Criterion Blu-ray titles! (1 Viewer)

[Stephen_J_H]

I might get Fear and Loathing just to scratch my Terry Gilliam itch.

 

[Martin_Teller]

All in for Blue Velvet and Underground Railroad, two masterpieces. Victims of Sin sounds really great too.

 

[mskaye]

All in for Blue Velvet and Underground Railroad, two masterpieces. Victims of Sin sounds really great too.

I'm totally going to get Victims of Sin. Directed by one of Sam Peckinpah's buddies Emilio Fernandez (he was in The Wild Bunch and a great Columbo just in case you didn't know.) Oh the tequila consumed by those must have been record breaking.

 

[ahollis]

The only one I would be interested in is Blue Velvet, but my Blu is just fine. So for me, I'll see what comes out next month. I am happy for the members that want these titles. We all have different tastes and that great.

 

[Lord Dalek]

JULY:

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (4K Dolby Vision UHD)
Le Samourai (4K HDR)
Perfect Days (4K HDR)
Black God, White Devil
Farewell My Concubine (UHD SDR only)
Risky Business(!) (4K Dolby Vision)

 

[ahollis]

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid!!! Finally!!!

 

[Konstantinos]

WOW!
In for definitely Farewell my Concubine, and maybe Risky business.

 

[mskaye]

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid!!! Finally!!!

This is amazing amazing news ! I cannot wait. All three versions too (my preferrred is the preview version...).
I saw that it - I think at a screening at the Academy sometime in the late 80's - and legendary director Richard Brooks was in attendance. It was a revelation. I'm still not 100% on board with why Paul Seydor chose to omit certain things from it. To me it the most emotionally powerful of the 3 versions.

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Well, I'll pass on all titles for July.

 

[jayembee]

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid!!! Finally!!!

Just a release of this is Good News. Great News is:

New 4K digital restoration of the 50th Anniversary Release, supervised by editors Paul Seydor and Roger Spottiswoode, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

New 4K digital restoration of the Original Theatrical Release, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

New 2K digital master of director Sam Peckinpah’s Final Preview Cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

 

[jayembee]

Well, I'll pass on all titles for July.

On the other hand, this is a "all titles" month for me. The one I'm most excited about is Farewell My Concubine on UHD!

On edit: Not to mention that July will be a Barnes & Noble sale month!

 

[Jeffrey D]

Risky Business is a bit of an eye-opening release.

 

[titch]

One of the strongest Criterion months ever! And just 10 days before I was going to order the French 4K UHD of Le Samourai! Perfect Days in 4K too - the only English-friendly 4K UHD release! Pat Garrett will have the many Peckinpah and western fans on this forum going gaga! A fantastic mix of classical, commercial, art-house, foreign and recent.

 

[mskaye]

One of the strongest Criterion months ever! And just 10 days before I was going to order the French 4K UHD of Le Samourai! Perfect Days in 4K too - the only English-friendly 4K UHD release! Pat Garrett will have the many Peckinpah and western fans on this forum going gaga! A fantastic mix of classical, commercial, art-house, foreign and recent.

And the Le Samourai cover is beautiful.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

JULY:

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (4K Dolby Vision UHD)
Le Samourai (4K HDR)
Perfect Days (4K HDR)
Farewell My Concubine (UHD SDR only)

These are all (very) tempting to varying degrees... though not sure I really need 4K for any of them though, especially if they're not actually derived from new scans, which seems very unclear just from the Criterion descriptions.

I already have prior BDs of Le Samourai (Criterion) and Farewell My Concubine (BFI import from UK), which are both ~7-8 years old now. AFAIK, the latter could definitely use a new scan and probably wouldn't improve much w/out one.

_Man_

 

[Tom St Jones]

'Tis "Criterion Day" upon us.. Hoping for some Robert Altman, Richard Lester, or perhaps Kathryn Bigelow.

 

[Lord Dalek]

Well we're cutting it late again.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Well we're cutting it late again.

Yup. I always fear these late announcements as I could sit here for hours waiting to post the press releases and then they suddenly throw up a message on their Facebook page saying that there is a delay. It has happened quite a few times.

 

[Lord Dalek]

Yup. I always fear these late announcements as I could sit here for hours waiting to post the press releases and then they suddenly throw up a message on their Facebook page saying that there is a delay. It has happened quite a few times.

Yeah usually around five is when I expect the inevitable.

 

[Lord Dalek]

AUGUST:

Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell
The Last Emperor (4K UHD Dolby Vision in OAR!!!)
Not A Pretty Picture
Real Life (4k UHD HDR)
Mother (4k UHD HDR)