The Criterion Collection

[Sifox211]

Originally Posted by tatterdemalion

I agree 100%. This isn't a 'comedy' in the way most would define it. It's Tati's ultimate satire on using real life as humor. Everything in the movie could happen in the real world. It's all beautiful set pieces with the restaurant scene being one the best

[Show spoiler] 'things couldn't possibly get any worse'

moments on film. And the romance is so sweet. For me it's a great feel good movie and one of my 100 favorite films of all-time.

I get a chuckle every time I drive past the new developments near the airport at Dyce - a real, modern example of Tativille

[WillieMLF]

Originally Posted by kmhofmann

I might be in the minority among those who have seen Play Time but I found it incredibly tedious and boring, a cardinal sin for any comedy. Sure, there might be a lot going on in some scenes and I think I "got" the vast majority of the jokes and internal references (and didn't find it too much to take in, far from it)... but what's the use if none of it is either funny or subtle or both.
Any tips on how I might be able to appreciate Play Time more?

It's not really my cup of tea either. It just seemed too self-indulgent for me to care. No worries though

[RevolverOcelScott]

So yesterday I decided to finally watch my 4K of Night of the Living Dead with my wife for the 55th anniversary. When I opened it, I was shocked to see 2 discs, and 1 labeled Blu-ray. I began getting nervous as I'd purchased this a while back and am good about checking my discs. I began searching online if maybe they just labeled the 4K disc as Blu-ray....Then I saw a picture on here showing the 1st disc is underneath the insert.
I felt like such an idiot, and as I stand there....I realize...I did this exact same song and dance when I first bought it.

I'll chalk it up to being exhausted from yardwork in the morning.

Was a fantastic presentation, one of my all time favorites.

[kmhofmann]

Originally Posted by WillieMLF

It's not really my cup of tea either. It just seemed too self-indulgent for me to care. No worries though

That's a good way of putting it. I don't necessarily need jokes to laugh at. More subtle or quieter humor would also be great as long as it has a deeper purpose. But if there's neither and everything is held together by episodic, unconnected visual, aural, or behavioral flourishes and oddities, that just seems a bit... thin, for lack of a better word. Seems like Tati might just not click with me. Thanks all for the input!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Scottie

Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit (Wim Wenders, 2023)
https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2146

Just learned this was filmed in 3D at 6K resolution. So potential for both a 4K release, and/or a 3D Blu-ray like Pina.

Anselm - Official US Trailer - YouTube

[NeoNical]

Watching the trailer for this and what I say may not be something that everyone can agree with:

I think a film like Anselm would be better off with a 3D Blu-ray. The 4K would be very pleasing sure but I think the film's greatest strength is the use of 3D and how it works with the storytelling. I just don't know if this film would be even close to being as powerful as it would be when one watches it in 3D. Reminded me a lot of Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into the Night, another slow arthouse flick that just works much better in 3D. With this film, I'm only worried that the film wouldn't work at all with its long, slow paced shots when it is viewed in 2D. So unless a 4K 3D Blu-ray can work (I've never heard of one and I don't know if it can be technically possible), a 3D Blu-ray is the format I would choose for a film like this.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by NeoNical

Watching the trailer for this and what I say may not be something that everyone can agree with:

I think a film like Anselm would be better off with a 3D Blu-ray. The 4K would be very pleasing sure but I think the film's greatest strength is the use of 3D and how it works with the storytelling. I just don't know if this film would be even close to being as powerful as it would be when one watches it in 3D. Reminded me a lot of Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into the Night, another slow arthouse flick that just works much better in 3D. With this film, I'm only worried that the film wouldn't work at all with its long, slow paced shots when it is viewed in 2D. So unless a 4K 3D Blu-ray can work (I've never heard of one and I don't know if it can be technically possible), a 3D Blu-ray is the format I would choose for a film like this.

Yeah, I can't imagine Criterion not releasing it on Blu-ray 3D since that's how it was ideally meant to be seen. 4K isn't capable of 3D, so I only bring up the possibility of a 4K disc of the 2D presentation, similar to Pina also including a 2D version on Blu-ray.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Just learned this was filmed in 3D at 6K resolution. So potential for both a 4K release, and/or a 3D Blu-ray like Pina.

Anselm - Official US Trailer - YouTube

How many 3D titles does Criterion have? I didn't know there were any until I heard of Pina.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

How many 3D titles does Criterion have? I didn't know there were any until I heard of Pina.

Pina is the only one they have done. Kino Lorber did Godard's Goodbye to Language.

Originally Posted by NeoNical

So unless a 4K 3D Blu-ray can work (I've never heard of one and I don't know if it can be technically possible), a 3D Blu-ray is the format I would choose for a film like this.

