The Criterion Collection

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I wasn't enamored with Lifeboat when I saw it several years ago. I guess the heavy reliance on rear screen projection put me off. Still a good film though.

Rear projection is a problem that plagues just about all Hitchcock films. Even in Rebecca, which I watched the other day, there was rear projection behind Fontaine and Olivier and they were just walking!
Over the years, I've learnt to not let it bother me too much.
I'm fan of Lifeboat - a solid film. It's also one of those "technical exercise" films for Hitchcock, like Rope, where he's trying to work within certain technical parameters, in this case keeping the camera confined to the boat.

[JJE-187]

Originally Posted by octagon

He might be asking which Criterion DVDs have gotten UK BD releases but have not yet gotten Criterion BD releases...ie stuff like Rififi, Tokyo Story, Picnic at Hanging Rock.

I'm too lazy to do it but that might be a pretty useful running list, actually.

Ya that's what I was asking, which films that are available on Dvd only in the us by criterion but have Uk blu releases.

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Cleopatra is for a bit later, some stuff came in since then that need's to be seen first. Tonight it will be The Lanvender Hill Mob, it came in during the week and I also have To Catch A Thief that I got on Wednesday. Plus I will probably start my Late Ozu Eclipse set this weekend, busy busy

I've watched my copy of The Lavendar Hill Mob a couple of times. So much fun to be had with that film. Guiness's performance is a treat. The crime is a great set-up. The Eiffel Tower sequence is a lot of fun; I wonder if Louis Malle had it in mind when he made Zazie dans le metro.

[billzfan]

I was thinking of blind buying Pierrot Le Fou since its going out of print. I loved Breathless. Will I like Pierrot?

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I'm pretty much in love with Suzuki, especially Branded to Kill. So thankful I got that one. Are Kuroneko and House in the same arena?

I've not seen House, so no comment about that.
Kuroneko isn't much like Branded to Kill or other Seijun Suzuki films. It is a wonderful film though, so definitely recommended.
If you're interested in Seijun Suzuki, you should be looking at Tokyo Drifter.
You should also be looking at the Nikkatsu Noir Eclipse set, as well as the The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara Eclipse set. I've watched all them and loved them. They're loaded with 1960's Japanese cool

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I was thinking of blind buying Pierrot Le Fou since its going out of print. I loved Breathless. Will I like Pierrot?

Possibly
It's definitely of the same period in Godard's early, formative years. Like Breathless, Pierrot Le Fou is pretty goofy and playful with genre conventions.
I blind-bought it ages and really liked it. In fact, just lent my copy to a friend.
You should also be looking at Vivre Sa Vie - a favourite Godard for me and quite few others on this forum.

[zafisher94]

i'm surprised the last batch of announcements haven't been put up for preorder yet on amazon

[billzfan]

Anyone heard anything about a blu ray release of La Dolce Vita? It's one of my ten favorite films of all time and I've been waiting patiently

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by zafisher94

i'm surprised the last batch of announcements haven't been put up for preorder yet

They have been put up already

[zafisher94]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

They have been put up already

my bad i meant on amazon

[jrmac2000]

Originally Posted by zafisher94

my bad i meant on amazon

I just preordered them from amazon, they should show up for you!


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[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by zafisher94

my bad i meant on amazon

They're up on Amazon, that's what I meant. Just do a search on Amazon..I pre-ordered a few today. For some reason, the pre-orders aren't linked on here yet.

[zafisher94]

Originally Posted by jrmac2000

I just preordered them from amazon, they should show up for you!


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Originally Posted by CoopFilm

They're up on Amazon, that's what I meant. Just do a search on Amazon..I pre-ordered a few today. For some reason, the pre-orders aren't linked on here yet.

thanks. i see em now.

