The Criterion Collection

[jimonee78]

Originally Posted by quirkmanly

Why drag the thread back off topic?

Seriously why are we back on this? I am tired of scrolling through pages and pages of this crap.

[capnnarcolepsy]

Me too. Here, I'll help get us back into better grounds. Here's a link to what Criterion will be presenting at "All Tomorrow's Parties", including quite a few MGM titles that Criterioncast seem to think may make their way into the collection. Enjoy! I'm off to work.

http://criterioncast.com/2010/08/20/...o-be-screened/

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Don't worry, by the time you actually get your shipment you'll probably have forgotten you ever ordered it. Sometimes a package mysteriously appears on my doorstep and turns out to be something I ordered from DD over a month ago and forgot about.

Well...... so much for this..... I still don't have "The Red Shoes" but DD delivered "Black Orpheus" and "Crumb" today....... only 3 days from the time I ordered them....... Great price, and fast shipping..... very happy.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by johndoyle123

so what titles would you all like to see releases on blu-ray next year ......

either back catalog or new releases ( rumored or your wants ) ??

actually any wilder would be nice dont think he or monroe have made blu-ray yet

Of the back catalog films I'd like to see in Blu most are as follows. And I'm only going by the list of films not out of print on DVD and not already out on Blu. Don't know if Criterion has Blu-Ray rights to these.

3. The Lady Vanishes
4. Amarcord
17. Salo
29. Picnic at Hanging Rock
33. Nanook of the North
34. Andrei Rublev
43. Lord of the Flies
51. Brazil
56. The 39 Steps
63. Carnival of Souls
86. Eisenetein: The Sound Years
116. The Hidden Fortress
123. Gray Gardens
133. The Vanishing
134. Haxan
138. Rashoman
159. Red Beard
164. Solaris
190. Throne of Blood
221. Ikaru
231. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
249. The Battle of Algiers
277. My Own Private Idaho
300. The Life Aquatic
334. Harlan County USA
385. Army of Shadows
411. Berlin Alexanderplatz
437. Vampyr
459. The Exterminating Angel
464. Danton
480. The Human Condition
491. Z

[kndy]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

So the guys over at CriterionForum had thought up a little game:

"So You Think You Can Design a Better Modern Times Cover?"

Does anyone here want to make up a custom Modern Times cover and want to share with us?

I'll start off:

Hehe.... How Modern!!!

Here is my contribution:

[SpiderBaby]

Those look nice kndy. I like the first one.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Those look nice kndy. I like the first one.

+1

I love his first cover. I do like the cover Criterion went with but Kndy's first cover looks far better IMO.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

+1

I love his first cover. I do like the cover Criterion went with but Kndy's first cover looks far better IMO.

I also love the one EricJ posted a page back done by someone on CriterionForum. But yeah, I like the Criterion one, and was just making fun of it with my custom one. Like a High Times Magazine cover, if they still make those.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by capnnarcolepsy

Me too. Here, I'll help get us back into better grounds. Here's a link to what Criterion will be presenting at "All Tomorrow's Parties",
http://criterioncast.com/2010/08/20/...o-be-screened/

First reaction was, "PLEASE let that not be Criterion's 'Head' cover if it gets a single release... "
(And you just know they'd do it, too.)

including quite a few MGM titles that Criterioncast seem to think may make their way into the collection. Enjoy! I'm off to work.

And tuning in late, but I assume it's all but confirmed that we'll get that MGM-rescued "The Killing" down the road, since its one of the three Warner doesn't own?

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Of the back catalog films I'd like to see in Blu most are as follows. And I'm only going by the list of films not out of print on DVD and not already out on Blu. Don't know if Criterion has Blu-Ray rights to these.

...What, no "Magic Flute"??

And does Criterion even remember their Public-Domain Rescues, like "Charade", "My Man Godfrey", "39 Steps" and the WC Fields shorts?

[Belloche]

Originally Posted by johndoyle123

so what titles would you all like to see releases on blu-ray next year ......

either back catalog or new releases ( rumored or your wants ) ??

i would love :


- rules of the game
- rashamon
- fanny and alexander
- wild strawberries
- the killing
- badlands
- naked lunch
- bicycle thieves
- sweet smell of success
- 12 angry men
- judgment at Nuremberg
- some like it hot


actually any wilder would be nice dont think he or monroe have made blu-ray yet

Catalogue
ANY Mellville
La Strada
Beauty and the Beast
The Life Aquatic
Rififi

OOP
Nights of Cabiria

Sort of rumored
Badlands

A rumor I'm willing to start
Friedkin's Sorcerer

[SpiderBaby]

Can someone tell me the url to Wishlist on Criterion's site? I can't access it ever since they changed the site, because the Criterion logo keeps blocking the wishlist part of my account. Thanks.

