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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:16 am
by Cronenfly
cdnchris wrote:Cronenfly wrote:The Canadian Alliance Atlantis edition has an anamorphic transfer, three commentary tracks, and a featurette, easily besting the Dimension edition. It's OOP but not in an impossible to find way (I see it all the time in stores here); it goes for upwards of $30 used on Amazon.ca, but can be also be found in
this fairly inexpensive boxset.
Yeah, this is about the ONLY good thing Alliance has ever released on their own onto DVD.
Sad but true...Except for their wonderfully executed bilingual packaging, of course (which often delays lower-priority releases of US titles by weeks/months).
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:55 pm
by kittens.galore
Cronenfly wrote:The Canadian Alliance Atlantis edition has an anamorphic transfer, three commentary tracks, and a featurette, easily besting the Dimension edition. It's OOP but not in an impossible to find way (I see it all the time in stores here); it goes for upwards of $30 used on Amazon.ca, but can be also be found in
this fairly inexpensive boxset.
i feel like a yutz buying the same movies over and over just in different packaging and maybe with a little bit of extras.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:39 am
by Derek Estes
With the new release of Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers in Reg 2. I was wondering if this title might be released by Criterion. It was last released by Image in Reg 1, and considering the distribution arrangment Criterion has with Image. I was hoping that this film or even Ossessione, might make it into the collection. Thank you,
Derek Estes
Hi Derek,
We don't have any plans for "Rocco and his Brothers," but I'm not sure about "Ossessione." Please check back about that second one as there may be more information available in the future. I hope this helps, and thanks for your email!
Sincerely,
Tamara
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:11 am
by zedz
Tantalising. Is there a good transfer of Ossessione out anywhere? My R4 is pretty mediocre, as I recall.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:22 am
by Jeff
Perhaps Ossessione would be paired with Terra trema and Bellissima for an "Early Visconti" Eclipse set.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:22 am
by kinjitsu
zedz wrote:Tantalising. Is there a good transfer of Ossessione out anywhere? My R4 is pretty mediocre, as I recall.
As are my R1 Image discs of
Ossessione,
Rocco &
Terra trema.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:30 am
by otis
Ossessione is coming out in Italy next month from RHV, whose disc of
La Terra trema is gorgeous (and has English subs). Screen caps
here.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:20 pm
by Tommaso
otis wrote:Ossessione is coming out in Italy next month from RHV, whose disc of La Terra trema is gorgeous (and has English subs).
Best thing I heard for a while! I shied back from buying the BFI "Ossessione" after seeing the mess that their "Terra Trema" is. If RHV provides subs for "Ossessione" as well, then it will be time for another order from Italy for me....
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:19 pm
by foggy eyes
RHV's La Terra Trema disc really is amazing, but is there any word as to whether Ossessione will have English subtitles as well?
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:47 pm
by backstreetsbackalright
Odd that Rocco isn't planned. It's an Image title, no? But I'm thrilled that the Visconti coverage is getting spread out a little, rather than a bunch of discs of the same handful of films.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:20 pm
by otis
foggy eyes wrote:RHV's La Terra Trema disc really is amazing, but is there any word as to whether Ossessione will have English subtitles as well?
No word on subs yet, but I'll be picking this up eventually and will post here with details. The BFI disc of
Ossessione is if anything worse than their
La Terra trema - avoid at all costs!
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:11 pm
by justeleblanc
Lionsgate, not Criterion may be releasing Diva.
Link.
If Diva was a Studio Canal title, then this makes sense. Either Rialto's exclusive distribution deal with Criterion doesn't apply to Studio Canal titles anymore, or this film was licensed right in between Rialto and Criterion did.
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:23 pm
by Joshua Dago
Optimum's release of Diva is decent, anyone with a regionfree player can pick this up quite cheap.
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:46 pm
by ZizouJuve
June's Criterions are up. eat your heart out.
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:56 pm
by tavernier
5 titles? Yikes!
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:57 pm
by denti alligator
tavernier wrote:5 titles? Yikes!
Back to normal.
Eclipse?
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:09 am
by jbeall
Back to normal, and back to releasing stuff I'm genuinely excited about seeing. Yay!!
This is certainly a welcome sign after a few lackluster (in terms of quantity more than quality) months. I'm even cool with no Eclipse set this month after these titles.
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:14 am
by sidehacker
Well, one of the films is only 27 minutes long...
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:30 am
by jbeall
sidehacker wrote:Well, one of the films is only 27 minutes long...
Oops--I hadn't noticed that. Damn you, Criterion, for another lackluster month!!!!
(Now I feel better.)
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:46 am
by Tommaso
sidehacker wrote:Well, one of the films is only 27 minutes long...
Give me 27 minutes of Mishima over 200 min. Bertolucci any time. Release of the year so far, I'd say.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:03 pm
by kaujot
According to Tamara, as far as she knows, "we don't have plans for Sleuth at this time."
Bummer. I'm dying for a (new) DVD of the original.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:11 pm
by jaredsap
kaujot wrote:According to Tamara, as far as she knows, "we don't have plans for Sleuth at this time."
Bummer. I'm dying for a (new) DVD of the original.
So is
Entertainment Weekly. They highlight their desire for said DVD in the new issue.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:15 pm
by kaujot
jaredsap wrote:kaujot wrote:According to Tamara, as far as she knows, "we don't have plans for Sleuth at this time."
Bummer. I'm dying for a (new) DVD of the original.
So is
Entertainment Weekly. They highlight their desire for said DVD in the new issue.
I think, if Criterion (or whoever ends up with the rights), released it, it'd sell very well. I mean, before I even got into film, I knew who Olivier was. And Michael Caine is loved by seemingly all Americans. He's sort of like the British version of Morgan Freeman.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:24 pm
by arsonfilms
kaujot wrote: Michael Caine is loved by seemingly all Americans. He's sort of like the British version of Morgan Freeman.
Morgan Freeman?? I mean, sure, both are extremely palatable actors who can't possibly rub anyone the wrong way, but Freeman doesn't have the character range that Caine has. I almost feel that Jack Nicholson would be an easier comparison, if he were less cantankerous.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:29 pm
by kaujot
arsonfilms wrote:kaujot wrote: Michael Caine is loved by seemingly all Americans. He's sort of like the British version of Morgan Freeman.
Morgan Freeman?? I mean, sure, both are extremely palatable actors who can't possibly rub anyone the wrong way, but Freeman doesn't have the character range that Caine has. I almost feel that Jack Nicholson would be an easier comparison, if he were less cantankerous.
To me, Caine gets many roles (excluding the newest
Sleuth), where he simply plays the old mentor to the main protagonist, like Freeman plays in almost EVERY role.