The Criterion Collection

[thismightbezach]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

I don't recall ever getting an answer to this question when I asked it, but how has The Last Metro come, typically? I know that there is an option to get it with the Scanavo and standard case insert. But did The Last Metro ever come in the Digipack we're used to now? Or did it go from the really old school one I have directly to the plastic case? The one mine came in isn't bad; a few minor dings in the corners, but passable. But being the perfectionist I am when it comes to the quality of my packaging, I'll probably get replacements. If the kind of Digipack that comes with On The Waterfront, A Hard Day's Night, etc is an option, I'd drop money like it's hot to get it.

No, sir. The DVD is in a standard digipak, but the blu-ray was always in the cardboard slip-case that you have.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

Anybody?

It never came - and there is no option - for The Last Metro in an On the Waterfront-style digipack. The initial Criterion blu-rays, including The Last Metro, The Last Emperor, The 400 Blows, etc., all came in a thin slip-sleeved pack. Later on Criterion began releasing this early batch in Scanavo plastic cases. The Last Metro was, I believe, the last of this batch to be converted over, so it often still turns up in the original thin case. I have seen a mix of both package types for this title in the B&Ns near me.

Criterion sells the Scanavo case with artwork on their website. That is how I converted my copy into new packaging.

[repulsed]

How is that 3 part analysis by Olivier Assayas on the L'avventura bluray. it's pushing me over the edge to upgrading from the dvd.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Here is a list of the nine Out of Print Blu-ray titles. It is important to note that Cohen Media Group will be releasing and/or re-releasing the entire Merchant Ivory catalogue in the future, so another Blu-ray release of Howards End is very likely.

Criterion offered replacement cases for the original DigiPack releases of the following nine films, but the program no longer seems to be offered (perhaps one could reach out to Criterion and see if they still do it on a case by case basis?). I guess it is assumed that the DigiPack packaging is out of circulation and that if no one has yet purchased a replacement case for an OOP title, no one ever would.

^

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by oildude

It never came - and there is no option - for The Last Metro in an On the Waterfront-style digipack. The initial Criterion blu-rays, including The Last Metro, The Last Emperor, The 400 Blows, etc., all came in a thin slip-sleeved pack. Later on Criterion began releasing this early batch in Scanavo plastic cases. The Last Metro was, I believe, the last of this batch to be converted over, so it often still turns up in the original thin case. I have seen a mix of both package types for this title in the B&Ns near me.

Criterion sells the Scanavo case with artwork on their website. That is how I converted my copy into new packaging.

For the record, there were nine early titles in this "old" style of DigiPack:

The Third Man
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Last Year at Marienbad
Chungking Express
Bottle Rocket
The 400 Blows
The Last Metro
The Last Emperor
El Norte

The first three all (as far as I know) went OOP before they got the switch to Scanavo cases. I'd seen Chungking Express in Scanavo cases briefly in the wild before it went OOP, and I don't think I've ever seen a copy of Bottle Rocket that was not in a Scanavo.

The last four in the above list I still see in the wild in DigiPacks, and have yet to see any of them in Scanavos. Then again, I don't make a point of looking for them these days, since I have them all.

[xxnomad]

Anyone want to guess if the Ozu double feature release The Only Son / There Was a Father will someday get a bluray upgrade?

I ask because while Ozu, these films aren't in the best shape. Kind of want to get it for my Ozu collection but I hold off on DVD's after being burned a few times before with upgrades.

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/73...y-yasujiro-ozu

[JJJ225]

Originally Posted by jayembee

For the record, there were nine early titles in this "old" style of DigiPack:

The Third Man
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Last Year at Marienbad
Chungking Express
Bottle Rocket
The 400 Blows
The Last Metro
The Last Emperor
El Norte

The first three all (as far as I know) went OOP before they got the switch to Scanavo cases. I'd seen Chungking Express in Scanavo cases briefly in the wild before it went OOP, and I don't think I've ever seen a copy of Bottle Rocket that was not in a Scanavo.

There WERE replacement Scanavo cases available for The Third Man, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Last Year at Marienbad.

