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I wouldn't mind a Criterion flannel hunting jacket. Something bright orange...

Random speculation in threads other than the diesignated one is fun. I'd like to believe that Criterion asked Guy Maddin about his favorite Criterion DVDs in the midst of an interview / commentary for their upcoming release of Careful, OOP from Kino.

More realistically, I'm hoping this means My Dad is 100 Years Old will be a supplement to a 2007 Rossellini release.

Seriously though, I'm gonna email Lipson about Careful.

My Dad is 100 Year Old as an extra on a Rossellini release seems more likely. The film is already available as a bonus DVD with Isabella Rossellini's book In the Name of the Father; the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Rossellini. On the bonus DVD it says, "Courtesy of the Criterion Collection."

Would be nice to see Maddin a la Criterion. Perhaps the new films that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, the feature Branded Upon the Brain and the short Nude Caboose.

magicmarker wrote:My Dad is 100 Year Old as an extra on a Rossellini release seems more likely.

my hope is that it is an extra on a 2-disc Open City

edit: especially since it is the film that made Ingrid Bergman decide to seduce Rossellini... resulting in Isabella and Isotta (they're twins)

It would be more likely on a Rossellini-Bergman boxset, or a single film release of the same description, seeing as that is the parentage in question...

Where's that pig from?

What? Is this a movie quote?

Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, The Immortal Story, Ghost Story of Yotsuya??

Dassin's The Naked City! Very happy to see this!

Gigi M. wrote:Where's that pig from?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being?

Mephisto

Souvenir beat me to it.

See the first Quote on "The Naked City" IMDB page.

Cinephrenic wrote:What? Is this a movie quote?

Narrator: There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

Gigi M. wrote:Where's that pig from?

Lord of the Flies?

Great news. I believe this'd the first title that was available from Image at one point that gets in the collection.

Maybe Brute Force will be announced along with Naked City, a la Thieves's Highway and Night and The City.

Gigi M. wrote:Maybe Brute Force will be annouced along with Naked City, a la Thieves's Highway and Night and The City.

I owned Thieves Highway and traded it away. Stupid move. I'll own all the Dassin's again at some point, maybe I'll pick it up when this is released.

Yes more noir. I love this film. I really hope they can release Brute Force that was also out of print by image at the same time.

Dassin's great string of noir successes: Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), Thieves' Highway (1949), and Night and the City (1950), Rififi (1955)

If this is indeed Naked City, and in light of of Bicycle Thieves, that Image deal looks like it is indeed paying off.

Tribe

souvenir wrote:Dassin's The Naked City! Very happy to see this!

FUCK YES!

I wrote to Mulvaney about this title in the summer! I'm so happy to see it here. Probably my favorite all time procedural/noir. I hope they include some of Kubrick's set photography as one of the extras.

Greathinker wrote:

Damn! If it had said "three of them," I would've guessed New York Stories.

absolutely love this movie, been one of my favorite noirs, recently saw it on TCM and was thinking about its need for a new dvd release

a pig wrote:Eight million stories. And we've got one of 'em.

Woo-Fucking-Hoo!

Love this movie.

Criterion certainly have cornered the 'classic films with naked in the title' genre. Naked, The Naked Kiss, Naked Lunch and now Naked City. Quite a collection and I can't really think of any other famous 'Naked' film titles apart from The Naked Gun series, Bergman's Naked Night, Kaneto Shindo's The Naked Island and perhaps The Naked Civil Servant!

Seriously though, I'm looking forward to the prospect of more Jules Dassin films being released!

SncDthMnky wrote:I owned Thieves Highway and traded it away. Stupid move. I'll own all the Dassin's again at some point, maybe I'll pick it up when this is released.

You poor poor boy-- even in Dassin's valley of masterpieces, HIWAY stands out as a seething masterpiece of vengeance, not to mention a wonderful snapshot of the seemy side of it's times via his usual deft location shooting... I find it more coherent & fluid than NIGHT AND THE CITY. Maybe you don't like it, but how in god's name do you see the movie as stupid?

What would be really beautiful is if Universal & Hellinger's estate could help locate & reconstruct some of so so much of the original narrative, sympathetic to the underbelly of NYC, that was removed from Dassin's intended edit of the film. As good as THE NAKED CITY is, it little resembles Dassin's original intention for the film. In fact I believe one of his CC titles has an extra a French interview with him discussing his original cut of the film. One wonders if any of this stuff exists. The man was and still a molto kool dude, sympathetic to rough customers inna way it makes tough-guy fixated Meliville look like Our Lady of the Pretty Little Lily's.

He didn't say that it was a stupid movie, he said that it was a stupid move to trade it. Read the post again.