The Criterion Collection

[thelberg]

"Producers of And Everything is Going Fine say the the DVD will be released
as part of Box Set released by Criterion sometime in 2012."

http://www.spaldinggray.com/Fine.html

[Guitar Joe]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

or Semi-Pro and even worst Baseketball

Don't get my hopes up!!!

[BohemianGraham]

Criterion Cast said it was Spaulding Gray.

Originally Posted by Roninblues

Late hint for that Blu-Ray.

Extremely late, since it's been out on BD in the BBS box set since November 2010.

Originally Posted by joie

The hint is for "Drive, He Said," a basketball movie. Hey! It's Jack Nicholson's directorial debut.

I think you need to see this: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ameri...Blu-ray/14981/

Also, the film has only been mentioned several times throughout this thread, especially in the past week or so by both Shell and I, while discussing A Safe Place, since it happens to share the BD disc with that "film."

Just finished watching The Last Metro from TCM PVR, and it looks like I have another Criterion to add to my list, although it's not a pressing one like World on a Wire, or Letter Never Sent.

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by retablo

The second half of [Psycho] has a different type of dramatic tension, but it plays differently once we know that Norman is mother. I saw the film at such a young age, I feel like I always knew that, so whenever I watch it, I'm not seeing Norman as Norman — i.e., cleaning up the murder to protect his "Mother". Knowing he's the one responsible changes the tension of the second half, I think, than seeing it when you don't know. I wish I could go back and watch it again with fresh eyes and not know the twist — I can only imagine how audiences reacted to that in 1960.

Shocked. Stunned. Disoriented and disquieted.

[Show spoiler]Also residually saddened by the fateful syzygy that brought Marion into Norman's orbit

...at least that's how it hit me the first time around. This would have been early 60s at an all-night summer drive-in, and I still recall the shrieks and squeals across that lot. Never before or since in motion picture history has one pendulous lightbulb had such a startling effect.

What's fascinating about the second half of Psycho though, is that Hitchcock purposely violated his own cardinal rule about suspense...i.e. intentionally giving the audience information to make them squirm in their seats, rather than startling them with "ooga-booga" surprises. In his famous series of interviews with Truffaut, his justification for that surprise seemed to turn on the fact that during the

[Show spoiler]violent offing of Marion by 'Mother' at the end of the first act, he had already established several key pieces of information: a murderous old woman lived in the creepy mansion up on the hill, she was Norman's mother, and he was covering up for her...which was enough to inform the entire second act with agonizing suspense. So by the climax, Hitchcock probably thought it was safe to out his titular 'Psycho' with a shocking twist because his movie was almost over anyway

...using that scene and its aftermath more like an ironic coda or epilogue to everything that had preceded it.

I agree though, even after you do know the ending of Psycho, there's still considerable "tension" - plus a lot of inky black humour - in the 'cat and mouse' events of the second half, especially in the scenes with Arbogast. It's just no longer the same kind of suspense - there's not even any surprise left - because unfortunately you can never untwist the twist. Which is why Hitchcock hated that device so much.

[ssjmichael]

Originally Posted by thelberg

"Producers of And Everything is Going Fine say the the DVD will be released
as part of Box Set released by Criterion sometime in 2012."

http://www.spaldinggray.com/Fine.html

ding ding ding

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by jrmac2000

Already in the bbs box if I am not mistaken.


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I think joie is just clowning.

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[Nathan2]

Though I'm excited for Being John Malcovick I'm not a big fan of the cover art.

[Darkcritic]

Originally Posted by thelberg

"Producers of And Everything is Going Fine say the the DVD will be released
as part of Box Set released by Criterion sometime in 2012."

http://www.spaldinggray.com/Fine.html

Don't know if I must be happy or a bit concerned about this . In one hand, it is great to see something unexpected from Criterion. In the other, I am fearing this "flood" of rumored box-sets is killing the possibilities of a Koker Trilogy release . Let's list which ones have been rumored/confirmed...

- Pasolini's Trilogy of Life which has been "hinted" by that bow in the New Year's Drawing (Can't be sure, really, I hope it IS what they were trying to hint )
- Apu Trilogy has been semi-confirmed for a 2013 release.
- Spalding Gray box-set rumored above.
- Wim Wender's Road Trilogy which has been heavily hinted at.
- BRD Trilogy which is most likely going to be re-issued this year (I am REALLY looking forward to this)
- Koker Trilogy just because I really REALLY hope they get to release it. Probably my most "wished" release thus far.

[oildude]

Originally Posted by thelberg

"Producers of And Everything is Going Fine say the the DVD will be released
as part of Box Set released by Criterion sometime in 2012."

http://www.spaldinggray.com/Fine.html

Based on the wording, it sounds like an Eclipse set.

But if it is a blu-ray box set, I really really hope it includes The Killing Fields. Not likely though, I'm not sure what Criterion's chances are of getting that one since it belongs to Warner Brothers, if I am not mistaken. Still, it would make a nice symmetry with Swimming to Cambodia and the upcoming Being John Malkovich.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by joie

The site's review indicates that People On Sunday is 1080i. It is actually 1080p, encoded at 29.97 Hz (30 fps).

