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Nice. I'll have to snag that with some of the credit I'm getting back from Amazon...

Edit: Amazon no longer has it marked down that low...

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Can't wait for Heaven's Gate. But I am a little disappointed with the lack of special features. I've been envisioning a Heaven's Gate Criterion release for several years as its one of my favorite films of all time. But whenever I pictured it I saw it as a release the magnitude of their Fanny & Alexander set. the 3 hour 33 minute cut, the long speculated 5 hour 20 min cut. Michael Cimino commentary. The Final Cut :The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate Documentry and perhaps a new making of documentry that doesn't cast the film in such a negative light and presents some opposing views from people that have positive things to say about the film. Because there actually ARE people who like this film. But whatever. I'll take what I can get. I already sold my dvd in anticipation of the BLU set.

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I wanna see, 'Hard Eight'.

But yeah - totally -- Why not Transformers?


Serious note though - I wouldn't mind seeing a nice release of Bay's 'The Island'.

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True to their word, my order shipped on the 10th, and on the 11th they credited my Paypal account for $17.

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Disney is the one you should be rallying for a release with the Criterion extras. They licensed all the extras from the Criterion edition of The Rock.

Honestly though, I always found the Armageddon's CC extras to be pretty light. I never understood why it needed to be on two discs. I literally went "that's IT?!" when I finished the second disc. The commentary with Bay & Affleck on Disc 1 is classic though.

I just kept the CC and haven't gotten the BD. Honestly, it has the best non-anamorphic video I've seen to this day. It's still mighty purty for a glorified laserdisc port.

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Same! All in all that worked out well!

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The Lincoln Center in NY is showing a restored 35mm print of Following. I wonder if that means an announcement this week or sometime this year?

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Ratcatcher BD please!!!!!!

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DVDBeaver on Eating Raoul.

What a pleasure to see this looking so good, and one of the greatest leaps in quality over a DVD ever, as Sony's edition was authored incorrectly (stretched or squeezed image, depending on whether you tried to view it 16x9 or 4x3) along with a very weak encode with tons of compression artifacts, crawling grain, you name it. Thank you Criterion!

BTW, this makes an excellent double feature with Godard's Week End :)

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Thank Christ. The original DVD of this was atrocious.

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Are announcements tomorrow? Or will we have to wait for Monday?

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Monday

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I guess I'd better get my wishlist in now. I'll take:

El Angel Exterminador

Atame!

Hobson's Choice

Ikiru

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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wishlist...

brute force
the blob
on the waterfront
george washington
sisters

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December is usually a light month, so don't be too surprised if there are only two or three releases.

Anyways, Criterion posted this about their December releases on Facebook:I'm hoping for Andrei Rublev, Brazil, or Picnic at Hanging Rock. Particularly Andrei Rublev.

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I'm 99.9% sure it's Brazil.

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Yeah, that's most likely - and it's the one that would probably get the most people excited. I'll keep hoping until Monday, though.

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They need to upgrade Picnic at Hanging Rock. So I'm hoping that's it.

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that'd be nice, cause then I wont have to order the UK (more than likely region B locked) edition

-pray- for any of those three


and I just got a copy of the UK import

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I would very much like that! I hope it's the whole boxset they're upgrading too (although it most likely will be).

Also, "the" blu-ray upgrade means they're only doing one this month. Come to think of it, have they even been doing more than that recently?

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Yeah, I would also guess Brazil based on that message.

I owned the letterbox DVD and replaced it with the anamorphic DVD when it came out. I'll definitely pick up the Blu-ray, but probably not right away.

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Brazil would be awesome.

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Count me in as someone who'd drool over Brazil. I have the original non-anamorphic edition and this would be awesome. I just can't believe it's taken so long.

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I'm sure Criterion's version of Brazil will be great. But the Universal BD isn't to be shrugged off as it is the original US theatrical version (which BTW, is also a "director's cut"), and in some ways is superior to Gilliam's later directors cut, IMO.

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Criterion's DVD boxset features both versions, so I'm expecting the blu-ray to feature them as well.

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The Criterion box set did not include the original theatrical version, but a revised directors cut and the butchered "love conquers all" version.

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My bad, I thought there were only 2 versions of the film.

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technically three - the US version, the international 'DC' and the 'Love Conqueror's All' version.

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Dug around on Wikipedia, they're respectively 132 , 142 and 94 minutes?

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That's definitely Brazil. I will gladly upgrade that one.

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Gilliam said a few years back that he made new features for the BD. I'd like to see what those were.

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Would be nice to see an upgrade of M. Hulot's Holiday.

I'm also holding out hope for Y Tu Mama Tambien.

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so is it a pipedream that Criterion would ever do a remaster of 'Robocop' - has that ship sailed?

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MGM would have to give it up, and that's not likely since they have a remake in the works as an opportunity to release it again.

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haven't they lost the rights to that?

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unfortunately I think they did. :(

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Not as long as MGM has it. Gotta make all that hard cash from tying it into the remake, right?

Honestly, pick up the Criterion disc and the Blu-ray and call it a day. The Robocop extras were a slide-based visual essay, storyboard comparisons, and a commentary. It's VERY laserdiscy (as it's a copy of the laserdisc, transfer and all). There's no documentary or deleted scenes.

I'm actually staring at the disc right now and it's hilarious that back in 1998 one of Criterion's special features is "Optimal image quality: RSDL dual layer edition".

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perish the thought that MGM could do what Lionsgate did and get Verhoeven actually involved in doing a new transfer.

I think I own every video incarnation of 'Robocop' - laserdisc, yes: the Criterion DVD (one step ahead of you Rob ;) ), the Robocop trilogy ediition. Have yet to open or view the Fox bluray which I've read is a sucky transfer.

ho hum... oh well. (maybe MGM/Fox will surprise me - but I ain't holding my breath)

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what time? the anticipation is killing me!

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should be anytime now...seems later than usual