LorenzoL

+1 For a Blu-ray release too. I have the Animeigo release for the first film but I would love to have them on Blu.

islandclaws

Based on today's newsletter clue, looks like Mulholland Dr. is (finally) coming soon.

Mondo Kane

^Can't wait to find out what the extras are!

gryffinmaster

inri222

I hope one of the extras is the pilot.

TheDuke

omg!!!

MTRodaba2468

I've already got the Arrow two-pack, but depending on what Criterion offers with their release, I may double-dip.

Agreed.

Dan

Fucking awesome.

Evil ASh

Finally. Day 1 pre-order.

hanshotfirst1138

What does that mean?

Dan

Mulholland Dr.

Josh Z

Fellas, fellas, fellas...

Dan

I don't get it.
That said, I actually really wanted to see Blue Caprice. Thanks for the reminder.

hdnmickey

Very clearly a drawing of the actual key.

TheDuke

Yeah, and MD has been rumored for YEARS now.

Josh Z

If we're on the same timetable that it took for Eraserhead to get released, we should see a Criterion edition of Mulholland Drive in about 2022.

Josh Z

Blue key for a blue car. Nevermind, stupid joke.

inri222

Now we need a Criterion Lost Highway & Inland Empire.

Josh Z

Lost Highway, yes. It's a very underrated movie and the available import Blu-rays are middling quality. It has excellent photography and should look much better.

Inland Empire would be pointless. The movie has no artistic value at all, and it was shot on the cruddiest of cruddy standard-def video at less-than-DVD quality.

inri222

The video could be improved on Blu Ray like Hoop Dreams. As for artistic value it is IMO just as good as MH & LH, but to each their own.

Dan

Ohhhhh.

I'm 100% with you on Lost Highway.

Inland Empire though? Josh is right that it would offer no valuable improvement. The only thing that could be improved is the audio (with lossless), but I don't think it'd be worth it. Otherwise...

Let's focus on one at a time.
Mulholland Drive in 2015.
Lost Highway in 2016 (this is what I wish, not what will come to be)
Inland Empire TBA.

Greg MacGuffin

I hated Inland Empire the first time I saw it. So glad I gave it a second (and third) chance. It improves exponentially upon repeat viewings.

kefrank

I'd be all over a quality Blu-ray of Lost Highway. Excited for Mulholland Drive!

Josh Z

Not really. Although Hoop Dreams was shot on video, the director made an effort to shoot the movie as well as he could with professional grade video cameras.

David Lynch made no such effort with Inland Empire. He used the lowest quality settings on a consumer camcorder, and shot most of the movie in dimly-lit rooms without bothering to light them.

Also, the reason Hoop Dreams has some room for improvement is that the movie was exported from video to film back in 1994 for the theatrical release prints. Previous home video releases scanned the film export, so it was video-to-film-back-to-video. For the Blu-ray, Criterion has gone straight to the original master tapes and skipped the film step entirely. The resolution is still only standard definition, but it avoids a couple generations of quality loss.

I don't believe that's the case with Inland Empire. I believe the DVD (and the UK Blu-ray, which I have and looks just as bad as the DVD) were video-to-video from the start.

The reason Inland Empire looks terrible is that David Lynch wanted it to look terrible, because he thought it would be funny to make an unwatchable three-hour movie.

I hated Inland Empire the first time I saw it. I watched it again six years later, trying to keep an open mind, and hated it even more.

hanshotfirst1138

Hilarious. Maybe it's a James Joyce thing where he's secretly a genius and we all need decades to understand it .