The Criterion Collection

[VintageAtariGame]

Originally Posted by jw007

Thanks for the feedback.

I have to say there aren't enough female directors featured on The Criterion Collection. I've decided to put together my top 5 list of female-directed films featured on Criterion blu-ray.

Here is my top 5 list.

1. Sweetie - Jane Campion
2. Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold
3. White Material - Claire Denis
4. Tiny Furniture - Lena Dunham
5. Fat Girl - Catherine Breillat

Name your top 5 list of female directors on Criterion BD now!

I can't think of other films in the collection with female directors so I'm just going to use the movies from your list:

1) Fish Tank
2) Sweetie
3) Fat Girl
4) Tiny Furniture
5) White Material

I'm spending a small fortune on this 50% sale, picked up the Jean Pierre Gorin Eclipse along with a ton of other blus. Anyone wanna recommend other eclipse sets?

[pro-bassoonist]

Babette's Feast Blu-ray



High resolution photos in the review above









Pro-B

[PedroVitor]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Babette's Feast Blu-ray



High resolution photos in the review above

Pro-B

Very nice packaging, wish Criterion release more digipacks..
Thanks for the review, I'm going to read the book soon and If I like it will most definitely buy the film.

[zafisher94]

Just picked up The Blob. I can't wait to watch it for the first time.

[jrsl76]

Originally Posted by PedroVitor

Very nice packaging, wish Criterion release more digipacks..
Thanks for the review, I'm going to read the book soon and If I like it will most definitely buy the film.

They're nice, but a real pain in the butt to get a full mint copy. Ugh.

[jrsl76]

I hope they end up extending the sale by a week like they previously did so The Devil's Backbone will be included. I was disappointed to see it wasn't marked down as happened in a previous sale with the titles from week after the end of the sale also included.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by jrsl76

I hope they end up extending the sale by a week like they previously did so The Devil's Backbone will be included. I was disappointed to see it wasn't marked down as happened in a previous sale with the titles from week after the end of the sale also included.

They extended it last time? I do not remember that.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

They extended it last time? I do not remember that.

I think they screwed something up and extended it a week as a compensation.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I think they screwed something up and extended it a week as a compensation.

Hmmm. Well, I certainly would like Devils Backbone sooner rather than later, so I hope it does get extended

[jrsl76]

I cannot remember if they extended it last time or a previous time which was somewhat recent, but they had extended before.

Last time they made a few of the pre-orders available at the sale price.

I really don't know why Criterion always sets release dates at the end of the month, particularly for what will be the most in demand titles.

It doesn't look good, but I'm hoping for something that will allow us to grab TDB for the discount.

[Judex]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I think they screwed something up and extended it a week as a compensation.

Wasn't it extended because of Sandy?

[DenOfEarth]

Originally Posted by Fellini912

The Thing is my all time favorite horror movie. Ennio Morricone composed the film score, one of his minimalist masterpieces.

Great Owl, I highly recommend the commentary. It is one (if not the best) of the great commentaries I have heard. Carpenter and Russell are just fantastic. There is a scene were Kurt Russell almost died which they go in detail. Kurt Russel's comment about that scene is priceless.

The Thing is my fave sci-fi/horror hybrid since i was a kid and as good as Alien and Aliens when it comes to combining both genres. The commentary is fantastic and i own both the film on DVD and region free BD.

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I'm watching my Blu-rays of John Carpenter's The Thing and the 2011 prequel to The Thing tonight. I'm almost at the blood test scene in the Carpenter version. I've always loved this movie.

John Carpenter discusses his version on one of the extras for the Criterion edition of David Cronenberg's Videodrome. That panel discussion with Carpenter, Cronenberg, and John Landis is ace. We need a Criterion of Landis's An American Werewolf in London.

Oh yes that extra on the Videodrome Criterion edition DVD and BD was awesome! nice to see three talented directors discussing the genre.

Originally Posted by Fellini912

The DVD of Howard Hawks's original is a terrible transfer. I agree that it deserves better.

