Why not just buy the current release BD release?

Criterion needs to stick to more obscure titles since they're not represented well enough on BD. It'd be a shame to waste a spot in the BD collection on a mainstream film - especially one that's already available on the format.

The current BD has no special features.

And why not do a quickie before they actually try on more important films?

Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller (The Baron of Arizona / I Shot Jesse James / The Steel Helmet) $10.49
http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Samuel...lipse+Series+5

dvd not blu-ray

Good deal. I already own it or I'd pick it up.

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...

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.

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'.

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

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.

Same! All in all that worked out well!

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?

Ratcatcher BD please!!!!!!

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

Thank Christ. The original DVD of this was atrocious.

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

Monday

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

wishlist...

brute force
the blob
on the waterfront
george washington
sisters

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.

I'm 99.9% sure it's Brazil.

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.

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

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

for any of those three


and I just got a copy of the UK import

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?