The Criterion Collection

[dumb_dutchman]

Originally Posted by joy-division

I think I'd shit my pants if Yahoo Serious showed up in the Criterion closet.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by Jaymole

Newsletter clue (I stink at figuring these out)

This is stretching it but:

My Brilliant Career?

The film has toured with a Janus logo.

[theater dreamer]

Originally Posted by dumb_dutchman

I think I'd shit my pants if Yahoo Serious showed up in the Criterion closet.

I think your tighty-whities are safe.

[nitin]

Originally Posted by billy pilgrim

Thanks, sir.

Tom Waits is one of my favorites, so that's a huge plus. I thought that his performance in Short Cuts was as good as any of the great ensemble actors in that film. It's also my favorite Lilly Tomlin role and I think they played off each other amazingly.

On that note, my favorite Tom Waits album is Nighthawks at the Diner. Man, that guy's really able to channel the Beats, in a really good way. Too bad his voice is ruined. I loved a lot of his early releases, but his singing voice is almost painful to listen to now.

Another rec for Down by Law, easily his best IMHO and should definitely suit your tastes.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

My guess is CARnal Knowledge.

I think you nailed it - at least I hope you did. It was a Criterion LD.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

This is stretching it but:

My Brilliant Career?

The film has toured with a Janus logo.

I think you are right: brilliant car rear.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by dwk

I think you are right: brilliant car rear.

Okay, I'm backpedaling. The placement of the thought balloon matters. These damn clues...

[MifuneFan]

My Brilliant Career fits with Criterion's style of clues, and it makes sense, so I do think Shell is right.

[joy-division]

Arrived today

Bought La Poison just because of the cover art. Now that I have all my Criterions for the foreseable future, onwards with my 3-part collection videos :/

[Nielsb90]

I just spent my last Bitcoin buying Zatoichi from a guy on reddit. The price of importing this with fees and taxes is extremely high so I think I got it for a good price at $75 + shipping (and I avoid customs this way). Definitely a set I look forward to although I have no idea how many years it will take me to get through it all.

[regeyer]

Originally Posted by Nielsb90

I just spent my last Bitcoin buying Zatoichi from a guy on reddit. The price of importing this with fees and taxes is extremely high so I think I got it for a good price at $75 + shipping (and I avoid customs this way). Definitely a set I look forward to although I have no idea how many years it will take me to get through it all.

I bought this from B&N when they had one of they're 50% off sales. It was a blind buy for me. A friend of mine, knowing my love for Japanese films, recommended it. I was not disappointed. This is my favorite Criterion release, or at least my most watched.

[AaronJ]

As I still try and process The Virgin Suicides thematically -- not that I hadn't seen it before, of course; but never with this much anticipation -- what strikes me most immediately is the sense of place and time.

When the events of the film occur, in the mid-70s, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan is almost exactly when I moved here. I've lived maybe a total of four years "abroad" since (a couple years in Madison, WI; a year in Tempe, AZ; a year+ in LA), but pretty much I've been here since then. And it was like being in this weird time bubble, and the sense of detail was beautiful.

The big Catholic school game against Country Day at the end of the year, the old school license plates with the white text on the black background (which I still don't understand why they changed), the look of most of the architecture, and so many other little things. But most of all, the elm trees. Seeing those postings nailed to a tree, knowing that a centuries old, 80 foot-plus elm was going to be not only trimmed or something, but completely removed ... the sadness was inescapable. Before Dutch Elm Disease, Grosse Pointe was street after street, block after block of gigantic elm trees that would cover half your house and half the street. It was like living in a different world.

Then they removed a great number -- most, in fact -- of them. And they used the same, completely correct sadly, logic that they used in the film: If they didn't remove the sick ones, then all of them would die. I'm not sure that you could change a community as much as Dutch Elm changed Grosse Pointe. The idea that Cecilia loved their elm tree and found it tragic that it would be removed is completely, utterly believable to someone like me who lived through that. A lot of people felt as though they had lost something inside themselves. It was like losing a relative. And no, I'm not exaggerating. Here's this beauty of nature that had been there for ... who knows how long? And one day, gone. And another, and another, and another. I know people will think me insane for saying this, but it was a tragedy.

