Criterion & Eclipse in the Press
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I noticed a brief little piece in the new issue of Filmmaker Magazine that mentioned that "while Eclipse is currently focusing on individual Directors," upcoming releases would include boxes dedicated to Samurai films and the French New Wave. If I get a chance I'll retype the thing, but that little tidbit was the only bit of news.
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Here's an article from Gizmodo about Criterion's digital restoration process, WITH PICTURES!
Here's a couple of interesting snippets:
Here's a couple of interesting snippets:
What about films they've already restored for DVD? Can they just be released on Blu-ray without much extra effort? Unfortunately, not usually. The good news is that once they've done their tape master, they have a high-def copy of it on hand and don't need to re-transfer the original print. The bad news is that once they got those masters, half of the process needs to be done again because the original restorations were just done in standard definition. Making a quick rerelease of all of Criterion's films to Blu-ray something that just isn't going to happen.
They plan to release two films a month in Blu-ray next year, with HD releases ramping up as sales shift from DVD to Blu-ray.
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Or unless Criterion just doesn't like the look of 1950s Fuji color stock.HerrSchreck wrote:Really, the mission of Criterion is "trying to replicate the original experience of seeing that movie when it was first released," according to Phillips.
That is, unless the director wants that original look changed.
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Gizmodo has a followup article about Criterion and their potential future with digital distribution.
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A non-article about Criterion and where they're going next that amounts to the journalistic equivalent of shrugging your shoulders. Not surprisingly, it's from the Guardian. The writer doesn't even bother mentioning (or seem to even know) that they've relaunched their website.
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Really? That's the main thing he talks about for the first couple of paragraphs and refers to their "Online Cinematheque" further down. But a waste of time nonetheless.Antoine Doinel wrote:A non-article about Criterion and where they're going next that amounts to the journalistic equivalent of shrugging your shoulders. Not surprisingly, it's from the Guardian. The writer doesn't even bother mentioning (or seem to even know) that they've relaunched their website.
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My brain tends to the short circuit whenever reading the Guardian film blogs.
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Well, whose brain wouldn't collapse en route to the end of that article?
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Glenn Kenny writes about classic films on HD for Popular Mechanics and it includes a visit to Criterion's headquarters.
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The founder of The Auteurs, Efe Cakarel, talks about their relationship with Criterion in the new issue of Film Comment.
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Perhaps Adrian Martin should stick to the Ghostbusters references and leave Walter Benjamin to those who understand his concepts.foggy eyes wrote:Adrian Martin on the "Criterion Effect".
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That link is broken now, but here's the Google cache (for now).foggy eyes wrote:Adrian Martin on the "Criterion Effect".
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Peter Becker in current ish of Film Ireland! Will try and look out the mag as this just an extract to see if any nuggets of new info lie therein...
...Yes, flicked through it, nothing fresh in terms of specific titles, just a nice colour piece describing CC's philosophy, practices and the online streaming initiative...
...Yes, flicked through it, nothing fresh in terms of specific titles, just a nice colour piece describing CC's philosophy, practices and the online streaming initiative...
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Blast from the past! That's going back to the future alright in good old 1985. Anyway, just wanted to point out that the King Kong LD was the first ever "lecture track" released for laserdisc. Here are the first words ever spoken:LightBulbFilm wrote:* Entertainment Tonight: Leonard Maltin on The Criterion Collection circa 1985.
"Hello ladies and gentlemen, I'm Ronald Haver, and I'm here to do something which we feel is rather unique. I'm going to take you on a lecture tour of King Kong as you watch the film. The laserdisc technology offers us this opportunity and we feel it's rather unique - the ability to switch back and forth between the soundtrack and this lecture track..."
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An interview with Peter Becker conducted by a couple of guys from The Digital Bits will appear in the March 2009 issue of Geek Monthly.