The Criterion Collection

[smoss469]

Originally Posted by B-Creamy

I literally have the next 41 criterion titles I'm going to buy listed in order. Anyone else organize their purchases in this fashion?

I don't know if I have 41 or in any order, but I do have a HUGE chunk of my Amazon wish list dominated by Criterion.

[Tin Drum]

Originally Posted by B-Creamy

Depending on how I'm looking financially next month Zatoichi may be the one I break my order for. Don't currently have it listed among the 41 because I'm probably gonna wait for a slight price drop. But who knows? I may buy it release day.

You won't see a price drop. You'll see sale prices but no price drop off of MSRP.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Here's my 1970s list.

Five Criterion titles made the cut overall, and one Criterion title was Number One.

*Ahem* Make that four Criterion titles.

I replaced my #20 entry, The Last Picture Show, with The Towering Inferno.
Sorry folks, but the teamup of Paul Newman and Steve McQueen cannot be denied. Especially with William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, O.J. Simpson, and just about everyone else on Earth at the time. This movie looks ace on Blu-ray, as well.

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Great list! (although, Willy Wonka isn't even on my top 20 of the year it came out)

Originally Posted by Lordy

Willy Wonka over Chinatown! So much for your list !!

I've actually never seen Chinatown before, but I'm going to remedy that in the not-too-distant future. I know, I know...neo noir fail on my part.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is awesomeness, pure and simple, and there was no way that I could not acknowledge it on the list. It's my favorite children's movie ever, and my affinity for the movie goes way way back.

For the 1970s and 1980s, I pretty much have to throw indie credibility under the bus. My 1970s Top 20 includes two Roger Moore Bond films, and I was seriously considering adding Moonraker to make it three (since that's the first James Bond movie that I ever saw, and it sparked my lifelong loyalty to the franchise).

[smoss469]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

*Ahem* Make that four Criterion titles.

I replaced my #20 entry, The Last Picture Show, with The Towering Inferno.
Sorry folks, but the teamup of Paul Newman and Steve McQueen cannot be denied. Especially with William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, O.J. Simpson, and just about everyone else on Earth at the time. This movie looks ace on Blu-ray, as well.




I've actually never seen Chinatown before, but I'm going to remedy that in the not-too-distant future. I know, I know...neo noir fail on my part.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is awesomeness, pure and simple, and there was no way that I could not acknowledge it on the list. It's my favorite children's movie ever, and my affinity for the movie goes way way back.

For the 1970s and 1980s, I pretty much have to throw indie credibility under the bus. My 1970s Top 20 includes two Roger Moore Bond films, and I was seriously considering adding Moonraker to make it three (since that's the first James Bond movie that I ever saw, and it sparked my lifelong loyalty to the franchise).

Odd, I'd put Moonraker at the very bottom of the Bond list. Chinatown is an awesome movie, I even really enjoyed the sequel too.

[30hertzrumble]

Originally Posted by smoss469

Odd, I'd put Moonraker at the very bottom of the Bond list. Chinatown is an awesome movie, I even really enjoyed the sequel too.

Moonraker has spawned many lifelong loyalties to the Bond series. It came out at the right time for many boys who were swept away with the massive scale of the movie plus BOND IN SPACE! Nostalgia is powerful with this one.

I myself snuck The Spy Who Loved Me into the #20 slot.

One more thought about Moonraker: it's a lot more fun than Die Another Day and Diamonds are Forever. I'd even watch Moonraker before You Only Live Twice (which is think is self-parodic drudgery without the aide of the Roger Moore hinged eyebrow. Connery was just disinterested and this shows in his performance).

But I've written a great amount about 007 for my James Bond Social Media project. See sig.

[TJS_Blu]

Originally Posted by yhzmr

Need to check out EWAF.

Not sure if you mean The Wages of Fear, but regardless, yes do so. I prefer Les diaboliques, but Fear is very good. I'm looking forward to Sorcerer (based on the same novel as Fear) which is coming out next year.

ps.Just realized you were referring to Eyes...recommendation still stands.

[The Great Owl]

Happy Birthday to Edith Scob (Eyes Without a Face) who turns 76 today.

I did not realize that she has also starred in quite a few other familiar movies. There's Summer Hours, which is also a Criterion title, and one that I still need to see. She also starred in Brotherhood of the Wolf, which was a decently fun spin on horror cinema. She starred in Judex, which was also directed by Georges Franju, and I'm expecting that film to land in Criterion waters at some point. Of course, there's Holy Motors, which we've been discussing here. Last, but not least, she stars in The Ring Finger, which features the beautiful and talented Olga Kurylenko. I saw The Ring Finger a few years back, and would love for it to be released on Blu-ray someday.

