The Criterion Collection

[xxnomad]

Can anyone sell me on zazie dans le metro?? Someone wants to trade that to me for one of my criterions that I mistakenly bought twice so it would basically be free for me.

[silverlakephil]

I think's this has been mentioned before, but I went through Janus Film's website, and these are their films that are available for booking and have a Blu-ray transfer, but are yet to be released on Criterion:

The Lower Depths (1936)-Jean Renoir
Late Autumn (1960)-Yasujirō Ozu
Black Girl (1966)-Ousmane Sembène
Multiple Maniacs (1970)-John Waters
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972)-Wim Wenders
Night On Earth (1991)-Jim Jarmusch

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pale

For me, it's the combination of: The music, minimal dialogue, colors, atmosphere and pace.

I hate to say this, but you get it or you don't.

It's one of those movies.

It's also the only movie I enjoy by Paul Thomas Anderson.

[Show spoiler]

[Ray Jackson]

I watched about 45 minutes of 3 Women last night on Netflix and it was all I could take.

Does anything actually happen in this movie?

Assuming I can summon the willpower to finish it tonight, I do not think this will end up being one of my favorite Altman films.

...I do not think that is a possibility.

[Lastyear]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

That poster!



I do love that they include posters, they are great to frame!

Actually who frames posters with folds in them?

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I watched about 45 minutes of 3 Women last night on Netflix and it was all I could take.

Does anything actually happen in this movie?

Assuming I can summon the willpower to finish it tonight, I do not think this will end up being one of my favorite Altman films.

...I do not think that is a possibility.

I agree that 3 Women is a slow burn. It took me 3 nights to finish it. I love Altman but this is not one of my favorites of his, either. There are, however, some memorable and sometimes disturbing images. I will admit that it is a movie that has stayed with me, but I'm still deciding whether I ever need to watch it again.

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by Lastyear

Actually who frames posters with folds in them?

Scream Factory fans?!

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Thanks, Pro-B. I'm really looking forward to receiving this one in the mail, since I still believe that the Val Lewton productions are some of the best films that horror has to offer.

Jacques Tourneur took everything that he learned from his Lewton films and brilliantly applied them to crime drama with my all-time favorite movie, the 1947 film noir, Out of the Past.

You will love the new restoration. It gives this film a new life. Some of the lighting choices are phenomenal -- a prime example that you can accomplish a lot with very little as long as you have a vision.

Out of the Past - Great choice, Owl. This film is a genre classic, also lensed by Nicholas Musuraca. John Bailey actually specifically addresses its visual style, and then compares the work of Nicholas Musuraca and John Alton (arguably the biggest of all noir cinematographers).

Criterion should really routinely invite Mr. Bailey to do commentaries/reviews for them as he offers the type of detailed and professional analysis that very few people can do.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I watched about 45 minutes of 3 Women last night on Netflix and it was all I could take.

Does anything actually happen in this movie?

Assuming I can summon the willpower to finish it tonight, I do not think this will end up being one of my favorite Altman films.

...I do not think that is a possibility.

It gets increasingly bizarre and surreal as the movie goes on and ends up just being a colossal mindf**k. The first 30 or 40 minutes are basically used to establish the dynamic between Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall. Then, things start to get real weird, in a good way.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by silverlakephil

I think's this has been mentioned before, but I went through Janus Film's website, and these are their films that are available for booking and have a Blu-ray transfer, but are yet to be released on Criterion:

The Lower Depths (1936)-Jean Renoir
Late Autumn (1960)-Yasujirō Ozu
Black Girl (1966)-Ousmane Sembène
Multiple Maniacs (1970)-John Waters
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972)-Wim Wenders
Night On Earth (1991)-Jim Jarmusch
Liv & Ingmar (2012)-Dheeraj Akolkar

Liv and Ingmar is available as a supplement on the Persona Blu-ray.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by Lastyear

Actually who frames posters with folds in them?

You just have to iron them first.

[Member-167298]

Originally Posted by Lastyear

Actually who frames posters with folds in them?

