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On the topic of "are they or aren't they" Criterion acquisitions, when's The French Liutenant's Woman coming?

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That's actually not the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread is Ghost World is coming to Criterion. It isn't a question of will or or won't it...it will.

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Well, I did mention Me and You and Everyone We Know, and so did Chicken Warrior.

I actually thought that Ghost World was another IFC to MGM title like Me and You (this is why I had initially thought to mention it in the OP) but I guess not (caught myself in time to alter the OP).

My hope is that since Criterion and IFC have a deal, and maybe Criterion and MGM have a deal based on Ghost World, Me and You would be an easy grab, especially since July also expressed her disappointment with the DVD that MGM released, and promised fans a "special edition" in the future if 100,000 copes were sold. Unfortunately, the disc was released at time when Sony controlled MGM's distribution rights, and Sony's logo is on the DVD, so whoever promised July a new edition probably worked for Sony. But then again, Sony and Criterion have a deal of some sort too, or at least they worked one out for Bottle Rocket...

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Well, the ball's rolling on it, but let's not get too ahead of ourselves.

They initially had the ball rolling on releasing Eraserhead on DVD as well, but then that news got leaked, Lynch got upset, thinking that Criterion was behind the leak, and ended up releasing it himself.

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MGM no longer is distributing films released by IFC as their contract expired. There's a slew of Fox / MGM double-or-feature triple packs out there with IFC Films releases in the mix (such as the Camp and Saved double feature or Garden State and Me and You...), but at this point, whatever is left for sale is the remaining inventory.

As of now, all of the IFC releases during the MGM releasing period are available to watch instantly on Netflix. Most of them being HD to boot.

I'm assuming if we see DVD or Blu-ray re-releases of these titles, they'll be put out by MPI.

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Wow, never heard that. Interesting.

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Lynch is a control freak when it comes to his movies. I doubt Zwigoff is going to have a pretentious hissy fit like Lynch did because the news is out there.

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I missed those posts.

I guess I was just thinking there's already a Criterion wish list thread started here, so there was no sense to see this one devolve into another wish list.

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Particularly given that a fan asked Zwigoff about it, and Zwigoff told them, which is ultimately the reason this thread exists.

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So... bump?

Any reason why this never happened? I re-watched the original DVD tonight, and I still love it. I'd upgrade to a Criterion version in a heartbeat.

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No telling, sometimes Criterion just sits on things (like Y Tu Mama Tambien or Cronenberg's The Brood) so maybe Ghost World is still a possible (?).

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I hope it's still planned. I haven't been able to find any new details.

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Bump.

We just watched Ghost World for the first time. I was disappointed. It's not entertainingly surreal, but it's surreal enough to keep it from being a slice of life. It's full of the Clowes negativity, which gets tiresome if you aren't an angsty teen. The main character doesn't change or grow.

Mrs Danger said that the art class scenes were very realistic. They were the reason I rented the DVD.

I did like it as a deconstruction of the "manic pixie dream girl" trope. Beautiful young Enid comes into the life of a nice, shy, lonely guy and she turns his life upside down. And it stays upside down, and she leaves him worse off than if she had never had met him.

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^ Well to be fair, he did get laid. So not a total loss.