The Criterion Collection

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Not me not yet. I have and have seen the 158m original theatrical cut (on laserdisc) and the 179m extended cut (on Japanese laserdisc). I have not seen the 287m extendeder cut yet. I need to rectify that.

Yes, and you will be highly rewarded after seeing this new incredible version on Criterion.

In other news, this is my 4,000th post on this site!

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

As always, I am hoping for

Any Pasolini (Accatone, Mamma Roma upgrade, Gospel, Oedipus Rex)
Any Scorsese (After Hours, Bringing Out the Dead, Alice)
I'd love some early Oshima (Cruel Story of Youth, Night and Fog in Japan, Sun's Burial)
I'd also like an Oshima "Empire of Passion" upgrade.
"Burn!" (AKA 'Queimada!')
The Painted Bird
The Devils (Ain't gonna happen; but I'd still love it)
The Piano
Drugstore Cowboy
Bad Lieutenant or The Funeral (Ferrara)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
Da 5 Bloods, She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)
California Split (Altman)


Any of these would make me very happy.

yes, yes and yes.

I thought Criterion had a deal with IFC, I've been putting off buying the import version of 'The Painted Bird' - because I'm convinced if and when I decide to plunk down my money for the import, the next day Criterion will announce the US release.

I wonder what's holding up 'California Split' - it'd be great to get the complete version of the movie that's been up on Amazon Prime (and with Altman's commentary track that was on the first DVD release of the movie).

[dylrichard02]

Would love to see Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid or The Getaway. Would also be nice to get All the President's Men how is supposed to look. Any Spike Lee or David Lynch. Also want to see The Killer of Sheep.

[SeanJoyce]

Bought some bourbon and sat down with Le Doulos via Kino's release last night...there's nothing like spending time in Melville's singularly dark, esoteric gangster universe. I wish this guy made quadruple the amount of movies he did, but perhaps it's the relative compactness of his filmography which makes it all the more special.

Anyhow, I kept being reminded how Criterion needs to get off their ass and update Le Deuxième Souffle aready. It's the lone Melville crime epic I don't own in HD and it bothers me.

...and if they or anybody else could get his two two unreleased films out there (which includes his final collaboration with Belmondo), that'd be terrific!

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

As always, I am hoping for

Any Pasolini (Accatone, Mamma Roma upgrade, Gospel, Oedipus Rex)
Any Scorsese (After Hours, Bringing Out the Dead, Alice)
I'd love some early Oshima (Cruel Story of Youth, Night and Fog in Japan, Sun's Burial)
I'd also like an Oshima "Empire of Passion" upgrade.
"Burn!" (AKA 'Queimada!')
The Painted Bird
The Devils (Ain't gonna happen; but I'd still love it)
The Piano
Drugstore Cowboy
Bad Lieutenant or The Funeral (Ferrara)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
Da 5 Bloods, She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)
California Split (Altman)


Any of these would make me very happy.

I'd take most of these.

Speaking of Oshima, Boy was supposed to come out like 3-4 years ago and then it never did. Wonder what happened.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

Bought some bourbon and sat down with Le Doulos via Kino's release last night...there's nothing like spending time in Melville's singularly dark, esoteric gangster universe. I wish this guy made quadruple the amount of movies he did, but perhaps it's the relative compactness of his filmography which makes it all the more special.

Anyhow, I kept being reminded how Criterion needs to get off their ass and update Le Deuxième Souffle aready. It's the lone Melville crime epic I don't own in HD and it bothers me.

...and if they or anybody else could get his two two unreleased films out there (which includes his final collaboration with Belmondo), that'd be terrific!

Criterion has Magnet of Doom and Rialto (who frequently licenses to Criterion) has When You Read This Letter

[Cooper67]

Bringing up baby and arsenic and old lace are the two titles i am always hopeful on the 15th of each month.

[latehong]

Another wishlist time? Except for the inevitables...

