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RED RIVER & Criterion CONFIRMED?

post #1 of 11
5/4/10 at 1:38pm
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Make of this what you will, but last night at Film Forum, I overheard a FF regular, who consults for Criterion, report to his seat mate that the Criterion folks told him (earlier that afternoon) that they have secured rights to RED RIVER.  Because of the relatively tight-knit nature of the New York film industry community and the connection between Criterion and Film Forum, I tend to think this is legit.
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post #2 of 11
5/4/10 at 2:37pm
I wouldn't call that confirmed quite yet.






Crawdaddy
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post #3 of 11
5/4/10 at 2:58pm
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 Fair enough.  
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post #4 of 11
5/4/10 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by Jon Hertzberg View Post

 Fair enough.  

I'm excited by your post, but we need to hear more before I would call it confirmed.  Hopefully, it will join Stagecoach and be released on Blu-ray from Criterion.





Crawdaddy
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post #5 of 11
5/5/10 at 5:25am
Way back in November, I asked on their Facebook page: "I see that among a number of MGM/UA titles that have just gone OOP is Hawks' Red River; now, tell me that you've picked this up."

Their reply was a rather teasing: "Could be..."

I'll take this as another very positive indication. Great news.
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post #6 of 11
5/5/10 at 11:57am
It's long been rumored as one of the MGM titles they licensed. The Fugitive Kind is the first one officially announced/released. Other rumored MGM titles licensed are:

Paths of Glory
The Killing
Kiss Me Deadly
The Misfits
Night of the Hunter
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post #7 of 11
5/5/10 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by Brandon Conway View Post

It's long been rumored as one of the MGM titles they licensed. The Fugitive Kind is the first one officially announced/released. Other rumored MGM titles licensed are:

Paths of Glory
The Killing
Kiss Me Deadly
The Misfits
Night of the Hunter
 

talk about great additions i have been hoping something would be happening to Kubrick's first masterpiece
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post #8 of 11
5/5/10 at 4:43pm
awesome if true
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post #9 of 11
5/7/10 at 1:43am
I posted the following in the Criterion thread in the Blu-Ray section, but in case some of you do not visit that area I'll post it here:


Here is the list of "confirmed" MGM titles that I got from one of the Criterion forums (I can't find the post anymore, so I don't know if they were asked to take it down or if some of it is wrong, but I present it here for entertainment purposes only)
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1. FUGITIVE KIND (Sidney Lumet) [already announced, due out at the end of the month]
2. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)
3. THE KILLING (Stanley Kubrick)
4. KILLER'S KISS (Stanley Kubrick)
5. CUL DE SAC (Roman Polanski) There are rights issues that need to be sorted out before this film can be released.
6. LOVE STREAMS (John Cassavettes) There are rights issues that need to be sorted out before this film can be released
7. PARK ROW (Samuel Fuller)
8. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander McKendrick)
9. RED RIVER (Howard Hawks)
10. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich)
11. SATYRICON (Federico Fellini)
12. BURN (Gilo Portocovo)
13. KES (Ken Loach)
14. FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (Karel Reiscz)
15. NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
16. SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme)
17. ???
18. ???
19. ???
20. ???
21. ???
22. ???
23. ???
24. ???
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post #10 of 11
5/7/10 at 9:08am
Sorry to break the news to you but...

I wrote that list and posted it on the .com forums. It's not confirmed at all and most of those are based off evasive comments Criterion made on Facebook an the thread on the .org forum. I deleted that list off the site because I was worried people who read it were going to take it as a confirmation when it's more like educated speculation,
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post #11 of 11
5/7/10 at 10:21am
hence the quotes around confirmed
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