The Criterion Collection

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by CQD84

Here's a story:
Back in July, I pre-ordered MaCabe & Mrs. Miller on bluray with the 50% off, 20% snail mail coupon, and my 10% membership. I waited for a couple weeks and it didn't ship. I found out that the release date was changed. I called B&N and they told me just to wait to see if it ships at the new release date. I called yesterday after checking the order and noticing it's still processing. Customer service at corporate told me that the order would not be shipping because of low inventory even though I had already paid for the item in-store in July. My only option given to me was to cancel the order and get my money back. I called the store where I ordered it and the manager was nice enough to set a copy to the side for me and give me the 50% off, 10%, 20%, and an additional 20% off for the inconvenience. So the total came down to only $14 and some change.

I figured I'd post this here just in case this happened to anyone else. Of course, this'll depend on the manager you speak to.

How did you get them to let you use a coupon on a pre-order?

[CQD84]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

How did you get them to let you use a coupon on a pre-order?

Oops. My mistake. I originally only got the membership discount applied to the pre-order. But last night the manager gave me an additional 20% off.

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

I'll pay the extra $12 and get my purchases done, well packed, and shipped pristine from Criterion. I like a bargain as much as the next guy, but I don't mind spending a *little* more for the ease and efficiency of the Criterion.com flash sale.

I'm pretty sure that unless you live in NY or relatively close, your orders are coming from the same distribution center as B&N (in Kentucky) and will be shipped packaged the same way.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

I'm pretty sure that unless you live in NY or relatively close, your orders are coming from the same distribution center as B&N (in Kentucky) and will be shipped packaged the same way.

I do live in NY. B&N tends to ship all my items by themselves, even if they all ship the day I order them, whereas my Criterion orders always seem to come well packed in a single box. My B&N orders end up being a pile of those unpadded mailers on my porch.

Not to mention the B&N site is so clunky on my phone (where I do most of my ordering).

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

I do live in NY. B&N tends to ship all my items by themselves, even if they all ship the day I order them, whereas my Criterion orders always seem to come well packed in a single box. My B&N orders end up being a pile of those unpadded mailers on my porch.

Not to mention the B&N site is so clunky on my phone (where I do most of my ordering).

Ah, I see. So there's a chance a blu you ordered was fondled by Anna Karina

The last sale BN was shipping my stuff in these huge boxes. I had orders of 3 or 4 titles coming in boxes big enough to fit 50 in. So I get what you're saying, it's kind of a crap-shoot with them.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

Ah, I see. So there's a chance a blu you ordered was fondled by Anna Karina

The last sale BN was shipping my stuff in these huge boxes. I had orders of 3 or 4 titles coming in boxes big enough to fit 50 in. So I get what you're saying, it's kind of a crap-shoot with them.

Mostly I'm just hoping for more Criterion baggus.

[Scottie]

Boyhood comes with a booklet!

Unfortunately McCabe and Mrs. Miller has a dorm room poster.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Boyhood comes with a booklet!

Unfortunately McCabe and Mrs. Miller has a dorm room poster.

Man, I hate those. I'd rather have a single-fold folded leaflet.

[mrjohnnyb]

I thought that the people on this thread could have a conversation about this list. It is a list from AMC filmsite (filmsite.org). I find the majority of my personal, favorite directors on this list:

Great Directors Who Were Never Nominated or Were Snubbed For Directing Academy Awards®

(Number of Best Director Nominations Received in Parentheses)
(Some of them did receive Honorary Awards, or nominations in other categories)
Best Director Academy Award Winners

Ben Affleck (0)
Robert Altman (5) (Honorary Award in 2005)
Michelangelo Antonioni (1) (Honorary Award in 1994)
Ingmar Bergman (3) (Thalberg Award in 1971)
Richard Brooks (3)
Clarence Brown (6)
Tim Burton (0)
Jane Campion (1)
John Cassavetes (1)
Charles Chaplin (1)
Roger Corman (0) (Honorary Award in 2009)
Cecil B. De Mille (1) (Honorary Award in 1949, Thalberg Award in 1953)
Brian De Palma (0)
Stanley Donen (0) (Honorary Award in 1997)
Blake Edwards (0) (Honorary Award in 2003)
Federico Fellini (4) (Honorary Award in 1992)
John Frankenheimer (0)
Jean-Luc Godard (0) (Honorary Award in 2010)
D.W. Griffith (0) (Honorary Award in 1935)
Howard Hawks (1) (Honorary Award in 1974)
Alfred Hitchcock (5) (Thalberg Award in 1968)
James Ivory (3)
Norman Jewison (3) (Thalberg Award in 1999)
Buster Keaton (0) (Honorary Award in 1959)
Stanley Kramer (3) (Thalberg Award in 1962)
Stanley Kubrick (4)
Akira Kurosawa (1) (Honorary Award in 1989)
Gregory La Cava (2)
Fritz Lang (0)
Spike Lee (0)
Mervyn LeRoy (1) (Thalberg Award in 1976)
Joshua Logan (2)
Ernst Lubitsch (3) (Honorary Award in 1946)
George Lucas (2) (Thalberg Award in 1992)
Sidney Lumet (4) (Honorary Award in 2004)
David Lynch (3)
Terrence Malick (2)
Rouben Mamoulian (0)
Michael Mann (1)
Paul Mazursky (0)
F.W. Murnau (0)
Christopher Nolan (0)
Alan J. Pakula (1)
George Pal (0) (Honorary Award in 1943)
Sam Peckinpah (0)
Arthur Penn (3)
Michael Powell (0)
Otto Preminger (2)
Satyajit Ray (0) (Honorary Award in 1991)
Jean Renoir (1) (Honorary Award in 1974)
Herbert Ross (1)
Robert Rossen (2)
Ridley Scott (3)
Mack Sennett (0) (Honorary Award in 1937)
George Sidney (0)
Barbra Streisand (0) (winner of acting and songwriting awards)
Francois Truffaut (1)
W.S. Van Dyke (2)
King Vidor (5) (Honorary Award in 1978)
Josef von Sternberg (2)
Andrzej Wajda (0) (Honorary Award in 1999)
Peter Weir (3)
Orson Welles (1) (Honorary Award in 1970)
William A. Wellman (3)
Sam Wood (3)

