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Y Tu mama tambien
Eraserhead +
Persona
La Dolce Vita
The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
The Hidden Fortress upgrade
The Honeymoon Killers upgrade

Like Someone in Love
Persona
Red River
Hiroshima mon amour (upgrade)
Le Samouraï (upgrade)
Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films (upgrade)

dwk wrote:It is that Thief, Vegeta84. They licensed it from MGM a couple of years ago.

They did? I'd always heard it as a rumor but didn't realize they had licensed it already.

I probably should've said it is rumored that Thief was one of two-dozen or so films they picked up in their big (second) deal with MGM. (For the record, the first deal with MGM was for five titles, Salo, House of Games, and Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, licensed to Criterion in exchange for their Raging Bull commentary track.)

I bet it didn't take much arm-twisting to hand over Salo. I've seen it in stores and it just has the UA logo on the back.

I wonder if Refn was at the criterion offices to do an interview on Thief since it has been said that he used that as a huge influence on Drive.. Which is a bit surprising as they're not really that much alike.

He said himself on Elvis Mitchell's podcast that he thought a better comparison was to Manhunter, specifically the love story that takes place in that movie between Dollarhyde and the blind woman.

Speaking of things Winding Refn might or might not want to talk about is there any chance that Crit (or more likely Shout) would pick up Amos Poe's Alphabet City whose home video release could be improved upon.

With a week to go, I'll add my picks:

L'avventura
Le Samourai
Persona
Throne of Blood
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Would love:
Rocco and His Brothers
A Matter of Life and Death

My guesses:

Persona
Foreign Correspondent
All That Heaven Allows
Tess
Eraserhead + shorts

Would also love:
The Kid + Chaplin First National shorts
The Bride Wore Black
Floating Weeds double feature Blu

phantomforce wrote:I wonder if Refn was at the criterion offices to do an interview on Thief since it has been said that he used that as a huge influence on Drive.. Which is a bit surprising as they're not really that much alike.

I interviewed Refn yesterday and he said he was only at Criterion to get free stuff since he was in NYC. He said he wasn't working on anything with Criterion. I had hoped Bleeder, his second feature with no R1 release, was in the offing, but no dice. He could be lying, but that's what he said.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Foreign Correspondent
Persona
Erroll Morris Set

All That Heaven Allows Upgrade
Written on the Wind Upgrade

Two new films.
One box set of three new films.
Two upgrades, one of which is BD-only and one which is Dual-Format.

I would love to see a release of the film "I See a Darling Stranger" with Deborah Kerr and "Dead of Night"

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Y tu mama tambien
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
L'avventura
Throne of Blood blugrade

Since no one has done it yet, I suppose I'll make the Wes Anderson centric guess. We'll probably actually get Mad x4 and only one Anderson

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Moonrise Kingdom
Y Tu mama tambien
Life Aquatic upgrade
All that Heaven Allows upgrade

Triumph of the Will

The Long Voyage Home
Boy
Life Aquatic Blu

Actual guesses:

Burn!
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Persona
Tess
Y tu mama tambien
Sirk Blu upgrades

Predictions for tomorrow:

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Scanners
The Brood
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman BD
Eclipse of Shinoda in the 70s

Last month I was 0 for 4. Hopefully I'll get at least one this time around!

Is the announcement of January titles expected today or tomorrow?

It should be tomorrow. Criterion always makes announcements on the 15th of a month, unless the 15th is on a weekend.

Thanks, Askew. I feel like an expectant father!

Y Tu Mama Tambien
La Traversee de Paris
Life Aquatic Dual
Antoine Doinel Dual upgrade

My feeling is that Persona will be a February release that will be accompanied by another Bergman upgrade, possibly Cries and Whispers (although that might just be wishful thinking). I also have a feeling that Eraserhead might become the new Y Tu Mama Tambien, i.e. always predicted, never announced. Now watch both Persona and Eraserhead get announced tomorrow just to make me look stupid.

Anyway, my predictions for January:

Fantastic Mr. Fox
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Y Tu Mama Tambien (finally)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (BD upgrade)
Throne of Blood (BD upgrade)