Criterion Collection on DVD. Recommendations please.

Black Narcissus
Branded to Kill
Brazil
Cries and Whispers
High and Low
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Rebecca
The Red Shoes
Rushmore
Seven Samurai
Shock Corridor
Wages of Fear

Also highly recommended--I haven't seen all of these specifically on Criterion, but they're great (or at least very interesting) movies:

Band of Outsiders
Contempt
Diabolique
Double Suicide
Elements of Fear
The Grand Illusion
The Hidden Fortress
I Know Where I'm Going
K(w)aidan
The Lady Vanishes
Last Temptation of Christ
M
Rashomon
The Shop on Main Street
Seventh Seal
Straw Dogs (when it comes out in March)
Time Bandits
The Vanishing (original movie)
Wild Strawberries
Yojimbo

High and Low, one of my favorite s, looks *fantastic*.

I keep thinking about picking up the CC version of 'The Rock' because I wonder WTF every time I see it and my curiosity just keeps growing and growing.

Also: Tokyo Drifter. Fucking GREBT or whatever the kids are saying these days. I wish CC would go back and do all of Wong Kar Wai's flicks. And some anime, too.

I'd also recommend the new Trouble in Paradise Criterion DVD as it is not only a wonderful film, but an additional Lubitsch film (a silent one) is tacked on. Likewise Under the Roofs of Paris: a great film, and the DVD also includes René Clair's Paris qui dort. Really it depends what your tastes are. My favorite Criterion is the Dreyer box set, but I understand many people would find his later films too slow, or what have you.

If you see the three Jacques Tati Criterions, snatch them up. They are not only wonderfully films and nice DVDs (all with additional short Tati films), but they are now '"rare," having recently gone out of print.

Also, be on the lookout for a 2-DVD set of films by Stan Brakhage, coming out in February I believe.

Also love Sullivan's Travels, Hidden Fortress, Le Trou, Le Million and Vagabond. I AM PSYCHED to see that they're releasing Band Of Outsiders

1) Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
2) Bunuels's "Exterminating Angel"
3) Powell & Pressburger's "Tales of Hoffman"

and (not that it will ever happen, but...) Peckinpah's "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia".

hmm. why not? I wouldn't be surprised at all if this were Criterion'd.

Pretty much my thought. To my sheer delight, I've been able to find a number of Critierion releases used...at a local outlet of the Wherehouse, no less! (Picked up Black Orpheus there recently.) This is especially important in that the one problem with the company are their ridiculously high prices new -- have they ever offered an explanation as to why? I've seen just as fine discs (mastering, bonus stuff, etc.) from small companies at much cheaper prices.

Because the expense of licensing the films, obtaining the best available prints, doing digital restoration, etc. is very high. Not to mention hiring someone to do new subtitles as they often do, plus all the bonus materials that come with many of their releases. I think their DVDs look and sound on average much nicer than those from such companies as Fantoma, etc. I think Fantoma tends to license more obscure films, and the costs are lower as a result. Anyway, Criterions aren't really much more expensive than, say, Kino's DVDs, which tend to be mastered poorly by comparison.

Believe it or not, Ikiru and Tales of Hoffmann are each set to be released sometime in the next 18 months.

(*crossing fingers* Now, you know I'm hoping my luck holds and I get the job I'm up for, just so I can say I've a budget to break!)

Oh, beyond sweet.

Recheck that catalog again, Nichole -- Sid and Nancy has been OOP for a while. There are a number of DVDs no longer available (the John Woo selections, the original Spinal Tap release)...

my faves are
contempt
band of outsiders
hiroshima, mon amour
discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie
george washington
ratcatcher

i am sure there are more i cant think of

According to the CC discussion board, they might re-release The Seven Samurai as a 2-disc (from better sources), which is both great news and sucky news 'cause I HAVE THE OLD ONE-DISC, DAMMIT.

I really love the Brakhage collection, more than I thought I would (though I might never watch The Act of Seeing... ever again, except to gross people out, which actually I did a few days ago). If you take stills from Dog Star Man, then you have a year's worth of 4AD album covers (and that year would be 1984). According to Brakhage, Eye Myth was made over the course of one year. One year! For a 9 second film! The transfer looks great, but maybe some of the source materials could've been in better shape. I mean, Mothlight had all sorts of crud on the film that they didn't sweep off, like grass, insect parts, etc.! (heh. *grin*)

Aside from a few commentaries and making-ofs - especially if it's an in-depth thing, like the Three Colors trilogy - I don't care about extras. I'd much rather have a $24.95 one-disc version of Brazil w/ the Criterion transfer and a commentary or two than the $50+ three-disc box set.

the criterion release i saw most recently (and loved more than anything i've seen lately): band of outsiders

I've had ridiculous luck with a number of Criterion releases turning up used in my neck of the woods -- most recently, Andrei Rublev and The Third Man.

As for prices/extras: keep in mind that Criterion has to license the rights to these films and then does their best to work with the top of the line prints, people, and equipment to make the best transfers possible. This costs a lot of money for discs that generally don't exactly fly off of a standard retailer's shelves. That is why the discs are expensive, not the extras. The extras are added both because the hard-core cineastes appreciate them and because they help justify the price a bit more. But most of those extras cost very little extra to produce or obtain. It's the transfers themselves that are the largest expense. Take Playtime, for example. It's going to be re-released in a few months, but the delay is because they have finally gained access to a 65mm telecine machine - something that is extremely rare and not at all cheap. The transfer will be that much better for it, but if you think that the CC is raking in the dough, I can assure you that they are not.

That all being said, don't trust the prices on the official site. I highly recommend buying through Deep Discount DVD, who generally have the best prices on most titles and offer free US shipping.

Oh, and just as a matter of point, Straw Dogs also just went out of print last week.

My girlfriend gave me Criterion's Band of Outsiders for our 4-year anniversary. Great gift.

Steven Seagal: auteur.

The recent HVE (Criterion parent comp.?) releases have been more interesting to me than a lot of the Criterions. I don't need ANOTHER Bergman box set, and extras are meaningless.

Apparently, Ebert recently said on his TV show that this will be coming out next year - hooray!!

Enjoy MP3s from the movie here.

(Also, would TOMBOT like to add for the third time that he wishes they'd do more WKW?)

I haven't harrassed but it's tempting. But more often I'm content to see what rabbits they randomly pull out of hats.

'life and death of colonel blimp' is notable cos michael powell is on the commentary (aged like 85) which might be a record.

Though I do know people who e-mail Criterion every random release thought they have so they probably don't notice, that I e-mailed them twice.

This, I admit, would be a dream for me.

-- Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyza...), Today 8:20 AM. (allyzay)

Kino just rereleased everything but ITMFL and AOT last year...

Also: watched Kumonoso Jo for the gazillionth time last night and the first for the crit. version... so fresh! so clean!

for the dr. king interview.

Not Criterion, but I watched Siberian Mammoth last night, the doc about I Am Cuba which I missed when it screened at Film Forum, and is just out on DVD. Pretty fascinating. Cubans hated it and the USSR was too timid to show it because Cuba was too westernized. Scorsese says that had he seen the film as a student he would have been a different filmmaker. Hmmm.

info here: http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61290

Hope L'Armee Des Ombres happens this year.

