The Criterion Collection

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by jmclick

It was unbelievable how quickly Twilight Time sold out of The Train! I hesitated too long and it was gone ...

Arrow are releasing it in the UK in the new year, which should have a knock on effect when it comes to the price of the TT edition.

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by orbital

Did a search for 49th Parallel and this was one of the results:Sifox211, may I ask where this information derives from? The Tales of Hoffmann is officially announced. What about 49th Parallel (and while I'm at it: A Matter of Life and Death)? Thanks for any input.

The 49th Parallel and A Matter Of Life And Death are both available on Blu-ray in France.

[RojD]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

It is PERFECT.

Buy it now and don't look back! Such a haunting film, so beautiful and tragic. It is full of haunting imagery that will stay with you and a brilliant cast.

I fell in love with this film, was a blind buy and I have no regrets.



Umm which kid? I thought they were both really great in their roles?

I thought

[Show spoiler]the boy was the weakest part of the whole film. Given his lines, he needed be a kid but play older, sophisticated, worldly-wise and very mature, mature to the point of coming on to his governess. That was the implied influence of Quint. But the kid actor wasn't able to pull that demanding task off. I thought the delivery of both kids was sort of flat, but the boy's was especially so because he's a kid but has to sell us on being mature and a little sleazy on the inside. He couldn't handle his lines, and though Clayton is great with a camera, he apparently didn't help the boy any. And I thought this was an especially big problem because the boy's role is so central to the tension and conflict at the center of the movie.

I think so many other things are so good that the film is still really worth watching. There's just that one somewhat big problem.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by RojD

I thought

[Show spoiler]the boy was the weakest part of the whole film. Given his lines, he needed be a kid but play older, sophisticated, worldly-wise and very mature, mature to the point of coming on to his governess. That was the implied influence of Quint. But the kid actor wasn't able to pull that demanding task off. I thought the delivery of both kids was sort of flat, but the boy's was especially so because he's a kid but has to sell us on being mature and a little sleazy on the inside. He couldn't handle his lines, and though Clayton is great with a camera, he apparently didn't help the boy any. And I thought this was an especially big problem because the boy's role is so central to the tension and conflict at the center of the movie.

I think so many other things are so good that the film is still really worth watching. There's just that one somewhat big problem.

No way! I was gonna guess you said

[Show spoiler]the girl atleast, I thought she was great but the boy was flawless! well in my opinion that is :P, for me he came across as very mature and even my sister on her first viewing was questioning who he was, and if he was possessed by an adult in a way. Im really surprised you saw him as the weaker one though. For me, he was eery, and came across as an adult trapped in a childs body.

I found him better on a second viewing though, same for all the cast members.

I don't think anyone will be as good as Kirsten Dunst in Interview with a Vampire though, now she did pull of that 'adult in a child body' very very well.

But each to their own!

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by jmclick

One of the things I've never understood is how or why Seven Arts ended up distributing so many titles from the 20th Century-Fox catalog to television during the 1960's and 1970's. I had a large collection of reissue stills at one time that carried the Seven Arts logo or the Warner Brothers-Seven Arts logo on them (I've since replaced most of them with original studio-released copies); the titles included The King of the Khyber Rifles, The Egyptian, Black Widow, Good Morning, Miss Dove, The Left Hand of God, and several others ... if I remember correctly, they were all mid-1950's Cinemascope releases that had been reframed in pan-and-scan versions. Do you know anything about this?

No. First I've heard of it. One might think that they managed to swing some sort of deal with Fox for films they made for them, but none of the ones you mention were produced by Seven Arts.

[Alex DeLarge]

THE INNOCENTS is a rewarding film each time you watch it! After experiencing it once or twice try just focusing upon the wonderful photography of DP Freddie Francis. He's one of my top ten DPs (though I always felt he was a weak Director) and each of his films are beautiful and his photography serves the story well. What I mean by this is that he isn't flashy or showy for the sake of drawing attention to himself but frames and lights each scene perfectly and allows natural camera movements that benefit from his deep focus. You could turn the sound off and just sink into the ethereal worlds of THE INNOCENTS or Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN. Francis even makes DUNE watchable...for me anyway:-)

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by mande2013

Okay, I never got my L'Eclisse from B&N which shipped to France on November 13, but I just received my L'Avventura, which shipped on November 26, so I guess it's safe to say the former got lost in the mail.

My two packages from B&N to Australia arrived weeks apart even though they were mailed on the same day. So not necessarily.