Upgrade:
　- Pandora's Box (1929, G. W. Pabst)
　- Unfaithfully Yours (1948, Preston Sturges)
　- Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
　　　The Golden Coach (1953)
　　　French Cancan (1955)
　　　Elena and Her Men (1956)
　- Twenty-four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
　- Mr. Arkadin (1955, Orson Welles)
　- Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958, Mario Monicelli)
　- Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
　- Divorce Italian Style (1961, Pietro Germi)
　- Le deuxième souffle (1966, Jean-Pierre Melville)
　- Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics
　　　Samurai Rebellion (1967, Masaki Kobayashi)
　　　Sword of the Beast (1965, Hideo Gosha)
　　　Samurai Spy (1965, Masahiro Shinoda)
　　　Kill! (1968, Kihachi Okamoto)

New:
　- The Wind (1928, Victor Sjöström)
　- A Place in the Sun (1951, George Stevens)
　- The Big Sky (1952, Howard Hawks)
　- A Fugitive from the Past (1965, Tomu Uchida)
　- Pandemonium (1971, Toshio Matsumoto)
　- Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah): both the 1988 preview version and the 2005 special edition restored and with English subtitles.
　- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974, Martin Scorsese)
　- They All Laughed (1981, Peter Bogdanovich)
　- The Mission (1999, Johnnie To)
　- Take Care of My Cat (2001, Jeong Jae-eun)

[dkelly26666]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

I'd take most of these.

Speaking of Oshima, Boy was supposed to come out like 3-4 years ago and then it never did. Wonder what happened.

Years ago, "Boy" was on the Criterion section of HULU for streaming. That shows you how long ago that was. I think several early Oshima titles were. This is like nearly a decade ago. Not sure what happened, other than that perhaps their previous Oshima titles (The Eclipse set; Empire of Passion; Death by Hanging, etc.) may not have sold well, so they didn't bother with physical releases for the others. Or maybe they had only streaming rights. Maybe, I'm not sure.

I just hope for some stuff that interests me, personally. Criterion pretty much nearly always releases good/great quality films, but they aren't always things that I subjectively get excited about. I hope for something off of my wishlist.

[dkelly26666]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

yes, yes and yes.

I thought Criterion had a deal with IFC, I've been putting off buying the import version of 'The Painted Bird' - because I'm convinced if and when I decide to plunk down my money for the import, the next day Criterion will announce the US release.

I wonder what's holding up 'California Split' - it'd be great to get the complete version of the movie that's been up on Amazon Prime (and with Altman's commentary track that was on the first DVD release of the movie).

I imported the Czech Republic release of "The Painted Bird" about a year or so ago. It is Region Free and has English subs. There are great bonus features and they are all English friendly.

It is a GREAT film.

But, I'd actually double dip for a US release, particularly from Criterion. It seems a perfect fit for Criterion, as well.

[jw007]

WOW.

Just finished part 2 of Until the End of the World and was blown away. I felt an amazing sense of hopefulness for all the characters esp. the main female character, Claire.

[Show spoiler]I mean, how can you top an ending like that with her becoming an astronaut and working in space, wow.

I honestly had no words to describe the feeling I had after watching nearly 5 hours of this film (in 2 separate nights). Part 1 is rather different than part 2 and though I admired the pure "road film mentality" in the 1st part, the 2nd part really took the external road movie perspective and made it the inner road movie inside the internal personalities of each of the main characters. And how much more personal and internal can one get than showing one's dreams. It's fitting that Wim Wenders' office used to be next to David Lynch's, and the fact that Elvis Presley's "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" was produced by Lynch for this film and soundtrack, is ironic since both directors share the dream motif-connection in many of their films.

Maybe dreamy is the best adjective to describe this movie though. It's dreamy because the story and characters exist in spite of an apocalyptic subtext that is never shown (nor needed to be) in the movie. Perhaps that would be the stuff of nightmares, a rogue nuclear satellite orbiting the planet that is about to crash land on earth. But the movie was really hopeful to me. The characters were nearly perfect for the story (and the casting maybe even more), and the music is what elevated this to the highest art any film director could achieve. For those cinephiles that are patient enough to watch this nearly 5 hour cut, they will be deeply rewarded for their efforts.