I'm really curious about the Criterion "Carnival of Souls," a fave, but it's hard to justify spending $35+ on it when I bought my current copy for $3.

My DVD player did this when I hooked it to my VCR, with the VCR connected to the TV because my TV at the time had no modern inputs. Is there a VCR in the loop in your setup? Or is there some sort of setup menu that maybe you've set wrong (or not set at all)?

I wouldn't say it has much propaganda in it though (as a matter of fact it was received quite coldly in soviet mass media at the time - which was pro-government of course).

I can't wait for the release of the entire Eugene Pallette catalogue. Deluxe edition.

Yeah, I did. Bad experience. I can't stand the hacking/wheezing/chattering crowds at FF. But I've had DVD boots of it for a couple years now. It's possibly my favorite Melville.

ANDREI RUBLEV RULEZ

He'd better watch his back.

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(links to Amazon 45% off sale too -- Arkadin, Young Mr Lincoln, M, Short Cuts plus...)

Like Richard Linklater, I recommend Powell & Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going!

list yours, ned!

september releases just announced: 2 by jarmusch, robinson crusoe on mars (?!), threepenny opera

oh and a martha graham dance film

'army of shadows' and 'spirit of the beehive' are the two best movies ever.

i like 'army of shadow' but no way to 'spirit'.

'shadows'.

swiss family robinson?

'shadows'.

-- That one guy that quit, Saturday, June 16, 2007 5:30 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

You like Cassavetes too?

I do!! I've got the boxset

My favorite line in Woman Under the Influence: "Why are you not having any clothes on?"

I haven't seen it in so long! When is that said?

Wait wasn't he mad at her?

Falk's mom says that when their daughter streaks through the living room after the "Swan Lake" yard party.

woah woah woah

They released a fancy version of The Bicycle Thieves and nobody let me know??

'army of shadows' and 'spirit of the beehive' are two of the most overrated movies ever.

spirit of the beehive compared to what, e.t. the extraterrestrial?

sometimes I don't even know where to begin with you, morbs.

They released a fancy version of The Bicycle Thieves and nobody let me know??

We thought you knew already! ;-)

I picked up on a payday and finally watched it a few weeks ago. Pretty spiffy presentation. It's good to see Criterion getting around to some of the major canonical stuff (Bicycle Thieves, the upcoming issues ofBreathless and Days of Heaven) that's thus far escaped their net. Could bode well for stuff like Open City.

xpost

starting with a handful of Arturo Ripstein films?

I've never understood the Days of Heaven love, cept for Almendros.

I have a total of $55 in my wallet and had resolved to stop buying DVDs completely. Do I eat sammiches for a while and buy The Bicycle Thieves... or do I go without.

I hardly ever buy em. BT will always be around.

la jetee on tuesday!

Shop around first, but don't dip into yr food money.

Posted this on ILF, but it can go here too

I haven't actually got the new newsletter yet, but I've come across the text, and boy o boy have they got a bombshell to drop:

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,
We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.

Here’s what’s in the pipeline:

The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear

Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we’ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg’s outback masterpiece at the same time.

o dam

Nice, hope there's a Roeg-boxset a la Cassavettes.

Chungking Express will be awesome I bet. The current US DVD is a disaster.

can't wait to get rid of my chungking dvd w/tarantino's mug

i want the 5 hour cut of Bottle Rocket (for some reason)

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I, too, came here to post about Chungking.

So what's a good blu-ray player? I keep wanting to get a PS3 for that and GTA IV, but the latter is better on the xbox I think? And consoles make too much noise. Toshiba blu-ray?

I can't understand getting a blu ray player instead of a PS3 at this point. None of the stand alone players seem to have a killer feature (and none of them play PS3 games) and aren't really cheaper.

Cheapest player on Amazon is $393.84. PS3 is $399 and the remote control is $20.

Does the PS3 have a timer display? That's all I look for in a player.

Wow, they're doing "El Norte"!

I had no idea it was a big enough movie to get this kind of treatment, that's really great.

xpost, you mean like a clock? I put black tape over those!

Contempt

if they went with pierrot le fou I'd be tempted. but I guess they wanted hi-def bardot-butt.

Someone help!

I'm trying to narrow this list down to two...which TWO of these do I need to own? All things considered...the film, the package, the extras, etc. etc.

House of Games
Jubilee
My Own Private Idaho
Naked
Ran
Stranger Than Paradise
Two-Lane Blacktop

Sorry, Hate (L'Haine) was supposed to be on there too! Make sure it is considered.

Checking out the deepdiscout sale I presume?

Ran
Stranger Than Paradise

Of course. I've got a bunch of other Criterions but haven't bought any for a couple years now. Pretty exciting. I wish I could afford four, but...alas.

Two-Lane Blacktop, but two copies.

If not that, TLB and Ran.

House of Games is fun, but it doesn't look any better on DVD than on the regular cable showings (or maybe IFC doesn't have it in heavy rotation anymore?).

Of course. I've got a bunch of other Criterions but haven't bought any for a couple years now. Pretty exciting. I wish I could afford four, but...alas.

I hear that. I got the Varda box from them a few weeks back during the password sale (came out to like 55 bucks), which was probably the only way I could get it. Wanted to get the Rohmer one then too, but they suddenly stopped carrying it.

recommendations? i'm going to the movie store in 1 hour!

!

they have maybe 250

a bunch of new ones came out today..chungking express is my fav of those.

do want to see that. don't know if they'd have it yet.

possible ones:

straw dogs
death of a cyclist
hiroshima mon amour
black orpheus
walkabout
"eight million stories in the city" can't remember the name for some reason
schizopolis

Blech. Walkabout and Black Orpheus are pretty good. Schizopolis is a trifle. The rest I can't get into.

down by law
nights of cabiria
something by david lean
something by fassbinder other than ali or berlin alexanderplatz

if you want Lean then Brief Encounter is amazing!

I liked Europa and Le Deuxieme Souffle quite a bit.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is awesome.

Earrings of Madame De..., gentlemen!

ok ryan i'll get it. im getting three total.
alex they dont have any of those i don't think, have thumbed through so many times...would love to see SWCIFTC though, just read that this year.

diabolique
wc fields -- 6 short films
le trou
closely watched trains
...
hmm

xpost ok i'll get earrings

1 more

should i get bob le flambeur? melville's left me kind of cold so far.

earrings is indeed a stone cold classic.

that is one of the more entertaining melvilles, imo. only felt like watching it once though.

id be all over hiroshima mon amour, but that's a favorite of mine and i think other people feel pretty differently about it!

La Jetee/San Soleil has a great rewatch for $ value if they have that.

i don't think they do.

so bob or hiroshima or something else.

others they have i haven't seen:
night and fog
umberto d
m
honeymoon killers
knife in the water
le corbeau
scenes from a marriage and 3 women

thanks for your help btw ryan

umberto d!!!!!!!! looooove that movie.

m is freaking amazing too.