I consider both Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's The Fly superior remakes of the original. 1980s remakes of some 50s and 60s films were actually pretty good, if not great. Unfortunately, I have not seen any great 2000s remakes of 80s films.

UGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

I always cringe whenever someone says John Carpenter's film is a "remake" of the earlier film, NO it wasn't a goddamn remake of the Howard Hawks film they have little in common other than alien and snow, sure there 2 homages to the earlier film like the circle of men and the opening title sequence but those are just it in little similarities. It's so different than the "original" that it's a remake IN NAME ONLY.

They share a name but everything like the location (one in the north pole and the other in the south pole), the characters and their backgrounds, the discovery and origin of the spaceship, the discovery of the alien, the nature/methods of the alien (one is a dumbed down killer vegetable sentinel lifeform that is kind of like a vampire as it sucked blood but also resembled a Frankenstein monster and a lumbering beast that could reproduce itself but it wasn't the story's imitator where the other is a shapeshifiting parasitic organism that could imitate other lifeforms by cell structure) etc. are both very different and apart from each other.

They are 2 separate and completely different yet independent adaptations of the original source material John W. Campbell Jr.s 1938 novella "Who Goes There" which is a scary short story and one of my favorite novellas. The 1951 film is a very good film on it's own but in reality and truth it's a sanitized bastardization as that was totally NOTHING like the short story it was suppose to be based on as it's one of the worst book to film adaptations of all time on par with Lawnmower Man or whatever. Carpenter's film is a standalone film that is an EXCELLENT and faithful adaptation of the short story as it's not a remake, it's a re-adaptation.

It's like saying I Am Legend is a remake of Omega Man and that Omega Man is a remake of Last man on Earth or saying PJ's LOTR is a remake of Bakshi's film, nope, they are all based on the same source material but their plots are different.

Even John Carpenter has stated many times in interviews that he may had grew up with the 1951 film but he's a bigger fan of the short story. He also stated that back in 1981 the studio wanted to do a remake of The Thing from Another World but Carpenter was offered it but he refused to remake the earlier film as he didn't want to compete with Hawks who is one of his idols, he stated he wanted to go back to the source material which began it all as that's preciously what he did. He stated his film is not a remake of the earlier film but a re-adaptation that is it's own film. Carpenter's film is faithful to the source material, Hawks was not.

Remakes and re-adaptations are 2 very different things, remakes USUALLY refer ONLY to original screenplays/films that aren't based on source material like for example The Blob or Ocean's 11 or The Hills Have Eyes, TRUE remakes as they are based on original screenplays. Re-adaptation means another adaptation of source material (books/novellas/comics) like The Thing, I Am Legend, Omega Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, War of the Worlds, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc. and Carpenter's film is by far the definitive cinematic representation of Campbell's story.



Here's a suggestion for Criterion on BD:
City of Lost Children

How about it? now this would look and sound great on HD and with new extras.

[Abdrewes]

^^^
You're pulling up some very old posts, Den (April)

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Judex

Wasn't it extended because of Sandy?

Oh I think you're right because most stores on the east coast were closed for a while.

[brandon_260]

Love the packaging on Babette's Feast and the screens look great. Here's to hoping my copy shows up unscathed from B&N. I've been lucky with digipacks so far.

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Oh I think you're right because most stores on the east coast were closed for a while.

Yeah, mine was closed for like a WEEK. It was awful...I was so impatient.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

Yeah, mine was closed for like a WEEK. It was awful...I was so impatient.

I'm pretty sure I went up to mine a day or so after the storm.

We didn't get hit NEAR as hard as you folks, but we still were without power for almost a week and I was getting cabin fever.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

Yeah, mine was closed for like a WEEK. It was awful...I was so impatient.

Even our disaster problems are first world

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I'm pretty sure I went up to mine a day or so after the storm.

We didn't get hit NEAR as hard as you folks, but we still were without power for almost a week and I was getting cabin fever.

Yeah, it was about that long here too. It wasn't too bad outside of lack of power, that was the main reason nowhere was open for the longest time. I think I went to mine the first day they re-opened

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by octagon

Even our disaster problems are first world

Of course I was being a bit sarcastic...well..a bit