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There are four spine numbers between Saving Face and Isle of Dogs so I'm expecting four new releases plus any upgrades they see fit to do. So, my prediction:

- Profound Desires of the Gods (4K UHD)
- El (BD)
- Days and Nights in the Forest (BD)
- The Lovers on the Bridge (4K UHD)

- Yi Yi (4K UHD upgrade)

I'm sure Criterion aren't desperate for my business – but if they would like to drain my bank account, they'd be hitting us with these four any moment now!

• The Asthenic Syndrome
• Du côte d'Orouët
• Four Nights of a Dreamer
• Jean Eustache box set

Yi Yi UHD upgrade
El blu-ray
Il Grido blu-ray
Four Nights of a Dreamer blu-ray
Un Homme et Une Femme UHD

4 Little Girls
The Straight Story 4k
Harlan County USA 4k upgrade
Seduced and Abandoned upgrade
Floating Clouds 4k

Trouble in Paradise 4K
Shoplifters
L'amour fou
West Indies
Year of 13 Moons

justeleblanc wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:26 am Shoplifters

Magnolia just released a barebones edition on bluray

Hellraiser 7.
Its the 20th anniversary this year, so a Criterion edition makes sense to celebrate this milestone.

They are up:
Spinal Tap 4K
High and Low 4K
Flow 4K
Born in Flames
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Read My Lips 4K

Impressive month for sheer number of films. Bonus feature films on both Flow and Born in Flames. Along with the Wes Anderson set, they're releasing 18 features in one month!

Guesses for October (going to be all wrong again anyhow)

Assuming Criterion isn't going to do a full-on horror month like two years ago:

Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me 4K
In A Lonely Place 4K
Diary of a Country Priest BD
The Mission 4K
Kagemusha 4K
Passion Fish 4K

Finch wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:54 pm The Mission 4K

Is this in reference to the To film or the Joffé film? I can actually see Criterion doing either or both, but I'm not holding my breath for the To film given the weirdness that seems to be going on with the as-yet-unseen restoration.

Suburbia (1996)

The Sugarland Express 4K

Little Dorritt (1988) 4K

Boulevard Nights 4K

The Sin of Harold Diddlebrock

Finch wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:54 pm
Kagemusha 4K

Still Disney in North America, no? I remember seeing a print of Fox’s shorter cut, and it had some interesting subtitle differences, particularly in the opening

Two by Panahi (The White Balloon / The Mirror) [BD]
High Art [4K]

Raise the Red Lantern [4K]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me [4K]
A History of Violence [4K]
The Shrouds [Criterion Premieres BD]

The Rainmaker
Forbidden Planet
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
Hairspray
Scanners 4K upgrade

Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me 4k
A History Of Violence
Scanners 4k
All The Presidents Men 4k
Dog Day Afternoon 4k

Él 4K
The Sweet Hereafter 4K
The Hunger 4K
The Haunting (1963) 4K
Scanners 4K Upgrade
The Brood 4K upgrade
The Night of the Hunter 4K upgrade
Atlantics (+ Dahomey) BD

Atlantics 4K
Pratidwandi
My Sex Life, or How I Got Into an Argument
The Secret of Roan Inish 4K
The Flowers of St Francis upgrade
The Haunting 4K

El
Brand Upon the Brain
The French Connection 4K
Nightmare Alley 4K
The Night of the Hunter 4K Upgrade
Dressed to Kill 4K Upgrade
Shoot the Piano Player 4K Upgrade
The Shrouds (Criterion Premieres)

Buñuel in Mexico box-set featuring Los Olvidados, Él, and Robinson Crusoe
The Devils 4K (this is such a high hope but I did read in another thread there was some (?) movement on Warners)
The Shrouds mainline 4K
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
All The President’s Men 4K

The Brood - 4K
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me - 4K
Eraserhead - 4K
Dog Day Afternoon - 4K
The Gold Rush - 4K
The Outsiders - 4K
Sideways - 4K

Atlantics
Nightmare Alley extended cut
Altered States
House Party
Eyes without a Face UHD

Finch wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:54 pm Guesses for October (going to be all wrong again anyhow)
Assuming Criterion isn't going to do a full-on horror month like two years ago:

While it's not likely that they release all horror & related in October, it might give you better odds to at least get one title. I think the only time I actually got one correct in the month it was actually released (as opposed to the few i have guessed a month or two beforehand) was for the Night Of The Living Dead blu-ray (which many were hedging against because of the public domain releases at the time). So here goes:

Gaslight (1940 & 1944 dual edition)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Matango
Demons (1971)
The Elephant Man or Eraserhead upgrade
Dead Ringers or Naked Lunch upgrade

separate announcement: The Shrouds Criterion Contemporary

a later separate advanced announcement for the big November box (these often are made before the thread opens for the next month, so I'm guessing it now): either an Altman @ 100 box or Kurosawa 4k box (with the other box being December's big title).

A History of Violence 4K UHD

Unholy Trilogy UHD Set

The Shrouds Criterion Premiered

Eraserhead 4K UHD upgrade

Dracula (1958) 4K UHD

Macario bluray.

Someone upthread questioned the Kagemusha guess and I'd say if Disney let Criterion have The French Connection, they are unlikely to say no to Kagemusha unless there is some weird stipulation from the Japanese rightholders that Fox/Disney can't sublicense their catalogue.

Wish I'd thought of The Sweet Hereafter.

Maybe Criterion will surprise me and release Benediction on Blu-ray!

I did mean the Johnnie To Mission.

I realized I didn't have a Warner title. Maybe a 4K double bill of The Leopard Man and The Body Snatcher or a 4K of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?