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La maman et la putain
Dog Day Afternoon UHD
Chilly Scenes of Winter / Head Over Heels
Other Side of the Wind UHD
Z

Millennium Mambo 4K
Contempt 4K
Trouble in Paradise
Shoplifters
Year of 13 Moons
One False Move

Lady Oscar
Suzhou River
The Babysitter / The Babysitter: Killer Queen UHD
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka UHD
How To With Jon Mulvaney (KLSC co-release, DVD only)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Trial 4K
HUD
Paper Moon 4K
Moulin Rouge

rather wishes than speculation :

- Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (the WEB 1080 based on the Eclair restoration (already old : 2014! but really it looks just fine)
- La Maman et la Putain (fortunately the gray-scale of the 4K restoration is so-so like it happens sometimes)
- Walkabout UHD+Blu-Ray 4K
- La Naissance des Pieuvres (German Blu-Ray is based on a 4K restoration), so why not an UHD+Blu-Ray ?
- Lady Chatterley et l'homme des bois (both cuts) + Bird People (available on blu-ray in France) : Pascale Ferran deserve to be in the Criterion collection (there is the lovely Anaïs Demoustier and David Bowie!)
- After Hours UHD (perhaps my favorite Martin Scorsese now with Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Goodfellas)- and talking about Linda Fiorentino :
- The Last Seduction (the BR release is so poor due to bad compression, please rescue this "neo-noir" movie (this is the best one with Body Heat)
- Millenium Mambo (UHD+Blu-Ray) : I'm a bit afraid about the restoration : I have downloaded on the web site the trailer HD and even the DMC : there is a lack of definition and even "poterisation" on the HD trailer (but, well, that's just an HD trailer)
- La Fille à la Valise (real HD restoration as strong as "I Knew Her Very Well"; not the HDTV-like bootleg Spanish BR)

oh - And sure, the Rohmer box set "Contes des Quatre Saisons" [-o< unless Arrow plans to release it ?

Solo Con Tu Pareja
Kinuyo Tanaka set
Coda
I'm Not There
Da 5 Bloods 4k
Breathless 4k

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:58 am rather wishes than speculation :

- The Last Seduction (the BR release is so poor due to bad compression, please rescue this "neo-noir" movie (this is the best one with Body Heat)

Didn't Scorpion-releasing state that the original elements for this were unobtainable? Pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that they were in two minds about scrapping their release because the end results weren't up to scratch, despite years of searching, but then decided to put it out, warts and all.

Mr. Deltoid wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:29 pm

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:58 am rather wishes than speculation :

- The Last Seduction (the BR release is so poor due to bad compression, please rescue this "neo-noir" movie (this is the best one with Body Heat)

Didn't Scorpion-releasing state that the original elements for this were unobtainable? Pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that they were in two minds about scrapping their release because the end results weren't up to scratch, despite years of searching, but then decided to put it out, warts and all.

The prior DVD was so horrendous and barebones that there was no way to go but up. The special features make it worthwhile, as Scorpion really did a fantastic job with it

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Chilly Scenes of Winter
The Other Side of the Wind
Breathless 4K
Z upgrade

beamish14 wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:02 pm

Mr. Deltoid wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:29 pm

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:58 am rather wishes than speculation :

- The Last Seduction (the BR release is so poor due to bad compression, please rescue this "neo-noir" movie (this is the best one with Body Heat)

Didn't Scorpion-releasing state that the original elements for this were unobtainable? Pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that they were in two minds about scrapping their release because the end results weren't up to scratch, despite years of searching, but then decided to put it out, warts and all.

