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What he said.

Also Gold Rush!!!!!

ANOTHER horrible Chaplin cover.

rwaits wrote:ANOTHER horrible Chaplin cover.

I was expecting worse. But at least the edition looks to have the silent version (with a new commentary, too)

Gray's Anatomy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Everything is Going Fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting they include a teaser trailer for Trainspotting. How often do they do this?

Odd that they haven't bundled the two Soderberghs together; happy with June's lineup as I'll be getting Gold Rush, the Samurai Trilogy and 39 Steps, and I like the covers for the Chaplin and Hitch.

Only two discs for the Samurai Trilogy on BD. Guess there will be no new content for these ones.

Spalding Gray already! Is this the shortest newsletter-to-announcement turnaround? A bit disappointed there isn't more, though... would have loved to have seen Swimming to Cambodia.

Who owns the rights to Swimming to Cambodia, anyway? It was a Cinecom release, and judging from the Wikipedia page, the rights to their films went... everywhere, pretty much.

While I'm at it, Monster in a Box was a FilmFour production and Fine Line release. Who gets the rights? Is it another situation like Naked?

(The remaining SG film, Terrors of Pleasure, is HBO, therefore Time Warner, therefore off the table.)

Besides The Gold Rush, a very uninteresting month.

agnamaracs wrote:Spalding Gray already! Is this the shortest newsletter-to-announcement turnaround?

No, Breathless Blu-ray upgrade was.

spocker wrote:Only two discs for the Samurai Trilogy on BD. Guess there will be no new content for these ones.

Seems that it's taking the spot usually reserved for the barebones $29.95 release.

No Swimming to Cambodia makes me very very sad [-(

spocker wrote:Only two discs for the Samurai Trilogy on BD. Guess there will be no new content for these ones.

Or content, period.

W/ the Samurai Trilogy I think that leaves Picnic at Hanging Rock as the lowest Spine # (29) they still have rights to that hasn't been upgraded...and it was among those in that first poll for what we wanted way back when they first announced they were making the move to blu. This also annoys me greatly.

Summertime is actually the lowest spine number (spine 22), but I'd love to see both it and Picnic at Hanging Rock upgraded soon.

HistoryProf wrote:W/ the Samurai Trilogy I think that leaves Picnic at Hanging Rock as the lowest Spine # (29) they still have rights to that hasn't been upgraded...and it was among those in that first poll for what we wanted way back when they first announced they were making the move to blu.

Summertime would be the lowest spine # that they have rights to that has not been upgraded (#22), but, yeah, I want Picnic badly, too.

Looks like the Samurai Trilogy will have some extras after all:

captveg wrote:Summertime would be the lowest spine # that they have rights to that has not been upgraded (#22), but, yeah, I want Picnic badly, too.

Three of the lowest four are Lean movies, they could knock them all out with another box set.

matrixschmatrix wrote:

captveg wrote:Summertime would be the lowest spine # that they have rights to that has not been upgraded (#22), but, yeah, I want Picnic badly, too.

Three of the lowest four are Lean movies, they could knock them all out with another box set.

I see a two-fer box for the Dickens titles (a la Yojimbo/Sanjuro) and a separate release for Summertime. Other than Lean's direction nothing really ties the latter with the former.

or another box set of the three early spine numbers and hobson's choice.

I'm thinking that the rights for all the Spalding Gray titles must be from different sources, thus making a box set untenable, because I sure can't think of any other reason why they wouldn't release them together. I'm pretty certain the Canadian DVD of Cambodia has a MGM logo before the film, Monster, formerly Fine Line, is probably coming from Film4 directly in light of Naked/Shallow Grave, Anatomy is from Wellspring/whoever else the rights might have reverted to (IFC and BBC are listed on IMDB), and Fine is of course IFC. And if there are really as many box sets in the pipeline as has been speculated, having to break these up probably came as a relief.