Criterion- Heaven Can Wait...in June! (1 Viewer)

[JPCinema]

Criterion has just announced the 1943 Ernst Lubitsch classic "Heaven Can Wait" for a June release!!!! I've been waiting for this one and apparently the wait is going to be worth it!

 

[RyanZ]

I assume you mean the 1943 Ernst Lubitch version, not the unrelated Warren Beatty 1979 film of the same title.

 

[JPCinema]

Thanks. The Warren Beatty film has aleady been released by Paramount on DVD.

 

[Ed St. Clair]

RyanZ,
Why do you say "unrelated"?
I thought the Beatty version, was based on the original?
Thanks.

 

[Bradley-E]

Funny that FOX would not release it themselves under the STUDIO CLASSICS COLLECTION. Oh well, at least it is coming out.

 

[RyanZ]

The Warren Beatty "Heaven Can Wait" is a remake of the 1941 film "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." "Heaven Can Wait" - the 1943 Lubitch comedy, has no relation.

 

[Eric Peterson]

Excellent! More Lubitsch please!

 

[Armin Jager]

More Gene Tierney .
Now her 7-8 most essential films are completely on DVD, maybe Fox could tackle TOBACCO ROAD ...

 

[JPCinema]

Sure would like a Lubitsch festival in Chicago. At least his movies are slowly coming out on DVD.

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

Mine! Thanks much, Fox & Criterion!

Wow, looks like this is, in addition to being the Year of Steve McQueen & Lee Marvin on R1 DVD, it's also the Year of Gene Tierney:

HEAVEN CAN WAIT
LAURA
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
NIGHT & THE CITY

 

[DaveK]

Can someone please explain this to me. Why is Criterion releasing this film and not Fox?

 

[Brook K]

Fox struck a deal with Criterion to allow them to release a number of Fox films that, I would suppose, Fox felt would not sell enough copies to be worth a release under their own banner and/or warrant the special edition treatment Criterion would give them. Previous Criterion Fox releases include Kagemusha and Three Women. The upcoming Criterion release of Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is also a Fox film.

 

[Charles H]

Where's CLUNY BROWN? Never on home video!!!
I'd even take films "started" by Lubitsch and completed by Otto Preminger--A ROYAL SCANDAL and THAT LADY IN ERMINE. And where's CLUNY BROWN????!!!

 

[Ted Todorov]

It has been out on DVD for well over a year.
The details...

Ted

 

[Nick Eden]

What's the transfer like on the French version of Cluny Brown? How does it comapre with a Fox Studio Classic release in terms of picture and sound? I had no idea it was out on DVD.

 

[Brian PB]

The only two reviews I can find are (as expected) in French:

dvdrama.net The screencaps look excellent.
dvdclassik.com

For those interested in purchasing this DVD, note that the French title is La folle ingénue.

 

[DaveK]

Brook K.
Thanks for the information, because it confused me for a while.

I know the movie used to be shown on Cinemax, but I never had the chance to watch it. I might buy it just because it's a Technicolor movie.

 

[Pete York]

The other odd timing release was the two Fox Dassin noirs from Criterion in February and then the Fox noir line debuting a month later. I guess this was just an old deal with Criterion and it took them a while to release both these movies?

 

[Ravi K]

The Leopard was distributed in the US by Fox.

 

[Robert Crawford]

If you're saying that Fox distributed the dvd of The Leopard in the US then you're mistaken, it's a Criterion dvd.

The Leopard