The prior DVD was so horrendous and barebones that there was no way to go but up. The special features make it worthwhile, as Scorpion really did a fantastic job with it

I don't think Criterion is combing through releases to stay ultra-PC in defending against any backlash or anything, and I doubt this would stir up a ton of controversy, but in an age where networks pull episodes of Community and 30 Rock for interpretations of blackface without contextualizing them, the finale of The Last Seduction may read as problematic if people are tone-deaf about the femme fatale trope since

Spoiler

a woman tricks a man into aggressive sex and sets him up as raping her, treating him as the victim in the end

Trouble In Paradise upgrade
Midnight
Ball Of Fire
Sabotage
Pepe le Moko upgrade

beamish14 wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:02 pm

Mr. Deltoid wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:29 pm

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:58 am rather wishes than speculation :

- The Last Seduction (the BR release is so poor due to bad compression, please rescue this "neo-noir" movie (this is the best one with Body Heat)

Didn't Scorpion-releasing state that the original elements for this were unobtainable? Pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that they were in two minds about scrapping their release because the end results weren't up to scratch, despite years of searching, but then decided to put it out, warts and all.

The prior DVD was so horrendous and barebones that there was no way to go but up. The special features make it worthwhile, as Scorpion really did a fantastic job with it

I have the Network BR UK release which has some really nice bonus.
The thing is that there is something obviously wrong with the encoding/compression (not the restoration which looks damned good) : a lot of smoking scene ( ) in the bar, etc... have some macro blocs or compression artefacts.
Hence, the rescue of a new release. I had some hopes in the US BR release, but it's exactly the same transfer as the Network release.

and what about "Stars At Noon" by Claire Denis ? Any chance to see it in the Criterion collection ? It's as bad as "Let The Sunshine In" and not as good as "White Material" or "L'Intrus".
But, I have a huge crush for Margaret Qualley (and even Tarantino's feet club fetishist will find some most satisfying scene in this movie than in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - I much more into's Truffaut fetishism (l'homme qui aimait les femmes).
Then, I kind of love the jazzy music which makes me think of Soft Machine IV (kind of...) - So I bought the soundtrack.
The plot was weak near the end... but the use of Covid masks and the romance, road movie and this kind of strange atmosphere was pleasant to say the least.

The Servant (UHD)
The White Ribbon (UHD)
25th Hour (UHD)
Lancelot du Lac
I Know Where I'm Going (upgrade)

The Trial UHD
Millennium Mambo UHD
Atlantics
The Heroic Trio/Executioners
I Know Where I'm Going BD
Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons

À nos amours (blu-ray upgrade)
Larks on a String
On the Waterfront (UHD upgrade)
Small Axe (box set)
The Spirit of the Beehive (blu-ray upgrade)

Jason and the Argonauts 4K
Medicine for Melancholy
Petite Maman and/or Water Lillies
I Know Where I'm Going! (upgrade)
Naked (4K upgrade)

Pepe le moko (upgrade)
Waking Life
A Little Princess
The Sweet Hereafter
Da 5 Bloods (UHD)

Mudbound 4K or Atlantics 4K
My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument
The Trial 4K
They All Laughed
Pratidwandi

Atlantics
So This is Paris
Tales of the Four Seasons (Box Set)
Blast of Silence (Upgrade)
Trouble in Paradise (Upgrade)

Bleak Moments
High Hopes
No Bears
Golden Eighties
The Films of Suzan Pitt
I Know Where I’m Going! [UHD]
EO [UHD]

Repeated combo of stuff I know is somewhere in the pipeline, reasonable guesses, and wishful thinking…

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Nothing But a Man
Water Lilies

Mamma Roma upgrade (alone, or as part of Pasolini Centenary box)
I Know Where I’m Going upgrade
Blast of Silence upgrade

I do miss the monthly newsletter clues and New Year drawings. I hope Criterion finds a new way to present them. RIP Jason Pollan.

I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Tea and Sympathy
Selma UHD
Portrait of a Lady on Fire UHD

CHILDREN OF MEN UHD
BARRY LYNDON UHD
TROUBLE IN PARADISE upgrade
PANDORA'S BOX Blu -- which keeps running on TCM with the Criterion logo

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Atlantics
Kinuyo Tanaka box set
Nothing But a Man
demonlover
The Rules of the Game upgrade