[TylerDurden]

NAPOLEON RETURNS

There is no other movie like Napoleon. Abel Gance’s silent 1927 masterpiece is a truly legendary work of cinema, for which the director pulled out all the stops technically, experimenting with camera, screen width, and editing in ways that still blow the mind today. Gance’s original cut, shown over two days in Paris, is said to have been more than nine hours long. Various shortened versions showed all over the world after that premiere, but most of the original footage has long been lost.

The Oscar-winning historian Kevin Brownlow, who has been committed to reconstructing the film for decades, talked to us about Gance’s visionary filmmaking, on the eve of a handful of screenings of his latest, five-and-a-half hour restoration of the film, at the historic Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, March 24, 25, and 31 and April 1.

[Justanothercrow421]

i've been checking every day for pre-orders on amazon.

they just went up tonight. they weren't even there this morning.

pre-orded as soon as i saw they were up.

Got every June release but the Spalding Gray pictures.

[octagon]

Just so everybody knows, if The Element of Crime starts popping up in my upgrade/wishlists for a while it's because I was just floored by Melancholia.

Given my limited attention span this will undoubtedly pass but it might take a while.

I gotta say, it was pretty damn good.

[Yami]

Originally Posted by JJE-187

Ya that's what I was asking, which films that are available on Dvd only in the us by criterion but have Uk blu releases.

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Great Expectations
Henry V
Peeping Tom
Hamlet
Good Morning
M. Hulot's Holiday
Rififi
Tokyo Story
The Tin Drum
Early Summer
Boudu Saved From Drowning
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Late Spring
Bicycle Thieves
The Burmese Harp
Vengeance is Mine
Two-Lane Blacktop
An Autumn Afternoon
Empire of Passion
Pigs and Battleships
The Insect Woman
Make Way from Tomorrow
The Only Son
There Was a Father
Osaka Elegy
Sisters of the Gion

Coming Soon:

Children of Paradise
Sansho the Bailiff
Ugetsu
Sawdust and Tinsel

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

NAPOLEON RETURNS

There is no other movie like Napoleon. Abel Gance’s silent 1927 masterpiece is a truly legendary work of cinema, for which the director pulled out all the stops technically, experimenting with camera, screen width, and editing in ways that still blow the mind today. Gance’s original cut, shown over two days in Paris, is said to have been more than nine hours long. Various shortened versions showed all over the world after that premiere, but most of the original footage has long been lost.

The Oscar-winning historian Kevin Brownlow, who has been committed to reconstructing the film for decades, talked to us about Gance’s visionary filmmaking, on the eve of a handful of screenings of his latest, five-and-a-half hour restoration of the film, at the historic Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, March 24, 25, and 31 and April 1.

I keep hoping that one day this will be release, a serious long shot but I like to think positive

[Yami]

I wouldn't be surprised to see it get released actually. Now that the legal issues have apparently been resolved, it's just the logistical issues regarding release.

I watched a bootleg (clocking in at 5:13) earlier and it's stunning. One of the greatest films ever made.

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I'm pretty much in love with Suzuki, especially Branded to Kill. So thankful I got that one. Are Kuroneko and House in the same arena?

Kuroneko is my favourite out of the 3 you listed. Thematically it has nothing to do with Branded to Kill, as it's more of a traditional horror film.

Hausu is batshit insane, even moreso than BtK. As I've said earlier in this thread, it's essentially a cracked-out acid-trip induced episode of the Monkees extended to an hour and a half, starring Japanese school girls instead of the pre-fab four.

I think you should grab both to be honest.

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye

May be people are watching films instead of moaning about them.

[Show spoiler]

This. I'm actually off to watch some films now, I came home this weekend to visit and help my mother out and Tintin, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and World on a Wire were waiting for me. I'm just trying to decide what to watch first, or if I'm going to continue on with The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze.

I've pre-ordered Shallow Grave and The 39 Steps, I've decided to wait until July for the Samurai trilogy, due to the price on it. Shallow Grave held some mild appeal to me until I saw Christopher Eccleston was in it in addition to Ewan MacGreggor. Now it's at a higher priority.