The Criterion Collection

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by willieconway

All my Criterions have English subtitles and I only have English-language movies in my (small) collection.

(I haven't checked my most recent buy, The Ice Storm, though.)

The question was about foreign language titles. With titles that aren't in English but have lines or parts in English the subtitles are often only for the parts that are in a foreign language. So, for example, if a character speaking in French says a sentence in English, there will not always be subtitles for that sentence.

[nashcameronn]

I have very few Criterions. I added two more today. The Blob and Rosemary's Baby.

[The Bronx Bull]

Originally Posted by vader4

Watched The Battle of Algiers for the first time the other day and it has to be one of the all time great war films, it's shocking how much it resembles what we see in the news today. This movie should be required viewing in schools.

I watched The Battle of Algiers, too. I thought it was very similar to Army of Shadows in the way they depicted the underground resistance - I think Melville may have even been influenced by some stylistic choices within the film.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by vader4

Watched The Battle of Algiers for the first time the other day and it has to be one of the all time great war films, it's shocking how much it resembles what we see in the news today. This movie should be required viewing in schools.

Originally Posted by The Bronx Bull

I watched The Battle of Algiers, too. I thought it was very similar to Army of Shadows in the way they depicted the underground resistance - I think Melville may have even been influenced by some stylistic choices within the film.

It's a monumental and haunting movie. I love how the Ennio Morricone score plays during the bombing aftermath scenes from either side, as to show that the deaths are tragedies for all.

[dannyfriar]

Originally Posted by nashcameronn

I have very few Criterions. I added two more today. The Blob and Rosemary's Baby.

Good films!

[jetthead]

I seldom blind-buy Criterions but went ahead and picked up The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp today at B&N because of all the glowing endorsements here.

My modest Criterion collection has tripled thanks to the B&N sale this month.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Forget it kid

hey quick question why do you think criterion has never released a animated movie

(But can it release a animated movie, oh Theatrical Distributor of the Future? )

Why? Um, lemme guess, because Janus has never released one?

Then we can go case-by-case and start analyzing what's already OWNED.

Originally Posted by jacobb1313

Still, if I were to conjecture at titles worth doing, they would be

Princess and the Cobbler AKA Arabian Knight AKA The Recobbled Cut (in Miramax/Disney hell, last I checked)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed Coming to the UK in Blu via BFI
The King and the Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Perfect Blue
Watership Down (WB owns the rights to this one, though)
the films of René Laloux -- Fantastic Planet is already out in the UK on Blu via Eureka
films of Makoto Shinkai (I can dream, can't I?)
rerelease The Girl Who Leapt through Time
and various curiosos, like Princess Iron Fan

Foreign/birth-of-animation Achmed-Iron Fan curiosos are the best we can hope for, since those, like Animal Farm, are mostly Public Domain. Anything else, as noted, is spoken for, "fan reputation" or not.
(Oh, and btw, that "Criterion could do anime" thing? That dates back fouirteen years...fourteen, count 'em...to the days when Disney was considering dropping Studio Ghibli after Princess Mononoke's theatrical reception, fans got panicky, and started running to ask Grandma. I think we're in no danger of that at the moment, so you can stop running to ask Grandma about Perfect Blue and Akira.)

And no, you CAN'T dream...Especially in a Criterion thread. It bugs the heck out of everyone in the room.

[willieconway]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

The question was about foreign language titles. With titles that aren't in English but have lines or parts in English the subtitles are often only for the parts that are in a foreign language. So, for example, if a character speaking in French says a sentence in English, there will not always be subtitles for that sentence.

That would certainly explain why I thought it was a slightly strange question... Apologies!

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by EricJ

And no, you CAN'T dream...Especially in a Criterion thread. It bugs the heck out of everyone in the room.

No, it doesn't bother everyone in the room, just the tetchy whiners.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The Great Owl would love to see a Criterion Blu-ray of The Secret of NIMH, obviously.

I also think that The Plague Dogs would be a cool choice for an animated film.

I had not seen The Plague Dogs in a long while, but a quick search after my above post yielded the movie in its entirety on YouTube. I just finished watching it, and it's just as much of a tearjerker as it was many years ago. I guess that this is a case of the doctor being poisoned by his own medicine.

I had forgotten about a line from The Plague Dogs being used in the song, "Testure", by Skinny Puppy.

