The Criterion Collection

[stobbart]

Film school is just like any other profession. There are various focuses that you can take within that profession, and in this case the types of movies that you enjoy.

But I feel that what you should take away from movies are ways in which to enhance your own storytelling, for those of us that are in film school.

For instance, the short film I am currently in pre-production for culls from many different sources of inspiration in how I will be filming it.

[kudesignguy2]

So I was able to pick up a Man Who Fell To Earth at a closing Borders for $27, and was wondering if anyone knew if Criterion were still offering a hard case replacement for it? I remember reading that all one has to do is send a payment to criterion via paypal (amount escapes me as well as more details), but due to this title being OOP I wasn't sure if they were still honoring requests for it.

Thanks for any feedback!

Also stumbled upon a Night of the Hunter used for $15, so today was a good Criterion Blu day : )

[The Theory]

Originally Posted by kudesignguy2

So I was able to pick up a Man Who Fell To Earth at a closing Borders for $27, and was wondering if anyone knew if Criterion were still offering a hard case replacement for it? I remember reading that all one has to do is send a payment to criterion via paypal (amount escapes me as well as more details), but due to this title being OOP I wasn't sure if they were still honoring requests for it.

Thanks for any feedback!

I would think they would--I got one for The Third Man last fall and it was OOP.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Miadaskate

I'm sorry if I offend, but I just get this vibe that Criterion addicts think they are better than everyone.

I thought I was better than everyone long before I stumbled acoss Criteron.

[tfunk]

Originally Posted by kudesignguy2

So I was able to pick up a Man Who Fell To Earth at a closing Borders for $27, and was wondering if anyone knew if Criterion were still offering a hard case replacement for it? I remember reading that all one has to do is send a payment to criterion via paypal (amount escapes me as well as more details), but due to this title being OOP I wasn't sure if they were still honoring requests for it.

I ordered 5 cases just under 2 weeks ago, 2 of those 5 were for The Third Man and for The Man Who Fell to Earth. Order was fulfilled and I got it a few days ago. So to answer your question, yes, you can still get it. Good find, btw!

[kudesignguy2]

Originally Posted by tfunk

I ordered 5 cases just under 2 weeks ago, 2 of those 5 were for The Third Man and for The Man Who Fell to Earth. Order was fulfilled and I got it a few days ago. So to answer your question, yes, you can still get it. Good find, btw!

You wouldn't happen to have the exact instructions on how to acquire them would you? Are they buried in this thread?

[octagon]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Well, it's like aspiring to become a writer and having no interest in Joyce, Proust, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc.

I'm not entirely sure I would have a problem with that. Anyone studying pretty much any artform should at least appreciate or understand a wide range of that artforms offering and its history but I don't know that a successful student would necessarily need to like or even be interested in the so-called classics.

This particular film student might very well be shallow but I dunno, this also sounds a lot like a pretty standard 'these kids today, and don't even get me started on the schools' complaint.

(edit: just to clarify - ignoring films made before 2000 is a strong (if not undeniable) indicator of bad taste, I'm just not as sure it's an indicator of bad scholarship)

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

Here is an unboxing video of Criterion's Twitter "Box of Stuff" giveaway.

It's quite painful to watch.

CC

how cute. she laughs at Armageddon. how original (fyi: i love Armageddon )

[stobbart]

Originally Posted by kudesignguy2

So I was able to pick up a Man Who Fell To Earth at a closing Borders for $27, and was wondering if anyone knew if Criterion were still offering a hard case replacement for it? I remember reading that all one has to do is send a payment to criterion via paypal (amount escapes me as well as more details), but due to this title being OOP I wasn't sure if they were still honoring requests for it.
)

You will always be able to get replacement cases and booklets. Criterion loses the rights to the film itself, not their own property.

They could actually sell copies of their OOP titles with all the special features and no film if they wanted to

[fdm]

Originally Posted by kudesignguy2

You wouldn't happen to have the exact instructions on how to acquire them would you? Are they buried in this thread?

see page 1 of thread

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

Here is an unboxing video of Criterion's Twitter "Box of Stuff" giveaway.

