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I know, but there are rumours they are rereleasing it.

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If I was drafting a list of the 50 best films of the 90's, Gummo would be top 5. :shrug:

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I'm sorry, but :lol:

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Prospero's Books - oh hell to the yes!!!!!!

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there's at least four different versions of 'Voyage of Time'

- with Brad Pitt narration
- with Cate Blanchett narration (extended cut)
- IMAX 'director's cut' version with no narration
- 'ultra' widescreen 3.6 aspect ratio version

Malick wants to also do a narration-less version of the 90 minute cut.

honestly though, this is one movie where Criterion could branch out and actually put out a bluray version and a UHD 4K disc edition.

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A Bela Tarr box set with :

Almanac of Fall
Damnation
Satantango
Werckmeister Harmonies

Would be wonderful

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They could call it "The Cure For Insomnia box-set"... ;)

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Insomnia is already in the collection, but I'll also take a Kiyoshi Kurosawa box set with:

Cure
Charisma
Seance

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My 2018 release dream is some UHD upgrades of existing Collection titles. Let's start with large format stuff like Playtime.

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Honestly, I'm not sure that Criterion is even interested in UHD. The primary benefit of the format is not the resolution increase (which isn't terribly noticeable on typical screen sizes), but HDR. Re-grading old movies into HDR when they weren't photographed with that intention has the stench of revisionism, which Criterion generally (not always, but generally) shies away from.

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While the resolution improvement isn't a big deal to a lot of people, I do like it and I want the benefit of wide color gamut, as well. Criterion has been producing and using 4K masters for a long time now and with how easy and inexpensive it would be to throw them onto a UHD disc in the same package with the Blu-ray, it seems to me a waste that they aren't doing so.

Tell me their recent Barry Lyndon release wouldn't look glorious!

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In for VS, maybe DM...

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Every month that offers nothing I want, like April here, is another month for me to catch up on my extensive backlog.

And no money out of pocket. Win-Win.

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The Virgin Suicides and Dead Man for sure.

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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New Q&A in which Jarmusch responds to questions sent in by fans
New readings of William Blake poems by members of the cast, including Mili Avital, Alfred Molina, and Iggy Pop
New selected-scene audio commentary by production designer Robert Ziembicki and sound mixer Drew Kunin
New interview with actor Gary Farmer
Deleted scenes
Jarmusch’s location scouting photos
More!
PLUS: Essays by critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff

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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman and approved by director Sofia Coppola, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson
Making of “The Virgin Suicides,” a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more
Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola
Official music video for Air’s soundtrack song “Playground Love,” directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by novelist Megan Abbott

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New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey
New video essay by film critic David Cairns on actor Cary Grant’s performance
Illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring actor Claudette Colbert and Grant
PLUS: An essay by film critic Molly Haskell

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New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns
New video essay on the film’s symbols and references, featuring scholar James Steffen
New interview with Steffen detailing the production of the film
Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel, a 2003 documentary about the filmmaker, featuring him and actor Sofiko Chiaureli
The Life of Sayat-Nova, a 1977 documentary about the Armenian poet who inspired The Color of Pomegranates
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie

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The Count of the Old Town
Sigurd Wallén and Edvin Adolphson 1935
Ingrid Bergman’s first speaking role was in this hugely charming knockabout comedy, filmed on location in the Monk’s Bridge district of Stockholm.

Dollar
Gustaf Molander 1938
Ingrid Bergman excels as the frustrated spouse of a busy industrialist with conservative views about how his wife should behave in public, in this sparkling Swedish take on screwball comedy that touches on dark themes.

Intermezzo
Gustaf Molander 1936
This gorgeous romantic confection, which catalogs a doomed love affair between a married violin virtuoso and a young pianist, is graced by a leading performance by Ingrid Bergman (her first), in a role created especially for her.

