The Criterion Collection

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by speedracer5

I managed to purchase the "Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood" blu ray box set at Barnes and Noble. We'll see if they're able to fulfill the order. I also picked up "The Great Dictator" and the new 4K of "The Last Picture Show."

Any differences in terms of PQ, AQ, and special features between the Criterion 4K and the Columbia Classics 4K?

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by speedracer5

Ah man. Fingers crossed. I know they had the DVD version of the set available, but the sale price is the same as the blu ray, so why would I get the DVD? I hope they have the set available too, I've been waiting for it to be on sale all year. The only issue I've ever had with packaging is ordering from Target. Two different times, my movie came with the box smashed and the cover art torn. My bird chewed up the corner of my box and cover art for "The Awful Truth." I'm hoping Criterion has started up their replacement program again.

The joy of having pets. My bird chews any paper near him and bites whoever he can. He think he’s a big bad guy at only four inches tall.

Worse though is my dog, who destroyed my copy of Gone With The Wind right as all the BS surrounding that movie happened a few years ago. Wasn’t fun trying to replace it either.

[Shane Rollins]

Two unrelated questions:

1. Any opinions on the Criterion Blu of La Cérémonie? A certain reviewer has given the disc his smear of disapproval, and I figured what better place to go than the forums.

2. Do we know whether Criterion has a new deal with Paramount or somehow got the old deal back up and running? Users here are beginning to speculate that a certain Paramount title is coming from Criterion, but I haven’t seen anything to indicate that a deal even exists. (Plus it’s a notoriously bogged down title, so it’s not something Criterion could just take on like it’s any other movie.)

[BorisKarloffice]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

1. Considering True Lies and The Abyss are the closest they’ve ever been to coming, Pat Garrett may become the official “what the hell is the holdup” movie if the two Cameron films finally drop. =

Where the hell is Panic Room, while we're at it?

[jedidarrick]

Originally Posted by BorisKarloffice

Where the hell is Panic Room, while we're at it?

Or the early Peter Jackson films, for that matter.

[Mike0284]

Todd Haynes's Closet Picks - YouTube

[BorisKarloffice]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

Or the early Peter Jackson films, for that matter.

PJ's waiting for even stronger DNR to be invented because someone might still be able to tell they were shot on film if he released them now.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by BorisKarloffice

Where the hell is Panic Room, while we're at it?

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

Or the early Peter Jackson films, for that matter.

I just bagged Panic Room and Braindead/Dead Alive on tape. Panic Room is 1.78:1, but I don't know if it's pan-and scan or open matte. Braindead says Unrated and 97 minutes, but the tape is a T-115 (long enough to hold the actual uncut version), while the rest were all T-97 tapes. Probably won't get lucky, but one can only hope.

Does anyone know if there's any place to find the 104-minute cut of Braindead? I know the shorter 97-minute cut is Jackson's preferred Director's Cut, but the uncut version is just so much more appealing.

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by BorisKarloffice

PJ's waiting for even stronger DNR to be invented because someone might still be able to tell they were shot on film if he released them now.

For real. LOTR was a shitstorm. It's a shame the Atmos was so great (especially on TROTK), and I can't name any one release where the picture and sound are at such polar opposite ends of the spectrum.

Get Back, on the other hand, actually looked good to me. I don't know why. It didn't look waxy and DNR'd at all.

Jackson and Cameron are the only two guys on earth who think waxing the films over makes them look better. I don't know what's in the water in New Zealand, but it got to both of them.

With the recent 4Ks of American Graffiti and The Exorcist, Lucas and with his dying breaths Friedkin turned to the wax side too.

It's 2023. The animus towards DVD-like presentations is well documented. Why keep doing it? How many times do they have to be told "you're not making it better, you're making it worse" before they get it?

[stvn1974]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

Or the early Peter Jackson films, for that matter.

He is doing another DNR pass on them.

[BorisKarloffice]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

With the recent 4Ks of American Graffiti and The Exorcist, Lucas and with his dying breaths Friedkin turned to the wax side too.

The exorcism scenes looks like bad YouTube rip. It's unbelievable that product was allowed to make it to market in 2023.

[mfitzwah]

I've been watching and enjoying the Robert Bresson feature on Criterion Channel and I was thinking of picking up the available Criterion blu-rays while the sale is still happening, but I am hesitating because I am wondering if Criterion might release a Bresson box set in the future.

Not sure it would be as comprehensive as, say, the Bergman box, but with the Pickpocket Blu/DVD set being out of print and Diary of a Country Priest on the Channel looking to be a fairly recent 4K restoration from StudioCanal, I am wondering if it's better to wait...

[JonBTS]

Originally Posted by mfitzwah

I've been watching and enjoying the Robert Bresson feature on Criterion Channel and I was thinking of picking up the available Criterion blu-rays while the sale is still happening, but I am hesitating because I am wondering if Criterion might release a Bresson box set in the future.

Not sure it would be as comprehensive as, say, the Bergman box, but with the Pickpocket Blu/DVD set being out of print and Diary of a Country Priest on the Channel looking to be a fairly recent 4K restoration from StudioCanal, I am wondering if it's better to wait...

I wouldn't hold my breath for a box set, but I would be concerned with possible 4K upgrades. I'm in a similar situation now with David Lynch and Orson Welles. Hell, the David Lynch stuff is already even restored in 4K.

[amputd]

My patience has expired. I demand Criterion release Zabriskie Point in 4k or your planet will be destroyed!

[DimitriL]

Originally Posted by Shane Rollins

I thought the same thing about West Side Story. I mentioned to my mother’s friend (who likes musicals even more than me) that I thought all the dancing before, during, and after fights was ridiculous, and he told me that on top of this being a musical (so logic doesn’t apply), it was supposed to be a nonviolent stand-in for actual fights and violence.

Having watched gangs fight for control of several of my schools (with no real success, it just annoyed the normal people), I can’t imagine the Bloods and the Crips twirling around before they start killing each other, but maybe that’s just me.

Ah, I don't know, I always bounce off this kind of reasoning. I mean, the number of absolutely unrealistic things we tolerate in, say, a SF film like sound in space for the sake of artistic or emotional conceits? It's just staggering. But something like people singing and moving, well my god, HOW FAKE IS THAT? We've come to a weird place in the culture.

[LordoftheRings]

Roger and James Deakins's Closet Picks - YouTube

[saltburn]

Originally Posted by BorisKarloffice

Where the hell is Panic Room, while we're at it?

That 3 disc special edition Sony released, back when studios cared about supplements, was STACKED. I hope all those extras and commentaries makes it to an eventual blu-ray/4k release

[koberulz]

The movie looks awful, though, even by DVD standards.

[Member-880182]

Originally Posted by speedracer5

Ah man. Fingers crossed. I know they had the DVD version of the set available, but the sale price is the same as the blu ray, so why would I get the DVD? I hope they have the set available too, I've been waiting for it to be on sale all year. The only issue I've ever had with packaging is ordering from Target. Two different times, my movie came with the box smashed and the cover art torn. My bird chewed up the corner of my box and cover art for "The Awful Truth." I'm hoping Criterion has started up their replacement program again.

I am pleased to report that my Dietrich/von Sternberg set arrived in beautiful condition today.

[Lannister1098]

My final Criterion haul from Barnes and Noble.