The Criterion Collection

[Filmbrain]

I've watched three recent pickups from the b&n sale and highly recommend all 3. The Innocents for it's haunting atmosphere and cinematography. Macbeth for injecting some real life into what could've been a stagey Shakespeare adaptation. Finally, Sundays and Cybele was a real eye opener and terrific human drama.

[GenPion]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a Satoshi Kon Blu-ray collection set in the Criterion collection would be a perfect choice and it would make for one of their best releases.

Imagine a set with Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika. Or even just the first three (as Paprika is already available). They could throw in Memories while they are at it (Kon wrote the first segment). A long booklet with essays and interviews, and some fine artwork displayed.

This would be a day-one purchase.

[chronoclast]

Originally Posted by TJS_Blu

Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

Belladonna of Sadness is going to be released by Cinelicious Pics.

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Now we have got Watership Down - What other animated films do you want n collection?

Definitely Gandahar!

Also Time Masters.
and The Triplets of Belleville + The Illusionist.


Angel's Egg would be great, although I don't think they would relase any anime ever!

[Yami]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

Angel's Egg would be great, although I don't think they would relase any anime ever!

They released Akira on laserdisc, so I wouldn't rule it out.

Some shorts collections would be great you don't get much better than Yuri Norstein, Frederic Back and Jiri Trnka to name a few.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Christopher Moore (His Vampire Trilogy: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story, You Suck: A Love Story, and Bite Me: A Love Story)

Those books are freaking hilarious. I laugh at stuff in books all the time but the last time I laughed out loud so frequently while reading a book was probably Bored of the Rings back in high school.

[SlickDamian]

The February titles look very nice (as usual). I'm particularly interested in Watership Down. Awesome to have an animate movie again.
On the topic of animated films, Waltz With Brashir would make a great Criterion release.

[Herry Dunston]

Originally Posted by jmclick

That's okay. I'm Jean-Luc Godard (and for the record, I also killed off Rosie Perez instantly). But I wanted to be Otto Preminger or Ernst Lubitsch.

I would NEVER kill off Rosie Perez. Maybe because I have this love-hate relationship with the actress (she gets on my nerves, but oh how I wish to cuddle her), but I figured her as Tinkerbell would be perfect; they're both very stubborn and controlling.

[ShellOilJunior]

I stopped taking that quiz at the first misspelled word.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

I stopped taking that quiz at the first misspelled word.

Touchy overreaction to a trivial issue: you're a Lynch!

[joie]

iScottie, Try reading Faulkner's novels & stories. He even went to Hollywood to do screenwriting, script doctoring.

[The Great Owl]

With regard to book recommendations, I must also mention Akira Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography.

Great, great read.

[Vinyl]

Originally Posted by jayembee

I think MifuneFan was reacting to Vinyl's comment about getting the February releases in July (I assume during the next B&N 50% sale), and essentially suggesting that there will be perhaps more and better between February and July.

That's the way I took it. Either way, thats what I intend. Next July at least the updated Ozu will be mine. *maniacal laugh*

[octagon]

Speaking of vinyl, how long has B&N been putting vinyl displays front-and-center in their media departments?

I'm guessing it's fairly new (and probably store-to-store what with some media departments being a lot bigger than others) but it kind of caught me off guard Sunday.

I couldn't decide if it was kind of cool or really desperate and needy.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by joie

iScottie, Try reading Faulkner's novels & stories. He even went to Hollywood to do screenwriting, script doctoring.

Thanks for the recommendation! I would like your post, but I'm out for the day.

[Vinyl]

Originally Posted by octagon

Speaking of vinyl, how long has B&N been putting vinyl displays front-and-center in their media departments?

I'm guessing it's fairly new (and probably store-to-store what with some media departments being a lot bigger than others) but it kind of caught me off guard Sunday.

I couldn't decide if it was kind of cool or really desperate and needy.

So Tempted by those. They have Portishead for $11 just staring at me sometimes. The only problem is the one's I really want are about $30 each.

[Namuhana]

Originally Posted by octagon

Speaking of vinyl, how long has B&N been putting vinyl displays front-and-center in their media departments?

I'm guessing it's fairly new (and probably store-to-store what with some media departments being a lot bigger than others) but it kind of caught me off guard Sunday.

I couldn't decide if it was kind of cool or really desperate and needy.

B&N stores have been stocking vinyls for about a month now (even my store that barely has a media department has a collection of vinyls).

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Lately, I've been rereading a few Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain stories. It's all good.

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

If you've been reading those, I assume you've also read Jim Thompson? Greatest pulp writer IMO.

Hammett also goes without saying. I'd also recommend Cornell Woolrich (who also wrote as William Irish and George Hopley), David Goodis, Fredric Brown (generally better known for his SF, but he was actually more of a crime fiction writer), Jonathan Latimer, and (John) Ross Macdonald -- not to be confused with John D. MacDonald (but him, too).

On the lighter side, I highly recommend Craig Rice.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by joie

iScottie, Try reading Faulkner's novels & stories. He even went to Hollywood to do screenwriting, script doctoring.

Including co-writing The Big Sleep with Leigh Brackett.

[The Great Owl]

I just bought It Happened One Night at Barnes & Noble on the way home from work. Hurry for Capra!

Originally Posted by jayembee

Hammett also goes without saying.

I should have mentioned in my earlier post that I recently read Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man. (I guess that it did go without saying, but not on purpose.)