criterionforum.org

I've always wondered why Hearts And Minds wasn't included in the BBS box.

Wait, why are people saying the Deer Hunter is coming, because there was a deer in the New Years drawing?

PfR73 wrote:I've always wondered why Hearts And Minds wasn't included in the BBS box.

I personally hope that they make up for it by releasing the film in a digipak similar to that of the BBS box set, with the abandoned theater setting and faded poster artwork and everything.

PfR73 wrote:I've always wondered why Hearts And Minds wasn't included in the BBS box.

Sony has no rights to Hearts and Minds, so it couldn't be included in the deal for the America Lost & Found set. Columbia Pictures refused to distribute the film, even though it was produced under BBS' deal with the studio. The producers bought the rights back and distributed it independently.

If Hearts and Minds is getting a reissue, I wonder if Criterion will be able to include the bonus disc's worth of deleted scenes that got dropped from the original release. Does anyone know what happened to cause those to be dropped?

With Trier's latest about to be released in theaters and Breaking the Waves on its way I wonder if there's any chance of Element of Crime & Europa being upgraded?

Maybe they're planning on putting out a Europa Trilogy box set.......but I'd much prefer The Idiots or a Riget I & II box.

Buttery Jeb wrote:

PfR73 wrote:I've always wondered why Hearts And Minds wasn't included in the BBS box.

Sony has no rights to Hearts and Minds, so it couldn't be included in the deal for the America Lost & Found set. Columbia Pictures refused to distribute the film, even though it was produced under BBS' deal with the studio. The producers bought the rights back and distributed it independently.

I vaguely recall reading somewhere that it was supposed to be the last film of some distribution deal Columbia had with BBS, and the fact that Bert Schneider chose to do a documentary was both a surprise and sort of a "f*** you" to Columbia - they were openly upset about it and Schneider just, "Hey, you never said one of our pictures couldn't be a documentary!"

EDIT: Found it. Not quite but close.

Neil McGlone tweeted

Just received some exciting news from @Criterion regarding project I've been working on with them for over a year! Announcement soon

Anyone have any ideas/guesses as to what this project is?

jwd5275 wrote:Add to this the fact that after the flash sale, the following titles are now on backorder:

Kwaidan
Ikiru
Shoot the Piano Player
Short Cuts
Spirit of the Beehive (which I believe has been unavailable for a while now)

All of these seem to be likely blu upgrades too....

I really hope you're right about 'Short Cuts' especially - this is one of my most-wanted back-catalog titles on Blu.

Black Hat wrote:With Trier's latest about to be released in theaters and Breaking the Waves on its way I wonder if there's any chance of Element of Crime & Europa being upgraded?

So I've always figured that if we get one new film by a director, it means that there's going to be some time before something else is released, since Criterion likes to pair similar releases together (Wages of Fear & Diabolique, Summer Interlude & Summer with Monica, Children of Paradise & Les Visiteurs du Soir). What is the closest they've put out two releases by the same director or in an otherwise similar vein (a la Topsy Turvey and The Mikado) without pairing them?

EDIT: I may have answered my own question, with Naked City being released on March 20, 2007 and Brute Force coming out a month later. Were there production delays or something that caused Brute Force to be pushed back?

jindianajonz wrote:

Black Hat wrote:With Trier's latest about to be released in theaters and Breaking the Waves on its way I wonder if there's any chance of Element of Crime & Europa being upgraded?

So I've always figured that if we get one new film by a director, it means that there's going to be some time before something else is released, since Criterion likes to pair similar releases together (Wages of Fear & Diabolique, Summer Interlude & Summer with Monica, Children of Paradise & Les Visiteurs du Soir).

I'm hoping they pair L'Avventura and L'eclisse whenever they decide to upgrade them. If L'eclisse has indeed gone OOP as indicated above, seems like a safe bet.

And if you look at the spines of Naked City and Brute Force, they were obviously designed as a pair.

Which is why it's odd that they didn't get consecutive spine numbers. Criterion had released a number of spines out of sequence due to delays by that point- wasn't Grand Illusion or one of the other original titles held back for a year or more?

Yes it came out way after it was announced due to better materials being discovered. Initially it was supposed to just be a port of the laserdisc.

Who the hell is Neil McGlone?

He interviewed Alan Rudolph for Arrow's The Long Goodbye, although I daresay he has other achievements on his résumé.

MichaelB wrote:He interviewed Alan Rudolph for Arrow's The Long Goodbye, although I daresay he has other achievements on his résumé.

Indeed as many here can testify to.

MichaelB wrote:He interviewed Alan Rudolph for Arrow's The Long Goodbye, although I daresay he has other achievements on his résumé.

He also interviewed Philip Kaufman in August's edition of Verite.....Maybe The Unbearable Lightness of Being is coming back to CC.

He says right on his twitter that he does freelance research work for Criterion and recently worked on Tess. His forthcoming project could be anything.

MichaelB wrote:Maybe The Unbearable Lightness of Being is coming back to CC.

We could only [-o<

In the new interview with Errol Morris on The Dissolve, we get another confirmation that Criterion is working on Gates of Heaven; and that Morris wants them to eventually do a release of Mr. Death. He also wants to re-title that film, to "Honeymoon In Auschwitz."

The Thin Blue Line was getting a release as well, wasn't it? I'm sure I remember it being mentioned as one of the titles Criterion possibly got from IFC (along with Y tu mama tambien, which I'm sure will get a release one of these days...)

Yeah, the first three will probably be packaged together given their short runtime.

A week out from announcements, I'm thinking Cuarón might have finally had time to sign off on Y tu mamá también. And it's been a while since we've had a Chaplin (City Lights in November), so my predictions for June are:

Limelight
Y tu mamá también

captveg wrote:Limelight

I so hope you're right.