, reflections, updates and so forth. Stick him in the Interrotron, Criterion!

Jonathan Sehring, president of IFC, confirmed to me at the same Q&A that he announced Tiny Furniture and the "major-minor" fiasco, that Criterion would release Morris' first three films. This was after a screening of Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Now we know that Y Tu Mama Tambien's release is (finally) imminent.

No one else has raided the closet quite like Cuaron and Pawlikowski.

I wouldn't be surprised if they are planning to release Y Tu Mama Tambien and Children of Men as back to back spine numbers. Universal discontinued Children of Men on dvd and blu a few months ago but Amazon still has plenty of copies in stock. (Technically the double feature of Children of Men/Repo Men is still listed as available from Universal.)

Children of Men would be awesome.

Cuaron is certainly not shy in the closet.

Children Of Men would be a surprise to me. A very pleasant one, mind you but still a surprise.

I wonder based on that video if this also means that we may be getting Pawlikoswki's BBC Film productions. While Last Resort (the asylum seeker tale) and My Summer Of Love (the forbidden lesbian love story in a religious commune tale) are his most celebrated films (and both feature Paddy Considine in key roles), I'd particularly like if Criterion were doing a set of the director's films for the more obscure Moscow-set film The Stringer, and maybe his earlier documentaries, to also get included.

Though it looks as if My Summer Of Love was distributed by, ahem, Focus Features.

colinr0380 wrote:Bong Joon-ho in the Criterion Closet

Gotta be Memories of Murder right? Mother and The Host have perfectly decent Blurays from Magnolia, and Magnolia also holds US rights for Barking Dogs Never Bite. Unless we're venturing into some all of a sudden Criterion has a deal with The Weinstein Company type situation, gotta be MoM.

Jgh8xxx wrote:

colinr0380 wrote:Bong Joon-ho in the Criterion Closet

Gotta be Memories of Murder right? Mother and The Host have perfectly decent Blurays from Magnolia, and Magnolia also holds US rights for Barking Dogs Never Bite. Unless we're venturing into some all of a sudden Criterion has a deal with The Weinstein Company type situation, gotta be MoM.

I wouldn't read too much into the Criterion Closet. Plenty of people raided the closet without having a future film coming out. Bong Joon-ho's on the promotion circuit now and probably got an invite (he does have a relationship with the company from when he did an interview for The Housemaid).

All that being said, a Memories of Murder Criterion would be awesome.

captveg wrote:All that being said, a Memories of Murder Criterion would be awesome.

I absolutely second this. It's one of my all-time favorites (had the privilege to tell Mr. Bong that in person last month) and my CJ Korean Blu freezes up when playing.

jedgeco wrote:Somebody in Italy working with the Pather Panchali negative.

Many thought that this was coming out soon. Assuming that the picture wasn't take awhile ago, we may have to wait another couple of years for the box set.

Everyone gets trapped in that darn closet.

domino harvey wrote:Zizek visits the closet

Here, we discover ZIzek has not upgraded to Blu-Ray.

I just like the way that the camera sependipitously reframes to show the Burden of Dreams disc just as he begins to talk about it!

I'm with him on the extras, although the best films are those that raise a number of topics that provide room for further discussion - seriously I think that a logical next step for Criterion or any company is to release a series of roundtable discussions and topic interviews that are not limited by a particular film that they have to tie into but instead can range over a much wider set of topics. Although I guess you could argue that a film like Los Angeles Plays Itself has already taken that idea and run with it, that there are already a number of podcasts that have moved the activity of film discussion forward without needing to be constrained by running time or subject matter, and that Criteiron's website (or linked to material such as Matt Zoller Seitz's piece on All That Jazz) might be better suited to such material rather than a commercially sold disc. But there is still a lot of cache to the 'film school in a box' idea, even with all of these new methods of communication.

William Friedkin visits the closet.

Cruising from Criterion?

My guess would be The Boys in the Band.

Cruising is a Warner Bros title.

vidussoni wrote:My guess would be The Boys in the Band.

Cruising is a Warner Bros title.

So is Badlands. :-k

Warner Brothers dumped Cruising into their Warner Archive program.

Almost Certainly: The Boys in the Band. Out of print Paramount disc. Has not been reissued by Warner Brothers. Generally well regarded. Culturally important. Lots they could do with the supplements.

Outside chance: To Live and Die in L.A

John Doe wrote:William Friedkin visits the closet.

Cruising from Criterion?

Just watch, we probably all guessed the wrong starved blue wildcat.