The Criterion Collection

[brandon_260]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

i hope you will watch the HK cut and not the weinstein US cut (that is missing 22minutes of the movie)

That's the disc I've got. Finally showed it to me yesterday.

[brandon_260]

Originally Posted by Dumbhuman

I feel Holy Motors is much more an homage to the spectacle of cinema itself rather than to any one particular film. It's also very much rooted in arthouse sensibilities while Eyes Without a Face is pretty conventional overall.

If I were to recommend a recent homage to Eyes Without a Face, I'd pick The Skin I Live In without hesitation while Holy Motors probably wouldn't cross my mind even if I sat for hours thinking of alternatives.

Speaking of which, Almodovar seems like a giant omission from the Criterion Collection and Leos Carax an omission of somewhat lesser scale. I'd love nice English subtitle-friendly Blu-rays of The Lovers on the Bridge and Talk to Her (along with many others).

Almodovar and Carax are two directors I'd love to see in the collection and those films would be my first two choices. Bad Education would be another stellar pick for Almodovar.

[14728]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

i hope you will watch the HK cut and not the weinstein US cut (that is missing 22minutes of the movie)

Are you talking about Grandmaster or Fallen Angles?

[onetet]

Interesting to see Lovers on the Bridge brought up on the same page as The Grandmaster... Miramax's handling of the Carax film (sitting on it for ~8 years before it rec'd a meager release) gave me some early awareness that the Weinstein's weren't always the filmmaker-friendly angels they were made out to be.

Anyway, I'd love to see any of Carax's films get the Criterion treatment (or arrive on blu via any label that could do them justice).

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by 14728

Are you talking about Grandmaster or Fallen Angles?

Grandmaster , yep wong kar wai may have recut it for the US, but it should be clear for everyone that it was requestet that he makes the movie "easy" to understand for the US audience. thats way they cut nearly all of the love story, and all the political stuff.

asian directors always talk about there internatinal shorter cuts in a "good" way. sure they wont say "i just made if for the money, i hate it but oh well"

same thing weinstein did to snowpiercer and wuxia aka dragon.


ive just watched "seconds" , the movie is really something else! didnt expect it to be that graphic. but i liked it a lot and rock hudson is doing a awesome job in that role. but i had the whole movie the feeling i already know a story smiliar to that. but im not sure if it was a other movie or from a stephen king novel maybe..


@ leos carax talk

defintly check out this bluray , got my copy recently @ ebay used for ~11$ ^^

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Tokyo-Blu-ray/4253/

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

i hope you will watch the HK cut and not the weinstein US cut (that is missing 22minutes of the movie)

Mansinthe, have you *seen* the US version of the film, or are you still judging it without having seen it?

See them both. The US version is not the HK version with things removed. It is a different cut of the film that includes scenes not in th HK version.

I've seen them both, enjoyed them both, and once the US version is released, will own them both.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by JJJ225

Last night I watched Rosemary's Baby for this first time. It's absolutely magnificent. I don't know why I waited so long to watch it. I haven't gone through the booklet yet, but I definitely would like to do some reading on the film. To me, I thought the film was primarily about the fear of the loss of God in society, particulary through the view of someone moving from a rural area to an urban center. I was thinking after I watched the movie that there are so few "urban horror" movies. Most true horror films take place in the country or the suburbs. But for this film, the urban setting is essential I think.

Well said. I cannot get enough of those scenes in Rosemary's Baby when Mia Farrow is making her way through the streets and absolutely nothing about her surroundings feels safe or secure.
I like the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the same reason, because the metropolitan setting conveys a real sense of claustrophobic paranoia.

I grew up in rural Georgia, and, upon moving into the Atlanta area, I realized that city life can be lonely in a more insidious sort of way. In a big city, we're always surrounded by people, but that society is subdivided into cliques and the idea of blending in can be daunting to an outsider. The little things, like not knowing which auto mechanic business or doctor's office to trust in a heavily-populated area, have a slight horror of their own. Rosemary's Baby is quite adept at bringing this unease to the screen. It's probably challenging enough for a pregnant woman to know which doctor to visit or which lifestyle to follow, so the idea of a secret society really throws that idea into a darker realm.

