The Criterion Collection

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by SlickDamian

I've been raving about Revanche for years. One of my very favourite Criterions. The cinematography in the forest is fantastic, and the lack of a score adds a new dimension to the tension.

ahh, yes! your avatar! :-) last week it was just a dude on a bench.. now I got it! I agree about the lack of a score. Hitchcock's The Birds benefits from its lack of a score in a similar fashion.

[SlickDamian]

For sure, I agree.
With Revanche, the whole ambiance creates such a unique experience. The lack of score with the setting in the European forest, the walking trails, the lake, the whole country setting is so perfect. I think that it's an underrated masterpiece.

[MTRodaba2468]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

The exhibit had the films separated into periods, and everything from Spider to Cosmopolis was lumped together. I still have to see the A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis.

For anyone who thinks they might announce an upgrade to a low spine # today, here are the 10 oldest in print not updated to blu spines:

22 - Summertime
29 - Picnic At Hanging Rock
31 - Great Expectations
32 - Oliver Twist
33 - Nanook Of The North*
34 - Andrei Rublev
40 - Armageddon
41 - Henry V
42 - Fishing With John
45 - Taste Of Cherry

I vote for Andrei Rublev.

*released on blu in US by Flicker Alley

Wasn't Fishing With John shot on video? Regardless, I don't see it getting an upgrade anytime soon.

Originally Posted by the sordid sentinel

That's a great list. I am a massive fan of The Friends of Eddie Coyle as well. I keep hoping for an upgrade one of these months..maybe this will be the one.

Chalk me up as another fan of Eddie Coyle whom would love to upgrade my DVD copy...

[chris_sc77]

I am hoping for any Spike Lee or The Fisher King

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by MTRodaba2468

Wasn't Fishing With John shot on video? Regardless, I don't see it getting an upgrade anytime soon.



Chalk me up as another fan of Eddie Coyle whom would love to upgrade my DVD copy...

Speaking of Eddie Coyle, anyone know why the Criterion DVD that came out just a few years back changes aspect ratios between after the starting credits are over?

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by SlickDamian

For sure, I agree.
With Revanche, the whole ambiance creates such a unique experience. The lack of score with the setting in the European forest, the walking trails, the lake, the whole country setting is so perfect. I think that it's an underrated masterpiece.

It's one of my favorite films of all time and hands down one of my Top 10 Criterions.

I feel as if it's one of the most underappreciated films out there, though.

[SilentDawn]

Originally Posted by iScottie

It's one of my favorite films of all time and hands down one of my Top 10 Criterions.

I feel as if it's one of the most underappreciated films out there, though.

I still need to see Revanche, is it really that great?

[Judex]

Originally Posted by SilentDawn

I still need to see Revanche, is it really that great?

Yes!

[StonesEGF]

I was so engrossed the first time I saw Revanche that I did not even notice the lack of a score.

It is definitely one of my favorites in the Criterion Collection.

[SilentDawn]

Originally Posted by Judex

Yes!

Well it's now on my never-ending list of Criterions to buy!

[Polaroid]

Anyone know when March will be announced, seems to be getting a tad late >.>

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by SilentDawn

Well it's now on my never-ending list of Criterions to buy!

If you just buy them all there is no need to make lists

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Anyone know when March will be announced, seems to be getting a tad late >.>

It frequently does not occur until 5 or 6 est.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

It frequently does not occur until 5 or 6 est.

All the other announcements were around 6 pm GMT, in so impatient haha.

[SilentDawn]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

If you just buy them all there is no need to make lists

True!

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by JHas

Today's announcement wishlist:

Andrei Rublev
The Red Tent
The Lost Weekend <- there is already a awesome region B release from MoC
A Matter of Life and Death
Dersu Uzala
Samurai Rebellion

for me it doesnt matter much what they are gonna release, there is so much more old stuff that i still have to buy + some eclipse sets (startet today watching set nr 37...)

and there is always new stuff from criterion to explore

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by demolitionkirby

Man, the wait for the March announcements is torture! I'm hoping that they announce some Cronenberg or the Short Films of David Lynch Set

I'd be happy with just mulholland dr but omg if they released a complete boxset!

[MTRodaba2468]

Originally Posted by SilentDawn

I still need to see Revanche, is it really that great?

I know you already said that you added it to your list of Criterions to buy, but I'll also add to the praise and state that the film is utterly fantastic.

[SilentDawn]

Originally Posted by MTRodaba2468

I know you already said that you added it to your list of Criterions to buy, but I'll also add to the praise and state that the film is utterly fantastic.

It does look fantastic, I might add it to my queue on Netflix to check it out. I still have to watch The Spirit of the Beehive first though.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The problem with Cronenberg movies is that they are painful to watch.
Back in the late 1980s, I stopped arm-wrestling friends on my high school football team for a few weeks after one particular sequence in The Fly.

When it comes to directors with a knack for unnerving physical responses to their scenes, Cronenberg is the most effective.

And whatever you do, don't let Jeremy Irons bring his own OB/GYN surgical equipment...
(Thought we had a Dead Ringers Criterion at one point, didn't we?)

Originally Posted by jw007

I have to agree. Cronenberg takes his time with his horror scenes and makes sure it really gets absorbed into the human psyche. He goes underneath the flesh and exposes what is within and brings it out in grotesque ways. He is obsessed with what is "underneath" the exterior.

Nobody ever mentions eXistenZ as the out-with-a-whimper "last true" Icky Cronenberg film (would have helped if they'd seen it in the theater, either), where the next generation of gaming involves permanent nervous-system input plants at the spine. (And I wasn't even planning to buy a PS4!)

I still have my blu-ray copy of Naked Lunch that I haven't opened yet because I still need to prepare myself to watch this again when I'm in the right mood.

As for Naked Lunch, not sure whether that one or Dead Ringers can be considered the "transitional" film from Cronenberg's "Icky" period to his "Crazy" period...It postdates Crash and M. Butterfly, so not sure where to put it on the filmography.
(And where is that .GIF of Bart Simpson and his friends sneaking into the Naked Lunch theater because it looked "cool"? I was expecting Classic Cronenberg Ickiness too, and got a rambling gay-movie that wasn't directed by Bryan Singer.)