It's quite painful to watch.

CC

Who slams their DVDs around like that? She is slamming them on top of one another! I couldn't help but feel like the video was very honest with her comments and not made up for fun.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Who slams their DVDs around like that? She is slamming them on top of one another! I couldn't help but feel like the video was very honest with her comments and not made up for fun.

Screw that, who slashes the scissors that far into the box top?

She probably broke the mug bringing the box inside.

[PowellPressburger]

Originally Posted by octagon

Screw that, who slashes the scissors that far into the box top?

She probably broke the mug bringing the box inside.

She prob has a PT job at Barnes & Noble and she is the one creating the cuts on the spines of titles I would have bought. :-)

[octagon]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

She prob has a PT job at Barnes & Noble and she is the one creating the cuts on the spines of titles I would have bought. :-)

I literally laughed out loud.

[abintra]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Who slams their DVDs around like that? She is slamming them on top of one another!

Just about every single clerk at retail stores I've purchased from it seems. I always feel like an idiot having to ask for one not to toss them around when buying multiple at once.

Most of the time it just results in an eye roll and an occasional, "it doesn't matter".

[buffetfroid]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

Then she needs to take it back and learn again.

She prob learned about Kurosawa, Bergman, Chaplin, Spielberg, Breathless, 400 Blows, Citizen Kane, etc.

This is what I call essential for film history-

Georges Méliès
René Clair (Under the Roofs of Paris)
Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Arsenal)
Sergei Eisenstein
Roberto Rossellini (Germany Year Zero)
Nicholas Ray
Jean-Luc Godard (Les Carabiniers, La Chinoise, Histoire(s) du cinéma)
Jean Renoir
Kenji Mizoguchi

Then you can do the others, like D.W. Griffith, John Ford, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Otto Preminger, John Cassavetes.

This isn't a list of favs. This is a list of films and filmmakers that made film an artform, not just made "cool" movies.

Thanks, professor!

As for those girls, they are just silly narcissists.

[jacobsever]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

I have notice that a good portion of the young generation seem to have a very hard time watching older type of movies.

I'd consider myself part of the younger generation (being 23), and I totally agree. While I love foreign, black & white, and pre-1970's films...the girl I've recently starting hanging out with refuses to watch any of them with me. She doesn't want to have to "read the movie" with subtitles. So frustrating that she won't even try to watch one with me.

[retablo]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

She prob has a PT job at Barnes & Noble and she is the one creating the cuts on the spines of titles I would have bought. :-)

LOL I had to reply, because I hate this. I ordered 3 copies of Metropolis (well 1 order and 2 subsequent returns) from Amazon and ALL 3 had cut spines on the nice outer box. Finally I just got a refund and ordered it from Kino.

[ShellOilJunior]

On a Criterion food-related note, thanks to Secret of the Grain I've been enjoying couscous every so often. Mmm delicious

Now to try some of the foods from Still Walking. . .

[octagon]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

I'd consider myself part of the younger generation (being 23), and I totally agree. While I love foreign, black & white, and pre-1970's films...the girl I've recently starting hanging out with refuses to watch any of them with me. She doesn't want to have to "read the movie" with subtitles. So frustrating that she won't even try to watch one with me.

I have the exact same conversations with my brother-in-law (well, except for the trying to get in his pants parts) and we're both well into our forties.

I think the ADD/MTV/Video Game generation talk gets a little overplayed sometimes. For one thing, the MTV generation is seeing or is about to see forty in their rear-view mirrors and these kind of concerns go back even a little farther than that. The success in the 70s of disaster films and (then new) summer blockbusters caused immediate hand-wringing about the fate of thoughtful, low-budget filmmaking and the 80s action craze just fed the flames. And the concerns today don't sound a whole lot different.

I don't have any data but I'm not entirely convinced film-goers your age are any different than my generation was twenty (okay, fine twenty-five) years ago and I don't know that my generation was all that different from the generations before us.