The Criterion Collection

[pro-bassoonist]

Upgrades

1. L'ecclise (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
4. The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
5. Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
6. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
7. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
8. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
9. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)


NEW

1. La ciociara (Two Women) (Vittorio De Sica)
2. Il bell'Antonio (Bell' Antonio) (Mauro Bolognini)
3. Grazie Zia(Come Play with Me) (Salvatore Samperi)
4. A ciascuno il suo (We Still Kill the Old Way) (Elio Petri)
5. Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) (Claude Lelouch)
6. Prima della rivoluzione (Before the Revolution) (Bernardo Bertolucci)
7. Sorok pervyy (The Forty-first) (Grigori Chukhrai)
8. Ai qing wan sui (Vive L'Amour) (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. O thiasos (The Traveling Players) (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
10. Les amants réguliers (Regular Lovers) (Philippe Garrel)

Pro-B

[blkhrt]

It looks like Don't Look Now is getting a British release:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=6030

Hopefully Criterion might still release this film (I was going to put it on my list of ten new titles/upgrades)...and if not, hopefully someone will release it here in an edition worthy of the film.

[blkhrt]

Okay, here is a quickly cobbled together list...

New Titles:
Don't Look Now
The Sweet Hereafter
something by Herschell Gordon Lewis, perhaps the Blood Trilogy
Shoah
His Girl Friday (probably unlikely, but one of my favorites)

Upgrades:
Written on the Wind
Rushmore
The Ice Storm
Passion of Joan of Arc
Dazed and Confused
Bicycle Thieves

I could go on, but that will probably work for now.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by 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."

Cool! Yet another "silent" that I know absolutely nothing about! I'm intrigued yet again.

Thanks for sharing Bud!

[rkish]

Originally Posted by 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

From what I can see...a lot of his earlier films were released by Kino and "The White Ribbon" was released by Sony. Maybe securing the rights is a hassle?

[Pyoko]

Originally Posted by retablo

The Leopard is already out....

Also wow, a lot of people here seem to have a really hard time counting to ten.

[KubrickFan]

Originally Posted by stobbart

http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Verhoeven...0309247&sr=8-1

A nice little collection

I know that, but that's a DVD release, and he asked for Blu-ay releases . I also think it's the only chance of getting a Blu-ray release of these movies at all. The Dutch releases only featured a trailer, while the American DVDs all had an audio commentary. They couldn't even release their own classics properly on DVD, so I have no faith at all in a Dutch Blu-ray release, if that ever comes.

[rkish]

Originally Posted by retablo

The Leopard is already out....

I think Pyoko knows that...he is not happy with the transfer that Criterion did for blu. The BFI version of the film supposedly has a better transfer. Either he doesn't own a region free player and/or he is a purist and really wants Criterion to do a "proper" transfer.

Like it or not...I'm satisfied with the CC blu transfer.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by buffetfroid

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

No problem. I just added to your requests (I kept both).

So far 396 requests.

I have requests from the following people:

AnimeOnBlu
Belloche
Big Lou
blkhrt
Brawly
Buffetroid
CC
CG-Spider Baby
Cinemach
Env
fdm
fkbrum
Hendershot
Herzog
italy12
Jhiggy
Joe Dalek
Keldons
KubrickFan
MajorKing
Melodius
Morten
Neo
Octagon
oildude
Poolthief
Pro-B
Pyoko
Repete
Retablo
Shell
Stobbart
Sukuri
TJS Blu
travcav4
Yankees0222
Zen

[Pyoko]

Le Cercle Rouge review is up.

Looks better than the StudioCanal version in my opinion. I realise it's supposed to be drab and dull, but the blue/green cast on the SC version is just ugly and doesn't look like the right kind of dull. Also the Criterion has a bit less contrast boosting and thus looks less harsh. I'll be keeping my pre-order.

[P@t_Mtl]

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.

Can I participate or am I too much of an outsider?

I would be very happy in 2011 if I were to get these

Alexander Nevsky
Ivan The Terrible Part 1 & 2
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Tokyo Story
City Lights
Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot
In The Mood For Love

If I could get these I would be very happy, I know it's not 10 but I do not really buy all of the Criterion releases like most of you do. I mostly buy the one's I really really want and rent the rest that I am curious to watch

[Beta Man]

My 10 most wanted Upgrades:


Carnival of Souls
And The Ship Sails On
The Hidden Fortress
Man Bites Dog
Short Cuts
La Haine
House of Games
The Human Condition
The Last Temptation of Christ
Divorce Italian Style

[larry47591]

I only have a few wanted updates:

The 39 steps
The Lady Vanishes
Straw dogs

New:

The game
The following
City lights

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Can I participate or am I too much of an outsider?

You're Canadian, right? I think that qualifies as immediate disqualification.

CC

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

You're Canadian, right? I think that's immediate disqualification.

CC

Ah too bad!!

[drbikeshorts]

New:
Three Colours Trilogy - Kieslowski
Exotica - Egoyan
Irma Vep - Assayas
Barton Fink - Coens
Gumshoe - Frears

Upgrade:
In The Mood For Love - Wong Kar-Wai
The Rules Of The Game - Renoir
Six Moral Tales - Rohmer
Tokyo Drifter - Suzuki
Sansho The Bailiff - Mizoguchi

[Battra92]

Originally Posted by TJS_Blu

Napoleon 1927 Ganz
Wings 1927 Wellman

I think it's a damn shame that Coppola has such a strangle-hold on the US rights to Napoleon so that we'll never see the longer version put together by Kevin Brownlow. Maybe someday they'll release it in Europe and I can import it ...

[AreaUnderTheCurve]

Solaris is out on May 24. This is one I will definitely buy.

[Miadaskate]

Did anyone catch Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958) on TCM last night? It would make for an excellent Criterion release. I looked on Amazon and even the people on Marketplace are selling the DVD for like $70. It's a great film and happens to be another one I watched over the Summer, but forgot the name. I really need to start writing the foreign film titles down. I really like the way the movie switches between black & white and color, to separate events from the past and the present. And don't even get me started on Jean Seberg. Something about that short hair...

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Miadaskate

Does ShellOilJunior work or know someone who works at Criterion or something, is that why everyone is listing releases they'd like to see? Or is it just for fun?

It's mostly for fun, I know it's a Criterion thread and it's serious stuff but it's good to have fun sometimes