WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME...? SPECULATED CRITERION TITLES FOR 2014 (1 Viewer)

This is just for the helluvit.

Rules:

1. List 25 titles you believe Criterion will release next year - no more, no fewer. Titles already announced as of 11/15/13 (for release in January and February) are not eligible. Therefore, the list you post is for the 10-month period of 03/14 - 12/14.

2. One post per member only, so think your choices through before posting. No late additions, no edits.

3. No posting after 12/31/2013.

4. No member who has insider information from Criterion is eligible. This has to be the honor system. The rest of us need only use common sense regarding what we assume Criterion has the potential rights to release, and which titles they would likely have an interest in. Those of us who have collected Criterion titles for many years will be able to make reasonable guesses about what titles they might shortly upgrade and which new titles they might add. .

5. One year from now, the person who has the most correct guesses wins. (Wins what? Just the satisfaction, of course!)

My own speculation follows (in no particular order, and heavily biased toward classic titles).

Have a blast!

1. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (upgrade)
2. SPARTACUS (upgrade)
3. THE PARALLAX VIEW
4. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (upgrade)
5. THE KID (CHAPLIN), possibly with THE CIRCUS
6. THE VIRGIN SPRING (upgrade)
7. UTEGSU (upgrade)
8. DON'T LOOK NOW
9. THE OFFICIAL STORY
10. OLIVER TWIST (DAVID LEAN) along with GREAT EXPECTATIONS, SUMMERTIME & HOBSON'S CHOICE. (upgrades)
11. JU DOU
12. KNIFE IN THE WATER
13. THE FAR COUNTRY (AND MAYBE OTHER UNIVERSAL ANTHONY MANN WESTERNS)
14. IKIRU (upgrade)
15. THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (upgrade)
16. THIEVES LIKE US
17. ACE IN THE HOLE (upgrade)
18. RED RIVER
19. BICYCLE THIEVES (upgrade)
20. FORBIDDEN GAMES (upgrade)
21. CRIA CUERVOS
22. THE EMIGRANTS / THE NEW LAND (I know, these are Warner Bros properties... but I can dream, can't I?)
23. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
24. FIRES ON THE PLAIN
25. BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK

Well, that's my list, and I have to stick to it now. Who wants to challenge me?

Bad Day at Black Rock is also an MGM film that's a Warner property. I sure would love to have a Blu-ray of it!

I'll add Women in Love and The Music Lovers to your list.

Parralax View deserves the best treatment. It's simply the best paranoid thriller ever made. I would also love to see Devil and Daniel Webster.

You mention "The Kid" and "The Circus", but I think the next Chaplin we'll see is "Limelight". They always go sound/silent, and the last one was a silent.

My short list will be:

1. Limelight
2. Red River
3. Scanners
4. The Kid
5. The Freshman (Harold Lloyd, wouldn't it be great if "The Sins of Harold Diddlebock" was paired with it?)
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (upgrade)

JoeDoakes said:

Parralax View deserves the best treatment. It's simply the best paranoid thriller ever made. I would also love to see Devil and Daniel Webster.

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You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.

I would love to see Spartacus get a new transfer and Criterion release, i have low hopes though.

No fair - you broke your own rules by editing your post

Anyway, here goes:

1. The Element of Crime (upgrade)
2. The Brood (Rumored)
3. Scanners (Rumored)
4. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Wishlist but rumored)
5. Picnic At Hanging Rock (Upgrade)
6. Europa (Upgrade)
7. David Cronenberg's Rabid (Rumored)
8. Spartacus
9. The Earthling (wishlist title based on solely on MGM's penchant for doling out stuff)
10. Robocop. News of a forthcoming 4K upgrade could mean Citerion is releasing it (and based on the fact that only the 1st film has been announced so far). Hopefully.
11. On the Beach (1959)
12. Panic In Year Zero (wishlist)
13. Silence of the Lambs. Criterion has worked with Demme before plus MGM is on a licensing binge so it's possible.


I can't honestly think of anything else. Am I breaking a rule if I don't list 25?

