The Criterion Collection

[English Patient]

Originally Posted by witchmania

A Cock and Bull Story would be great.

I'd rather see Genova, Winterbottom's 2008 film with Colin Firth. It has a wonderful documentary-type style, very naturalistic. It's also something of a ghost story.

[llj]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

oh. didn't realize that he is wunderkid du jour.

sounds like stuff I might like, so thanks for putting his work on my radar. but for now he's du jour which is French for "the day" or this day, right?

and she's like...

Isabelle Huppert.

He has a reputation more for being an "enfant terrible" in Canada. A lot of film critics here actually despise him, and there's not a year that goes by where someone here isn't calling him overrated, not to mention narcissistic, whiny, self-indulgent, etc,. On the other hand, he's almost beloved in film festivals and by festival planners. In some ways, his reputation is a bit like Harmony Korine's up here, at least in personality if not actually style of work.

[Trace17]

Originally Posted by oildude

First time for me too. I guess it depends on if they have stock or have to wait on it from Nautilus.

Nautilus is quick. When I order from them they usually ship within a couple of days and it gets to me in Texas in about a week to ten days later. Shipping cost is in euros and you can check on their site (put item in your cart and go to checkout). I think it is around $20-$25 or so converted, but I don't recall exactly. It is pretty reasonable for an overseas shipment from Belgium. I did a comparison with Bottleneck Gallery before I ordered the four-print Chaplin set and the cost with shipping is only slightly higher from Nautilus. Knowing how good Nautilus is, ordering from them might be faster but I wanted to try out BNG.

Originally Posted by Reddington

I just checked the tracking on my order: Shipped from Belgium on 12/12/16, and delivered in Massachusetts on 12/20/16. Poster was EUR50, and shipping EUR23. Hope this helps.

Thanks to both for the answers.

[BluCollector13]

Originally Posted by senseabove

She seemed distinctly unimpressed with Xavier Dolan: https://twitter.com/Mxhdi/status/836644738036031488


Dolan:
Huppert:

I would be, too, if I was in the vicinity of that overrated narcissist. After seeing him talk after a screening of "Mommy", I will never understand why people think he's so brilliant apart fro his youth and his looks (and his use of Suzanne Clément, which is the best thing I can say about him and his films).

[malakaheso]

Mommy was a totally conventional European style drama with a gimmicky aspect ratio that didn't add much.

Dolan has potential, but for me he is nowhere near 'there' yet

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

24 Hour Party People, please please please. Pretty please with sugar on top.

That would good but if Criterion gave us Wonderland, that would be great. That score in loseless? Yes please.

[Member-167298]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

24 Hour Party People, please please please. Pretty please with sugar on top.

I would love a Criterion release of 24 Hour Party People, but I am fairly certain it was filmed on video.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by malakaheso

Mommy was a totally conventional European style drama with a gimmicky aspect ratio that didn't add much.

Dolan has potential, but for me he is nowhere near 'there' yet

How was it gimmicky? It was there for a very good reason, did you watch the film as intended by director or did you watch on Netflix when they uploaded the broken version of the film?

[Arawn]

"24 Hour Party People" should have been the title of 1984.

[senseabove]

Originally Posted by llj

He has a reputation more for being an "enfant terrible" in Canada. A lot of film critics here actually despise him, and there's not a year that goes by where someone here isn't calling him overrated, not to mention narcissistic, whiny, self-indulgent, etc,. On the other hand, he's almost beloved in film festivals and by festival planners. In some ways, his reputation is a bit like Harmony Korine's up here, at least in personality if not actually style of work.

Originally Posted by BluCollector13

I would be, too, if I was in the vicinity of that overrated narcissist. After seeing him talk after a screening of "Mommy", I will never understand why people think he's so brilliant apart fro his youth and his looks (and his use of Suzanne Clément, which is the best thing I can say about him and his films).

Being a self-indulgent, narcissistic ******* doesn't mean you can't make good movies. I find Dolan incredibly obnoxious in interviews. I also don't think he's done anything great yet—but I think he has enormous potential, once he matures past the throw-it-all-at-the-wall-as-fast-as-possible phase. Tom at the Farm is still my favorite of his, and I really enjoyed Laurence Anyways, though I'd like to revisit it now that I've seen most of his other work. And FWIW, I liked I Killed My Mother better than Mommy, though the latter was clearly made by a more confident, experienced director.

Admittedly, part of the reason I like his movies is I'm a gay man, and he's making movies about gay men that actually have some development to their characters, and doing it in formally interesting ways. We're finally starting to see movies with gay characters in situations not entirely defined by their sexuality and its ramifications, and that don't have the burden of being representative to a mass audience or targeted at a cult audience: they aren't just about AIDS or homophobia or salving those wounds with in-jokes, but indirectly reflect more complex aspects of social life and relationships as a gay man, and Dolan is the most prominent face for that. Dolan's Heartbeats and Tom at the Farm lay out the power games of relationships between straight (or "straight") and gay men, and Mommy and I Killed... the difficulty of figuring out masculinity as a gay teen boy where traditional masculinity doesn't feel like it fits; elsewhere, Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake externally manifests the fear of the internal, secret physical violence of disease and self-hatred; Klaus Händl's Tomcat shows the full breadth of a traumatized relationship where traditional gender roles can't be used as shorthand for how to react. EDIT: Oh, and of course Moonlight, which is the more anodyne, mainstream-friendly version of the phenomenon.

