The Criterion Collection

[Hendershot737]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

Humble apology accepted. Continue to post at your regularly scheduled intervals.

CC

So glad to gain your permission. I'd be lost without it.


Now, to return to conversations that matter:

[keldons]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

I wouldn't be surprised, if all the orders were canceled. Whoever was in charge of listing the DVD's, messed up big time.

I'm not so sure. They have a lot of assorted DVDs and books listed for $.01

[capnnarcolepsy]

Originally Posted by keldons

I'm not so sure. They have a lot of assorted DVDs and books listed for $.01

yeah, they could just be blissfully unaware.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

it's probably considered terrible for me to say this since this is kind of like "judging a book by its cover" although the opposite way (in a good way here), but ever since you sent me that link with your current favorite films on it and i saw the pic of the cars on fire in the street and the people standing next to them, i have been very interested in seeing Weekend. so this news makes me pretty damn excited.

It's Godards most vicious New Wave film (well since it was his last) and at times, has more comedy than others (along with Les Carabiniers). I have the New Yorker dvd (maybe I can sell it for $60+ like everyone else is? I think I'll keep it.), but I can't wait to see a better transfer. Having Janus do it also means a cool poster soon.

[SpiderBaby]

This was not my doing, but another find today on DVDBeaver via the Criterionforum:

Last week while I was at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in New Orleans I spoke with some Criterion reps and was delighted to learn that Criterion plans to release Lonesome (1928) with talking sequences and tinted sequences either late this year or some time next year. It is my favorite picture and I was so excited that I started doing some of the film’s dialogue. When I asked whether I could mention this online, I was assured that it would be perfectly OK.

[Jr7936]

they also had Gunbuster vs. Diebuster: Aim for the Top! - The Gattai [Blu-ray] 3 disc blu ray set for 0.01, omg its so crazy

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

This was not my doing, but another find today on DVDBeaver via the Criterionforum:

Good news. The more silents the better.

[fdm]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I'm looking for people to participate.

Please give me your 10 most wanted Criterion Blu-rays. Selections may be new spines or catalog upgrades.

-don't list anything that's been announced or confirmed
-please refrain from listing titles that don't have a chance (ie The Dark Knight or There Will Be Blood).

After I have enough responses then I'll compile a 10-Most wanted Blu-rays from posters in this thread. Hey, I think Criterion reads this forum!

Upgrades:

L'Avventura
Cries And Whispers
L'Eclisse
In The Mood For Love
Last Temptation Of Christ

New:

Dekalog [Kieslowski]
Betrayal [Jones] (suggested this to them a long time ago)
Darling [Schlesinger] (more of an upgrade I suppose)
Moonlighting [Skolimowski] (suggested this a long time ago too)
Die Bleierne Zeit [von Trotta]

Honorable mention to Lili Marleen [Fassbinder]

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

I wouldn't be surprised, if all the orders were canceled. Whoever was in charge of listing the DVD's, messed up big time.

Yeah, this happened last year when all of us were excited one night and they all got canceled.

[TJS_Blu]

Ten new to collection, way more than ten need to be upgraded

Napoleon 1927 Ganz
Wings 1927 Wellman
Olympia (Pts 1 & 2) 1938 Riefenstahl
The Emigrants 1971 Troell
Eijanaika 1981 Imamura
Matewan 1987 Sayles
City Of Sadness 1989 Hsien
Ju Dou 1990 Yimou
Raise The Rad Lantern 1991 Yimou
The Stolen Children 1992 Amelio

Most of these have never been on DVD.

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by SpiderBaby

Yeah, this happened last year when all of us were excited one night and they all got canceled.

I remember reading about that the next morning. A lot of unhappy people.

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by TJS_Blu

Ten new to collection, way more than ten need to be upgraded

Napoleon 1927 Ganz
Wings 1927 Wellman
Olympia (Pts 1 & 2) 1938 Riefenstahl
The Emigrants 1971 Troell
Eijanaika 1981 Imamura
Matewan 1987 Sayles
City Of Sadness 1989 Hsien
Ju Dou 1990 Yimou
Raise The Red Lantern 1991 Yimou
The Stolen Children 1992 Amelio

Most of these have never been on DVD.

"Raise the Red Lantern" is on my list to see. Almost bought the DVD at B&N a few months ago, but held off.

[retablo]

Originally Posted by Pyoko

Most wanted Criterion Blu-ray list

Blu-ray upgrades:
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Leopard
Andrei Rublev
Bicycle Thieves
High and Low (I wanted to put [any non-samurai Kurosawa] but this can represent that)

New Blu-rays:
Dersu Uzala
Stalker
El Aura
The Apu Trilogy
The Three Colors Trilogy

The Leopard is already out....

[greekak229]

I really just want Battle of Algiers out. That's the first one that comes to mind.

[Poolthief]

+1 to those who mentioned Johnny Guitar and Los Olvidados.

10 New:
Nobody Knows
Best of Youth
Life is Sweet
Irreversible
I Am Cuba
Romper Stomper
Lilya 4-Ever
The Seventh Continent (How the hell is Haneke not represented yet?)
Underground
Seven Beauties

[buffetfroid]

Originally Posted by Poolthief

+1 to those who mentioned Johnny Guitar and Los Olvidados.

yeah...if you want, delete The Shooting from my tally and give another vote to Johnny

[Sukuri]

F for Fake
The Lady Eve
Notorious
Ran
Rashomon
Sid & Nancy
Ugetsu
Umberto D.

and,,,,

Pink Floyd: The Wall
Irreversible

[Yankees0222]

If any of these were ever released on blu by criterion i'd die a very happy person

Annie Hall - I know the lack of extras automatically disqualifies any Allen movie but i can dream, cant i?

Persona - Bergmans best movie (imo)

The Virgin Spring - Yeah, I guess I'm a Bergman fanboy

Salo - I know this will happen eventually but I dont really feel like waiting a few years for it to come out

Mulholland Drive - Why are there no David Lynch films in the collection? Travesty!

Pulp Fiction - I know I'll get flamed in here for even mentioning a tarantino film but I do LOVE this movie

Rashomon - Another no brainer.... I just feel this should have been released before a bunch of other Kurosawa movies (*ahem* Kagemusha)

[oildude]

Off the top of my head.....

10 New

• Gallipoli
• Go Tell The Spartans (late career Burt Lancaster, overlooked gem about Vietnam)
• The Year of Living Dangerously
• Day of the Jackal
• Lone Star
• Mountains of the Moon (a film by Bob Rafelson)
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Soldier of Orange (Dutch version)
• The Quiet American
• Ulzana's Raid (more Burt Lancaster, great gritty Western)

Really wanted to add Quigley Down Under, but don't think it has a chance as a Criterion. But I can dream...

10 Catalog Releases

So many I want on blu, but have to pick only 10

• Battle of Algiers
• The Ascent
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Dazed and Confused
• The Cranes Are Flying
• The Naked Prey
• Night Train to Munich
• Andrei Rublev
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
• The Virgin Spring

[AnimeOnBlu]

Upgrades:
The Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)

New:
A Bittersweet Life (Kim Ji-woon)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii)
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)