The Criterion Collection

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Yami

The Turin Horse certainly felt like an endurance test to me (though I had the feeling that that was the point)

I might agree with respect to the opening sequence, but I found every moment after that to be fascinating

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

What if I run out of potatoes before the movie is over?

Just as long as you turn all the lights out by the end of the film.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Yami

Milestone will be releasing this on Blu-Ray but it has been "coming soon" for a couple of years now

Is that through Oscilloscope? I've noticed that they've released a bunch of Milestone titles on DVD (including, among others, Hitchcock's Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache and Bae Yong-kyun's Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?, but I hadn't heard of them doing any Blu-rays other than On the Bowery - The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Vol. 1.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Meek12345

As I watched Time Bandits I began to wonder who has given the best child performance in the collection?

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Patricia Gozzi in Sundays and Cybele
Jean-Pierre Léaud in The 400 Blows
Gaspard Manesse in Au Revoir Les Enfants
Brigitte Fossey and Georges Poujouly in Forbidden Games (I really want this on Blu-ray.)
Billy Chapin in The Night of the Hunter

David Bennent in The Tin Drum
Nikolai Burlyaev in Ivan's Childhood

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Aside from providing a solid social commentary on class and prejudice, I found My Beautiful Laundrette to be a terrible movie.

Can you elaborate?

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Edward J Grug III

Can you elaborate?

It's just incredibly bland. Furthermore, I was rather put off by the amateur style directing.

[ravenus]

^I saw MBL on television about 15 years ago and it was as I recall a very middling movie. Good performance from a young Daniel Day Lewis, but a lot of the other cast is a little wooden.

[Yami]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Is that through Oscilloscope?

Milestone have released a handful of Blu-Rays but I'm unaware if Oscilloscope distribute for them if that's what you mean?

[mja345]

"My Beautiful Laundrette" is definitely not a film I would blind buy. It's okay, nothing exceptional. Stephen Frears has never been my favorite director. He tends to take really interesting material and makes it into really mediocre films. "The Hit" is a great example of this. All the parts are there to make a great lyrical, meditative gangster film, but it never quite gets over the hump. "The Grifters" is pretty solid, but there's the potential for so much more. Same with "Prick Up Your Ears". Whenever I watch a Frears film, I find myself thinking about what so many other directors could do with the same material. Such as Alan Parker or Mike Leigh, other English directors who deal with hard-edged, brually honest subject matter. "MBL" is a movie with zero re-watchability factor for me personally, so I'd check it out on a streaming service before buying.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

[Show spoiler]

Time in the closet and they grab DVDs. SMH.

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Time in the closet and they grab DVDs. SMH.

Yeah, I assume their parents haven't allowed them to upgrade to blu-ray, yet. Although, when you're all sitting in a bedroom 3 feet from the 20" television, then the higher resolution probably doesn't matter too much, ya know? Maybe, they'll grab some of the dual-format releases and be future-proofed for those particular films?

[jordan-r]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

Will the Eclipse label be released on BD in the near future?

Also, are the films in the Kurosawa and Fassbinder sets any good?

The Fassbinder set has at least three movies that are essential for an understanding of what he's all about: Love Is Colder than Death, Katzelmacher, and Beware of a Holy *****. (Though speaking as a huge Fassbinder partisan, it's a frustrating set in some ways -- what makes these important films less worthy of Blu-ray releases than Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali?)

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

Maybe, they'll grab some of the dual-format releases and be future-proofed for those particular films?

This makes sense but then they're not future-proofed for packaging.

[Batman1084]

Hi All,

Just a quick question as I was previously on the Arrow discussion thread... is there any rough idea around when Lady Snowblood will be released on BD? Rented it on Amazon and it had fantastic quality. Just curious if there is/was any information I am not aware of regarding the physical release.

Thanks all! Sorry if this has been answered. Tried searching posts but didn't come through with anything solid.

[ShellOilJunior]

It's confirmed:



http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content...Jellyfish-Eyes

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by Batman1084

Hi All,

Just a quick question as I was previously on the Arrow discussion thread... is there any rough idea around when Lady Snowblood will be released on BD? Rented it on Amazon and it had fantastic quality. Just curious if there is/was any information I am not aware of regarding the physical release.

Thanks all! Sorry if this has been answered. Tried searching posts but didn't come through with anything solid.

It's been out for a little while

[monorail91]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Aside from providing a solid social commentary on class and prejudice, I found My Beautiful Laundrette to be a terrible movie.

Hah! I was not feeling it either. As each story element was introduced, like class tensions, cultural differences, my head thought "this should be interesting," but my heart was freakin ready for this movie to be over.

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

It's confirmed:



http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content...Jellyfish-Eyes

yes, I know I haven't seen the film, but I would prefer a 100 times for the clue to had been about One-Eyed Jacks.
Oh well..
i will be eagerly waiting for the opinions of Criterion collectors that will watch Jellyfish eyes, in case it turns out to be a masterpiece (or at least a very important film) that Criterion fairly chose to release.

[PaperThinWalls]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

It's been out for a little while

I believe he's referring to a possible Criterion release.

The timetable is unknown. All we know is that it is forthcoming based on the New Year's tease and the iTunes release.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Yami

Milestone have released a handful of Blu-Rays but I'm unaware if Oscilloscope distribute for them if that's what you mean?

Yes, apparently Oscilloscope is the "exclusive distributor" for Milestone (if you look at any of the Milestone titles listed in the database here, and click on the back cover scan, you'll see their logo. Funny, but I didn't think of looking for Milestone titles here until just now. I was going by what was listed at Oscilloscope's website and there was only the one BD I mentioned listed (and a bunch of DVDs).