"eight million stories in the city" can't remember the name for some reason

is this a reference to "naked city"? get it!!

naked city is a good one

ok done

look out movie store clerks im gonna rent the shit out of you right now wowowow

xps oh no!

almost all of these are worth seeing once. if i was investing in a DVD i think M, Umberto D, Earrings are the ones I've seen most and enjoyed most over the years.

three that i have that i love: wages of fear, fanny and alexander, le samouraï

ok i'll get naked city cuz ryan already picked one

thanks all

xps haven't seen wages of fear, will make it one of my sweet backups

straw dogs is vv good imo but not for everyone

kind of rough watching i hear

its one i pick up everytime, look at, and put back. i'll get to it soon i'm sure.

naked city is an awesome movie. making me think of the great sam fuller titles criterion has. oh, pick up on south street! not as good, really, but i liked it a lot.

i looked at their website and saw they're starting to release their titles on blu-ray. made me realize how much i'm dreading the format change

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is awesome.

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just watched this the other night!

If you like von Trier, Europa

(I don't particularly -- tho much worse was yet to come -- and it's still an interesting set)

Trouble In Paradise is a great bargain cuz it comes w/a fantastic hour-long Lubitsch silent film as a bonus. The same also goes for WR: Mysteries of The Organism which has a really cool 90s TV short by Makavejev.

Word to the wise, RE: Brief Encounter

Supposedly Criterion will be remastering it soon (new print touring US as I type). A blu-ray may be in the works as well.

if you're BUYING them I suggest getting newer ones only (the ones with the C instead of the line) because the video quality of the early ones is usually subpar

scratch that, they kept the old logo around longer than I realised. i still would be careful around #1-#100.

umberto d
m

m is essential!
umberto d is just good fun. so is knife in the water, apparently, but i haven't seen it yet.

destroy: scenes from a marriage, though; it ended my bergman season cold.

welles' f for fake would be my one criterion pick. maybe that and fishing with john.

jean painleve collection slated for april release (inc. the sounds of science documentary that yo la tengo scored) :D :D

also: two by nagisa oshima (in the realm of the senses/empire of passion) and stephen frears' the hit

Stupid Netflix. White Dog has been at the top of my queue for at least a month now.

Just watched Army of Shadows and enjoyed is maybe not the right word but I enjoyed it a lot. Particularly the scene where Gerbier wanders into the NAAFI dance which is really moving but bleak.

^^ JPM says that bit, the ldn sequence, is the closest to his own experience of the war.

It's cool because I kept expecting it to veer into some "fuck you rosbif you don't know what the war really means" territory but it doesn't, ultimately Gerbier comes across as detached from the possibility of pleasure or intimacy, at least I believed that until the scene where he thinks he's about to be executed and that one woman's face flashes back into his memory.

rad - http://www.theauteurs.com/

do it work

Okay that sounds great.

ya it is pretty good

just been chillin with the my dinner with andre discs. man, it is a different experience seeing it as a semi-jaded 30something than a wide-eyed teenager

All the punk rock nihilism you sensed when you were younger is now gone?

A double bill of Melville’s Le Doulos and Le Deuxieme Souffle makes for an especially kickass weekend.

Carnival of Souls is one of my favorite Criterion editions. Restored film plus amazing extras including the director's early industrial commercial work and a zillion hand-tinted postcards of the salt palace.

Also (pretty sure it's Criterion) - Le Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face). Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.

In the special features for the short, the director explains that it's in B&W because a color version would be horrific. that's some great deadpan. i hope.

Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.

is that le sang des betes, by georges franju? i finally saw this recently on google video, though i knew it was tucked away on some criterion something or other. it's pretty great. someone i know saw it on a double bill with eraserhead

-nb, finding the link i found that eyes without a face is franju; i've never got around to seeing it.

the site linked above looks good, by the way - excited to sit down with cria cuervos finally

The Auteurs looks like a pretty cool site...

I'm definitely a fan of Eyes Without a Face, great stuff. Haven't seen Le Doulos, but I actually just watched Le Deuxieme Souffle a few days ago, really good!

Also (pretty sure it's Criterion) - Le Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face). Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.

+1 <3 that movie so much. the franju doc on the slaughterhouses is %_% more than anything but the interviews on the disc are great

All the punk rock nihilism you sensed when you were younger is now gone?

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kind of the opposite! it's such a sad movie

hey s1ocki have u started replacing w/ the blu rays? iyo r they "worth it"?

totally depends

i have some wicked gorgeous ones that i love, esp stuff shot with that format in mind like planet earth

some, like 400 blows, look good, but the source is so grainy to begin with you're not going to get a crisp image anyway... but the grain looks better if that makes sense, it compresses easier to a larger resolution...

it's hard to say cuz i've found quality on regular DVDs varies so wildly. in general, ya, they look nicer on a nice big tv. but at least half the time it would be hard to tell the difference.

sounds like a scam (because I can't afford it).

i cant really either but im @ my parents and they have some elaborate plasma rig w/ blu ray and ive got consumer goods envy of the worst sort

@ s1ocki okay i was really mostly curious about criterion specifically i mean their prints are obv gonna be among the best where possible and my friend al1se came over w/ a couple of criterion blu rays that looked incredible and im like fukk ~~~ last thing i need is 2 replace a few dozen of these u_u

ya like i said the only crit blu i have is 400 blows. i find their initial roll-out to be super weird. bottle rocket? i mean i love that movie but... not my first choice for blu. can't wait for the inevitable restored red shoes tho.

yo lamp go rent planet earth on bluray if you want your eyes to bleed with joy

Fortunately, I'm not some image freak who knows what "artifacts" and "edge enhancement" are.

my parents have planet earth thats what started all of this + my friend and i watched in the realm of the senses and lol bottle rocket

also two of my top 10 all times - wages of fear and the third man - are already blu ray which is also makin me desire. basically thinkin if i can get a decent price on a used ps3 then

Fortunately, I'm not some image freak who knows what "artifacts" and "edge enhancement" are.

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neither am i! u can def go overboard on this stuff. but if you love the moving image i dont see why you shouldnt love it looking as best as it can!

i actually do know what artifacts are

The nuances of a film looking good vs great in different incarnations -- I just don't see them, usually.

(just like i don't care about the "bad production" on Husker Du records)

horses for courses!

bad production or whatever on a record isn't really a good analogy - a better one would be listening to it on tape vs cd or vinyl

maybe morbz just needs new glasses?

took a look it seems like for all mankind is coming out on br this summer hmmmm

ya want

mp3 compression and 4x3 aspect ratio are both bullshit. You want the full meal deal right?

Righteous online sale from Barnes & Noble

why do they do this to me

:(

Damn it. My daughter's tonsils picked a great time to blow up.

ordered Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel, Days of Heaven & Breathless

oh man. this might get ugly.

just refused to look at the Blu-Ray options

Criterion's making their blu-rays region 1 only - pretty huge letdown now that most big companies seem to have decided to go the region-free route. I understand that probably Criterion just doesn't own the liscening for their stuff outside the US but still...sadface.

anyone seen Wise Blood?

it's weird that some of the blurays are on sale some aren't?

even tho they're all supposed to be?

