too bad Criterion didn't release 'Smiles on a Summer Night' would have made a great third film with 'Interlude' and 'Monika'

Criterion has this on BD already.

I'm all over La Haine and maybe the 2 Bergmans.

I'm not exactly a Blockbuster spokesperson, but I've had luck renting some Criterion titles from Blockbuster By Mail that weren't carried by Netflix (most recently, The Phantom Carriage SD).

Another nice thing about Blockbuster is that you don't have to be a current member to log into your account & add DVDs to your queue. So you can actually research their stock if you're so inclined, they don't have a separate tier for BD, they'll tell you straight up which formats & versions they carry a title in.

[Then again, I think it might have been the opposite with Kuroneko, where I got that from Netflix. Both BB & Netflix carry a lot of titles unavailable from the other.]

Anyway, the features listed for MALKOVICH!
Someone else can do the homework on the rest of the upcoming releases.

Why would Goundry have a commentary track and not Spike Jones?

Criterion asked on facebook about which catalog titles should be upgraded to Blu-ray. They've received over 1200 replies... most of which I don't agree with...

Gondry and Jonze are friends; I imagine Jonze declined to commentate and suggested his friend do it instead.

I also reckon Gondry has things to say about Charlie Kaufman, since they've collaborated as much as Kaufman has with Jonze.

When it comes to interviews and such, Spike Jonze strikes me as someone who makes the Coen Brothers look like gregarious extroverts by comparison.

Maybe, but I also suspect it's all a put-on. I wish Criterion had retained the interview from the Universal DVD, where he throws up because he's being asked questions about the movie.

Autumn Sonata, Children of Paradise, The Blob, Carnival of Souls and Sirk, please!

brute force, the blob, george washington, short cuts, the 39 steps, really any of their horror or film noir titles would be great.

Yeah, I loved that.

They've already upgraded most of the titles that were most desperately in need of revision (mostly the early spine numbers, like the Powells, the Suzukis, the Fullers, Diabolique, etc.) - the remaining big ones, in my opinion, are Andrei Rublev (which I'll buy the day it's released, even though I'm generally not buying upgrades at this point) and the two David Lean adaptations of Dickens novels.

What, no demand for BD Equinox?

Actually, what I could never get my mind around was the BD of Gimme Shelter. Do you get a clearer image of the Hell's Angel stabbing the guy to death?

But, in all seriousness, are there any other Criterion docs you think would benefit from a BD upgrade? Hearts & Minds? Haxan? Koko?

I'd say the Samurai Trilogy is equally high in need as Rublev and the Leans, though they are as well.

Gimme Shelter surely benefited from lossless audio, didn't it?

Blu-ray.com review of Anatomy of a Murder

Forgot about that. Picnic at Hanging Rock would also greatly benefit...

Anyway, some bored soul has compiled the results of the Facebook poll:

http://www.facebook.com/CriterionCol...51326042880565

What's with the 14 votes for Hoop Dreams? It was shot in SD.

Told ya.

Hopefully that gets the ball rolling for Brazil on Blu-Ray (assuming it's not already in the works).

Back in April of last year, Mulvaney said this via email:

didn't Gilliam already work on it?

I totally forgot to vote for This Sporting Life...but at least someone did.

Hasn't Rashomon been played for sometime now? And what about Le Samurai...do they still have the rights to that one?

yes, why the 4K restoration hasn't yet been released on blu via Criterion is a major headscratcher - come on, what's the holdup here?