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mteller wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:51 pm The Third Man (reissue)

Third Man because I've got my copy on eBay right now and it would be just my luck for a new announcement to knock down the final selling price.

lacritfan wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:28 pm The Other Side of the Wind
The Wind Will Carry Us
Written on the Wind Upgrade

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:29 am I have seen some screenshots/vidcaps of the "Mirror" Tarkovsky. Apparently it has just been released on blu-ray already in Russia ? it looks like a new 2020 restoration, not at all the Artificial Eye which looks like a DVD remastered to HD. So, is the "Mirror" new restoration already released on blu-ray ?

olmo wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:39 pm The Dead Zone
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Forbidden Games Upgrade
The Human Condition Upgrade

A Tempted Christ wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:49 pm

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:29 am I have seen some screenshots/vidcaps of the "Mirror" Tarkovsky. Apparently it has just been released on blu-ray already in Russia ? it looks like a new 2020 restoration, not at all the Artificial Eye which looks like a DVD remastered to HD. So, is the "Mirror" new restoration already released on blu-ray ?

It's not a 2020 restoration. It's been up on Mosfilm's Youtube channel since late 2018.
And I don't know of a Russian Blu-ray but it's out on Blu-ray in Netherlands by Lumière Publishing, both as part of a Tarkovsky box set and a standalone release.
It's finally in the correct aspect ratio and it looks great. My only complain is about the opening with the famous shot of the mother sitting on the fence. In previous Blu-rays the sky in that scene has a pink-ish color. In the new restoration, the sky just looks normal. It's probably correct and how Tarkovsky intended it but I just loved the magical look of those older Blu-rays. Maybe since Criterion took the liberty to alter the tinting of Stalker, they'll do something about it with their release of Mirror too.

Bressonaire wrote: Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:04 pm

Can we also use this thread to guess which title of Bressonaire's is the red herring? I'll go with Le Cercle Rouge

Ha! I'm floundering like everyone who'd have liked a New Year's drawing. I think my course will be to extrapolate and free-associate more from Channel stuff. The Channel's two favorite commenters, Imogen Sara Smith and Farran Smith Nehme, may have some input on choices, so I'm trying to catch up with their postings, along with the roundup of 2020 essays from the Channel newsletter that had all those links back in December. And there have been retrospectives of Joan Crawford (who still only has one title in the collection!), Mae West, and others worth mulling. Also, the last couple months have expanded possibilities to upgrades from Eclipse and titles from The World Cinema Project, so there's that. But it still comes down to what appeals on any given day....

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:51 pm I would be surprised by a Mae West box from Criterion. I’d expect one from KL Studio Classics maybe

Blutarsky wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:57 am
A Clockwork Orange

barbarella satyricon wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:44 pm IRMA VEP
MEAN STREETS
WILD REEDS (Téchiné)
MEMORIES OF MURDER
DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST

This is my first rodeo, actually, and the above is part wish list (the first two), part random inkling (the Téchiné), and part whatever inside baseball I may have picked up here and there. The Bresson upgrade, if at all a possibility, does feel, if not overdue, then just about the right time?

I get the feeling (just a feeling) that Criterion won’t be touching Hou for a while, if ever, though I’d be very happy to be wrong about that. Egoyan, I thought about adding, but I’m thinking something will be coming later in the year? First rodeo, and being real chatty about it.