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by britcom68 » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:37 am
I noticed today that when you type the name Todd Haynes, either in the search bar or in the Films tab>People you don't bring up any of the films where Haynes contributed to, not as a filmmaker of course since Criterion has not released any of his films, but as supplemental special features contributor. Yet he *does* have a phantom page. I would take that to mean either the link is broken ("why not, it's possible" says Hepburn to Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter) and that his phantom People page was suppose to include his video introductions and interviews he contributed to for films *not his own* already in the Collection; or that those phantom [menace] pages are intended to be used only with regards to actual filmmaking contributions (for acting/direction/producing, etc), not for contributing to the special features ("that too is possible").
This is also the case with Martin Scorsese, his >Films>People page does not include his activity as special features/commentary contributor to the Powell-Pressburger films, the only thing that arrises under his own name in either method of looking for people on the Criterion website is Scorsese's own Last Temptation of Christ.
Does this give more weight to the argument that these phantom pages are supposed to be placeholders for filmmaking contributions- not for other activity with Criterion, ie:special features, commentary- and that those with phantom pages simply are there because their own filmmaking contributions have yet to be released by Criterion? If so does that mean Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven might be forthcoming and released alongside the upgrade/Blu Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (as per rummored in the curtain New Years Clue drawing)?