There's apparently a DCP of a 4K remaster kicking around some art houses, and TCM recently ran an HD version with the Janus logo. I'd say a Criterion release is a good bet.

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Criterion is definitely releasing Chimes At Midnight. It's been confirmed by multiple sources (can't be bothered to look them up right now) and it was part of this year's New Years drawing/clue:

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McCabe is not going to happen from Criterion, at least as long as Warner refuses to license anything to them. California MIGHT become available in a few years, but Mill Creek(!) has the rights at the moment.

I'm wondering if Criterion could regain the rights to Robocop, Silence of the Lambs, Sid and Nancy, and This is Spinal Tap--all MGM releases that they released on DVD that are now out of print. MGM's been licensing titles to Shout!, Kino, and Twilight Time with incredible frequency, so maybe Criterion could get back in on the act.

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Didn't Warner license Badlands to Criterion?

Plus the New Year hint drawing Criterion released shows what looks like Warren Beatty's character from the movie:

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They really need to get hold of Silence of the Lambs so it can be done correctly and they can put that awesome commentary on the BD. I still have my that non-anamorphic DVD because of that commentary.

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Stagecoach was a WB flick too.

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WB is licensing some films to Criterion. This is old news. I think the only ones that have been verified are McCabe and Dreams so far.

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It really is excellent. One of my all time favourites. (Umberto D. is good, as well)

I'm surprised it's still on Netflix, as I believe there was a lawsuit over their broadcasting it.

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It was the dvd, not streaming. Yep, I still rent dvds on Netflix. Shocking! ;)

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I'd love to get these two back on Criterion, get some two disc cases and combine them with the MGM versions to have both commentaries for each, and you've really got yourself a nice set for each.

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Criterion mentioned (I think it might have been at one of their Wexner Center talks) that they turned down the opportunity to rerelease Silence of the Lambs becasue they didn't think there was much they could add to the already released version.

Stagecoach is not with WB. It is currently owned by Westchester Films, which is who Criterion licensed it from.

Yes, old news. If you look back in this thread, there's plenty of discussion on the topic. McCabe is 100% coming. Isn't The New World also coming via WB?

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What other movies were hinted at with the picture this year? (besides Easy Rider)

Edit : Answers here

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Hopefully that person is no longer making decision there. The current MGM BD gets a passing grade at best. Lacking on both the video and audio. It either needs to be one of those films (like Rocky) that MGM revisits on their own, or they need to let somebody else like Criterion have at it.

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Ah. We don't have that option, north of the border.

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Speaking of OOP CC titles. Looks like there's a newly restored DCP version of Pierrot le Fou that will be making the rounds here in L.A. in a week and a half or so:


http://www.cinefamily.org/films/pier...w-restoration/

I may go and peep that out.

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I'm sure Criterion's release of Lady Snowblood is better than my AnimEigo DVDs, but I can't help but be a bit disappointed by the final result.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-r...od_blu-ray.htm

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The contrast does seem too high on the Criterion. I will still probably pick it up, but I'll wait for the B&N sale in July.

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McCabe has been confirmed as coming, via a 4k restoration overseen by Vilmos Zsigmond.

Chimes at Midnight is also coming, but I believe via a 2k restoration that is different to the underwhelming one done in Spain and out on UK BD.

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Oops! Mea culpa. Sorry about that--I missed that news somehow. I was just remembering that somebody over at Warner several years ago seemed to be quite adamant that they wouldn't license out their films to third parties (which is one of the rationales behind doing the Warner Archive releases). I'm glad that they've had a change of heart.

