I thought that I had heard of Gorin...but knew absolutely nothing about him. I might very well pick this up in January. It sounds very intriguing to me. He seems to have a real Dvorak appreciation and love for this country.
I thought that I had heard of Gorin...but knew absolutely nothing about him. I might very well pick this up in January. It sounds very intriguing to me. He seems to have a real Dvorak appreciation and love for this country.
You had heard of him, if you own/seen/heard about Tout va bien, that is one of the Godard/Gorin Dziga Vertov Group Films and is a Criterion (Letter to Jane is on the disc, and counts for another Dziga Vertov Group film). If you also read the top 10 lists on Criterion's site, he has one.
This might be my Vigo set for 2012, well so far anyways (1 month down).
Is anyone here going to get Identification of a Woman too? I would like to see some opinions on it. By the way, thanks for the heads up SpiderBaby , from the look of those screen caps the improvement over the DVD is quite obvious. Great looking transfer.
Yay! No Anderson. It was too close to Rushmore for it. A bit disappointed of the smaller announcements, but I am so buying Gojira from them:
New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series)
New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr
Audio commentary for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! by Kalat
New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects
New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
Theatrical trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman
Way more features than the current BD.
Same, this is like the number one item I need to get at the start of the new year. Between this release, Destroy All Monsters, The Daimajin Trilogy, Godzilla vs Megalon and Gamera 3, it seems to a great time for us monster fans. This will probably be my number one favorite Criterion along with House.
About the only Criterions I've watched are the Wes Anderson films. Therefore, I'm asking what are the must have Criterions? I believe I want Paris, Texas and Shock Corridor, but there are so many I don't know about. However, I doubt I'll ever be able to get them all, unless I just focus on those titles for a few years.
Therefore, I'm asking what are the must have Criterions?
Whatever you do, the 2 "must haves" for anybody serious in film that I would recommend, get the Jean Vigo and The Rules of the Game (which this one is coming out next month, could be during the Barnes and Noble 50% off sale.) If serious, learn up on them if you like.
You could get both of these next month during that sale for $40.
This is all you need:
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About the only Criterions I've watched are the Wes Anderson films. Therefore, I'm asking what are the must have Criterions? I believe I want Paris, Texas and Shock Corridor, but there are so many I don't know about. However, I doubt I'll ever be able to get them all, unless I just focus on those titles for a few years.
Criterion introduced me to Japanese films (back in DVD days). For whatever reason they have a very strong emphasis on Japanese films compared to some other international possibilities. These are my favorites on blu-ray, and they are all extremely accessible.
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo/Sanjuro
High and Low
Pale Flower
You've also got some Chaplin (hopefully they get moving on much more Chaplin in 2012): Modern Times The Great Dictator
Some more random ones that are probably good accessible films (I don't particularly care for overly self-indulgent/artsy films, so this is where I've started). Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick + Kirk Douglas) The Killing/Killer's Kiss (Kubrick) Sweet Smell of Success Le Circle Rouge
Army of Shadows
About the only Criterions I've watched are the Wes Anderson films. Therefore, I'm asking what are the must have Criterions? I believe I want Paris, Texas and Shock Corridor, but there are so many I don't know about. However, I doubt I'll ever be able to get them all, unless I just focus on those titles for a few years.
It all depends on how serious of a film-buff you really are. The CC has something for everyone but there are definitely some films that are more accesible than others. Here is a small list of recommendations separated by accesible titles and more complex ones.
Accesible Titles:
- Seven Samurai (You will probably see this one popping a lot when asking for suggestions ).
- Days of Heaven
- Repulsion
- Yojimbo/Sanjuro
- Zazie dans le Metro
Complex Titles (This doesn't neccesarily means they are hard to understand but they can feature slow-pacing, lack of constant dialogue and complex themes )
- Army of Shadows (My favorite Criterion release, I can't recommend this title enough).
- Diabolique
- Solaris
- Paris, Texas
- The Complete Jean Vigo
- The Battle of Algiers
Hope I was from help .
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I wouldn't mind one bit if there were 2-3 Chaplin's released in 2012.
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Originally Posted by laennitsud
Criterion on a budget
About the only Criterions I've watched are the Wes Anderson films. Therefore, I'm asking what are the must have Criterions? I believe I want Paris, Texas and Shock Corridor, but there are so many I don't know about. However, I doubt I'll ever be able to get them all, unless I just focus on those titles for a few years.
expanding off of other people's recommendations (which are all great).
here are my recommendations:
Blow Out
Charade
Dazed and Confused
The Night Of The Hunter
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I'll take 1 or 2 a month. I'm pretty happy with that. Coming up, Rushmore, Seijun Suzuki, and I'm glad I waited for Traffic. I knew Criterion would come through with that release. If only theyb could do Ran soon? Throne of Blood? Le Samourai? Vanishing? Insomnia?
The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) hides a cracked interior in the actress’s most iconic role: Séverine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel (Viridiana) is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and its viewers’), as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions. Fantasy and reality commingle in this burst of cinematic transgression, which was one of Buñuel’s biggest hits.
