That would be awesome.

I'm liking the love that Criterion seem to be giving Cronenberg lately.

An "Early Cronenberg" set would be cool, as long as it's all on blu and not an eclispe set...

Seeing as how those films have been available on DVD before, and how Scanners is quite a known title in it's own right, I don't see them being put on the Eclipse line.

"She just finished watching a recent Janus acquisition, David Cronenberg’s early horror masterpiece The Brood — she had to angle her laptop on a recent flight so it wouldn’t disturb the attendants —"

The "Booed At Cannes" video from (I think) the Wall Street Journal showed a clip of "Crash" and the source said Criterion, so it looks like they'll be doing that one too.

I'd keep the dvd's I have over buying an Early Cronenberg Eclipse set. However if it was Blu Ray and was packaged as nice as the Cassavetes set, I'd probably go for it. My first choice though, would still be a seperate release for every Cronenberg film they decide to put out.

Crash!!

Yeah, I'm fairly certain the people at Criterion are smart enough to put any Cronenberg titles in the mainline - and probably as individual releases rather than a set. Those are almost guaranteed to be among their best sellers on BD - putting them in an Eclipse set would be mindbogglingly stupid.

Anybody figure out the new clue image yet?

It's apparently the Roberto Rossellini/Ingrid Bergman "Solitude" trilogy, which includes Europa '51, Stromboli, and Voyage in Italy. It should make a nice complement to the Rossellini War Trilogy set.

sounds right given the restorations for the last two (BFI is putting them out in Region B).

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot- perhaps is getting the Blu treatment from CC


http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=221132



take it FWIW

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot?!?! YESSSSSSSS

Just a heads up, a lot/most of the titles are 50% off on Amazon.

Looks like Linklater's Slacker will finally see the light of day on Blu courtesy of Criterion. And the thought of a Before trilogy would simply make my day.

http://collider.com/slacker-blu-ray-...ard-linklater/

Richard Linklater Reveals Criterion Is Releasing SLACKER on Blu-ray; Hopes to Eventually Release a BEFORE Trilogy Blu-ray Box Set

“I just had a thing from Criterion today that they’re gonna do a Blu-ray of Slacker, which isn’t kind of an obvious Blu-ray title but I’m glad they’re doing it. I think they’re just doing all their titles. It reminds me of when films were on VHS and they were retrospectively going back and doing DVDs, now we’re going back and doing Blu-rays of the titles. So I think they’ll get to all of them eventually. I’d like to see a triple box set, at some point, of all [Before] Blu-rays… And we’ve never really done a lot of extras and stuff, so we probably could do one up correctly.”

I just got a huge stiffy on the possibility of a Before trilogy blu-box from Criterion.

Man, now I really want to go out and buy some early Cronenberg Criterion Blu-rays.

I just came

I'm employing "patience is a virtue" and hoping it will pay off with a box set that'll get me harder than a Chinese calculus exam.

I'll dump my old copies of Brood and Scanners but hold onto Rabid until something's announced. I'd be surprised if Criterion didn't make use of the commentary Cronenberg did for the SE DVD, but even if he records a new one for a CC disc, it'd be nice to have the original as well.

. . . and ditto for my Crash LD!

Stacked individual releases would be great, but I'd more than accept a box set that's lighter on extras, say only a commentary + some short featurettes/interviews on each film.

As much as I would love to see that, I don't think that's what that the article was suggesting would happen. Especially since Warner has the video rights for the first two films...

You want to see slop's stiffy?

I understand there's a good hint Scanners will see a Criterion release, but what has hinted at a Brood and Crash release beyond speculation?

regarding THE BROOD: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/11704250-post5698.html