What would you like to see next from criterion? (1 Viewer)

[Angelo Colombus]

Two movies i want Criterion to re-release is Andri Rublev and Dersu Uzala...both released back in the early days of dvd and in the case of Dersu Uzala laserdisc. I did read on some posts that Dersu Uzala needs a major restoration of the 70mm negative.

 

[MLamarre]

Providence (1977), Je t'aime, Je t'aime (1968), and La guerre est finie (1966) (Alain Resnais)Los olvidados (1950), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955), and El (1953) (Luis Bunuel)The Emigrants (1971), The New Land (1972), and Here's Your Life (1966) (Jan Troell)Imitation of Life (1959), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), and There's Always Tomorrow (1956) (Douglas Sirk)Soldier of Orange (1977), The 4th Man (1983), and Turkish Delight (1973) (Paul Verhoeven)The Lady Without Camelias (1953), Le amiche (1955), and The Passenger (1975) (Michelangelo Antonioni)Rocco and His Brothers (1960), The Stranger (1967), and Sandra (1965) (Luchino Visconti)Landscape in the Mist (1988), Voyage to Cythera (1984), and Eternity and a Day (1998) (Theo Angelopoulos)Raise the Red Lantern (1991), To Live (1994), and Red Sorghum (1987) (Yimou Zhang)The Time to Live and and the Time to Die (1985), A City of Sadness (1989), and Dust in the Wind (1987) (Hou hsiao-hsien)La bataille du rail (1946), Le jour et l'heure (1963), and Is Paris Burning? (1966) (Rene Clement)The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936), Toni (1935), and La Chienne (1931) (Jean Renoir)The Confession (1970), Stage of Siege (1972), and Special Section (1975) (Costa-Gavras)Alice in the Cities (1974), Kings of the Road (1976), and The American Friend (1977) (Wim Wenders)Family Life (1971), Ladybird Ladybird (1994), and Land and Freedom (1995) (Ken Loach)Days and Nights in the Forest (1970), Distant Thunder (1973), and The Goddess (1960) (Satyajit Ray)Kokoro (1955), Alone Across the Pacific (1963), and Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (1963) (Kon Ichikawa)The Promised Land (1975), Man of Marble (1977), and Man of Iron (1981) (Andrzej Wajda)Cantata (1963), My Way Home (1965), and The Round-Up (1966) (Miklos Jancso)A Special Day (1977), Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976), and We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) (Ettore Scola)Drowning by Numbers (1988), Prospero's Books (1991), and The Baby of Macon (1993) (Peter Greenaway)
Merry-Go-Round (1956), Professor Hannibal (1956), and The Boys From Paul Street (1969) (Zoltan Fabri)
A Touch of Zen (1971), Dragon Inn (1967), and Raining in the Mountain (1979) (King Hu)
Camouflage (1977), The Constant Factor (1980), and The Illumination (1973) (Krzysztof Zanussi)
A Matter of Dignity (1958), Stella (1955), and A Girl in Black (1956) (Mihalis Kakogiannis)
Time of the Gypsies (1988), Underground (1995), and Black Cat White Cat (1998) (Emir Kusturica)
Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), In the White City (1983) and Charles Dead or Alive (1969) (Alain Tanner)
War and Peace (1967), Waterloo (1970), and Destiny of a Man (1959) (Sergei Bondarchuk)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), Brief Encounters (1967), and A Long Goodbye (1971) (Kira Muratova)
Mephisto (1981), Colonel Redl (1985), and Hanussen (1988) (Istvan Szabo)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), All About My Mother (1999), and Talk to Her (2002) (Pedro Almodovar)He Who Must Die (1957) (Jules Dassin)Chimes at Midnight (1965) (Orson Welles)Ghost World (2001) (Terry Zwigoff)Il Bidone (1955) (Federico Fellini)Miracle in Milan (1951) (Vittorio de Sica)A Matter of Life and Death (1946) (Powell & Pressburger)The Decalogue (1989) (Krzysztof Kieslowski)Broken Lullaby (1932) (Ernst Lubitsch)The Tenant (1976) (Roman Polanski)La caza (1966) (Carlos Saura)Flashback (1969) (Raffaele Andreassi)The Spanish Prisoner (1997) (David Mamet)Children of Hiroshima (1952) (Kaneto Shindo)Calle Mayor (1956) (Juan Antonio Bardem)Hud (1963) (Martin Ritt)Hell is for Heroes (1962) (Don Siegel)Attack (1956) (Robert Aldrich)Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (Stanley Kramer)Ordinary People (1980) (Robert Redford)Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) (Richard Brooks)The Savage Innocents (1960) (Nicholas Ray)Summer Clouds (1958) (Mikio Naruse)A Brighter Summer Day (1991) (Edward Yang)
Yellow Earth (1985) (Chen Kaige)
Les bons débarras (1979) (Francis Mankiewicz)
Les ordres (1974) (Michel Brault)
Léolo (1992) (Jean-Claude Lauzon)Goin' Down the Road (1970) (Donald Shebib)The Grey Fox (1982) (Philip Borsos)Nine Lives (1957) (Arne Skouen)The Bridge (1959) (Bernhard Wicki)A Swedish Love Story (1970) (Roy Andersson)Padre Padrone (1977) (Taviani Brothers)Intimate Lighting (1965) (Ivan Passer)Diamonds of the Night (1964) (Jan Nemec)Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) (Pavel Juracek)Carriage to Vienna (1966) (Karel Kachnya)
Trápení (1962) (Karel Kachnya)
Distant Journey (1950) (Alfred Radok)Les Carabiniers (1963) and Le Petit Soldat (1963) (Jean-Luc Godard)Before the Revolution (1964) and The Spider's Stratagem (1970) (Bernardo Bertolucci)Ogro (1979) and Burn! (1969) (Gillo Pontecorvo)The Mattei Affair (1972) and Illustrious Corpses (1976) (Francesco Rosi)Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) and Ladybug Ladybug (1963) (Frank Perry)City Streets (1931) and Golden Boy (1939) (Rouben Mamoulian)The Lost Weekend (1945) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (Billy Wilder)Outcast of the Islands (1951) and The Man Between (1953) (Carol Reed)The Go-Between (1970) and Mr. Klein (1976) (Joseph Losey)Westfront 1918 (1930) and Kameradschaft (1931) (G.W. Pabst)Jean de Florette (1986) and Manon des sources (1986) (Claude Berri)To Each His Own (1946) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (Mitchell Leisen)Maborosi (1995) and After Life (1998) (Hirokazu Koreeda)Let Him Have It (1991) and The Krays (1990) (Peter Medak)An Average Little Man (1977) and The Great War (1959) (Mario Monicelli)Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and The Best Intentions (1992) (Bille August)Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) and Suzaki Paradise Red Light District (1956) (Yuzo Kawashima)The Funeral (1984) and Tampopo (1985) (Juzo Itami)Eros + Massacre (1969) and Akitsu Springs (1962) (Yoshishige Yoshida)Placido (1961) and El Verdugo (1963) (Luis Garcia Berlanga)The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) and The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) (Wojciech Has)I as in Icarus (1979) and The President (1961) (Henri Verneuil)Trilogy (1983) and Distant Voices Still Lives (1988) (Terence Davies)
Europa Europa (1990) and Olivier Olivier (1992) (Agnieszka Holland)
Boat People (1982) and Summer Snow (1995) (Ann Hui)
Center Stage (1991) and Rouge (1987) (Stanley Kwan)
Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur (1992) and Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur (1998) (Robert Morin)
Toto the Hero (1991) and The Eighth Day (1996) (Jaco Van Dormael)
The L-Shaped Room (1962) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961) (Bryan Forbes)
Women in Love (1969) and The Music Lovers (1970) (Ken Russell)
Isadora (1968) and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) (Karel Reisz)
A Taste of Honey (1961) and Look Back in Anger (1959) (Tony Richardson)
A Kind of Loving (1962) and Darling (1965) (John Schlesinger)
Marat/Sade (1967) and King Lear (1971) (Peter Brook)
We'll Live to Monday (1968) and White Bim Black Ear (1977) (Stanislav Rostotsky)
Trial on the Road (1971) and Twenty Days Without War (1977) (Aleksey German)