[brandon_260]

Originally Posted by onetet

Interesting to see Lovers on the Bridge brought up on the same page as The Grandmaster... Miramax's handling of the Carax film (sitting on it for ~8 years before it rec'd a meager release) gave me some early awareness that the Weinstein's weren't always the filmmaker-friendly angels they were made out to be.

Anyway, I'd love to see any of Carax's films get the Criterion treatment (or arrive on blu via any label that could do them justice).

A link was posted recently saying some company will be releasing Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang on blu next year.

[onetet]

Originally Posted by brandon_260

A link was posted recently saying some company will be releasing Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang on blu next year.

I'd like to see someone take a shot at Pola X, too. Arguably the strangest title in his filmography--certainly the one that has the least in common with his other films.

[14728]

I just googled Criterion Forum, and we're the 2nd result behind Criterionforum.com!!!!! 2nd Place!!

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by 14728

I just googled Criterion Forum, and we're the 2nd result behind Criterionforum.com!!!!! 2nd Place!!

I won't be satisfied until we're #1.

[joie]

Originally Posted by 14728

I just googled Criterion Forum, and we're the 2nd result behind Criterionforum.com!!!!! 2nd Place!!

What? Posts? Views? This thread or the whole site?

[Yami]

Originally Posted by onetet

I'd like to see someone take a shot at Pola X, too. Arguably the strangest title in his filmography--certainly the one that has the least in common with his other films.

Ideally, I'd like to see a release of the longer TV cut, Pierre ou les ambiguïtés, which is unavailable with English subtitles.

[mpeurrung]

As halloween is approaching my love for some good horror is growing. I am looking to pick up a couple to watch over the next week What are everyone's favorite criterion horror movies? or horror movies on blu in general?

My current ranks for what I own are:

1. Rosemary's baby
2. Devil's Backbone
3. Psycho (obviously not criterion)
3. Night of the Hunter (may be my favorite of the 4 in general, but not necessarily "horror")

What are peoples thoughts on other criterion horror: the blob, island of lost souls, eyes without a face, the uninvited, etc.?

[Mansinthe]

Rosemary's Baby is probably a pretty good "Halloween" movie. would be my number one.
Chronos <- second
Seconds
Eyes Without a Face
the shinjuku horror box


simple question of all the OOP criterion movies (laserdisc , dvd , blurays) whats the movie you all would like to get a rerelease ?


i would choose RAN since the studiocanal bluray doesnt look that great.
but still they have plenty of bonus features on the disc. (at least something)

[Movie Nut]

Originally Posted by mpeurrung

What are peoples thoughts on other criterion horror: the blob, island of lost souls, eyes without a face, the uninvited, etc.?

For my money The Island of Lost Souls from 1932 is far and away the best of the 3 different film adaptations based on H.G. Well's novel "The Island of Dr. Moreau" that are readily available on DVD/Blu-ray. In fact nothing else even comes close. The acting was very good across the board, the special effects for the time were incredible. The story is dark and perverse in more ways than one; and no mad scientist ever put on film was as brazenly twisted as Charles Laughton's very restrained and decidedly creepy portrayal of Dr. Moreau (including the "doctors" in every Frankenstein movie I have ever seen). Can you say God complex?

I have no idea why this is not as well known as Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. The only explanation I can think of is that back then Universal was the undisputed king of big budget horror and this was a competing Paramount release. Well worth checking out.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by mpeurrung

What are peoples thoughts on other criterion horror: the blob, island of lost souls, eyes without a face, the uninvited, etc.?

I went a little overboard with my "Reviewer voice" in my write-up for Eyes Without a Face a few pages back, but it's one of my favorite horror films, and I think that it deserved a long-winded accolade.

If you've never seen Eyes Without a Face, then you're in for a sinister treat.

Island of Lost Souls is a treasure of an old-school horror film, and I think that it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Universal Monsters movies.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

simple question of all the OOP criterion movies (laserdisc , dvd , blurays) whats the movie you all would like to get a rerelease ?


i would choose RAN since the studiocanal bluray doesnt look that great.
but still they have plenty of bonus features on the disc. (at least something)

Le Notti Di Cabiria/Nights of Cabiria

[14728]

Originally Posted by joie

What? Posts? Views? This thread or the whole site?

This thread

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Le Notti Di Cabiria/Nights of Cabiria

did criterion acutally ever rerelease something that went OOP?