The Criterion Collection

[joy-division]

I hope they cast Charlie Sheen

[joy-division]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Also if were talking about Criterion DVDs I would suggest:

Shoot the Piano Player
The Thief of Bagdad
The Burmese Harp
The Lubitsch Musicals Eclipse Set
The Bad Sleep Well
Stray Dog
Brute Force
The Passion of Joan D' Arc

I would just get the MoC Passion. Both the regular & steelbook are awesome what with the case & b massive booklet, but if you can find the steel it's gorgeous

The Passion of Joan of Arc MoC Blu-Ray comaprism/review - YouTube

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by joy-division

I would just get the MoC Passion. Both the regular & steelbook are awesome what with the case & b massive booklet, but if you can find the steel it's gorgeous

The Passion of Joan of Arc MoC Blu-Ray comaprism/review - YouTube

At the moment I have to get a cheap Region Free player when I have some more money.

[Fabs]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

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

I hope we get them individually. I'm not looking forward to having to buy another expensive box set, just to get one film like I did with Apu Trilogy and the World Cinema Project #2 sets.

[dml1988]

So I just finished watching The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog last night, man Hitchcock knew how to make good films. The movie was great to watch. I thought June Tripp and Ivor Novello were great as the 2 leads.

[mande2013]

Originally Posted by Fabs

I hope we get them individually. I'm not looking forward to having to buy another expensive box set, just to get one film like I did with Apu Trilogy and the World Cinema Project #2 sets.

Which film in the WCF set did you want? I still find it odd that films like Ordet and Pather Panchali don't get stand-alone blu-ray releases, since each on their own, they're such vital works to film history and hardly obscure to boot like Insiang. Ordet hasn't been upgraded by Criterion, but it's been released on blu-ray in both the UK and France and only in boxsets.

[scottpcusa]

Originally Posted by Fabs

I hope we get them individually. I'm not looking forward to having to buy another expensive box set, just to get one film like I did with Apu Trilogy and the World Cinema Project #2 sets.

I hear you! I would love to have an individual release of Blithe Spirit without having to purchase the entire David Lean Directs Noël Coward set.

[Member-222782]

This week's falling-price-by-the-hour Criterions are Othello and the John Cassavetes box set. Since Amazon doesn't offer after-the-fact price adjustments I'm reluctant to pull the trigger on either of these until the prices stop falling but how can we know where they'll stop? They Live By Night bottomed out at $15.87 before climbing back up. Anybody know what the MSRP on that Cassavetes set is? Maybe it'll be cheaper during the B&N sale next month.

[mande2013]

Originally Posted by Cinema74

This week's falling-price-by-the-hour Criterions are Othello and the John Cassavetes box set. Since Amazon doesn't offer after-the-fact price adjustments I'm reluctant to pull the trigger on either of these until the prices stop falling but how can we know where they'll stop? They Live By Night bottomed out at $15.87 before climbing back up. Anybody know what the MSRP on that Cassavetes set is? Maybe it'll be cheaper during the B&N sale next month.

Blow Up is 20.89 right now. I remember The Three Colors Trilogy being ~$38 a while back,

[skubrick2899]

Originally Posted by Cinema74

This week's falling-price-by-the-hour Criterions are Othello and the John Cassavetes box set. Since Amazon doesn't offer after-the-fact price adjustments I'm reluctant to pull the trigger on either of these until the prices stop falling but how can we know where they'll stop? They Live By Night bottomed out at $15.87 before climbing back up. Anybody know what the MSRP on that Cassavetes set is? Maybe it'll be cheaper during the B&N sale next month.

The Cassavetes set has an MSRP of $124.95 on Criterion's website. So, during the half off sale it would be $62.48. Even after tax Amazon's deal is best unless you're able to find the set at B&N and use a coupon on top of that. Still, that's a good deal.

I'm monitoring Wal-Mart's page for the set as Amazon is simply price matching their pick up in store deal. If that disappears then Amazon's price will go back up.

[MeMynonsense]

Watched Bertolucci’s first film The Grim Reaper the other day and was terribly impressed. It is essentially a murder mystery with a Rashomon-esque narrative structure involving a prostitute’s death. The ensuing investigation focuses on the testimonies of various bystanders through flashbacks, as they recollect their movements on the previous day. However unlike Rashomon there’s very little contradiction in the suspects’ accounts and are merely disjointed by time. The elaborate digressions into each suspect’s personal life get tiresome after a while but Bertolucci never loses track of the event that brings all these characters together. Based on a story by Pier Paolo Pasolini and shot in chilling B&W — TGR offers a fascinating glimpse into marginalised Rome of the 60s - thieves, petty mariners, pimps, prostitutes, homosexuals and assorted disgruntled folk living on fringes. I think for a 21 year old Bertolucci displays extraordinary maturity and uncanny command over the medium which is further attested by his ability to extract effective performances from virtual amateurs. Hope it gets some blu-love down the line.

[Fabs]

Originally Posted by mande2013

Which film in the WCF set did you want? I still find it odd that films like Ordet and Pather Panchali don't get stand-alone blu-ray releases, since each on their own, they're such vital works to film history and hardly obscure to boot like Insiang. Ordet hasn't been upgraded by Criterion, but it's been released on blu-ray in both the UK and France and only in boxsets.

Taipei Story.

[javy]

I've already been finding some sweet Criterion deals before the sale even starts. Purchased Solaris for $13 (thank you forum member iScottie) and just grabbed Belle de Jour for $17 off ebay. Sweet action!

