The Criterion Collection

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

So I was just updating my Criterion collection online at criterion.com, and when I added my recent presents (Eating Raoul, Odd Man Out, Two-Lane Blacktop) I realized I had hit 90 releases. Couldn't believe it, especially since most of them have come in the last 2 years (thanks to BN membership/sales, and Criterion sales).

Just had to share.. especially since 90 doesn't look like that much on my shelve.

Very cool. And I agree with another poster, you need to make that #100 something special to you.

There are so many DVDs I haven't updated. Of course, some of them aren't possible to update (The Passion of Joan of Arc, for example -- GRRR!).

OK, just went through and added everything at Criterion. A couple of the entries in my collection aren't correct, because they only listed the BD/DVD version, and I have the DVD only version (Rififi, and The Hidden Fortress - which I have as part of the "Four Samurai Classics" box set, which they don't list).

Apparently, my collection now numbers 60, if you include both DVD and Blu-Ray. I think it's about split 50/50 between the two formats.

But man, going through their collection was somewhat depressing: So many titles I want. Oh well, see what we can do.

[BobbyMcGee]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

So I was just updating my Criterion collection online at criterion.com, and when I added my recent presents (Eating Raoul, Odd Man Out, Two-Lane Blacktop) I realized I had hit 90 releases. Couldn't believe it, especially since most of them have come in the last 2 years (thanks to BN membership/sales, and Criterion sales).

Just had to share.. especially since 90 doesn't look like that much on my shelve.

Those are some great titles, and I am sure you have many more great ones on your shelf.

I am currently up to 229 releases. I am still missing a good number of previous releases and I am always playing catch up with their most recently ones, like Odd Man Out.

Here is a list of the titles I own:

[Show spoiler]1. 3 Women
2. 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman
3. 3:10 To Yuma
4. 12 Angry Men
5. 400 Blows
6. 8 ½
7. A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
8. A Man Escaped
9. A Night to Remember
10. Ace in the Hole
11. Alambrista!
12. Ali: Fear eats the soul
13. All that Heaven Allows
14. All That Jazz
15. Amarcord
16. An Autumn Afternoon
17. Anatomy of a Murder
18. Antichrist
19. Army of Shadows
20. Au Revoir Les Enfants
21. Autumn Sonata
22. Badlands
23. Band of Outsiders
24. BBS: America Lost and Found
25. Beauty and the Beast
26. Being John Malkovich
27. Belle de Jour
28. Bigger than life
29. Black Narcissus
30. Black Orpheus
31. Blow Out
32. Bottle Rocket
33. Branded to Kill
34. Brazil
35. Breaking the Waves
36. Breathless
37. Charade
38. Charulata
39. Che
40. Children of Paradise
41. Chungking Express
42. City Lights
43. Cul-de-sac
44. Darjeeling Limited
45. David Lean directs Noel Coward
46. Days of Heaven
47. Dazed & Confused
48. Design for Living
49. Diabolique
50. Eating Raoul
51. El Norte
52. Eraserhead
53. Every Man for Himself
54. Eyes Without a Face
55. Fanny and Alexander
56. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
57. Fellini Satyricon
58. Fish Tank
59. Foreign Correspondent
60. Fritz Lang’s M
61. Gate of Hell
62. Godzilla
63. Gomorrah
64. Harakiri
65. Harold & Maude
66. Heaven’s Gate
67. High and Low
68. House
69. Howards End
70. Hunger
71. I Married a Witch
72. Identification of a Woman
73. If….
74. Il Sorpasso
75. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
76. Island of Lost Souls
77. It Happened One Night
78. Ivan's Childhood
79. John Cassavetes: Five Films
80. Judex
81. Jules and Jim
82. Kagemusha
83. Kuroneko
84. L’Avventura
85. L’Eclisse
86. La Cage Aux Folles
87. La Dolce Vita
88. La Haine
89. La Notte
90. Last Year at Marienbad
91. Late Spring
92. Le Beau Serge
93. Le cercle rouge
94. Leon Morin Priest
95. Les Cousins
96. Les Visiteurs Du Soir
97. Letter Never Sent
98. Lola Montes
99. Lonesome
100. Love Streams
101. Macbeth
102. Marketa Lazarova
103. Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
104. Master Of The House
105. Medium Cool
106. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
107. Metropolitan
108. Ministry of Fear
109. Modern Times
110. Monsieur Verdoux
111. Monsoon Wedding
112. Monte Hellman—The Shooting, Ride in the Whirlwind
113. My Darling Clementine
114. Naked
115. Nashville
116. Night of the Hunter
117. On the Waterfront
118. Orpheus: Jean Cocteau
119. Overlord
120. Pale Flower
121. Paris, Texas
122. Paths of Glory
123. People on Sunday
124. Pickpocket
125. Picnic at Hanging Rock
126. Pierre Etaix
127. Pierrot le fou
128. Playtime
129. Purple Noon
130. Quadrophenia
131. Rashomon
132. Red River
133. Repo Man
134. Repulsion
135. Richard III
136. Rififi
137. Riot in Cell Block 11
138. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
139. Rosemary’s Baby
140. Royal Tenenbaums
141. Rushmore
142. Salo
143. Sanjuro
144. Sansho the Bailiff
145. Seconds
146. Senso
147. Seven Samurai
148. Shallow Grave
149. Shoah
150. Shock Corridor
151. Smiles of a Summer Night
152. Solaris
153. Stage Coach
154. Summer Interlude
155. Summer with Monika
156. Sunday Bloody Sunday
157. Sundays and Cybele
158. Sweet Smell of Success
159. Tess
160. The 39 Steps
161. The Ballad of Narayama
162. The Battle of Algiers
163. The Big City
164. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
165. The Complete Jean Vigo
166. The Double Life of Veronique
167. The Four Feathers
168. The Game
169. The Gold Rush
170. The Great Beauty
171. The Great Dictator
172. The Earring’s of Madame de…
173. The Forgiveness of Blood
174. The Hidden Fortress
175. The Essential Jacques Demy
176. The Innocents
177. The Killing / Killer’s Kiss
178. The Lady Vanishes
179. The Last Days of Disco
180. The Last Emperor
181. The Last Metro
182. The Leopard
183. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
184. The Magician
185. The Makioka Sisters
186. The Man Who Fell to Earth
187. The Man Who Knew too Much
188. The Music Room
189. The Naked Kiss
190. The Organizer
191. The Palm Beach Story
192. The Phantom Carriage
193. The Red Shoes
194. The Rules of the Game
195. The Samurai Trilogy
196. The Seventh Seal
197. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
198. The Sword of Doom
199. The Times of Harvey Milk
200. The Tin Drum
201. The Thin Red Line
202. The Third Man
203. The Three Colors Trilogy
204. The Uninvited
205. Thief
206. Three Outlaw Samurai
207. Throne of Blood
208. Tie me up! Tie me down!
209. Tokyo Drifter
210. Tokyo Story
211. Traffic
212. Trilogy of Life
213. Two-Lane Blacktop
214. Umberto D.
215. Vengeance is Mine
216. Videodrome
217. Vivre Sa Vie
218. Wages of Fear
219. Weekend (2011)
220. Weekend (Godard)
221. White Material
222. Wild Strawberries
223. Wings of Desire
224. World on a Wire
225. Y tu mama tambien
226. YiYi
227. Yojimbo
228. Zatoichi Box Set
229. Zazie dans le metro

