Criterion News and Discussion

[jenkins]

fuck yeah.

this is what'll rattle my physical media cage:



i'm going to become dvd with my blu-ray player, and dvds will be vhs, and people still buy vhs. my tv is, i forget, if it's lcd or plasma. it doesn't curve. its representation within the 4k community is unknown to me. it's always only movies, and keeping up with the times is always a puzzler.

[jenkins]

glad the nye clue was indeed for Kings of the Road:



In A Lonely Place is arriving, which is my second favorite Dorothy Hughes adaptation, my second favorite emotional Bogart, and my third maybe fourth favorite Nicholas Ray move.

The Player is arriving, which is my second favorite Altman movie from the 90s.

The Naked Island is arriving, which i first saw theatrically with an introduction by Benicio Del Toro.

[Fernando]

[samsong]

also confirmed The New World.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3921-restoring-the-new-world

[samsong]

dvdbeaver reviewed the forthcoming blu-ray of a brighter summer day: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_71/a_brighter_summer_day_blu-ray.htm

if you aren't waiting with bated breath for this release, you should be.  objectively speaking, this should be on every list of top 25 films of all time it's so staggering and important.  the bluray looks gorgeous, leaps and bounds above the the murky dvd rip i watched for the one and only time i saw this film, after which i still had the sense that i had seen an absolute masterpiece.  buy this as soon as you can.

[Gold Trumpet]

Dr. Strangelove!

[wilder]

Criterion to Begin Releasing on Blu-ray in the UK

[Just Withnail]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAH! Or, thinking about my money: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Ravi]

The UK already has Arrow, BFI and Eureka/Masters of Cinema releasing a lot of the same kinds of films as Criterion in similar packages. Artificial Eye is good too, but their releases don't always have many extras.

[wilder]

[wilder]

Turner Classic Movies & The Criterion Collection Team For New Streaming Service FilmStruck
via The Playlist

Turner Classic Movies and The Criterion Collection are developing and managing FilmStruck, a new U.S. based, ad-free service that will bring arthouse, indie, foreign and cult films to fans across the country. The service will include a specific Criterion Channel, curated by the boutique label, and the service will include titles from respected labels like Janus Films, Flicker Alley, Icarus, Kino, Milestone and Zeitgeist.

FilmStruck will launch this fall, but there's no word yet on how much it might cost.

Global media company Turner is launching the company's first direct-to-consumer product in the U.S., called FilmStruck. This brand new subscription video on-demand service for film aficionados, developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in collaboration with the Criterion Collection, will feature a comprehensive and constantly refreshed library of films comprised of an eclectic mix of contemporary and classic arthouse, indie, foreign and cult films. FilmStruck will also be the new exclusive streaming home for the critically acclaimed and award-winning Criterion Collection, which will include the Criterion Channel, a new premium service programmed and curated by the Criterion team. FilmStruck will allow viewers to watch movies anywhere and anytime on the device of their choice, in a completely ad-free environment, and is slated to launch in fall 2016.

FilmStruck's impressive library will feature a deep roster of films from such celebrated indie studios as Janus Films, Flicker Alley, Icarus, Kino, Milestone and Zeitgeist, along with movies from Hollywood's major movie studios including Warner Bros. Among the hundreds of critically acclaimed and award-winning titles to be featured on FilmStruck are Seven Samurai, A Hard Day's Night, A Room With A View, Blood Simple, My Life As A Dog, Mad Max, Breaker Morant and The Player.


FilmStruck is the latest move in Turner's overall strategy to innovate beyond the traditional television ecosystem by providing rich viewing experiences that drive engagementacross all platforms. Today's news follows a string of groundbreaking announcements for the company, such as the formation of ELEAGUE, Turner's new eSports league created in partnership with WME | IMG and set to launch this summer; Turner's recent investment in Mashable, which includes access to both content and valuable consumer data; Turner and CBS's wide-ranging, multiplatform contract extension for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; and the launch of CNN's Great Big Story, which combines video storytelling custom-built for social distribution with integrated advertising.

"At Turner, we are dedicated to engaging fans wherever they are, and we're investing aggressively in content, new capabilities and new businesses to achieve that goal," said John Martin, chairman and CEO of Turner. "FilmStruck is a terrific example of our strategy to meet consumer demand for great content across all screens. It's tailor-made for the diehard movie enthusiasts who craves a deep, intimate experience with independent, foreign, and arthouse films. And it takes advantage of TCM's powerful curation capabilities, as well as its proven track record in building a long-term relationship with passionate film fans."

"TCM is leading Turner's strategic move into the direct-to-consumer business with a truly differentiated and distinct streaming product that adds tremendous value to our portfolio," said Coleman Breland, president of TCM and Turner Content Distribution. "Together with our partners at the Criterion Collection, we are creating a must-have, premium film brand that will draw from the most celebrated movie libraries in the world."

"Criterion is teaming up with TCM to launch an arthouse film lovers' dream streaming service," said Peter Becker, president of the Criterion Collection. "Working with TCM's programming team, we'll present a broad, constantly changing cross-section of Criterion titles on FilmStruck, a platform designed from the start to present films with the kind of robust supplemental features that Criterion is known for. The addition of the premium Criterion Channel will offer subscribers the most comprehensive Criterion experience ever available anywhere, including a steady stream of exclusive original content and archival discoveries, plus continual access to more than 1,000 films from the Janus Films library, many unavailable on disc or anywhere else. We're very excited to be joining forces with TCM to make FilmStruck the streaming service serious movie fans have been waiting for."

Additional information is available on the FilmStruck website at www.filmstruck.com.

[Just Withnail]

There it was! The reason I didn't start a blu-ray collection. I'm glad I held out.

[wilder]

Killer month


The Decalogue

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Blood Simple
Cat People
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Valley of the Dolls

[jenkins]

agree

New high-definition digital restorations of A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays

New interview with filmmaker John Waters

New conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coens about the film's production, from inception to release

[Reel]

Epic blood simple cover, that'd be cool to have. What's the Decalogue's supposed to be, a tetris block?