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by joy-division

I would just get the MoC Passion. Both the regular & steelbook are awesome what with the case & b massive booklet, but if you can find the steel it's gorgeous

The Passion of Joan of Arc MoC Blu-Ray comaprism/review - YouTube

The MoC passion obviously is a great release, but I don't know if I want it as it doesn't contain the Einhorn Voices of Light soundtrack, which is one of my favorite of all time. I've never seen it without.

[llj]

Originally Posted by scottpcusa

I hear you! I would love to have an individual release of Blithe Spirit without having to purchase the entire David Lean Directs Noël Coward set.

Man...This Happy Breed is one of Lean's BEST early films. Hell, I'd say it's in his top 10 overall. I like it even better than Blithe Spirit. At least 3 out of 4 films in that set are a must own. But that's just me. In Which We Serve is my least favorite of the 4, but I just can't fathom anyone not wanting to own most of the films in that set.

[Shanghai Express]

The 2007 Fox DVD of Stanley Donen's Bedazzled (1967) has been OOP for a while now. Might this be a contender for Criterion release, or maybe Kino or Twilight Time? I believe both Valley Of The Dolls and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls went OOP from Fox before Criterion announced them last year.

[joy-division]

Do you think Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Dancer in the Dark & Dogville should be Criterions & what are the possibilities that they will?

[joy-division]

Originally Posted by mrmikefern

The 2007 Fox DVD of Stanley Donen's Bedazzled (1967) has been OOP for a while now. Might this be a contender for Criterion release, or maybe Kino or Twilight Time? I believe both Valley Of The Dolls and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls went OOP from Fox before Criterion announced them last year.

Anything with Pete 'n Dud is fine by me great film, why did they have to remake it

Would love to see some Ealing Classics. I have a great Alec Guinness DVD box set - The Ladylillers (Again, why the remake? The Con Bros rarely mistep but this?) , Kind Hearts & Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob & The Man in the White Suit

https://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/Ealing-C...uit-DVD/41873/

Classic Comedy Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - YouTube

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by mrmikefern

The 2007 Fox DVD of Stanley Donen's Bedazzled (1967) has been OOP for a while now. Might this be a contender for Criterion release, or maybe Kino or Twilight Time? I believe both Valley Of The Dolls and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls went OOP from Fox before Criterion announced them last year.

I thought I read that Twilight Time had the inside track to Bedazzled, although I'd love to see a Criterion release with some Pete and Dud extras.

[ShellOilJunior]

For reference:

Criterion Blu-rays w/4K transfers:

Total: 183

[Show spoiler]3:10 to Yuma
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
A Brief History of Time
A Brighter Summer Day
A Dry White Season
A Hard Day’s Night
A Matter of Life and Death
A Room with a View
A Raisin in the Sun
A Special Day
A Story from Chikamatsu
A Taste of Honey
A Touch of Zen
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
All That Jazz
An Actor's Revenge
An Autumn Afternoon
Barry Lyndon
Badlands
Being There
Bicycle Thieves
Black Girl
Blind Chance
Blood Simple
Blow-Up
Breaker Morant
Breaking the Waves
Broadcast News
Bull Durham
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Carnival of Souls
City Lights
Cold Water
Dead Man
Death by Hanging
Death in Venice
Dekalog
Desert Hearts
Dont Look Back
Don't Look Now
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dragon Inn
Drive, He Said/A Safe Place
Dressed to Kill
Easy Rider
Election
Eraserhead
Fantastic Planet
Fellini Satyricon
Female Trouble
Five Easy Pieces
Forty Guns
Fox and His Friends
Ghost World
Good Morning
Head
Heaven Can Wait
Hiroshima mon amour
I Knew Her Well
Ikiru
In Cold Blood
In the Heat of the Night
Insiang
Inside Llewyn Davis
Insomnia
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
It Happened One Night
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Jabberwocky
Jubal
King of Jazz
L’avventura
La chienne
La Ciénaga
La dolce vita
La notte
La verite
L'argent
Limelight
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Manila in the Claws of Light
Marketa Lazarová
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Medium Cool
Memories of Underdevelopment
Midnight Cowboy
Mikey and Nicky
Mildred Pierce
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Mister Johnson
Monterey Pop
Moonrise
Mulholland Dr.
Multiple Maniacs
Muriel, or The Time of Return
My Darling Clementine
My Man Godfrey
My Own Private Idaho
Night and Fog
Night and the City
Night of the Living Dead
Notorious
Olympia
On the Waterfront
One-Eyed Jacks
Only Angels Have Wings
Othello
Phoenix
Punch-Drunk Love
Rebecca
Richard III
Rumble Fish
Safe
Seconds
sex, lies, and videotape
Shanghai Express
Shampoo
Shoah
Short Cuts
Sid & Nancy
Sisters
Some Like It Hot
Speedy
Straw Dogs
Taipei Story
Tampopo
Tess
The Age of Innocence
The American Friend
The Apu Trilogy
The Awful Truth
The Ballad of Narayama
The Big Chill
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Black Stallion
The Breakfast Club
The Color of Pomegranates
The Executioner
The Freshman
The Graduate
The Honeymoon Killers
The Immortal Story
The Innocents
The Kid
The King of Marvin Gardens
The Last Picture Show
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Manchurian Candidate
The Marseille Trilogy
The Merchant of Four Seasons
The New World
The Palm Beach Story
The Philadelphia Story
The Player
The Princess Bride
The Rose
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman's Cinema box set)
The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind
The Silence of the Lambs
The Squid and the Whale
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
The Vanishing
The Virgin Suicides
Thief
Tokyo Olympiad
Tokyo Story
Tom Jones
Tootsie
To Sleep with Anger
True Stories
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Ugetsu
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Visions of Eight
Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy
Women in Love
Young Mr. Lincoln