1967 • 100 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring Michael Wood, author of the BFI Film Classics book Belle de jour
• New video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright and film scholar Linda Williams
• New interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
• Excerpt from the French television program Cinéma, featuring interviews with Carrière and actress Catherine Deneuve
• Original and American release trailers
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Melissa Anderson and a 1970s interview with director Luis Buñuel
TITLE: Belle de jour (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2100BD
UPC: 7-15515-08881-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-504-9
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 1/17/12
TRAFFIC – BD Edition
Traffic examines the question of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. With an innovative, color-coded cinematic treatment distinguishing his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Che) embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpin’s wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The film, delivering a complex and nuanced take on this issue of such great international importance without sacrificing any energy or suspense, is a contemporary classic, and the winner of four Oscars, for best director, best screenplay, best editing, and best supporting actor for Benicio del Toro (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
2000 • 147 minutes • Color • 5.1 Surround/2.0 Surround • In English and Spanish with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Steven Soderbergh and supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer Larry Blake, with 5.1 and 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• Three audio commentaries, featuring Soderbergh and writer Stephen Gaghan; producers Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz and consultants Tim Golden and Craig Chretien; and composer Cliff Martinez
• Twenty-five deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Soderbergh and Gaghan
• Three sets of demonstrations: one on film processing and the look of the Mexico sequences; one on film editing, with commentary by editor Stephen Mirrione; and one on dialogue editing
• Additional unused footage of various scenes, from multiple angles
• Theatrical trailers and television spots
• Gallery of trading cards depicting the U.S. Customs canine squad used to detect narcotics and illegal substances
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Manohla Dargis
Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. This first thrilling, tactile spectacle continues to be a cult phenomenon; here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American reworking starring Raymond Burr (Rear Window).
1954 • 96 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Japanese with English subtitles • 1.37:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series)
• New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr
• Audio commentary for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! by Kalat
• New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
• Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
• Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects
• New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
• The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
• Theatrical trailers
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman
The Moment of Truth, from director Francesco Rosi (Salvatore Giuliano) is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero—played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelin. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring’s action, as close to death as possible. Like all of the great Italian truth seeker’s films, this is a not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world—and perhaps the greatest bullfighting movie ever made.
1964 • 107 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 2.35:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Interview with director Francesco Rosi from 2004
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Matthews
TITLE: The Moment of Truth (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2105BD
UPC: 7-15515-09231-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-551-3
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 12/27/11
STREET: 1/24/12
Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin
Filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin, widely known for his early-seventies collaborations (including Tout va bien) with Jean-Luc Godard in the Dziga Vertov Group, established his singular voice with this trio of accomplished, fascinating, and nontraditional documentaries, made in Southern California after his relocation there. Poto and Cabengo (1978) is a compelling visit with two young San Diego twins who have invented their own language. In Routine Pleasures (1986), Gorin conjoins the story of a group of model train enthusiasts in Del Mar with a meditation on the work of critic and painter Manny Farber. And My Crasy Life (1992) is an expectation-shredding exploration of a Samoan gang in Long Beach. With these three films, Gorin excavates hidden communities that are a part of everyday American life, and shows himself to be a major chronicler of what is eccentric and beautiful in our common culture.
THREE-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:
Poto and Cabengo
Gracie and Ginny are San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else. Living largely cut off from the world, the two little girls have created a private form of communication that’s an amalgam of the English and German they hear at home. Jean-Pierre Gorin’s free-form, polyphonic nonfiction investigation into this phenomenon looks at the family from a variety of angles, with the director casting himself as a sociological detective of sorts. It’s a delightful and absorbing study of words and faces, mass media and personal isolation, and America’s odd margins.
1980 · 73 minutes · Color · Monaural · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Routine Pleasures
What do a group of model-train enthusiasts and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two lines intersect in cultural inquisitor Jean-Pierre Gorin’s lovely and distinctly American film, which takes as its subject singular passions (the locomotive aficionados’ elaborately designed worlds in miniature; Farber’s teeming canvases) and expands to something richly philosophical, meditative, and surprisingly funny. Routine Pleasures is a masterful tribute to our hobbies and obsessions.
1986 · 79 minutes · Color/Black & White · Monaural · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
My Crasy Life
Jean-Pierre Gorin’s gripping and unique film about Samoan street gangs in Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language. Part observational documentary, part fiction invisibly scripted and shaped by the director, My Crasy Life, which won a special jury prize at Sundance, is a resolutely unglamorous yet intensely compassionate examination of violence and dislocation.
1992 · 98 minutes · Color · Monaural · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
TITLE: Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin
CAT. NO: ECL143
UPC: 7-15515-09221-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-547-6
SRP: $44.95
STREET: 1/17/12
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I hadn't realized until now that Traffic already has a Blu-ray release anyway....pretty disappointing they'd choose it. I've never seen it, but it seems the general sense here on this thread is that it isn't worth the time.
I hadn't realized until now that Traffic already has a Blu-ray release anyway....pretty disappointing they'd choose it. I've never seen it, but it seems the general sense here on this thread is that it isn't worth the time.
You knew they would do it sooner or later. They love Soderberg as do I and I welcome his releases. Best to get it out of the way. Seems like they are revamping their catalog while adding a few new additions here and there.
Can't wait for the Seijun Suzuki films. I mean he got fired after making Branded to Kill and a man is on fire for over 15 seconds in this film. It's a great and sexy film. As for Tokyo Drifter, this movies music score will be worth the price of admission. Plus just a real cool movie and score as well. I love Seijun!!
I hadn't realized until now that Traffic already has a Blu-ray release anyway....pretty disappointing they'd choose it. I've never seen it, but it seems the general sense here on this thread is that it isn't worth the time.
Unlike Fear and Loathing (which looked virtually the same) this at least has the chance of being a significant upgrade, because the Universal Blu-ray was rather poor, and Criterion's HD master looks much nicer.
Personally I like it. Not enough to pre-order at Criterion prices, but will pick it up if I can get it at 50% off.
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, from the look of those screen caps the improvement over the DVD is quite obvious. Great looking transfer.
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