The current specs for UHD players, displays and discs do not support 4K3D.

[Scottie]

Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado 2023)
https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2147

[Shane Rollins]

Peeping Tom just announced from StudioCanal:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33361

So maybe that's why Criterion hasn't done any more of their films.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

Peeping Tom just announced from StudioCanal:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33361

So maybe that's why Criterion hasn't done any more of their films.

By their films, you mean Powell and Pressburger? Peeping Tom is not from their collaboration, it is produced and directed by Michael Powell solo.

Peeping Tom was with SC even in the blu-ray only era - there was never any US BD release of the film (even from Lionsgate who had a deal with SC to put out US releases of many of their titles). But that didn't stop blu-rays and even UHD's of the P&P films from coming out on Criterion, so they're obviously under a different deal.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by ravenus

By their films, you mean Powell and Pressburger? Peeping Tom is not from their collaboration, it is produced and directed by Michael Powell solo.

Peeping Tom was with SC even in the blu-ray only era - there was never any US BD release of the film (even from Lionsgate who had a deal with SC to put out US releases of many of their titles). But that didn't stop blu-rays and even UHD's of the P&P films from coming out on Criterion, so they're obviously under a different deal.

I was suggesting that maybe SC has exclusive rights to their stuff with few exceptions, or maybe there's negotiations going on for that to happen.

What would really suck would be if the films are being dealt with one by one, then it would be impossible to figure out who's getting what. If The Red Shoes is one deal, Peeping Tom is another deal, and each film is going to have their own deal, that's insane. It would take decades to get them all available, if we could even get them all.

[DukeTogo84]

If anyone is interested in the Japanese titles Criterion has streaming, but not on physical disc, here ya go.

