The Criterion Collection

[s00perd00per]

Originally Posted by Pressedmeat

I just started my criterion blu ray collection:
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line

What should I get next?

Last Year at Marienbad

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Pressedmeat

I just started my criterion blu ray collection:
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line

What should I get next?

M, The Third Man (expensive because it's out of print) and Stagecoach are all very highly regarded and Revanche and Paths of Glory were two of my absolute favorite pickups this year.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by Pressedmeat

I just started my criterion blu ray collection:
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line

What should I get next?

Wages of Fear!

EDIT:

Although "Path's of Glory" would be a good pick-up too.

[w280sax]

This may be common knowledge, but I figured I'd share it in case it would help someone: Barnes and Noble has most of their blu rays at b2g1 free. Their prices are pretty high normally but the two newest releases, Shock Corridor and Naked Kiss were both 27.99.

Thus, I was able to get them plus Robinson Crusoe on Mars for $60 shipped. I say $20 each shipped for Criterion blu's is a good deal (especially on these new releases).

There was no code or anything, it automatically adjusted when I put these in my cart.

[greekak229]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

Give "The 400 Blows" a try.

Can't go wrong with this release. I have stated my love for this film several times on this thread. It's one of the best Criterion Blus out there.

[italy12]

Originally Posted by Pressedmeat

I just started my criterion blu ray collection:
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line

What should I get next?

Ahhh, the age old question! Many people answered with great suggestions, so I will add my .02.

Charade, The Night of the Hunter, Videodrome, Secret of the Grain, The Magician, and you can't go wrong with Army of Shadows!

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by Pressedmeat

I just started my criterion blu ray collection:
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line

What should I get next?

Well, you've started with my two favourite Criterions and two of my all-time favourite films
I'm also very happy I bought Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie (my favourite Godard), Pierrot le fou and Chungking Express (both blind buys with no regrets), the Yojimbo / Sanjuro double.
I also recommend both Last Year at Marienbad and Le mépris (I have the StudioCanal versions, but both great films). edit: I've just noticed there isn't a Criterion Le mépris yet.
I also have The Leopard (BFI version), which is also one my all-time favourite films. I watched my blu-ray (which is gorgeous) and then had the opportunity to see a 35mm print a couple of months later on a very large screen. Such a masterpiece!

[oildude]

Last night I watched my copy of Pierrot le Fou I got this week as part of the ongoing B2G1 sale at B&N. I have mixed feelings about this one. I am glad I own it and I plan to keep it, especially since it is OOP, but I feel it is definitely the weakest entry in my growing collection of Criterions. I don't know how many times I will revisit it, unless it is to admire the cinematography or the eye candy of a young Anna Karina. I liked Breathless and Vivre Sa Vie, so I am thankful it is not the first Godard I watched.

Definitely an experimental film. Part of me thinks "what a pretentious pile of pseudo-intellectual crap". But I also recognize it as a product of mid-1960s France, Godard's ego, and his views of the world at that time. I see in it the director's satire of growing commercialization of society, on top of the anger of the French left after 16 years of Vietnam and Algerian wars. There is a good plot line running through the movie, and I found the use of the ominous music effective. It does appeal to me on a certain level, but there are so many random elements thrown into it that to me they just overwhelm everything.

I have a French co-worker who, when I mentioned to her I had watched it, told me she loathes this movie. I wouldn't go that far. We did, however, have a great conversation about French cinema.

[biglou114]

I just finished watching the DVD of The Double Life of Veronique, which I borrowed from the library. I'm not sure what I feel about it. On the one hand I was very impressed with the beauty of it (the cinematography, the cities, and Irene Jacobs), but I don't get the movie itself. At first I enjoyed the idea of the Weronika/Veronique, but

[Show spoiler]that ends 30 mins into the movie with Weronika's sudden death. After that I don't really understand that importance to the rest of Veronique's story. In fact I still don't really get Veronique's story at all.

Is there something I'm missing? I'd really like to see what other people's feelings are.

[SpiderBaby]

Why is something new always "pretentious" to people?

[mckee74]

Originally Posted by Pressedmeat

I just started my criterion blu ray collection:
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line

What should I get next?

Personally, I'd go for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, For All Mankind or M.

[SlickDamian]

The America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set is amazing.
I absolutely love The Thin Red Line, and based on that I'd recommend Days of Heaven, athough the extras on the disc are very slim for a Criterion.

[cinema_forever19]

Criterion Blus I own and am very proud of:

Seven Samurai
Yojimbo / Sanjuro
Kagemusha
M
The Third Man
Paths of Glory
The Wages of Fear
The Night of the Hunter
The Seventh Seal
Modern Times
Stagecoach
Army of Shadows
Black Narcissus
The Red Shoes
The Last Emperor
8½
Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live)
Breathless
Pierrot le fou
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Chungking Express

Will get:
Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle)
The Great Dictator
Les Diaboliques
Wild Strawberries

I'm debating whether or not to blind-buy Amarcord. I really like Fellini's films Nights of Cabiria, La Strada and 8½. But this one has yet to catch my interest... would anyone suggest?

[Belloche]

Originally Posted by cinema_forever19

I'm debating whether or not to blind-buy Amarcord. I really like Fellini's films Nights of Cabiria, La Strada and 8½. But this one has yet to catch my interest... would anyone suggest?

Amarcord is a wonderful film. It fits well with Fellini's earlier work that you've listed. If you love those titles there's no reason you shouldn't enjoy Amarcord as well.

[Zen_Amako]

Originally Posted by biglou114

I just finished watching the DVD of The Double Life of Veronique, which I borrowed from the library. I'm not sure what I feel about it. On the one hand I was very impressed with the beauty of it (the cinematography, the cities, and Irene Jacobs), but I don't get the movie itself. At first I enjoyed the idea of the Weronika/Veronique, but

[Show spoiler]that ends 30 mins into the movie with Weronika's sudden death. After that I don't really understand that importance to the rest of Veronique's story. In fact I still don't really get Veronique's story at all.

Is there something I'm missing? I'd really like to see what other people's feelings are.

I think you missed how

[Show spoiler]Weronika's premature death led to Veronique making changes in how she lived her life, although she didn't really understand why until the end

. Weronika

[Show spoiler]died singing her heart out

; Veronique decides not to pursue singing. It's about having a strong feeling (in this case, Veronique felt she was not alone until

[Show spoiler]Weronika died

) you can't explain but you still feel it.

At least that was what I took away from it. It might help to think about the film for a while, and then watch it again.

[ccfixx]

The more idiotic comments I read that are posted over on Criterion's Facebook page, the more I find myself appreciating the idiotic posts that appear in this thread.

CC

[Cocophone]

How soon until people start realizing that Facebook = AOL for the 21st century?

With Facebook you get too many "friends" who post too often and which you have no common interests.

The end result is, I rarely use Facebook anymore. Mostly, I just check-in every month or so and see who changed their avatar and check if one or two of my friends might have posted a new picture or two.

[BasicGreatGuy]

"Black Narcissus" will be on TCM tonight at 8pm est, for those that haven't seen it.

[One4Deuce]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

"Black Narcissus" will be on TCM tonight at 8pm est, for those that haven't seen it.

Thanks, I'll DVR it, give it a watch and see if it's worth adding to my Criterion collection.

[SlickDamian]

Anyone willing to look at my collection and recommend a Criterion blu based on it? I never know what to buy, but will buy something if someone (who seems like they know what they are talking about) recommends it.