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Ha ha, what a funny bit of self-parody you guys are doing. Cracking me up. How droll. It is to laugh.

Jonathon's right about Izzy though.

Mr. Turell on customer service.

Tribe

The CC is "certainly not Ryan Air"... OMG it isn't!... And thank goodness for that...

Tribe wrote:Mr. Turell on customer service.

Very nice of him to publish his e-mail address in the entry, but I hope he's ready to be inundated with offers for investment advice, discounts on Viagra Soft Tabs and Spermamax, and letters from kindly Nigerian men in need of his bank account number.

I'm must say that this new blog gives me a whole lot of warm and fuzzy feelings for Criterion that I haven't had since they released Les Enfants du Paradis. They no longer seem like a cold steel box into which I pour money and out of which spit DVDs.

domino harvey wrote:Jonathon's right about Izzy though.

agreed. does peter really argue meredith? that would be unsane.

on a side note, i enjoy these blogs. maybe because it's a glimpse into a job that i'd much rather be doing than the my current one.

This is fantastic stuff. 2nd only to Becker or Turrell being a poster here. The title of the latest post contains the word "Shoeshine". It bodes well for more De Sica in '07.

SncDthMnky wrote:The title of the latest post contains the word "Shoeshine". It bodes well for more De Sica in '07.

Wouldn't that be nice? I thought it just meant somebody's a Simon & Garfunkle fan......

SncDthMnky wrote:This is fantastic stuff. 2nd only to Becker or Turrell being a poster here. The title of the latest post contains the word "Shoeshine". It bodes well for more De Sica in '07.

Jesus H. Christ.

I think we've all become crazy. We read into everything Criterion puts out.

The word "Step" is used prominently in the title -- a clear sign that they're finally going to release Kurosawa's They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail, or possibly Angelopoulos's Suspended Step of the Stork.
EDIT: I'm easy to one-up.

It also mentions the word "One," which is clearly an indication that a special edition of Just One of the Guys is forthcoming. I hope they can put together a Joyce Hyser/Billy Zabka/Arye Gross commentary!

I was hoping for a Billy Zabka trilogy digipak...

Maybe I should have googled the line first. my apologies. I still think we're getting more De Sica in 2007.

Matt wrote:It also mentions the word "One," which is clearly an indication that a special edition of Just One of the Guys is forthcoming. I hope they can put together a Joyce Hyser/Billy Zabka/Arye Gross commentary!

I always thought Joyce Hyser (remember that name everybody, she's gonna be BIG) was doing a Ralph Macchio impersonation in that film. It's a shame Comedy Central edits out the nudity at the end, it was the highlight of which many have been deprived.

The heading also has the word "the" in it. I'm sure that this means they are planning to release a film with the word "The" in the title!

I'm surprised at the suggestion that the customer suggestions for Le Samourai were a large part of getting Criterion to up their offer for the film. I thought it would be one of those 'no brainer' classic films that needed to be in the collection, especially since they'd already released two previous Melville films. It is nice to be flattered but I hope they have a better selection process than they are letting on!

Doesn't it seem that the blog entry on customer service is negated by this sentence:

It would be nice to say that the customer is always right, but in a very subjective medium there has to be room for more than one opinion.

colinr0380 wrote:I'm surprised at the suggestion that the customer suggestions for Le Samourai were a large part of getting Criterion to up their offer for the film. I thought it would be one of those 'no brainer' classic films that needed to be in the collection, especially since they'd already released two previous Melville films.

In a way, Criterion themselves are surely partly responsible for the rising licensing cost. In releasing DVDs of his other works which did a lot to rehabilitate the reputation of Melville and to introduce him to a new audience, they no doubt drove up demand for a DVD of Le Samourai (and sales of the French DVD with English subs), which in turn drove up the asking price from the rights holders. Waiting so long to license the rights (if they were available) probably didn't help either. Criterion's disc came out almost 2.5 years after the Rene Chateau disc.

Matt wrote:It also mentions the word "One," which is clearly an indication that a special edition of Just One of the Guys is forthcoming.

No, no, no, it's Rivette's Out 1.

colinr0380 wrote:The heading also has the word "the" in it. I'm sure that this means they are planning to release a film with the word "The" in the title!

Duh, it's obviously The Game.

guys i think i found something

Unless anyone else can top that, I think we're done here.

SncDthMnky look what you started.

arsonfilms wrote:

portnoy wrote:guys i think i found something

Unless anyone else can top that, I think we're done here.

Totally played out.

-Toilet Dcuk

Matt wrote:In releasing DVDs of his other works which did a lot to rehabilitate the reputation of Melville and to introduce him to a new audience, they no doubt drove up demand for a DVD of Le Samourai (and sales of the French DVD with English subs), which in turn drove up the asking price from the rights holders. Waiting so long to license the rights (if they were available) probably didn't help either. Criterion's disc came out almost 2.5 years after the Rene Chateau disc.

I think in that case we might have been lucky that it was arguably Melville's most famous film that was released third rather than either of the other previous films that might not have received the same level of support from Criterion's fanbase. I wonder how this might have affected Army of Shadows?

colinr0380 wrote:

Matt wrote:In releasing DVDs of his other works which did a lot to rehabilitate the reputation of Melville and to introduce him to a new audience, they no doubt drove up demand for a DVD of Le Samourai (and sales of the French DVD with English subs), which in turn drove up the asking price from the rights holders. Waiting so long to license the rights (if they were available) probably didn't help either. Criterion's disc came out almost 2.5 years after the Rene Chateau disc.

I think in that case we might have been lucky that it was arguably Melville's most famous film that was released third rather than either of the other previous films that might not have received the same level of support from Criterion's fanbase. I wonder how this might have affected Army of Shadows?

I think Rialto licensed that well before Criterion got the rights to Le Samourai. It was one of a whole bunch of future releases Rialto announced way back in, I think, 2001.