The Criterion Collection

[UncleBuckWild]

August 4K Wishlist

Rashomon
Tokyo Story
Dogma
Eraserhead
Lost In Translation
The Breakfast Club
The Room Next Door

[PipesDonatello]

The Royal Tenenbaums
Dog Day Afternoon and/or The French Connection
The Time Masters
The Man Who Wasn't There

[mrjohnnyb]

August wishes:

The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard, 1998)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)
Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul, 2004)
and I will forever hope to see
Greed (von Stroheim, 1924)

[AreaFive]

August Wishlist:

Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)

[borntorun_intheusa]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

I gave up on my boycott of Woody because after awhile I started thinking like Perry Mason and concluded there was not enough evidence to convict the guy. This isn't the forum to debate that, but really if I were a detective or a defense lawyer I would have found a lot of discrepancies in the accounts and also suspect motivations for the allegations.

But as for Bill Cosby, that one I still harbor a 98% boycott over, watching only my childhood favorite I SPY and justifying it by saying that his participation in that TV series occurred before any of the incidents reportedly started.

I jumped ship on Bryan Singer too even though he has never been formally charged. But eyewitness accounts were disgusting and sad and who needs the guy? I sold off my Blus of his X-MEN films.

Separating the art from the artist is not always easy, especially in the medium of film where they often are front and center as opposed to a writer in a distant cabin somewhere or a painter in a studio on the other side of the world. Film people come into our homes with regularity and it's much easier to hold them accountable and turn them off if given the choice.

Just wanna say a reply like this and some of the others are why I'm reminded why this forum is way better than an echo chamber like Reddit. Reading actual, nuanced responses to complicated situations with filmmakers and their art is one of the many reasons why I frequent these forums daily.

[Bradsdadg]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

Renewed mine online. As long as you have no warrants, unpaid speeding tickets, or a name change, it takes about five minutes. Got the new one in the mail a few weeks later. More time for watching movies...

As for predictions/wishlist:

The Sweet Hereafter

Trick

The Village

Beautiful Thing

And maybe a Kurosawa rescued from DVD hell.

In my state they let us renew online every other time. Every 10 years we have to go back in to take a new picture and do the eye test, etc.

The Village is an interesting one. Sure, it's Disney but if the director has enough clout, it could happen. It's happened before with Disney/Criterion.



Few I'd like to see since we know they have them:

Christiane F
The Brother from Another Planet
Isle of Dogs

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by Jaymole

Not condoning what he did but he did not marry his step daughter, (he never married Mia Farrow), and it is not literal incest.

Ahem bull crap he literally did marry his adopted step daughter there's a number of articles that said he did.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...soon-yi-previn

No he didn't marry Mia Farrow, but he did definitely marry Farrows adopted step daughter, which is wrong. Not to mention super weird, and gross.

[adamfeldman]

Originally Posted by entropyposter

Also wonder if we'll ever get the Jia Zhangke set (?) that's been talked about.

I've been hoping for this 5-film box but a recent interview in which Jia suggested Platform hadn't been restored yet complicates that. Though perhaps he is just talking about a separate restoration of a longer Platform cut?

Originally Posted by entropyposter

My loftiest dreams: would love to see more Obayashi. There are relatively new restorations of "School in the Crosshairs" and "His Motorbike, Her Island," which I'm excited to see next month.

These are being released by Cult Epics this year.

[apricissimus]

I don't much like Woody Allen movies, apart from any off-screen issues he may have. But I am also icked out by him.

Whether I'm willing to watch this or that problematic actor/writer/director is, as far as I can tell, arbitrary. I go purely on feelings, and I'm not tempted to analyze whether my judgments are rational.

I don't owe it to any particular performer or writer or director to give them a fair chance. Whether there's enough "evidence" to support an allegation is irrelevant. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is a legal standard. If I had the power to put anyone in prison, I would hold myself to that. (And FWIW, I've been on multiple juries.) But I don't have that power, so I can think and do what I want.

[Cheddar Goblin]

Star 80 4K please.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by lemonlimebeats

Would do anything for Raise the Red Lantern to get a release! It's had a completed 4K restoration for months/years now, so the wait is driving me crazyyyy.

Boy would I love for the films from that pricey Imprint box set devoted to Zhang Yimou and Gong Li to make it to individual 4Ks from Criterion. The price on that Imprint set never goes down much and I need those movies, especially JU DOU, in my collection! Stat!

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by apricissimus

I don't much like Woody Allen movies, apart from any off-screen issues he may have. But I am also icked out by him.

