The Criterion Collection

[bokes]

Just received an email from Barnes & Noble toting a 30% off sale.
Have they replaced the 50% off sale with this 30%?

[HuggyBear73]

Hope for these August announcements:

Little Darlings 4K
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 4K
Mean Streets 4K
The Roaring Twenties 4K
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 4K

[jordan-r]

Originally Posted by bokes

Just received an email from Barnes & Noble toting a 30% off sale.
Have they replaced the 50% off sale with this 30%?

Or is it just a price match for Criterion's own current 30%-off sale?

[MifuneFan]

B&N's sale only includes 32 titles.

[concolt]

Barnes and Noble have different titles on sale each week for 30% off.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by bokes

Just received an email from Barnes & Noble toting a 30% off sale.
Have they replaced the 50% off sale with this 30%?

I think we should wait until the usual time of the 50% off, and if it doesn’t start then we panic. But until then I say we don’t worry.

[Show spoiler]who am I kidding, this thread could explode with doom & gloom! Never gonna get another Criterion 50% sale again!

[fdm]

Originally Posted by ravenus

Speaking as someone who has used Youtube's automated subtitling (which is pretty good for a free service), when it's done by AI, you still need a human professional to correct all the typos and more importantly finesse the timing of sentences. The AI does help in reducing the busywork, but the QC process does take a good bit of time, and whoever is producing the disc has an additional headache in terms of the number of things to approve.

It can be done, but unless someone can come up with data which suggests that doing so will significantly improve revenue from this supposedly significant chunk of hearing impaired customers, the company will not dedicate the time and resources required to do this. Bigger studios that can hope to sell hundreds of thousands or more of units for a release (and hold a license in perpetuity) can better justify that.

They should either do them right or not bother. It just reflects on them badly either way.

[Jobla]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Same. Auto-generated and AI subtitles can be absolutely terrible, but also comical too.

I'll never forget seeing a samurai film in an Asian movie theater in Seattle, circa mid-1960's. As an enemy band of samurai warriors suddenly approached, one of our heroes' exclamations was subtitled as, "Cheese it--the cops!!"

I should add that the film wasn't one of the Akira Kurosawa classics.

[Jobla]

What would I like to see from Criterion? Well, I no longer need to request PRIVATE PARTS (1972) or AFTER HOURS, so I'll choose some other titles:

ONE FROM THE HEART (Coppola is rumored to be restoring this film)
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (standalone release)
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (1962)
EYES WIDE SHUT
LITTLE DARLINGS
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (widescreen)
THE STOLEN AIRSHIP (Karel Zeman, has been restored by the Zeman museum)
THE SEVENTH VICTIM
THE GLASS MENAGERIE (1987)
RETURN OF THE SEACAUCAS SEVEN (with interviews with all cast members)
A PERFECT COUPLE (Robert Altman)

[Ruined]

Would love to see this:

Ray Bradbury double feature:
THE ELECTRIC GRANDMOTHER (1982)
+
ALL SUMMER IN A DAY (1982)

Phoenix Learning Group, I believe, bought the perpetual rights to these films. They used to offer them on DVD-R with case art and all (which I have), but now only offer $50 digital copies. Would be nice to get some highdef transfers, both are excellent family films.

[Macatouille]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

Hoping we get a Brazil 4K announcement this week.

This is my hope. Probably happening eventually, since other Gilliam releases are getting upgraded.

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by Gacivory;21118089

[spoiler

who am I kidding, this thread could explode with doom & gloom! Never gonna get another Criterion 50% sale again![/spoiler]

Just did that exact dance two months ago with the flash sale too!

[dvining]

Originally Posted by jshaide

Just did that exact dance two months ago with the flash sale too!

That delay was a bit stressful, though.

[Darth Marcus]

Would love to see the Charlie Chaplin titles transition to 4K. Some of them definitely need new scans.

[FragnitoM]

Originally Posted by NeoNical

David Bowie’s social media account just dropped some footage of his Aladdin Sane tour in ‘73 with a title card saying, “16.05.23.”

I know Criterion often announces their stuff ON the 15th but this now brings an interesting situation: IF Criterion does delay their announcement for the next day, then we may actually get Moonage Daydream.

If not, then it’s probably some non-Criterion film like a restoration of the Ziggy Stardust Motion Picture

Can we just get both??

[DukeTogo84]

As always hoping for something Japanese. Would really like some of the HK stuff they have too like Heroic Due, Eastern Condors, the Jackie Chan films, etc. Maybe with a side of the Roaring 20's and Pat Garrett.

[MifuneFan]

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS 4K UHD!!

https://www.criterion.com/films/2870...rosawas-dreams

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Shoji Ueda, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring film scholar Stephen Prince
• Feature-length documentary from 1990 shot on set and directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
• Interviews with production manager Teruyo Nogami and assistant director Takashi Koizumi
• Documentary from 2011 by director Akira Kurosawa’s longtime translator Catherine Cadou, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, and others
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri and Kurosawa’s script for a never-filmed ninth dream, introduced by Nogami

Cover painting by Akira Kurosawa

[RevolverOcelScott]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS 4K UHD!!

https://www.criterion.com/films/2870...rosawas-dreams

[Show spoiler]

Ok, I'm gonna be negative here. But with all the *****ing and moaning I and others have done about no Kurosawa for years, the one they release almost 8 years later is a damn 4K of the last one they released 8 years ago

Still 100% buying it, just kinda funny.

[MifuneFan]

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

https://www.criterion.com/films/3192...e-bit-of-heart

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
High-definition digital master of a new director’s cut, supervised by director Wayne Wang, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New conversation between Wang and filmmaker and film scholar Arthur Dong
Interview from 2004 with actor Laureen Chew
English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by scholar Brian Hu

New cover by Josh Cochran

[Majin Blu]

DRYLONGSO (1998)

https://www.criterion.com/films/31648-drylongso

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DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Cauleen Smith, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New conversation between Smith and film scholar Michael B. Gillespie
Short films by Smith, including Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron, Songs for Earth & Folk, Lessons in Semaphore, Egungun (Ancestor Can’t Find Me), Remote Viewing, and Suffolk, with a new introduction by Smith
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price

New cover by Krista Franklin

The only one in the August lineup that I'll get.