[Rodney-2187]

Any idea when we'll see a Criterion release of The Grand Budapest Hotel? All of Wes Anderson's other movies have had a Criterion release and I really, really want this one.

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

Any idea when we'll see a Criterion release of The Grand Budapest Hotel? All of Wes Anderson's other movies have had a Criterion release and I really, really want this one.

I'd imagine sometime in the next year.

[AlphaNoodle]

I'm sure this had been covered before but I I would rather just ask again rather than scroll through many pages to possibly find info, what samurai films would you guys suggest? I have every Kurosawa film through criterion so far, but that's the extent of samurai films in my collection so far.

[moviebuffed]

Originally Posted by AlphaNoodle

I'm sure this had been covered before but I I would rather just ask again rather than scroll through many pages to possibly find info, what samurai films would you guys suggest? I have every Kurosawa film through criterion so far, but that's the extent of samurai films in my collection so far.

Without a doubt please add "Harakiri" to your collection. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Actually, I'd wager a bet that it's the one Criterion that I've revisited the most.

[Donnie D]

Originally Posted by ZeTi

True, one of the funniest movies i've seen, and given the period of its production, quite brave as well.

I remember, while watching the film, thinking that it was made during the war. I can't even imagine the context and what it must've been like. Of course the other unforgettable thing

[Show spoiler]Carole Lombard's tragic death, at that point in her career. The reaction must've been understandably tremendously emotional.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by JJJ225

There WERE replacement Scanavo cases available for The Third Man, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Last Year at Marienbad.

Yes, but only available direct from Criterion themselves. My point was that they were never available in-store in Scanavo cases, just DigiPacks.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by AlphaNoodle

I'm sure this had been covered before but I I would rather just ask again rather than scroll through many pages to possibly find info, what samurai films would you guys suggest? I have every Kurosawa film through criterion so far, but that's the extent of samurai films in my collection so far.

Originally Posted by moviebuffed

Without a doubt please add "Harakiri" to your collection. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Actually, I'd wager a bet that it's the one Criterion that I've revisited the most.

And Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.

[Martin_31]

Originally Posted by AlphaNoodle

I'm sure this had been covered before but I I would rather just ask again rather than scroll through many pages to possibly find info, what samurai films would you guys suggest? I have every Kurosawa film through criterion so far, but that's the extent of samurai films in my collection so far.

Get the Zatoichi set. If you get it during the sale, it'll probably be around $70-80.

[starman15317]

My one friend, who is a film major, has finally begun his Criterion Collection, but he's been starting with the OOP titles. He just ordered The Third Man, Last Year at Marienbad and The Man Who Fell to Earth.

He also bought Nashville, The Graduate and Godzilla during the B&N sale, and I think he ordered Modern Times and something else.

I don't want to look at his bank account right now.

[Feiereisel]

Originally Posted by AlphaNoodle

I'm sure this had been covered before but I I would rather just ask again rather than scroll through many pages to possibly find info, what samurai films would you guys suggest? I have every Kurosawa film through criterion so far, but that's the extent of samurai films in my collection so far.

Some great ones have been suggested already; there may not be a bad choice based on what's available on blu-ray.

I'll second the refs for The Samurai Trilogy--it does not get enough love--and Harakiri. Three Outlaw Samurai is fun, too. Sword of Doom is maybe the hardest sell compared to the others.

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by JoeBuck

I'd imagine sometime in the next year.

I hope so. Been waiting on it a few years already.

[Roninblues]

Originally Posted by AlphaNoodle

I'm sure this had been covered before but I I would rather just ask again rather than scroll through many pages to possibly find info, what samurai films would you guys suggest? I have every Kurosawa film through criterion so far, but that's the extent of samurai films in my collection so far.

Ran (OOP from Criterion) but a 4K version is available. (Akira Kurosawa)
The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Zatoichi Box-set (various)

Many more out there. Let us know your tastes in the genre as you view more.

[zoodermin]

After reading the Ran's BD review, I don't understand how can Ran have a so-so video transfer if it got a 4k restoration. Did StudioCanal botched the transfer?