The Criterion Collection

[*PREACHER*]

Originally Posted by Freeza

According to my local B&N, the sale ends the day before its release

Correct me if I'm wrong you should be able to pre-order it for the sale price...I did that last November with Brazil.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Freeza

According to my local B&N, the sale ends the day before its release

God himself rarely intervenes in the affairs of The Criterion Collection or Barnes & Noble, but I'm inclined to think that He could not quite abide with Criterion spine # 666 being available to the masses at half price on the day of release.

[RipleyLV426]

Originally Posted by *PREACHER*

Correct me if I'm wrong you should be able to pre-order it for the sale price...I did that last November with Brazil.

I'm pretty sure you can too...that's my plan

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Both are awesome, but I'd go for Badlands right now. You'll find that it's a much better summer season movie.

By the way, niiiiiiiiiiiice avatar.

Badlands would be a blind buy, but everywhere I read is positive. I'm gonna try and get the overlap tonight on Barnes and Noble...get a buy 2 get 1 free and the half off price. So I'm trying to pick my selections.

Thanks about the avi. I WISH that was me, but it's Marilyn. Although I've been told I look similar to Audrey Hepburn (which is just as great a compliment since she's one of my all time fav actresses)

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by Freeza

According to my local B&N, the sale ends the day before its release

Darn! I'll have to wait for the next sale

Side Note: I just got rid of my Universal release of Fear and Loathing.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by RipleyLV426

Trying to decide...
Videodrome or Badlands?

Love Malick, but Videodrome is more rewatchable for me. (Are you a Debby Harry/Blondie fan by any chance?)

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

I couldn't even get through A Safe Place. Awful, awful film.

Yeah, I turned it off after 35 mins. It just wasn't going anywhere.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by RipleyLV426

Thanks about the avi. I WISH that was me, but it's Marilyn. Although I've been told I look similar to Audrey Hepburn (which is just as great a compliment since she's one of my all time fav actresses)

I knew that it was Marilyn Monroe, so I was complimenting you on your taste in cinema icons.

Speaking of Audrey Hepburn...

Guess which Criterion Blu-ray I'm going to watch later today?

...(drumroll, please)...

Charade!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Yeah, I turned it off after 35 mins. It just wasn't going anywhere.

I will say that it was fun to watch Orson Welles in action during A Safe Place.

Unfortunately, I kept trying to imitate his concentrated gaze while I was watching the movie, so that I could make the movie disappear. That never happened, and the movie kept going.

I've tried this during boring work meetings as well, to no avail. I get that Orson Welles look, I close my eyes, I start wishing for things to magically disappear, and they never do. The same with random co-workers who step into my office occasionally when I'm busy.

[The Great Owl]

Incidentally, here is a pretty good essay in defense of A Safe Place.

I appreciate what the film was doing, and how moviemaking was utilized in a creative way to illustrate perception of time and stream-of-consciousness thought, but...I...just...never...seem....to...want...to... watch...it...again.

I do think that this would be a pretty awesome forum avatar...

[Show spoiler]

[Rich Pure Doom]

Originally Posted by RipleyLV426

Trying to decide...
Videodrome or Badlands?

I love both but I love Videodrome more.

[jmbenesh]

Originally Posted by dizzy4111

Alright, I've decided to limit myself to 6 blu rays during this sale. Naked Lunch and Marketa Lazarova are the only two I'm 100% certain on picking up.

I need help choosing 4 from these 8 choices. All will be blind purchases:

The Wages of Fear
Rushmore
On the Waterfront
Blow Out
The Thin Red Line
Wings of Desire
Eating Raoul
House

What would you guys suggest?

I'd go with these four:

Wages of Fear
Rushmore
On the Waterfront
Blow Out

Rushmore is an absolute must own, in my opinion, particularly if you like offbeat comedies. One of my favorites.

[jmbenesh]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I knew that it was Marilyn Monroe, so I was complimenting you on your taste in cinema icons.

Speaking of Audrey Hepburn...

Guess which Criterion Blu-ray I'm going to watch later today?

...(drumroll, please)...

Charade!

Ah, Charade, one heck of an underrated Criterion title!

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by RipleyLV426

Trying to decide...
Videodrome or Badlands?

Badlands!

[brandon_260]

Weird, Criterion adjacent news: Willem Dafoe is going to play Pier Paolo Pasolini. http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...rrara-20130708

[shortmartin]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

"Thing Red Line"?....spined

Unrelated Side Note:
It would have been awesome to have had my hands on Guillermo Del Toro's Devil's Backbone this week. Gonna have to settle for rewatching Hellboy, Cronos and maybe Pan's Labyrinth.

haha, you're funny! and my typing is sorry!

Thing Red Line would be one of those mash-ups, where it combines The Thing with Thin Red Line . . . no that wouldn't be good. Anyways, both versions of The Thing need to be spined.

I'm psyched about Pacific Rim.

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by shortmartin

haha, you're funny! and my typing is sorry!

Thing Red Line would be one of those mash-ups, where it combines The Thing with Thin Red Line . . . no that wouldn't be good. Anyways, both versions of The Thing need to be spined.

I'm psyched about Pacific Rim.

This +1000. I can't wait to see it.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by shortmartin

haha, you're funny! and my typing is sorry!

Thing Red Line would be one of those mash-ups, where it combines The Thing with Thin Red Line . . . no that wouldn't be good. Anyways, both versions of The Thing need to be

In all seriousness, I would give everything I own to see Terrence Malick direct a version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or another comparable storyline when an alien entity replicates the likenesses of human beings. With the trademark Malick voiceovers and focus on facial expression nuances, such a film could be wonderfully horrific and unnerving.

This crossed my mind during To the Wonder, in fact, during the scenes where Ben Affleck was working at his environmental job and investigating contamination. Maybe Olga Kurylenko' character felt out of place in her new setting because her loved ones were no longer, in fact, her loved ones, due to alien contamination of the water supply or something. Haha. The movie could have conceivably taken that route. Maybe Javier Bardem's priest character is seeing several people around the community acting...differently...from their normal selves. Bardem and Kurylenko end up teaming up to escape from the aliens in the town.

[*DrStrangelove*]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Still waiting for the Blu of To the Wonder. Damn theater never got it. I'll be surprised if I end up liking it less than Badlands.

Wow what's with all the Badlands hate? It's actually my favorite Malick. Haven't seen New World or To the Wonder yet thou.

[MitchA17]

Originally Posted by shortmartin

haha, you're funny! and my typing is sorry!

Thing Red Line would be one of those mash-ups, where it combines The Thing with Thin Red Line . . . no that wouldn't be good. Anyways, both versions of The Thing need to be spined.

I'm psyched about Pacific Rim.

Jim Caviezel (V.O.): Why would God do this to us? Why would he create us just to watch us destroy-

Jim Caviezel head splits open and emits a high-pitched scream. Bearded Kurt Russell emerges from jungle and kills him with a flamethrower.

END SCENE.

Also psyched about Pacific Rim.

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by *DrStrangelove*

Wow what's with all the Badlands hate? It's actually my favorite Malick. Haven't seen New World or To the Wonder yet thou.

Don't worry, there are a lot of us that like Badlands. I think we just tend to be quieter about it than those who dislike it.

I actually just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago (mainly because I refused to watch the old, non widescreen dvd). I enjoyed it a lot, and look forward to revisiting it soon.