The Criterion Collection

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

Leeds isn't too far for you, I'd very much recommend going to this screening in the historic Victoria Hall at Leeds Town Hall.

http://www.leedsfilm.com/films/2001-space-odyssey-3/

The cinema screen is bigger than the one pictured below.

WHOA.

I am so going there.

[ShellOilJunior]

Nothing beats a palace-like movie house. They don't make 'em any more.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Nothing beats a palace-like movie house. They don't make 'em any more.

Have you been before? If so whats the screen quality and sound system like?

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Have you been before? If so whats the screen quality and sound system like?

This is the biggest place I've seen a film. It used to show movies all the time 40-50 years ago but now only shows a classic series each summer.

[Show spoiler]

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Have you been before? If so whats the screen quality and sound system like?

I've been (I used to work for them!). The screen quality is second to none. It's a huge custom-built screen and was only recently installed. The sound *should* be incredible too, as it's just had a state-of-the-art acoustic canopy built.

http://www.acoustic.co.uk/H&H/Nleeds.htm

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

This is the biggest place I've seen a film. It used to show movies all the time 40-50 years ago but now only shows a classic series each summer.

[Show spoiler]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

I've been (I used to work for them!). The screen quality is second to none. It's a huge custom-built screen and was only recently installed. The sound *should* be incredible too, as it's just had a state-of-the-art acoustic canopy built.

http://www.acoustic.co.uk/H&H/Nleeds.htm

My god that is stunning - defiantly be worth the train ticket! I'd go even if a film wasn't shown haha such a gorgeous building, why can't there be more like this! Lincoln has nothing! (except Cathedral haha).

Thanks so much for letting me know about this! (never been to lead before!)

So exciting!

Any Kubrick film deserves the best screen, sound, and environment to watch it in! - remind me of that company that does cider (?) and they do film screening in envirements that relate to the film, so in a prison, old church, on a river etc etc and its all free, you just give feedback on the drink I think.

Would love to see Eyes Wide Shut or Barry Lyndon there - perfect environment! If they did Eyes Wide Shut they should all have masks haha would be so exciting lol

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by Musicguy

How odd, since the New York world's fair was in 1964. He must be remembering something else

The Fair ended in 1965, but a few of its attractions, including the Cinerama theater remained open for years. It's possible that he may have seen a Cinerama screening of 2001 there. If he did, I envy him the experience.

[dwk]

Originally Posted by PrestonXI

I apologize if that has been addressed at some point, but I don't have internet at home anymore and rarely get to check this board...

Has anyone received their Criterion replacement discs yet? I sent mine in the day the replacement program was announced.

Last Friday someone at another forum mentioned they called Criterion and were told it would be at least another week before the replacement discs would start to be sent out because Criterion were still waiting for the correct discs.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jw007

I just finished watching All That Jazz for the 2nd time last night and tonight I watched all 4 hours of supplements. All That Jazz is one amazing experience and I personally learned a great deal about director Bob Fosse (Cabaret, Lenny, Star 80). For anyone attempting to make a musical comedy about open heart surgery is nothing short of brilliant and Fosse was an absolute genius. This film is one a person could re-watch numerous times and maybe infinitely in terms of re-watchability. Everything Bob Fosse creates here is executed with purpose and perfection. The choreography is stunning and basically was a game changer in musicals at the time, and as Sam Wasson, the Fosse scholar/author said, it hasn't been changed or revolutionized since this 1979 film. The opening six minute sequence depicting the dancers' "cattle call" with George Benson's hit song "On Broadway" playing the entire time, could have been the best and earliest music video made in the 1970s. Fosse also greatly influenced hip hop dance with his "scary and sexy" dance choreography that started with his 1969 film Sweet Charity. Michael Jackson even approached him to direct his music video for "Thriller" in 1983.

The great choreographer, Agnes de Mille, basically sums it up that Fosse "took the erotica out of sex", in that one "Airotica" sequence in All That Jazz, where a whole new level of cinematic-dance-storytelling takes place. It reaches a level that goes beyond comedy and into those uncomfortable, taboo-like places where people fear to tread and where the human form is both celebrated and mortified. Death and sex, two dominant themes, are injected into the dance sequences and especially in the hallucinatory dance scenes in the second half of the film with an ailing Roy Scheider playing Joe Gideon as Bob Fosse himself. And those Vivaldi musical sequences scattered through the film showing Gideon starting his day on uppers (Dexedrine) and Visine eye drops in the bathroom are just lurid and lucid as can be. Amongst the female dancers, one Ann Reinking who plays Katie is truly mesmerizing at times, and its no wonder that director Rob Marshall who himself was influenced by Fosse (Chicago) ranks her as one of the best dancers he's seen. Her performances are enhanced here because Fosse purposefully framed the choreography for the film itself as opposed to loosely capturing dance sequences with the camera as a lesser-minded director might have done. For every 1 minute of choreography, Bob Fosse spent 1 full day to shoot it, so an 8 minute dance sequence took 8 days to capture, and that doesn't include the many days of rehearsal/repetition preceding that.