[Clare2904]

I only own 56 Criterions I did own The Ruling Class and Safety Last! but sold them.

[pro-bassoonist]

Hello everyone

Here are the packaging photos for The Rose. More in the review, linked below.





The Rose Blu-ray REVIEW



Here are the packaging photos for Limelight. Our review will be up tomorrow night. Tonight we will have a review for The Confession.









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[jayembee]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

Has Criterion ever re-released on the same format, an updated version of a film?

Originally Posted by cakefactory

Seven Samurai on DVD.

Several DVDs had been upgraded to better versions, especially the early releases. In addition to Seven Samurai, there were improved DVDs of (at least) The Lady Vanishes, Amarcord, Beauty and the Beast, and M.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by jw007

Isn't Costa-Gavras a Greek filmmaker? We have 4 of his films in the Criterion Collection.

Originally Posted by inderweltsein

He can also be considered as a French filmmaker: he lives in France, speaks French, has the French nationality for years in addition to the Greek one.
So I don't know how he has to be counted...

And for example, I think French people sees him as French at first thought (at least that's my first thought often about him )

Costa-Gavras is Greek born, but moved to France to attend university, and he's lived there ever since. He's generally considered a French filmmaker, period. He certainly went to film school in France, and made most of his films there.

[filmmusic]

Yes, his films aren't considered Greek films..

[The Great Owl]

Apologies for derailing the thread with a non-Criterion review, but I spend this afternoon watching the Cohen Media double-feature Blu-ray set of That Man from Rio and Up to His Ears.

I cannot say enough good things about That Man from Rio, which stars Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless, Pierrot Le Fou, Le Doulos, and Leon Morin, Priest), Françoise Dorléac (The Soft Skin, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Cul-de-sac), and Jean Servais (Rififi, Donkey Skin).

In my User Review of That Man from Rio/Up to His Ears, I could not help referencing Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!, because Belmondo's stunts made me think of that film. I also thought of That Man from Rio as a more coherent and less cerebral predecessor of Godard's Pierrot Le Fou. Up to His Ears, which also stars Belmondo, has, by comparison, more of a purely chaotic comedy feel in the vein of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

If you're inclined to take a side road off of the Criterion highway with some fun action comedies that star a ton of actors from the Collection, then you cannot go wrong with this release.

[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

Yes, his films aren't considered Greek films..

I mean, other than the fact they're about fundamentally Greek issues.

Z is a Greek, French, and Algerian film. All are equally appropriate description.