[MifuneFan]

Page 7777, woot

[RojD]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

I thought that the people on this thread could have a conversation about this list. It is a list from AMC filmsite (filmsite.org). I find the majority of my personal, favorite directors on this list:......

What! Barbara Streisand wasn't even nominated?

You're right that the list isn't hugely surprising. Well, how did Michael Powell get shut out? Or FW Murnau? And it's disappointing that S. Ray or Peckinpah weren't nominated, but given their historical moments, it's not shocking.

Why doesn't this list even mention Frank Borzage? He won twice; in fact, he won the first Best Director award. His work at the end of the silent era ('27, '28, '29) is unsurpassed in emotional heft.

[mja345]

Some real legends on that list. I always just have to laugh at people who gauge the quality of films, actors, or directors based on Academy Awards. I think it really says how many great films were being made in the 60s and 70s in particular. Altman, Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Kubrick, Lumet, Peckinpah, and Truffaut all did a lot of their work when there was so much quality competition. All were among the best directors of all-time, but happened to be going up against incredible competition. Kubrick should have clearly won in '68 for "2001" when Carol Reed won for "Oliver!". David Lynch got screwed when Ron Howard won for "A Beautiful Mind" over Lynch for "Mulholland Drive".

The year that always boggles my mind when you compare it to the current state of film is '75. Milos Forman for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Altman for "Nashville", Fellini for "Amarcord", Lumet for "Dog Day Afternoon", and Kubrick for "Barry Lyndon". Pretty special group of filmmakers.

[mrjohnnyb]

Originally Posted by RojD

What! Barbara Streisand wasn't even nominated?

You're right that the list isn't hugely surprising. Well, how did Michael Powell get shut out? Or FW Murnau? And it's disappointing that S. Ray or Peckinpah weren't nominated, but given their historical moments, it's not shocking.

Why doesn't this list even mention Frank Borzage? He won twice; in fact, he won the first Best Director award. His work at the end of the silent era ('27, '28, '29) is unsurpassed in emotional heft.

I have never seen any Borzage films, but I have been waiting to see them. Currently, there are two Borzage films on French blu-ray. Seventh Heaven is one of the films. From what I understand, that is his masterpiece.

Originally Posted by mja345

Some real legends on that list. I always just have to laugh at people who gauge the quality of films, actors, or directors based on Academy Awards. I think it really says how many great films were being made in the 60s and 70s in particular. Altman, Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Kubrick, Lumet, Peckinpah, and Truffaut all did a lot of their work when there was so much quality competition. All were among the best directors of all-time, but happened to be going up against incredible competition. Kubrick should have clearly won in '68 for "2001" when Carol Reed won for "Oliver!". David Lynch got screwed when Ron Howard won for "A Beautiful Mind" over Lynch for "Mulholland Drive".

The year that always boggles my mind when you compare it to the current state of film is '75. Milos Forman for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Altman for "Nashville", Fellini for "Amarcord", Lumet for "Dog Day Afternoon", and Kubrick for "Barry Lyndon". Pretty special group of filmmakers.

1975 blows my mind, as well. One of my favorite adventure flics of all time, John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King was largely ignored!

[mja345]

"The Man Who Would Be King" is a great one as well. '75 was an amazing year for film. Other films that year: "Jaws", "The Yakuza", "Three Days of the Condor", "Shampoo", "Salo", "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "The Passenger", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "Jeanne Dielman", "Love and Death", "Deep Red". Just to name a few.

[RojD]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

I have never seen any Borzage films, but I have been waiting to see them. Currently, there are two Borzage films on French blu-ray. Seventh Heaven is one of the films. From what I understand, that is his masterpiece.
......

You have a treat coming. I ordered Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Lucky Star from French Amazon. They're all region free though, alas, the extras aren't.

Nobody does melodrama like that anymore.

