The Criterion Collection

[the sordid sentinel]

Had to jump on They Live By Night for $17+. Scratch one off the list for the upcoming sale.

[llj]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

There's a lot of snobbish trash at that forum.

I post there occasionally. I think many of the posters are still all right, but unfortunately the most prominently snarky/snobbish posters are the moderators and they can have quite an attitude.

[javy]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Also, what are some general feelings about Repo Man?

Good, bad, great, overrated-exploitation, classic cult?

...is it Ray Jackson material?

Dude, it's crazy and f**ked up. You should definately get it.

[CRM 114]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

There's a lot of snobbish trash at that forum.

They once spent pages *****ing about how The Graduate didn't have the supplements they wanted.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Also, what are some general feelings about Repo Man?

Good, bad, great, overrated-exploitation, classic cult?

...is it Ray Jackson material?

Just check out this scene and you can probably figure out if it's your bag or not. A question is posed in this scene that I'm sure you've been asked before, Ray. "Did you do a lot of acid back in the day?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt5ETILH-oM

[jedidarrick]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

There's a lot of snobbish trash at that forum.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I like this forum better because your posts don't have to be approved. My posts rarely get approved on CF, and I only visit there to see some of the speculation. On this forum, at least I know that other people will get to see my posts.

Anyway, if Criterion releases Night of the Living Dead and Fire Walk With Me in the same month, it'll be one of their best months. If we also got Princess Bride, Tree of Life and Sixteen Candles, it would be the best month of 2017, but I'm not gonna be too greedy in my expectations.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

Agreed wholeheartedly. I like this forum better because your posts don't have to be approved. My posts rarely get approved on CF, and I only visit there to see some of the speculation. On this forum, at least I know that other people will get to see my posts.

Anyway, if Criterion releases Night of the Living Dead and Fire Walk With Me in the same month, it'll be one of their best months. If we also got Princess Bride, Tree of Life and Sixteen Candles, it would be the best month of 2017, but I'm not gonna be too greedy in my expectations.

What makes you think The Princess Bride is coming?

[javy]

Originally Posted by mja345

Just check out this scene and you can probably figure out if it's your bag or not. A question is posed in this scene that I'm sure you've been asked before, Ray. "Did you do a lot of acid back in the day?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt5ETILH-oM

"Plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp."

[jedidarrick]

Originally Posted by iScottie

What makes you think The Princess Bride is coming?

It may seem like speculation, but I have a few things to back it up.
1. Criterion and MGM have a great relationship.
2. Peter Becker mentioned the movie in a podcast. He also mentioned McCabe and Mrs. Miller and The in-Laws, which were released shortly after the podcast was recorded. He said that it was one of his favorite movies and that he wanted to release it, but felt that there wasn't anything unexplored in terms of bonus features. However...
3. The movie's 30th anniversary is this year. If Criterion wanted to release it, they could record new cast interviews and maybe give it a 4K restoration.

[Member-222782]

What's with the falling prices on They Live By Night and the Before Trilogy? Every time I log on the price is lower. Not complaining, just curious. Any other Criterion titles with falling prices?

[JackKnightStarman]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Are you an Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton Fan and enjoy completely crazy, strange and original films with endless quotable dialogue RayJ?

It's one of my favorite films especially 80s films and one of my favorite Criterion releases along with being one of my top Harry Dean Stanton performances if not my favorite.

It is a very, very, little seen gem from the 80s. This movie has a cult following, that is probably the smallest of all the "cult" status films of the last 35 years. When I worked at a video store, I would recommend it, and customers either really loved it's dark humor, punk ascetic, with some sci-fi mixed in, or told me never to suggest to them again. I always tried to push it. This and Brazil. Great movie making from 1980's Universal.

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[demonknight]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Also, what are some general feelings about Repo Man?

Good, bad, great, overrated-exploitation, classic cult?

...is it Ray Jackson material?

One of my Top 5 favorite movies. Great 80s era punk comedy.

[willieconway]

Repo Man is a gd classic and endlessly entertaining.

[MifuneFan]

Criterion just gave us ample amounts of speculation fodder with this ridiculous drop of phantom pages.