I can't come up with 25 titles (as my tastes tend to be more mainstream, English speaking films).But here is my short list (based on prior releases/rumored to control)Sullivan's TravelsThe Lady EveForeign CorrespondentYoung And InnocentSabotageA Matter Of Life And Death49th ParallelI Know Where I'm GoingRed RiverHeaven Can Wait ('43)

[*] Apu Trilogy
[*]The Lodger (Hitchcock)
[*]Spartacus (upgrade- and done correctly)
[*]Touch of Evil
[*]Double Indemnity
[*]Detour (finally)
[*]Utegsu (upgrade)
[*]Ikiru (upgrade)
[*]Ace in the Hole (upgrade)
[*]Red River (rumored long time)
[*]The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (upgrade)
[*]Women In Love
[*]Bad Day at Black Rock ( yea I know it’s WB, so was Badlands!)
[*]Persona
[*]A Matter of Life and Death
[*]Oliver’s Shakespeare Box Henry V (upgrade),Hamlet (upgrade),Richard III (upgrade)
[*]Tess
[*]Lean Box Oliver Twist (upgrade), Great Expectations (upgrade), Summertime & Hobson’s Choice (upgrade)
[*]Kind Hearts and Cornets (upgrade)
[*]The Kid (Chaplin)
[*]Judgment at Nuremburg
[*] Inherit the Wind
[*]The Go-Between
[*]Day for Night ( yea I know it’s WB, so was Badlands!)
[*]The Decalogue
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that's my 25, I know, I cheated and counted box sets as 1

I'd love to own the following Blu Ray's from Criterion in 2014:

1. Summertime
2. Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
3. All That Heaven Allows
4. Written On The Wind
5. Spartacus
6. Imitation Of Life (1959)
7. Silence Of The Lambs
8. Nights Of Cabiria
9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
10. Judgment At Nuremberg
11. Rebecca
12. The Age Of Innocence
13. 84 Charing Cross Road
14. Panic Room
15. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
16. Ship Of Fools
17. Sullivan's Travels
18. Midnight Cowboy
19. The Graduate

These are the only titles that I can think of at the moment...

Persona
The Freshman
Scanners
The Brood
Eraserhead
The Kid
La Verite
The Tenant
The Virgin Spring
The Hidden Fortress
Ace in the Hole
Leaving Las Vegas
The Long Goodbye
Red River
Satyricon
Roma
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Jules and Jim
Wim Wenders' Road Trilogy
The Big Chill
In a Lonely Place
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (maybe some more Capra)
Guilda
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Lady From Shanghai

[*]Persona
[*]Fantastic Mr. Fox
[*]Red River
[*]Scanners
[*]The Brood
[*]Eraserhead
[*]The Great Beauty
[*]The Freshman
[*]The Kid
[*]The Big Chill
[*]Tootsie
[*]Red Beard
[*]Satyricon
[*]Y tu Mama Tambien
[*]Foreign Correspondent
[*]All That Heaven Allows
[*]Written on the Wind
[*]Sullivan's Travels
[*]The Lady Eve
[*]Red Handkerchief
[*]The Velvet Hustler
[*]Burn!
[*]Blue is the Warmest Color
[*]Tess
[*] Hanzo the Razor Trilogy
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These I hope for in blu-ray: SPARTACUS, KING OF KINGS (upgrade), SIGN OF THE CROSS, SATYRICON, ROMA and NIGHTS OF CABIRIA.
These pretty likely due to foreign release: RED RIVER, TESS, SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, SUMMERTIME and LIMELIGHT.

Instead of BURN, let's hope for the uncut, international version: QUEIMADA!, a superior film, and unseen, I believe in the USA.

No fair - you broke your own rules by editing your post

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You're right, except that the edit was made moments after I accidently posted an incomplete list.

