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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:28 pm
by Cinephrenic
Both Janus films and Criterion's sites are offline. Do you think they might be adding the Eclipse section? Interesting...
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:42 pm
by CSM126
Cinephrenic wrote:Both Janus films and Criterion's sites are offline. Do you think they might be adding the Eclipse section? Interesting...
Perhaps they're also finally getting the full Janus catalogue posted as they promised when they launched that site five thousand years ago.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:52 pm
by Antoine Doinel
It's back online. No changes.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:14 am
by kinjitsu
We hope to have an Eclipse website up soon.
Thanks for your support.
Best,
Kim Hendrickson
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:50 pm
by Musashi219
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:32 pm
by Narshty
Nice to see that La Haine has been licensed from Universal, even if Criterion are only getting about one title a year from them now. Make Way for Tomorrow may yet appear.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:50 am
by Jeff
Narshty wrote:Nice to see that La Haine has been licensed from Universal, even if Criterion are only getting about one title a year from them now. Make Way for Tomorrow may yet appear.
The Universal titles have indeed slowed to a trickle. Prior to
La Haine, I believe the most recent was last June's
Dazed and Confused. Of course we have
Under the Volcano to look forward to later this year.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:21 am
by Tribe
So, with the
Image deal, is it more than sheer speculation to think we might see a Criterion release of
The Sheltering Sky?
Tribe
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:06 am
by The Fanciful Norwegian
I doubt it was part of the deal. It's an RPC production but the Warner DVD is still very much in print.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:10 pm
by justeleblanc
July announcement today?
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:13 pm
by a.khan
Isn't it always on the third Friday of every month?
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:09 pm
by Musashi219
justeleblanc wrote:July announcement today?
If we go off the Forthcoming thread and what we've been told through various e-mails, July should be the month of:
Ace in the Hole,
Les Enfants Terribles, and
Ivan's Childhood. I hope for all three and that there be more than just those releases.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:38 pm
by miless
Musashi219 wrote:justeleblanc wrote:July announcement today?
If we go off the Forthcoming thread and what we've been told through various e-mails, July should be the month of:
Ace in the Hole,
Les Enfants Terribles, and
Ivan's Childhood. I hope for all three and that there be more than just those releases.
god, July is going to fuck with my wallet...
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:59 pm
by Cinephrenic
What you mean, Criterion fucks us every month, expecially with Eclipse now.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:09 pm
by Musashi219
Cinephrenic wrote:What you mean, Criterion fucks us every month, expecially with Eclipse now.
June is going to be the first month since January (didn't purchase
Border Radio) where I haven't picked up everything they released, as I'll just Netflix the Makavejev titles. They've been burning a hole in my wallet for months now and Eclipse just makes the fire run rampant. Not to mention the previously released titles I purchase every now and then, such as the six DVDs I picked up during DVDPlanet's 40% off sale.
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:57 pm
by jbeall
Musashi219 wrote:June is going to be the first month since January (didn't purchase Border Radio) where I haven't picked up everything they released, as I'll just Netflix the Makavejev titles ...
I know how y'all feel. I'll be netflixing all of the June titles. I'm about to pre-order
Army of Shadows, and having just rented
Becket from the Rutgers library, I'm going to buy that one as well. I could probably afford just a criterion habit; it's all those non-criterions that bankrupt me!
Anyway, I'll probably blind-buy
Ace in the Hole, and I know this sounds horrible, but I honestly hope criterion doesn't release anything I'm interested in again until around Christmas. This has already been an awesome year for them, but for the sake of their less affluent audience, they need to knock it off!!!
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:56 pm
by justeleblanc
Sorry I posted this in the wrong thread.
3 Penny Opera
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:05 pm
by CSM126
justeleblanc wrote:Sorry I posted this in the wrong thread.
3 Penny Opera
I think my heart just exploded with pure, rapturous joy.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:07 pm
by Cinephrenic
Well there is a Ophuls boxset in the works.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:08 am
by HerrSchreck
justeleblanc wrote:Sorry I posted this in the wrong thread.
3 Penny Opera
YO! CC is kicking fucking ASS if this is true... what a year!!! Phew... looks like 2004 is getting knocked over as the year to beat.
Sure are making up for METROPLOLITAN, KICKING & SCR et al.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:23 am
by justeleblanc
The only way for them to beat the Cassavetes box from 2004 would be to release a Rivette box with his first four features (including both versions of Out 1) -- and unfortunately that just isn't happening.
Though to read into things, I stopped hearing back from the folks at Criterion when I started asking about Rivette. Could it be they are working on trying to score a deal with Rivette and they don't want to say anything? You think they could be getting Barbet to help in the process?
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:52 pm
by miless
justeleblanc wrote:The only way for them to beat the Cassavetes box from 2004 would be to release a Rivette box with his first four features (including both versions of Out 1) -- and unfortunately that just isn't happening.
Though to read into things, I stopped hearing back from the folks at Criterion when I started asking about Rivette. Could it be they are working on trying to score a deal with Rivette and they don't want to say anything? You think they could be getting Barbet to help in the process?
well, there have been Rivette retrospectives playing around (at least there was one here in Portland... so I'm assuming that it made it elsewhere) and we had similar retrospectives (Teshigahara, Malle, etc...) that have made their way to CC DVD's
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:53 pm
by mikeohhh
Those Teshigahara, Malle and Mizoguchi retros that have been touring have been brought to you by Janus Films. That's the key difference. As far as I know, Paris nous appartient is the only Rivette that Janus holds the rights to, although I imagine most of his films are up for grabs. I'd say Rivette is a possibility but not a certainty.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:56 pm
by cysiam
Got this response about more Spanish films.
We'd love to get some more Spanish films in the collection. Right now we have a few things in the works. Saura's CRIA CUERVOS will be in stores in late July/early August and we hope to get a few more of his films out there as well.
Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Kim Hendrickson
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:04 am
by ranaing83
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I have been wishing for a criterion release of Cria for quite a while, and I'm really eager to see some more Saura. Cria was a film that really left an imprint in my mind, and I find myself mentally returning to certain scenes over and over again. I'd love to do a double feature with Spirit of the Beehive. The two films work so well together, even apart from the amazing perfs by Torrent.
For people in NYC, Lincoln Center's doing a pretty extensive retro on Saura that started yesterday. I'm guessing the prints that have the janus logo attached will be the other titles Hendrickson's talking about.