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March :

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•New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•Audio commentary from 1997 featuring director John Frankenheimer
•New interview with actor Angela Lansbury
•New piece featuring filmmaker Errol Morris discussing his appreciation for The Manchurian Candidate
•Conversation between Frankenheimer, screenwriter George Axelrod, and actor Frank Sinatra from 1987
•New interview with historian Susan Carruthers about the Cold War brainwashing scare
•Trailer

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•New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•New interview with Richard Neupert, author of A History of the French New Wave Cinema
•Jacques Rivette’s 1956 short film Le coup du berger, featuring cameos by fellow French New Wave directors Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut
•New English subtitle translation
•PLUS: An essay by critic Luc Sante

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•New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns
•New interview with actor Chen Chang
•Our Time, Our Story, a 113-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with Yang and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sylvia Chang, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others
•Videotaped performance of director Edward Yang’s 1992 play Likely Consequence
•New English subtitle translation
•PLUS: An essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director’s statement by Yang

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•New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by executive producer Harrod Blank, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•New interviews with Harrod Blank, musician Leon Russell, assistant editor Maureen Gosling, and artist Jim Franklin
•Behind-the-scenes material, shot and edited by Gosling
•Trailers
•More!
•PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones

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•New, restored high-definition digital transfer (4K on the Blu-ray), with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•Working with De Sica, a collection of interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich
•Life as It Is, a program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel
•Documentary from 2003 on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani
•Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
•PLUS: A book featuring essays by critic Godfrey Cheshire and filmmaker Charles Burnett, classic writing by Zavattini and critic André Bazin, and reminiscences by De Sica and his collaborators

MC is still missing a few extras from previous releases, but glad it has the mono.

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Looking at the Arrow screencaps, their version seems awfully dark though. So I don't know what which version is the correct one? I have the Criterion version and I'm a little disappointed with the results too.

Hopefully, Criterion does a better job with the possible "Lone Wolf and Cub" blu-rays release that they hinted on their New Year drawing as the Animeigo Blu-ray version is DNR heavy.

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Aren't the commentaries on both Lambs and Spinal Tap different on the Criterion vs MGM versions?

The reason to re-release the Criterion versions is to have a 16x9 transfer with the Criterion commentaries (if they wanted to make them really special, they could add the MGM commentaries).

And Robocop.

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If you were able to get the UK edition (This Is Spinal Tap) withe little mini-amp that has tons of special features including the commentary during the menu screen, which is hysterical.

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And Sid & Nancy

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and Good Burger ...

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I'm thrilled to see that A Poem is a Naked Person is on the release schedule. I was fortunate enough to attend a screening with Les Blank in attendance before he passed away. It's great that this film will now be widely available after being so hard to view for so many years.

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I believe the DVDBeaver review says a perfect transfer would probably lie somewhere in-between the Arrow BD and the Criterion BD.

Contrast is ridiculously high on the Criterion release.

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For years the Internet built this up as some horrific train wreck, but a couple years ago we queued it up on Netflix and.... it was really kinda fun.

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yet hardly anyone is mentioning or complaining about it on Criterion's Facebook page

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Which I find a bit strange as folks pick apart every BD release that comes out.

I recently watched a video of someone on Instagram throwing away their AnimEgo DVD in the trash, in favor of the Criterion BD.

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I hope he had a chance to complete it. RIP

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yeah hopefully he was able to contribute somewhat. I assume Criterion wouldnt mention his name if he didnt actually get the opportunity to have some part in the process.

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I don't think Criterion sees releasing a disc identical to the MGM BD with the sole addition of a commentary track to be worth the effort. This is especially true when considering that the commentary is at least somewhat redundant given the 5 hours of special features on the current disc. Could the transfer be improved? Of course, but that's more or less MGM's call.

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The color transfer on Criterion's DVD (ported from the Laserdisc) is very different than MGM's Blu-ray transfer. It has more of an overcast, muted look, whereas MGM's transfer is brighter and more colorful. I believe both were signed off by cinematographer Tak Fujimoto, who had different ideas for what the movie should look like at different points in his life.

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I really believe that the filmmakers care less about this stuff than we, the fans, do.

Fellowship of the Ring with the green tint. Bram Stoker's Dracula. French Connection. The different color timings for Halloween. The weird lightsaber stuff it the Star Wars OT. Terminator being tealed and oranged.

They're either mucking stuff up themselves, or just glance at a new transfer and say "Eh. Good enough."

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In some cases Criterion leased commentaries out like they did for Sony's Taxi Driver and MGM/Fox's release of Raging Bull.

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I'm sure there are some cinematographers that care deeply about the films they work on. However, I'm more inclined to believe that the different result of separate efforts might be more due to what they've had to drink at lunch than some "different idea" as to how the film should look ...