The Criterion Collection

[Yami]

Criterion gave a hint for Alambrista! the other day

[italy12]

Is Alambrista! a good film for those that have seen it?

[Dustin Putman]

My crazy predictions, for I am procrastinating at work:

Alambrista!
Certified Copy
City Lights
Grand Illusion
Picnic at Hanging Rock

[Yami]

Originally Posted by italy12

Is Alambrista! a good film for those that have seen it?

It's good but nothing special

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Dustin Putman

My crazy predictions, for I am procrastinating at work:

Alambrista!
Certified Copy
City Lights
Grand Illusion
Picnic at Hanging Rock

City Lights and Picnic would make it a good month for me but I sort of gave up of City Lights

[italy12]

Originally Posted by Narcissus

I Would Trade All Of Those For Rosemary's Baby.


Hope Mini-You Gets Well Quickly

Thanks man, he should be on the upswing today. He's been sick for 2 days already and feeling better so far today (probably just jinxed myself).

[octagon]

I had Picnic at Hanging Rock in my Amazon.uk cart yesterday then thought "you know, I should wait until after the announcements...just in case".

As Kisses of Death go...

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by octagon

I had Picnic at Hanging Rock in my Amazon.uk cart yesterday then thought "you know, I should wait until after the announcements...just in case".

As Kisses of Death go...

Fingers cross

[italy12]

Originally Posted by octagon

I had Picnic at Hanging Rock in my Amazon.uk cart yesterday then thought "you know, I should wait until after the announcements...just in case".

As Kisses of Death go...

It will only be announced today if you had purchased it. If you left it in your cart, you just ruined the day for all Criterion/Chaplin fans across the globe.

Thanks. Karma is a bi***.

[SpiderBaby]

Come on baby, roll a Dziga Vertov Group release......

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

Come on baby, roll a Dziga Vertov Group release......

Blu-ray or you would take it even as Eclipse on DVD?

I still recall seeing Un Film comme les autres back in college but it's been a long time now

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Blu-ray or you would take it even as Eclipse on DVD?

I still recall seeing Un Film comme les autres back in college but it's been a long time now

Eclipse is perfect.

[Yami]

Speaking of Dziga Vertov I'd quite like to see a Criterion release of his work. Man with a Movie Camera. On Blu-Ray. Multiple Soundtracks. Heaven.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by Yami

Speaking of Dziga Vertov I'd quite like to see a Criterion release of his work. Man with a Movie Camera. On Blu-Ray. Multiple Soundtracks. Heaven.

I'm down for this as well (though Kino has Man with a Movie Camera).

[jacobsever]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

It'd be nice to see Harold and Maude announced.

I watched that when I was 17 an remembered being extremely bored and hating it.

[Yami]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

I'm down for this as well (though Kino has Man with a Movie Camera).

Forgot about that. There's still plenty of his stuff that I don't think is available though.

[ParticleDan]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

I watched it a couple weeks ago and remember being extremely bored and hating it.

That's blasphemous! It's exceptional based on the Cat Stevens soundtrack alone!

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by Yami

Forgot about that. There's still plenty of his stuff that I don't think is available though.

There is plenty. Only talking "OK" releases, it's just Kino's Man with the Movie Camera" and Flicker Alley's "Stride, Soviet". So much more, "A Sixth Part of the World", "Three Songs About Lenin", etc, can be released.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

Sure, but the irony is that the UK labels are now releasing Criterion-licensed titles on Blu-ray before Criterion even hints at them:

Rififi, Bicycle Thieves, Pigs & Battleships, Insect Woman, Two-Lane Blacktop, Ashes & Diamonds, The Tin Drum...not to mention the stuff that's been out for quite a while, like BFI's Ozu titles, Make Way For Tomorrow, Vengeance is Mine (OK I mentioned them). Even Week End has been out for some time on DVD.

Add onto that The Conformist, Silence de la mer, Repo Man, Certified Copy, the early Pasolinis, the Mizoguchi collection to name a few, and with what looks to be a fantastic 2Q slate from MoC just around the corner...

Also, the three films I'm most interested in from Criterion so far this year, two have been previously available in the UK for awhile (Belle de jour and World On A Wire [DVD]) and the other is bare-bones (Letter Never Sent). I may pick up Three Outlaw Samurai as well, during a sale, but it's no priority.

Well said, Joe. It is for this reason I am serously thinking maybe it is time to get a region-free player (darn those Christmas bills, though). Who knows when Crtierion will get around to releasing the films they hold rights to already out in the UK. Instead, so far in 2012 we get new spines of Tiny Furniture and several others that leave me underwhelmed. Still, it is early in the year and Criterion has hit some nice home runs so far (Letter Never Sent, World on a Wire, the Gorin Eclipse, to name a few). I appreciate the David Lean box set also and will be picking it up eventually.

Even more than releasing the titles available in the UK, though, I really want them to pick up the pace with the blu-ray upgrades I keep waiting for month after month (adding A Night to Remember made last month's announcements even sweeter). I guess they will get around to all of these, including the UK titles, eventually. In the meantime, I am discovering I really like the films in their Eclipse sets, so at least I have those to console me until then. Discovering the Eclipse series has been a huge joy the past couple of months.

[retablo]

Originally Posted by oildude

Well said, Joe. It is for this reason I am serously thinking maybe it is time to get a region-free player (darn those Christmas bills, though). Who knows when Crtierion will get around to releasing the films they hold rights to already out in the UK. Instead, so far in 2012 we get new spines of Tiny Furniture and several others that leave me underwhelmed. Still, Criterion has hit some home runs so far this year (Letter Never Sent, World on a Wire, the Gorin Eclipse, to name a few).

Even more than releasing the titles available in the UIK, though, I really want them to pick up the pace with the blu-ray upgrades I keep waiting for month after month. I guess they will get around to all of these, including the UK titles, eventually. In the meantime, I am discovering I really like the films in their Eclipse sets, so at least I have those to console me until then. Discovering the Eclipse series has been a huge joy the past couple of months.

The sad fact is that with only 4-5 titles a month, that's only 48-60 blus a year, and you know probably half of them will be new titles... so that only leaves 24-30ish upgrades a year, out of a collection that spans 600 titles (not to mention questionable films like Tiny Furniture thrown in there, taking up a valuable spine #).