The Criterion Collection

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

What does 4/20 mean?

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
That's so funny - I was literally just looking that up.
Apparently, it's a "counter-culture" holiday in North America to celebrate the consumption of cannabis. I'm not sure why it's trending now though.

[andsoitgoes]

Not sure if this posted the other night.

Originally Posted by brandon_260

Amazon.ca skipped out on the low pre-order price once again. Guess this just adds more titles to my wishlist come July.

Originally Posted by exolstice

Yeah, I don't know where they get their Criterion prices from. They're higher than the MSRP.

Originally Posted by agoofykindasuperman

It could be because they list them as IMPORTs right now. I bet if they add their own individual listing for them, they'll start out cheaper.

Still, I'll get them during the BN.com sale and wait the month and a half for them to deliver.

Sigh. Don't say this, I was so happy to be able to preorder for $27. I've gotten, Piña, Repo Man, Blimp, Naked Lunch and... Something else but that's a price I can stomach.

$40 for an "Import"? Bleh.

Now the April releases were the last I ordered from, have they stopped doing the reasonable pricing for their releases now? Were May/June releases no longer reasonable?

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

But, it is hard, as I am having difficulty waiting for:

Badlands
On the Waterfront
Repo Man
The Tin Drum
A Man Escaped
Sansho the Bailiff
and
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Blimp is FREAKING EPIC. I blind bought and initially I was not sure about it... As soon as it got to the duel scene, yeah I was IN.

Waterfront is a given, Repo Man is going to take a little to really get into for me, Tin Drum knocked me in the face. Wow. I'm upset that they cut apparently a very interesting documentary about it being heavily censored that was on the original criterion DVD.

A man escaped? That's like asking if the sky is blue

Man I love your list. I would probably own the others if only they had commentary or better extras, I don't know why but unless there's something substantial to go back to, I can't really justify the high price purchase.

With issues surrounding the stupid huge increase to postal prices shipping to Canada, I half wonder it Amazon/B&N and such are going to be my only choices.

Sigh. This sucks.

On a good note, I think I found AoS for $40 shipped. Here's hoping the seller follows through!

[octagon]

Originally Posted by drbikeshorts

I'm not sure why it's trending now though.

Commemorating the day has been in the planning stages for years but its supporters don't tend to remember that until the 24th or 25th.

Of May.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by COLD_COBRA_

And were going to get 2 more from amazon tomorrow...Which 2 would you choose? I'm really leaning towards these two..

Repo Man
and Naked Lunch



Reserved for July B&N

Repulsion
The Seventh Seal
Brazil
The Ice Storm
The Devil's Backbone
Lord of The Flies
On the Waterfront

Just off the top of my head I would say take a look at Carlos and 12 Angry Men. They're both outstanding and they seem like they'd be a good fit for you.

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by octagon

Just off the top of my head I would say take a look at Carlos and 12 Angry Men. They're both outstanding and they seem like they'd be a good fit for you.

well everyone will recommend movies he liked the most. if he wants to get them all anyway i would just go for the less expensiv releases

for Sansho the Bailiff i would recommend the eureka release, since it has a second movie that the criterion release does not have.



ive just watched the original Harakiri (the eureka release) for the first time. awesome picture quality. and i liked the movie alot. but the remake was slightly better. somehow i liked the actors more.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by ElliesDad

Oh, thank you Pat! That makes me very happy. I can't pretend that I didn't do a little experimentation with various substances back in the day (think Vancouver in the '70's!) but I did have to google this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

Originally Posted by drbikeshorts

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
That's so funny - I was literally just looking that up.
Apparently, it's a "counter-culture" holiday in North America to celebrate the consumption of cannabis. I'm not sure why it's trending now though.

I really had no idea. I suppose I am getting a bit old and out of touch with certain aspect of everyday life Won't be too long I will be one of these old guys yelling at the kids to get off my lawn

[returnofthemack]

dear criterion

you fiendish bastards need to start putting out good movies again. im sick of this badlands garbage that isnt fit to be viewed by my dog let alone me. can i get con air on one of your super fancy blou rays or is that too much to ask? can i get broken arrow already? this company is a joke

[P@t_Mtl]

Wow! We never have trolls on Sunday mornings, a rare occasion indeed

[mrjohnnyb]

Originally Posted by andsoitgoes

With issues surrounding the stupid huge increase to postal prices shipping to Canada, I half wonder it Amazon/B&N and such are going to be my only choices.

Sigh. This sucks.

I notice that your profile states that your location is Vancouverish.

Are you close enough to make a drive into Washington?

