What DVDs should Criterion put out?

Started by CollinBullock, March 18, 2003, 03:02:15 PM

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sphinx

Quote from: Vivian Darkbloom
_ ALIEN 3 DIRECTOR'S CUT (you talked about dreaming so let's be unrealistic for a minute and throw in a little STAR WARS ORIGINAL TRILOGY request)

alien 3 is getting a release in that crazy alien quadrilogy box which is bound to have a director's cut on it, i don't know if fincher has anything to do with it yet

Duck Sauce

I saw somebody mention The Game, which for sure deserves it. What is on the laser?

MacGuffin

Quote from: Duck SauceI saw somebody mention The Game, which for sure deserves it. What is on the laser?

Quote from: sphinxsphinx wishes fincher would do something about the criterion ld release of 'the game'.

list of features for the original LD release:
- New widescreen (2.35:1) digital transfer supervised by director David Fincher
- New Dolby Digital® discrete 5.1 channel surround sound mix supervised by sound designer Ren Klyce, optimized for home theater viewing
- Screen-specific audio commentary by David Fincher, actor Michael Douglas, screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, digital animation supervisor Richard "Dr." Baily, production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, visual effects supervisor Kevin Haug, visual effects producer Robyn D'Arcy and director of photography Harris Savides
- Behind the scenes footage shot exclusively for the Criterion Collection special edition
- Storyboards and production design drawings
- Alternate ending
- The original widescreen theatrical trailer and teaser trailer
- Psychological test film

looks very similar to the criterion/new line artwork for the se7en SEs...

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xerxes

it's great to see a nabokov fan here

tpfkabi

Quote from: MacGuffinWarner Bros has announced that they'll be releasing the first four (in a series of ten) two-disc Chaplin Collection DVDs on July 1st: The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, Limelight and Modern Times (SRP $29.95 each). Four more films in the series will follow in the fall (titles TBA). Details on these first titles are as follows:

fabtastic. is there a webpage on the restoration or anything?
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Ravi

The Apu Trilogy
Enter the Dragon (It's an important film IMO.  Seriously.)

Vivian Darkbloom

Well, what can you say ? Nabokov is just my favourite.
About the quadrilogy set, i've also heard about some kind of director's cut for alien 3 but it seems, quite suprisingly I might say (...) that Fincher has nothing to do with it. I wonder what it will look like since apparently all of the original negatives for the deleted have been destroyed (unless they remaster his original workprint from one of those bootleg tapes on VHS)...
I just wondered if those studio executives know what the expression "Director's cut" means... (remember the time when they re-released Blade Runner with a few minor changes and forgot to mention it to Ridley Scott...)

©brad

what does screen-specific audio commentary mean?

MacGuffin

Quote from: cbrad4dwhat does screen-specific audio commentary mean?

When what the filmmaker says in his/her commentary relates directly to what is being shown on screen. As opposed to, say, an audio essay track where usually a scholar is talking about the filmmaker's biography, etc.
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MacGuffin

Quote from: Vivian DarkbloomAbout the quadrilogy set, i've also heard about some kind of director's cut for alien 3 but it seems, quite suprisingly I might say (...) that Fincher has nothing to do with it. I wonder what it will look like since apparently all of the original negatives for the deleted have been destroyed (unless they remaster his original workprint from one of those bootleg tapes on VHS)...

Note, it doesn't say director's cut and it doesn't say Fincher did a commentary, but:

The May edition of the UK's Empire magazine has some details on the upcoming Alien Quadrilogy direct from 20th Century Fox. Look for the 9-disc set to include new "extended" cuts of Alien, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection (Aliens will be the previous director's cut), along with audio commentaries, documentaries and lots more. Each film will get 2-disc treatment (a disc for the film and a disc of extras), along with a 9th bonus disc of just supplementary material (including the Alien Legacy documentary). The film discs will reportedly give you the choice of watching the theatrical version or the new extended cuts via seamless branching. According to Fox, the set is tentatively due for a late 2003 release.
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budgie

I would be surprised if Fincher did anything for Alien 3 other than a new cut. I'd love to see the Game though. It's gotta happen.

I just wish we had a Criterion equivalent here.  :(

Julke

I'd like to see a Criterion DVD of:
Last Year at Marienbad
The Bicycle Thief
Seven Beauties
The Game
Panic Room
Apocalypse Now with Hearts of Darkness
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Solaris (2002)
25th Hour
Ed Wood
Beetlejuice (doubtful, but at least a SP)
Adaptation
Being John Malkovich
Bringing Up Baby
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Rules of the Game
Double Indemnity
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and every of Scrosese's films (Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Casino, Age of Innocence, Goddfellas, etc. etc. etc.)

If you know of any of htese that are coming out tell me.

Julke

I forgot a very important one: Breathless

sphinx

i'll comment on the films i know about

The Game - highly rumored, this has a 50% chance of being released, the biggest problem in the way is criterion securing rights
Panic Room - not a chance
Apocalypse Now with Hearts of Darkness - criterion would never be able to secure the rights
Ocean's Eleven (2001) - not a chance
Solaris (2002) - slim chance, if the version being released in the fall sells well and has decent extras, i would severly doubt it
25th Hour - with the kind of money the studio spent on marketing and producing it, not a chance
Ed Wood - nope
Adaptation - this one's being released as a superbit, later to be rerelased as a superbit deluxe, so not a chance
Being John Malkovich - far too big a seller to have it's rights sold to criterion
and every of Scrosese's films (Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Casino, Age of Innocence, Goddfellas, etc. etc. etc.) - these have LD releases, but they were released before studios woke up and realized how much money you could make off of those films.  there's absolutely no chance of a scorsese film getting criterion because it's a cash goldmine

Cecil

Quote from: JulkeI'd like to see a Criterion DVD of:
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youre in luck http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=30