Here we are, another 15th of the month, another group of amazing releases from the Criterion Collection announced on schedule. Being so obsessively attached to rumors and gossip on Twitter and forums and the like, many of these titles have been hinted at in one form or another.
Way back in March, we got a somewhat obvious clue in the monthly Criterion Collection e-mail newsletter, in the form of a thin, red lion, and after some back and forth as to which movie it was referring to, many came to the conclusion it was in fact Terrance Malick’s The Thin Red Line. Criterion’s recent Blu-ray release of Malick’s Days of Heaven was an incredible production, with a transfer that cannot be beaten. The Thin Red Line was also teased at in a twitter picture post that Criterion sent out back in March, giving further proof to the...
Way back in March, we got a somewhat obvious clue in the monthly Criterion Collection e-mail newsletter, in the form of a thin, red lion, and after some back and forth as to which movie it was referring to, many came to the conclusion it was in fact Terrance Malick’s The Thin Red Line. Criterion’s recent Blu-ray release of Malick’s Days of Heaven was an incredible production, with a transfer that cannot be beaten. The Thin Red Line was also teased at in a twitter picture post that Criterion sent out back in March, giving further proof to the...
- 6/16/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
With the new Eclipse box set, Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, hitting store shelves today, it appears as though Criterion is set to release yet another film from the legendary director, Nagisa Oshima.
Best known as the man behind the controversial film, In The Realm of The Senses, the new box set includes films like Pleasures of the Flesh, Violence At Noon, Sing a Song Of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide and Three Resurrected Drunkards, Criterion has now announced, kind of, that they will be bringing Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence to the collection.
In a tweet this morning, the collection announced that the film would see a release “this year…” which albeit a cryptic piece of news, is quite interesting. This would be Nagisa’s third film in the collection, with Senses and Empire of Passion, and follows a British soldier Jack Celliers who comes to a Japanese prison camp,...
Best known as the man behind the controversial film, In The Realm of The Senses, the new box set includes films like Pleasures of the Flesh, Violence At Noon, Sing a Song Of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide and Three Resurrected Drunkards, Criterion has now announced, kind of, that they will be bringing Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence to the collection.
In a tweet this morning, the collection announced that the film would see a release “this year…” which albeit a cryptic piece of news, is quite interesting. This would be Nagisa’s third film in the collection, with Senses and Empire of Passion, and follows a British soldier Jack Celliers who comes to a Japanese prison camp,...
- 5/19/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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