While I wholly concur with Criterion getting busy to release films like Z, Hamlet, Henry V - and I would add, David Lean's Summertime in here too, plus the other Lean Brit-based masterpieces still MIA states side - particularly Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Passionate Friends and Madeleine...
Far too many GREAT Bette Davis movies still MIA - Old Acquaintance, Mr. Skeffington, In This Our Life, All This and Heaven Too, The Nanny, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Sisters, Deception, The Old Maid., The Little Foxes, The Letter, Dangerous, The Star, The Catered Affair, The...
Dear Russell G:
Valley of the Dolls is nothing like a John Waters film - period. Waters aims for camp and succeeds with legitimacy that translates into art. Valley of the Dolls was a deliberately (choke) serious stab at Jacqueline Suzann's smut-laden novel that miserably fails, either as a...
I think there is more of a chance ANY Adam Sandler movie could - and SHOULD - be released by any other label than CRITERION; always reporting to offer us the classic, foreign and art house with oodles of extras. I wouldn't expect Criterion to release an Adam Sandler movie any more than I would...
Frankly, I don't understand the open hostility or the alluding to Criterion 'dumping' classics from their roster. They've given us a lot in 2016 and I see no reason to suspect more are NOT on the way for 2017. Better to space them out a little than merely flood the market with too much too fast...
I contacted Jon Mulvaney with a request for some catalog: my biggest wish of all, to have David Lean's Summertime and Oliver Twist on Blu. Alas, no plans for either at this time - which in home video terms, likely means 'when hell freezes over'. Regrets.