Whether I'm willing to watch this or that problematic actor/writer/director is, as far as I can tell, arbitrary. I go purely on feelings, and I'm not tempted to analyze whether my judgments are rational.

I don't owe it to any particular performer or writer or director to give them a fair chance. Whether there's enough "evidence" to support an allegation is irrelevant. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is a legal standard. If I had the power to put anyone in prison, I would hold myself to that. (And FWIW, I've been on multiple juries.) But I don't have that power, so I can think and do what I want.

Then what your saying is that it comes down personal choices and principles? I'm not involved in any facet of law enforcement and can take an arbitrary, detached stance on these things by choosing to ignore them all or declare aspects of it "irrelevant" or I can continue to make choices that will help apply standards to my own personal convictions and try to make myself a better person for it.

It's likely no one here on this venue is personally involved with any of these celebrities under discussion so of course our decisions regarding them are arbitrary, but those decisions or judgments (if you will) do underline important aspects of who we are and the standards of what we believe in, not just the celebrities in question.

[apricissimus]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

Then what your saying is that it comes down personal choices and principles? I'm not involved in any facet of law enforcement and can take an arbitrary, detached stance on these things by choosing to ignore them all or declare aspects of it "irrelevant" or I can continue to make choices that will help apply standards to my own personal convictions and try to make myself a better person for it.

It's likely no one here on this venue is personally involved with any of these celebrities under discussion so of course our decisions regarding them are arbitrary, but those decisions or judgments (if you will) do underline important aspects of who we are and the standards of what we believe in, not just the celebrities in question.

Definitely. And I don't judge anyone for enjoying, say, a Roman Polanski movie, even if he's done monstrously criminal things and is a bad person. (If they tried to defend him as a person, that's an entirely different matter.)

[ShellOilJunior]

Any or all of these would be great:

L'Avventura UHD
Drunken Angel UHD/Blu-ray
Stray Dog UHD/Blu-ray
Red Beard UHD/Blu-ray
High and Low UHD
Black Narcissus UHD
Black Orpheus UHD
Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Including 50th anniversary concert) UHD
Hiroshima mon amour UHD

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Watershipdownisgood

Ahem bull crap he literally did marry his adopted step daughter there's a number of articles that said he did.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...soon-yi-previn

No he didn't marry Mia Farrow, but he did definitely marry Farrows adopted step daughter, which is wrong. Not to mention super weird, and gross.

Some jurisdictions consider stepparents to stepchildren "legal" incest while others define it only as blood relatives.

If we arrested and exiled anyone who displayed behavior or activity that was "super weird" and "gross," we'd all be in jail for something.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by apricissimus

Definitely. And I don't judge anyone for enjoying, say, a Roman Polanski movie, even if he's done monstrously criminal things and is a bad person. (If they tried to defend him as a person, that's an entirely different matter.)

Well, I definitely agree with you that others should not be judged by our own individual set of standards and beliefs. I do get a bit huffy when people tell me their specific political beliefs, but I see that as a character flaw within myself and not something that they have necessarily provoked. As for your example with Polanski or really any public figure, if they have never been legally convicted for their transgressions I agree with you that it's not my place to assume a judgment upon anyone who still patronizes them, unless as you say they attempted to justify that person's actions.

For example, I myself do not watch any Tarkovsky movies and I think his penchant for featuring animal cruelty in his films is reprehensible, but there are whole threads on this site where he is deemed a genius and incredible artist. I tend to stay away from those threads so I am not angered and tempted to decry it all. It's not up to me to tell the world to judge him the way I do.

[javy]

Woody Allen marrying his step daughter is whatever you want to call it. But it is not literal incest. Literal incest is when a person has a sexual relationship with a blood relative.

I don't believe for a moment that the allegations Mia Farrow made against Allen are true.

Mia Farrow is an amazing actress and is delight to watch on screen.

Woody Allen is one of my favorite filmmakers.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by .naturist

Wishlist:

exploitation and sexploitation

Sure you're not looking for the Vinegar Syndrome thread?

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by javy

Woody Allen marrying his step daughter is whatever you want to call it. But it is not literal incest. Literal incest is when a person has a sexual relationship with a blood relative.

I don't believe for a moment that the allegations Mia Farrow made against Allen are true.

Mia Farrow is an amazing actress and is delight to watch on screen.

Woody Allen is one of my favorite filmmakers.

Check out my post a few above yours for the definition of "literal" or at least "legal" incest. Also, why did you type some sentences of your post twice?

[javy]

Originally Posted by Professor Echo

Check out my post a few above yours for the definition of "literal" or at least "legal" incest. Also, why did you type some sentences of your post twice?

I did read your post before I typed mine.

The duplicate sentence was an error.