The Criterion Collection

[gkolb]

Originally Posted by koberulz

WAC was reinstated under AT&T.

As for the "kids these days don't watch old films"...kids back in your day didn't watch old films either. Most people don't, and never have. You're on a film enthusiast forum, obviously things are going to be different here, but the majority of the population doesn't care because it's not a field that interests them. Talk to them in depth about their hobbies and you'd seem pretty clueless in those fields, too.

As a kid (in the 50's/60's) all we watched were "old" films, on TV either later at night, or daytime on weekends, or movie 'Specials" on the 3 networks. I didn't see new mainstream movies until I got my driver's license and had some disposible cash to spend on a movie ticket. I saw 2001 by myself on a movie palace screen in my medium sized town. Maybe a dozen people in the theater that showing. Later on same for Jaws. Saw Dirty Harry with a friend. It wasn't until college that I saw a movie with more than one other person.

Things were different and more self-sufficient it seems like in that time.

[Bradsdadg]

Originally Posted by Mike0284

Udo Kier’s Closet Picks - YouTube

This one was great! Honestly got me wanting to pick up Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula during the next BF sales from VS/Severin

[NeoNical]

Originally Posted by Mike0284

Udo Kier’s Closet Picks - YouTube

About time! I remember the polaroid of his visit popping up on Instagram months ago. 3 great stories from a magnificent actor

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I don't think so. Sometimes, Janus page entries don't get added until years after the release has been out.

I think they've managed to secure distribution rights for the films now, as opposed to have them licensed out to them.

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by gkolb

As a kid (in the 50's/60's) all we watched were "old" films, on TV either later at night, or daytime on weekends, or movie 'Specials" on the 3 networks. I didn't see new mainstream movies until I got my driver's license and had some disposible cash to spend on a movie ticket. I saw 2001 by myself on a movie palace screen in my medium sized town. Maybe a dozen people in the theater that showing. Later on same for Jaws. Saw Dirty Harry with a friend. It wasn't until college that I saw a movie with more than one other person.

Things were different and more self-sufficient it seems like in that time.

I was more late 60s & 70s but yeah, I watched a ton of old movies. Often with my dad or mom, with friends, or by myself. That’s what was on and there were few options. Granted, they stayed with me and became more of a hobby for me than others, but every kid I grew up with watched old movies.

[koberulz]

The $10 certificates are stackable, right?

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Bradsdadg

This one was great! Honestly got me wanting to pick up Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula during the next BF sales from VS/Severin

Do it! DO IT!!

[bonehica]

Originally Posted by koberulz

The $10 certificates are stackable, right?

Yes

[Infallible Presence]

I'm officially putting a stop to purchasing anymore of their products. So, Arrow, and any other, will now get most of their money. Criterion claims to hold pride in their products. Yet, they charge you $5 for a replacement of a product they themselves damaged. It seems every time I get one of their movies from Amazon, it's always comes damaged because Criterion or the people who they've hired failed to put the product together right.

It's absurd for them to even pull this type of crap. When Arrow, Shout!, Vinegar Syndrome, just to name a few, charges nothing to replace their damaged products, including shipping.

The only way I'll ever purchase one of their movies again is if can exam the product beforehand. Which will of course be next to never since they no longer sell their movies at Target or the alike. The Barnes & Noble, that I used to go to no longer has the Red Lobster, in its shopping center. And, the only other store is way the f**k out of the way and has nothing anywhere within the vicinity worthy of me traveling out there.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by Infallible Presence

Criterion...charge you $5 for a replacement of a product...from Amazon

This is an absurdly high level of customer service you would get from almost no other company.

[Infallible Presence]

Originally Posted by koberulz

This is an absurdly high level of customer service you would get from almost no other company.

Amazon doesn't help either with their policies either. Can't return/exchange products after 30 days. Yet, it takes them over 30 days to send out Criterion titles for whatever F'd-up reason. And, I have Prime, what the F. It should only take 2 days max.

[trobrianders]

Originally Posted by Mike0284

Udo Kier’s Closet Picks - YouTube

Every closet picks video from now on should feature those who are minded to share stories out of love like Herr Kier and no more shoplifters filling their greedy boots. We've had enough of social justice looters!

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Taylor3978

People are basically lazy and incurious. Everything else is excuses.

It used to be you would catch old films on late night TV. We think of it as the Dark Age before we could just buy the physical disk, but with the market giving up on physical media and streaming services basically regarding old films as so much filler in their schedules, it could get much worse. It used to you'd plonk yourself in front of the TV late at night and some old B&W gem would come on (I still have fond memories as a young kid watching King Kong on a 9" TV with my Dad and uncle, and them marveling at how great it was). Now you have to search it out, and most people are directed by the brain-dead AI algorithms to Top 40 because that's all it understands.

That is absolutely right. Technology and narrowcasting have moved multitudes of people to never ever venture out of the personal comfort zones. In that Dark Age, as you say, the choices were fewer by default and often we watched what we could just because we could.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Bradsdadg

This one was great! Honestly got me wanting to pick up Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula during the next BF sales from VS/Severin

I met Udo Kier in Los Angeles years ago and thought he was a cool guy with a great sense of humor. I remember during a Q&A with him at the LA County Museum Of Art before a screening of FLESH FOR FRANK someone asked him who his favorite Smurf was. He paused and then said:

"Smurf? Little blue people? No, I don't do Smurfs."

[trobrianders]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

That is absolutely right. Technology and narrowcasting have moved multitudes of people to never ever venture out of the personal comfort zones. In that Dark Age, as you say, the choices were fewer by default and often we watched what we could just because we could.

Oh please! We're herd animals. The advent of irrigation ensured that. Still, I am nostalgic.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by koberulz

C was reinstated under AT&T.WA
As for the "kids these days don't watch old films"...kids back in your day didn't watch old films either. Most people don't, and never have. You're on a film enthusiast forum, obviously things are going to be different here, but the majority of the population doesn't care because it's not a field that interests them. Talk to them in depth about their hobbies and you'd seem pretty clueless in those fields, too.

Quite a crock there.

In "my day" as a teenager in the 70's everyone I came into contact with people who watched old movies and were knowledgeable about old film directors and performers. And I'm talking about a regular high school, not a film school or classes. I'm not sure where or when "your day" was, but thank God it was not the norm for a lot of us and you have my sympathies.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by trobrianders

Oh please! We're herd animals. The advent of irrigation ensured that. Still, I am nostalgic.

Did you ever check someone's music playlist these days? It's always most of the same styles of music and virtually nothing that deviates from it. When you are able to just choose stuff you think you like, what is the incentive to deviate from it? As was alluded to earlier, few imaginations and too little curiosity today.

[trobrianders]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

few imaginations and too little curiosity today.

As we like it! I live according to what I am, not what I'd like to think I am. Dreamers are quaint and should be gently mocked. They certainly shouldn't be in control. They only make for a dysfunctional world.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by trobrianders

As we like it! I live according to what I am, not what I'd like to think I am. Dreamers are quaint and should be gently mocked. They certainly shouldn't be in control. They only make for a dysfunctional world.

I wish I understood what the hell you're going on about here. Or maybe I don't? Self-satisfaction is an important element of a life, no doubt, but people who are too stubborn or obstinate to ever change anything about themselves are to be pitied, not envied. That's the REAL dysfunction in the world.

[trobrianders]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

I wish I understood what the hell you're going on about here. Or maybe I don't? Self-satisfaction is an important element of a life, no doubt, but people who are too stubborn or obstinate to ever change anything about themselves are to be pitied, not envied. That's the REAL dysfunction in the world.

You made a philosophical point. I countered it. No need to get personal.