[mrjohnnyb]

Originally Posted by mja345

"The Man Who Would Be King" is a great one as well. '75 was an amazing year for film. Other films that year: "Jaws", "The Yakuza", "Three Days of the Condor", "Shampoo", "Salo", "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "The Passenger", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "Jeanne Dielman", "Love and Death", "Deep Red". Just to name a few.

Ah, you forgot Grey Gardens, The Traveling Players, Dersu Uzala, The Seasons, Numero Deux, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show to name a few more. Are there any more?

Originally Posted by RojD

You have a treat coming. I ordered Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Lucky Star from French Amazon. They're all region free though, alas, the extras aren't.

Nobody does melodrama like that anymore.

I have been region free for well over a year now, but since I can barely understand French, I would need a translator for the extras!

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

I thought that the people on this thread could have a conversation about this list. It is a list from AMC filmsite (filmsite.org). I find the majority of my personal, favorite directors on this list:

Great Directors Who Were Never Nominated or Were Snubbed For Directing Academy Awards®

(Number of Best Director Nominations Received in Parentheses)
(Some of them did receive Honorary Awards, or nominations in other categories)
Best Director Academy Award Winners

Ben Affleck (0)

[Show spoiler]Robert Altman (5) (Honorary Award in 2005)
Michelangelo Antonioni (1) (Honorary Award in 1994)
Ingmar Bergman (3) (Thalberg Award in 1971)
Richard Brooks (3)
Clarence Brown (6)
Tim Burton (0)
Jane Campion (1)
John Cassavetes (1)
Charles Chaplin (1)
Roger Corman (0) (Honorary Award in 2009)
Cecil B. De Mille (1) (Honorary Award in 1949, Thalberg Award in 1953)
Brian De Palma (0)
Stanley Donen (0) (Honorary Award in 1997)
Blake Edwards (0) (Honorary Award in 2003)
Federico Fellini (4) (Honorary Award in 1992)
John Frankenheimer (0)
Jean-Luc Godard (0) (Honorary Award in 2010)
D.W. Griffith (0) (Honorary Award in 1935)
Howard Hawks (1) (Honorary Award in 1974)
Alfred Hitchcock (5) (Thalberg Award in 1968)
James Ivory (3)
Norman Jewison (3) (Thalberg Award in 1999)
Buster Keaton (0) (Honorary Award in 1959)
Stanley Kramer (3) (Thalberg Award in 1962)
Stanley Kubrick (4)
Akira Kurosawa (1) (Honorary Award in 1989)
Gregory La Cava (2)
Fritz Lang (0)
Spike Lee (0)
Mervyn LeRoy (1) (Thalberg Award in 1976)
Joshua Logan (2)
Ernst Lubitsch (3) (Honorary Award in 1946)
George Lucas (2) (Thalberg Award in 1992)
Sidney Lumet (4) (Honorary Award in 2004)
David Lynch (3)
Terrence Malick (2)
Rouben Mamoulian (0)
Michael Mann (1)
Paul Mazursky (0)
F.W. Murnau (0)
Christopher Nolan (0)
Alan J. Pakula (1)
George Pal (0) (Honorary Award in 1943)
Sam Peckinpah (0)
Arthur Penn (3)
Michael Powell (0)
Otto Preminger (2)
Satyajit Ray (0) (Honorary Award in 1991)
Jean Renoir (1) (Honorary Award in 1974)
Herbert Ross (1)
Robert Rossen (2)
Ridley Scott (3)
Mack Sennett (0) (Honorary Award in 1937)
George Sidney (0)
Barbra Streisand (0) (winner of acting and songwriting awards)
Francois Truffaut (1)
W.S. Van Dyke (2)
King Vidor (5) (Honorary Award in 1978)
Josef von Sternberg (2)
Andrzej Wajda (0) (Honorary Award in 1999)
Peter Weir (3)
Orson Welles (1) (Honorary Award in 1970)
William A. Wellman (3)
Sam Wood (3)

One name on that list feels oddly out of place.

...I shall not say who it is.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

I have never seen any Borzage films, but I have been waiting to see them. Currently, there are two Borzage films on French blu-ray. Seventh Heaven is one of the films. From what I understand, that is his masterpiece.



1975 blows my mind, as well. One of my favorite adventure flics of all time, John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King was largely ignored!

I was born in 1975.

...coincidence?

[polsk_aus90]

What are the chances of a Lynne Ramsay double feature of Ratcatcher and Movern Callar? I can see a nice release of these two along with her short films coming from Criterion. I know they released the former on DVD, but the latter certainly could do with some work and a proper release. We Need to Talk About Kevin has a superb release in your U.S. of A., so such a potential set could make all her works available in an appropriate state.

[Scottie]

Does Richard Linklater use one of the same shots in Boyhood as Wim Wenders does in Paris, Texas?

Toward the end of the film, Mason and his girlfriend leave the diner early in the morning and walk through a parking lot, a parking lot that looks incredibly familiar to the one used at the end of Paris, Texas with Travis and his pickup truck.