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On the other hand, this is a "all titles" month for me. The one I'm most excited about is Farewell My Concubine on UHD! On edit: Not to mention that July will be a Barnes & Noble sale month!

Just a release of this is Good News. Great News is:

My importing declined considerably during the pandemic, largely because of the inflation of shipping costs. These days, I tend to buy my non-US discs through Diabolik.

What everyone? As far as I can see, I was the only one who expressed that sentiment. I didn't realize that the StudioCanal release was encoded by Fidelity in Motion. So, yes, I might reverse my decision.

I'm glad that I hadn't gotten around to ordering StudioCanal's UHD of Peeping Tom. I had a feeling Criterion might do it on UHD. I'm still trying to decide whether to get SC's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai UHD, or wait to see if Criterion upgrades their BD to UHD. On the other hand, I did...

Holy crap! Werckmeister Harmonies?! In 4k?! And Dogfight! (Normally, I'd be excited by Picnic at Hanging Rock on UHD as well, but I have the Second Sight release. Which I didn't consider "problematic".)

And not mine. Other than the Chantal Akerman set (nothing against CA, just doesn't excite me overmuch) everything is a solid gem for me. Especially Mudbound, Lone Star (on UHD, to boot!), and the Apu Trilogy on UHD.

Another one resurrected from the LD days.

I think it was meant as his expression of surprise and/or excitement.

Well, their DVD of it is still in print, which means they haven't lost the rights to it. Given when the DVD was released, I would imagine that when licensed it for DVD, they probably had a more generic "home video" license than a specific DVD one, so while I could well be wrong, they probably...

Criterion has been in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't position for the last several years. Every month that went by before they started announcing UHD releases, people would complain over and over about why Criterion is supposed to be top rank among boutique labels but wasn't going 4K...

Of course they're releasing Wings of Desire on UHD. I got a copy of the Curzon (UK) release a few weeks ago. But Branded to Kill on UHD? Yessireee.....!

Let's see...I have... Criterion LD #10 [CAV] Criterion LD #10A [CLV] Criterion DVD [first, 1999 release] Criterion BD [first, 2009 release] Criterion BD [in Ingmar Bergman's Cinema] BFI UHD

Do it, Mike! Do It! You know you want to.:emoji_smiling_imp:

"Always leave them wanting more."

Now I'm glad I didn't get around to getting their blu-ray of The Fisher King. And while I kinda sorta expected Criterion to eventually release The Seventh Seal on UHD, I've already gotten the BFI release.

Because people kept giving them handfuls of shit on a monthly basis for not immediately jumping on the UHD bandwagon.

Makes me even gladder that I ordered the Nova Media (Korea) Blu-ray when I did. It's far from perfect, but it'll have to do. It's the 130m version, which I also have in the Fortune Star John Woo Collection set. Before that, all I had was the 120m cut on Golden Cinema LD.

True enough. But it seems just as stupid to do a 4K restoration in the first place.

(1) Interesting to see an upgrade to Mildred Pierce. (2) I have the John Woo two-fer from Eureka that includes Last Hurrah for Chivalry, so I'm inclined to pass on this. Quite frankly, if they wanted to do a John Woo title, I would've killed for some sort of "ultimate edition" of Bullet in the...

It was. So was Midnight Cowboy. I saw A Clockwork Orange its opening weeks in Boston when it was rated "X". When it moved into the 'burbs, it was rated "R". I couldn't tell the difference. As I understand it, a scene or two was trimmed by a few seconds to lower the rating. I've no doubt that it...

I wasn't paying any attention to that. :thumbs-up-smiley:

I saw it 9th grade English class, too. Except that we went on a field trip to see it in the cinema. I can't say as I'm surprised that Paramount passed this one on to Criterion. They probably didn't want to deal with any controversary over Olivia Hussey's underaged bare breasts. :rolleyes:

Well, yeah, but he was up against Marlon Brando for The Godfather, both Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier for Sleuth, and Paul Winfield for Sounder. It's not like you can say he was robbed at gunpoint.

I recall seeing a comment by someone at The One Site (who's worked in the industry, so there's a chance he's not just flapping his gums) that The Mosquito Coast reverted to Zaentz, as reason why WAC doesn't seem to be in any hurry to release it. Should've sent the question in for Feltenstein to...

There's always a chance. It's a matter of them making a deal with the Saul Zaentz company.

On the second point: at the time, there was certainly a lot of guesses that it was for After Hours. Certainly in the discussion in the Criterion thread at The Other Site.

Most of the B&Ms in my area didn't offer much in the way of Criterions, while B&N always did. I doubt that Criterion ever relied on B&M sales as much as the major studio labels did.

In the few B&Ns in my area, the Criterion sections, while diminished from what they were 5-10 years ago, are still pretty hefty. And while the stores seem to highlight Arrow titles as well, no label (including Arrow) has the presence that Criterion does.

Yup. That sounds right.