Full credit for this find goes to Butterfly Jeb on the CCF. The rumor seems quite credble, and if all is true, October's amazing lineup has been toppled.

The website www.cnl.com (C&L Internet Club) has several interesting items listed under Home Vision/Criterion, with a release date for November 18. They are the following:

Alice in Wonderland (unknown, perhas the 1933 version)
Cure (most likely Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film)
La Strada (Federico Fellini's breakthrough classic)
Maurice (Merchant/Ivory film)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenburg film)
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda film...Shinoda directed Double Suicide, available from Criterion)
Quartet (Merchant/Ivory)
Richard III (Laurence Olivier version)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir's classic)

Opinions?

If these two titles come out, you've just made my day!

Hopefully this is true...Maurice and Naked Lunch... and a few other movies on the list worth a pick up.

Thanks for the info

Renoir's Rules of the Game/La Règle du jeu is my most eagerly anticipated Criterion title. Period. A truly wonderful early Xmas gift.

I'm excited about La Strada, too. Lukewarm about the releases of Richard III, Maurice, Cure, Naked Lunch. Underwhelmed by the rest.

Truly awesome news.

Oh, and BTW, it's Buttery Jeb.

No Beyond the Valley of the Dolls? Phooey!

Maurice is part of the Merchant-Ivory schedule of titles being released by Home Vision (see http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=300008) so most of these may be Home Vision releases, not Criterions.

Rules of the Game is near the top of my list of movies to see, if just to see if it is as good as fans and critics say it is.

If this is true, I'll be renting it through Netflix.

Naked Lunch is HUGE if true.

NAKED LUNCH CC!!! Means I'll have to get rid of my R2 copy... Same with RULES OF THE GAME!

November is going to be a very, very expensive month for me.... *groan*

But, who can complain!

Naked Lunch!

...that'd be coo.

You betcha! Mine, too, along with Tokyo Story.

Have had the French R2 SE on my 'wishlist' for sometime so it may be a blessing in disguise i've held off buying it so far....however i will reserve judgement nearer to the release date and once reviews of any Criterion edition circulate...because it is a Criterion doesn't necessarily mean it is the best version available IMO

Dates:

10/14
Le Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, France) Criterion
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan) Criterion

10/21
The Cars That Ate Paris/The Plumber (Peter Weir, Australia) Home Vision

11/18
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) Home Vision
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, Japan) Home Vision
Richard III (Laurence Olivier/Anthony Bushell, UK) Criterion
Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, France) Criterion
La Strada (Federico Fellini, Italy) Criterion

Nice! Can't wait for The Cars That Ate Paris/The Plumber & Rules of the Game!

La Strada, Rules of the Game, and Richard III on the same day??

Damn you, Criterion! Damn you to hell....for making my bank account dwindle to nothing.

"I can think of two things wrong with that title."....Nelson Munse, The Simpsons.

Lol...you beat me to it! This is definitely good news if it pans out. Naked Lunch is classic Cronenberg...

lol, I never got that joke....maybe I am just thinking about it too hard.

So does anyone know if Naked Lunch will be a Criterion release or a Home Vision release??

Garmonbozia,

I always took it that:

1) No one gets naked in the film
2) He expected to be served lunch

Then again, I could be wrong...

Excited on Rules of the Game.

Me too!...that's the only one i'm likely to pick up in November seeing as though Naked Lunch hasn't got a firm November release date.

I'm really looking forward to Le Cercle Rouge and Tokyo Story released in October though.

I e- mailed Jon Mulvaney of Criterion if La Strada or Richard III will be available in November the reply was:

"I'm afraid I cannot discuss upcoming titles that have not been
officially
announced."


does this mean that these titles are upcoming?

From what I understand, if he words the response that way, it means it's coming up... barring any complications.