Walpurgis Night
Gustaf Edgren 1935
Lena (Ingrid Bergman) is in love with her married boss, Johan, in this romantic drama that takes Sweden’s declining birth rate as a backdrop and stirred up controversy with its depiction of abortion.


A Woman’s Face
Gustaf Molander 1938
In this dramatic thriller, Ingrid Bergman takes on an uncharacteristically vicious role as Anna, a bitter, nefarious blackmailer with a disfigured face.

June Night
Per Lindberg 1940
Both a grim exposé of sexual politics and a sensual romance, June Night features a remarkably intense performance from Bergman as a woman weighed down by a secret.

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Out of those, only Awful Truth for me - I have an old dvd of it, but a Criterion blu-ray would be a worthwhile upgrade.

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Dead Man!

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..can't wait for the February bluray
release of "night of the living dead" and "the silence of the lambs"

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Good thing I bought that region-locked copy of Dead Man while I was in Australia!

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Nothing from that batch for me.

Same here.

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..I picked up both at walmart.com when they had that special sale and got both of them for $39.00 shipped...a great deal

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oh baby...The Silence of the Lambs review. can't wait!!!

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You're aware that Dr. Svet gives 5 stars to almost every disc he reviews, right?

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I have a friend that has the 4K version from VUDU (UHD) and says that it does look and sound phenomenal for a Digital HD. I'm sure it's sourced from whatever Criterion has. No special features, though.

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My friend said the same thing a while back! Of course that friend was me.

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Definitely, since the DVD is missing about six seconds. That's why I've kept my VHS all these years. Maybe now I'll be able to throw it out.

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As much as I want an awesome picture upgrade for SotL, I'm more looking forward to having what is hopefully a better sound experience. Of all the DVD's I've ownen of this the movie, only the Criterion DVD sounded right. But given the non-anamorphic disc, it had the worst picture option and very few features. This is hopefully, finally, the everything in one package we should have got long ago.

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I saw a used copy of By Brakhage today at the used shop priced at only $4.99. Is it worth getting the old DVD version at that price?

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Out of curiosity, is anyone on here a member of Filmstruck? I'm wondering how the video quality is compared to their disc releases?

I want to watch those Godzilla movies NOW lol.

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Bull Durham? (Boulder Ham)

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That’s a great clue. But an odd addition to the collection. A lot of big commercial releases this year. Hopefully that is good for them financially.

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Only after reading this post did I realize that was supposed to be a ham! Viewing it in my newsletter I thought it looked like some really abstract face mask over a hooded head. (Like... a really bizarre rendering of No Face from SPIRITED AWAY... with whiskers.)

I initially saw the boulder as a giant fist too. The boulder's shadows may have some deliberate form. Or not... I may be falling into a Rorschach trap.

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At least the current Bull Durham BD is almost 8 years old with a very unimpressive transfer (according to many reviews).
I can understand Criterion releasing this.

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Yeah, it's a pretty terrible doodle.

The end of the ham looks kind of like a fish.

The boulder looks like someone rolled/folded up a cow.

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Personally I saw it as a ham right away. It was the boulder that took me a long time. I was thinking "Rock"+ "Ham" wondering what movie would have to do with something like Rockham.

Could be wrong, but Bull Durham definitely seems to fit their recent focus on movies that are though of as classics as well as box office favorites.

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I saw a fish too. And I was trying to decipher the “boulder” thinking it was some sort of play on Rorschach from Watchmen.

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Night of the Living Dead Blu is $18.31 on Amazon.

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Pricematching walmart.com.

Walmart also has Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles for $18.60 and the Yojimbo/Sanjuro set for $33.34.

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Thanks. Ordered NotLD from WM since they were offering 2 day free shipping without having to order anything else to push it to a free shipping threshold. I also got SotL there for the same price months back.

Wonder if these low new release Criterion prices at WM will be a new trend. Which would be great given the B&N "sale" is pretty much dead for Criterions and the Criterion site sales are very infrequent.