Rumour has it that it could be Bresson's Pickpocket

Anyway, Ran is one i'll certainly be picking up :up:

I love the Ran cover, but the cover for Box Art Coming Soon is pretty drab. That's one of my favorite movies, and I wish they had used the original poster art for the cover.

Great specs on Ran, decent cover art. Personally, I hope the missing title is Au Revoir Les Enfants, as Criterion did say it would be out in 2005 (of course, Tales of Hoffman is a perfect example of how things can get delayed...).

No doubt.. Some of my catalogues from 2000/2001 list Tales of Hoffman as "Coming Soon" :)

I'm hoping #314 is Bunuel's The Milky Way (which Jon Mulvaney told me should be out by the end of the year)...

:rimshot:

Paging Groucho ... you've got competition.

I don't expect it to be. Au Revoir Les Enfants was originally given spine #293, and it had this number for quite some time on Criterion's website before it was replaced by The Flowers of St. Francis. So I think that if Au Revoir Les Enfants was coming out anytime soon, they would have just left it with spine #293.

Ugetsu and Tales of Hoffmann are now appearing on Criterion's site:
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/browse.asp?sort=spine

no Ran yet, or mystery spine #314

Spine 314 is apparently Pickpocket (scroll down for specs):

http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/...pic.php?t=2664

Can't say I'm not disappointed about Au Revoir Les Enfants, but you are likely correct about the spine number issue, garmonbozia.

I love it. Ugetsu & Ran are mine!

Those covers are very nice. Nice to see Criterion update their website very quickly. Can't believe they're up to #317 when the Life Aquatic seems like it is still fairly new.

This is incredibly good news.

Good news for me, bad news for my wallet. I'm happy to get Ran and Ugetsu but I wish Criterion would slow down on some of the Japanese releases and release more movies from other countries than France, Japan, and England. I'd love to seen some Indian, Mexican, Iranian films in the collection.

Pickpocket specs, without cover, are up on CriterionCo.com

Hmmm, I'm gonna have to dump my Masterworks Edition.

Anyone interested in WB R2/PAL 2-disc mint copy of "RAN" (w/Chris Marker's documentary on disc 2)? It's a frickin' great release, better than all the rest... except almost certainly Criterion's...

I hope they speed up on the Mizoguchi releases. His work has certainly been neglected on DVD.

I agree. :)

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Criterion Collection



The Criterion Collection has just issued details on their November titles. First up on November 8th are Robert Bresson's masterful Pickpocket and Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu. The former arrives with an audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt, a video introduction by writer/director Paul Schrader, a 2003 documentary featuring actors from Bresson's films, a 1960 French TV interview with the director and much more. The latter arrives as a two-disc set with an audio commentary by critic Tony Rayns, a two-and-a-half hour documentary on Mizoguchi by Kaneto Shindo, a new interview with director Masahiro Shinoda on the film, new interviews with first assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka and Miyagawa on their work on the film, trailers, a booklet featuring the original stories on which the film was based and more.



Due on November 22nd is Jacques Offenbach's fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffmannn. Criterion's long-requested DVD will feature audio commentary by Martin Scorsese and film historian Bruce Eder, a new introduction to the film by director and fan George A. Romero, Michael Powell's short musical film "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," a rare collection of production design sketches and paintings, the trailer and more. Also due on the 22nd is director Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Ran which arrives as a two-disc edition with a newly-restored transfer, Chris Marker's 74-minute documentary on Kurosawa's craft in making the film, an introduction by filmmaker Sidney Lumet, a half-hour Toho documentary on the making of the film, a half-hour video piece reconstructing the film through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches, a new interview with star Tatsuya Nakadai and more. Retail is $39.95 apiece.