The Criterion Collection

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by octagon

Not to mention MOAR Matthau.

Which is never a bad thing.

Thank-you for adding him, as I hadn't had my coffee yet when I wrote that, and thus forgot him.

Now that I have, we also need MOAR Dom DeLuise, Larry Hagman, and Sorrell "Boss Hogg" Booke.

I just think Fail-Safe would be a great addition to the collection. It would look lurvely with Dr. Strangelove.

I can't wait until next week either, when Anatomy of a Murder comes out. It's going to look fantastic with 12 Angry Men, even though Gojira will be separating the two shelf-wise.

We have pretty much Summer with Monika (poor Wild Strawberries kids) and Being John Malkovich confirmed, any other takers for new releases/upgrades?

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by DarkRyder

Plenty of what I wanted is OOS now (Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, Stagecoach, Seven Samurai), but now I have Breathless and The 400 Blows. I'm thinking of Berlin Alexanderplatz, but I'm afraid of a blu-ray in the future. Is that at all likely?

Others I'm thinking of include:
The Wages of Fear
Kiss Me Deadly
Solaris
The Leopard
Senso
The Sweet Smell of Success
Island of Lost Souls
If...


Don't know. Anyone can recommend, or offer any advice?

I have all in that list, so my order of preference (for what it's worth):
The Leopard
Sweet Smell of Success
The Wages of Fear
If...
Solaris
Island of Lost Souls
Kiss Me Deadly
Senso
Note: I like them all, but The Leopard is in my all-time top ten. Beware though: it's not for everyone.

[Yami]

My predictions for tonight:

Summer with Monika
The Gold Rush
Being John Malkovich
Rashomon
Bicycle Thieves
Spirit of the Beehive
Children of Paradise

[Yami]

Originally Posted by joie

Ordered 'Rules of the Game,' 'People on Sunday,' and 'Orpheus.' I have some concern about 'Rules of the Game,' because there is a genuine French edition that runs six minutes longer; unfortunately, it may not have subs of any kind..

Really? As far as I know the 112 minute premiere version no longer exists.

[ShellOilJunior]

I'm terrible at Predictions but here goes:

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rashomon
Summer with Monika
The Gold Rush
The Soft Skin
Jaglom Eclipse

[Yami]

That's definitely incorrect. The distributors website states 101 minutes which is 106 minutes with 4% PAL speed up.

[24framesasecond]

The running time posted on the French Amazon site is incorrect. There is no 112-minute version. The 106-minute version, reconstructed from numerous archival sources in the late 1950s, is the longest and most complete version that exists.

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I'm terrible at Predictions but here goes:

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rashomon
Summer with Monika
The Gold Rush
The Soft Skin
Jaglom Eclipse

You magnificent bastard.

Mine:
Summer with Monika
Being John Malkovich (why, Criterion, why?)
Robery Downey Sr. Eclipse
Fail-Safe
Rashomon
The Gold Rush

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

You magnificent bastard.

Mine:
Summer with Monika
Being John Malkovich (why, Criterion, why?)
Robery Downey Sr. Eclipse
Fail-Safe
Rashomon
The Gold Rush

Criterion should do Safety Last. Your Fail Safe prediction made me think of the film for some reason.

[TJS_Blu]

Originally Posted by joie

112 minutes: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/La-re...Blu-ray/25424/

For what its worth, Editions Montparnasse shows the following info for their release of La Regle du jeu:

La Règle du jeu Blu-ray
de Jean Renoir
avec Marcel Dalio, Jean Renoir, Julien Carette
1939, 101 min, noir et blanc

[Yami]

They should do a whole Lloyd boxset.

[Freeza]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Oh my, you OCD organizers are gonna be left with a conundrum when this one comes out

I've been shelving the Criterion blus by spine color.

[TJS_Blu]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

EDIT: Saw it on the news feed. It's Second Sight, incidentally. Maybe Ryan G was hinting an upgrade when he posted those stills from the film last week.

Yeah Joe, you are right, Second Sight. Stupid I-Phone. Oh yeah, I don't have an I-Phone.

Anyway, here's an article about the restoration of the film, which I ran across while reading this excellent article on restoration in general.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

It's a shame Criterion does not offer international shipping.

or a functional website

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by octagon

Heavy volume sales days?

Their servers choke when too many people refresh too frequently on announcement days

Huh. I have never had a problem on announcement days, and I am always frequently updating. I wonder if the site works better with some browsers or something.

I think we can pretty much guarantee that the announcements won't happen until after noon, and therefore after the end of the sale

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Huh. I have never had a problem on announcement days, and I am always frequently updating. I wonder if the site works better with some browsers or something.

I think we can pretty much guarantee that the announcements won't happen until after noon, and therefore after the end of the sale

They usually make the announcements late in the afternoon most of the time anyway

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

They usually make the announcements late in the afternoon most of the time anyway

Yeah. I miss those days when they would come by noon. Alas, those days are long gone.

[octagon]

Since I'm going to put RB on my prediciton list anyway I'm going to put all clues out of mind and just put my trust in whatever demons aid my efforts when I'm still up at this hour (fyi demons can't drive American cars for shit).

Rosemary's Baby
Picnic at Hanging Rock (just got the Second Sight release, it's excellent)
Stray Dog
Charley Varrick
Timecrimes

[Old Geezer]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I'm terrible at Predictions but here goes:

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rashomon
Summer with Monika
The Gold Rush
The Soft Skin
Jaglom Eclipse

With my luck this is very probable. I just received the UK version of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" in the mail this week (haven't even had a chance to watch it yet). Also broke down and bought the DVD of "Summer with Monica" less than a month ago. Not a bad movie but I'd much rather have an upgrade of "Wild Strawberries". "The Gold Rush" and "Rashomon" would go a long ways toward soothing my feelings though.

[TylerDurden]

Was able to order:
Crumb
The Moment Of Truth
Solaris
Cronos

$64 for four CC