[smoss469]

Wages of Fear is on the wish list, but so is the remake (Sorcerer), how is the remake when compared with the original?

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I look forward to your thoughts Remember to take a nice breather during the intermission.

Well, uh.. that was one extravagant soap. I liked it well enough, but I'm not even sure I understood every relationship.

[Scottie]

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Well, uh.. that was one extravagant soap. I liked it well enough, but I'm not even sure I understood every relationship.

The first half had me in the throes of ecstasy, but that last hour just gets knotty beyond belief! Being one step behind the narrative definitely took away from my enjoyment a bit. I think it's possible to understand, you just need another viewing.

The next Raul Ruiz film I plan on seeking out will be Time Regained. Hopefully I will eventually make my way through all his works:

[Show spoiler]

• La maleta (1963) - short film lost and completed in 2008
• Le retour (1964) - unfinished short film
• El tango del viudo (1967) - unfinished
• Tres tristes tigres [Three Sad Tigers] (1968)
• La catanaria (1969)
• Militarismo y tortura (1969) - short film
• ¡Qué hacer! (1970)
• La colonia penal [The Penal Colony] (1970)
• Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano (1971) - short film
• Nadie dijo nada (1971)
• Los minuteros (1972) - short film
• Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica (1972) - short film
• La expropiación [The Expropriation] (1972)
• Abastecimiento (1973) - short film
• Palomita blanca [Little White Dove] (1973)
• El realismo socialista (1973)
• Palomita brava (1973) - short film
• Diálogos de exiliados [Dialogues of Exiles] (1975)
• Sotelo (1976) - short film
• Utopia (1976)
• Colloque de chiens (1977) - short film
• Les divisions de la nature (1978) - short film
• La vocation suspendue [The Suspended Vocation] (1978)
• Petit manuel d'histoire de France (1979)
• Jeux (1979)
• De grands événements et de gens ordinaires [Of Great Events and Ordinary People] (1979)
• Images de débat (1979)
• L'hypothèse du tableau volé [The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting] (1979)
• Zig-Zag - le jeu de l'oie (une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie) (1980) - short film
• La ville nouvelle (1980) - short film
• Fahlstrom (1980) - short film
• Musée Dali (1980)
• L'image en silence (1980)
• Le borgne (1980)
• Teletests (1980) - short film
• The Territory (1981)
• Images de sable (1981) - short film
• Ombres chinoises (1982) - short film
• Querelle des jardins (1982) - short film
• Le petit théâtre (1982) - short film
• Het dak van de Walvis [On Top of the Whale] (1982)
• Bérénice (1983)
• La ville de Paris (1983)
• Lettre d'un cinéaste ou Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques [Letter from a Library Lover] (1983) - short film
• Les trois couronnes du matelot [Three Crowns of the Sailor] (1983)
• La ville des pirates [City of Pirates] (1983)
• Voyages d'une main (1984)
• Régime sans pain (1984)
• Point de fuite [Vanishing Point] (1984)
• Les destins de Manoel [Manoel's Destinies/Manoel on the Island of Marvels] (1985)
• L'Île au trésor [Treasure Island] (1985)
• La présence réelle (1985)
• L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma [The Insomniac on the Bridge] (1985)
• Richard III (1986)
• Mémoire des apparences [Life is a Dream] (1986)
• Dans un miroir (1986)
• Mammame (1986)
• Brise-glace (1987)
• La chouette aveugle [The Blind Owl] (1987)
• Le professeur Taranne (1987)
• Allegoria (1988)
• Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988)
• Il pozzo dei pazzi (1989) - short film
• Derrière le mur (1989)
• Hub (1989)
• The Golden Boat (1990)
• La novela errante (1990) - unfinished
• A TV Dante (Cantos 9-14) (1991)
• Las soledades (1992) - short film
• L'oeil qui ment [Dark at Noon] (1992)
• Fado majeur et mineur [Fado, Major and Minor] (1994)
• Wind Water (1995) - short film
• Trois vies et une seule mort [Three Lives and Only One Death] (1996)
• Généalogies d'un crime [Genealogies of a Crime] (1997)
• Le film à venir (1997) - short film
• Shattered Image (1998)
• Le temps retrouvé [Time Regained] (1999)
• Comédie de l'innocence [Comedy of Innocence] (2000)
• Combat d'amour en songe [Love Torn in a Dream] (2000)
• Les Âmes fortes [Savage Souls] (2001)
• Miotte vu par Raúl Ruiz (2002)
• Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena [Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody] (2002)
• Ce jour-là [That Day] (2003)
• Une place parmi les vivants [A Place Among the Living/A Taste for Murder] (2003)
• Vertige de la page blanche [Vertigo of the Blank Page] (2003)
• Días de campo [Days in the Country] (2004)
• Le domaine perdu [The Lost Domain] (2005)
• Klimt (2006)
• Le Don (2007) - short film
• La Recta Provincia (2007)
• Litoral (2008)
• La maison Nucingen [Nucingen House] (2008)
• Agathopedia (2008)
• El pasaporte amarillo [The Yellow Passport] (2009)
• A Closed Book [Blind Revenge] (2010)
• L'estate breve (2010)
• Mistérios de Lisboa [Mysteries of Lisbon] (2010)
• Ballet aquatique (2011)
• La noche de enfrente [Night Across the Street] (2012)
• As Linhas de Torres [Lines of Wellington] (2012) (conceived by Ruiz, completed by Valeria Sarmiento)