The new dvd or just the movie?

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All the first page Blu Rays are 50% off, some on the second page aren't Criterions or are pre-orders.

loool i just bought 11 movies :-/

thanks, ilx!

Dan, yes, I've seen Wise Blood. Cracked movie, one of Huston's very best. Profound sense of place. The Criterion looks fantastic but the extras were de trop and not that illuminating.

i just got the new repulsion disc. half want to dive in, half don't feel up to teh psychodrama tonight.

Seconding Wise Blood. It's an incredible film, Dourif's performance especially. And how can you resist a movie with Brad Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton?

Just spent money I shouldn't have on Withnail & I, the Monsters & Madmen box set, Haxan, Patriotism and Masculin Feminin.

That Cassavetes box is tempting. I don't know why. Most of those films aren't things I really feel like I want to sit through more than once. But it's a BOX! Eh.

I ordered Wise Blood. Also got the 5 disk Fanny and Alexander I've always wanted, Gimme Shelter and Days of Heaven.

Also 50% off in store. I got Simon of the Desert and Exterminating Angel. Finding it tough to resist the urge to fill in a couple more gaps tomorrow.

Tentative list of:

Passion of the Joan of Arc
La Jette/Sans Soleil
Breathless
Masculin Feminin
Down By Law

Pretty unexciting I guess, but they're all films I've seen and enjoyed and they withstand multiple viewings.

REALLY considering these too:

Andrei Rublev
Ivan's Childhood (never seen this one)
Pickpocket
The Rules of the Game
Rififi
Brakhage Anthology
Big 5 Disc Fanny & Alexander Set

I bought Days of Heaven, Band of Outsiders, Stranger Than Paradise, and Alphaville all full price not too long ago =/

I went with Sansho the Bailiff and Masculin Feminin.

I never buy movies, but this seemed like a good time to break with habit. Thanks for the heads up!

Take advantage of this sale, people, my wrists are falling off after putting 50% off stickers on every Criterion DVD in our store last night.

1/2 off overpriced B&N is like :/

Big 5 Disc Fanny & Alexander Set

Ever since I got the standard F&A Criterion edition I have hankered after this. Andrei Rublev also A++.

I've never seen the standard theatrical F&A. Honestly, after seeing The Full Deal, I can't imagine seeing it cut down. It seems sacrilegious. Buy it if you can afford it.

And Andrei Rublev is seriously Best Move Ever material. Massive runtimes really make me less eager to buy these sort of things though. I'm weighing it.

I'm slightly on the fence because it's difficult to know what will get re-released on blu-ray; would be typical to spring for the 5-disc set and then six months later it's out on BR.

I know what you mean about massive runtimes. I got (non Criterion) "The Best of Youth" recently and finding 6 hours to watch it is proving tricky.

I have an early Rififi on Criterion where the audio is out of sync. I wrote them years ago about that and they said I should send it back to them to swap it but I never got around to doing it.

I'm slightly on the fence because it's difficult to know what will get re-released on blu-ray; would be typical to spring for the 5-disc set and then six months later it's out on BR.

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this

All the first page Blu Rays are 50% off, some on the second page aren't Criterions or are pre-orders.

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this isnt quite true, seventh seal isn't a pre-order and it's not 50% off. and i want.

those essential art house boxes are kinda tempting me.

I watched "Sword of the Beast" last week and it's a pretty sweet kimonos and katanas flick.

I was going to replace my old non-anamorphic Brazil box set and give the old one away but it's not on sale :(

Oh and Dan, if you care about such things, iirc Gimme Shelter is one of the titles Criterion have confirmed will be coming to blu-ray eventually.

If you come across one on the web site that's not on sale, go to an actual store... everything Criterion is 50% off in-store, no exceptions.

Any idea how long this sale is going to be on? I might have to go back for a second run if it lasts for more than a week or so.

It's until August 3rd.

oh boy

most banal quantum leap cold open ever

I bought Playtime at Barnes & Noble but with no conviction. I've been pretty blasé about Criterion probably because I'm not a quality queen and extras/commentaries in general usually amount to sucker bait in my experience. The best Criterions I've seen are F For Fake (and Mr. Arkadin cuz I love it so) and the Brakhage box.

I passed up the Criterions for Trafic, Last Year at Marienbad, Vampyr, Fanny and Alexander, and the Ozu silents box. Any passionate defenders of these?

i'm not a big extras guy but criterion ones are almost always way way better than what you find in standard releases: interesting new stuff or cool vintage docs/tv interviews, not the usual crappy BTS stuff. if you like the movies you listed above you'll probably be happy with those releases.

Latest announcements:

SD:
Wings of Desire
Monsoon Wedding
Z

Eclipse:
Series 18: Dusan Makavejev, Free Radical

no new Essential Art House

blu-ray:
Howards End (WHY DID THIS WIN THE POLL, GRR)
Wings of Desire
Monsoon Wedding

Kind of a mixed bag- no blu-ray for Z is disappointing, and the fact that they're hiking blu-ray prices by $10 (to a flabbergasting $49.95 MSRP) worries me.

makavejev BOX SET is pretty rad tho!

There was a poll?

Oh, definitely. And Z is a godsend- the old, crap DVD has been OOP and expensive for ages. Still kind of a low-key month- I'm hoping they spring another couple of releases on us Monday as they sometimes do.

Yeah, on Amazon, to determine the first of a set of classics to come out on Blu-Ray. Howards End, Down By Law, Kwaidan, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Au Revoir les Enfants.

On the one hand, presumably this means all of those films have blu-rays in the works- Kwaidan in particular should be stunning in HD- but on the other hand the most boring possible film won.

Kwaidan is actually the only one of those five I could picture being hepped up about buying on Blu-Ray.

August 3rd? Just enough time to wait for payday...

Which I did. Tonight I got For All Mankind, Made in USA and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and am seriously considering a second run tomorrow or Monday.

For All Mankind is A+. Am currently awaiting delivery of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - loved this at the cinema and looks like the blu-ray is top notch.

for all mankind IS A+. not a fan of BB but the bluray does look spectacs.

So I said 'to heck with it' and did go for another round at a B&N near here -- 8 1/2, Last Year at Marienbad, Dazed and Confused, Threepenny Opera and Drunken Angel. That'll keep me going for a while. (But oh those Eclipse boxes that were on sale as well...)

awwww, Dazed and Confused looks so good. I always thought my regular dvd copy was ok, but the extras on the Criterion pwn it. Ned, you're making me want to upgrade!

The only B&N in my area sold their Brazil box and it's not part of the online sale. It's ok, though, I probably should get through my backlog first.

Threepenny Opera is so good! That movie doesn't get enough props!

I'm all about seeing Lotte Lenya in her youth.

Just bought High & Low and Fanny & Alexander...used my $25 gift card I had lying around and my big time 7% corporate discount. Unfortunately the ship date is in 3-5 weeks but I can wait it out.

I did a blind buy of Mala Noche and Sweet Movie -- just got finished watching the latter and not so sure it was a good choice. Oh well.

