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Also the Wes Anderson titles.

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Two suns.

That can only mean the original, unaltered Star Wars is coming from Criterion this year!

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:banana: and then reality set in :sad:

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I'm hoping that's referring to Linklater's Before/After Sunrise/Sunset trilogy, which I'd much rather have on blu than even the unaltered SW.

And I hope the clock is for Scorsese's "After Hours", which needs a blu-ray.

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Thats what I was really hoping to, but the 2 suns and 1 moon I think refers to "Two Days, One Night" the Dardenne brothers flick. Which sadly I think makes more sense than the Before trilogy. But I hope I'm wrong

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that's what I got from the visual nod.

Do not taunt a dying man with his last wish :(.

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pretty sure the clock is Billy Wilder's ONE, TWO, THREE

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Pretty sure that's going to show up via Kino Lorber.
Aren't the hands in the same position as the ones in the "O" in the After Hours title card (not movie poster)?

Really hope the water is a reference to an upgrade for Renoir's The River- something that is long overdue.

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After Hours seems to make more sense since we know Criterion is getting some Warner titles. The hands of the clock are in the same position as the After Hours title card.

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That's definitely Harold Lloyd running across the bridge - perhaps 'Speedy'.

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The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that it is Dressed to Kill and not Nausicaa.

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People that thought that could be Nausicaa are smoking some crack. There's very little chance that Disney is going to give up any of its Studio Ghibli stuff. Even more ridiculous were the posts I read over on blu-ray.com speculating that that rose was from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

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at this point, any one from Criterion could do a far and above better job creating special editions of Disney films than Disney Home Video themselves ... while I like Nausicaa quite a bit, it'd make more sense if Criterion would try to wrangle 'Spirited Away' since it won an Academy Award and let them have a go with what material Disney/Studio Ghibli would give them to do an uber-deluxe edition - could you imagine a sit down table conversation commentary track with say John Lassiter and some film critics (say Kenneth Turan) would sound like??

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If you're talking actual Disney productions, stuff like THE BLACK HOLE and THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS was released on DVD by Anchor Bay in the early 2000's. Those DVDs are long OOP as they went back to being distributed by Disney.

I wonder if Criterion could convince Disney to give 'em a crack at SONG OF THE SOUTH. ;)

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recently watched 'The Black Hole' on cable and that HiDef transfer looked damn impressive.

it'd be shooting the moon, but hey Disney is relunctant in releasing 'The Black Cauldron' give it to Criterion ... ;)

so who owns 'Dragonslayer' - Paramount or Disney?

Disney Home Studio is an utter enigma - they drop 3D, the inclusion of supplement material is waning, hardly any news or actual release of their 'live action' back catalog titles ?? they are a sinking ship in my opinion. I can hear the home video execs thinking out loud: "well we made a shitstorm of money from 'Frozen' in the theaters and home video - why should we even bother to putting any effort into home video releases?"

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That's a Paramount title. I own it on DVD. I saw on cable not too long ago. It hasn't aged that bad, actually, but I don't see Criterion releasing it. It's hardly the pedigree worthy of Criterion.

Sounds like it's right in Twilight Time's wheelhouse.

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I don't think Twilight Time has ever released a Paramount title. Sony, Fox, and Mgm are the source of most of their catalog.

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oh that was just a side question. but thanks for the answer.

Damn. They were probably the best chance for a BD release of it too.

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I wonder if besides Pale Flower, La Cienaga & Zatoichi, Criterion will upgrade any of the other Home Vision titles? Lots of good stuff there if you ask me.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa box set (Cure/Charisma/Séance)
Seijun Suzuki box set (Underworld Beauty/Kanto Wanderer/Tattooed Life)
The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity Box Set
Kinji Fukasaku box set (Blackmail Is My Life/ If You Were Young: Rage/Sympathy for the Underdog/Street Mobster/Graveyard of Honor/Under the Flag of the Rising Sun)

Mikey and Nicky
Devils on the Doorstep
La Cérémonie
All About Lily Chou Chou
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
The Inheritance
Black and White in Color
Breaker Morant
etc...................

I hope that is indeed After Hours
For the first time I would be willing to pay full retail price for any home video release

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http://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out

Wow Odd Man Out? Makes me glad I never got around to importing the UK disc. I like how the cover is similar to the Third Man art.

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Very happy/relieved to finally see them upgrade Renoir's The River. Long overdue. Will definitely be getting that, along with Eddie Coyle- even though I still haven't cracked the shrinkwrap on the DVD version.

Now the wait begins for the upgrade to 49th Parallel which was the other French available Bd I've been toying with importing.

