The Criterion Collection

[silverlakephil]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Hoping Breaking the Waves comes tomorrow or Tuesday so excited to see the packaging and artwork and quality of the bluray (Breaking is a weird film in terms of quality).

The review is up over at dvdbeaver.com . Looks like they added a brown filter and it looks dramatically different from previous releases. Apparently this was the intended look of the film since the director himself supervised the transfer.

[silverlakephil]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Hoping Breaking the Waves comes tomorrow or Tuesday so excited to see the packaging and artwork and quality of the bluray (Breaking is a weird film in terms of quality).

Originally Posted by silverlakephil

The review is up over at dvdbeaver.com . Looks like they added a brown filter and it looks dramatically different from previous releases. Apparently this was the intended look of the film since the director himself supervised the transfer.

Um, I forgot to mention that some of the pics ar NSFW.

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Hoping Breaking the Waves comes tomorrow or Tuesday so excited to see the packaging and artwork and quality of the bluray (Breaking is a weird film in terms of quality).

Packaging: http://www.criterionforum.org/DVD-pa...ollection/1264

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

Packaging: http://www.criterionforum.org/DVD-pa...ollection/1264

Oooooooooh thanks, very nice packaging )) - Had been checking that site for updates but had nothing lol

Originally Posted by silverlakephil

The review is up over at dvdbeaver.com . Looks like they added a brown filter and it looks dramatically different from previous releases. Apparently this was the intended look of the film since the director himself supervised the transfer.

Oooh I really like the transfer, they've done a great job with it - compared to others its incredible... actually surprised at the quality haha

Question: Did CC work with the transfer before it was transferred to video to create the grain? Cause I can't get over how good it looks lol

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Hoping Breaking the Waves comes tomorrow or Tuesday so excited to see the packaging and artwork and quality of the bluray (Breaking is a weird film in terms of quality).

Mine won't ship from Amazon until April 15th it says.

[The Great Owl]

I don't feel like writing a big User Review at the moment, but I finished going through all of the extras on the Criterion Blu-ray of Harold Lloyd's The Freshman just now, and I enthusiastically recommend this disc.

I initially thought that Criterion's elaborate Dual Format package for The Freshman was a whole lot of fuss just for one 77-minute movie, but the whole package merits celebration, because the three short films are hilarious as well, and the supplements are wonderful.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by JoeBuck

Add these ones to your list too! (if you haven't seen them anyways)

[Show spoiler]Gilda
The Narrow Margin
The Phantom Lady
The Sniper
Caught
Kansas City Confidential
99 River Street
The Dark Corner
The Big Steal
He Walked By Night
The Breaking Point (if you can nab a copy of it somewhere)
No Way Out
Woman On The Run
Cry Danger
The Phenix City Story


Gilda and The Narrow Margin are in my top five and will never cease to entertain the ever living hell out of me. The others (except Cry Danger and The Breaking Point) are the best new discoveries from my binge that I haven't seen listed yet.
Sometimes it almost seems like theres too many, but its certainly not a challenge you'll regret!

Agreed. A few of these would have gone on my above list, but I darn near listed my entire film noir collection anyway and needed to stop writing. Haha.

I love Gilda, and I'm thinking of ordered the Italian Blu-ray, although I suspect that a U.S. release is not far over the horizon.

[CHEЯNOБLY!]

Originally Posted by AlexIlDottore

My God you had to go back 5-6 whole pages to get your answers . It's a huge amount of reading for you, I guess ? And how does 6 become 20+ ? Please enlighten me

You're welcome for the link that I posted, btw.

If it really bothered you that much, why answer in the first place?

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Agreed. A few of these would have gone on my above list, but I darn near listed my entire film noir collection anyway and needed to stop writing. Haha.

I love Gilda, and I'm thinking of ordered the Italian Blu-ray, although I suspect that a U.S. release is not far over the horizon.

Haha, totally kniw how you feel, almost seems like the list is neverending!
I've almost made it through the pile I set out to watch though, been a pretty persistent couple months

Gilda is one of my favorite classic films, the dialogue and performances are really great and I still don't think anybody had been sexier than Rita Hayworth was in that.
Hopefully when a US release comes out it will have lossless audio, but seeing as The Lady From Shanghai didn't I'm pretty sure it won't :/

[Visco.]

Originally Posted by Coen

You are on a desert island and are allowed 1 Criterion BD from USA, Japan, Sweden, France, Italy and UK. What are your choices?