I went to a rather remote B&N to check out their selection of Criterions. Pretty yummy and I left with...nothing! Yay temperance!

check out that jean painleve set, y'all. it's great.

ya was thinkin'

me, i prefer to watch them with the yo la tengo soundtracks turned off, but whatever's your pleasure.

also, if you're a sucker for nice packaging, this has it.

btw does anyone want to buy me a Blu-Ray player and an HD TV so that I can watch the PLAYTIME Blu-Ray?

ok where do i send them

For those who still have some moniez, a big sale @ Amazon (blurays and deep catalog titles 50-60% off, plus similar deals on stuff from Anchor Bay, Warners & Lions Gate)

Sweet Movie is awesome but it's one of those films where it helps to like, know the political history of 20th century yugoslavia to get half of what he's going on about. The film prof at Oberlin wrote a book on eastern european cinema and taught 3 half semester classes, films of Bergman, films of Fellini and films of Makevejev!

the sweet movie dvd cover is beautiful, i had it as my desktop for months

stoked about upcoming eclipse makavejev box!

The Searchers blu-ray for $9.50 is ridiculous. but I have it already.

Motherfucker, half off the Repulsion blu-ray right after I buy it from them! Not like my FURIOUS ANGER will stop me picking up a few, though...

xp donna: agreed on sweet movie.

excuse my retardation but i always thought it was "the bicycle thief" and not "bicycle theives"?

*thieves

Bicycle Thieves is the hi-octane action-packed sequel.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1194/816639186_d146a40c9c.jpg?v=0

Bicycle Thieves is the one where the struggling father and his son accompany a bunch of Italian marines to go check out a mining colony where all the bicycles have mysteriously vanished and ok i think you can see where i'm going with this

thieves is the translation in the england land

its Ladri di Bicyclette (sp?), which is plural. given, you know, the ending.

xp - it's what my NYU film prof called it.

xp Bicycle Thieves was the prequel to BMX Bandits, starring a young Nicole Kidman.

just announced november releases, two movies that came out last year (gomorrah, a christmas tale) and downhill racer...

http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2401/GATV_web.jpg

...and this guy!

looks public domainy

Sweet news on the Desplechin, especially considering it's really really underrated by Morbius types.

sb'd morbius in celebration

I love A Christmas Tale! sweet.

Amazon has a sale on Criterion DVDs going on now, 50%+ off

not nearly what Barnes & Noble was offering earlier but some good ones

Uh-oh:

Dear Criterion collectors,

Our three least favorite initials: OOP. Since we launched the Criterion Collection more than twenty-five years ago, we’ve endeavored to keep everything we’ve published in print. But despite our efforts to renew rights, we are losing a large group of titles from StudioCanal at the end of March, and we wanted to give you advance notice that our editions will be going out of print. Until we’re out of stock, we will be offering these titles at an additional $5 off on our website. The titles are going to Lionsgate, and we don’t know when they may be rereleased. As ever, we will continue to try to relicense the films so that they can rejoin the collection sometime in the future.

Here are the titles that will soon be out of print:

Alphaville
Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse Series 6)
Le corbeau
Coup de torchon
Diary of a Country Priest
The Fallen Idol
Forbidden Games (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Gervaise (Essential Art House edition)
Grand Illusion (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Le jour se lève (Essential Art House edition)
Last Holiday (Essential Art House edition)
Mayerling (Essential Art House edition)
The Orphic Trilogy
Peeping Tom
Pierrot le fou (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
Port of Shadows
Quai des Orfèvres
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Trafic
Le trou
Variety Lights (Essential Art House edition)
The White Sheik

Take note: this may be your last chance to pick up spine number 1 from the collection.

Happy viewing!
The Criterion Collection

Pierrot le fou goes OOP again! Sold the old terrible DVD for $75 pre-Criterion, I imagine this Blu-ray will go for more.

SOOOO excited about Lola Montes
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews46/lola_montes.htm

will have to protect my copy of Diary of a Country Priest from all enemies, domestic or foreign. that's a film I like to have close to hand.

Gomorrah- excellent lesson on the mob, economics and moviemaking.

Make Way For Tomorrow has poky moments, but extraordinary ones too; the conversation between Thomas Mitchell and Beulah Bondi, and the scene of the bridge party rank with the best of Ozu.

Apparently Antichrist will be Criterion. Not that I would wholly recommend it.

50% off sale via Barnes and Noble this month, about to stop here so shop away as you like. Finally picked up Stagecoach, Wings of Desire, The Naked City, Shoot the Piano Player and The Thief of Bagdad.

Can you buy Summer Hours for me?

With your money, sure!

So cruel. My birthday's only 87 days away.

Mine is only 8 months away so you have more time to save up to get me your copy. I'm welcome.

I finally, finally bought the damn anamorphic Brazil box set.

this is rad :D
i might get an akerman or costa boxset

O_O

http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/3043/Sonybox_348x490.jpg

(AND 'night of the hunter' AND 'modern times' AND...'antichrist')

haha i literally just came here to post "night of the hunter!!!"

also this just looks bananas: http://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house

Hausu is a lot of fun.

damn they're really bringing it

Night of the Hunter, eh? That makes my Christmas list a little easier...

That BBS Box looks so damn good.

christ, i don't think i could have asked for a better criterion update. 'night of the hunter' blew me away when i finally saw it on the big screen this year, 'modern times' is my favorite chaplin, and 'antichrist' was my favorite film of '09. 'hausu' is probably worth another visit as well.

Heads up -- once more:

http://video.barnesandnoble.com/u/DVD-The-Criterion-Collection-of-Special-Edition-DVDs/379000756/?cds2Pid=30433&linkid=1643930

I'd have to say - Hopscotch is a personal and family favourite.

*waits to be shot down*

http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/article/109/1092993/louie-bluies-dvd-performance-20100526085714740-000.jpg

So very great.

Don't do this to me, Ned.

Alas. It must be done.

yea louie bluie was a+

i nearly bought the blu ray crumb irl for $35 so fukk it, for $20 its go time

Andy, Hopscotch is great! Totally with you on that front

wish that bergman box set was blu-ray

is that what they call a first world problem

I keep trying to convince myself not to get the House blu-ray but really it's futile

HAUSU

I finally saw Hopscotch over the summer, and as a Matthau fan it pains me to say it's pretty tepid.

Glenda Jackson is the problem. She's as funny as a dead cricket.

Assuming this is still going on next week, I'm going to have to finally break down and do some damage.

I keep trying to convince myself not to get the House blu-ray but really it's futile

Any extras on it?

wtf w/ ppl saying Hausu is good? unless u hv a special thing for Japanese schoolgirls.

oh, Tarantino fans.

Just saw it last night. Heartily recommended.

next thing you know CC will be releasing giallos

The re-done-up Red Shoes is, like, the most gorgeous thing ever. When I'm rich as Croesus or Escobar, there'll be a room in my maison that digitally plays it 24/7

Lola Montes - wow. Completely prepared to love this, but it's just flat soda.

ohhh man - hope 'the thin red line' blu is as ~amazing~ as the days of heaven release

from your mouth to Peter Becker's ear, Morbs.

they can start with Death Laid an Egg.

next thing you know CC will be releasing giallos

God, if only :(

ohhh man - hope 'the thin red line' blu is as ~amazing~ as the days of heaven release

it is

Shameless/NoShame is sadly NoMore. but AB, Blue Underground, Mondo Macabro, MYA, and the UK's Arrow Films are all doing their part.
still, the idea of Crit-quality prints and curation efforts has me salivating, i confess...