Actually, most theatrical posters before the 1980s were folded.

http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.co...icles/fold.asp

[bwdowiak]

I took my wife to see episodes 5 and 6 of the Dekalog yesterday afternoon. These are really fantastic films... Very 'cinematic,' if you will, despite the fact that they were made for TV. I had already seen these and episodes 1 through 9 via the Facets DVDs. To see these in HD was like seeing the difference between the old Pather Panchali DVD and the recent restoration.

The cinematography in episode 5 is very stylized. There's some really good use of light and shadow and just plain darkness as well. (Difficult for me to articulate on this particular effect, but you'll all notice it.) As for the content... It is, to me, pound for pound some of the most gripping 60 minutes of cinema I've seen. It is unrelenting, powerful, and it grabs you by the throat and does not let go. Really amazing stuff.

Episode 6 is a 4 star episode as well, although it has its own rhythms, twists, and strong themes. I don't want to give away too much.

I'd be surprised if these films are not voted 'release of the year.'

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by mja345

It gets increasingly bizarre and surreal as the movie goes on and ends up just being a colossal mindf**k. The first 30 or 40 minutes are basically used to establish the dynamic between Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall. Then, things start to get real weird, in a good way.

Very well then.

I'm going to finish it tonight based on your recommendation.

If I'm not satisfied with the results...you'll be hearing from my attorney.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Very well then.

I'm going to finish it tonight based on your recommendation.

If I'm not satisfied with the results...you'll be hearing from my attorney.

I'll be interested to hear what you think after you finish it. "3 Women" is not a film that will inspire ambivalence IMO. You'll either love it or hate it by the end. It's the most enigmatic film I've ever seen along with "Last Year at Marienbad".

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

You just have to iron them first.

Huh. That works? I would have thought it would turn them brown! I have a bunch of folded posters, some of which I would like to put up, maybe I'll have to try that sometime. That Cat People one is sure great.

I'm worried about buying Cat People, cause it sounds like the documentary will send me down the path of having to buy all the Val Lewton DVDs. I currently have the Cat People double feature, and the Body Snatcher/I Walked with a Zombie one, but I don't really know anything about any of the others.

[senseabove]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Very well then.

I'm going to finish it tonight based on your recommendation.

If I'm not satisfied with the results...you'll be hearing from my attorney.

It's one of my favorite Altmans, but to give you some context, it's often compared to

[Show spoiler]Persona

and

[Show spoiler]Mulholland Drive

, and as in both of those movies, things get very, very different after the establishing situation is set up. Let's just say that I suspect 3 Women played a significant part in leading Kubrick to choose Duvall for The Shining.

[nitin]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

Huh. That works? I would have thought it would turn them brown! I have a bunch of folded posters, some of which I would like to put up, maybe I'll have to try that sometime. That Cat People one is sure great.

I'm worried about buying Cat People, cause it sounds like the documentary will send me down the path of having to buy all the Val Lewton DVDs. I currently have the Cat People double feature, and the Body Snatcher/I Walked with a Zombie one, but I don't really know anything about any of the others.

They are all worth watching.

[pedromvu]

So I finally watched my CC edition of Mulholland Drive and this movie never ceases to amaze me even if this is like my fourth watch in the past 10 years.

This was my first time watching in an ambient resembling a theater with very loud sound and big projection screen and it makes a big difference specially thanks tot he quality both in audio and video of this release.

That club silencio scene always gets me, I don't know if it is common knowledge what the lyrics of the song are saying in Spanish but they immediately click with the plot of the movie even if at that moment you are not completely aware of the specifics of how it is going to resolve, it gives you a good idea and that moment makes the scene incredibly powerful, also of course it helps that the song is great and it is beautifully singed by Rebekah Del Rio.

As for the supplements I've yet to watch two of the main interviews with Lynch and the actors, but so far they have been great, nice to see Lynch working on the set.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

I'm worried about buying Cat People, cause it sounds like the documentary will send me down the path of having to buy all the Val Lewton DVDs. I currently have the Cat People double feature, and the Body Snatcher/I Walked with a Zombie one, but I don't really know anything about any of the others.

Originally Posted by nitin

They are all worth watching.

Some are more worth watching than others, but yeah, they're all worth watching.

The four you have, cakefactory are probably the best of the bunch, though The Leopard Man, at least, is on the same level, and perhaps Isle of the Dead as well. The other three are arguably lesser films, but only comparatively.