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omg!!!

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I've already got the Arrow two-pack, but depending on what Criterion offers with their release, I may double-dip.

Agreed.

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Fucking awesome.

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Finally. Day 1 pre-order.

What does that mean?

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Mulholland Dr.

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Fellas, fellas, fellas...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/i...ter-xlarge.jpg

:)

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I don't get it.
That said, I actually really wanted to see Blue Caprice. Thanks for the reminder. :)

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Very clearly a drawing of the actual key.

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/pics/studies/key1.jpg

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Yeah, and MD has been rumored for YEARS now.

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If we're on the same timetable that it took for Eraserhead to get released, we should see a Criterion edition of Mulholland Drive in about 2022.

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Blue key for a blue car. Nevermind, stupid joke.

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Now we need a Criterion Lost Highway & Inland Empire.

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Lost Highway, yes. It's a very underrated movie and the available import Blu-rays are middling quality. It has excellent photography and should look much better.

Inland Empire would be pointless. The movie has no artistic value at all, and it was shot on the cruddiest of cruddy standard-def video at less-than-DVD quality.

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The video could be improved on Blu Ray like Hoop Dreams. As for artistic value it is IMO just as good as MH & LH, but to each their own.

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Ohhhhh. ;)

I'm 100% with you on Lost Highway.

Inland Empire though? Josh is right that it would offer no valuable improvement. The only thing that could be improved is the audio (with lossless), but I don't think it'd be worth it. Otherwise... :shrug:

Let's focus on one at a time.
Mulholland Drive in 2015.
Lost Highway in 2016 (this is what I wish, not what will come to be)
Inland Empire TBA.

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I hated Inland Empire the first time I saw it. So glad I gave it a second (and third) chance. It improves exponentially upon repeat viewings.

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I'd be all over a quality Blu-ray of Lost Highway. Excited for Mulholland Drive!

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Not really. Although Hoop Dreams was shot on video, the director made an effort to shoot the movie as well as he could with professional grade video cameras.

David Lynch made no such effort with Inland Empire. He used the lowest quality settings on a consumer camcorder, and shot most of the movie in dimly-lit rooms without bothering to light them.

Also, the reason Hoop Dreams has some room for improvement is that the movie was exported from video to film back in 1994 for the theatrical release prints. Previous home video releases scanned the film export, so it was video-to-film-back-to-video. For the Blu-ray, Criterion has gone straight to the original master tapes and skipped the film step entirely. The resolution is still only standard definition, but it avoids a couple generations of quality loss.

I don't believe that's the case with Inland Empire. I believe the DVD (and the UK Blu-ray, which I have and looks just as bad as the DVD) were video-to-video from the start.

The reason Inland Empire looks terrible is that David Lynch wanted it to look terrible, because he thought it would be funny to make an unwatchable three-hour movie.

I hated Inland Empire the first time I saw it. I watched it again six years later, trying to keep an open mind, and hated it even more.

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http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4...emo2o1_250.gif

Hilarious. Maybe it's a James Joyce thing where he's secretly a genius and we all need decades to understand it ;).

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The UK Blu-ray has footage from a short press junket interview where Lynch laughs about how crummy the movie looks. Even at the time, he was fully aware of the problem and simply didn't care.

The end credits sequence of the movie openly mocks scenes from Lynch's other films, and reveals that the whole thing is nothing more than a cruel practical joke he's playing on his fans. Inland Empire is a student film quality, YouTube parody of his career that he tricked people into sitting through for three hours and treating seriously as if it were a real movie.

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Has anyone else sent any bad discs in to be replaced? I haven't gotten around to it but I have about 8 or 9 that I need to send in. Some are on the list and a few others are still not on the list.

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just shoot Jon Mulvaney an email at [email protected] - the whole process is pretty painless and easy

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Posted on Facebook 20 minutes ago:

A Little Tease

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hp...67&oe=55BFCBC1

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I can retire my MGM edition, which was not bad at all. This should be up to Blow Out standards.

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The MGM disc is pretty stacked. I don't know what else Criterion can add that would be worth the double dip. I'm surprised they haven't gone after Straw Dogs again since MGM owns the rights this time. That needs a special edition .

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talk about good timing, I have the Dressed to Kill Blu Ray sitting in my Amazon cart as we speak. Glad I didn't pull the trigger yet.

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Well that's a fine looking lass but what's the tl;dr on the movie?

tks

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oh my phone - I did a double take - a Criterion edition of 'Showgirls' ?? ;)

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That's just it, the MGM disc has a good amount of extras and the PQ/AQ is really good. Unless the transfer is superior and there's new extras, I may pass on this one.

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Yeah, there's SO MANY more MGM titles that could use a Criterion blu over Dressed to Kill, which already has a pretty good one.

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Nice. Never got Dressed to Kill.

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With all the titles that desperately need the Criterion Blu treatment, they decide on Dressed to Kill?

I will definitely be skipping this release, the MGM Blu is very good.

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I guess Criterion takes what they can get sometimes. Dressed To Kill certainly isn't worth owning, though.

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A part of me enjoys Dressed To Kill, but I'm mostly ashamed of that part.

I'd prefer the rest of De Palma's earlier work, like Obsession and *especially* Fury. I doubt they could do much better than Shout Factory's Phantom of the Paradise (although I'd love to see them succeed).

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I'm a fan of De Palma's and like Dressed to Kill, but like others have said I would have preferred a different MGM title.

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we knew they were coming since the whole Janus restoration / theatrical release of the restored are happening now, - and Amazon has the preorder page up for the Apu Trilogy - no word on supplements or actual street date has been announced, but could be up for later today's posting of upcoming releases.

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I believe the Apu Trilogy was confirmed to be a November release.

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..i wish criterion would release the following on blu-ray:

matewan by john sayles and germinal by claude berri

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^ Speaking of John Sayles, "Lone Star" still doesn't have a BD release... I'd love for Criterion to get their hands on that.

As for Claude Berri, I was previously hoping Criterion would release Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring - but Shout Factory released both movies in a package with excellent picture quality and dirt cheap. So now I hope Criterion doesn't waste their time/resources on a release.