[Show spoiler]The 47 Ronin Part 1 (1941)
The 47 Ronin Part 2 (1941)
The X From Outer Space (1967)
Ako (1964)
Apart From You (1933)
Aptostasy (1948)
Army (1944)
Assassin (1964)
Atragon (1963)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Ballad of Orin (1977)
Ballad of a Workman (1962)
Bandits Vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)
Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
Beautiful Days (1955)
Big Joys, Small Sorrows (1986)
Black Lizard (1962)
Black River (1956)
Black Sun (1964)
Boy (1969)
Boyhood (1951)
Broken Drum (1949)
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
Burden of Life (1935)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Carmen Comes Home (1951)
Carmen's Innocent Love (1952)
The Castle of Sand (1974)
The Ceremony (1971)
Children of Nagasaki (1983)
A Colt is My Passport (1967)
Conflagration (1958)
Crazed Fruit (1956)
Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
Danger Stalks Near (1957)
Death Shadows (1986)
The Demon (1978)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Dodes'ka-Den (1970)
Dogora (1964)
Double Suicide (1969)
Dragnet Girl (1933)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Early Spring (1956)
Early Summer (1951)
Eijanaika (1981)
Empire of Passion (1978)
The End of Summer (1949)
Endless Desire (1958)
Equinox Flower (1958)
The Eternal Rainbow (1958)
Every-Night Dreams (1933)
Everything Goes Wrong (1960)
The Face of Another (1966)
Fall Guy (1982)
Farewell to a Dream (1956)
Farewell to Spring (1959)
Father (1988)
Fighting Elegy (1966)
Fires of the Plains (1959)
Fireworks over the Sea (1951)
A Flame at the Pier (1962)
Floating Clouds (1955)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Flowing (1956)
Flunky, Work Hard (1931)
Fountainhead (1956)
Frankenstein Vs Bargon (1965)
The Garden of Women (1954)
Gate of Flesh (1964)
The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
Genocide (1968)
Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
The Girl I Loved (1946)
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
Golden Demon (1954)
Golden Eyes (1968)
The Good Fairy (1951)
Good Morning (1959)
Gonza: The Spearman (1986)
Hanzo The Razor: The Snare (1973)
Hanzo The Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)
Hanzo The Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
Heat Wave (1991)
Her Brother (1960)
Here's to the Young Lady (1949)
A Hen in the Wind (1948)
Himiko (1974)
Hokusai (1953)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
Hunter in the Dark (1979)
The Idiot (1951)
I Am Waiting (1957)
I Flunked But (1930)
I Hate But Love (1962)
I Live In Fear (1955)
I Was Born But...(1932)
I Will Buy You (1956)
Ikebana (1957)
Immortal Love (1961)
The Inheritance (1962)
An Inn In Tokyo (1937)
An Innocent Witch (1965)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Intentions of Murder (1964)
Intimidation (1960)
Ironfinger (1965)
A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Jigoku (1960)
Jubilation Street (1944)
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988)
Kill! (1968)
Killers on Parade (1961)
The Lady and the Beard (1931)
Late Autumn (1960)
Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
The Last Dance (1993)
A Legend or Was It? (1963)
The Living Magoroku (1943)
The Living Skeleton (1968)
Love New and Old (1961)
The Lower Depths (1957)
Madadayo (1993)
The Man Who Left Hiss Will on Film (1970)
The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
Matango (1963)
The Men Who Tread on a Tigers Tail (1945)
Moonlight Serenade (1997)
Morning for the Osone Family (1946)
Mother (1952)
A Mother Should Be Love (1934)
The Most Beautiful (1944)
Mr. Thank You (1936)
Muhomatsu, The Rickshaw Man (1958)
The Mysterians (1957)
The Neighbors Wife and Mine (1931)
Nightdrum (1958)
Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
That's Nights Wife (1930)
No Blood Relation (1932)
No Regrets of Our Youth (1946)
Odd Obsession (1959)
Oh, My Son! (1979)
The Oil Hell Murder (1992)
One Way Ticket To Love (1960)
One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
The Only Son (1936)
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
Our Marriage (1961)
Passing Fancy (1933)
The Petrified Forest (1973)
The Perfect Game (1958)
Pigs and Battleships (1962)
Pitfall (1962)
The Phantom Horse (1955)
Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
Phoenix (1947)
The Pornographers (1966)
The Portrait (1958)
Princess from the Moon (1987)
Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
A Quiet Life (1995)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
Red Beard (1965)
Repast (1951)
The River Fuefuki (1960)
Rodan (1956)
The Rose on His Arm (1956)
Ronin Gai (1990)
Rusty Knife (1958)
Sada (1998)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Samurai Saga (1959)
Samurai Spy (1965)
Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
Scandal (1950)
Scattered Clouds (1967)
The Shadow Within (1970)
Shozo, a Cat, and Two Woman (1956)
Silence (1971)
Sincerity (1953)
Sing A Song of Sex (1967)
Sing, Young People (1963)
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
The Snow Flurry (1959)
Snow Trail (1947)
Sound of the Mountain (1954)
Space Amoeba (1970)
Spring Dreams (1960)
Stakeout (1958)
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Story of a Prostitute (1965)
A Straight Forward Boy (1929)
Street of Shame (1956)
Street Without End (1934)
Street of Love and Hope (1959)
Stolen Desire (1958)
Stray Dog (1949)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Supermarket Woman (1996)
The Suns Burial (1960)
Sword of the Beast (1965)
Take Aim At the Police Van (1960)
Tales of the Golden Geisha (1990)
The Tattered Wings (1955)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
A Taxing Woman Returns (1988)
Tracked (1985)
There Was A Father (1942)
The Thick Walled Room (1956)
The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)
Thirst for Love (1967)
Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Thus, Another Day (1959)
Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959)
Tokyo Chorus (1931)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Twenty Four Eyes (1954)
Under The Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
Varan The Unbelievable (1958)
Vendetta of a Samurai (1958)
Violence at Noon (1966)
Walk Cheerfully (1930)
War of the Gargantuas (1966)
The Warped Ones (1960)
Wedding Ring (1950)
What Did the Lady Forget (1937)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth (1932)
Wild Geese (1953)
Wife (1953)
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Woman (1948)
Woman In Witness Protection (1997)
Woman of Tokyo (1933)
Women of the Night (1948)
Yearning (1964)
Yotsuya Kaidan Part I (1949)
Yotsuya Kaidan Part II (1949)
The Young Rebels (1980)
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Youth in Fury (1960)

[Shane Rollins]

I Know Where I'm Going! restoration has been announced by BFI:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33368

[DWeickerSr]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

I Know Where I'm Going! has been announced by BFI:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33368

It hasn't been announced for a home video release (yet)

That is a trailer for the restoration. It could be theatrical re-release

[Taylor3978]

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by DWeickerSr

It hasn't been announced for a home video release (yet)

That is a trailer for the restoration. It could be theatrical re-release

It is a theatrical re-release, pretty much no chance of BFI licensing it when it’s ITV Studios. Theatrical rights are often different to physical rights, hence why the BFI haven’t released Blu-rays of La Dolce Vita, A Streetcar Named Desire, Nashville, Now Voyager, The Maltese Falcon, The Shop Around the Corner, The Big City, The Harder They Come, Top Hat, Le Mepris, and probably won’t release The Red Shoes on disc either.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

For what CC is charging, they should be pressing discs overseas and not in Mexico.

Maybe they are cheaper if you buy them at the Factory Store in Mexico?

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by The Sovereign

Do you really think someone can explain to you how to enjoy a comedy? It wasn’t your taste. Let it go and enjoy the films you like.

I had to explain to a lot of people how to enjoy ESCAPE FROM L.A.