So Dolan's part of a topical wave, he's formally adventurous, and he combines those two to make portraits of complex characters in particular, well-elucidated situations.

[amputd]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

24 Hour Party People, please please please. Pretty please with sugar on top.

24 Party People is Steve Coogan's finest hour. And I bet Criterion could come up with some great supplements if they dug around a little. One of my favorite films. Pretty please with a cherry on top

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by senseabove

Being a self-indulgent, narcissistic ******* doesn't mean you can't make good movies. I find Dolan incredibly obnoxious in interviews. I also don't think he's done anything great yet—but I think he has enormous potential, once he matures past the throw-it-all-at-the-wall-as-fast-as-possible phase. Tom at the Farm is still my favorite of his, and I really enjoyed Laurence Anyways, though I'd like to revisit it now that I've seen most of his other work. And FWIW, I liked I Killed My Mother better than Mommy, though the latter was clearly made by a more confident, experienced director.

Admittedly, part of the reason I like his movies is I'm a gay man, and he's making movies about gay men that actually have some development to their characters, and doing it in formally interesting ways. We're finally starting to see movies with gay characters in situations not entirely defined by their sexuality and its ramifications, and that don't have the burden of being representative to a mass audience or targeted at a cult audience: they aren't just about AIDS or homophobia or salving those wounds with in-jokes, but indirectly reflect more complex aspects of social life and relationships as a gay man, and Dolan is the most prominent face for that. Dolan's Heartbeats and Tom at the Farm lay out the power games of relationships between straight (or "straight") and gay men, and Mommy and I Killed... the difficulty of figuring out masculinity as a gay teen boy where traditional masculinity doesn't feel like it fits; elsewhere, Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake externally manifests the fear of the internal, secret physical violence of disease and self-hatred; Klaus Händl's Tomcat shows the full breadth of a traumatized relationship where traditional gender roles can't be used as shorthand for how to react. EDIT: Oh, and of course Moonlight, which is the more anodyne, mainstream-friendly version of the phenomenon.

So Dolan's part of a topical wave, he's formally adventurous, and he combines those two to make portraits of complex characters in particular, well-elucidated situations.

I thought Stranger By The Lake was a hell of a film and liked the fact that it wasn't a gay film like the ones you described. It was, unabashedly, a gay film that told a story quite unique to the experience.

I thought Moonlight was just ok. The character development was a little thin for me. I thought each episode was too short; the last one not believable.

I also didn't like how characters were introduced and then disappear from the story suddenly. The actor who won the Oscar was good, but I don't really get his relevance in the main character's life.

I wanted to like it more, but just didn't.

[starman15317]

Today I found an OOP Criterion at a store, Clouzot's Le Corbeau. I was shocked to find it, so I had to pick it up. It's a blind buy for me, but I loved The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, so I'm looking forward to it.

Any thoughts on this film?

[tisdivine]

Originally Posted by starman15317

Today I found an OOP Criterion at a store, Clouzot's Le Corbeau. I was shocked to find it, so I had to pick it up. It's a blind buy for me, but I loved The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, so I'm looking forward to it.

Any thoughts on this film?

Lucky dog. I love all the Clouzot films Ive seen so far but I havent seen Le Corbeau yet.

[malakaheso]

Does anyone think it is possible that Criterion will release Begotten? I heard recently that Merhige was getting it restored in 4K and plans to put it out on blu-ray.

It has been very neglected on home video

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by malakaheso

Does anyone think it is possible that Criterion will release Begotten? I heard recently that Merhige was getting it restored in 4K and plans to put it out on blu-ray.

It has been very neglected on home video

I hope so. I've been hoping so since I saw it on a computer about seven years ago.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by malakaheso

Does anyone think it is possible that Criterion will release Begotten? I heard recently that Merhige was getting it restored in 4K and plans to put it out on blu-ray.

It has been very neglected on home video

That seems like a film that will end up in the hands of one of the horror labels. Just a guess though. That film is an absolute mindf**k.

[jshaide]

Originally Posted by mja345

That seems like a film that will end up in the hands of one of the horror labels. Just a guess though. That film is an absolute mindf**k.

Arrow would do it pretty right. Or maybe it'll be its own thing.

[mja345]

As long as we're talking about possible releases, anyone think Criterion will release "Carnal Knowledge" at some point? It's being released in Japan in about a month and I was thinking about importing. But if I do, I'm sure Criterion will release it soon after.

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by mja345

That seems like a film that will end up in the hands of one of the horror labels. Just a guess though. That film is an absolute mindf**k.

I have already messaged Arrow and they told me there are no plans to release it. Who knows.

What I do recall though is Merhige claiming that most media companies he spoke to wanted to release it on the 'cheap'.