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Oh I hope my copy gets here soon...
Posted by: bill | October 13, 2011 at 09:57 PM
This is the very reason I've just invested in a multi-region bluray player.
Posted by: Paul | October 14, 2011 at 04:00 AM
Are we not men? The original and the best. Jeez to be 12 again and watching this on Million Dollar Movie.
Posted by: John Merrill | October 14, 2011 at 07:26 AM
My movie-loving father's first memory of loving movies: at age 8 in 1932, walking home with his two lifelong best-friends from a Vidalia GA showing of ISLAND OF LOST SOULS and, after a cat yowled from a nearby bush, running in stark terror the last four blocks.
He lived to tell that story to a great-grandson.
Posted by: jwarthen | October 14, 2011 at 07:45 AM
In a few years, Criterion has managed to release all of my wishlist "lost films": ACE IN THE HOLE, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, the War Trilogy, the forthcoming WORLD ON A WIRE, etc. etc. and now this. Dreams Never End. The only one remaining is COCKFIGHTER...
Posted by: laithtippler11 | October 14, 2011 at 09:08 AM
"ARE WE NOT MEN????"
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | October 14, 2011 at 09:40 AM
Criterion is doing WORLD ON A WIRE? That's confirmed?
Posted by: bill | October 14, 2011 at 10:15 AM
bill - I'm almost positive they said something to that effect, but at the very least, the Janus was behind the re-release, which as far back as I can remember, always results in a Criterion release for home video.
Posted by: Scott Nye | October 14, 2011 at 01:29 PM
WORLD ON A WIRE is already available for streaming on Hulu Plus and it looks great.
Posted by: Jim Gerow | October 14, 2011 at 01:35 PM
Unofficially confirmed. Whatever that means. Unless the Fassbinder Foundation is still miffed over BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, I'd put money on it being out next year.
Posted by: laithtippler11 | October 14, 2011 at 02:00 PM
Scott - I think I did hear about the Janus connection and probably connected the same dots. I just want to know for sure, damn it.
Laithtippler - Why is the Fassbinder Foundation miffed over BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ? I still haven't seen it, mind you, but what could Criterion have done to make them angry?
Posted by: bill | October 14, 2011 at 03:11 PM
"Miffed" was probably an overstatement. They were peeved that the 25fps/PAL original had a different, "wrong" running time once the conversion was made to 30fps/NTSC. Real techno purism/geekery that amounted to a very small controversy.
Posted by: laithtippler11 | October 14, 2011 at 03:54 PM
No, we are Devo.
Sorry.
Posted by: Thomas D. | October 14, 2011 at 06:32 PM