The Criterion Collection

[bradnoyes]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'm not sure where the best place is to pick up new copies so I just added a bunch of movies to my Amazon shopping list and will slowly chip away over time. I don't remember much about my time in college but I do remember renting a lot of these movies from Hollywood Video when I was in my early 20's and it will be fun to revisit those and catch up on all the classics I never saw.

Edit: I noticed that I needed to spend $275 at Best Buy in order to his Elite Plus status for the year so I went ahead and ordered nine movies. Man, I had just got caught up on buying all the UHDs I wanted and thought "now I can have a break." Instead I have replaced one addiction with another. Oh well. Better than being addicted to smack. I'll at least try to wait for sales before buying more.

[PBateman87]

Originally Posted by bradnoyes

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'm not sure where the best place is to pick up new copies so I just added a bunch of movies to my Amazon shopping list and will slowly chip away over time. I don't remember much about my time in college but I do remember renting a lot of these movies from Hollywood Video when I was in my early 20's and it will be fun to revisit those and catch up on all the classics I never saw.

Barnes & Noble holds Criterion sales twice a year (July and November) where titles are 50% off, and Criterion's website has 24-hour flash sales a couple times a year where titles are 50% off as well. And at any given time Amazon may have certain Criterion titles on sale, it's good to keep a lookout from time to time.

[dcfan88]

Originally Posted by bradnoyes

This is probably the lamest question to ask in this thread but I only own a handful of Criterion discs (Mulholland Drive, Blue is the Warmest Color, and Bottle Rocket) but I'm really starting to get back into cinema after not watching many movies over the last decade and I'd like to add more of the Collection to my...*ahem*...collection.

Any recommendations of 4-5 movies to start with? I'm completely open to films from any place and time. Mostly just looking to broaden my horizons. And thanks again in advance for any responses.

Chaplin, I only own two (Gold Rush and Modern Times) I'd recommend either of those or Great Dictator if you don't want a silent film

Dazed and Confused is also a favorite of mine

Ghost World is also enjoyable

I'd also recommend some Kubrick and 4 of his titles are Criterion The Killing (which features earlier Kubrick film Killer's Kiss as a bonus feature), Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Barry Lyndon all are good, The Killing is my personal favorite but I know others may disagree

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by bradnoyes

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'm not sure where the best place is to pick up new copies so I just added a bunch of movies to my Amazon shopping list and will slowly chip away over time. I don't remember much about my time in college but I do remember renting a lot of these movies from Hollywood Video when I was in my early 20's and it will be fun to revisit those and catch up on all the classics I never saw.

well, you've got a great TV on which to explore. I can't believe how great some films look on that set - particularly black and white films.

[MJD64]

Getting ever closer to the New Year's Day drawing for 2018...wasn't it a day early last year on Dec. 31st?

[cicada88]

2018 Want List:

—A Better Tomorrow
—Chunking Express
—The Elephant Man
—Hard Boiled
—The Killer
—Stranger Than Paradise
—Weird Science

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Just watched Dead Presidents. Man I really wish Criterion still had the rights to this criminally underrated film.

[mrjohnnyb]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

No. Thou shalt not skip any episodes when viewing the original Twin Peaks series for the first time. Even the less-than-stellar ones in the middle of Season Two are wildly fun in their special way.

I would have to agree with you there on that one, Owl. The opening scene of Season Two ( the one between Dale Cooper and the elderly room-service waiter) perfectly foreshadows the content of these wildly fun episodes.

By the way, the waiter in the aforementioned scene was played by Hank Worden. Hank Worden made his claim to fame as Mose Harper in John Ford's The Searchers.

[Jobla]

My Criterion wants for 2018:

M (1951)
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (Sidney Lumet)
PRIVATE PARTS (Paul Bartel, 1972)
THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
A PERFECT COUPLE (Robert Altman)
A FACE IN THE CROWD

Upgrades:

WISE BLOOD
SISTERS
BLAST OF SILENCE
MONSTERS AND MADMEN

[javy]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Just watched Dead Presidents. Man I really wish Criterion still had the rights to this criminally underrated film.

Don't worry, if there's hell below we're all gonna go.

See ya, Santa Claus.

[Abdrewes]

Is there any indication Criterion may release Bad Timing on blu-ray? I'm so tempted to nab it for £7 at Amazon UK.

[dcfan88]

I was looking at movies on ebay and noticed the one movie missing from my Kubrick collection Spartacus was once a Criterion release. Any chance they can get the rights back to this one?

[Andisheh]

Hey does anyone know if there's any word on The Devil and Daniel Webster, Heaven Can Wait (1943), Julius Caesar (1953) or The Fugitive Kind?

[Arch Stanton]

2018 wishlist!

Bergman's Faith Trilogy
La Strada (beautifully 4K restored please, not that thing Studio Canal put out)
Inland Empire (with Rabbits in full and More Things That Happened as bonus features, the latter not windowboxed like it is on the DVD!)
Au hasard balthazar
A Prairie Home Companion

[okcmaxk]

Yet another 2018 Criterion wishlist:

After Hours
Defending Your Life
Stop Making Sense
Any Warner silent or Pre-Code film (The Crowd, The Cameraman, Greed, Freaks, IAAFFACG, Busby Berkeley musicals)
Gummo
Lost Highway (Better yet, the rest of David Lynch’s filmography)
A Night at the Opera
Eyes Wide Shut
Nothing Lasts Forever
Talk Radio
O Lucky Man!
A Face in the Crowd
Scarface (1932)
Shampoo

[dkelly26666]

My wishlist for Criterion would be:

Any remaining Scorsese's not on blu: Who's That Knocking at My Door?; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; After Hours; Bringing Out the Dead. (It's rumored they're re-issuing Mean Streets, as well).

Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)

Of course, the ever-elusive The Devils (Ken Russell) (Not likely, I know)

Cruising (William Friedkin)

Klute (Alan J. Pakula)

Fingers (James Toback ; REALLY not likely, now)

Upgrades of Mishima (Paul Schrader) and Bad Timing (Nicholas Roeg)


Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)

Silence (Scorsese; re-issue)

California Split (Robert Altman)

Pasolini films (Teorema, Accatone, etc.)

Bertolucci films (Before the Revolution, Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, etc.)

Pretty Baby and Atlantic City (Louis Malle)

Oh, I could go on and on....

[senseabove]

Can we expect the New Year's doodle tomorrow, or will it more likely come after the new year?

[Gacivory]

2018 Wishlist

• Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
• Matewan(any John Sayles really)
• As I Was Moving Ahead I Occasionally Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
• Hard Eight
• Crash/Spider/eXistenZ

[PipesDonatello]

2018 wish list

The Grand Budapest Hotel
After Hours
Catch 22
There Will Be Blood
Gummo


And upgrades for The Long Good Friday and This Is Spinal Tap

[Michael24]

Would love see a remastered Bullitt in 2018 for its 50th anniversary.