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[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I'm eager to hear your thoughts on Sweet Smell of Success.

I'll write a couple of words about it later this week, I'm sure. Everything about this film seems to be right up my alley.

[obscurelabel]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Medium Cool Blu-ray REVIEW

Does this have Merry Go Round or Sweet Georgia Brown during the roller derby scene?

[bluesilo]

I started watching "Picnic at Hanging Rock" last night. Made it a good ways through before I had to go out. Something tells me the easy going frolicking of the beginning is going to quickly disappear.

[ccg1978]

used some Amazon points to get On The Waterfront! Best Criterion release of 2013 IMO

[shortmartin]

looking ahead to tomorrow, here are some guesses . . .

Life Aquatic (upgrade)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (upgrade)
Tess
Gummo
A Brighter Summer Day

[The Great Owl]

Here's what I want for tomorrow's announcements...

Le Samouraï
The Vanishing
Tess
L'Avventura
La Notte
L'Eclisse

I know that this is not Burger King, and I cannot have it my way. I'll keep harping on them until Le Samouraï is upgraded, though.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Here's what I want for tomorrow's announcements...

Le Samouraï
The Vanishing
Tess
L'Avventura
La Notte
L'Eclisse

I know that this is not Burger King, and I cannot have it my way. I'll keep harping on them until Le Samouraï is upgraded, though.

I will faint if any of those are announced tomorrow. Good choices.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I will faint if any of those are announced tomorrow. Good choices.

L'Avventura was available on Hulu yesterday, and I revisited the first half hour or so during my lunch break. Such a great film.

[Brad1963]

These are my guesses for August.

Journey to Italy
I Married a Witch
Le Samouraï
Le silence de la mer
Picnic at Hanging Rock

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

L'Avventura was available on Hulu yesterday, and I revisited the first half hour or so during my lunch break. Such a great film.

The fact that its on HULU should be a good sign.

[Snicket]

I got two right last month so I'm going for three tomorrow.

I Married A Witch
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Life Aquatic
L'Avventura
Something I have never heard of ()


If the above is announced August is looking to be a pretty epic month.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by Snicket

I got two right last month so I'm going for three tomorrow.

I Married A Witch
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Life Aquatic
L'Avventura
Something I have never heard of ()


If the above is announced August is looking to be a pretty epic month.

I hope the two you guess correctly are these

[ccg1978]

I'll be happy with Sullivan's Travels as the only announcment!

[RiFiFi1955]

Any Thoughts on what classic Hollywood film Criterion might release next? You always get at least one every couple of months, On The Waterfront, Swell of Sweet Success, 12 Angry Men etc. Haven't heard any rumors or hints about one in awhile.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by RiFiFi1955

Any Thoughts on what classic Hollywood film Criterion might release next? You always get at least one every couple of months, On The Waterfront, Swell of Sweet Success, 12 Angry Men etc. Haven't heard any rumors or hints about one in awhile.

Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 or Witness for the Prosecution would be fun Criterions.

[mleask11]

Originally Posted by RiFiFi1955

Any Thoughts on what classic Hollywood film Criterion might release next? You always get at least one every couple of months, On The Waterfront, Swell of Sweet Success, 12 Angry Men etc. Haven't heard any rumors or hints about one in awhile.

Roman Holiday finally getting released would be great.

[Jughead]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

"Like" the Criterion Collection page on Facebook if you are on Facebook. They send out frequent updates this way. The Criterion Collection site and the CriterionCast site are both good ways to keep updated as well.

This forum thread is great for finding out the latest news as soon as possible, even if things move pretty fast here from day to day.

I hope that you can find yourself a copy of Le Cercle Rouge, because it is a wonderful film.

Thanks. I will do all of that.

[RiFiFi1955]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 or Witness for the Prosecution would be fun Criterions.

Absolutely would make great editions. I was actually thinking Witness for the Prosecution would make for a great Criterion title the other day.

Originally Posted by mleask11

Roman Holiday finally getting released would be great.

One of my most wanted titles for sure. I would think Paramount would release this on their own especially with its 60th anniversary this year and all but I would certainly welcome it to the criterion collection.

Ever since I saw a fan made Out of the Past cover I have been wanting this title to have an awesome criterion release. I think it would be a great addition, not only because I want it but also because it is a pivotal noir.

Some other great titles I think would also be The Lady Eve, Murder My Sweet, Gilda, Gaslight, Mildred Pierce...well I could go on and on so I will stop there.

[The Great Owl]

There is a thread in the Movies forum where everyone is listing their Top 25 Favorite Movies for a collaborative ranking after a deadline.

I made good use of my lunch break and compiled my Top 25 off the top of my head. The Criterion Collection (titles in bold font) is well represented, of course.

1. Le Samouraï
2. Dr. No
3. Army of Shadows
4. Le Cercle Rouge
5. Casino Royale (2006)
6. North by Northwest
7. King Kong (1933)
8. Stand By Me
9. Escape from Alcatraz
10. The Shawshank Redemption
11. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
12. Paris, Texas
13. The Vanishing
14. Badlands
15. Blade Runner
16. The Night of the Hunter
17. Pulp Fiction
18. Jaws
19. Raiders of the Lost Ark
20. The Birds
21. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
22. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
23. Alien
24. Casablanca
25. Seven Samurai

I had to flip a coin between Seven Samurai and The Wages of Fear for the 25th spot. Ouch.

[Blu-Velvet]

I finally watched Kieslowski's THREE COLORS trilogy for the first time over the past couple of nights and was really impressed. The three individually and together are wonderful character studies and philosophical exercises, yet each has an engaging plot that is masterfully interlocked with the other two films. I loved BLUE right away for both its use of color and the depth of emotional character development from beginning to end. I enjoyed WHITE quite a bit as a darkly comic change of pace and peek into early 1990s Polish life as they moved from a former iron curtain country into the European mainstream, although I agree with most people that it's not quite up to the other two of the trilogy. When RED began, it was interesting but seemed far more random and experimental as it slowly set up the main characters, and I was wondering why so many people preferred it out of the three. However about a third of the way into it I was hooked on the way its characters and plot began to show the film's deeply philosophical implications and the way the various separate plot threads quickly began to overlap. The ending was a very effective way to tie the three films together, and made me immediately want to get into all of Criterion's bonus features (although I've only gotten through a few of them so far).