Also, re: Limelight, praise the Booklet gods.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

Yes, his films aren't considered Greek films..

So other than Angelopoulos, can you tell me what some really good Greek directors would be? Forgive my ignorance but I'm pretty much clueless on the Greek film industry.

If anyone can shed some light on Greek filmmakers, please speak up. Thank you.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jw007

So other than Angelopoulos, can you tell me what some really good Greek directors would be? Forgive my ignorance but I'm pretty much clueless on the Greek film industry.

If anyone can shed some light on Greek filmmakers, please speak up. Thank you.

Also I wanted to wait until I heard from you folks before I hit the Google search engine (because I know very well I can find the answer to my question in less than 30 seconds).

[pro-bassoonist]

The Confession Blu-ray REVIEW



Outstanding film with a superb performance by Yves Montand

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[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

If you're inclined to take a side road off of the Criterion highway with some fun action comedies that star a ton of actors from the Collection, then you cannot go wrong with this release.

I completely agree, Owl

Cohen have been bringing some real gems lately.

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[AaronJ]

BTW, I'm curious about Haxan. It's not on Blu-Ray, and I'm wondering if anyone has any info on whether Criterion ever will release it, or if I should just dish out for the DVD version?

[Polaroid]

Limelight has a booklet :O

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by jw007

So other than Angelopoulos, can you tell me what some really good Greek directors would be? Forgive my ignorance but I'm pretty much clueless on the Greek film industry.

If anyone can shed some light on Greek filmmakers, please speak up. Thank you.

well, I really haven't seen the important and worldwide acclaimed Greek films, so I used Google (although as you've said you could easily do it too)
Although i haven't seen them (except for Ifigeneia in my childhood), you can try the Greek films which are mentioned on the bottom of the page, which were nominated for an Oscar in best foreign film category:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_and_nominees

I guess Kakoyannis is considered a very important Greek director. (edit: Oh, i see he's Cypriot, but his films are considered Greek)
You can see here his filmography and the important awards for which his films were nominated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cacoyannis

Really, I haven't seen many serious Greek dramas.
I grew up mostly with comedies and musicals.
I was very happy to hear that a large catalogue of a certain film company was recently scanned at high resolution and restored, and this year they said they will start releasing them on Bluray.
I hope they do, I've asked them a couple of times in their facebook but they don't respond.
Some of these comedies and musicals are real gems.

[Yami]

I mentioned it over the page, but I searched out a copy of Nikos Koundouros' The Dragon (O Drakos) after reading this Guardian article by Peter Bradshaw that described it as this:

"O Drakos is brilliant: a dark, satirical noir masterpiece. [...] like a French New Wave picture crossed with a British Ealing comedy, with something of Fellini in its zinging energy, and Carol Reed's Odd Man Out and The Third Man. The stark, dramatic key-lighting in the "arrest" scene gives the imagery a Weegee-type crime-scene aesthetic."

I wasn't disappointed. It was also voted as the best Greek film of all time by the Greek Film Critics Association. You can find it on YouTube with English subtitles, as there's sadly still no English subtitled release (nor many people pushing for one, due to its obscurity).

I've also seen Koundouros' Young Aphrodites, which I didn't think was particularly good but is at least available on DVD. Based on the Greek myth of Daphnis & Chloe, it's a film about the nature of love and attraction, looking at two couples - one young (I'd guesstimate between 12-14) and one of age. Koundouros does a good job at creating atmosphere - think Korda's The Jungle Book mixed in with Satyajit Ray or something along those lines - but the film doesn't amount to much more than that.

I'd love to see more of his work, such as The Magic City, The Outlaws, The River and 1922 to see if there's any of The Dragon's greatness in them.

[Polaroid]

Has anyone kept track on the newsletter clues? Like are there any that have yet to be released?

Eager to get an idea on whether we can expect MHdr soon or if its a year + away lol.

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by jw007

So other than Angelopoulos, can you tell me what some really good Greek directors would be? Forgive my ignorance but I'm pretty much clueless on the Greek film industry.

If anyone can shed some light on Greek filmmakers, please speak up. Thank you.

How many Angelopoulos films have you seen? Because he is the best Greek director ever. You really should see as many as possible. He needs to be part of the Criterion Collection already. There are no quality dvd's of his films available in the U.S.

As for other Greek directors, here are some I'd recommend: Nikos Koundouros(O Drakos and Mikres Aphrodites), Nikos Nikolaidis(Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2Ο37, Πρωινή Περίπολος(Morning Patrol), Singapore Sling), Pantelis Voulgaris(most of his films are good).

[Yami]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Has anyone kept track on the newsletter clues? Like are there any that have yet to be released?

Eager to get an idea on whether we can expect MHdr soon or if its a year + away lol.

I don't know them off the top of my head, but I can tell you that there have been some that have taken years to be released. That being said, given the highly requested nature of Mulholland Drive, I don't think they would have put out a newsletter clue unless it's going to be announced very very soon.