The Criterion Collection

Their facebook announcement says that they're finally releasing titles that people have been clamoring for. I was kinda hoping to see the Before Trilogy but I have a feeling we won't be waiting too much longer for that.

The playing card in the car is definitely The Manchurian Candidate, and the Easy Rider bike is being stolen, so it is both Easy Rider and The Bicycle Thieves. Both The Manchurian Candidate and The Bicycle Thieves have been announced already, but those hints seem really obviously to be for those films.

Really hoping Dr. Strangelove shows up. No hints for the Before trilogy though, for shame.

The Three Kings in the back would seem to be the David O. Russell movie Three Kings... but that already has a pretty decent blu-ray.  

The guy pushing the stroller looks a lot like McCabe from McCabe & Mrs. Miller 

The wolf in the stroller is believed to represent Lone Wolf and Cub

The Angel on the Dr. Strangelove clue might mean Fallen Angel, or Only Angels Have Wings, or The Exterminating Angel

The whole JFK thing is probably representing the documentary Primary

The New World is pretty obvious

The Phoenix represents the recent German film Phoenix

The grandfather clock is almost certainly Chimes at Midnight

A lot of people think the flowers next to the clock represent The Story of Late Chrysanthemums, which Janus is touring

The boxer with the saxophone represent Here Comes Mr. Jordan

The Squid and the Whale is obvious

The naked guy on the island is probably Kaneto Shindo’s The Naked Island

I saw it on TCM in the summer and thought it was awesome.

On No Film School I was watching Criterion's painstaking process to get the Apu Trilogy restored. I've only seen Pather Panchali (which is amazing!) and can't wait for the others, but they discussed trying to do this for other "lost" films. Well, I've been dying to see Eric von Stroheim's Greed from 1924 by Criterion. I don't really need the 4 hour long version, but man that would be great if Criterion could make this happen. I know it's been somewhat restored by Warner Bros. or something, but that movie is supposed to be damn good and I wanna watch it.

They've done a big restoration which is currently touring theaters for the next couple of months.

The restoration of Greed "restores" the missing footage using stills and title cards... it's kind of a slog to sit through.  I kind of want to try seeing the regular version some day because the parts that actually moved seemed pretty cool.

If it makes you feel any better, the version the Sight and Sound voters saw wasn't any more complete.

April releases: cobess.com/criterion-collection-releases-for-april-2016-0558/

Brief Encounter is a pleasant surprise. I have the Criterion DVD that I never opened, I'll see how much I can get if I sell it on Amazon, probably enough to upgrade.

Not to long ago I was trying to track down a copy of The Player and was disappointed that the old Blu-Ray was out of print... pissed me off at the time but it looks like I dodged a bullet.