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Boosmahn wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:32 pm I'm almost positive Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a Classics title.

You are partially correct. It was ORION Classics, which is now part of MGM.

It's actually with Sony Pictures Classics now. Sony Pictures Classics was started by the same people who ran Orion Classics and I assume Almodóvar chose to let them have the film after MGM's rights expired. In fact SPC currently has all of his films.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Secrets & Lies (Leigh)
Winchester '73
I Know Where I'm Going (Upgrade)
The Small Back Room (Upgrade)

I hope for all . . . expect none.

Criterion's Twitter now possibly hinting at Lolita and Z.

Remember when the Z upgrade was just around the corner like a decade ago

TheKieslowskiHaze wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:46 pm Criterion's Twitter now possibly hinting at Lolita and Z.

excellent, I'd love to see some Adrian Lyne in the collection.

As mentioned in the The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie thread, Unobstructed View has leaked a Three Films by Luis Buñuel set containing The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire

If Unobstructed View becomes the replacement for phantom pages, that would be a-ok.

Have we had a megabox set and a regular box set announced in the same month, or does that but the kibosh on the WKW box this month?

THE ASCENT by Larisa Shepitko. 2 Disc DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack so perhaps they meant a BD/DVD edition?

EDIT: They corrected it and stated Blu-ray. EDIT AGAIN: Announcements deleted.

senseabove wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:04 pm Have we had a megabox set and a regular box set announced in the same month, or does that but the kibosh on the WKW box this month?

I assumed not having a separate announcement earlier in the week did that.

I wouldn't be surprised if all the box sets were meant to be 2020 releases, but the pandemic threw off their timing, what with clearing out their offices and setting up people to work from home.

I thought we had had a megabox announcement and regular announcements via separate emails on the same day, but I'm probably misremembering that.

So it's those two, Rolling Thunder Revue, and Bing Liu's Minding the Gap.

Is The Ascent the first Eclipse upgrade (not counting I Was Born, But... and the Bergman and Varda boxes)?

agnamaracs wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:25 pm So it's those two, Rolling Thunder Revue, and Bing Liu's Minding the Gap.

Is The Ascent the first Eclipse upgrade (not counting I Was Born, But... and the Bergman and Varda boxes)?

That is correct! I recently went through every individual title in the entire Eclipse line to see where/what Blurays were available elsewhere, and THE ASCENT is the very FIRST standalone Criterion upgrade of an Eclipse title.

TheKieslowskiHaze wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:46 pm Criterion's Twitter now possibly hinting at Lolita and Z.

I'm bad at this.

Is Minding the Gap the first Hulu film to get a Criterion release? I'm not sure if Hulu have anything else that would be considered Criterion worthy, or do they?

It is not licensed by Hulu, but through Kartemquin. Does not reflect anything about what might be licensed from Hulu.

criterionsnob wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:43 pm Is Minding the Gap the first Hulu film to get a Criterion release? I'm not sure if Hulu have anything else that would be considered Criterion worthy, or do they?

Portrait was a Hulu acquisition

I've figured the Wong Kar-wai set will come out in February to coincide with the flash sale.

Have we had two documentaries in a month before? In a way, these announcements feel like it's an outlier month.

Bressonaire wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2020 6:18 pm Have we had two documentaries in a month before? In a way, these announcements feel like it's an outlier month.

Not only are there two documentaries, but they are the only new titles. The other four are upgrades. Interesting month. But by no means disappointing, IMO.

...and we're back! I will be stepping in for Minkin this month to judge the Speculation Rodeo, so I will be abstaining from guessing. So now's the time to quote my regular guesses and reap the rewards!

They All Laughed
Original Cast Album: Company
Streetwise
Atlantics
Trouble in Paradise (Upgrade)
Written on the Wind (Upgrade)

Wong Kar-Wai Nightmare Set

I was just about to ask whether the non-vote-month was my chance to predict TAL being skipped and soundchaser would take it again, or whether it was pushed to this month. I don't wanna mess with the juju

Atlantics
Les bonnes femmes
Memories of Murder
At Long Last Love
Flowers of St. Francis (upgrade)