The Criterion Collection

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It Happened One Night Blu-ray











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Les Blank: Always for Pleasure Blu-ray











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[Ausjdm]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

It Happened One Night Blu-ray









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I know it's been said before but screw your paper foldout booklets Criterion! Blek. Only ace in the hole made sense as newspaper

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by Ausjdm

I know it's been said before but screw your paper foldout booklets Criterion! Blek. Only ace in the hole made sense as newspaper

Yeah they are no good in my opinion. I don't like them at all.

[CHEЯNOБLY!]

Ugghh...what is with this pamphlet business? I sure hope this is a misstep that ends quickly.

[deepbreathsanddeath]

Ffs Criterion, you had one job. Release great movies in great, uniform packages. You had a system we (mostly) all loved. The leaflets are god awful. Stop.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

Yeah they are no good in my opinion. I don't like them at all.

I experienced this new wave of pamplets firsthand with My Darling Clementine... the leaflet just kept opening up more and more and more and eventually it was like 2 feet long or something... felt like it would never end in terms of opening up all the way. Drove me nuts.

[Blu-Velvet]

Originally Posted by Blu-Velvet

What I need to do is get around to digging into the stack of unwatched Blu-rays and even DVDs I've been putting off. I'm thinking I might finally look at Kurosawa's I LIVE IN FEAR from Criterion's "Postwar Kurosawa" Eclipse set, and if there's time maybe THE IDIOT, which I think I might have seen on a college film society 30-35 years ago, but don't really remember if I did. Also need to break the shrink-wrap on the Mizoguchi's Fallen Women Eclipse set, so maybe one of those will be the second feature tonight. Decisions, decisions!

Much as I tend to resist watching mere DVDs these days, I wound up watching two discs I hadn't seen before from different Criterion Eclipse sets tonight -- Mizoguchi's OSAKA ELEGY, which was beautifully shot, well-acted, and quite an interesting story, and then Kurosawa's I LIVE IN FEAR, which has an amazingly underrated tour-de-force performance by Toshiro Mifune playing about double his real age, along with a touching Takashi Shimura, in a perfect and far more disturbing companion piece to GODZILLA and various other 1950s atomic-era paranoia films. This one definitely deserves a Blu-ray upgrade and a few bonus features.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by Blu-Velvet

Much as I tend to resist watching mere DVDs these days, I wound up watching two discs I hadn't seen before from different Criterion Eclipse sets tonight -- Mizoguchi's OSAKA ELEGY, which was beautifully shot, well-acted, and quite an interesting story, and then Kurosawa's I LIVE IN FEAR, which has an amazingly underrated tour-de-force performance by Toshiro Mifune playing about double his real age, along with a touching Takashi Shimura, in a perfect and far more disturbing companion piece to GODZILLA and various other 1950s atomic-era paranoia films. This one definitely deserves a Blu-ray upgrade and a few bonus features.

I'd love to see mainline releases for both I Live In Fear and Scandal.

[Polaroid]

ARE YOU SERIOUS!? MOPRE BLOODY LEAFLETS!?!?!?

Seriously Criterion? Up your game.... really annoying and cheap now.

I loved the leaflet for Ace in the Hole, as you said it was fitting. These look cheap, rushed and tacky. It's really putting me off them, they should atleast lower cost as we are getting less for our money now.

Its embarrassing, when I tell people about these films, I show them the booklets and they love it now it like... oooh look at this leaflet.... fancy.

[mande2013]

In all fairness, L'Avventura was initially released with a pamphlet.

[Bad Sandwich]

Haven't kept up as closely with this thread in recent times. Could someone give me a quick rundown of this leaflet business? Have some titles previously released with standard booklets been reissued with leaflets? If so, barf.

[captveg]

No. Leaflets have only been with new titles to the collection and major DVD/BD upgrades like L'Avventura (which was going to have a new booklet whether it was 2 or 200 pages).

[Bad Sandwich]

Ah gotcha, thanks. The post above mine about L'Avventura had me concerned.

[mande2013]

But a lot of their earlier releases from the early noughties like L'Avventura and Contempt merely came with leaflets anyway, so it's not like you're getting gypped with the L'Avventura upgrade, and as far as I know they didn't downsize to a leaflet from a booklet for any recent upgrade. The L'Eclisse upgrade, for instance, still has a booklet as far as I know. Pickpocket, L'Avventura, and The 400 Blows have always been leaflet-only from day one.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by mande2013

But a lot of their earlier releases from the early noughties like L'Avventura and Contempt merely came with leaflets anyway, so it's not like you're getting gypped with the L'Avventura upgrade, and as far as I know they didn't downsize to a leaflet from a booklet for any recent upgrade. The L'Eclisse upgrade, for instance, still has a booklet as far as I know. Pickpocket, L'Avventura, and The 400 Blows have always been leaflet-only from day one.

Its not just these films.

Macbeth, The Innocents, La Dolce Vita as well which are new releases.

[mande2013]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Its not just these films.

Macbeth, The Innocents, La Dolce Vita as well which are new releases.

Yes, I know. I can understand the disappointment. I think that may be why Vampyr went out of print, to toss the giant book. They seem to be downsizing their physical releases, but I was just pointing out that plenty of films in the collection have always been leaflet-only.

With that said, one would have expected La Dolce Vita to get a more deluxe treatment like Breathless or Amarcord, but I guess not. Perhaps it's currently somewhat out of fashion among 'important'/'canon' films, so that's why. Who knows...

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by mande2013

Yes, I know. I can understand the disappointment. I think that may be why Vampyr went out of print, to toss the giant book. They seem to be downsizing their physical releases, but I was just pointing out that plenty of films in the collection have always been leaflet-only.

With that said, one would have expected La Dolce Vita to get a more deluxe treatment like Breathless or Amarcord, but I guess not. Perhaps it's currently somewhat out of fashion among 'important'/'canon' films, so that's why. Who knows...

Its cause selfish people don't want to pay a little extra! if they don't want to pay for Criterion quality go buy your dvds/blurays elsewhere! and tbh most this el only buy the DVDS hence they threw tantrums about the dual format! pisses me off.

Why ruin it for others because someone people are so tight with money they don't want to lose a couple extra dollars!

Seriously. Go buy your film elsewhere fi you don't want to pay for high end films.

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by jw007

I experienced this new wave of pamplets firsthand with My Darling Clementine... the leaflet just kept opening up more and more and more and eventually it was like 2 feet long or something... felt like it would never end in terms of opening up all the way. Drove me nuts.

That was my first one too and when it kept opening I just thought how the hell am I supposed to read this thing? and put it back.

[mande2013]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Its cause selfish people don't want to pay a little extra! if they don't want to pay for Criterion quality go buy your dvds/blurays elsewhere! and tbh most this el only buy the DVDS hence they threw tantrums about the dual format! pisses me off.

Why ruin it for others because someone people are so tight with money they don't want to lose a couple extra dollars!

Seriously. Go buy your film elsewhere fi you don't want to pay for high end films.

I have no problem with people watching their pennies. I just get annoyed when people are entirely naive about how much certain things cost in life. I'll use fruit as an example. I have a friend who was taken aback to learn a kilo of cherries cost seven Euro. The reaction was that seven Euro a kilo was outrageous for fruit. The problem though of course is not every fruit costs the same, although people have internalized that 'fruit' is three Euro a kilo or so. Cherries by the kilo are more expensive than apples or bananas by the kilo. That's just how it is.