Criterion February Releases
11-29-04, 05:22 PM
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Criterion February Releases
La Commare Secca is listed on at criterionco.com
A poster criterionforum.org also posted covers for
Night and the City and Godard's Tout Va Bien but these aren't showing up yet on Criterion's site.
A poster criterionforum.org also posted covers for
Night and the City and Godard's Tout Va Bien but these aren't showing up yet on Criterion's site.
11-29-04, 05:34 PM
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La commare secca - 272 - Bertolucci - $29.95 MSRP
Special Features
-Exclusive interview with director Bernardo Bertolucci
-Essay by film critic David Thompson
-New and improved English subtitle translation
Thieves Highway - 273 - Dassin - $39.95
Special Features
-Audio commentary by Alain Silver, editor of The Film Noir Reader and author of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
-Video interview with director Jules Dassin
-Trailer for The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides (2004), the documentary on writer Bezzerides, author of the novel Thieves’ Highway, featuring interviews with Bezzerides and Dassin
-Original theatrical trailer
-A new essay by film critic Michael Sragow, author of Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You’ve Never Seen
Night and the City - 274 - Dassin - $39.95
Special Features
-Audio commentary by Glenn Erickson, author of the Film Noir Reader essay on Night and the City
-Video interview with director Jules Dassin
-Excerpts from a 1972 French interview with Dassin
-Excerpts from a BBC documentary about the Hollywood blacklist
-New essay by film critic Paul Arthur
-Original theatrical trailer
Tout va Bien - 275 - Godard & Gorin - $39.95
Special Features
-Letter to Jane (1972), Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s postscript film to Tout va bien
-1972 video interview excerpt with Jean-Luc Godard
-New video interview with Jean-Pierre Gorin
-New and improved English subtitle translation
-Plus: A booklet including essays by film critics J. Hoberman and Kent Jones and Godard biographer Colin MacCabe and an excerpted interview with Gorin and Godard from 1972
My Own Private Idaho - 277 - Van Sant - $39.95
Special Features
-New high-definition digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions and approved by director Gus Van Sant
-New Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
-Exclusive new audio conversation between Van Sant and filmmaker Todd Haynes (Safe, Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine)
-The Making of My Own Private Idaho, a new documentary featuring interviews with key crew members
-New video interview with film critic Paul Arthur on the adaptation of Shakespeare in My Own Private Idaho
-Video conversation between producer Laurie Parker and Rain Phoenix
-Outtakes
-Original theatrical trailer
-English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
-More!
-Plus: a booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Amy Taubin and reprinted interviews with Van Sant, Phoenix, and Reeves
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11-29-04, 07:38 PM
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Wow. Didn't think I'd ever see Tout va Bien get released over here in the US on DVD. Great news for a great (and rarely seen) film.
11-29-04, 08:14 PM
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How can you be excited about one Dassin, but not be excited about another which is almost toally unseen? Tsk, tsk!
These releases have either been obvious or hinted at for quite awhile, but its still a joy to hear about them. The Dassin films and Idaho are mine, and I'll netflix the others eagerly.
The Criterion board says that Renoir's The River is going to be Spine 246, though nobody's explained how they know it, as neither artwork nor specs have appeared on the site. If its true, THIS, not My Private Idaho, will be the big Criterion of the month, as the film is being given the ultra resolution treatment.
These releases have either been obvious or hinted at for quite awhile, but its still a joy to hear about them. The Dassin films and Idaho are mine, and I'll netflix the others eagerly.
The Criterion board says that Renoir's The River is going to be Spine 246, though nobody's explained how they know it, as neither artwork nor specs have appeared on the site. If its true, THIS, not My Private Idaho, will be the big Criterion of the month, as the film is being given the ultra resolution treatment.
11-29-04, 08:43 PM
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Originally posted by Der Zorn Gottes
How can you be excited about one Dassin, but not be excited about another which is almost toally unseen? Tsk, tsk!
How can you be excited about one Dassin, but not be excited about another which is almost toally unseen? Tsk, tsk!
Damn, now that's just more money I have to spend.
nothing on that list of any interest to me 
11-30-04, 03:48 PM
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I'm interest in all of them, though the only ones I know I'll buy are "My Own Private Idaho" and "Night and the City." The rest I'll rent and buy if I like them...
(Just to help my wallet out a bit...)
(Just to help my wallet out a bit...)
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Can't wait to pick up "Box Art Coming Soon", glad to see Criterion finally got their hands on the rights
In all honestly Godard and Bertolucci are sold, I'll check out the Dessine and MOPI, which I hope doesn't suck unlike the other van Sant movie I've seen (coughElephantcough)
In all honestly Godard and Bertolucci are sold, I'll check out the Dessine and MOPI, which I hope doesn't suck unlike the other van Sant movie I've seen (coughElephantcough)
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I'm really looking forward to the two Dassin noirs. Of special interest on both of those are the commentaries. We get another DVD Savant commentary which is nice because I enjoyed his commentary on Gun Crazy, but even more of note is a commentary by Alain Silver, by far my favorite and the most accomplished film noir writer, and the author of the Film Noir Reader series as well as the ultimate noir volume, Film Noir: An Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style. Is this his first audio commentary? I'm not aware of another one he's done anyway.
12-01-04, 12:38 AM
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Originally posted by kingtopher
I'm really looking forward to the two Dassin noirs. Of special interest on both of those are the commentaries. We get another DVD Savant commentary which is nice because I enjoyed his commentary on Gun Crazy, but even more of note is a commentary by Alain Silver, by far my favorite and the most accomplished film noir writer, and the author of the Film Noir Reader series as well as the ultimate noir volume, Film Noir: An Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style. Is this his first audio commentary? I'm not aware of another one he's done anyway.
I'm really looking forward to the two Dassin noirs. Of special interest on both of those are the commentaries. We get another DVD Savant commentary which is nice because I enjoyed his commentary on Gun Crazy, but even more of note is a commentary by Alain Silver, by far my favorite and the most accomplished film noir writer, and the author of the Film Noir Reader series as well as the ultimate noir volume, Film Noir: An Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style. Is this his first audio commentary? I'm not aware of another one he's done anyway.
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Please Criterion release some more Luis Bunuel Please!!!!
I know that Televisa owns some of his movies the bastards, but just show them some $$$ and they will give them to you, specially this ones who should be own by everyone who loves movies or owns a DVD player.
:-D
Los Olvidados
The Exterminating Angel
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
The Golden Age
Un Chien Andalou
I know that Televisa owns some of his movies the bastards, but just show them some $$$ and they will give them to you, specially this ones who should be own by everyone who loves movies or owns a DVD player.
:-D
Los Olvidados
The Exterminating Angel
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
The Golden Age
Un Chien Andalou