Siegmund Popert (prod)
Jean deRovera (prod)
Castleton Knight
Tankred Ibsen
Hannu Leminen
Georgio Ferroni
Peter Whitchurch
René Lucot
Louis Gueguen
Heribert Meisel
Romolo Marcellini
Theo Hörmann
Taguchi Suketaro
Nobusama Kawamoto
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Jacques Languepin
Yuri Ozerov
Arthur Penn
Michael Pfleghar
John Schlessinger
Tony Maylam
Jean Beaudin
Marcel Carrière
Georges Dufaux
Drummond Challis
Kim Takal
Bud Greenspan
Lee Kwang-Soo
Im Kwon-Taek
Lee Ji-won
R Douglas Copsey
Kieth Merrill
Gu Jun
Nancy Beffa
Caroline Rowland
Lee Kwang-soo
Im Kwon-taek (duplicate)

[sawdustandtinsel]

I think that list pretty much guarantees The Olympiad.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by JackKnightStarman

It is a very, very, little seen gem from the 80s.

Really? When most people look at my Criterion collection they comment about never hearing of most of the movies, but they've all seen Dazed and Confused and Repo Man.

[javy]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Really? When most people look at my Criterion collection they comment about never hearing of most of the movies, but they've all seen Dazed and Confused and Repo Man.

They don't recognize Fear and Loathing?

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by javy

They don't recognize Fear and Loathing?

Not nearly as much as the other two.

[Knaldskalle]

Originally Posted by sawdustandtinsel

I think that list pretty much guarantees The Olympiad.

Either that or a massive Olympic-themed box set. Pretty much everyone listed was involved in an Olympic movie.

[Show spoiler]Castleton Knight directed "The Olympic Games of 1948."
Tancred Ibsen did "De VI olympiske vinterleker Osla 1952."
Hannu Leminen did "Maailmat kohtaavat - XV Olympiakisat Helsingissä 1952."
Peter Whitchurch did "Olympic Games 1956."
Rene Lucot did "Melbourne Rendezvous."
Heribert Meisel did "Menschen, Hoffnungen, Medaillen."
Romolo Marcellini did "The Grand Olympics."
Theo Hörmann did "Olympic Winter Games at Innsbruck."
Taguchi Suketaro produced "Tokyo Olympiad" (Kon Ichikawa is obviously already listed)
Claude Lelouch did "Grenoble."
Jean-Jacques Languepin did "Les Neiges de Grenoble."
Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger did "Visions of Eight."
Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière and Georges Dufaux did "Games of the XXI Olympiad Montreal 1976."
Drummond Challis was on both "Visions of Eight" and "The Burning" (see below).
Kieth Merrill did "Olympic Glory" a documentarty short film.
Gu Jun did "Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008."

The others:
Lee Kwang-soo ?
Douglas Copsey was in "Bronco Billy."
Louis Gueguen ?
Nobusama Kawamoto ?
Giorgio Ferroni did "Mill of the Stone Women" - October Horror from Criterion?
Tony Maylam did "The Burning" - October Horror from Criterion?

[sawdustandtinsel]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

Either that or a massive Olympic-themed box set. Pretty much everyone listed was involved in an Olympic movie.

[Show spoiler]Castleton Knight directed "The Olympic Games of 1948."
Tancred Ibsen did "De VI olympiske vinterleker Osla 1952."
Hannu Leminen did "Maailmat kohtaavat - XV Olympiakisat Helsingissä 1952."
Peter Whitchurch did "Olympic Games 1956."
Rene Lucot did "Melbourne Rendezvous."
Heribert Meisel did "Menschen, Hoffnungen, Medaillen."
Romolo Marcellini did "The Grand Olympics."
Theo Hörmann did "Olympic Winter Games at Innsbruck."
Taguchi Suketaro produced "Tokyo Olympiad" (Kon Ichikawa is obviously already listed)
Claude Lelouch did "Grenoble."
Jean-Jacques Languepin did "Les Neiges de Grenoble."
Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger did "Visions of Eight."
Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière and Georges Dufaux did "Games of the XXI Olympiad Montreal 1976."
Drummond Challis was on both "Visions of Eight" and "The Burning" (see below).
Kieth Merrill did "Olympic Glory" a documentarty short film.
Gu Jun did "Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008."

The others:
Lee Kwang-soo ?
Douglas Copsey was in "Bronco Billy."
Louis Gueguen ?
Nobusama Kawamoto ?
Giorgio Ferroni did "Mill of the Stone Women" - October Horror from Criterion?
Tony Maylam did "The Burning" - October Horror from Criterion?

Kawamoto was involved in Tokyo Olympiad. No idea on Lee Kwang-soo, unless it's somebody else he's primarily done bad rom-coms if I'm not mistaken. Penn and Schlesinger (I would've thought he'd already have a page for Sunday Bloody Sunday) are interesting, maybe Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie and Clyde?