Daunting.

[Judex]

Originally Posted by iScottie

[Show spoiler]

I love these pictures Criterion take of their new releases.

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

The first half had me in the throes of ecstasy, but that last hour just gets knotty beyond belief! Being one step behind the narrative definitely took away from my enjoyment a bit. I think it's possible to understand, you just need another viewing.

The next Raul Ruiz film I plan on seeking out will be Time Regained. Hopefully I will eventually make my way through all his works:

[Show spoiler]

• La maleta (1963) - short film lost and completed in 2008
• Le retour (1964) - unfinished short film
• El tango del viudo (1967) - unfinished
• Tres tristes tigres [Three Sad Tigers] (1968)
• La catanaria (1969)
• Militarismo y tortura (1969) - short film
• ¡Qué hacer! (1970)
• La colonia penal [The Penal Colony] (1970)
• Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano (1971) - short film
• Nadie dijo nada (1971)
• Los minuteros (1972) - short film
• Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica (1972) - short film
• La expropiación [The Expropriation] (1972)
• Abastecimiento (1973) - short film
• Palomita blanca [Little White Dove] (1973)
• El realismo socialista (1973)
• Palomita brava (1973) - short film
• Diálogos de exiliados [Dialogues of Exiles] (1975)
• Sotelo (1976) - short film
• Utopia (1976)
• Colloque de chiens (1977) - short film
• Les divisions de la nature (1978) - short film
• La vocation suspendue [The Suspended Vocation] (1978)
• Petit manuel d'histoire de France (1979)
• Jeux (1979)
• De grands événements et de gens ordinaires [Of Great Events and Ordinary People] (1979)
• Images de débat (1979)
• L'hypothèse du tableau volé [The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting] (1979)
• Zig-Zag - le jeu de l'oie (une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie) (1980) - short film
• La ville nouvelle (1980) - short film
• Fahlstrom (1980) - short film
• Musée Dali (1980)
• L'image en silence (1980)
• Le borgne (1980)
• Teletests (1980) - short film
• The Territory (1981)
• Images de sable (1981) - short film
• Ombres chinoises (1982) - short film
• Querelle des jardins (1982) - short film
• Le petit théâtre (1982) - short film
• Het dak van de Walvis [On Top of the Whale] (1982)
• Bérénice (1983)
• La ville de Paris (1983)
• Lettre d'un cinéaste ou Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques [Letter from a Library Lover] (1983) - short film
• Les trois couronnes du matelot [Three Crowns of the Sailor] (1983)
• La ville des pirates [City of Pirates] (1983)
• Voyages d'une main (1984)
• Régime sans pain (1984)
• Point de fuite [Vanishing Point] (1984)
• Les destins de Manoel [Manoel's Destinies/Manoel on the Island of Marvels] (1985)
• L'Île au trésor [Treasure Island] (1985)
• La présence réelle (1985)
• L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma [The Insomniac on the Bridge] (1985)
• Richard III (1986)
• Mémoire des apparences [Life is a Dream] (1986)
• Dans un miroir (1986)
• Mammame (1986)
• Brise-glace (1987)
• La chouette aveugle [The Blind Owl] (1987)
• Le professeur Taranne (1987)
• Allegoria (1988)
• Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988)
• Il pozzo dei pazzi (1989) - short film
• Derrière le mur (1989)
• Hub (1989)
• The Golden Boat (1990)
• La novela errante (1990) - unfinished
• A TV Dante (Cantos 9-14) (1991)
• Las soledades (1992) - short film
• L'oeil qui ment [Dark at Noon] (1992)
• Fado majeur et mineur [Fado, Major and Minor] (1994)
• Wind Water (1995) - short film
• Trois vies et une seule mort [Three Lives and Only One Death] (1996)
• Généalogies d'un crime [Genealogies of a Crime] (1997)
• Le film à venir (1997) - short film
• Shattered Image (1998)
• Le temps retrouvé [Time Regained] (1999)
• Comédie de l'innocence [Comedy of Innocence] (2000)
• Combat d'amour en songe [Love Torn in a Dream] (2000)
• Les Âmes fortes [Savage Souls] (2001)
• Miotte vu par Raúl Ruiz (2002)
• Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena [Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody] (2002)
• Ce jour-là [That Day] (2003)
• Une place parmi les vivants [A Place Among the Living/A Taste for Murder] (2003)
• Vertige de la page blanche [Vertigo of the Blank Page] (2003)
• Días de campo [Days in the Country] (2004)
• Le domaine perdu [The Lost Domain] (2005)
• Klimt (2006)
• Le Don (2007) - short film
• La Recta Provincia (2007)
• Litoral (2008)
• La maison Nucingen [Nucingen House] (2008)
• Agathopedia (2008)
• El pasaporte amarillo [The Yellow Passport] (2009)
• A Closed Book [Blind Revenge] (2010)
• L'estate breve (2010)
• Mistérios de Lisboa [Mysteries of Lisbon] (2010)
• Ballet aquatique (2011)
• La noche de enfrente [Night Across the Street] (2012)
• As Linhas de Torres [Lines of Wellington] (2012) (conceived by Ruiz, completed by Valeria Sarmiento)

