New Year Hints from the Criterion Collection
Polanski, Cuaron, Assayas, Roeg, Clouzot and more...
The Criterion Collection unveiled the above image this morning hinting at upcoming titles. I jacked the alternate version with the corresponding lettering from The Criterion Cast as they have done their best to help out identify each title.
In an effort not to entirely steal from them I will only give the titles they've guessed along with IMDb links for each, but you can head over here to sort out their reasoning.
A) Cul-De-Sac (1966) (dir. Roman Polanski)
B) Wild Strawberries (1957) (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
C) Solaris (1972) (dir. Andrey Tarkovskiy)
D) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) (dir. Robert Aldrich)
E) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) (dir. John Schlesinger)
F) Carlos (2010) (dir. Olivier Assayas)
G) Kuroneko (1968) (dir. Kaneto Shindô)
H) The Jack-Knife Man (1920) (dir. King Vidor)
I) Unknown
J) Insignificance (1985) (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
K) Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) (dir. Alfonso Cuaron)
L) Diabolique (1955) (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot)
M) Zero For Conduct (1933) (dir. Jean Vigo)
N) The Great Dictator (1940) (dir. Charles Chaplin)
CriterionCast has trailers and more information on each title as well as alternate speculation on some of them so be sure to give them a look for more information.
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The only ones I can guess are Carlos and Y Tu Mama Tambien.
Yeah, Carlos and Y Tu Mama Tambien were the only ones I could notice, too, although that globe certainly did look familiar.
D is Pulp Fiction
Letter I is West Side Story. Rewatch the "America" scene.
I want them to do "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover." There was a rumor they would do it, but so far it hasn't happened.
http://www.criterion.com/films/553-solaris
Why are you linking to that?
They've also done Les Diabloiques in the past – this would tend to indicate that those releases are getting BD makeovers.
could the entire ship itself be hinting at a rerelease of Fellini's And the Ship Sails On? the old criterion is a very barbones release…
When I saw "Polanski" just under the heading for this article, I was really hoping it would be a hint for a Criterion release of Chinatown… as the two so called "Special Editions" that Paramount has released haven't been so special… in my opinion. I hope one day Criterion does pick up the rights to Chinatown and does a proper release of it… and for the hell of it, makes it double feature and throw in The Two Jakes as well, not as good as Chinatown, but still a decent flick none the less
I'm very much interested in Sunday, Bloody sunday and Kiss Me Deadly… and I liked on the Criterion Cast web site that the knife in coffee can and the sheet covered cat/dog could possibly be Coffee and Cigarettes (which I doubt, but that would be awesome) and Ghost Dog, Way of the Samarai (which I've never seen, but would love to)…
D has to be Pulp Fiction. At least I really hope it is. But Carlos and Y Tu Mama Tambien are pretty obvious.
Can D please be Pulp Fiction?