The Criterion Collection

[benbess]

Two of my favorite releases from Criterion are Bigger Than Life (1956) and All That Heaven Allows (1955). What other Hollywood movies from the 1950s are possible/likely/desired from Criterion?

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

This brings up something I've always wondered if anyone does this. Has anyone watched a foreign film without subtitles enabled? I think this might work with a film of which I'm very familiar.

Technically I watched The Naked Island, The Red Turtle, Kelin, and Heild without subs, but i don't think any of those count.

[ShellOilJunior]

Any guesses which Bergman will be upgraded? I hope it's The Virgin Spring.

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[Scottie]

I hope they're prepping The Faith Trilogy for Blu-ray, but I'd say it's more like that we'll see Hour of the Wolf or upgrades for Scenes from a Marriage or The Virgin Spring.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Any guesses which Bergman will be upgraded? I hope it's The Virgin Spring.

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Is there something about the location that connects to Bergman?

[sawdustandtinsel]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

This brings up something I've always wondered if anyone does this. Has anyone watched a foreign film without subtitles enabled? I think this might work with a film of which I'm very familiar.

Part of my final exam in German class in high school was translating Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Spiderman from German to English. I know that's not exactly what you're asking but it did help me learn the language fwiw.

[repulsed]

Originally Posted by benbess

Two of my favorite releases from Criterion are Bigger Than Life (1956) and All That Heaven Allows (1955). What other Hollywood movies from the 1950s are possible/likely/desired from Criterion?

Not exactly 50's but close enough for me[emoji6]

I'd wish for Leave Her to Heaven to start because I missed the TT release.

I actually posted then realized you mentioned 50's specifically [emoji43]

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Any guesses which Bergman will be upgraded? I hope it's The Virgin Spring.

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Personally, I'm hoping for Sawdust and Tinsel, Scenes From a Marriage , or the very remote chance of Dreams.

[thatguamguy]

Regarding INLAND EMPIRE, this seems to be essentially a philosophical argument about whether a film can be coherent if it was not coherent when the project began production. To my mind, it sounds like just an extreme version of going into production without a completed script, but I'm not gonna say that Bates's position has zero merit.

http://parallax-view.org/2011/11/08/...re-i-the-idea/

(Q) I’ve read that the film began as a series of short scenes shot for your website, and a story emerged as you continued shooting.

(A) Yes. In the beginning I get an idea, and it happens to be something like a scene, and so instead of writing it down and waiting for the next one and writing that down and waiting for the next one and that down and building a screenplay, I started shooting those scenes and, in shooting them, kind of committing to a look and a feel but staying true to that idea and not ever thinking of a feature at that time, wondering maybe, but… So in the beginning there were just scenes and they didn’t relate in my mind, I didn’t know. And then, all of a sudden, more of a story started coming out that actually related those. It was kind of beautiful.

(Q) Would you describe Inland Empire as not so much written as a story as grown as a piece of organic art?

(A) Oh yes, it has a complete story, it’s just that there’s the story and the way the story’s told, and then there are stories that are more surface and there are stories that hold abstractions. Something that’s not so concrete that has something to do with feeling or intuiting a thing. And that’s what I love about cinema. So it’s a story but a story that hold abstractions. And again, that comes with the ideas.

[okcmaxk]

Originally Posted by benbess

Two of my favorite releases from Criterion are Bigger Than Life (1956) and All That Heaven Allows (1955). What other Hollywood movies from the 1950s are possible/likely/desired from Criterion?

Roman Holiday, The Bad and The Beautiful and A Face in the Crowd.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by benbess

Two of my favorite releases from Criterion are Bigger Than Life (1956) and All That Heaven Allows (1955). What other Hollywood movies from the 1950s are possible/likely/desired from Criterion?

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I'd love upgrades of the other Sirks, Written on the Wind and Magnificent Obsession, as well as an upgrade of Summertime. After that, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, and A Face in the Crowd would all be welcome.

[mja345]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Jeanne Dielman is down to $16 on Amazon! Just picked it up, but it said its getting to me on Tuesday,

Yeah, I picked it up on Amazon at a little over 17 bucks because why not? Looking forward to giving it a spin soon, amazing film.

[repulsed]

Originally Posted by belcherman

I'd love upgrades of the other Sirks, Written on the Wind and Magnificent Obsession, as well as an upgrade of Summertime. After that, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, and A Face in the Crowd would all be welcome.

yes, so much, for Roman Holiday!
and I'd love Summertime, Magnificent Obsession and Written on the Wind. Been waiting on buying the DVDs for so long

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by benbess

Two of my favorite releases from Criterion are Bigger Than Life (1956) and All That Heaven Allows (1955). What other Hollywood movies from the 1950s are possible/likely/desired from Criterion?

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The following are very likely to be released.

A Face in the Crowd
Magnificent Obsession
A Place in the Sun
Roman Holiday
Written on the Wind

Originally Posted by hoytereden

Personally, I'm hoping for Sawdust and Tinsel, Scenes From a Marriage , or the very remote chance of Dreams.

According to Wikipedia, an unreliable source, but a source nonetheless, Peter Cowie has done interviews for the following Criterion releases.

Autumn Sonata
Casque d'or
Diary of a Country Priest
Fanny and Alexander
Grand Illusion
Hiroshima mon amour
The Leopard
The Magician
Salvatore Giuliano
Sawdust and Tinsel
The Seventh Seal
Tokyo Olympiad
Wild Strawberries
Z

I find it unlikely that he'd record another interview for Sawdust and Tinsel, but we can always hope.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

I thought the Eclipse line was essential dead.

Average 6 per year 2007-2012
2 release in ea 2013 and 2014, 3 in 2015
none in 2 years unless something has been announced before the end of 2017

It may as well be dead.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that the Eclipse line exists so that films can see the light of day on home media. However, we're now entering the 4K era and we can't continue being stuck in old formats.

[Caseyscott]

Originally Posted by iScottie

It may as well be dead.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that the Eclipse line exists so that films can see the light of day on home media. However, we're now entering the 4K era and we can't continue being stuck in old formats.

I just hope titles that at one time would have been relegated to the Eclipse line are not now abandoned to Filmstruck exclusivity.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Caseyscott

I just hope titles that at one time would have been relegated to the Eclipse line are not now abandoned to Filmstruck exclusivity.

Are the films available in HD on FilmStruck?

[sawdustandtinsel]

I will take all of Bergman (obviously) please. Side note, went to my local B & N today and it seems like they slashed their Blu-Ray selection in half while they at least doubled the DVD section since they're still taking coupons on the DVDs. Anybody have a favorite Eclipse Box or DVD only title they'd like to recommend? Is I am Curious worth a blind buy?

[Caseyscott]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Are the films available in HD on FilmStruck?

I don't know, I don't yet have filmstruck, but had Hulu when that was Criterion's streaming home, and the bounty of wonderful but not as commercially viable films made me wonder if we'd ever see blu ray releases of the more obscure titles.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by sawdustandtinsel

I will take all of Bergman (obviously) please. Side note, went to my local B & N today and it seems like they slashed their Blu-Ray selection in half while they at least doubled the DVD section since they're still taking coupons on the DVDs. Anybody have a favorite Eclipse Box or DVD only title they'd like to recommend? Is I am Curious worth a blind buy?

Are you saying your B&N takes coupons for dvds, but not blus?