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ODD MAN OUT and FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It appears to be two new spine numbers this month:

754: Odd Man Out
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Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed’s psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker (who would collaborate again on The Fallen Idol and The Third Man) create images of stunning depth for this intense, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself.

Disc Features
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film
New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill
New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score
Home, James, a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown
Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O’Herlihy
PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

755: La silence de la mer
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Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. An idealistic, naive German officer is assigned to the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence—their only form of resistance—is complete silence. Constructed with elegant minimalism and shot, by the legendary Henri Decaë, with hushed eloquence, Le silence de la mer is a fascinating tale of moral ambiguity that points the way toward Melville’s later films about resistance and the occupation (Léon Morin, Priest; Army of Shadows) yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right.

Disc Features
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946), Melville’s seventeen-minute first film
New interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
Interview with Melville from 1959
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

Plus, Sullivan's Travels, The River and The Friends Of Eddie Coyle are all getting Blu-Ray upgrades.

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Shit, this is one of the few announcements where I want every title.

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Fantastic month with some great upgrades. Definitely in for them all.

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It's one of the few announcements where I want for very little. :D

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It's one of the best months in some time: Carol Reed, Melville, Renoir, Ozu, Eddie Coyle, Sullivan's Travels...I'll be getting all of them.

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it's been like forever that 'The River' has only been available as a French import - glad it's coming out!

The River

Special Features:
High-definition digital transfer from the 2004 Film Foundation restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Archival introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir
Around the River, a 60-minute 2008 documentary by Arnaud Mandagaran about the making of the film
Interview from 2004 with Martin Scorsese
Audio interview from 2000 with producer Ken McEldowney
New visual essay by film writer Paul Ryan, featuring rare behind-the-scenes stills
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie and original production notes by Renoir

Sullivan's Travels


Special Features:
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2001 by filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990), a 76-minute documentary made by Bowser for PBS's American Masters series
New video essay by film critic David Cairns, featuring filmmaker Bill Forsyth
Interview from 2001 with Sandy Sturges, the director's widow
Interview with Sturges by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper from 1951
Archival audio recordings of Sturges
PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle:

Special Features:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Peter Yates, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Yates
Stills gallery
PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and a 1973 on-set profile of actor Robert Mitchum from Rolling Stone

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Eclipse Series 42: Silent Ozu—Three Crime Dramas

The great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, where he dabbled in many genres, he put out a trio of precisely rendered, magnificently shot and edited silent crime films about the hopes, dreams, and loves of small-time crooks. Heavily influenced in narrative and visual style by the American films that Ozu adored, these movies are revelatory early examples of his cinematic genius, accompanied here by new piano scores by Neil Brand.

Walk Cheerfully (1930)

In Yasujiro Ozu's Walk Cheerfully, which gracefully combines elements of the relationship drama and the gangster story, small-time hood Kenji, a.k.a. Ken the Knife, wants to go straight for good girl Yasue but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds. This was the Japanese master's first true homage to American crime movies, and it is a fleetly told, expressively shot work of humor and emotional depth.

That Night's Wife (1930)

n noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to commit desperate deeds for the sake of his family. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu's That Night's Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker's later masterpieces and employs beautifully evocative camera work.

Dragnet Girl (1933)

This formally accomplished and psychologically complex gangster tale pivots on the growing attraction between Joji, a hardened career criminal, and Kazuko, the sweet-natured older sister of a newly initiated young hoodlum—a relationship that provokes the jealousy of Joji's otherwise patient moll, Tokiko (The Life of Oharu's Kinuyo Tanaka). With effortlessly cool performances and visual inventiveness, Dragnet Girl is a bravura work from Yasujiro Ozu.

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Wow! Palm Beach Story next week and Sullivan's Travels in April.

Woohoo!!! I hope The Lady Eve is next!!!

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Friends of Eddie Coyle but probably during a B&N sale. The trailer looked good, but I don't know a thing about it.

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If I loved The Third Man, would I like Odd Man Out? I would like to read some more opinions about the latter.

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Yes, sir.

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So I've had my first really messed up disc thanks to poor packaging experience. I got Scanners for Christmas, and when I opened it the two DVDs were lose (the blu-ray which is what I mostly care about was totally fine). They are both scratched up pretty badly, and refuse to play on both of the players I've tried them on. Who should I contact about a refund/replacement - Criterion or Amazon?

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If you got it from Amazon and their packaging sucked, and that's why it seems the disks got loose and damaged, I would contact them.

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This months clue... Zodiac, maybe?

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nah, the last release was already stacked to the brim.