The CRITERION DVD and Blu-ray Thread

[JAMIOUSE]

Well no bloody Female Trouble in July unless Criterion are planning a Divine surprise!

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by JAMIOUSE

Well no bloody Female Trouble in July unless Criterion are planning a Divine surprise!

HUUUG !!

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by JAMIOUSE

Well no bloody Female Trouble in July unless Criterion are planning a Divine surprise!

in case anyone was wondering the July UK releases are:

A Matter of Life and Death
Sex, Lies and Videotape

The artwork is the same as the US releases

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Yeah count me in as another who is a bit sore about the lack of Female Trouble... However, on the flip-side A Matter of Life and Death is a phenomenal film. One to pick up in the next Criterion 2 for £25 from HMV for sure.

[JAMIOUSE]

I hope we don't end up like Dawn Davenport forever wanting those cha-cha heels!

[Justin101]

Well if it isn't announced before the end of June I'm just going to import the American release because it's probably my favourite early Waters film. At least I have the DVD for now.

[gag]

https://news.avclub.com/terrence-mal...tes-1825967166



The tree of life is getting a release of 50 min longer

Terrence Malick’s symphonically ambitious rumination on his ’50s Texas childhood and overall place in the cosmos, is coming to the Criterion Collection. That’s no surprise, considering that the storied deluxe video label has already produced DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the reclusive filmmaker’s first four features: Badlands, Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World. But according to Variety, Criterion’s edition (which currently has no release date) will include both the original version of the film, and a new cut that’s a whopping 50 minutes longer.

The film, which took three years to complete and marks the transition point from Malick’s post-comeback historical reveries and his recent (and more uneven) run of autobiographical abstractions, was released to acclaim in 2011, winning the Palme d’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival and earning an unlikely Oscar nomination for Best Picture. (In 2015, this fine publication named it the third best film of the decade so far.) At its center is a boy’s relationship to his stern father (Brad Pitt) and affectionate mother (Jessica Chastain, then a complete unknown), which resonates both into the present day, with Sean Penn playing the protagonist as a grown-up, and into the evolutionary past. (There are dinosaurs.)



Like many of the director’s films, The Tree Of Life was significantly improvised, and over a million feet of 35mm film were shot by Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki during production. Obviously, both versions of the film are director’s cuts, though the new one—which Criterion is reportedly financing themselves—will fill in many of the ellipses in the family narrative, drawing the parents’ own upbringings into the story and adding more material with Penn’s grown-up character. Though it will reportedly leave the film’s special-effects-heavy “creation” sequence untouched, the article mentions a “major natural catastrophe that serves as a kind of centerpiece” in the longer version. According to Variety, Malick spent the better part of a year working on the new cut.

[Justin101]

I gave up on waiting for Female Trouble to be announced in the UK and ordered the American disc. More expensive than I would have liked (£24.50) but I paid more for Cat O Nine Tales from Arrow and I don't even particularly like that film

In recent John Waters interview he mentioned that Criterion is doing Polyester next and WB are doing Pink Flamingos!!

It's a great time to be alive

[Susan Foreman]

Confirmed: Criterion Intends to Release Showa Godzilla Films on DVD/Blu-Ray - Godzilla 2 Movie News

[Dave Boy]

Awesome!
I'm in!