The Criterion Collection

[wilky61]

Originally Posted by octagon

Yeah, this will be an easy one. I love the subject matter, loved Grand Illusion, love French...what?...old wave?

Oh, and I love blind buying Criterions in November

Rules of the Game is a well made film, but I didn't like it the first time I watched it (and still prefer to rewatch Grand Illusion) because every character in Rules of the Game is detestable.

Just my $0.02

[Benchman]

Just a heads up but Dazed and Confused is going to be on HDnet movies in about an hour. If you somehow you haven't seen it, do yourself and favor a watch it!

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by AgentOrange

I was browsing imports and noticed UK got blu-ray releases of Rififi and Pigs and Battleships (and also a recent release of HaraKiri which had already been announced by Criterion for October).

Pigs and Battleships has been sitting in my Amazon UK basket for a while, but I've been holding off in the hope that Criterion upgrades it.
However, it's packaged with a film called Stolen Desire, whereas Criterion's old DVD package has it with The Insect Woman and Intentions of Murder. If Criterion upgrades, who knows which package would be best to get.
I haven't seen any of them, but would happily blind-buy the lot

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by dumb_dutchman

How about some Polish films from Wojciech Has, The Saragossa Manuscript or The Hourglass Sanatorium?

I was debating picking up the UK DVDs as it looks like the possibility of a Polish distributor for these films on blu is looking pretty slim. Hopefully, the DVDs will be available for a while with the problems they were having at the Sony distribution center.

I think you should be safe in ordering those UK DVDs if you want them. I honestly don't see Criterion releasing that much films outside of the usual American, French, Japanese, German, Italian films in the near future. It's been rare.

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

I'm guessing it will list for about $79.99/around $50 from Amazon.

Great news about The Rules of the Game, one of my most-desired upgrades.

I never bought the Criterion DVD, so I've been hoping for an upgrade soon.
One of my all-time favourites

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by wilky61

There isn't one (Panasonic remote/player). But they went away somehow. Not sure how I would turn them back on if I wanted to; I find it odd that this Criterion release doesn't have a subtitles option in the menu. I'm gonna have to check my copies of Charade or Stagecoach or something later.

Gonna watch Killer's Kiss now. I would rate the PQ of The Killing a 4.5/5. It looks excellent.

I have a Panasonic player (BD80) as well and there isn't a dedicated subtitle button (which really annoys me).
I have to use the on-screen display button, which brings up various audio and subtitle options. Give that a try...

[Petyr_Baelish]

Persona

[Monty70]

Originally Posted by wilky61

DMP-BD45, here is the remote:

That is the same Blu-ray player I am using these days. (I used my American Express rewards program, so it was free)

I like the player so far. It's not fancy, but it has performed flawlessly and played every region A BD I have. (very nice after all the problems I have been through with my Sony BDP 360)

[wilky61]

Originally Posted by Monty70

That is the same Blu-ray player I am using these days. (I used my American Express rewards program, so it was free)

I like the player so far. It's not fancy, but it has performed flawlessly and played every region A BD I have. (very nice after all the problems I have been through with my Sony BDP 360)

And I bought mine for $23 after my old Panasonic-60 broke. What can I say, the price was right.

I've watched about 50 blus on it so far and only had a little bit of trouble with Universal's Casino blu-ray (five or six minute loading time).

As rkish pointed out, I was able to toggle the subtitles and adjust other audio/video options of which I was never aware while watching Army of Shadows just now. I really crave some more Melville on blu... His cinematography was made for high def.

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by wilky61

And I bought mine for $23 after my old Panasonic-60 broke. What can I say, the price was right.

I've watched about 50 blus on it so far and only had a little bit of trouble with Universal's Casino blu-ray (five or six minute loading time).

As rkish pointed out, I was able to toggle the subtitles and adjust other audio/video options of which I was never aware while watching Army of Shadows just now. I really crave some more Melville on blu... His cinematography was made for high def.

I have the DMP-BD65 myself. I've yet to have a problem with it. My remote is identical to yours as well. I figured out the subtitle thing accidentally, and some what quickly, just by playing around with buttons when I first got it. I've had nary an issue with it, except when I tried to play a PAL DVD. That's why I have the cheapass Seiki as a second BD player, so I can play region Bs and PAL DVDs.

[octagon]

Just finished Chungking Express: chalk up one more on the Fanstastic Freaking Criterion Blind Buy list.

The first half was absolutely excellent but I completely fell head-over-heels in love with the second half. Two thoughts kept running through my head...

*If John Cussack had watched this a few times he could have saved making five or ten or fifty mediocre movies and maybe made an actual good one.

*I guess 500 Days of Summer wasn't quite as edgy and fresy as I'd first though and was in fact more than a little retro.

Make it three thoughts - where the hell have I heard that Cantonese/Mandarin/whatever warbling pop song before. Some other movie or movies (and not particularly good ones but don't hold me to that) have featured either that same song or an Americanized version of it.

[exolstice]

Originally Posted by octagon

Make it three thoughts - where the hell have I heard that Cantonese/Mandarin/whatever warbling pop song before. Some other movie or movies (and not particularly good ones but don't hold me to that) have featured either that same song or an Americanized version of it.

It's a Cantonese cover of the song Dreams by The Cranberries.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by exolstice

It's a Cantonese cover of the song Dreams by The Cranberries.

Thank.

You.

That was driving me crazy.

[ShellOilJunior]

The are no films from Liechtenstein in the collection.

[Corey31]

Originally Posted by moumou

I am hoping they decide to take the plunge and start at least releasing all new movies on blu. They just announced The Friends of Eddie Coyle on DVD. Criterion discs aren't cheap and I can't justify paying those kind of prices for DVDs at this point. They also have a bunch of catalouge titles that I'm going to wait out to see if they give them the blu treatment[IMG][/IMG]

I don't know what you mean by just announced, as that was originally released by Criterion nearly 2 years ago. The last time Criterion released a DVD in the main spine set that was not also on BR was last August. Since then every new film added was on BR.

[PowellPressburger]

Wish Criterion would just post their announcements today since they practically have announced possibly half of their slate. It would be funny if they did to throw everyone off.

[trombone dixie]

Changed my signature two months ago and I've been able to check one title off each month since. I'm hoping I get to continue that trend.

[AgentOrange]

Originally Posted by wilky61

And I bought mine for $23 after my old Panasonic-60 broke. What can I say, the price was right.

I've watched about 50 blus on it so far and only had a little bit of trouble with Universal's Casino blu-ray (five or six minute loading time).

As rkish pointed out, I was able to toggle the subtitles and adjust other audio/video options of which I was never aware while watching Army of Shadows just now. I really crave some more Melville on blu... His cinematography was made for high def.

I have a mid-tier Panasonic (no wi-fi). Casino is the ONE film of the well over 100 of blu-rays I've viewed that has given me any problems whatsoever. Mine actually wouldn't load at all (I must have waited 10 minutes, it's just a blank screen and I can't get to the menu either). Sounds like there's possibly an issue with this disc.

I had no problems playing it on my PS3 so didn't return it, but because it's literally just this one movie out of hundreds obviously something isn't quite right. I wonder if it's just isolated to Panasonic's or other standalone have problem playing it? It could be a matter of a firmware update, but even if it is firmware it's odd that literally this one title is incompatible when hundreds of others are fine...

[ShellOilJunior]

Has anyone seen Rohmer's SUMMER?

I may go see it tonight.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by joanbomel75

the american musuem of the moving image is holding a special panel discussion with criterion collection president peter becker they are also ...

I wonder if it's possible to get a certified copy of the transcript of that discussion.