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Moe Dickstein wrote:I was hoping Soapdish might get licensed to Criterion, it's really an undiscovered classic.

And the award for this week's most inevitable post goes to. . .

The titles that went to Criterion are probably the OOP ones that are commanding big bucks on the secondary market:

Nashville (Robert Altman)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Pretty Baby (Louis Malle)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava)
A Place under the Sun (George Stevens)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Ragtime (Milos Forman)
Detective Story (William Wyler)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger)

Which would make the ignoring of Pakula all the weirder.

Raro recently announced plans to release The Conformist in RA.

ianungstad wrote:The titles that went to Criterion are probably the OOP ones that are commanding big bucks on the secondary market:

Nashville (Robert Altman)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Pretty Baby (Louis Malle)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava)
A Place under the Sun (George Stevens)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Ragtime (Milos Forman)
Detective Story (William Wyler)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger)

We pretty much know that Nashville is coming out from Criterion (given the newsletter clue), but I would really love for Targets, The Day of the Locust, Ragtime, A Place in the Sun, and Don't Look Now to get the Criterion treatment.

And Hard Eight/Sydney is Sony not Paramount.

I would love for them to do Don't Look Now and show middle finger to StudioCanal.

Moe Dickstein wrote:And Hard Eight/Sydney is Sony not Paramount.

No. The rights reverted back to Paramount years ago.

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I sit corrected - I guess Par got all the Rysher catalog

Ashirg wrote:I would love for them to do Don't Look Now and show middle finger to StudioCanal.

Absolutely. The Studio Canal blu was so bad I couldn't even watch it on my 37" TV. I stupidly sold my DVD beforehand so I've been Don't Look Now-less for two years now.

Graham wrote:

Ashirg wrote:I would love for them to do Don't Look Now and show middle finger to StudioCanal.

Absolutely. The Studio Canal blu was so bad I couldn't even watch it on my 37" TV. I stupidly sold my DVD beforehand so I've been Don't Look Now-less for two years now.

Just pray they don't give transfer sign-off to the same QC person that approved Madame de. . .: they looove that smeary watercolour look.

Moe Dickstein wrote:I sit corrected - I guess Par got all the Rysher catalog

Indeed they did. I wouldn't mind seeing a Criterion release of Big Night.

Moe Dickstein wrote:I sit corrected - I guess Par got all the Rysher catalog

The fact that this hasn't been reissued by Warner Brothers has me optimistic that it's one of the titles Criterion licensed from Paramount. I think Cigarettes and Red Vines had also mentioned that Criterion were looking in to licensing the film.

I'd say those are pretty safe assumptions. Whatever the holes in the Warner reissues are the guide to what's been licensed elsewhere or wasn't wanted - but if something's fetching big OOP prices, then somebody's gotta want it...

Targets was just released as part of Warner Archives.

Is domino on suicide watch?

Ashirg wrote:Targets was just released as part of Warner Archives.

Also Let's Scare Jessica to Death.

Bummed about Targets, but life goes on. At least now I can get the DVD for less than half of the OOP market.

Ashirg wrote:I would love for them to do Don't Look Now and show middle finger to StudioCanal.

This is very much needed!

My votes go for Don't Look Now, The Elephant Man, Testament, King Kong (what you're looking at me like that for?) and most of all...BLOOD AND ROSES!!!!!!!

With Carlo Lizzani's recent passing, I wonder if Criterion would be interested in The Violent Four (AKA Bandits in Milan) for release as a pairing with Bitter Rice (which he worked on as a screenwriter).

A couple of other Paramount catalog titles that have so far not been reissued by Warner Brothers:

Rolling Stones: Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese)
Bob Dylan : No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
Reds (Warren Beatty)

Reds already has a pretty good Blu-ray release via Paramount, though, which Criterion would be hard pressed to top.

Shine A Light blu-ray seems to have already been re-issued by WB, and still readily available. Reds blu-ray is apparently still out of print.

Just why would Criterion want either of the these two Scorsese hagiographies? It would make more sense to talk Mr. Jagger into giving the OK to the release the oft bootlegged and infinitely more interesting "Cocksucker Blues" by American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank. It is a document in and of its time, and a reminder that at least up to 1972 the Rolling Stones functioned as a relevant and vibrant force in rock music. Don't waste spine numbers on inferior work by superior directors!