 

[ahollis]

LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR was released on dvd many many years ago - maybe not in your country.If I dislike a film then there would be no reason for me to buy it on dvd or bluray, no matter how good the quality would be. A bad film is a bad film and putting it out on disc would not change the quality ..Did you ever sit in a cinema and see RAINTREE COUNTY during its original release? I did and even worked in the cinema showing it. Luckily I never had to endure it for very long.First and foremost a film needs to have a good director and a good scriptwriter ( something mostly lacking in today's American films.) There is a whole world of cinema out there.Some of the best films emanate from South Korea today. but I doubt if many Americans have ever seen one. Personally I prefer European and Asian films to that which are made in the U.S.A. America have seemed to have lost the plot when it comes to good storytelling. They used to have great writers in the old days but they have lost the art of how to write a good script.

Good again we disagree. Conversation over. You and I do not agree on films. Yes there was not a Region 1 DVD of GOODBAR. Yes I have seen RAINTREE COUNTY in a theatre but then you say you did but didn't have to endure it, I'm trying figure out how you did that. And if you are so into European and Asian films, why do you always bring up American Musical Films? Yes it's a question but I really don't want to know the answer.

 

[bujaki]

@MLamarre
Matthew, what a glorious and diverse list. I've seen many, including some of the most obscure. Have you been fortunate to have seen them all, or is this a wish list as well?

 

[AnthonyClarke]

Matthew, I think there's a good chance you'll see at least one of your wish-list come to Blu ray soon. But I'm not game to predict which one ...

 

[Ethan Riley]

The Room.

 

[Thornhill]

Toto le Heros-1991 by Jaco Van Dormael and Tesis-1996 by Amenabar

 

[Darren Gross]

SHOLAY was released in 70mm in India. You can always check sites in India that sell bluray discs (indura.com) and request any film for a future bluray release. Your favourite Indian film may even be available on bluray? My favourite Indian film has already been released on bluray: DILWALE DULHANIA JAYENGE (2 discs with an extra disc of extras.)

