The Criterion Collection

[javy]

Originally Posted by mja345

Also, "Woman in the Dunes" is great if you like mindf**k kind of movies.

I love them. I've had my eye on this movie for a while, and now based on your recommendation and description I gotta get it. I love being mindfxxked by a film.

[Feiereisel]

Originally Posted by billy pilgrim

Looking over your collection, I do have a few of my favorite not often mentioned gems that I don't see there.

Highest recommendations for the following:

Fellini's Satyricon: Acid trip Petronius. My favorite Fellini.

Life During Wartime: One of my favorites. Todd Solondz is vastly underrepresented on Blu-Ray. This film is funny, appalling, and very sad all at the same time.

Crumb: A fascinating documentary about the famed underground comic artist turns into a disturbing look at mental illness and creativity.

Mystery Train: Jim Jarmusch's loving and hilarious tour of seedy Memphis.

And another big vote for Insignificance by Nicholas Roeg.

Nice collection. It's good to see another collector with eclectic tastes.

Some say “eclectic,” others say “excessive,” I say “Thank you.”

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Feiereisel

What are your favorite "hidden gem" Criterions?

Jubal
Letter Never Sent
Overlord
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Purple Noon
The Shooters/Ride in the Whirlwind
Summer with Monika

[Feiereisel]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Jubal
Letter Never Sent
Overlord
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Purple Noon
The Shooters/Ride in the Whirlwind
Summer with Monika

The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind and Purple Noon would be on my “hidden gems” list as well. Che, too, to keep my Soderbergh cred intact.

[The Great Owl]

I just got back from seeing Happy Death Day at the theater down the street.

One of the characters in that movie has a poster in his dorm room of the Criterion Repo Man artwork. You see the poster several times in the movie, because it's right next to that poor girl every time she wakes up on the same day.

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Jubal
Letter Never Sent
Overlord
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Purple Noon
The Shooters/Ride in the Whirlwind
Summer with Monika

Agree with all of those I've seen (all except Overlord)- Surprised you didn't include Ride the Pink Horse, which I'd include.

Also il Sorpasso.

[mja345]

Another few exceptional films that aren't in many collections on here are "Death by Hanging" and "The Executioner" (two fantastic dark comedies that work great as a double bill), "La Vie de Boheme", "Barcelona" (Whit Stillman's best film by far IMO), and "Downhill Racer". "Downhill Racer" seems to get no love despite having Hackman and Redford and being one of the few sports films that cuts out all of the sentimentality and bullshit.

[Popcorn_Bliss]

Just a few that I'd love to see on Criterion (or on Criterion again, but in blu)...

Juliet Of The Spirits (Federico Fellini)
The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)

[Feiereisel]

Originally Posted by Edward J Grug III

Agree with all of those I've seen (all except Overlord)- Surprised you didn't include Ride the Pink Horse, which I'd include.

Also il Sorpasso.

Ride the Pink Horse is pretty great.

Originally Posted by mja345

Another few exceptional films that aren't in many collections on here are "Death by Hanging" and "The Executioner" (two fantastic dark comedies that work great as a double bill), "La Vie de Boheme", "Barcelona" (Whit Stillman's best film by far IMO), and "Downhill Racer". "Downhill Racer" seems to get no love despite having Hackman and Redford and being one of the few sports films that cuts out all of the sentimentality and bullshit.

Rented Downhill Racer a while ago. Liked it, but...well, just liked it.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Edward J Grug III

Agree with all of those I've seen (all except Overlord)- Surprised you didn't include Ride the Pink Horse, which I'd include.

Also il Sorpasso.

Ahhh, yes. Ride the Pink Horse and Il Sorpasso are more recent releases, so I figured that I'd give them more time to become official “hidden gems.”

They're both great titles, at any rate.

[Hoke Moseley]

Just watched Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories on Netflix and I don't know if it's possible, but it would be great if Criterion could someday release it on blu-ray. It's a perfect companion piece to The Squid and the Whale.

[Narcissus]

Has Criterion made any announcement regarding 4K?
I am way too poor right now to upgrade again, but was curious if anyone has heard anything.

Looking forward to getting Barry on Monday.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by Feiereisel

So here I am, with the following question: What are your favorite "hidden gem" Criterions? This has been asked before, but I'm curious to see if anything really good has been uncovered since then

I'll throw in a few of mine, for what it's worth. You have a nice and extensive collection and it appears we have some similar tastes. For your consideration:

8 1/2 - not a hidden gem, but essential none the less
3 Women
Kes
The Vanishing

I'd also pile onto Mystery Train, which I own and love. And then there's Il Sorpasso and Woman in the Dunes, which I've seen, don't own yet, but will. So I guess, thanks for moving those purchases along for me.

[castor]

Originally Posted by Feiereisel

So here I am, with the following question: What are your favorite "hidden gem" Criterions?

I highly recommend Muriel, or The Time of Return
Also, Fellini's Satyricon and Roma
And another vote for Insignificance

[Knaldskalle]

Originally Posted by mja345

What's completely f**ked up is that many political satires ("Strangelove", "A Face in the Crowd", "The Candidate", "Bob Roberts", "Wag the Dog", "Bulworth") depict events that are less insane than the actual events currently taking place in the nation's capital. We've reached a point where reality has passed satire.

I was thinking about the film "Bulworth". In 1998, that film depicted a Senator going completely off the rails. That would be considered a typical Monday now.

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer, 1974.

[mrjohnnyb]

Originally Posted by Feiereisel

What are your favorite "hidden gem" Criterions?

For 2017, the release that I would consider to be my hidden gem is The Breaking Point. The first time that I heard about this film was on the They Shoot Pictures Don't They website under 1,000 Noir Films.

I really believe that if not for all the McCarthyism that was going on in the USA upon its original release, this film would have been considered a masterpiece. This is the type of film that makes Criterion great, in my opinion.

Honorable mentions:
Ride the Pink Horse
Riot in Cell Block 11
Pale Flower
Carnival of Souls
The Moment of Truth
Letter Never Sent
Dry Summer (Scorcese's World Cinema I)
Insiang (Scorcese's World Cinema II)

[KMR]

What I would love to see released by Criterion, but would probably be a more likely candidate for a label like Synapse, would be a special edition of Night of Dark Shadows, including all three known versions: the 97-minute version originally released to many theaters the first week of August 1971, the official 94-minute release (the only version seen in re-release, TV, and home video), and the 129-minute director's cut. Load this with commentaries and documentary special features, and I'll buy it immediately on first day of release and be in heaven...

EDIT: The "buy immediately" would also apply to a bare-bones release of the three versions (or even the director's cut alone).

[SammyJankis]

Any Baumbach fans that particularly are keen on The Squid and the Whale should definitely check out The Meyerowitz Stories on Netflix. I haven't been this immediately taken by one of his films, and the acting is uniformly superb. It's one of the better riffs on Allen that I've seen.

[Feiereisel]

Thanks for the recommendations, everybody!

[xHank_Hillx]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Note to self: Never read Facebook comments


These are some comments I just read on a post Janus Films did for Night of the Living Dead:






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Oh.My.God.

Troglodytes...