The player/display combination can be significant: One player indicates 1080/60p, another one 29.97 Hz. In both cases the display (same one with both players) indicates 1080p.

You should not watch what your display indicates. What matters is what your player outputs, and in this case what the player outputs is 1080i, not 1080p.

Given the speed discrepancy with this particular film, this was the right way to encode the film.

Pro-B

[rkish]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

The Spalding Gray set has been confirmed for some time and as oildude mentioned it might turn out to be an Eclipse set.

Don't forget the Samurai Trilogy upgrade. And then there's the rumored Qaatsi trilogy...

The Pasolinis could also be individual releases. The BRD Trilogy upgrade might not be anytime soon. The Koker Trilogy might not be anytime soon, either. 2013 would seem more likely. And I will believe the Wenders set when I see it. It wouldn't surprise me if they only released Pina this year, or a Wenders Eclipse, or nothing from Wenders at all (since Pina will need to be 3D and Criterion haven't crossed into the third dimension as yet, while MPI have).

See? Nothing to worry about.

Tangent: I will be sad if we don't get The American Friend on Blu-ray, though. Robby Müller is one of my favorite DPs and there are only a few of his films on Blu-ray (Paris, Texas and now Repo Man are the only two I can think of offhand -- wait, IMDb tells me Dead Man and Mystery Train, too...I haven't upgraded those DVDs yet).

I agree with you Joe on The American Friend...a great film and it would be a shame to miss it on blu...

[retablo]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

Don't forget the Samurai Trilogy upgrade. And then there's the rumored Qaatsi trilogy...

It's funny, Godfrey Reggio mentioned that Criterion was releasing this trilogy YEARS ago at a screening in L.A. for all 3 films. It's about time it happens.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by joie

It is possible that the player is converting 'i' to 'p.'

I am unsure what player you have (could you let me know), but most BD players have a "video format" or "source" button on their remote. So if you press it, you should be able to immediately tell what the player outputs, i or p.

Edit: And one more thing, hopefully I am not misunderstanding you, but yes, you could have most players set to output "direct", not convert to 1080p.

[TJS_Blu]

Originally Posted by Darkcritic

then someone mentioned every hint related to a BD upgrade has the color blue in it.

They quit using blue in the hints in 2010. They haven't used a newletter hint for an upgrade in quite a while. The 2010/2011 wacky new year's drawing hinted at Diabolique without any blue in it...

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

I thought I might be able to hold off on Letter Never Sent until the B&N July sale but that seems out of the question now.

Joe,

If you could also find a way to see The Forty-first, do so. It is also lensed by Sergei Urusevsky and complimented by another beautiful score by Nikolai Kryukov.





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Pro-B

[ROclockCK]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

A guy told me once that one of the most subtly shocking things in Psycho is the fact they showed a bathroom toilet on camera. I'm not taking the piss (and that pun wasn't intended, but it was too good to pass up).

Hitchcock had a...[*cough*]...'cheeky' side, and seemed particularly...[*cough* *cough*]...'fixated' on that movie first - even to the extent of...[*ahem* *wheeze* *snort*]...'proudly' showing it off via his "Tour of the Bates Motel" trailer.

[lemonski]

Originally Posted by octagon

It's very charming, very engaging and very, very, very accessible.

Oh, maybe I do know why

I think I know why as well

[lemonski]

Originally Posted by joie

It's interesting to me, but if you can't stand silents stay away.

I can't stand silent films, but I was totally charmed and mesmerised by People On Sunday. Maybe it was because none of the cast were professionals, and they were very natural actors - the main thing that puts me off silent films is the exaggerated, hammy acting.

I'd say People On Sunday was the perfect silent if you don't like silent movies.

[retablo]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

A guy told me once that one of the most subtly shocking things in Psycho is the fact they showed a bathroom toilet on camera. I'm not taking the piss (and that pun wasn't intended, but it was too good to pass up).

Well, 1) that was the first time a toilet had been sown in films or TV, so yeah, at the time it was a big deal. And shocking. It was also, naturally, the first time a toilet had been flushed on TV or movies. 2) It wasn't at Hitchcock's insistence that a toilet be shown, it was writer Joseph Stefano's. He asked Hitch if they could show it, and Hitch replied, "write it in so its integral to the story." So Stefano wrote the scene where Marion has to flush the evidence, making the toilet something that couldn't be cut, and the censors really didn't object too much.

[retablo]

Originally Posted by lemonski

I can't stand silent films, but I was totally charmed and mesmerised by People On Sunday. Maybe it was because none of the cast were professionals, and they were very natural actors - the main thing that puts me off silent films is the exaggerated, hammy acting.

I'd say People On Sunday was the perfect silent if you don't like silent movies.

Curious, but do you like films of the 40s and 50s? Because even then, the acting was still a very stylized style where kisses were oh so dramatic and much of the dialogue was wink wink to the audience. It wasn't until the mid 50s, I guess with the Strasberg and Stanislavsky methods, that films got more "realistic."

I take silent films for what they are — simply, the truest form of cinema, told visually with little to no "dialogue." The acting was just trying to convey wordless drama, albiet over done.