The Criterion Collection

[Rich Pure Doom]

Originally Posted by WonderWeasel

The Big Sleep.

His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
To Have and Have Not

Hawks is very under-represented on blu.

[soarinsteven]

I remember buying my first Criterion a dvd of Rashomon in 2005. I remember it vividly I was doing the Walt Disney World college program at the time, and purchased it at the Virgin Megastore (RIP I spend endless hours there) at Downtown Disney. I had watched a few Kurosawa films by then, and remember seeing their newly released Kagemusha play nonstop on one of their display tvs. I put it in my netflix queue promptly, but only NOW watched it.

I watched it via netflix streaming, and I liked it quite a bit. More character motivation would have been nice, but I admired its deliberate pacing and stroytelling, and the colorful cinematography. However, I noticed in the end credits "international version" produced by George Lucas and Frances Ford Coppola. I looked up exactly what that meant, and the streaming version netflix has available is 159 minutes whereas the actual film is 180 minutes.

UGHHHH SO PISSED LOL I can't believe I finally watched this, and it's an edited version.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Hiroshi Inagaki's Chusingura (1962) would be my ultimate wish

Good call. Took me forever just to find an affordable copy on dvd.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

What release, currently not on blu-ray in any region preferably, would knock your socks off if they received the Criterion treatment?

In a Lonely Place
The Big Sleep
The Earthling (1980)

[Banned User]

Definitely The Big Sleep. Its amazing we have all these boutique labels releasing rare films and classics like The Big Sleep are completely ignored.

Also would like to see Key Largo and while some here may not like it Arscenic and Old Lace is a Halloween tradition for me.

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by Banned User

Definitely The Big Sleep. Its amazing we have all these boutique labels releasing rare films and classics like The Big Sleep are completely ignored.

Also would like to see Key Largo and while some here may not like it Arscenic and Old Lace is a Halloween tradition for me.

It's really a wonder why that Bogart/Bacall box set hasn't seen a blu release yet. I'd imagine it'd sell very well. Also a mystery why In a Lonely Place isn't out in HD, seeing as the restoration work has been done for years now.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Banned User

Definitely The Big Sleep. Its amazing we have all these boutique labels releasing rare films and classics like The Big Sleep are completely ignored.

Also would like to see Key Largo and while some here may not like it Arscenic and Old Lace is a Halloween tradition for me.

Boutique labels aren't ignoring Warner's libraries, they just don't have access to them. Warner is very tight when it comes to licensing their properties. With very few exceptions they just don't do it.

As an aside, I'd love a Warner or Warner Archives release of Arsenic and Old Lace too. It's a great film and a very fun part of Halloween week.

[PaperThinWalls]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

What release, currently not on blu-ray in any region preferably, would knock your socks off if they received the Criterion treatment?

I would be so delighted if Criterion got their hands on these three Victor Sjöström films: He Who Gets Slapped, The Scarlet Letter, and The Wind.

Unfortunately it'll probably never happen because they're owned by Warner.

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by WonderWeasel

The Big Sleep.

Would you settle for a Raymond Chandler/Philip Marlowe 1940's set?

Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

This would be a cool set because there's 4 different directors and 4 different actors portraying Marlowe.

[super56k]

I would love a Criterion release of Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by super56k

I would love a Criterion release of Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows.

One of the most depressing movies I've seen.

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

That fits quite well, and would solve the whole two popsicle thing too, which In Cold Blood doesn't. Perhaps a double clue

I think making it a double popsicle makes it obviously a popsicle, otherwise, perhaps there was the opportunity for it to look a little.. suspect?

Originally Posted by jmclick

But one thing that puzzles me about the solution being In Cold Blood, is the idea of the popsicle being a "blood popsicle". That reference comes directly from Only Lovers Left Alive. Without our knowledge of that film, how would we associate the idea of a popsicle with the word 'blood"?

I've never seen OLLA and didn't know anything about there being a blood popsicle in it, but since a vampire was eating it in the clue, I knew right away it was meant to be blood.

Personally I would prefer Let the Right One In, but I'm pretty sure the clue is In Cold Blood.

[Tin Drum]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

What release, currently not on blu-ray in any region preferably, would knock your socks off if they received the Criterion treatment?

[ShellOilJunior]

http://www.criterion.com/explore/240...shawn-s-top-10

This is the best "Top 10" article I've read. Gregory and Shawn really put a lot of effort into this.

[RojD]

Apu Trilogy is listed on Amazon. Criterion release.

No date yet, tho. This would certainly be a day 1 buy.

[WonderWeasel]

Originally Posted by jmclick

But one thing that puzzles me about the solution being In Cold Blood, is the idea of the popsicle being a "blood popsicle". That reference comes directly from Only Lovers Left Alive. Without our knowledge of that film, how would we associate the idea of a popsicle with the word 'blood"?

OLLA is the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw the drawing.

I'll just leave this right here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weEo...ature=youtu.be

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by WonderWeasel

OLLA is the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw the drawing.

I'll just leave this right here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weEo...ature=youtu.be

But if they were referencing a specific scene and not making a pun, wouldn't they have drawn the same type of popsicle?

[WonderWeasel]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Would you settle for a Raymond Chandler/Philip Marlowe 1940's set?

Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

This would be a cool set because there's 4 different directors and 4 different actors portraying Marlowe.

That would be great. I'd like a Hammett box set too, with The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Glass Key (1942), and maybe City Streets with Gary Cooper, or a disc with the earlier adaptations of The Glass Key and The Maltese Falcon. I (and I'm sure several other people in this thread) would be in heaven if those sets ever came to fruition.

[WonderWeasel]

Originally Posted by Edward J Grug III

But if they were referencing a specific scene and not making a pun, wouldn't they have drawn the same type of popsicle?

Has Criterion ever done a clue with a double meaning in the monthly newsletters, or do they generally pertain to one film? I know they did that in the New Year's drawing, but I haven't been getting the newsletter/been in the forum long enough to know if those clues can occasionally be correctly interpreted in more than one way.

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

There are two popsicles, he's only holding the right one. I think "lit" for "let" works too because they really are highlighting fact that the sign is all lit up, which isnt really neccesary if the sign is only there for "Inn". The Vacancy sign alone would key everyone im to it being a hotel, or inn.

Plus of course the vampire being there, which is a stronger clue for LtROI. We do know In Cold Blood is coming, so I think it could be both.

He's holding the right one, but the left one is the one he would be eating as its closer to his mouth. Not sure where several people are getting that he's about to eat the right one. From his perspective, it would be the left one, but if that's the case, from our perspective then he's holding the left one. Can't be both.

Personally, I have all 3 discs (Let The Right One In, In Cold Blood, and Only Lovers Left Alive), and none of them NEED a Criterion disc. They are all great editions already on their own (other than In Cold Blood with has fantastic PQ but no extras), so again, seems like a huge waste of a title if its one of these three.