The Criterion Collection

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Lol. I don't mind watching DVDs, but I don't feel like purchasing one just for it to be announced on Blu-ray a week later. It's happened before.

Of course, now we're just going to encourage you to buy the DVDs so that they'll announce Blu-ray releases.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Your mention of Kwaidan made me think about Onibaba. I want to see that one in high definition pretty badly.

Kwaidan is one that I'd badly like to see on Blu. Same with The Human Condition, which Criterion released in a single set on DVD (I never picked this up because I had the original three separate Image/Janus DVDs).

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Well, keep in mind that in 1959, school desks could shield one from a nuclear attack.

"Duck and Cover!" That's all you needed to do.

[CapRockBrewingCo.]

Shooting from the hip here, but any of these would be nice additions to the Criterion library:
Trans-Europ-Express
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Sweet Hereafter
Buena Vista Social Club
Heima - Sigur Ros
The Mother and the *****
The Big Blue
Children of Nature
Breaking the Waves

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by vertigo12314

I would like to see:

L'Avventura
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Foreign Correspondent
Nashville
City Lights
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Ikiru
My dinner with Andre
Pandora's Box
Sparticus
Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Virgin Spring
Woman in the dunes
More Kurosawa

This is a sweet list!

Add Le Samouraï and The Vanishing in there, and I'm all over it.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

yeah, i've been a fan of Criterion for a while, but this is only the second or third time waiting for the announcement. Just excited to see what's announced. The last time I was excited was for The Ice Storm.

I've been following Criterion for a few years now, and checking their announcements as they post them on Facebook and such. When I joined Blu-ray.com in late 2012, though, it really put a smile on my face to see all of the excitement and discussion around the big date every month. I like seeing everyone's wish lists, and I like reading the reactions the actual announcements. There are a lot of Criterion titles that never even register a blip on my own radar (the Satyajit Ray films, for instance), but I'm always compelled to research them online after seeing how many serious cinephiles are excited about those announcements.

[SimBelm]

Fingers crossed for an introduction of the WCF series.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by CapRockBrewingCo.

Heima - Sigur Ros

The set lost looks awesome (better than Inni). However, are they cool enough for Criterion?

[RandyK]

I wish Criterion would do something totally different and just announce the titles like, right at midnight. It would save a lot of the waiting.

Dare to be different Criterion!

[bizarre_eye]

I haven't posted a wish list (or anything else) in this thread lately, so...

UPGRADES:
- Alphaville
- Brand Upon the Brain!
- Clean, Shaven
- Dead Ringers
- Häxan
- Jigoku
- Kwaidan
- Le Samourai
- Spoorloos
- Sweet Movie
- Through a Glass Darkly
- Vampyr
- The Virgin Spring

NEW SPINES:
- Blind Beast
- Eraserhead
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- Hour of the Wolf
- The Hour-Glass Sanatorium
- Noisy Requiem
- Persona
- The Tenant
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

[MifuneFan]

My wishlist of upgrades:

The Hidden Fortress (and any other Kurosawa movie)
Tokyo Story
Floating Weeds
Le Samourai
The Vanishing
Z
La Dolce Vita (next year hopefully, depends what Paramount does)
Ace in the Hole
Kwaidan
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Ugetsu
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

[CapRockBrewingCo.]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

The set lost looks awesome (better than Inni). However, are they cool enough for Criterion?

Heima is amazing...buy the DVD. The music + scenery is breathtaking.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by CapRockBrewingCo.

Heima is amazing...buy the DVD. The music + scenery is breathtaking.

I second that. What an amazing release.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by CapRockBrewingCo.

Heima is amazing...buy the DVD. The music + scenery is breathtaking.

I've never seen Heima, but I would not mind checking it out someday.

I have Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun on CD, but I have not listened to it in a couple of years. I might have to shake the dust off that disc soon.

If we're talking music films, I'd really like to see Depeche Mode - 101 released on a Criterion Blu-ray. 101, directed by D. A. Pennebaker, follows Depeche Mode and a group of their fans across the country during their Music for the Masses tour in 1988. The film was reportedly a primary influence on MTV's The Real World series. In other words, 101 kickstarted reality television, for better or for worse. It would be a good Criterion title from a historian perspective.

[Abdrewes]

Most wanted Criterion Concert?

Aimee Mann: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse

If they could dig up a late era Til Tuedsay live recording, that would be equally phenomenal.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by CapRockBrewingCo.

Heima is amazing...buy the DVD. The music + scenery is breathtaking.

Yeah. I will definitely hunt for a deal. Inni looks like a dog's a**.

[Ausjdm]

Originally Posted by thomasomalley

I don't think we'll be getting ERASERHEAD and MULHOLLAND DR. in the same slate, probably ERASERHEAD first. Then MULHOLLAND DR. sometime next year. Also we already got Hitchcock and Chaplin this year (Foreign Correspondent and The Kid are more likely for 2014, imo).

Tomorrow I'm hoping for any of these titles...

New spines:
ERASERHEAD
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
NASHVILLE
BARTON FINK
SCANNERS
THE BROOD
THIEF
THE TENANT

Upgrades/reissues:
THRONE OF BLOOD or IKIRU or THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (Any Kurosawa really)
THE VANISHING
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
LE SAMOURAI
ANDREI RUBLEV
INSOMNIA
PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
ACE IN THE HOLE

I'm praying also for eraserhead and scanners to be announced tomorrow!

Just saw Le Havre. Pretty good small flick, Enjoyable movie check it out.

Maybe I'm in the minority here but I didn't think y tu mama tambien was all that great... And I'm a huge Spanish film fan. I own many almodovar movies (where's his criterion!?!) or motorcycle diaries or central station would be cool additions. Even intacto/open your eyes/amores perros/thesis they all need upgrades bad.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Most wanted Criterion Concert?

Aimee Mann: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse

If they could dig up a late era Til Tuedsay live recording, that would be equally phenomenal.

I'm a big fan of the first Til Tuesday album. Good old middle school memories. All of their albums were pretty amazing, though.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Ausjdm

Maybe I'm in the minority here but I didn't think y tu mama tambien was all that great...

I'm with you on this. It was a good movie, but not a great one.

[dmarvin]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I've never seen Heima, but I would not mind checking it out someday.

I have Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun on CD, but I have not listened to it in a couple of years. I might have to shake the dust off that disc soon.

If we're talking music films, I'd really like to see Depeche Mode - 101 released on a Criterion Blu-ray. 101, directed by D. A. Pennebaker, follows Depeche Mode and a group of their fans across the country during their Music for the Masses tour in 1988. The film was reportedly a primary influence on MTV's The Real World series. In other words, 101 kickstarted reality television, for better or for worse. It would be a good Criterion title from a historian perspective.

This sounds great. I just bought DD's concert BD and they still sound excellent live. I am down for any concert films that Criterion wants to add to the collection. Monterey Pop and Gimme Shelter are feeling lonely.