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Calvin wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:52 amIt would have been nice if Criterion included one of the other many adaptations of Billy Budd as an extra, such as this one with William Shatner and Basil Rathbone for Canadian TV.

Or maybe have paired the release up with Derek Jarman's Sebastiane!

zedz wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:29 am I think it was Chocolat that was at some point confirmed to be with Criterion.

Looks like it.

zedz wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:56 pm

Calvin wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:52 am As was the case with Assayas' Cold Water, another entry in the Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... series, I think that music rights have prevented a commercial release of US Go Home up until this point. It's probably my favourite of Denis' films, so I really hope that Criterion sees fit to iron them out like they did with the Assayas film but it would probably need a standalone release to justify it.

Denis' film should be less of a headache on those grounds, as I think there's less music. I remember Donovan and Otis Redding. Maybe only one or two other pieces?

Are we talking about U.S. Go Home? There are a ton of pop-music cues in that film, more than almost any other hour-long film I can name—probably 20 or more cues. Among them are at least four or five songs by The Animals (which are notoriously hard to license). There's also some French rock, more Brit invasion stuff (The Yardbirds, The Troggs), The Rascals, Jamaican ska (Prince Buster), and at the end, Nico's "These Days" (predating The Royal Tenenbaums). I forgot a few.

Nice surprise to see this one being released. I always had L'intrus at the top of my list of films I wanted to see on Blu-ray and Beau Travail is one of the more contemplative releases from memory; so maybe I one day we may get Intruder too

Beav Travail

This looks breathtaking...

Janus has decided to rub my face in the fact that they aren't doing UHD discs or any 4K streaming on Criterion Channel, by releasing this restoration in 4K digital in "virtual theaters" instead

I'm still skeptical there's any point to streaming 4k (not that I have a 4k set-up, so it's purely suspicion), so those particular grapes don't taste all that sour to me. Seeing other 4k DCPs in theaters, however... Hedwig and Do the Right Thing in theatrical 4k DCP are the first times I've thought digital might begin to rival the average 35mm print. Given, Hedwig and Beau Travail are both movies where all the prints seem to be in rough condition, so that isn't quite the same challenge, but newly-struck 35mm vs theatrical 4k DCP of DtRT was as close to parity between film and digital I think I've ever seen, and this is one I'd love to see that way. Admittedly, that could be because the 35mm was a film out of the digital restoration... In the before times, the theatrical/celluloid nerd part of me was extremely excited about seeing an original print of The Conversation from a local university archive and a newly-struck print from the recent restoration about a week apart. Yet another thing that the plague robbed me of...

Not to derail the thread too terribly, it just sticks in my craw that the remasters exist, the technology exists to exhibit them via streaming, but it doesn't seem like a priority.

If they streamed 4k on the Channel but didnt go UHD, I think there would be equally as much outrage from another section of their customer base. I suspect when it happens, both will happen together.

This section of their customer base (seemingly a very small section) would prefer the Channel gets their audio fixed up first before moving on to 4k, and the sooner the better.

I would be extremely skeptical if any virtual theater infrastructure actually has support for 4K streaming. I expect it’s just that the words have been mangled by someone who doesn’t understand the difference between showing in 4K v showing a 4K restoration.