Criterion News and Discussion

[The Perineum Falcon]

The running time is 15 and half hours. It will likely be broken up in TV episode segments.

Holy Crudball's on Ice!

My sentiments exactly.

But I am quite intrigued by this.

[Alethia]

cool, i've been wanting to see it.

[tpfkabi]

has anyone seen Sword of Doom?

[Two Lane Blacktop]

Alexanderplatz sounds really intriguing and incredibly daunting at the same time.  

2LB

[samsong]

covert art for The Phantom of Liberty is up

[Ravi]

Kagemusha Screenshots

Hear that?  It's the sound of $40 running out of my wallet.

[Gold Trumpet]

http://www.criterionco.com/content/images/full_boxshot/294_box_348x490.jpg

Spine #294 belongs to Anthony Asquith's The Browning Version. I've never heard of the film but the director has been represented twice already in the Criterion Collevtion (with PYGMALION & THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST) The review at IMDB has really gotten me interested, but as news develops with this title, we'll see. The cover though is beautiful.

[samsong]

YES

[ono]

You took the words right out of my mouth!

[Gold Trumpet]

JUNES RELEASES ARE UP! It includes some many, many anticipated releases....

Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch) : http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=291

The Browning Version (Asquith) : http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=294

au hasard Balthazar (Bresson) : http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=297

Crazed Fruit (Nakahira) : http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=295

First off, Samsong better be rejoicing. What is interesting about the latest releases is that discs with commentaries are showing up priced $29.95 instead of $39.95. (all four films here are $29.95) Big packed double disced films still are $40, but ones with just commentaries and some extras have gone down. Thats good. It will get me to purchase a film like Crazed Fruit just because Donald Richie deemed it worthy enough to have a commentary for.

[Pubrick]

You took the words right out of my mouth!

he took the look right out of my face.

[cine]

"Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha rides into stores

This week saw the release of Criterion's new DVD edition of Akira Kurosawa's epic Kagemusha, featuring exclusive new video interviews with filmmakers George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince, a 41 minute documentary on the making of the film, and much more. Kurosawa fans can also look forward to Criterion's upcoming edition of Ran, due out in late 2005 in a special edition which includes, among other features, an exclusive interview recently conducted in Tokyo with star Tatsuya Nakadai."

[Gold Trumpet]

Great News on Kurosawa's Ran heading to the Criterion banner. Every DVD review of the film has been poor. Being such a visual film, I don't know of a better company than Criterion to release it.

Also, just found on the 2005 booklet are the missing spine numbers:

#292 Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges) 1948 $29.95
#293 Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle) 1987 $39.95
#296 Le Notte Bianche (Luchino Visconti) 1957 $29.95
#298 Gate of Fleash (Seijun Suzuki) 1964 $29.95
#299 Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki) 1965 $29.95

[Gold Trumpet]

rumor is spreading the Ran news may have been just an April Fool's joke. The news has been taken down from the site and many people are questioning the legitimacy of Criterion getting a title that was just given a special edition release by another company. Its still a toss up for me with me thinking they will release it.

[Fjodor]

rumor is spreading the Ran news may have been just an April Fool's joke. The news has been taken down from the site and many people are questioning the legitimacy of Criterion getting a title that was just given a special edition release by another company. Its still a toss up for me with me thinking they will release it.

Nope, it seems to be true since Criterion put it back on.

Plus, cover art Strange Fruit revealed: