As an extra, the theatrical versions of A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love are pretty good IMO.

ya just gotta like what ya like. Woman in the Dunes gets my vote.

Haven't gotten that one yet. Keeping my fingers crossed that they upgrade Pitfall & The Face of Another so I can get all three hopefully in a box set.

I don't think you understand my point. By your logic, your favorite movie but with a shitty transfer and zero extras would still be the best release of the year?

...except that almost never happens with Criterion.

The New World. Followed closely by McCabe & Mrs Miller.

A Brighter Summer Day

By that standard One-Eyed Jacks is my winner.

Criterion's year end drawing:

Ghost World?

Jeanne Dielman
Arsenic and Old Lace
Ghost World
Stalker
Marcel Pagnol’s Marseilles Trilogy
They Live by Night
Buena Vista Social Club
West Side Story
16 Candles
Mysterious Object at Noon
Tampopo
Dheepan

Puzzles just aren't my thing. For as long as I've been following Criterion I have never been able to parse out a single clue.

And I still have never been able to get onto that mailing list.

What indicates stalker?

Sign me up for Ghost World. Love Sixteen Candles and West Side Story but can't imagine needing to upgrade my Blu Rays of either.

^Likewise, wrt Ghost World and West Side Story.

Sixteen Candles seems like a film that falls way outside of Criterion's wheelhouse.

The cornstalk next to the groom as the letter R. Stalk-R.

Ghost World has been a long time in coming.

It's been about three years since we first heard Criterion had it.

Reminds me of how long it took Red River to show up.

Thrilled about Ghost World, but how is anybody getting West Side Story out of that drawing?

My guess:

Two similar flags with musical notes around them.
Cuba (The Buena Vista Social Club) & Puerto Rico (West Side Story).

the only way for me to buy 'West Side Story' ... again... would be a 4K UHD edition, NOT a Criterion edition... well, unless there are more extras, and a mix that mirrors the 70mm 6-track sound design but not mixed as 7.1.

I assume if it is WSS, that Criterion is going to take the opportunity to correct the opening credits which rankled many fans by incorrectly introducing a fade out/fade in right before titles come up. I think there was another relatively small problem that I can't recall atm.

I never saw the film theatrically, so I don't see the flaws as problems. But there are many fans that do.

IIRC, WSS was also released by Criterion on LD so editorially at least any supplement package for it is more or less ready to go.

Someone be honest with me : is there any real reason to upgrade Seven Samurai from Criterion DVD to Blu Ray? It's a very old B& W film. I'm sure it looks better in Blu Ray, but is it a night & day sort of thing? I almost grabbed it at Costco for $20, but then I thought that my version was probably good enough for the one or two more times I'll watch it in my lifetime.

As I recall, the Blu-ray has the entire film on one disc, whereas the DVD is split between two discs.

Other than that...

Judge for yourself.

Pretty night & day to me and worth $20.