[myka22]

Originally Posted by Deep

I ordered the recently OOP title Le Cercle Rouge from ImportCDs and got what appears to be a bootleg or at the very least a used copy. It is shrink-wrapped but packaged in a standard blue-colored Blu-Ray case - not the thicker clear case that Criterion Blus come in. The cover insert doesn't fit well and so it looks like the insert was cut to size. Has anyone experienced something like this ? I don't think Criterion would ever package the title this way. But then again the title is OOP and so if the disc inside is OK should I just keep it ?

-D

My copy of Le Cercle Rouge came the same way from Importcds, and another user had the same thing happen from Deep Discount.

[joie]

re: The Tin Drum

Originally Posted by andsoitgoes

[...] Wow. I'm upset that they cut apparently a very interesting documentary about it being heavily censored that was on the original criterion DVD. [...]

If you're writing about the documentary that I've seen on the old Criterion DVD: In that documentary the director states that he made the cuts and offered very good reasons for doing so, like remaining faithful to the novel. So, the old DVD, which is closer to the theatrical release, is the Director's cut. Criterion calls the new cut a "complete cut."

There is another documentary on the old DVD about how somewhere (Oklahoma?), there was a trial over child pornography (it was decided that the film wasn't pornographic). The quesionable scene was in the theatrical release.

I don't think people should be pleased to lose the original director's/theatrical cut with Criterion's "upgrade." If the old DVD was "upgraded" with the same cut Criterion put on Blu-ray, then the old DVD is out-of-print, unfortunately.

Add: You can get both cuts, director's/theatrical and "complete," on a UK Blu-ray.

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by octagon

Commemorating the day has been in the planning stages for years but its supporters don't tend to remember that until the 24th or 25th.

Of May.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by oildude

Ron Slater is my favorite historian.

slater monologue (dazed and confused) - YouTube

This scene from the movie cracks me up hard. Mila Jovovich's reaction to the lighter is classic. Happy 4/20 Day to all the tokers of the world.

That scene never fails to crack me up

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by oildude

Ron Slater is my favorite historian.

[Show spoiler]
slater monologue (dazed and confused) - YouTube

This scene from the movie cracks me up hard. Mila Jovovich's reaction to the lighter is classic.

Yes! One of my favorite moments from the movie as well.

[brandon_260]

Originally Posted by andsoitgoes

Sigh. Don't say this, I was so happy to be able to preorder for $27. I've gotten, Piña, Repo Man, Blimp, Naked Lunch and... Something else but that's a price I can stomach.

$40 for an "Import"? Bleh.

Now the April releases were the last I ordered from, have they stopped doing the reasonable pricing for their releases now? Were May/June releases no longer reasonable?

May releases never got the reasonable prices, but they did it for the June releases.

[TJS_Blu]

Originally Posted by drbikeshorts

Apparently, it's a "counter-culture" holiday in North America to celebrate the consumption of cannabis. I'm not sure why it's trending now though.

OT-It's also about legalization and there appears to be growing support for this (2 states recently "legalized" recreational consumption when medical use was controversial before). I would kind of assume that (right or wrong) the proponents have seen the reversal of public opinion on gay marriage as some sort of harbinger of things to come. It's probably getting more press this time around because we just had a brutal week of nasty/scary news and a lot of folks need something to laugh about (Snoop Dog, etc.)

Back to Criterion.

[jcs913]

Originally Posted by Deep

I ordered the recently OOP title Le Cercle Rouge from ImportCDs and got what appears to be a bootleg or at the very least a used copy. It is shrink-wrapped but packaged in a standard blue-colored Blu-Ray case - not the thicker clear case that Criterion Blus come in. The cover insert doesn't fit well and so it looks like the insert was cut to size. Has anyone experienced something like this ? I don't think Criterion would ever package the title this way. But then again the title is OOP and so if the disc inside is OK should I just keep it ?

-D

read some pages back. On post 69267 I posted about what another user got from importcds. It's not a bootleg, but what I posted.

[kuro_sawa]

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[Deep]

Originally Posted by jcs913

read some pages back. On post 69267 I posted about what another user got from importcds. It's not a bootleg, but what I posted.

I didn't even think about the booklet but it is probably missing. A Criterion is worthless without that even if the disc is intact and so I will return my copy. This title seems to be the most hard-to-find out of the recent OOP batch and so I am not sure I will ever get a replacement copy

-D

[Thebunk]

I just want to give props to jrsl76 for picking up Army of Shadows for me at his local B&N and shipping it to me in Canada without asking anything extra in return. Super cool dude!