[nondiatonic]

Well the plan for tonight was to delve deeper into my Cassavetes set (Faces up next, would be a first viewing of this one). However, I was reading about Fassbinder during work, and now I'm intrigued. Should I watch my first Fassbinder instead? I was thinking Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, or another suggestion?

[The Great Owl]

I picked up the Criterion Blu-ray of Time Bandits from Movie Stop today, since I had some trade-in money there for turning in a redundant movie (no need for my old stand-alone Blu-ray of 20 Million Miles to Earth, now that I have the Harryhausen box set).

There were three copies of Time Bandits at the store, and I checked all three to find the one with the slipcover in the most perfect condition.
God help me, I'm going toward the dark side...

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by nondiatonic

Well the plan for tonight was to delve deeper into my Cassavetes set (Faces up next, would be a first viewing of this one). However, I was reading about Fassbinder during work, and now I'm intrigued. Should I watch my first Fassbinder instead? I was thinking Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, or another suggestion?

Watch Faces!!!
Its one of the greatest american films ever made.

[jmclick]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I picked up the Criterion Blu-ray of Time Bandits from Movie Stop today, since I had some trade-in money there for turning in a redundant movie (no need for my old stand-alone Blu-ray of 20 Million Miles to Earth, now that I have the Harryhausen box set).

There were three copies of Time Bandits at the store, and I checked all three to find the one with the slipcover in the most perfect condition.
God help me, I'm going toward the dark side...

(in my best Bela Lugosi voice, dripping with tremulous menace) I bid you ... velcome!

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I picked up the Criterion Blu-ray of Time Bandits from Movie Stop today, since I had some trade-in money there for turning in a redundant movie (no need for my old stand-alone Blu-ray of 20 Million Miles to Earth, now that I have the Harryhausen box set).

There were three copies of Time Bandits at the store, and I checked all three to find the one with the slipcover in the most perfect condition.
God help me, I'm going toward the dark side...

Definitely, if Criterion starts with slipcovers; what next: Steelbooks??

[nondiatonic]

Originally Posted by JoeBuck

Watch Faces!!!
Its one of the greatest american films ever made.

Faces will have to wait. I ended up watching Fox and His Friends. Pretty good. Fairly repetitive and predictable. But, enjoyable none the less. I'll be checking out more Fassbinder, as I saw a fair amount of potential here.

Edit: I will add that Fassbinder's acting left something to be desired.

[deepbreathsanddeath]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

Definitely, if Criterion starts with slipcovers; what next: Steelbooks??

Steelbook's limited to 3000 copies lol

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by nondiatonic

Faces will have to wait. I ended up watching Fox and His Friends. Pretty good. Fairly repetitive and predictable. But, enjoyable none the less. I'll be checking out more Fassbinder, as I saw a fair amount of potential here.

Edit: I will add that Fassbinder's acting left something to be desired.

Watch Fassbinder's 'In a Year with 13 Moons' if you can.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by deepbreathsanddeath

Steelbook's limited to 3000 copies lol

If they still had the rights to Robocop that would've been the perfect title for a Steelbook.

[GenPion]

I think Criterion should release steelbooks in the sense that it would be AWESOME to own Criterion steelbook editions. I don't know if they want to because they already have one of the most OCD-friendly fandoms of any company, so it would be hard to manage that level of near-perfection. I'm not sure they want to deal with steelbook collector's OCD on top of that.

[Cochese04]

I'd rather have more pop-up book packaging like with Godzilla.

Imagine the possibilities with films like Scanners.

[Sifox211]

Originally Posted by orbital

Did a search for 49th Parallel and this was one of the results:Sifox211, may I ask where this information derives from? The Tales of Hoffmann is officially announced. What about 49th Parallel (and while I'm at it: A Matter of Life and Death)? Thanks for any input.

Originally Posted by pedromvu

49th Parallel is already released in France, but there is no review so not sure if it is a new restoration, you can see the screenshots at blubeaver...

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

The 49th Parallel and A Matter Of Life And Death are both available on Blu-ray in France.

Apparently AMOLAD is not a restoration, just an upgrade based on the same transfer as the current R1 DVD. I would be amazed if this great film were not the next one up for a proper restoration; so for me I'm going to hold on a bit.

Don't know about 49th Parallel. It's too easy to assume that if a BD appears it means a new resto! Clearly not always the case...

[Sifox211]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

Definitely, if Criterion starts with slipcovers; what next: Steelbooks??

As a part-time steelbook collector, I sincerely hope Criterion don't start making them! I'd be broke in no time...