DILWALE DULHANIA JAYENGE is the same film I requested- THE BRAVE HEARTED WILL TAKE THE BRIDE. Terrific pic.

Sholay was released in 70mm but it was a blow-up, as it was shot 35mm. The 70mm did allow a multi-channel soundtrack though.

While there's a vast number of Bollywood films in DVD from Indian labels, and a handful of Blu-rays, the transfers and transfer elements of the pre millennial library titles are usually very poor. The newer releases are vastly better. There's a lot of griping on the quality of their blu-ray releases as well- most complaining on Bollywood forums that they are merely up converts of SD transfers. Sound recording was also extremely rough until a few years ago. Every film I've seen from the early 90s and earlier sounds as if it's coming from a drive-in speaker, even the soundtrack albums.

The video transfers for library titles come from pretty beat-up elements, usually what look like release prints, with splices, scratches, pops at reel change breaks, etc. And because of the rampant piracy in the territory, many have video distributor logos or watermark text burned in or appearing occasionally. I haven't seen the blu-ray of Brave Hearted etc. but the DVD was pretty flatly colored and and from less than pristine elements.

These are two films that deserve to be in the LOC registry and deserve 4K restorations and archival elements made from same. Criterion releases also would bring much greater visibility to these two in the U.S. and English speaking markets.

(By HAUNTED, do you mean MAHAL?)

 

[Peter McM]

Robert Duvall's The Apostle

The Red Violin (to this day still my favorite Samuel L. Jackson role)

Sirens (that non-anamorphic dvd from Miramax is just plain unwatchable on any current display)

rerelease of The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Notorious Bettie Page (right now I'd be happy with a decent blu-ray from IFC)

 

[MLamarre]

@MLamarre
Matthew, what a glorious and diverse list. I've seen many, including some of the most obscure. Have you been fortunate to have seen them all, or is this a wish list as well?

It's mix of ones I've seen and ones I haven't. For the ones I haven't seen, I'd like Criterion (or anyone else, really) to release so that I have the opportunity to check them out.

 

[David Wilkins]

Although Polanski is fairly well represented at Criterion, I'd love to see his under appreciated 'Macbeth'. Also, Robert Altman's equally under appreciated 'Images'.

 

[TravisR]

Although Polanski is fairly well represented at Criterion, I'd love to see his under appreciated 'Macbeth'.

There was a clue in the last Criterion newsletter that people thought was for Macbeth.

 

[Ejanss]

And I always ask, but can never get a straight answer:Was Ingmar Bergman's "The Magic Flute" (1975) originally shot for videotape--even though it was shown theatrically in the US--and that's why it's one of Crite's last remaining Bergmans not to be upgraded to Blu?
I'd, ahem, like to get rid of my old DVD.

 

[Dick]

Sirens is available as a nice region-free Blu-ray, and is pretty loaded with supps:

http://www.daaveedee.com/product_info.php?products_id=127738


Sirens (that non-anamorphic dvd from Miramax is just plain unwatchable on any current display)

 

[Jari K]

Cronenberg, Lynch. Please.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

And I always ask, but can never get a straight answer:Was Ingmar Bergman's "The Magic Flute" (1975) originally shot for videotape--even though it was shown theatrically in the US--and that's why it's one of Crite's last remaining Bergmans not to be upgraded to Blu?I'd, ahem, like to get rid of my old DVD.

I think it was shot on 16mm for television.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I'd love to have a Blu upgrade of "Red Beard" - probably my favorite Kurosawa movie.

And, of course, a Blu of their version of "Spartacus" would be amazing.

 

[[email protected]]

Id like some of my DVDs upgraded such as Devil and Daniel Webster, Equinox, Carnival of Souls, Night and the City, Fiend without a Face, Kwaidan and Le Samourai for starters
For new stuff... anything in my collection is always welcome..Id love Mullholland Drive, Lost Highway, I do like early 30s-50s stuff as well so Id be open to a lot including In a Lonely Place, She, The Glass Key, Topper, Targets, Impact, Nightmare Alley etc

 

[Paul Rossen]

Yes I did see WATERLOO in 70mm . (along with 179 other feature films released in 70mm ) It was panned by the critics at the time and was indeed a massive flop and it was a very very tedious film. Truly one of the very worst films released in 70mm. It was even worse than SOLOMON AND SHEBA and that was bad enough to have to sit through.

Did you see the uncut version?


My request(s) for Criterion are ...

1. New transfer for SPARTACUS
2. The completely forgotten 3 hr version of Carl Foreman's THE VICTORS

 

[cinerama10]

Did you see the uncut version?


My request(s) for Criterion are ...

1. New transfer for SPARTACUS
2. The completely forgotten 3 hr version of Carl Foreman's THE VICTORS

THE VICTORS deserves to be forgotten-it was a very overlong and tedious film despite the impressive cast and director. It was the lowest point in Carl Forman's brilliant career.