The Criterion Collection

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I cannot compare the 1934 version of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much with his remake starring Jimmy Stewart, because I have not yet seen the remake. All I know is that the original movie is ace.

This will be remedied, along with several other maladies, when my copy of Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection arrives in the mail from Amazon UK. Woo hoo!

Nice! Be careful when you slide those discs out. Scratches suck.

[zoodermin]

Great news guys! I ordered a copy from Howards End back when it was "temporarily out of stock" at Amazon and today I received an estimated delivery date of July 18-20. I just hope it sticks since it costs 25.99 and for an OOP title I think its a pretty good deal.

On other news, I just saw Lola Montes for the first time last night and WOW I was completely mesmerized. There's a poetic tragedy to the story and despite what many people said, I thought Martine Carol was exceptional as the titular character. I really liked how the movie cut between her life in the circus with segments of her previous life. I think that gave the movie a powerful contrast since it showed that her life has always been an act, juggling between love and scandal and that gives the film a sense of tragedy and makes you feel compassion for this beautiful yet tortured woman.

Oh, and the cinematography was just a thing of beauty throughout the film and Criterion's transfer just blew me away. Everyhing looked so perfect and colors were fantastic. Another one to my list of blind buys that turned out to be amazing.

[DeadEyesSmiling]

Originally Posted by EricJ

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Originally Posted by Blu-Velvet

One? Easy! GATE OF HELL if you're more into classics or THE MAKIOKA SISTERS if you lean more towards relatively recent cinema.

Five? JUBAL, LETTER NEVER SENT, and the three Japanese titles.

If you haven't yet got them, look at a bunch of Criterion's other Japanese films, especially Kurosawa, but also Suzuki, Ozu, Mizoguchi, and others.

Originally Posted by Dan8700

Three Outlaw Samurai and Letter Never Sent are easily the best among those ones. The Organizer is another good choice (it's quite political though). Gate of Hell is certainly of interest but I wouldn't consider it an astounding Japanese classic...

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Identification of a Woman, not because its the best, but because l love Antonioni.

The best, in my opinion, is probably Letter Never Sent.

FIVE:
•Letter Never Sent
•Moment of Truth
•The Makioka Sisters
•Identification of a Woman
•Jubal

(Note: Three outlaw Samurai is probably the safest blind-buy out of the lot)

Originally Posted by editor*by*night88

the organizer letter never sent

Originally Posted by Roninblues

I currently own all except TMOT.

Thanks for the recommendations! I did some more reading about all of them, and I think I may have to just pick them all up It's just too hard to choose!

-DES

[Wotan420]

I signed up for the trial membership by ordering it with a $10 e-gift card on the website. Both my membership # and gift card # were emailed to me within 10 minutes. And I wrote the # down to take to the store, so you don't need to wait for your card.

Good luck!

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by Wotan420

I signed up for the trial membership by ordering it with a $10 e-gift card on the website. Both my membership # and gift card # were emailed to me within 10 minutes. And I wrote the # down to take to the store, so you don't need to wait for your card.

Good luck!

thanks, maybe i will sign up for the free membership and cancel in a few days.
but there will be no E-gift card just for getting the free membership?

could you check out shipping costs to germany with 3 or 5 movies?

im not sure if its worth it so sign up for the free membership go through the hassle to cancel it , just to save 8 $..

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Page14

Nice review! I went into this one not quite knowing what to expect, so I suppose any expectations I might have had were low. Boy am I glad I went for it. The camera work/angles/shots/vistas ... whatever you want to call it, are fantastic. And like you say, who can forget John Wayne's introduction into the film ... iconic (... to me, anyway). There are quite a few more great shots than that one too.

Easily one of my favorite Criterions. But you might take that with a grain of salt because Robinson Crusoe On Mars and Harold and Maude are also very high on my Criterion list.

(A special thanks to the people in this forum who helped nudge me to buy Stagecoach, with their good comments).

When I revisited Stagecoach last night, I realized that it's probably not a stretch to say that about a third of the American movies released since then have copied the blueprints from it. The 1990s Keanu Reeves movie, Speed, for example, wouldn't otherwise exist.

[Wotan420]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

thanks, maybe i will sign up for the free membership and cancel in a few days.
but there will be no E-gift card just for getting the free membership?

could you check out shipping costs to germany with 3 or 5 movies?

im not sure if its worth it so sign up for the free membership go through the hassle to cancel it , just to save 8 $..

Wouldn't think it'd really be worth it, but I dunno, I added 5 movies to my cart and it turned into free shipping to a German address.

[Show spoiler]

Removed 2 titles and was still showing Free on the 3

[mbarto]

Decided to splurge during the B&N sale. Few new, most upgrades.

Wallet much lighter, but here's my latest haul.

