Criterion News and Discussion

[I Love a Magician]

oh man, can't wait to get fish tank

[SiliasRuby]

These are my two favorites:

[Sleepless]

Empire Online tweeted about this today. Are they getting their news from xixax?

[tpfkabi]

if there's anything special added on the Magnolia one, I might have to get it

The e-mail hint will be:

"But it did happen"

or whatever that quote is. 

[RegularKarate]

Empire Online tweeted about this today. Are they getting their news from xixax?

no, everyone and their dog is talking about these fake Criterion covers.  I don't really get why they're such a big deal...  people have been doing fake CC Covers forever and a lot of these are designed kinda poorly.

[polkablues]

This really makes me wish I could find the old "Goodburger" Criterion cover someone here made. That was back in the pre-diagonal-C-logo days.

[Gold Trumpet]

 March titles, The Times of Harvey Milk, Topsy-Turvy, and The Mikado. Plus Blu Rays for Yi Yi and Au revoir les enfants.


 

* Director-approved digital transfer, from the meticulous UCLA Film and Television Archive restoration (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
   * Audio commentary featuring director Robert Epstein,coeditor Deborah Hoffmann, and photographer Daniel Nicoletta
   * New interview with documentary filmmaker and UC Berkeley professor Jon Else
   * New program about The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Sant's Milk, featuring Epstein, Van Sant, actor James Franco, and Milk friends Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Nicoletta
   * Postscript containing interview clips not used in the film
   * Rare collection of audio and video recordings of Harvey Milk
   * Interview excerpts from Epstein's research tapes
   * Footage from the film's Castro Theatre premiere and the 1984 Academy Awards ceremony
   * Panel discussion on Supervisor Dan White's controversial trial
   * Excerpts from the twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of Milk's and Mayor George Moscone's assassinations
   * Original theatrical trailer
   * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic B. RubyRich, a tribute by Milk's nephew Stuart Milk, and a piece on the film's restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Ross Lipman



   * Director-approved digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Dick Pope (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
   * Audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
   * New video conversation between Leigh and the film's musical director, Gary Yershon
   * A Sense of History, Leigh's 1992 short film written by and starring actor Jim Broadbent
   * Deleted scenes
   * Featurette from 1999 including interviews with Leigh, stars Broadbent and Allan Corduner, and other cast members
   * Theatrical trailer and TV spots
   * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin



   * Newly remastered digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
   * New video interview with Topsy-Turvy director Mike Leigh on The Mikado and its adaptation for the screen
   * New video interview with Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr., tracing the 1939 filmed version of the opera back to its 1885 stage debut
   * More!
   * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien

[Stefen]

I remember seeing the Topsy Turvy trailer when I saw Being John Malkovich in the theater and I shouted gay at the screen. I see it now and just say, "no thanks"

I've grown up so much.

[The Perineum Falcon]

IFC just tweeted this:

RT @CriterionCorner: CERTIFIED COPY is being released by @IFCFilms on 3/11/11. this young decade's best film & a future @Criterion classic.

I love the Kiarostami I've seen, and this news excites me more than March's release slate. I'm not familiar with any of the 3, but I'm not biting at the bit to find out more.

[Stefen]

I know that will make sambong take a cold shower.

[Fernando]

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http://criterioncast.com/2011/01/01/wacky-new-years-drawing-hints-at-criterions-2011-slate-of-releases/

[Ostrich Riding Cowboy]

Is Breaking the Waves too much of a stretch?

[The Perineum Falcon]

I don't know, that'd be nice, but I'm sooooooo excited to hear that Vigo may be getting a place amongst the Criterion. I hope hope hope they'd make some sort of box for him, since he has so few films.

I'm pretty stoked about this year.

[Gold Trumpet]

Is Breaking the Waves too much of a stretch?

Not necessarily. People with better ideas than me of Criterion norms list it as a good possibility and Criterion probably wants to establish Lars Von Trier as a prerequisite for the catalog, especially if his library is more accessible. Criterion should be able to get hold of Breaking the Waves in this DVD landscape at some point. A real special edition of the film doesn't exist in Region 1 so it's due for real attention again.