The Criterion Collection

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by jcs913

Just like the post above me says; I am gone for a little while and CG is stirring it up again. I see the discussion is focusing on my favorite Criterion topic: The love and hate of Polymers. I needed a refresh on that and I am now good for another week.

BTW, CG, I agree, any Hopper film is a good thing for the collection. His influence on films, through his acting or directing has been very deserving of some sort of CC release. It was a sad day when he passed, but thankfully we have his work to remind us. (so ends my eulogy)

The fun thing today was I didn't start it. And I had a tag team partner. But were all having fun, no harm, just silly posts.

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Yes it is. Jack Nicholson has a hand in every movie listed but the Last Picture Show.

Thanks, THIS IS AWESOME NEWS!!! I like all those films! I wish Criterion could release some classic Roger Corman on blu, like The Little Shop Of Horrors and A Bucket of Blood!

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

Thanks, THIS IS AWESOME NEWS!!! I like all those films! I wish Criterion could release some classic Roger Corman on blu, like The Little Shop Of Horrors and A Bucket of Blood!

I hope this is on blu and opens a new door for Criterion. I could see the films you listed coming if this opens those doors.

[Crimson King]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

I hope this is on blu and opens a new door for Criterion. I could see the films you listed coming if this opens those doors.

I HOPE THOSE DOORS STAY "OPEN"!!!

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

I HOPE THOSE DOORS STAY "OPEN"!!!

Yes, I would like more Columbia pictures films to come out on Criterion and to get Universal Pictures to release Hopper's The Last Movie in which for the Wes Anderson fans here, Owen Wilson's character dressed like Hopper from the Last Movie in The Royal Tenenbaums.

[Crimson King]

Criterion IS such an awesome company!, they have helped me broaden my love of great cinema. Thanks to Criterion's stellar DVD and Blu-ray releases, I've gotten a much better "Cinema Education" Thank U Criterion!!!

[ccfixx]

DVDBeaver has their review/comparison up for "Red Desert" now.

CC

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

DVDBeaver has their review/comparison up for "Red Desert" now.

CC

Thanks. It seems alot of people like the BFI, but am I the only one that likes the Criterion version, well besides Beaver?

[SpiderBaby]

CC, did you get finished with L'Enfance-nue?

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

Criterion IS such an awesome company!, they have helped me broaden my love of great cinema. Thanks to Criterion's stellar DVD and Blu-ray releases, I've gotten a much better "Cinema Education" Thank U Criterion!!!

I'll just put it this way. If Criterion were not such an important part of my cinema collection I wouldn't care about things such as cases they come in. That's how much I care about Criterion. Criterion is going to have the most prominent place in my DVD/Blu-Ray shelves for a long time. Even if I don't have as crazy large of a collection of them like Kndy does.

And anyway even the worst looking Criterion cases are far better than ECO cases IMO.

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

CC, did you get finished with L'Enfance-nue?

Yeah, it's just too bad that the wonderful child actor, Michel Tarrazon, wasn't able to create a great career out of acting.

Now I'm watching Maurice Pialat's "Police" with the wonderful Gérard Depardieu. I just received both of them today, along with four other discs, through the mail... all of them Masters of Cinema. Five of their recent seven Pialat discs are each 2-discs so it's a treat going through everything.

CC

[chetripley80]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Ever since Saving Private Ryan I'd say what he's good at is raking in lots of money for making mediocre films.

"Munich" begs to differ.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

Yeah, it's just too bad that the wonderful child actor, Michel Tarrazon, wasn't able to create a great career out of acting.

Now I'm watching Maurice Pialat's "Police" with the wonderful Gérard Depardieu. I just received both of them today, along with four other discs, through the mail... all of them Masters of Cinema. Five of their recent seven Pialat discs are each 2-discs so it's a treat going through everything.

CC

Did you happen to get Pialat's Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble? I really want to watch that. So much so that I'm thinking about buying a region free player. It would play on region-free correct, or would I need a Region-B player? When it comes to players, I am a novice sad to say.

[chetripley80]

Originally Posted by BillyJack

Thanks, THIS IS AWESOME NEWS!!! I like all those films! I wish Criterion could release some classic Roger Corman on blu, like The Little Shop Of Horrors and A Bucket of Blood!

I think it would be great if Criterion would release Corman's "Battle Beyond the Stars."

