Forthcoming Lists Discussion and Random Speculation Vol. 4

[The Narrator Returns]

How about The Kid with a Bike? It's by the Dardennes, and it could be acquired as part of the IFC/Sundance Selects deal.

[Jeff]

How about The Kid with a Bike? It's by the Dardennes, and it could be acquired as part of the IFC/Sundance Selects deal.

Surely coming eventually, but not at the same time as these two. La promesse and Rosetta are chronologically sequential, and make sense as paired spines. I imagine that Criterion has elected to release The Kid with a Bike, but I'm not looking for it until early 2013.

[jwd5275]

I think we will be getting a blu upgrade of Kinoshita's Twenty-four Eyes soon-ish along with a no-frills release of Boyhood. Both have had artwork strongly resembling actual cover art up recently on Hulu. The art for Boyhood has been taken down now, but Twenty-four Eyes is still up (but can only be seen through a streaming device though...)

[Askew]

Well if Twenty-Four Eyes gets upgraded, we'll probably get a Kinoshita eclipse set in the same month.

[SamLowry]

Glad to see that one of my favorite actors is getting a retrospective @ PFA and noticed a few Criterion mentions for the print source:

Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

The Keys of the Kingdom (137 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Criterion Pictures/Twentieth-Century Fox)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (113 mins, Color, 35mm, From Criterion/Twentieth-Century Fox)
Pork Chop Hill (97 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Park Circus)
Roman Holiday (118 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Paramount Pictures)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (152 mins, Color, 35mm, ‘Scope, From Criterion/Twentieth-Century Fox)
To Kill a Mockingbird (125 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Universal)
Duel in the Sun (144 mins, Color, 35mm, From Buena Vista)
Arabesque (105 mins, Color, 35mm, From Universal Pictures)

[knives]

Criterion Pictures is a division for 20th Century Fox. None of those are coming to this Criterion.

[mfunk9786]

If every company named Criterion had something to do with The Criterion Collection, I'd be really pumped for the spine number release of Burnout Revenge

[Jeff]

Not actually owned by Fox, they're an independent company. They handle non-theatrical distribution for several studios and theatrical repertory for Fox.

[AfterTheRain]

The Keys of the Kingdom (137 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Criterion Pictures/Twentieth-Century Fox)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (113 mins, Color, 35mm, From Criterion/Twentieth-Century Fox)
Pork Chop Hill (97 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Park Circus)
Roman Holiday (118 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Paramount Pictures)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (152 mins, Color, 35mm, ‘Scope, From Criterion/Twentieth-Century Fox)
To Kill a Mockingbird (125 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Universal)
Duel in the Sun (144 mins, Color, 35mm, From Buena Vista)
Arabesque (105 mins, Color, 35mm, From Universal Pictures)

Out of those titles, I would love for Criterion to get their hands on Duel in the Sun.

[JimmyTango]

When are the August titles typically announced?

[knives]

Tomorrow (or rather today).

[raschuette]

What I want most of all is an upgrade for In The Name of Love. Do we know if Criterion has the rights to the Blu edition? It would seem to be such a no-brainer for Blu that I have to wonder what the hold up is.

[manicsounds]

What I want most of all is an upgrade for In The Name of Love. Do we know if Criterion has the rights to the Blu edition? It would seem to be such a no-brainer for Blu that I have to wonder what the hold up is.

[jwd5275]

In the Name of Love????

[Rupert Pupkin]

and about In The Mood For Love ? (Criterion seems to still have the right for the DVD)

I'm dying to see it on blu-ray... (I think it's planned to be released in France on blu-ray via TF1/Ocean but nothing has been officially announced yet... And TF1 means forced subtitles... (but their DVD edition was pretty good, more accurate than the Criterion edition for the colors... just IMHO)

by the way, well, it's not WKW, but Millenium Mambo would be great... [-o<

[onedimension]

Hoping for some Italian films this round- Pasolini, Rossellini, or Antonioni..

I will also predict the absence of The Game, Wild Strawberries, & Y Tu Mama Tambien, since those are guessed every month and never show.

[duck duck]

Titles are announced usually between 5-7 eastern time on the 15th.

Anyone one else miss the old method of just randomly sometime after the first title for the month was released? It was more exciting just to blindly stumble across new releases without any clues, instead of now when their site gets flooded and error pagers are abundant.

[mfunk9786]

I never understand your posts.

[JPJ]

I guess he's talking about the old days,2001 or so.

[duck duck]

I don't really read my posts and they mostly reference things that happened about 5 years ago or longer.

[domino harvey]

I don't really read my posts

So easy a set-up that I don't even have the heart to strike

[onedimension]

Were the catalog booklets that came with old discs the only way to learn about new releases pre-web-present Criterion?

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

I don't really read my posts

So easy a set-up that I don't even have the heart to strike

Round here that's called a sitting duck duck

[duck duck]

Yes, at one point and some of them never made it, still. The catalogs taught them to set up the system they have now because some of the "coming soon" in catalogs never happened or took a few years. Howards End was in an earlier catalog.

Thank you Domino, I know you have been around for a while on a few different versions of this.

[JPJ]

Were the catalog booklets that came with old discs the only way to learn about new releases pre-web-present Criterion?

No, but they gave invaluable clues.