The Criterion Collection

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

I can predict this thread will have a lot less posts after the moderators arrive , it's happened many times, and this message will probably be gone too.

Anyway, @bwdowiak, I enjoy your film posts in the time I've been knowing you from this thread, but I feel like this has happened before, and I am not accusing you or anything but I think it would be better to take these silly posts less seriously.

I also agree with you that the original post that started this about some other member having half of his collection being criterion is silly, but I feel like one longer and clearer post would be enough to let us know your stance instead of a never-ending angry discussion over a silly thing like that.

After all this is the internet and you should know you are not going to change anybody else opinion

Fair enough. There are some truths here... But mostly I feel that I'm just defending myself in this instance and also in the last one I was involved in in October. If you know what else I'm saying that makes some people dislike me, then let me know what that is.

You're right - maybe I should brush off "silly posts," but I don't suffer fools too well.

I don't think that defending yourself or in other instances, defending an opinion, means that it is an"angry" argument, but whatever.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by mja345

I gotta say, Ray, we all need "Wind Beneath Our Wings" sometimes. Thanks, pal.

There will always be a spot for you in my dungeon if you need a place to crash.

Free body lotion and a hot meal.

...and good conversation.

[Vidya]

Ray

... get the butter.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Vidya

Ray

... get the butter.

The Last Tango In Ray Jackson's Dungeon.

...starring mja345.

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by mja345

I'm one of a few posters who overlaps both kinds of threads

[Show spoiler] lots of posters overlap both threads - few publicly brag about it

[mja345]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

[Show spoiler] lots of posters overlap both threads - few publicly brag about it

In terms of viewing, I'm sure there are many. In terms of posting, there ain't many.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by llj

How do you know we're middle aged?

I haven't been middle aged for years. Senior Tuesdays!

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by ravenus

If you haven't already, make sure to watch Tristana, another great film from Bunuel-Deneuve (also including the great Fernando Rey) and a terrific companion piece to Belle de Jour. Cohen Media put out a fantastic blu-ray of it LINK.

Originally Posted by AaronJ

OK, this is not Criterion-oriented. I get that. But SOMEONE here said I should get Tristana and I did. It was an amazing Buñuel film. I would like to thank that person. What a great film.

You're welcome

[Martin_31]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

OK, this is not Criterion-oriented. I get that. But SOMEONE here said I should get Tristana and I did. It was an amazing Buñuel film. I would like to thank that person. What a great film.

I mentioned it on the forum, too. Many recommended me Belle de Jour, as well; I still haven't seen it. Tristana was the second Buñuel film I've seen. I have seen it about two or three times. I want to read the novel, but I can find it in Spanish. Need more practice, and in general to read for pleasure, in Spanish; so far I've only read two books in Spanish: Gabriel García Márquez's Relato de un náufrago and Juan Rulfo's El Llano en Llamas. I found the translated one published by NYRB Classics. Maybe I'll read this winter break, even though my reading and film pile is large.

[Blu-Velvet]

I'll keep this short, but I've now watched both WOMAN IN THE DUNES and Orson Welles' final completed film THE IMMORTAL STORY. IMMORTAL STORY is rather interesting, with some distinctive Welles touches, and WOMAN IN THE DUNES is pretty amazing both cinematically and as a provocative allegory on modern life. Will need to think about that one more before posting in any more detail. Both films benefit from the context provided by the bonus articles and interviews included with Criterion's releases. Too bad there's still no Blu-ray.com review for THE IMMORTAL STORY yet.

[Sifox211]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

So anywho, anyone watch any Criterion related movies lately?

I just got to the end of the Les Blank set and what a journey! When I read the booklet I wanted to watch them all over again. I think the films about the Maestro were the highlight for me, but they were all good.

However, instead of watching them all again I have embarked on the Pierre Etaix set. Watched the two first shorts so far - both very funny. I love visual gags based on movement.

PS And, perhaps bizarrely, what sprung to mind when writing this is the very first sequence in the first Spongebob episode, a long, wordless visual gag and one that I found extremely - as in tear makingly - funny. Anyone else here a Spongebob fan?