That element of the film really hit home for me. It was one of the times during the film where I cried. I think for Pointers who were around then, that's like a knife being twisted in between one's ribs.

I'm done whining. But I thought it genius that Cecilia had a picture of "her" elm on the first page of her journal. That's such a Grosse Pointe thing to do.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by Nielsb90

I just spent my last Bitcoin buying Zatoichi from a guy on reddit. The price of importing this with fees and taxes is extremely high so I think I got it for a good price at $75 + shipping (and I avoid customs this way). Definitely a set I look forward to although I have no idea how many years it will take me to get through it all.

I'm going to get it during the November sale. Too much in July and there are other films I want to get in October. I want to get either or maybe even both the Lone Wolf and Cub or The Samurai Trilogy which would both be blind buys.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by joy-division

Whose signatures?

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Whose signatures?

I'm guessing it's Drew Friedman, the artist who created the covers to both those releases.

[regeyer]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

I'm going to get it during the November sale. Too much in July and there are other films I want to get in October. I want to get either or maybe even both the Lone Wolf and Cub or The Samurai Trilogy which would both be blind buys.

The Samurai Trilogy is superb. I never get tired of watching it.

I'm not a fan of Lone Wolf and Cub, which stars Shintaro Katsu's (Zatoichi) real life brother, Tomisaburo Wakayama. I don't want to give too much away, but it wasn't for me.

[CQD84]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

My guess is CARnal Knowledge.

This is probably the best guess yet for two reasons:

1) It makes sense with the drawing
2) I really want Criterion to release the movie

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

As I still try and process The Virgin Suicides thematically -- not that I hadn't seen it before, of course; but never with this much anticipation -- what strikes me most immediately is the sense of place and time.

When the events of the film occur, in the mid-70s, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan is almost exactly when I moved here. I've lived maybe a total of four years "abroad" since (a couple years in Madison, WI; a year in Tempe, AZ; a year+ in LA), but pretty much I've been here since then. And it was like being in this weird time bubble, and the sense of detail was beautiful.

The big Catholic school game against Country Day at the end of the year, the old school license plates with the white text on the black background (which I still don't understand why they changed), the look of most of the architecture, and so many other little things. But most of all, the elm trees. Seeing those postings nailed to a tree, knowing that a centuries old, 80 foot-plus elm was going to be not only trimmed or something, but completely removed ... the sadness was inescapable. Before Dutch Elm Disease, Grosse Pointe was street after street, block after block of gigantic elm trees that would cover half your house and half the street. It was like living in a different world.

Then they removed a great number -- most, in fact -- of them. And they used the same, completely correct sadly, logic that they used in the film: If they didn't remove the sick ones, then all of them would die. I'm not sure that you could change a community as much as Dutch Elm changed Grosse Pointe. The idea that Cecilia loved their elm tree and found it tragic that it would be removed is completely, utterly believable to someone like me who lived through that. A lot of people felt as though they had lost something inside themselves. It was like losing a relative. And no, I'm not exaggerating. Here's this beauty of nature that had been there for ... who knows how long? And one day, gone. And another, and another, and another. I know people will think me insane for saying this, but it was a tragedy.

That element of the film really hit home for me. It was one of the times during the film where I cried. I think for Pointers who were around then, that's like a knife being twisted in between one's ribs.

I'm done whining. But I thought it genius that Cecilia had a picture of "her" elm on the first page of her journal. That's such a Grosse Pointe thing to do.

from one Mid-Westerner to another... not sure that Madison, WI counts as "abroad."

[Scottie]

Just noticed Criterion changed the SLV artwork.

[MifuneFan]

What the hell? The original was way better. That looks more like the covers for their digital library.