The Criterion Collection

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by jmclick

I'm afraid the delay in announcements is probably my fault.

You see, I ordered a copy of Armageddon on DVD from Amazon (well, it was only $11 brand new, and I wanted the Criterion-exclusive bonus features). I'm sure that the entire staff passed out when word spread they had sold another copy after all this time.

I doubt that that's true. It's more likely that your buying the Criterion DVD pushed them into upgrading it to Blu-ray, and they need to juggle the March schedule to get that out.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by aes3728

This set has a separate spine number, so I face it spine out displaying the #603

Do you face out the empty box and put the individual movies in their spine spots?

[oildude]

Originally Posted by chris_sc77

Wow more disappointment from Criterion ...
Who woulda thought .
Get the disks from my library nowadays and don't give them money for a reason .

To quote my favorite philosopher Oddball: "Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"

After a couple years of coming across your posts in different threads, I think they should come with a "flush" button. That way no matter how trollish or negative your post, the sight of it disappearing to the sound of a swirlee can bring a smile to all our faces.

Peace, bro. Nix the attitude and come hang with us when you want to talk about a Criterion title.

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by oildude

To quote my favorite philosopher Oddball: "Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"

After a couple years of coming across your posts in different threads, I think they should come with a "flush" button. That way no matter how trollish or negative your post, the sight of it disappearing to the sound of a swirlee can bring a smile to all our faces.

Agreed. One of the most useless posters I've seen on this site.

[Gusto-Guus]

Originally Posted by ajburke

Clearly, the folks at Criterion are pushing back the announcements so they can announce their release of the theatrical versions of the Star Wars trilogy when The Force Awakens hits theaters.

[Show spoiler]

One can only hope for that box set

[pedromvu]

I am not that disappointed, since the phantom pages were added very close the the 15th I am pretty sure those titles are going to be announced (also they added a photo from Boyhood on Instagram), so I am just waiting for the upgrade.

[Shagrath]

Originally Posted by broganreynik

For those of you who shelve your Criterions by spine #, how do you put box sets with multiple spine #'s in the mix?

For example: "David Lean Directs Noel Coward" or "Andre Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films"

If the set itself has a spine number, I file it by that with the set spine facing out. If it doesn't (like the Gregory/Wallace set), I file the movie individually and put the box at the end of the collection. For sets that have non-consecutive spine numbers (like Lean and Tati), I still keep everything together if they're in digipaks. If they were in regular cases, I'd probably put the odd spine in its rightful spot.

[Snicket]

Dudes, it's bad enough I can't watch 5 minutes of TV without seeing 40 ads for Star Wars batteries, cars, and whatever cheap plastic garbage Target is selling, do you really need to drag Star Wars in here?

(I'm seeing Episode 7 tomorrow and would totally but that box set though)

[MifuneFan]

I know this is going to sound far-fetched to some, but I think these constant delays are meant to draw attention to the date itself, and is thus a clue.

Now let's begin..

The new date is 12/17/15

If you attribute each number to a letter of the alphabet you get L.Q.O.

Re-arranging that you get Q.O.L, whch is a common acronym for Quality of Life

Quality is phonetically Kwal-leh-tee. So it can be read Kwal-leh-tee of Life . Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

This is very clearly a clue showing that they're going to release Malick's The Tree of Life

*drops mic*

[Gusto-Guus]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I know this is going to sound far-fetched to some, but I think these constant delays are meant to draw attention to the date itself, and is thus a clue.

Now let's begin..

The new date is 12/17/15

If you attribute each number to a letter of the alphabet you get L.Q.O.

Re-arranging that you get Q.O.L, whch is a common acronym for Quality of Life

Quality is phonetically Kwal-leh-tee. So it can be read Kwal-leh-tee of Life . Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

This is very clearly a clue showing that they're going to release Malick's The Tree of Life

*drops mic*

With all the foreign films CC has, they probably read the date as 17/12/2015

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I absolutely love Top Gun and I don't care who knows it!

[Fabs]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

I am not that disappointed, since the phantom pages were added very close the the 15th I am pretty sure those titles are going to be announced (also they added a photo from Boyhood on Instagram), so I am just waiting for the upgrade.

Are we sure they are going to announce those titles with phantom pages? I just don't want to get my hopes up for the titles we've been hinted at.

[WonderWeasel]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I know this is going to sound far-fetched to some, but I think these constant delays are meant to draw attention to the date itself, and is thus a clue.

Now let's begin..

The new date is 12/17/15

If you attribute each number to a letter of the alphabet you get L.Q.O.

Re-arranging that you get Q.O.L, whch is a common acronym for Quality of Life

Quality is phonetically Kwal-leh-tee. So it can be read Kwal-leh-tee of Life . Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

This is very clearly a clue showing that they're going to release Malick's The Tree of Life

*drops mic*

A very intriguing theory, but the only problem with it is that you forgot the variable. I just bought The Tree of Life not too long ago, but I only spent $3 on it, which is far under the minimum needed to appease the Criterion Gods. If I would have spent the $14.99 on the used copy I found a couple of months ago, it would have already been announced by now.

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by Fabs

Are we sure they are going to announce those titles with phantom pages? I just don't want to get my hopes up for the titles we've been hinted at.

They have added phantom pages in the past, but only of one certain person and not a whole lot of people from a certain movie in successive order. (could be mistaken here, need to check with one of those earlier phantom pages)

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by WonderWeasel

A very intriguing theory, but the only problem with it is that you forgot the variable. I just bought The Tree of Life not too long ago, but I only spent $3 on it, which is far under the minimum needed to appease the Criterion Gods. If I would have spent the $14.99 on the used copy I found a couple of months ago, it would have already been announced by now.

Curse your Weasel, you've ruined everything!

[jw007]

I'm betting it on being Malick's The New World rather than The Tree of Life though.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by jw007

I'm betting it on being Malick's The New World rather than The Tree of Life though.

Huge Malick fan...own all his Criterion releases.

But I don't really think Tree of Life needs a Criterion release to be honest.

I really like the cover art on the current blu-ray release and I doubt the special features would be significantly better.

I would much rather see Jon Mulvaney get off his sorry butt and get the Le Samourai release taken care of.

Did you hear that Mulvaney?

...I'm done playing around.

[ShellOilJunior]

My wish came true. Announcements on my b-day!


PS - RKish, if you're reading this please post more here. We miss ya.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I would much rather see Jon Mulvaney get off his sorry butt and get the Le Samourai release taken care of.

Did you hear that Mulvaney?

...I'm done playing around.

If you were done playing around, you'd put up the money to have Le Samouraï restored to pristine condition, so that Criterion would release it on Blu-ray.

[Rich Pure Doom]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Huge Malick fan...own all his Criterion releases.

But I don't really think Tree of Life needs a Criterion release to be honest.

I really like the cover art on the current blu-ray release and I doubt the special features would be significantly better.

On top of that, I much prefer The New World as a film to Tree of Life. I'm also interested in seeing the different cuts.