New to the collection
1. A Matter of Life and Death
2. Red River
3. Foreign Correspondant
4. The Long Voyage HOme
5. Y tu Mama Tambien
6. Persona
7. The Freshman
8. The Kid
9. Limelight
10. Mulhulland Dr.
11. Eraserhead
12. Fantastic Mr. Fox
13. Rocco and his Brothers
14. Tess
15. Scanners
16. The Brood
17. Tootsie
18. The Big Chill
19. Suburbia
20. Madadayo
21. The Soft Skin
22. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
23. Satyricon
24. Boy
25. Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

I segregated out all the upgrades and box sets, because it was fun enough to just limit it to new titles, so below is just for bonus fun perusal/wishlist

upgrades and box sets:

1. Oliver Twist
2. Great Expectations
3. Summertime
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
5. The Night Porter
6. Taste of Cherry
7. Spartacus
8. Ikiru
9. Bicycle Thieves
10. Ugetsu
11. Ace in the Hole
12. Jules and Jim
13. Good Morning / I Was Born but...
14. La Strada
15. Vampyr
16. Pandora's Box
17. Sullivan's Travels
18. Henry V
19. Passion of Joan of Arc
20. My Man Godfrey
21. Wim Wenders Road (spring box set)
22. Apu trilogy (september box set)
23. Bergman trilogy upgrade (october box set)
24. Decalogue (november box set)
25. Martin Scorsese World Cinema Project v2 (december box set, Limite, Borom Sarat, Manila in the Claws of Light, Kalpana, Forest of the Hanged, Revenge)

1. Room at the Top
2. The Turning Point
3. The Emmigrants (I can dream...)
4. Z
5. Missing
6. Great Expectations
7. Foreign Correspondant
8. The Big Chill
9. Tootsie
10. Skippy
11. Secrets & Lies
12. East Lynne (I can dream...)
13. The Patriot (Trailer and 6 Minute reel from Portugal, on a Ernst Lubitsch box set)
14. Armageddon
15, State Fair (1930's)
16. The Pied Piper
17. The White Parade (I can dream big...)
18. The Circus
19. Anne of the Thousand Days
20. The Crying Game
21. Judgement at Nuremburg
22. It Happened One Night
23. You Can't Take it With You
24. The Greatest Show on Earth
25. Wake Island

That what I got... sense a theme?

Thats all I got.

I guess while I'm dreaming......

Spartacus
The Parallax View
Sullivan's Travels
Don't Look Now
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Lady EveForeign Correspondent49th ParallelRed RiverHeaven Can Wait (1943)
Judgement at Nuremburg
It Happened One Night
You Can't Take it With You
The Greatest Show on Earth
Wake Island
The Long Voyage Home
The Long Goodbye
Touch of Evil
Double Indemnity
Night Train to Munich
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Twentieth Century

I'll keep it interesting and won't include any upgrades:

1. Red River (1948) - Howard Hawks2. Barton Fink (1991) - Coen Brothers3. Eraserhead (1977) - David Lynch4. Scanners & The Brood (1981, 1979) - David Cronenberg5. Drive (2011) - Nicolas Winding Refn6. Limelight (1952) - Charles Chaplin7. The Freshman (1925) - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor8. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) - Powell & Pressburger9. Don't Look Now (1973) - Nicolas Roeg10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - Jacques Demy11. Sundays and Cybele (1962) - Serge Bourguignon12. The Soft Skin (1964) - Francois Truffaut13. Jour de Fete & Parade (1949, 1974) - Jacques Tati14. Il Sorpasso (1962) - Dino Risi15. Rocco and His Brothers & Sandra (1960, 1965) - Luchino Visconti16. The Great Beauty (2013) - Paolo Sorrentino
17. Persona (1966) - Ingmar Bergman18. Limite (1931) - Mario Peixoto19. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) - Alfonso Cuaron20. A Brighter Summer Day (1991) - Edward Yang21. Oshima's Youth Trilogy (1960) - Nagisa Oshima22. Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959) - Satyajit Ray23. Errol Morris documentaries set (Various)24. 3 Films by Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers [1988], Prospero's Books [1991], The Baby of Macon [1993])
25. Fellini - either a twofer of Roma & Satyricon (1972, 1969) or La Dolce Vita (1960) only

Great titles, Matthew. I haven't seen Limite, The Great Beauty, and A Bright Summer Day because they haven't come my way. All the others would be definite buys for me, including a double dip for Drive.

JoeDoakes said:

Parralax View deserves the best treatment. It's simply the best paranoid thriller ever made.

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Man, what I would give for this! IMHO, it would also make a good Twilight Time candidate but they don't have a deal with Paramount.