All That Jazz is about narcissism and ego too, and the great fine line where stage and theater directors can be consumed by their own art and where one's own health takes a back seat in favor of a full throttle adrenaline rush. And its all about meaning in the end, no matter what happens to the main character of Roy Scheider's Joe Gideon, because it goes beyond hypocrisy and into the human condition itself. It's only more amazing how Joe Gideon is such an addict, whether its alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, women or work because Fosse himself is that character and he himself is revealed through Gideon. It's a truly brilliant film and this Criterion edition is everything its cracked up to be plus thousands of times more. The video and audio transfer is spectacular and the amount of supplements excel in both quality and quantity. It's one of the year's best releases in my honest opinion.

**** 3/4 stars out of 5 stars overall.

Also I wanted to add that I posted this user review in the All That Jazz movie release page on this site... its my very first official movie review for this site! If anyone has any suggestions or comments, I'd love to hear.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Musicguy

How odd, since the New York world's fair was in 1964. He must be remembering something else

Or there was a theater in the fairgrounds where he saw it. While the World's Fair itself was in 1964, I believe that the fairgrounds and several of its attractions remained open for years afterward.

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

My god that is stunning - defiantly be worth the train ticket! I'd go even if a film wasn't shown haha such a gorgeous building, why can't there be more like this! Lincoln has nothing! (except Cathedral haha).

The Leeds film festival runs next month, there's loads of great films showing. They did the complete Human Condition two years ago.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

The Leeds film festival runs next month, there's loads of great films showing. They did the complete Human Condition two years ago.

I need to move! Lincoln is so cinema unfriendly lol - got a very outdated crappy Odeon. We have a newish cinema, it was an old cinema that has been refurbished and its so nice, but they only show kiddy/family films So disappointing!

[bwdowiak]

there was a mention about Truffaut's Day For Night in the TT thread... apparently TT will have another Truffaut title some time soon, although DFN is a Warner title and it could come from Criterion as part of this "deal" - whatever it entails.

that would be very cool! the UK seems to have put his entire filmography on blu-ray. it'd be nice to have a few more essentials over here.

I will pass, however, on The Bride Wore Black - soon to come from TT. It is entertaining, definitely worth a watch, and something I'd have in my collection if I could get it for 10 bucks, but not for 35.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

there was a mention about Truffaut's Day For Night in the TT thread... apparently TT will have another Truffaut title some time soon, although DFN is a Warner title and it could come from Criterion as part of this "deal" - whatever it entails.

The other Truffaut title is likely to be one of the handful controlled by MGM. That would include:

Mississippi Mermaid
The Story of Adele H
The Man Who Loved Women
Small Change
Wild Child
The Green Room

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

there was a mention about Truffaut's [B]
I will pass, however, on The Bride Wore Black - soon to come from TT. It is entertaining, definitely worth a watch, and something I'd have in my collection if I could get it for 10 bucks, but not for 35.

$35 and without extras, or minimal , i guess we are all spoiled by Criterion and their sales.

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by jayembee

The other Truffaut title is likely to be one of the handful controlled by MGM. That would include:

Mississippi Mermaid
The Story of Adele H
The Man Who Loved Women
Small Change
Wild Child
The Green Room

awesome! Thanks, Jay! I guess I hope that it is Wild Child or Small Change although I haven't seen any of them.

[the sordid sentinel]

Watched Stagecoach last night followed by the John Ford interview included with the supplements today. Something tells me Mr. Ford didn't enjoy being interviewed. I literally felt bad for the interviewer. Great film maker but warm and fuzzy he was not.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

This is the biggest place I've seen a film. It used to show movies all the time 40-50 years ago but now only shows a classic series each summer.

[Show spoiler]

This is fairly similar to Fox Theatre here in Atlanta, where I've been to see Double Indemnity, Gone with the Wind, The Birds, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

[BohemianGraham]

Originally Posted by dwk

Last Friday someone at another forum mentioned they called Criterion and were told it would be at least another week before the replacement discs would start to be sent out because Criterion were still waiting for the correct discs.

Thanks for the info, I'll be mailing off my copy of Howards End in a few weeks, and I'm now avoiding the "Bronzegate" thread as I cannot get straight information there. It's primarily fear mongering, and there's no general consensus as to what is going on. I'm seeing enough of that on my local news at the moment.

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by BohemianGraham

Thanks for the info, I'll be mailing off my copy of Howards End in a few weeks, and I'm now avoiding the "Bronzegate" thread as I cannot get straight information there. It's primarily fear mongering, and there's no general consensus as to what is going on. I'm seeing enough of that on my local news at the moment.

not movie related, but the last "story" that was so burning red hot and seemed to die almost as abruptly was the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax.

you're wise to steer clear of that thread, imo.