The Criterion Collection

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

Either that or a massive Olympic-themed box set. Pretty much everyone listed was involved in an Olympic movie.

[Show spoiler]Castleton Knight directed "The Olympic Games of 1948."
Tancred Ibsen did "De VI olympiske vinterleker Osla 1952."
Hannu Leminen did "Maailmat kohtaavat - XV Olympiakisat Helsingissä 1952."
Peter Whitchurch did "Olympic Games 1956."
Rene Lucot did "Melbourne Rendezvous."
Heribert Meisel did "Menschen, Hoffnungen, Medaillen."
Romolo Marcellini did "The Grand Olympics."
Theo Hörmann did "Olympic Winter Games at Innsbruck."
Taguchi Suketaro produced "Tokyo Olympiad" (Kon Ichikawa is obviously already listed)
Claude Lelouch did "Grenoble."
Jean-Jacques Languepin did "Les Neiges de Grenoble."
Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger did "Visions of Eight."
Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière and Georges Dufaux did "Games of the XXI Olympiad Montreal 1976."
Drummond Challis was on both "Visions of Eight" and "The Burning" (see below).
Kieth Merrill did "Olympic Glory" a documentarty short film.
Gu Jun did "Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008."

The others:
Lee Kwang-soo ?
Douglas Copsey was in "Bronco Billy."
Louis Gueguen ?
Nobusama Kawamoto ?
Giorgio Ferroni did "Mill of the Stone Women" - October Horror from Criterion?
Tony Maylam did "The Burning" - October Horror from Criterion?

Lee Kwang-soo: 1988 Summer Olympics
Douglas Copsey: 1992 Winter Olympics
Louis Guguen: 1956 Summer Olympics
Kawamoto Nobusama: 1964 Summer Olympics
Giorgio Ferroni: 1956 Winter Olympics
Tony Maylam: 1976 Winter Olympics

This looks to be one hell of a set.

[MifuneFan]

Pretty crazy. I knew that some of the names tied to the Olympics, but virtually all if them?

[scottpcusa]

Originally Posted by sawdustandtinsel

I think that list pretty much guarantees The Olympiad.

Wow! I never even realized Criterion had released Tokyo Olympiad on DVD!

[Doctor Jack]

Just watched They Live By Night for the first time ever. All I can say is...wow. Just wow.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

Just watched They Live By Night for the first time ever. All I can say is...wow. Just wow.

Worth a blind buy at $16.89

[Zodokai]

Originally Posted by Snicket

Worth a blind buy at $16.89

$16.55 now! I had to bite on it at that price. Blind buy for me, but I've heard plenty of positive things about this one over the years so I'm excited to own it.

[SammyJankis]

[Show spoiler]

Spotted this in an antique store. Were it not for the price, I would have snagged them in a heartbeat.

[Trace17]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Pretty crazy. I knew that some of the names tied to the Olympics, but virtually all if them?

Winter Olympics coming up in Feb 2018 too.... hmmm...

[joy-division]

Just bought Che & the Darjeeling ltd

Now the only Wes Anderson film I need is Life Aquatic . Got regular release of Moonrise Kingdom cos I love that film so much & steelbook of Grand Budapest Hotel. All others are Criterions

[joy-division]

Originally Posted by zorbonaut

My top three must see Wenders films:

Paris, Texas
Wings of Desire
The American Friend

Buena Vista Social Club

[joy-division]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

I don't believe so. The GC is payment. As long as the otter is over $50 you should get free shipping regardless of how you pay.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find an otter under $50

[javy]

How come Belle de Jour, Vivre Sa Vie, Night of the Hunter, and The Last Temptation of Christ can't drop down to 15.90?

[jshaide]

Huh, I recorded MAN OF ARAN off TCM the other morning and it starts with both a Criterion and a Janus logo.

Wonder if this will be coming with a NANOOK upgrade soon.

[Reddington]

Originally Posted by scottpcusa

Wow! I never even realized Criterion had released Tokyo Olympiad on DVD!

Yes. And I just took delivery of a mint copy complete with booklet and inesert. I've been on the hunt for quite a while, but every listing has been significantly above my target price. It cost me even more than a copy of The Third Man BD but I am happy, as these two titles were my only must-have OOP Criterion releases.

Interesting to read phantom-page speculation about a possible upcoming Olympic releases. Should Tokyo Olympiad get a BD upgrade, I'll graciously accept that I've just taken one for the team.

What would be fantastic is a BD release of Alberto Isaac's 1969 film The Olympics in Mexico. It can be streamed officially on YouTube, and is in many respects the equal to Kon Ichikawa's film. I read that the original cut was four hours long, but the negative was lost. The official Olympic version runs 1H:45M.

Glad to finally own this.

[Knaldskalle]

Criterion also released Leni Riefenstahl's brilliant Olympia (1938) on LD back in the day.

[milo bloom]

I can barely bring myself to watch the Olympics when they're on TV but I would watch the heck out of a box of Olympic movies. Something about editing out all the downtime in sports makes it easier to watch.

[The Great Owl]

Double-posting from the dedicated thread for this movie...

I just finished watching my Criterion Blu-ray of Rumble Fish.



Rusty James, played by Matt Dillon, is a dense street criminal whose false bravado is an attempt to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, played by Mickey Rourke, who, as "The Motorcycle Boy", has a cooler-than-cool reputation that has soared in legend since he went missing. When James's brother returns to town, painful truths and conflicts come to light. The always-gorgeous Diane Lane plays James's girlfriend. Nicolas Cage, Vincent Spano, and Christopher Penn are both great as James's chums. Dennis Hopper shines as James's alcoholic father, Laurence Fishburne is cool in a supporting role, and Tom Waits even appears as a pensive bartender.

Francis Ford Coppola directed this adaptation of S.E. Hinton's Rumble Fish immediately after directing Hinton's The Outsiders, but this movie takes on a darker look to suit the more adult-oriented tone of the novel. While The Outsiders benefited from sprawlingly colorful images inspired by Gone with the Wind, which is referenced in the story, Rumble Fish was filmed in stark black-and-white with a distinct film noir visual style. Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tom Waits, and others appear in both films, but in notably different character roles. The percussive score, recorded by Stewart Copeland of The Police, lends a true immediacy to the proceedings.

Rumble Fish does not quite have the same endearingly warm-and-fuzzy 1980s adolescence nostalgia for me that The Outsiders does, and, in many ways, I think that the film is "trying too hard" in terms of its cinematography and visual styles, but it still stands tall as an impressive work in its own right. I love the dream sequences, especially the ones where Diane Lane is shown in lingerie in the classrooms. The streetlights and cityscapes during a motorcycle scene toward the end of the film look truly amazing.

This Criterion Blu-ray hits top marks on all accounts, with an astoundingly detailed video transfer and perfect audio quality.

I'm still making my way through the extras, but I love the interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, S.E. Hinton, Matt Dillion, and Diane Lane (whose looks continues to be blessed by Father Time).

Well done, Criterion!

[Vlad Draculi]

Criterion sale starts this week, right?

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Vlad Draculi

Criterion sale starts this week, right?

July 11

[joy-division]

Have the MoC steelbook of Rumblefish. That will do me