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Thinking about possible Fox titles, I'm also wondering whether 'Julia' might be a likely addition to the Criterion library. Any thoughts?

Jesus God, let's hope not

albucat wrote:I'll be first to pre-order a correctly color-balanced Do the Right Thing blu-ray if they get to produce one. I've always kinda assumed that would never happen, though, frankly.

I always kind of assumed that Universal would do the same thing with Criterion and Blu-ray that Universal did with DVDs -- release a fucked up, substandard version (DtRT, Spartacus), get a few years of sales out of it, then let Criterion have a crack at it and sell it again.

Stanley Donen's Two for the Road is another good candidate for a FOX title. Film Foundation did a major restoration back in 2012. Disc is out of print. If it was something licensed to Twilight Time; you would think they would have released it by now.

Two For the Road was one of the titles Fox put up for votes in their Blu-ray campaign a few years back, so there's an HD master ready to go. I imagine it will show up somewhere, though I think all of those prospective titles on the ballot ended up coming from Fox themselves so far

ianungstad wrote:Stanley Donen's Two for the Road is another good candidate for a FOX title. Film Foundation did a major restoration back in 2012. Disc is out of print.

You mean the Fox Studio Classics DVD? It still seems to be in stock in most of the usual places.

It is in print. I mixed it up with the other Fox Hepburn; How to Steal A Million, which is OOP.

Not completely. It is in one of those four packs.

blu-ray.com listed a z upgrade and nagisa oshima's boy as announcements. z has been heavily hinted in the past and boy was supposed to be released last year, no? i remember seeing it in the 2013 new year hint image.

here's hoping.

Guesses for Monday....
Tootsie
A Matter of Life and Death
Beyond The Hills
La Strada (upgrade)
Sullivan's Travel (upgrade)
The Kid

Taste of Cherry
The Night Porter
Ugetsu
Apu Trilogy
Tootsie
Valley of the Bees

A Matter of Life and Death
Limelight
Apu Trilogy
Spirit of the Beehive (upgrade)
The Cranes Are Flying (upgrade)

More of a wish list than a positive-it-will-happen list.

The New York Times put up a page today on it's website crediting Janus films as the domestic distributor of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. Did we know that this was a Janus title? I know that Olympia had been mentioned before as being a Janus holding.

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/510 ... ll/details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm sure I asked this years ago on this board (so apologies, but I don't remember), but is there anyway Criterion might get Tarkovsky's The Mirror, The Sacrifice, and/or Stalker? How did the rights to Tarkovsky's seven films get split up if MosFilm originally had them (sans his final two which I know were not produced in the USSR).

Speaking of Mosfilm, what about Bondarchuck's War and Peace? It's only available in two different DVD editions (both awful, but the region 1 is significantly worse). It requires a LOT of work, but it's one of the most phenomenal cinematic achievements to date. Any chance of Criterion getting this one?

ianungstad wrote:The New York Times put up a page today on it's website crediting Janus films as the domestic distributor of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. Did we know that this was a Janus title? I know that Olympia had been mentioned before as being a Janus holding.

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/510 ... ll/details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nah, all the rights to those Riefenstahl films are with InterFilmArt Entertainment.

sir_luke wrote:Speaking of Mosfilm, what about Bondarchuck's War and Peace? It's only available in two different DVD editions (both awful, but the region 1 is significantly worse). It requires a LOT of work, but it's one of the most phenomenal cinematic achievements to date. Any chance of Criterion getting this one?

I think there has been some talk of this one on CC but I could be wrong. I have never seen it and have always wanted to.

aox wrote:

sir_luke wrote:Speaking of Mosfilm, what about Bondarchuck's War and Peace? It's only available in two different DVD editions (both awful, but the region 1 is significantly worse). It requires a LOT of work, but it's one of the most phenomenal cinematic achievements to date. Any chance of Criterion getting this one?

I think there has been some talk of this one on CC but I could be wrong. I have never seen it and have always wanted to.

Mosfilm has the whole thing up on YouTube in fairly decent quality, though if memory serves the subtitles are kind of wonky.

Predictions:

• Tati Boxset
  Midnight Cowboy
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Trouble in Paradise Blu
  La Strada Blu

swo17 wrote:

ianungstad wrote:The New York Times put up a page today on it's website crediting Janus films as the domestic distributor of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. Did we know that this was a Janus title? I know that Olympia had been mentioned before as being a Janus holding.

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/510 ... ll/details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nah, all the rights to those Riefenstahl films are with InterFilmArt Entertainment.

Wasn't that proven to be some elaborate scam?

ianungstad wrote:

swo17 wrote:

ianungstad wrote:The New York Times put up a page today on it's website crediting Janus films as the domestic distributor of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. Did we know that this was a Janus title? I know that Olympia had been mentioned before as being a Janus holding.
http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/510 ... ll/details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nah, all the rights to those Riefenstahl films are with InterFilmArt Entertainment.

Wasn't that proven to be some elaborate scam?

No. The scam wasn't the least bit elaborate.

Aaaaaaaand sued

Why is everyone predicting A Matter of Life and Death? Was there a recent hint for it that I missed?

It's been restored by Film Foundation.