The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages

[ianungstad]

It does look like that a lot of the images in the New Year's drawing were either overlapping or double clues.

Buena Vista Social Club + West Side Story
Se7en + Mysterious Object at Noon
They Live By Night + Night of the Living Dead
Marseille Trilogy + Princess Bride

[Ribs]

Sure, in the sense that only one of those is happening at the most

[dwk]

Sure, in the sense that only one of those is happening at the most

Two:
Buena Vista Social Club + West Side Story
They Live By Night + Night of the Living Dead (I'm not 100% convinced this was a double clue, but I am convinced that Criterion will be releasing NotLD.)


Back to the recent batch of names, I just remembered that Tim Robbins did a DVD closet video in October, so that is likely more evidence that the Ron Shelton title is Bull Durham.

[flyonthewall2983]

Se7en seems quite unlikely to me, the WB disc (filled to the brim with features held over from the fantastic 2000 New Line edition) is still well in print. Logorama could be for another Fincher film.

[FrauBlucher]

Here's an odd one. Sam Taylor-Wood, anyone want to take a stab at what this could be.

[mfunk9786]

Here's an odd one. Sam Taylor-Wood, anyone want to take a stab at what this could be.

Nowhere Boy?

[PfR73]

Criterion being on a shorts kick, maybe her short film "Love You More"?

[mfunk9786]

To supplement what, though?

[PfR73]

Well, these phantom pages have often been appearing for shorts they're putting on Filmstruck (Logorama, Incident By A Bank) but I think we don't yet know for sure what physical media plans Criterion have for them.

[mfunk9786]

Oh! Well, learned something new.

[movielocke]

It does look like that a lot of the images in the New Year's drawing were either overlapping or double clues.

Buena Vista Social Club + West Side Story
Se7en + Mysterious Object at Noon
They Live By Night + Night of the Living Dead
Marseille Trilogy + Princess Bride

The ?Box is 'shining' though, which probably suggests LD upgrade of Pulp Fiction rather than LD upgrade of Se7en.

[swo17]

Who could ever forget the box from Pulp Fiction? "But what's in the box???" people used to say. You couldn't go five minutes without hearing somebody quote that line from the movie.

[krnash]

The ?Box is 'shining' though, which probably suggests LD upgrade of Pulp Fiction rather than LD upgrade of Se7en.

Must be a pain in the ass hauling that handle-less, enormous cube suitcase around on trips.

[Luke M]

Re: "Ron Shelton", don't forget that White Men Can't Jump was a favorite film of Stanley Kubrick.

BFI: Stanley Kubrick, cinephile

Pardon a tangent ... I was following those USENET threads back then. Katharina Kubrick-Hobbs presented a list, off the top of her head, of films that her father had recently expressed enjoying. It wasn't really an all-time favorites list. "White Men Can't Jump" stood out as something of a surprise but a good one. Kubrick could enjoy contemporary populist film as much as the pantheon classics.

The family's main intent in temporarily contributing to that group appeared to be not only to connect with the audience and fans at a time of grief (Christiane, on her husband's recent death lamented "It's just so unfair") but moreover to set the record straight: Stanley was not some crazed hermit, he was a humane and loving family man who was loyal to friends, loved animals, and was intensely dedicated to film. That's now generally understood but at the time of Kubrick's death the dark rumors about him still attended mainstream media reputation.

FWIW, "White Men Can't Jump" does a better job handling race than Crash and most films that have tackled the subject.

[dda1996a]

It does a great job handling a lot of different themes. It does a great job being a great film I would say. I really wish I could've been present when Kubrick watched it though

[flyonthewall2983]

I'm in for a Criterion Rosie Perez retrospective

[dwk]

Bahman Ghobadi

[FrauBlucher]

For those who think Woody Allen's phantom page is for Take the Money and Run should rethink this. Mr Lime mentioned that it's an ABC Pictures film. He didn't confirm it was part of the Disney/Kino deal but for the fact that he went out of his way to answer a question about it suggests that it is coming from Kino. BTW... He hasn't openly confirmed any title from the deal at this point except for Prizzi's Honor.

Being that Woody Allen has given Grover Crisp the job of creating 4ks, it wouldn't surprise me if Criterion mirrors the Arrow's Allens with boxsets.

[mteller]

Alice Colomer-Kang

[Ribs]

There is a 100% certainty the page was for Take the Money and Run, due to the surrounding pages. There is also the possibility rights lapsed and plans changed, but that doesn't magically not make the original Phantom Page apply for a different future release and not be for what it was plainly made for.

[John Shade]

Being that Woody Allen has given Grover Crisp the job of creating 4ks, it wouldn't surprise me if Criterion mirrors the Arrow's Allens with boxsets.

What films do you think they would include in a box?

[Ribs]

TT's license still covers everything from the same era as Arrow but the four released by MGM, of which Annie Hall and Manhattan have been restored that we know of.

[TheRanchHand]

I know I may be missing the obvious but is there any reason Bad Day at Black Rock is not a possibility for Sturges? I'd love The Great Escape but Bad Day is still one of my favorite LDs.

[sabbath]

I know I may be missing the obvious but is there any reason Bad Day at Black Rock is not a possibility for Sturges? I'd love The Great Escape but Bad Day is still one of my favorite LDs.

Warner Archive Collection released it last month.

[D50]

https://www.criterion.com/people/119563-joseph-losey