I thought it would be Criterion.com/wishlist or something but it isn't.



Edit: Thanks, but no thanks. I finally found something that worked. Instead of "wishlist", it's "wishes".

[fdm]

Originally Posted by EricJ

And does Criterion even remember their Public-Domain Rescues, like "Charade", "My Man Godfrey", "39 Steps" and the WC Fields shorts?

I'd imagine they do since Charade is coming to blu in a month or two.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by kndy

Carl Jung believer. Like a Fourierism for those who follow Charles Fourier....

Like all of us who buy too much Criterion and many Blu-rays, although we may not be Marxist, his followers would say we are a society about "Commodity Fetishism". Hehe...

Yes kndy...we are all members of the Materialistic Bourgeoisie.

BTW...I like BOTH of your covers...keep em' coming!

[rkish]

Originally Posted by EricJ

...Hey, so what if Criterion's looks like one of those creepy abstract Polish movie posters?

The winner of the forum thread, by common consent, btw:

...Now, that's what we're talking about--Wouldn't that have made a little more sense??

(Seriously, even if the DVD release already used http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1448908800/tt0027977 , that still would've legally allowed Criterion to use http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3949041664/tt0027977 , which was the "true" remembered shot anyway.)

NICE Eric! Yours might be on the top of my list...for now.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

I'm beginning to think your wife and I should meet, rkish.

CC

AND AS FOR YOU YOUNG MAN...keep up this banter and I just might ship her over to you!

[Bruce Morrison]

Do you think there's any chance of them releasing Altman's 'Short Cuts' on Blu-ray? They did a superb DVD edition and I'm sure a Criterion Blu-ray edition would look amazing. We still have very little Altman on Blu-ray - only MASH and (soon) The Player have made it so far.

Other titles I'd like to see from Criterion would be:

The Ice Storm
The King Of Comedy
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Badlands
Missing
Taking Off
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Sunset Boulevard
Ace In The Hole
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
If....
This Sporting Life
Two Lane Blacktop
The Shooting
Ride In The Whirlwind
any of Wes Anderson's earlier films

[stobbart]

I would like to see:

All About Lily Chou Chou

Love Exposure

The Wayward Cloud

as these have either a very poor NA release or none at all. As far as older criterion titles being upgraded Im happy with whatever they give us. If I dont want it I wont buy it. I would like to many older titles to name to come out. But I think that Kwaidan and the Olivier Shakespeare adaptations would benefit greatly from it.

And since Criterion has still been unable to get rights to any Greenway I just placed my order for the BFI A Zed and Two Noughts (its region free :] )

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by stobbart

But I think that Kwaidan and the Olivier Shakespeare adaptations would benefit greatly from it.

(sigh)...We were THAT close to getting Kwaidan when they did the survey--
But noooo, everyone helped out by saying "I haven't seen any of them, but Remains of the Day is the one I've heard of! "

(Film literacy is fundamental. )

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by Bruce Morrison

Do you think there's any chance of them releasing Altman's 'Short Cuts' on Blu-ray? They did a superb DVD edition and I'm sure a Criterion Blu-ray edition would look amazing. We still have very little Altman on Blu-ray - only MASH and (soon) The Player have made it so far.

Other titles I'd like to see from Criterion would be:

The Ice Storm
The King Of Comedy
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Badlands
Missing
Taking Off
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Sunset Boulevard
Ace In The Hole
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
If....
This Sporting Life
Two Lane Blacktop
The Shooting
Ride In The Whirlwind
any of Wes Anderson's earlier films

Criterion can afford to go easy on Anderson for the time being with Darjeeling due in November.

Now if they were to release a Wilder blu-ray set (And i Rarely use that icon!)

[P@t_Mtl]

It would be a good star to 2011 if Criterion release these on Blu-ray for me

Eisenetein: The Sound Years
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Throne of Blood
The Hidden Fortress

I know chances are very low but I can dream