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kinjitsu wrote:Street Scenes (75 min)

Has this ever been available? I have that Voyager laserdisc, but I've never heard of this being available... maybe as a 16mm print? I know there are a few prints of Spielberg's Amblin floating around... (if anyone has one, PM me!)

I hate to change topic here, but I was looking on Amazon.com and DVDplanet.com and I saw that Louis Malle's Damage is still in print via New Line.

I thought I remembered this being rumored as one of the many Malle titles to be released by Criterion, but how can that be if Damage is still in print. Is there any confirmation of this title, or, any valid reason it was rumored?

bjeggert82 wrote:I thought I remembered this being rumored as one of the many Malle titles to be released by Criterion, but how can that be if Damage is still in print. Is there any confirmation of this title, or, any valid reason it was rumored?

I wouldn't count on Damage (or Cronenberg's Crash) being released by Criterion anytime soon. The New Line deal was for only for a small handful of titles that had been arranged with Ira Deutchman when he was with New Line. All of those titles have since been released.

The rumors about Crash and Damage started when some customer service liaison at Image was answering questions about those films with a "we don't have it, ask Criterion" response. His response probably just meant that they hadn't licensed it but maybe Criterion had. This was before they became Criterion's exclusive distributor. Some people just assumed that the customer service person knew of a Criterion deal for those titles. There has never been any real reason to believe that New Line licensed those films to anybody.

I have a suggestion for the folks at Criterion for their future acquisitions and releases..

...I went to see La Belle Noiseuse by Rivette and The Stalker by Tarkovsky and I have this to say...

...Please do not release films like these that are highly pretentious with very little to offer in terms of actual "profound" thought...The Noiseuse was absolutely insulting if the audience is assumed to believe that a painting can be so powerful that it changes a love relationship between the artist and his wife. Why? Sexual jealousy? Gag me with a Fillet!

...And no Christian moralizing and movies with such an empty religious message that I have to sit through, like Stalker...there is enough for audiences to deal with these days than to bear an outdated Catholic conscience!

Shhh, Mike, I was saving the gloating until it's officially announced -- this is the sort of thing people could have harmlessly forgotten on the rare occurrence that I'm wrong!

-Toilet Dcuk

Also, Criterion has never seemed to make each 100th title released a big deal. Examples:

#100: Beastie Boys Anthology
#200: Fat Girl
#300: The Life Aquatic

Because every Criterion release is special.

Musashi219 wrote:Also, Criterion has never seemed to make each 100th title released a big deal. Examples:

#200: Fat Girl

#200 was The Honeymoon Killers, not Fat Girl, which was #259

Cinephrenic wrote:

Also, Criterion has never seemed to make each 100th title released a big deal.

Because every Criterion release is special.

Exactly!

Musashi219 wrote:#200: Fat Girl

200 was Honeymoon Killers. Yes, I had to make that correction. It's just something latent in me.

CSM126 wrote:200 was Honeymoon Killers. Yes, I had to make that correction. It's just something latent in me.

Whoops, sorry about that. I have all the Criterion releases listed in a word document and when I searched for #200, it appears I made a typo. So yes, The Honeymoon Killers was #200, but either title still justifies the point I was trying to make.

Thanks for the correction!

John Cassavetes box was #250. That seems kind of special (as does the Beastie Boys Anthology).

I remember that 300 was saved for The Life Aquatic, but I doubt they normally put too much emphasis on this kind of thing.

You see what I'm talking about, Mike?

-Toilet Dcuk

Britney Spears confirmed!!

Glass wrote:Britney Spears confirmed!!

very nice glass. made me laugh out loud at times.

Easily the best April Fool's Day gag in years!

(Nice to see some things didn't change: The "Armageddon" Criterion Collection in its rightful place.)

"audio essay by Spears historian Peter Cowie" Brilliant. Also, gotta love the $59.95 and $79.99 msrps.

Does anyone know who owns the DVD rights to Burnett's Killer Of Sheep? It would be great to see a Criterion edition of the film.

Antoine Doinel wrote:Does anyone know who owns the DVD rights to Burnett's Killer Of Sheep?

Milestone, all the way, apparently.

- Feature length alternate audio feature: over 80 minutes of Gilbert Gottfried outtakes and observations

Man if only

How about The Mother and the Whore? No DVD release. Long over due.

LightBulbFilm wrote:How about The Mother and the Whore? No DVD release. Long over due.

with a commentary by Noah Baumbach, whose film (the Squid and the Whale) features a poster (and brief mention of, due to said poster) of the film... not to mention a name "rip-off"

Antoine Doinel wrote:Does anyone know who owns the DVD rights to Burnett's Killer Of Sheep? It would be great to see a Criterion edition of the film.

Dude, where ya been? We've all been on eggshells for the disc and the cinematic rerelease!

How about Burnett's other masterpiece, To Sleep With Anger?