Lola Montes - wow. Completely prepared to love this, but it's just flat soda.

crazy talk

Lola Montes - wow. Completely prepared to love this, but it's just flat soda.

A lot of people I know loved this so I went in with high expectations, but it underwhelmed me.

wtf w/ ppl saying Hausu is good? unless u hv a special thing for Japanese schoolgirls.

That's just the icing on the cake!

Seriously, I think this movie is in my top 5 of all time. All the reasons why ppl say it's boring are reasons why i love it.

Lola Montes put me to sleep. Hausu did not but I concur that it isn't really a good movie.

I'm a huge Ophuls fan, particularly after seeing La Plaisir last month (esp. that first segment), but this was dullsville.

Gorgeous and exquisite, but maybe I just can't see beyond Carol? Man, she's bland. I can't believe I don't like a movie with Anton Walbrook in it.

The soundtrack to Hausu rules supremely:

http://rabbitscgi.blogspot.com/2010/07/hausu-ost.html

Also if you ever see the interviews with Obayashi-san, they are wonderful, and he takes his art very seriously, contrary to what many think re: this movie.

Ned, I hate and love you for mentioning the sale. After traveling to two (2) Barnes & Nobles that didn't sell DVDs (!), I finally found a goldmine...and was weak...and still managed to walk out with no Samuel Fuller discs under my arm...

Just trying to help. I've actually resisted temptation so far but I'll probably snag a couple from the store near here next weekend.

Picked up Crumb at the B&N in Tupelo yesterday, and am going to make a hefty online order today.

and still managed to walk out with no Samuel Fuller discs under my arm...

That's a good thing! Unless you're talking about the Eclipse set, anyway; they're reissuing Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss in January with a better anamorphic transfer, new extras, snazzy Dan Clowes packaging, etc.

I was talking about the Eclipse set and White Dog.

Anyone care to recommend the SILENT OZU Eclipse set? If I do splurge, it'll be in my crosshairs.

Oh yeah, forgot they did White Dog...so much to catch up on, so little time/money. Sigh...

Yes, Silent Ozu Eclipse very highly recommended.

I'm really not into buying CCs... I get my share of promo copies, and the NY Public Library has the rest (albeit usually w/ the booklets missing).

I will, of course, be double dipping on BLOW OUT if that comes to fruition.

(Nevermind that it's probably my least favorite of all the red period movies.)

Placed a big order, including the Bergman: Four Masterworks box, then realized that all four films are available on streaming Netflix. If they'll let me exchange it, what should I get instead? I'm thinking about the Rohmer Six Moral Tales box or the 10 Years of Rialto Pictures box. Or maybe Night of the Hunter + In the Realm of the Senses.

ya get night of the hunter

the terrence malicks are gorge

Yeah, the Malicks are in the order -- I'm excited about those.

ok then i recommend THE RED SHOES or BLACK NARCISSUS.

if they aint in the order already.

i really want the bergbox but i'm waiting for blu

I looked long and hard at Black Narcissus but it didn't make the final cut. Maybe I'll add it. I've never really been smitten by ballet in any form, so The Red Shoes never seems to make my short list. From the description, it looks like it would be pretty gorgeous.

...oh wait, both of those are streaming netflixable.

most crit is these days iirc

The Von Sternberg box isn't. That's what I'd suggest.

the extras on the rohmer box are incredible & enough to make it worth getting over streaming. i considered breaking my no new dvds rule for it tbh

so instead i ordered the malick blu ray lol

i really need to get a blu-ray player and a decent TV. urgh. so much stuff i'd like to get, but it seems silly to buy DVD's at this point.

Got House, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and Walkabout blu-rays, and placed a copy of the Oshima Eclipse box set on hold for payday.

If you watch the Lola Montes Criterion and then go to sleep, the mise-en-scène of your dreams will be all cluttered and absurdly over-stylized. Try it!

We weren’t able to find out what other titles might arrive courtesy of IFC and The Criterion Collection’s ongoing collaboration, we can tell one that won’t. The Criterion Collection apparently turned down Gaspar Noé‘s Tokyo mindfuck “Enter The Void.” So, sorry Noé fans, the auteur’s latest will eventually arrive but not with a wacky C in the upper left corner.

thank fuck for that

Barnes & Noble is having a Buy 2 Get 1 Free DVD sale. That includes Criterion Collections.

check out that jean painleve set, y'all. it's great.

― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:45 (1 year ago)

Don't know if this has been linked already, but:
http://fakecriterions.tumblr.com/

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldvwz950eA1qffh4no1_500.jpg

lolz

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcm8mkAJBl1qf1yxjo1_500.jpg

Criterion on Hulu.

Solaris is coming out on blu-ray! Along with a whole lot of other cool stuff in May.

That's it - I am going to have to buy a Region A player as well. I always knew Solaris would be the tipping point for this...

there was meant to be a tarkovsky box set out at end of jan - amazon.co.uk had it listed (8 films, £40 iirc). can't find head nor tail of it now. (and certain individual films (stalker, solaris) are now listed as more expensive than the box was)

Criterion on Hulu.

Saw that this morning....I looked at their Hulu offerings and about 10% of what they have now is Zatoichi films. I guess the rest will be added as their streaming Netflix contracts run out...?

Koogs, play.com lists a Tarkovsky dvd boxset for release on 25 April, which I'm guessing is the same one?

is kevin shields remastering it? 8)

tarkovsky box set was postponed until 23rd may and then again today 8(

My Solaris blu-ray shipped this morning from Amazon. I don't know why, but I keep going back to that movie even though I (shamefully) haven't watched any other Tarkovsky movie all the way through in one sitting.

i love this '3 Reasons' thing they do
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1747-three-reasons-blow-out

looking forward to getting this:
http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/article/114/1144480/blow-out-targets-dvd-and-bd-20110118001818213_640w.jpg

Barnes & Noble sale starts today.

has anyone been checking out the hulu plus streaming titles? a bunch of the CC is up there along with a ton of stuff that has the little C label on it but aren't official releases (e.g. 'mikey and nicky', which i watched the other night)

also better picture quality than netflix ime, though you have to deal with the little hulu logo on the bottom-left-hand corner

My wife bought me the BBS set. Pretty blown away by Lazlo Kovacs cinematography in Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, and The King of Marvin Gardens.

Oh hmmm, I have The Killer and Hard Boiled Criterion -- got em when they came out. Just looked em up and they go for like $80 on eBay? zoinks. Maybe I should sell em

I watched Downhill Racer the other day and man oh man did I love it.

Hard Boiled on criterion is really rare these days!

That used to go for about $400 btw.

Picked up Last Year At Marienbad, Chunking Express, and Black Narcissus today. Will get more later.