Stopped by my local B&N yesterday and got:
8½
Amarcord
39 Steps
Lady Vanishes
Monterey Pop

And today..B&N online, ordered:
Shoah
Hunger
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Vivre Sa vie
La Haine
Three Colors
Belle de jour

When those are delivered, it will officially put me over 100+ Criterion blu's!

[brandon_260]

Originally Posted by Wotan420

Wouldn't think it'd really be worth it, but I dunno, I added 5 movies to my cart and it turned into free shipping to a German address.

[Show spoiler]

Removed 2 titles and was still showing Free on the 3

This is weird. I signed up for the trial to see if it would do the same thing to Canada, but I am still getting the same shipping rates as I would without a membership.

[lastemp3ror]

Does anyone own By Brakhage: An Anthology Volumes One and Two Set?

If so, are most of the films silent? I saw one of his shorts and loved the ambient music that went along with the film and was wondering if that was more of the exception or the rule. Thanks!

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by brandon_260

This is weird. I signed up for the trial to see if it would do the same thing to Canada, but I am still getting the same shipping rates as I would without a membership.

his screen says "shipping was changed to international shipping" maybe the shipping rates are still the old ones?

doesnt matter for me how many movies i add.. i always get:

standart shipping (21 days) ~10$
air mail 14 days ~15$
express (~30$)

[Wotan420]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

his screen says "shipping was changed to international shipping" maybe the shipping rates are still the old ones?

doesnt matter for me how many movies i add.. i always get:

standart shipping (21 days) ~10$
air mail 14 days ~15$
express (~30$)

Yeah it must just be messed up. I went back and tried to proceed further into check out and it won't let me select either of those shipping options. The Free or the Express method. So it must be pulling those from my US account when added to the cart.

My bad but it looked promising.

[Mansinthe]

yep. would be a awesome deal. i still might end up ordering


Solaris
Life of Oharu
Lord of the Flies
Ballad of Naryama (14,99$ only !)
Seventh Seal

with shipping and tax/duty i will pay around 132$ ... lol... kind of a deal breaker, isnt it.

[Judex]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Don't forget, Criterion usually has a FLASH SALE sometime in September, or at least for the past couple years.

I wish Criterion shipped to England, but they won't. *sigh*

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

his screen says "shipping was changed to international shipping" maybe the shipping rates are still the old ones?

doesnt matter for me how many movies i add.. i always get:

standart shipping (21 days) ~10$
air mail 14 days ~15$
express (~30$)

If you're a member theres a couple of codes you can use.(Ithink) P3T3L7X & B7E4T9B

[Joe Dalek]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

im not a B&N member right now but i would like to use this 2 months free membership and order some criterions..

what will be my advantage of this membership? do i have to be a member to be able to order in the online store?

will i get coupons with this free membership?

and will there be shipping costs if im not in the U.S. ? (i think yes)


thanks for your help

If you are outside of the U.S., there is almost no value to membership. You may receive coupons, but free express shipping is limited to orders within the continental U.S., free shipping is limited to the U.S., Puerto Rico and U.S. protectorates, and there is no additional member's discount for online orders.

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

If you are outside of the U.S., there is almost no value to membership.

and it absolutly sucks if you have to pay a lot more for movies that are NOT avaible in your country..

i wish there would be at least a UK reseller for criterion movies or something like that (axel music used to be like that)

[The Bronx Bull]

Originally Posted by jw007

I think Shoah is the hottest seller according to everyone on this forum. I'm noticing a lot of people buying it or adding it to their carts (including me). I am not sure how I am going to watch this 9 hour film, but it will probably be in 3 parts (3 hours each).

How is everyone else going to watch Shoah?

Is anyone going to attempt to watch the whole 9 hour film without interruption?

Speak!

I tend to agree; I see a lot of folks purchasing it, albeit the fact that, likely, only a small fraction of us will watch it more than once. I purchased it because I love the idea of first hand accounts, as well as the juxtaposition of the on-site locations with the stories as to what happened there.

As for my gameplan for tackling the 9.5 hours, I'll probably go with either the 3-3-3 method, or just use a rainy weekend to polish it off. I've got the set in my hands, and it's a fantastic package.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by The Bronx Bull

I tend to agree; I see a lot of folks purchasing it, albeit the fact that, likely, only a small fraction of us will watch it more than once. I purchased it because I love the idea of first hand accounts, as well as the juxtaposition of the on-site locations with the stories as to what happened there.

And I rented it from the library, in the knowledge that I probably WOULDN'T watch it more than once. (While telling myself all the affirmations that I was doing a good thing for humanity by watching it, etc.)

Fortunately, our library has 7-day rentals, which, if I can't watch a 9-hour movie in that amount of time without "rushing" it, it must be worse than I thought.
I mean, if it's just about seeing it...

[Mansinthe]

i liked "for all mankind" a lot. but shoah is probaly nothing like that?

[starman15317]

I should get my library to buy Shoah so I can see it. Of course, knowing them, they'll only buy the DVD, but still.