PPS How's that for proving I'm not a hipster

[ThisKid]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

So anywho, anyone watch any Criterion related movies lately?

Watched The Devil's Backbone on Saturday. Thought it was OK.

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by mja345

Wow, people need to chill out. I'm well-aware of how people perceive Criterion fans. As snobbish a-holes who ignore cinema that isn't seen as high-brow. Very few Criterion films cater to that set IMO. Most are just good films from every era that cater to cinephiles, but I can understand the stereotype. Criterion mostly just releases good films they can get their hands on from any era, nothing more, nothing less. If there are people who latch onto the label to make themselves feel important, then that's on them..

Exactly. How many films have they released in the last 6 or so years that would actually fit into the category of being 'high brow'? Apart from the Pedro Costa and Frampton sets and maybe one or two others? The Costa set surprised me because he only really appeals to a narrow subset of cinephiles, and that was especially true when they first released those films in 2010. They probably made a loss on it. But films like Colossal Youth are an anomaly in the C.C, no doubt about it.

C.C tend to favour classics and middlebrow fare. Nothing wrong with that, but you would have to be pretty conservative (or clueless) to think that makes it a 'snob's label'.

I get why some might call Second Run an elitist/snob label, but not Criterion.

[nitin]

Have you seen what makes money these days? The films in CC's catalogue, and many other labels, would considered high brow/elitist/snobbish etc by most people.

Unfortunate but true.

[ShellOilJunior]

Does anyone have a Warner Brothers wish list?

Baby Face (Stanwyck)
The Roaring Twenties (Seems destined for Warner Archive)
Days of Wine and Roses (Jack Lemmon is unbelievable).
Wait Until Dark (Terrence Young, Audrey Hepburn).

[CinemaBlu]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Does anyone have a Warner Brothers wish list?

Baby Face (Stanwyck)
The Roaring Twenties (Seems destined for Warner Archive)
Days of Wine and Roses (Jack Lemmon is unbelievable).
Wait Until Dark (Terrence Young, Audrey Hepburn).

After Hours

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Does anyone have a Warner Brothers wish list?

Baby Face (Stanwyck)
The Roaring Twenties (Seems destined for Warner Archive)
Days of Wine and Roses (Jack Lemmon is unbelievable).
Wait Until Dark (Terrence Young, Audrey Hepburn).

I have an extensive Warner Bros wish list.
I want Gun Crazy, The Set-Up, The Narrow Margin, Decoy, and everything else from the Warner Film Noir Classics sets. (I figure that Warner Archive will be releasing most of these, but I'm glad that Criterion has a slice of the pie as well.)
I want the rest of the Val Lewton movies, now that Criterion has released Cat People.

I'm a big fan of Wait Until Dark.
Last week, I saw a new 2016 movie, Don't Breathe, that puts an interesting spin on the Wait Until Dark storyline, because it concerns a group of criminals who break into the home of a blind man only to find out that the blind man is not so helpless after all. The burglars are soon trapped inside the house and are fighting for their lives. Don't Breathe isn't Criterion fare, but it's a really cool movie.

Last, but not least, I want Vision Quest (1985) released on Blu-ray.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Does anyone have a Warner Brothers wish list?

Baby Face (Stanwyck)
The Roaring Twenties (Seems destined for Warner Archive)
Days of Wine and Roses (Jack Lemmon is unbelievable).
Wait Until Dark (Terrence Young, Audrey Hepburn).

After Hours
O Lucky Man
Straight Time (Dustin Hoffman's best performance IMO)

Those are three I could see fitting into Criterion's catalog. There are a ton I'd love to see Warner Archive release.

[nitin]

My Warner list is neverending.....

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by ThisKid

Watched The Devil's Backbone on Saturday. Thought it was OK.

did you understand the point about

[Show spoiler]the baby's spine in the jar being "the devil's backbone"? and how if you drink the juice the baby is in, it will cure your ED? WTF was that all about? sooo weird dude