Not really any surprises, but damn, it's nice to see Pasolini's life triliogy and Week End getting HD treatment.

The eclipse is interesting too.

Nice covers this month.

Otherwise, ......................................

Two Weekends covered this year.

Glad I waited to watch heaven's gate.

shut up bitch!

Heaven's Gate

I've seen the first 20 minutes or so of Goke: Body Snatcher from Hell and it looked pretty neat--are the rest of those any good?

I've only seen The X From Outer Space but it is delightfully insane. Definitely my favorite of the many one-off entries of the 60s kaiju boom.

Goke is fucking nuts. I watched the whole thing and all I remember are the colors and the way they stained my brain.

There, now we don't need a new thread each time.

Y'know, this is a pretty solid month. Also, I adore that Weekend cover. That was the poster for the restoration release, right? Fantastic stuff.

Yeah all of these releases are movies I really should have seen by now, but hey they are on Criterion and in Blu Ray so awesome.

Purple Noon <3

um following huh

Yes!

Qatsi triliogy in HD restoration is like uhhhhh.

I've been waiting on a better looking Purple Noon for a while.

Sweet.

Goke seems like a bunch of people showed up with a film camera and said, "We've got 15 minutes to shoot an hour and a half film. Let's move!" And did just that. Or something.

Following was shot on 16mm. I'm not sure a Blu-ray treatment would be all that HD.

lol

pretty sure a Rivette will finally be announced in December's batch and then 5 days later it will apocalypse

It's a decent film. It's so lean it hardly registers as a Nolan film.

I like it.

Cover is yum, too.

Looks like one of yours.

Oh, I just now noticed that the cover for Brazil on Blu is exactly the one they used on the DVD set, of which I bought a copy.

Yeah, at least it's that one.

Purple Noon intrigues me, and I keep forgetting that Koyaanisqatsi is part of a trilogy (its the only one I've seen out the three-awesome film, btw). I already own Following, but my copy is a cheap crappy one I bought used from a dying local video store, so I might consider purchasing it on Criterion (and finally watching it, too). Guess I'm glad I didn't buy Brazil on DVD, as I'm sure it looks great in Blu Ray.

Like a good uhhhh, right? Like an orgasmic uhhhh? Or like an "I have a boner and the teacher just asked me to solve the math problem on the chalkboard" uhhh?

I'll definitely be buying the Brazil blu. One of my favorite movies, yet I've never owned it in any format. Because I'm stupid.

Following is a very good DIY film. Not sure it needs much of a blu treatment, as Gort pointed out, but I'm sure I'll rent it and check out the special features, gotta be some cool stories about the fractured production process or something.

"Bad Lambs"

Took their time.

Martin Sheen as the sexiest fucking man.

(their first 3D release)

Oh, Gort's been waiting for that one.

Exciting. No wait, the other thing. Tedious.

Hitchcock, though.

And Pina too, ya?

I saw it at cinemas, was alright.

I'm actually excited about The Tin Drum, though, if only because I loved Young Torless years back.

Very underwhelming releases.

I keep putting off blind buying Two-Lane Blacktop for some reason. I've never seen The Man Who Knew Too Much.

There was some conference and some Criterion execs were there and they mentioned this, among other things:

Darling (Schlesinger)? no
Now licensing from WB? Yes, Badlands in Early 2013 - no comment on other WB titles
Le Samourai? possibly, at some point in the not too distant future
In A Lonely Place? no
World Cinema Foundation/Film Foundation - trying to work out WCF titles similar to foreign box set release
Film Foundation restorations will always come out on BD if Criterion has them (Richard III, Colonel Blimp coming to Blu-ray)
Andrei Rublev? restoration progressing in Russia - "desparately want to rerelease"
Cimino made some small changes to Heaven's Gate (some dialogue, removed intermission)
Some Eclipse may upgrade to Blu-ray! Les Miserables (Bernard) has restoration and may become a mainline title
Apu Trilogy? in progress, another Ray title in 2013 (Apu Trilogy or other title)
Some fun documentaries coming up
releasing Shoah + 3 shorts
releasing The Devil's Backbone (Del Toro) - mid-2013
releasing On The Waterfront in 3 aspect ratios

I just cheered aloud, actually.

Anybody else take advantage of the Barnes & Noble 50% off Criterion sale? Picked up The Game and Sweet Smell of Success tonight.

I got In the Mood for Love on blu.

Eating Raoul and Sunday Bloody Sunday.

So far. Sale goes on for three more weeks...

I bought Rosemary's Baby (1968) because its amazing. I also put Videodrome (1983) on hold because I should own a Cronenberg, finally.

In the Mood for Love, The Gold Rush, Naked, Lola Montes, Le Cercle Rouge, Rosetta so far. BLU RAY OBVS

ballad of narayama & on the waterfront covers are

that kid with a bike cover is incredible
well the side bar and c don't gel at all but damn what an image

and holy shit chronicle of a summer, great choice