The Criterion Collection

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Sommerswerd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME

Love how they just picked Samurai Spy based on the title alone and said there is a 0% of it being bad. Hear that Criterion, 0%! Now please release it and the other films from the Samurai set.

[saprano]

Thank you, Criterion, for continuing to make separate blurays. Unlike other labels.

You will continue to get my money.

[jjhunsecker]

I've been guessing for years that Criterion has been sitting on "Carnal Knowledge" ( I was so desperate for it that I ordered the UK import a few weeks ago). I also said they were sitting on "Paper Moon'- which they were obviously

Three other film I suspect they're holding : "Catch -22" and "Hud" and "The Defiant Ones"

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by jjhunsecker

Three other film I suspect they're holding : "Catch -22" and "Hud" and "The Defiant Ones"

No suspicion needed for Hud. The film is being shown theatrically courteously of Criterion.

[sb5]

Sorry if this was posted, but I didn’t see it in search. An aside in an interview with director Mary Harron on American Psycho’s 25th anniversary:

https://letterboxd.com/journal/mary-...ary-interview/

After making I Shot Andy Warhol (which Harron tells me will finally be getting a long overdue Blu-ray release, thanks to the Criterion Collection)

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by sb5

Sorry if this was posted, but I didn’t see it in search. An aside in an interview with director Mary Harron on American Psycho’s 25th anniversary:

https://letterboxd.com/journal/mary-...ary-interview/

I THINK it came up when Dogfight was released because of the Lili Taylor connection, but don’t remember where.

[TV2693]

Originally Posted by jjhunsecker

I've been guessing for years that Criterion has been sitting on "Carnal Knowledge" ( I was so desperate for it that I ordered the UK import a few weeks ago). I also said they were sitting on "Paper Moon'- which they were obviously

Three other film I suspect they're holding : "Catch -22" and "Hud" and "The Defiant Ones"

'Hud' is a good film(it's aged well) that would readily find a new audience.

'Catch-22' is interesting and I kinda liked it, bu it didn't(and probably couldn't) capture the book's bleak absurdity and logic and just lifted certain characters and scenes from the book.

Nichols made an anti-war movie; the book was more complex than that.

[cardianus]

[jjhunsecker]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

No suspicion needed for Hud. The film is being shown theatrically courteously of Criterion.

I believe it's being shown at the TCM Film Festival in LA this month as well

[jjhunsecker]

Originally Posted by TV2693

'Hud' is a good film(it's aged well) that would readily find a new audience.

'Catch-22' is interesting and I kinda liked it, bu it didn't(and probably couldn't) capture the book's bleak absurdity and logic and just lifted certain characters and scenes from the book.

Nichols made an anti-war movie; the book was more complex than that.

I think "Catch-22" is a remarkable technical achievement, and is probably my favorite Mike Nichols movie (With 'Carnal Knowledge" a close second)

Interestingly, on the joint commentary that Nichols did with Steven Soderburgh on the DVD, he was a bit critical himself how the film turned out. One thing he said that stuck out : in retrospect he felt Alan Arkin was too cerebral an actor, and felt that the film would have played better with a more "warmer" actor like Dustin Hoffman in the lead role

[TV2693]

Originally Posted by jjhunsecker

I think "Catch-22" is a remarkable technical achievement, and is probably my favorite Mike Nichols movie (With 'Carnal Knowledge" a close second)

Interestingly, on the joint commentary that Nichols did with Steven Soderburgh on the DVD, he was a bit critical himself how the film turned out. One thing he said that stuck out : in retrospect he felt Alan Arkin was too cerebral an actor, and felt that the film would have played better with a more "warmer" actor like Dustin Hoffman in the lead role

That I agree with.

As for Arkin, again, they missed the point of the book and wrote the character in the movie as being a paranoid schmuck.

In the book(and what was one of the points of the story), 'Yossarian' was a sane man using plain logic to deduce that war is crazy, the military is crazy, and life itself is crazy. Yossarian is afraid of dying, yes. But we all are.

I know it's a common(and somewhat annoying) complaint that a movie didn't capture the essence of the book, but they missed the boat on this one.

It just ends up being a 'MASH' like anti-war movie that's occsionally funny in the first half, and then gets serious and ham-fisted in the second. Because Nichols the director, it's interesting and well shot and orchestrated, but it's not Heller's 'Catch-22'.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by saprano

Thank you, Criterion, for continuing to make separate blurays. Unlike other labels.

Which are the labels that don't make separate blu-rays?

[TV2693]

Originally Posted by cardianus

Kino Lorber was going to do remaster and release this one but something with the rights held them back.

It's first-rate though, and would connect with more people if it gets a BD.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Love how they just picked Samurai Spy based on the title alone and said there is a 0% of it being bad. Hear that Criterion, 0%! Now please release it and the other films from the Samurai set.

Tarantino did exactly the same thing with the same movie when TCM put him in charge of programming a night of movies years ago. He said with that title how could the movie be bad?

[Sanschagrins]

Saw the Canadian price for the Criterion 4k release of Brazil: $95.35 Canadian.

Ouch!!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Sanschagrins

Saw the Canadian price for the Criterion 4k release of Brazil: $95.35 Canadian.

Ouch!!

$59.99 from Unobstructed View

https://unobstructedview.com/brazil-...uhdbd-web.html

[giome]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

$59.99 from Unobstructed View

https://unobstructedview.com/brazil-...uhdbd-web.html

$61.99 if you take into account their "box set surcharge".

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by giome

$61.99 if you take into account their "box set surcharge".

That doesn't appear to be applied for this release. I just went through checkout and this was the final rundown for Ontario:

Cart Subtotal CAD$59.99
Shipping
Flat Rate - Fixed
CAD$6.00
Tax CAD$8.58
HST ON (13%) CAD$8.58
Order Total CAD$74.57

[giome]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

That doesn't appear to be applied for this release. I just went through checkout and this was the final rundown for Ontario:

The fee is hidden in the shipping costs (which is normally 4$/item). This is what I see shipping Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters 4K to Quebec:

Subtotal CAD$50.24
Shipping (Flat Rate - Fixed) CAD$4.00
Tax CAD$2.71
GST QC (5%) CAD$2.71
Order Total CAD$56.95

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by giome

The fee is hidden in the shipping costs (which is normally 4$/item). This is what I see shipping Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters 4K to Quebec:

Ah, sneaky. Weird that it would have that fee when it's not even a box set or anything. I wonder if it's based on the number of discs or something, and something with 3-discs (like Brazil) gets hit too.