The Criterion Collection

[ShellOilJunior]

Hariseldon would probably know best but I can't see many BN B&M locations stocking a set this large. I don't recall BN carrying the Kurosawa DVD set.

[themp3000]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I'm generally known as a big spender around these parts, but I've finally met my match.

I'll just keep enjoying my $20 Criterion Blu-ray of Downhill Racer.

I'm going to frame this post and hang it on my wall.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by themp3000

I'm going to frame this post and hang it on my wall.

Cue the music from Chariots of Fire.

[The Great Owl]

I mean, I do like the idea of reliving my childhood crush on Mary Lou Retton, but I doubt that I would ever find the time to watch all 32 of those Olympics discs.

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

This'll be the ultimate CC fan litmus test.

If you shell out a few bills for the Olympics set but never considered the 30 for 30 set when it has been under 35$ a bunch of times...you may have a Criterion problem.

I see your point, but I disagree. While I am a big sports fan, and I have often contemplated getting the 30 for 30 set, the Olympics are something else entirely. I have strong memories of the Olympics from throughout my life, and there are few, if any, other sporting events that evoke the same emotional response. There is a difference between sports stories, and stories about the world coming together for sports.

[jw007]

I have to agree on earlier comments on Sayles and Lee's films being poorly underrepresented on blu-ray.

The question is though: Which director's films are overrepresented on blu?

[CRM 114]

Originally Posted by jw007

I have to agree on earlier comments on Sayles and Lee's films being poorly underrepresented on blu-ray.



The question is though: Which director's films are overrepresented on blu?

Michael Bay. His garbage should never have seen the light of day.

[ShellOilJunior]

The included film Marathon:

A view of the Olympic Games at Barcelona, using the marathon race as the weaving thread.

Barkley, Bird, Magic and Michael are now in the Criterion Collection.

[postmodel]

Slightly off topic, but I did see it mentioned here.

Did anyone place any orders with Barnes and Noble that were eligible for the $10 reward card? If so did you receive it yesterday? I was eligible and they were due to be e-mailed on August 9th, but I did not get anything.

I reached out to customer service, but no response yet.

[Purplenoon]

Originally Posted by postmodel

Slightly off topic, but I did see it mentioned here.

Did anyone place any orders with Barnes and Noble that were eligible for the $10 reward card? If so did you receive it yesterday? I was eligible and they were due to be e-mailed on August 9th, but I did not get anything.

I reached out to customer service, but no response yet.

I received one yesterday

[Saccharin]

Wow Criterion is going Olympic. I saw that on Comingsoon.net. Here is a little inside:

Criterion to release 100 Years of Olympic Films box set

The Criterion Collection has announced their upcoming release of 100 Years of Olympic Films. Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Summer and Winter Games, this one-of-a-kind collection assembles, for the first time, a century’s worth of Olympic films – the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee.

Both the 32-Blu-ray edition and the 43-DVD edition will retail for $399.95 and will be available for pre-order on November 7, officially hitting stores on December 5.

These documentaries cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering sprinting world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean Claude-Killy dominating the slopes of Grenoble in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the first-ever women’s marathon on the streets of Los Angeles in 1984.

In addition to the work of Bud Greenspan, the man behind an impressive ten Olympic features, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such landmarks of the documentary form as Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, along with lesser-known but captivating contributions by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Milos Forman. It also serves as a fascinating window onto the formal development of cinema itself, as well as the technological progress that has enabled the viewer, over the years, to get ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, and reflecting as well the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable marathon of films offers nothing less than a panorama of a hundred years of human endeavor.


BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SETS FEATURE
* 53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games, presented together for the first time
* Landmark 4K restorations of Olympia, Tokyo Olympiad, and Visions of Eight, among other titles
* New scores for the silent films, composed by Maud Nelissen, Donald Sosin, and Frido ter Beek
* A lavishly illustrated, 216-page, hardcover book, featuring notes on the films by cinema historian Peter Cowie; a foreword by Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee; a short history of the restoration project by restoration producer Adrian Wood; and hundreds of photographs from a century of Olympic Games

HIGHLIGHTS FROM A CENTURY OF OLYMPIC FILMS

Stockholm 1912
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (dir. Adrian Wood)

Berlin 1936
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)

Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956
White Vertigo (dir. Giorgio Ferroni)

Tokyo 1964
Tokyo Olympiad (dir. Kon Ichikawa)

Grenoble 1968
13 Days in France (dirs. Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach)

Sapporo 1972
Sapporo Winter Olympics (dir. Masahiro Shinoda)

Munich 1972
Visions of Eight (dirs. Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling)

Barcelona 1992
Marathon (dir. Carlos Saura)

Beijing 2008
The Everlasting Flame (dir. Gu Jun)

[senseabove]

Originally Posted by postmodel

Slightly off topic, but I did see it mentioned here.

Did anyone place any orders with Barnes and Noble that were eligible for the $10 reward card? If so did you receive it yesterday? I was eligible and they were due to be e-mailed on August 9th, but I did not get anything.

I reached out to customer service, but no response yet.

Originally Posted by Purplenoon

I received one yesterday

I got an email saying I would get it on the 9th but I did not get one yet.

Let us know what you hear from customer service!

[The Great Owl]

I just placed an order for Lost in America, in order to squeeze one last drop of juice out of the B&N sale.

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Bamboozled

...the digital video format did not serve it well though.

...but enough about Inland Empire...

[20th Century Boy]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

The included film Marathon:


Barkley, Bird, Magic and Michael are now in the Criterion Collection.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Somewhat more interesting is the ship to home for some of the preorders. With this sale a store generated ship to home orders is allowing Aug/Sept items at 50% off already plus member discount. Starting Wed it appears the October items are now allowed.

Very interesting. Are you saying that if I go to the store during the current sale, I can do a ship-to-home of August or September titles and get 50% off on those, too? I may have to reconsider my current blu ray budget allocation.

[WrathOfHan]

So how much into the 900s will this boxset dive into?

[captveg]

Originally Posted by WrathOfHan

So how much into the 900s will this boxset dive into?

It's just 900, and then 155 because of Tokyo Olympiad, which could see an individual reissue, but probably not for a few years.

At most I'd expect two more individual releases for Olympia 1 & 2 (1938) and Visions of Eight (1973) in a few years, as those are the other films that received full blown 4k restorations.

But those are the films that really sell this set, so it will be a while before they are likely to spin them off for individual releases.

[javy]

Originally Posted by CRM 114

Michael Bay. His garbage should never have seen the light of day.

I'm happy about Bad Boys II being on blu-ray.

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[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by 20th Century Boy

Coming soon to the closet?

[Show spoiler]