Option A: Dazed & Confused
Option B: The Thin Red Line
Option C: I get to keep both if I cut off my own pinky.

I'll choose option C.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Coen

You are on a desert island and are allowed 1 Criterion BD from USA, Japan, Sweden, France, Italy and UK. What are your choices?

USA: The Night of the Hunter
Japan: Seven Samurai
Sweden: Fanny and Alexander
France: Army of Shadows
Italy: L'Eclisse
UK: The Third Man

[Visco.]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

USA: The Night of the Hunter

Japan: Seven Samurai

Sweden: Fanny and Alexander

France: Army of Shadows

Italy: L'Eclisse

UK: The Third Man

Doh. I see how we're supposed to do this now. I have only seen one foreign film from CC. I just realized how awful that is.

[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

France: Army of Shadows
UK: The Third Man

Ingenious, ensuring somebody would want to at least come to the desert island and rescue you for the surefire massive fortune they'd make off selling these titles.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by JoeBuck

Add these ones to your list too! (if you haven't seen them anyways)

Gilda
The Narrow Margin
The Phantom Lady
The Sniper
Caught
Kansas City Confidential
99 River Street
The Dark Corner
The Big Steal
He Walked By Night
The Breaking Point (if you can nab a copy of it somewhere)
No Way Out
Woman On The Run
Cry Danger
The Phenix City Story


Gilda and The Narrow Margin are in my top five and will never cease to entertain the ever living hell out of me. The others (except Cry Danger and The Breaking Point) are the best new discoveries from my binge that I haven't seen listed yet.
Sometimes it almost seems like theres too many, but its certainly not a challenge you'll regret!

I think The Breaking Point is available on DVD from Warner's Archives. Great film. It blows the more famous version out of the water IMO. Another Garfield noir worth finding is his last film-He Ran All the Way.

[octagon]

Hrmmmmmmm...

USA: Rosemary's Baby
Japan: Throne of Blood
Sweden: Everlasting Moments
France: Carlos (ask me later and I'll say Three Colors or The Double Life of Veronique, ask me again after that and I'll go back to Carlos and so forth and so on)
Italy: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (I need to take one blind buy)
UK: The Third Man (Brief Encounter is surprisingly close here)

BTW, nice spin on the deserted island scenario.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

Ingenious, ensuring somebody would want to at least come to the desert island and rescue you for the surefire massive fortune they'd make off selling these titles.

Ha! I did not think about that, since these are sincerely my favorite films in the above categories...at least until Le Samourai gets a Criterion Blu-ray upgrade. It's a shame that they are no longer available to more people.

[CHEЯNOБLY!]

Originally Posted by Coen

You are on a desert island and are allowed 1 Criterion BD from USA, Japan, Sweden, France, Italy and UK. What are your choices?

US: On the Waterfront
Japan: Zatoichi (Do box sets count as one? If not, Rashomon)
Sweden: Wild Strawberries
France: Jules and Jim
Italy: 8 1/2
UK: Third Man (If I could get a copy w/o taking out a 2nd mortgage. If not, Fish Tank)

[The Great Owl]

I just secured a ticket to see Fellini's 8 1/2 at Midtown Art Cinema here in Atlanta on Tuesday night. This is advertised as a "new digital restoration", and I have no idea what that entails, but I'm sure that this movie will look awe-inspiring on a big screen.

Maybe I'll actually understand the movie after I see it on the big screen, but I won't make any bets as such. I don't think that I'll ever truly understand this one.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Coen

You are on a desert island and are allowed 1 Criterion BD from USA, Japan, Sweden, France, Italy and UK. What are your choices?

USA: The Night of the Hunter

Japan: Tokyo Story

Sweden: Smiles of a Summer Night

France: Three Colors

Italy: The Battle of Algiers

UK: David Lean Directs Noël Coward

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

I think The Breaking Point is available on DVD from Warner's Archives. Great film. It blows the more famous version out of the water IMO. Another Garfield noir worth finding is his last film-He Ran All the Way.

It does indeed! Its just a bit of a pain in the ass to get those Warner Archive titles sometimes
Still haven't seen either of those other ones, gonna have to give them a watch pretty soon.
Its a real shame John Garfields career and life were cut short so soon, he was a great actor.

Another one I dont recall seeing on either of our lists though is Gun Crazy. Thats a great one too!