[jw007]

My final haul is:

33 titles purchased
$550.60 spent
$16.68 average purchase
9 separate hauls to 3 different stores
3.6 titles average on each haul

Coupons/discounts used:

$8 off $40 or more (used on 3 titles out of 4 attempts)
$5 off $50 order total (used on 26 titles out of 29 attempts)
15% Member coupon (used on 2 titles out of 3 attempts)
10% Member discount (used on all 33 titles out of 33 attempts)

The titles in order of purchase:

Haul 1:
Shoah
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The
Life Is Sweet
Howards End

Haul 2:
On the Waterfront
Ivan’s Childhood
Medium Cool
A Man Escaped

Haul 3:
Identification of a Woman
Monsieur Verdoux
Revanche
Heaven’s Gate

Haul 4:
Marketa Lazarová
In the Mood for Love
Safety Last!
Night of the Hunter, The

Haul 5:
Things to Come
Fish Tank
Crumb
My Dinner With André

Haul 6:
Babette’s Feast
Chronicle of a Summer
Sweet Smell of Success
The Ice Storm

Haul 7:
Devil’s Backbone, The
Bottle Rocket
Wild Strawberries

Haul 8:
Downhill Racer
12 Angry Men
Summer Hours

Haul 9:
Blow Out
The Kid with a Bike
La Haine

The photograph to prove it:



Thoughts? Remarks?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by jw007

Thoughts? Remarks?

Well done! I'm looking forward to reading some of your reviews on those.

I capped off my own haul with Identification of a Woman, because I had been intrigued by that movie for a while, and your post last week reminded me to look for it.

[Abdrewes]

JW, get a HULU subscription, at $7.99 a month it is less harmful than injection heroine. [insert more angry words on cult mentality, addictions, and the decline of the western civilization here]

Ooh...i just had a thought: Penelope Spheeris' Decline of the Western Covilization Part II would be a good spine.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Well done! I'm looking forward to reading some of your reviews on those.

I capped off my own haul with Identification of a Woman, because I had been intrigued by that movie for a while, and your post last week reminded me to look for it.

I don't know how I could compete with your reviews. I actually used to write a lot of film reviews but my review writing days are over now. After taking 14 film classes and majoring in Film Studies at the university, it sort of "burned me out". The best I can muster out now is maybe a few sentences and a star or number rating.

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

JW, get a HULU subscription, at $7.99 a month it is less harmful than injection heroine. [insert more angry words on cult mentality, addictions, and the decline of the western civilization here]

Ooh...i just had a thought: Penelope Spheeris' Decline of the Western Covilization Part II would be a good spine.

I've never been much good for HULU or any other online subscription (Netflix included). I'm more old fashioned I guess. I rent Criterions from the library and buy them during Barnes & Noble sales. That's about it. I'm happy with that.

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

JW, get a HULU subscription, at $7.99 a month it is less harmful than injection heroine. [insert more angry words on cult mentality, addictions, and the decline of the western civilization here]

Also, Hulu has a bunch of Criterion titles in HD that will probably never be released on blu-ray and some that were never even released on DVD.

[UncleBuckWild]

Firstly, I would like to thank all you awesome people out there for your excellent recommendations on CC films.


... Secondly, I've a question for those of you who own the Magnificent Obsession (Criterion DVD) .. any chance they'll release it on Blu-ray?

I see there's a Italian Blu-ray (w/ English audio) - readily on Amazon.it ... any thoughts?

[Wizard-of-Wars]

I feel like Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory when asked by his school teacher how many chocolate bars he bought!

I got 13 Criterions with this sale:

Shoah-$36 after two discounts!! Yes!!
Naked Lunch
Devils Backbone
Cronos
Repo Man
Seven Samurai
Carlos
For All Mankind
The Blob
Wings of Desire
Brazil
Videodrome

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

JW, get a HULU subscription, at $7.99 a month it is less harmful than injection heroine. [insert more angry words on cult mentality, addictions, and the decline of the western civilization here]

Ooh...i just had a thought: Penelope Spheeris' Decline of the Western Covilization Part II would be a good spine.

but the ads are annoying lol 0o is that only on the free hulu ? while watching double life of veronique i think i did spend like 10 mins only watching the same ads over and over again.

[tylergfoster]

7 total this round.

Branded to Kill
In the Mood For Love
Down By Law
Monsieur Verdoux
Naked Lunch
Rushmore
Safety Last!

[mrjohnnyb]

Now that the smoke has cleared, I will finally post my haul of 37 titles.

Here they are:

[Show spoiler]Shoah
On the Waterfront
Senso
Smiles of a Summer Night
Chronicle of a Summer
The Phantom Carriage
Wild Strawberries
Ivan's Childhood
Two-Lane Blacktop
Design for Living
Topsy-Turvy
A Man Escaped
Weekend (Godard)
Band of Outsiders
The Tin Drum
Repo Man
Gimme Shelter
Black Orpheus
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Red Shoes
The Life of Oharu
Sansho the Bailiff
La Jetee/Sans Soleil
People on Sunday
Umberto D.
Badlands
Marketa Lazarova
Monsieur Verdoux
The Double Life of Veronique
Harakiri
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Pierre Etaix
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Down by Law
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Devil's Backbone
The Ballad of Narayama

The list is obnoxiously long, so I have wrapped it in a spoiler alert to economize space. Now, I have to find the time to watch them.