Chungking Express on blu-ray is a++

$400?!?!?!?!? man i would have sold that shit in a heartbeat.

mine's kinda scratched up a bit tho. still plays fine...

who pays $400 for a DVD? jesus

oh maybe the same people who spend $400 on a record, but still...

I knew I'd have to pay a little more for shipping to Canada, but I figured if I could find stuff cheap enough, I'd put together an order. The shipping wasn't too bad, so I got Band of Outsiders, Masculin-Feminin, the two Grey Gardens films, Tanner '88, and Terry Zwigoff's Louie Blue for $100 on the nose.

Thanks for pointing this out, C. Grissom...I wish you hadn't pointed this out.

This was back in the early 00s, where it, Salo, and The Killer were always hovering around that range.

oh... i got it my senior year of high school maybe? so 1998? only watched it a couple times since then. it could have paid rent one month. oh well

Big sale:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray-Disc-DVD-Special-Editions/379003202/

yeah, runs until 20th (sorry RUSHMORE fans)

I still haven't watched everything I bought in last year's sale, so I'll have to pass this time.

I've lobbied family members to check out the sale on the 15th when the Three Colours Trilogy and Rules of the Game are released.

for Christmas purposes

Man, I love this imprint, but a) I lost track once they started reissuing their premium titles yet again and b) I just can't justify paying anything for physical media, when Hulu (right?) streams all these films and supplements for about as much a year as two Criterion DVDs.

Yeah, Hulu. It looks like Netflix is losing a bunch of Criterion titles as of today, and I'm assuming they're going to show up on Hulu.

I still haven't watched everything I bought in last year's sale, so I'll have to pass this time.

Same here. I spent something like $75 a few months ago, and have watched one film thus far. I'll forever be stuck with a mindset that's much happier scouring sale bins.

FWIW:

The Complete Vigo collection is pretty damn great.

x-posted from ILF which nobody reads anymore:

holy shit, april release schedule is BOOMING:

http://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?f=1&p=1&pp=50&s=release_date

6-film czech new wave eclipse set, hollis frampton 2-dvd set, 'harold and maude', monicelli's 'the organizer' and 'alambrista!' (don't know anything about that one)

(tho i feel like 'daisies' could warrant a stand-alone release)

Harold and Maude on Criterion?!

The 19 teal old me is squealing.

i've known the frampton set's been coming for awhile (guy who did most of the preservation work on that set told our class about it almost two years ago) so i'm most psyched for that one

Is that Jordan Crane doing the Harold and Maude cover?

Hate to hate on Criterion but ugh Tiny Furniture, really?

it's in the armageddon mold right?

They've got some kind of partnership with IFC, yeah- also got them Revanche, Gomorra, Fish Tank, Hunger and a few others.

err...possibly odd question, but how long does a criterion set carry in terms of availability until it just sort of "runs out"? i went searching for RAN today and it seems they haven't attempted to replace it for years, and looking for the three colors trilogy last week found me at a dead-end: they're out of stock. is this common?

Out of Stock is normal. I don't think they sell in the quantities where people feel the need to order restocks immediately. I think they discontinued Ran due to the rights issues.

yeah, studio canal took back Ran and a bunch of other stuff.

the three colors bluray is awaiting a new pressing (audio issues on White).

thanks guys

such a shame as Ran genuinely has my favorite all-time criterion cover-art
http://criterion-production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/1729/316_Ran.jpg

and it's killer too - the color schemes like blood spatters pertaining to the plot (compared to criterion's habit of emblazoning movies w/ a snazzy, but totally unassociated, post-modern zeal)

maybe i'll just steal the library's copy

Got Fanny and Alexander and The BBS Story boxset on blu over Christmas, both bringing glad tidings and joy in the A household. I'd never seen the tv version of F&A before, and a few of the BBS set were new for me as well. Solid recommendation for both, F&A in particular looks glorious in hd.

Some great stuff in the release schedule there, esp. hyped for Harold and Maude and World on a Wire.

50% off flash sale going on now @the cc website.

Somebody recommend me one from the list for tonight, please? (Streaming)

stay up until three and watch the whole pasolini trilogy

hahaha, I went in a completely different direction -- The Most Dangerous Game

crossposted from the Hulu thread.

Finally got fed up with their crappy search function and having to look at pages and pages of slow-loading images instead of a text list.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEd2blozRllOSjlqSVpLd1MxbkNUTVE

All the "Criterion"s streaming on Hulu, 716 films. Doesn't include DVD/Blu-ray releases for which Hulu doesn't have streaming rights, and doesn't include Netflix streaming titles. A/An/The messes up sorting by title, and directors aren't last-name-first. Still, the file has some utility.

For all your Bulldog Drummond and Zatoichi streaming needs.

Studio Canal Pulls Six More Titles, including four Melvilles and Last Year At Marienbad.

Soyez raisonnable

I will never bring myself to sell my Marienbad, but I have been eyeing that copy of The Third Man I have.

I sold The Third Man without checking Ebay prices a few months ago. ;_;

wait, is it going for $$?

The Third Man blu-ray is over a hundred, IIRC

GOD DAMN IT

I have the dvd one and considered blu-ray, but hey, I have it and... drat

Worth a bit more then a cigarettes and petrol racket.

for what it's worth, studiocanal's blu-rays are decent quality and affordably priced

but they don't say criterion on them!

The biggest problem with the Canal discs is that they've pulled like 30 or so titles from the CC, and have only reissued around ten of those themselves.

i have the oop Notorious

Better not lend it to darraghmac.

Criterion Notorious has the best cover ever:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSC3wqdvM5Qh76Njxmym2k8pwkGm3tdI0t_E7kpI6cabICndd2eJQ

that cover makes it look like an ingmar bergman movie!

Awesome. They have one for Suspicion as well?

feels like the 10% of Criterions not on Hulu are 100% of the ones I want to watch on any given night

20 dollar blu-ray criterion at best-buy.com

another 50% sale at B&N

on until closing of July 29th I think.

i bought hausu, two-lane blacktop, and leo mccarey's make way for tomorrow.

Holy FUCK

http://www.criterion.com/films/27964-the-uninvited

I have been waiting for a proper digital video release for this thing forever. I vividly remember my mom and I watching it when I was 12 one Saturday afternoon -- stuck with me for years, then when I saw it again and taped it off cable in 1991 I nearly wore the tape out. Insanely great cast and crew (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037415/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast for more), classic Edith Head costumes, a couple of scary sequences that STILL raise the hairs on my neck -- all that and it was the premiere of all-time jazz standard "Stella by Starlight," via an instrumental (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_by_Starlight ). I cannot wait.

Criterion doubling up with blu-ray re-releases right at the same time as they introduced their Eclipse series, which both arrived right before the advent of streaming has pretty much ruled out buying any more of these ever.

Ha, true enough. But this one I'm getting, without hesitation.

Thinking of picking up the Pina Bluray from BN, sight unseen.

pinas good movie

my stuff still hasn't shipped yet. thought about canceling the order because MONEY but i've been wanting these DVDs anyway and this is a great sale.