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Did you happen to get Pialat's Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble? I really want to watch that. So much so that I'm thinking about buying a region free player. It would play on region-free correct, or would I need a Region-B player? When it comes to players, I am a novice sad to say.

No, unfortunately I haven't picked that one up, yet. Only "L'Enfance-nue" and "Police" were a part of Eureka's newsletter sale this month, and you can't go wrong for $15 each shipped from England. I also finally picked up Resnais' "Muriel," which I've never gotten around to watching.

As far as players go, you'd just need a region-free DVD player, which are a dime a dozen these days, I'm sure, to play the MOC DVDs. It's well worth the investment, I think. Just do your homework and read some reviews of online DVD players, if that's all you're looking for. Of course, most computers with a DVD-Rom drive and some type of software allow you to change the region-coding, as well, a certain number of times. Once I changed the settings on my laptop's DVD drive to Region B, though, I've never come across a reason to ever change it back to Region A.

CC

[Volume11]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

No, unfortunately I haven't picked that one up, yet. As far as players go, you'd just need a region-free DVD player, which are a dime a dozen these days, I'm sure, to play the MOC DVDs. It's well worth the investment, I think. Just do your homework and read some reviews of online DVD players, if that's all you're looking for. Of course, most computers with a DVD-Rom drive and some type of software allow you to change the region-coding, as well, a certain number of times. Once I changed the settings on my laptop's DVD drive to Region B, though, I've never come across a reason to ever change it back to Region A.

CC

Oppo BDP-80 + mod chip = $325 for region free DVD and Blu goodness. Worth every penny even if it means holding off a month on some blus...

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by Volume11

Oppo BDP-80 + mod chip = $325 for region free DVD and Blu goodness. Worth every penny even if it means holding off a month on some blus...

Yes, but maybe not everyone has $325 at the moment for all of that goodness. Even just getting a region-free DVD player for under $100 opens any film lover's world to all kinds of great releases that aren't available in the USA.

CC

[fdm]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

It is the same boxset, but since these rumors has sources inside Criterion for them, I find this true. Since Sony didn't get this out last year is another reason why I think this is true, letting Criterion release them gives this a market instead of Sony shelling out for a gamble that the eveyday consumer will buy this.

As with all rumors, Criterion or otherwise, believe it when I see it.

(And then figure out if I can afford it.)

[fdm]

Originally Posted by chadfl

oh that's just great. Ugg...

+1.

[fdm]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

Hahaha. You guys get so upset over the most insignificant, mundane aspects of life. I can't help but laugh.

Seriously, though. Criterion had their clear, plastic blu-ray cases custom-made for their releases. It's not financially sound for them to go having custom-made plastic cases for 2-disc and 3-disc releases. The other multi-disc sets of "Che" and "Monterey Pop" & "Jimi/Shake!" both consisted of individual films that were released separately at one point. And hence why I'm sure each disc warranted a separate plastic case. However, with "The Leopard" both discs are part of one singular film... and as the case with the "By Brahkage" set, all three discs are commonly linked. It makes sense to me, but I suppose not to the OCD crowd out there. This packaging is no way inferior to the plastic cases. You guys must not have ever bought any of Criterion's standard DVDs to realized there's no uniformity in their packaging. And who gives two shits about uniformity!!!

I will now begin to play the world's smallest violin for the cardboard case haters.

CC

I don't even give a single shit to uniformity. I just get tired of trying to get an uncrunched/undamaged copy of just about anything they put out in cardboard. That's my OCD slant.

[rant]I finally threw in the towel the other day with ordering from Criterion when my Brakhage box set arrived all dented(/smooshed) up at least partly by the way they shipped it (not in a box, but in a cardboard wrapper a la amazon, not quite as flimsy, but flimsy enough) and partly because it was mixed in with 3 other blu-rays, which also got dented up to various degrees due to shifting around during shipping. The store copies of Brakhage I ran across later that day while investigating my other options also had various dings and dents too, so passed on them as well.[/rant]

So groan from me, I just don't look forward to dealing with getting undamaged copies of yet more digipaks. It's a major pain in the ass. And they are inferior for that particular reason; at least with plastic there's some degree of protection against damage. I have plenty of the DVD ones, been there done that.

Go ahead and laugh and play your ****ing violin. You don't need to be such an ******* about it.