And last but not least, though this story only took place about 10 years into the future (not an easy feat), the "HDVS" technology used in both the making of the film and in the actual story was surreal for the fact that the human behavior towards the end of the film mirrored a bit of today's addictions with our phones and tablets. The characters were walking around with these boxy screened gadgets much like most people do today with their smartphones. And in this story, a few of these characters couldn't get their eyes off their screens. Incredible how this movie predicted future human behavior in that way.

This is a bold and brave film, a movie one can meditate to, one that can be viewed as pure arthouse cinema without feeling like a movie snob. Unlike many of today's major Hollywood films that has not an ounce of fat on them (or at least an ounce of reflection and introspection), this is a movie to "take in" and absorb and not feel like its in any rush to get from the first minute to the final minute. That's the beauty of great independent films, where the director is able to control his or her artistic vision without it resorting to an amusement park thrill ride where every second is so tightly wound around a weak story and shallow characters lacking any human depth, that a movie can sweep one away into another mindset, another perspective, another universe of its own, getting happily lost in a nebulous dream. I even experienced an incredible epiphany when Max Von Sydow's character admitted he never saw himself in dreams. I told myself: "wow, I never thought of that before, but its true as I've never seen myself in a dream either". For all of that insight and more, I am grateful to have the privilege to watch and experience incredible cinema such as this.

[idjit dragon]

After watching this I booked a holiday to Central Australia, breathtaking scenery

Cheers

Martin

[darry]

Originally Posted by jw007

I watched part 1 of Until the End of the World last night and am going to watch part 2 tonight. All I can say is, the nearly 5 hour version is the best version as Wim Wenders stated. The key is watching multiple nights as taking it all in at once probably is too much work. I highly enjoyed part 1 and cannot believe how many amazing shooting locations this production visited, including 9 countries overall. Of course the best thing about this film is the soundtrack and I consider it one of the top 100 soundtracks of all time (and have included it on my top 100 list). This film is high art. It may very well be the king of all road movies.

Who else has seen the entire 287 minute cut?

Watched it last week. Definitely a fan of the second part and particularly the ending. I honesty could have done without large chunks of part one and skipped a lot of the countries like Japan and China (a bit of causal racism here) etc. as it was too repetitive in terms of Sam Neill’s character just showing up and being rejected every time, and the PI was quite irritating. Once it gets to Australia though, the story starts to gel. William Hurt’s performance is probably my favourite out of any of the other movies I’ve seen him in.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

I wonder what's holding up 'California Split' - it'd be great to get the complete version of the movie that's been up on Amazon Prime (and with Altman's commentary track that was on the first DVD release of the movie).

Whatever it is, it's holding up Indicator's release as well.

[DukeTogo84]

Well, today is the day. Plenty of titles I want, but really want a Japanese upgrade. Partial to either some WWII films or something samurai related. I'm sure it will be none of those.

[Jazzmonkie]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Whatever it is, it's holding up Indicator's release as well.

It may be music rights. The DVD was edited to omit some of Phyllis Shotwell's songs.

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by darry

Watched it last week. Definitely a fan of the second part and particularly the ending. I honesty could have done without large chunks of part one and skipped a lot of the countries like Japan and China (a bit of causal racism here) etc. as it was too repetitive in terms of Sam Neill’s character just showing up and being rejected every time, and the PI was quite irritating. Once it gets to Australia though, the story starts to gel. William Hurt’s performance is probably my favourite out of any of the other movies I’ve seen him in.

It's really a three hour build up to Max von Sydow finally appearing and being cool

[Sterling450]

June 2021:

Pickup on South Street (Spine Np. 224, 4K Rest., Mono)
Pariah (Spine No. 1083, 2K Rest., 5.1)
Visions of Eight (Spine No. 1081, 4K Rest., Mono)
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (Spine No. 1082, 2K Rest., Stereo)
Streetwise / Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (Spine No. 1079, 1080, 2K Rest., Mono/5.1)
The Human Condition (Spine No. 480, 2K Rest., Mono/4.0)

[The Sovereign]

Very excited to see The Human Condition & and the long awaited upgrade for Pickup on South Street!

[themp3000]

Nothing tickles my fancy as I’ve already got Arrow’s The Human Condition.