Ned that looks really good

xpost to Get Bent: I think something is up w/their email. I placed an order Thursday night, on Saturday I got a delay of shipment notice, and last night I found my package at my door (sitting in a puddle of rainwater, but that's more of a "FU Post Office" thing) without ever getting a shipping notice. Your discs be on their way already.

"Your discs MAY be on their way already," even.

you were right. they showed up today.

The B&N store in Tupelo has a surprisingly large selection -- including, to my surprise, Salo. I picked up Brazil, Carlos (339 minute version) and White Dog.

Did you get the Brazil box? Be sure to watch the "Love Conquers All" version (preferably soon after screening the directors cut) for a free lesson in contextual editing.

I just got the single disc version, sorry to say. They had the box and I was really tempted.

i found the box for $10 the other day in a video game store. that was nicely odd.

BOGO free on B&N.

just got the qatsi trilogy on dvd for zero of the signified's xmas present -- not through bn.com, but through deepdiscount.com. we haven't watched yet, but the whole set looks drool-worthy.

For the next 24 hours, all Blu-rays and DVDs are 50% off at Criterion.com with promo code MADFOX!

Oh damn! Thanks for the tip.

How overwhelming... Any notable recommendations from those of you keeping up with releases?

Blue Is the Warmest Color for 10 bucks and the Nashville and Fantastic Mr Fox 3-disc sets for $16 each, hmm...

Ah, they take 50% off the MSRP, not the shop price.

still haven't watched my last 3 purchases (another reason I quit film criticism -- to see more films).

I don't get the BR/DVD combo edition thing at all.

I kind of get it -- for people who have DVD players now but know they will inevitably get a Blu someday.

Still cheaper than Amazon though. Just ordered Foreign Correspondent, Night of the Hunter, and Earrings of Madame De... Every time I do this I look at the Vigo set and then don't order it for some reason.

xp: I think the BR/DVD thing is for people who might upgrade in future or who watch discs on their computers (?).

i have the Vigo; great

BR/DVD also cheaper than making two different sets for everything. xpost

I remember loving L'Atalante and Zero when I saw them in college, but that was so long ago that I hesitate every time. What's the other film like?

Short.

There are two of them, Apropos de Nice is the more significant -- observing bourgeois vacationers with a mordant camera eye, mostly.

It's a good set and well worth it imo.

The Vigo swimming movie is quite something too.

Pulled the trigger on three I've been meaning to get for awhile now. Well, two -- Weekend (Godard) and Certified Copy. Glad I held off on Fantastic Mr. Fox until it got the obligatory Criterion upgrade.

thanks guys, will definitely make the Vigo my next criterion purchase

Was I supposed to get a confirmation email upon purchase? The order is placed according to my account... but their website DID keep crashing when I was placing the order until finally it went through. Just weird that there was no "Thank you" screen at the end of the process along with no confirmation email....

I got both an order confirmation and a shipping confirmation email.

Thanks! Figured something was off.

started an On the Waterfront purchase for the supps, couldn't pull the trigger

(I'll pay less at the next bricks-and-mortar sale anyway)

Been meaning to get around to that, especially as a Hoboken resident.

my eyes popped the one time I was driven past the "glove" park

Yeah, it looks the same pretty much!

Flash Sale: http://www.criterion.com/sale

http://monsterlunch.com/post/102482133537/criterion-announced-it-will-release-the-entire

Hate to do this to your wallet, but the Criterion flash sale is on today: http://www.criterion.com/sale

Ah yeah, already ordered 3 things.

XPs!

Next 22 or so hours. I myself probably will abstain (backlog, low on $$$ this week etc.).

Was posting that link, obvs.

thank god for hulu.

^

Is there a quick way to get a list of CC titles that aren't streaming? I might order a couple of things -- I see the Don't Look Now blu-ray is already sold out.

i watched goke body snatcher from hell last night on the hulu. top-notch!

http://www.scifi-movies.com/images/contenu/data/0001022/affiche-goke-body-snatcher-from-hell-1968-1.jpg

gonna have to start the ultimate stoner criterion blog...

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lKYa-J-PYTI/maxresdefault.jpg

Oh, nice!

Just bought this http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/720-eclipse-series-21-oshima-s-outlaw-sixties

I see that the second-hand prices on amazon.ca are fairly expensive now -- used to be around $20, now over $30. I might sell some.

Splurged on Satyricon, Oharu and Clementine Blus.

Got:

Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
My Winnipeg
Tootsie

... a trio that says a lot about me, I imagine.

that fassbinder sci-fi thing is so friggin' weird. even if you aren't stoned. probably. don't know if i can actually watch the whole thing. just love those musical cues so much though. you can't even really tell why they are supposed to be so dramatic but you know SOMETHING is happening when you hear the insane synth music get louder and louder.

Still trying to get around to watching Seconds, myself.

Got:

Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
My Winnipeg
Tootsie

... a trio that says a lot about me, I imagine.

― Eric H., Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:30 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my good friend is from winnipeg. i remember watching my winnipeg at the movie theatre. we still reference that film

I picked up My Winnipeg too. One of the more recent films I've felt is essential to own.

B & N sale went live today.

Goddamnit.

Already identified 2 I'm for sure getting; leaving 2 or 3 slots open for impulse.

Still mostly $20 a piece for the Blu-rays... it can add up. I'm pleasantly surprised a BR of Ministry of Fear exists.

I marvel at the people who post pics of, like, 15 to 20 purchases on B&N sale days.

But given it's my one remaining unabashed consumer vice, I can relate.

i can recommend "Here Is Your Life" and esp. "The Black Stallion"

I marvel at the people who post pics of, like, 15 to 20 purchases on B&N sale days.

― Norse Jung (Eric H.),

all these guys on my FB wall are in their twenties too

kinda makes sense - they probably haven't seen most of them yet

whereas buying one DVD every eight months makes me feel like I ran over a cat.

Speaking of running over cats, my 2 for-sure purchases this time around are Cries and Whispers and The Merchant of Four Seasons.

running over cats and eating the brains

Kinda coveting Late Ozu. With exchange rate and shipping to Canada it's still $20 less than Amazon.

Late Ozu is beautiful.

through in the blu-ray of autumn afternoon while you're at it

They always catch me when I really don't need to be spending money. I've been trying to justify buying the BBS Story box over the course of numerous sales now.

i've learned it's nonsense to spend on something i'm going to watch once and pitch onto a pile...

oh no wait i haven't even watched my last 3 years of purchases.

It is def nonsense, but I support their work on the whole.

i just got My Beautiful Launderette <3

I went with the Ozu set. I don't think I've seen any of these particular films, certainly not the ones in colour.

This will bring my Criterion library up to: this, Rules of the Game, and the Lubitsch musicals.

I admire your restraint.

I still have some I haven't watched since buying.

Those that purchase 15 - 20 usually know how to combine membership discounts and other coupons with the sale from what I've seen. I don't know how to do that. Most I've ever picked up at one of these was probably 5? Thinking of getting 3 this time, though I'm not too sure which. Was going to let impulse dictate that.

i don't understand why anyone would create a web page that tells people what DVDs you own

Cool, I'll add that to the list.

is there an equivalent website for pens? i own a lot of pens.