Daunting.

Yeah, during the final hour, I kept thinking to myself, "Man, this thing will need another viewing for me to really understand it." That won't be anytime soon, obviously, but it will happen.. eventually. There were moments where I would think I knew who a certain character was, but it just wouldn't come to me. I realized a few of them, like, 10 minutes after their appearance (one that was referred by a nickname jogged my memory; forget his name.) The entire thing just requires patience and a really attentive mind.

I kept waiting for Léa Seydoux to make her appearance. What a small part.

I looked up his work beforehand, because I knew absolutely nothing about him. My God, that is one insane resumé.

[The Great Owl]

I sold my old Criterion DVD of Rififi during lunch break. That DVD and I had some great times together. Since the upcoming upgrade will be Dual Format, though, I'll have a backup DVD under my roof anyway.

I used the money to buy Robert Wise's The Haunting and Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, so all is good!

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Judex

I love these pictures Criterion take of their new releases.

Me, too. I cannot wait to get the set tomorrow. I'm going to try my best to start it tomorrow, though my priorities will probably be with watching The Man Who Wasn't There and The Purple Rose Of Cairo before they expire On Demand.

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I sold my old Criterion DVD of Rififi during lunch break. That DVD and I had some great times together. Since the upcoming upgrade will be Dual Format, though, I'll have a backup DVD under my roof anyway.

I used the money to buy Robert Wise's The Haunting and Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, so all is good!

I am curious to hear what you think of the transfer on The Haunting. I just rewatched my DVD copy, and the audio quality alone made me wish I had the upgrade. There were a number of places on the DVD when the dialogue was very hard to understand, even with the volume much louder than I would normally watch something at.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

I am curious to hear what you think of the transfer on The Haunting. I just rewatched my DVD copy, and the audio quality alone made me wish I had the upgrade. There were a number of places on the DVD when the dialogue was very hard to understand, even with the volume much louder than I would normally watch something at.

I used to own The Haunting on DVD as well, before I unloaded it to make room for the Blu-ray, so I know what you mean. I love this movie dearly, but I'm going to save it for Halloween night, and will post my thoughts shortly after. All of the Blu-ray reviews that I've read are quite complementary, though.

Carrying the discussion back into Criterion waters, Claire Bloom is pretty amazing in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as well.

[Infernal King]

Moonraker isn't anywhere close to being the worst Bond movie.

[gill08]

It would be sick if Criterion ever released a steelbook for one of their movies.

[JJJ225]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

I like the cover art, but hate the packaging.

Yeah, I hate their box set packaging.