Film General : Criterion Collection announces their May releases

Well, it looks like this will be my last thread for this. Here are Criterion's May releases which they just announced today:

https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?f=1&s=release_date

Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff)

Dheepan (2015, Jacques Audiard)

Othello (1952, Orson Welles)

Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2
- Six film collection: Limite (1931, Mario Peixoto); Revenge (1989, Ermek Shinarbaev); Insiang (1976, Lino Brocka); Mysterious Object at Noon (2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul); Law of the Border (1966, Lutfi O. Akad); Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)

Good Morning (1959, Yasujiro Ozu) [Blu-ray upgrade of the DVD]

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman) [Blu-ray upgrade of the DVD]

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.

Interesting selections. Glad they seem to be working their way through Welles' Shakespeare films, and another Edward Yang film added to their lineup is always a plus.

Welcome home, Mr. Bailey

I heard about Ghost World about last week. It's nice to see another Welles film on North American Blu-ray. And that world cinema collection looks impressive.

Nice upgrades as well.

What are you gonna do with those pies, boys?

Yeah, Criterion actually hinted at Ghost World (among several other films) in that New Year's drawing they always do. And I think you might be referring to a recent tweet from Thora Birch who confirmed the Ghost World release. Just good to have it on Blu-ray, it's a favorite comedy of mine and I've had the same DVD for ages.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.

I was referring to Thora Birch's tweet.

What are you gonna do with those pies, boys?

Ghost World is great news! I don't really care about any of the others though.

While I like the whole Scorsese World Cinema project a lot, and I'm glad to see these films see the light of day, putting 6 films that have nothing to do with one another on one expensive BD package is frustrating to me, but I guess that's in a way the point - you want 2 or 3 of the films, but you have to get the package, and maybe you discover new favorites. Anyway I would get Taipei Story and Insiang right away, so I'll probably spring for it. Interested in the rest in one way or another anyway.

Ghost World, Othello and Jeanne Dielman are all pretty much essential for me as well. I like the Ozu but it's not one of my favorites from him; haven't seen Dheepan and don't know a huge amount about it.

Nice to see a pretty large chunk of Welles' work finally available in HD.


Here's to the fools who dream

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but I guess that's in a way the point - you want 2 or 3 of the films, but you have to get the package, and maybe you discover new favorites.

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Yep, I assume that is what is being aimed at with these collections. I'm only familiar with Yang and Weerasethakul among these, myself. Insiang sounds like a good one, just reading about it briefly.

Dheepan didn't seem to get as much buzz stateside as I would have expected after its Palme d'Or win. His prior film Rust and Bone seemed to get some traction over here, but maybe that was largely in part to having a star in Marion Cotillard whereas Dheepan seems to be a cast of unknowns. I'd see it but it doesn't strike me as a priority, personally.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.

I haven't seen Insiang, but I've seen one other Lino Brocka film from roughly the same period and it was amazing, and I'm interested in seeing more from him (and Filipino cinema in general). Haven't seen that Weerasethakul film but I've seen a couple from him and they were pretty interesting; I still don't feel I have a real grasp on him but that's part of what makes him cool to me.

Dheepan is something my local library will almost certainly get so I'll just check it out from them.


Here's to the fools who dream

Dheepan was absolutely fantastic but I don't see myself buying it because it's streaming on Netflix.

Listomania. Oh dear I suppose if you can't discuss films intelligently this will have to do.

You do realise the real benman is a Chelsea fan and by trying to get everyone to hate him you are playing into his hands. Chelsea fans love to be hated, they actually sing on the terraces 'Nobody likes us, we don't care'.

On the British terraces, what you are doing is regarded as complementary, its akin to flirting!

That's quite a selection for one month! Great to see the Brocka and the Shinarbaev get the treatment.

That's all, folks!

Pretty good lineup. Ghost World and Jeanne Dielman are both favorites of mine. I like Good Morning but not quite enough to justify buying it. It's great that another Edward Yang film is getting a release; I haven't heard of some of those other Scorsese Collection films so I'll have to look into them.

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Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)

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Yo.

roll up the purp / with a smug f-ck you smirk

Damn you, IMDb. I see so much excitement over Criterion's release of Ghost World, one of my favorite comedies, and I won't have much time to talk about it with fellow fans.

I figured you'd be excited! It's a definite buy for me as well. Thora Birch as Enid is one of my favorite performances/roles of the 21st century.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.

and still no Police Academy movies

If there's a new way
I'll be the first in line
but it better work this time