The Criterion Collection

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by mja345

"This Sporting Life" is a brilliant film, Harris' performance is truly a tour de force. I held off on the Network release in hopes Criterion would upgrade the DVD. It's definitely one of my most-wanted upgrades from Criterion.

British Realism is one of my favourite genres. However, I'm in the same boat as you as for some reason I never picked up the Network BD before it went OOP. The only consolation is that reviews show it's a modest upgrade, and the Criterion DVD has some great extras, including multiple additional Anderson short films. The DVD is still in print, so let's hope a BD release will be forthcoming.

Although I suppose we could always pick up the "official" Spanish release...

[yoloswegmaster420]

Originally Posted by ihaveblink

No clue if anyone has mentioned this anywhere, but The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and Criterion was mentioned by Marc Maron recently on his podcast. It was at the end of one with John Cusack about a week or so ago. I'm assuming he's involved with an interview for it possibly with Charles Grodin.

Would you happen to have a time-stamp?

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by ihaveblink

No clue if anyone has mentioned this anywhere, but The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and Criterion was mentioned by Marc Maron recently on his podcast. It was at the end of one with John Cusack about a week or so ago. I'm assuming he's involved with an interview for it possibly with Charles Grodin.

In a different episode he mentioned watching it on YouTube and someone telling him about the obnoxious rights issues causing it to be buried. I wouldn’t get any hopes up.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by Bn43

Are any of Criterion's PCM 2.0 tracks matrixed surround? I'm annoyed with distributors almost never showing on the package, the menus or their website if it's matrixed surround. I've listened to so many of those tracks with my receiver set to Direct instead of Dolby Surround or DTS Neural:X, because I wasn't aware or didn't understand how to decode them at the time.

I remember someone saying on here a while back that Direct was the correct way to decode things?

[Jason Rietman4k]

Satyajit Ray's 100th birthday is next year 2021. They did a box for Bergman for his 100th, Fellini for his 100th. I wonder . . .

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

In a different episode he mentioned watching it on YouTube and someone telling him about the obnoxious rights issues causing it to be buried. I wouldn’t get any hopes up.

There aren't really any "rights issues" other than the fact that Bristol-Meyers-Squibb owns the film, along with Sleuth and The Stepford Wives, and the amount they are asking for the licence is higher that what most boutique labels are willing to pay. If Criterion decides to meet their price for these titles, or if BMS have come to their senses and lowered their asking price, there really aren't any other obstacles to releasing them.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

There aren't really any "rights issues" other than the fact that Bristol-Meyers-Squibb owns the film, along with Sleuth and The Stepford Wives, and the amount they are asking for the licence is higher that what most boutique labels are willing to pay. If Criterion decides to meet their price for these titles, or if BMS have come to their senses and lowered their asking price, there really aren't any other obstacles to releasing them.

I wasn’t saying it, just repeating what he said. I would’ve done quotes and directly quote him but I didn’t remember exactly how he phrased it.

[Bn43]

Originally Posted by koberulz

I remember someone saying on here a while back that Direct was the correct way to decode things?

Not if it's matrixed surround sound.

Looks like I found one, My Own Private Idaho. Criterion's site says:

"2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray"

Screwed that one up with Direct when I watched it last year. I just now guessed it was matrixed because I remember the DTS 2.0 track and knew that almost any American movie after 1977 (?) was released theatrically in six channel audio.

Sure enough, the back of the package says so too. So yeah, I definitely wouldn't just do Direct in every scenario. I'm glad at least Criterion appears to tell you what it really is.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

I wasn’t saying it, just repeating what he said. I would’ve done quotes and directly quote him but I didn’t remember exactly how he phrased it.

I know it wasn't you saying it directly, I just wanted to clarify it a bit though.

[Bn43]

Begs the question, what is the point of the 5.1 track on My Own Private Idaho?

[DukeTogo84]

Hope we get announcements tomorrow. It's been really quiet this month when it comes to announcements, so hopefully we get some good stuff.

[Jason Rietman4k]

I hope there at least six titles announced at the very least. I hate it so much when they announce less than that. REALLY hope Red Beard or Stray dog is announced for an upgrade.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Jason Rietman4k

I hope there at least six titles announced at the very least. I hate it so much when they announce less than that. REALLY hope Red Beard or Stray dog is announced for an upgrade.

I would love for those to be upgraded, but I don't think we'll see anymore Kurosawa titles until a boxset comes out.

[NeoNical]

Stray Dog and Drunken Angel for me. I don't really care about people complaining about Criterion announcements at this point. If it doesn't happen, oh well, at least the film came out.

[Jason Rietman4k]

I'm darn sure there will eventually be an upgraded Akira box, but sadly it will probably be a while yet. To hold me over I'd like those two.

[Jason Rietman4k]

I saw Criterion's '54 Gojira last night. The picture had a good organic look but all the (literally) millions of white scratches was distracting. Did they not have the negative? Was this a copy that had those scratches cemented on there from the damaged negative?

[dwk]

Originally Posted by Jason Rietman4k

I saw Criterion's '54 Gojira last night. The picture had a good organic look but all the (literally) millions of white scratches was distracting. Did they not have the negative? Was this a copy that had those scratches cemented on there from the damaged negative?

The o-negative is gone. They had to use a 35mm fine-grain master positive for their transfer.

[DaBargainHunta]

Was https://www.barnesandnoble.com/ breached? A friend of mine in IT posted something about it, and I'm seeing random tweets with people receiving e-mails from B&N informing them (I haven't gotten one, but I changed my pass anyway - just in case).

[Mike0284]

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

Was https://www.barnesandnoble.com/ breached? A friend of mine in IT posted something about it, and I'm seeing random tweets with people receiving e-mails from B&N informing them (I haven't gotten one, but I changed my pass anyway - just in case).

Changed mine too just to be safe.

[Bradsdadg]

Thanks for the heads up. Changed mine just to be safe