The Criterion Collection

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

I know, but I seem to be the only person on this forum who has scratched front covers. That's why I love the cardboard releases. Also that they look better too.

Perhaps you should try to control your obsessive behavior of rubbing your Bottle Rocket against your Red Shoes........

[Show spoiler] I didn't want to say your 8 1/2 against your El Norte, and give you too much credit

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Perhaps you should try to control your obsessive behavior of rubbing your Bottle Rocket against your Red Shoes........ I didn't want to say your 8 1/2 against your El Norte, and give you too much credit

My "Notorious" 8 1/2 is rubbed alot as it is. CC's mom saw it last night and left her Breathless. I said "Why don't you try 400 Blows" but she wanted Playtime first to get In the Mood for Love. Then she saw my dog's Thin Red Line and left her in a state of Repulsion. I said "why don't you get Naked" and let's get down with the F (for fake that is) before I catch a couple Z's tonight. Then I heard a knock on the front door of the House and it was her Sisters "Sid & Nancy" (don't ask me why her sister is named Sid). Well I found out Sid was a dude so I said "It was Bad Timing", and I just Ran before I got a Taste of Cherry.



MASTER CG! Goodnight everyone! See ya in the morning!

[neo78956]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

My "Notorious" 8 1/2 is rubbed alot as it is. CC's mom saw it last night and left her Breathless. I said "Why don't you try 400 Blows" but she wanted Playtime first to get In the Mood for Love. Then she saw my dog's Thin Red Line and left her in a state of Repulsion. I said "why don't you get Naked" and let's get down with the F (for fake that is) before I catch a couple Z's tonight. Then I heard a knock on the front door of the House and it was her Sisters "Sid & Nancy" (don't ask me why her sister is named Sid). Well I found out Sid was a dude so I said "It was Bad Timing", and I just Ran before I got a Taste of Cherry.



MASTER CG! Goodnight everyone! See ya in the morning!

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

My "Notorious" 8 1/2 is rubbed alot as it is. CC's mom saw it last night and left her Breathless. I said "Why don't you try 400 Blows" but she wanted Playtime first to get In the Mood for Love. Then she saw my dog's Thin Red Line and left her in a state of Repulsion. I said "why don't you get Naked" and let's get down with the F (for fake that is) before I catch a couple Z's tonight. Then I heard a knock on the front door of the House and it was her Sisters "Sid & Nancy" (don't ask me why her sister is named Sid). Well I found out Sid was a dude so I said "It was Bad Timing", and I just Ran before I got a Taste of Cherry.

Only 400 Blows? I'd have thought you'd have gone for The Small Back Room, CG...

[captveg]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Because Sam Fuller is the F'n S***, next to Nicholas Ray that is.

Army of Shadows is prob the best Melville movie Criterion has. Also it's StudioCanal, which means Elevator to the Gallows could still see a blu release.

Broadcast News can be thrown out the window, and...

Haven't seen Robinson Crusoe on Mars, but that is significant to me because if they can release that, they can release pretty much anything with no crying "that it didn't sell well".

Are we sure Army of Shadows is StudioCanal? The DVD says 'Under exclusive license from Rialto Pictures'.

Where is this info that Robinson Crusoe on Mars didn't sell well coming from?

Also - Broadcast News may not be to your interest, but it's a solid film that has needed a better release for a while now.

[The Drugstore]

Any news on when The Game will be released. And will Criterion ever release Hard Boiled, The Killer, The Rock, and Armageddon on Blu-Ray. Waiting for BF to pick up The Thin Red Line, will also pick up Broadcast News

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by JediFonger

i dunno any of the titles that were announced for January. anyone wanna explain why they're so significant?

Oh, if only I had a dollar for every time that Jedi has asked this same exact question?

CC

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

My "Notorious" 8 1/2 is rubbed alot as it is. CC's mom saw it last night and left her Breathless. I said "Why don't you try 400 Blows" but she wanted Playtime first to get In the Mood for Love. Then she saw my dog's Thin Red Line and left her in a state of Repulsion. I said "why don't you get Naked" and let's get down with the F (for fake that is) before I catch a couple Z's tonight. Then I heard a knock on the front door of the House and it was her Sisters "Sid & Nancy" (don't ask me why her sister is named Sid). Well I found out Sid was a dude so I said "It was Bad Timing", and I just Ran before I got a Taste of Cherry.

My mother would be proud, CG. I'm pretty sure she's had a similar dream about you, as well. I'm pretty sure she's been craving some of that young stuff lately since my stepfather, unfortunately, looks like Wilford Brimley.

CC

[chetripley80]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Because Sam FullerHaven't seen Robinson Crusoe on Mars, but that is significant to me because if they can release that, they can release pretty much anything with no crying "that it didn't sell well".

Do you have a link to show what the sales were like on Robinson Crusoe? I know it's not a flagship title for Criterion, but I thought it sold a decent amount of units. It's one of the 20 or so titles (out of 522) Criterion has had up in their site's shop for artwork for the past couple of years.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by captveg

Are we sure Army of Shadows is StudioCanal? The DVD says 'Under exclusive license from Rialto Pictures'.

Where is this info that Robinson Crusoe on Mars didn't sell well coming from?

Also - Broadcast News may not be to your interest, but it's a solid film that has needed a better release for a while now.

1. It might be Rialto Pictures. I may of got that wrong.

2. I was meaning lower tier title. Like they would want to put this out before how many flagship titles and new titles? Not hating on it. Haven't seen it. Go and buy it if you want. I just see it as good news for me, that they would pop out with stuff like this instead of going all Seven Samurai or Breathless everytime they re-release.

3. Opinions man. It was a joke anyways. Why would I spend $30 to toss it out a window?




Edit: Ah ha! I found this on CriterionForum about Army of Shadows:

"While it is licensed from Rialto, the copright is attributed to "StudioCanal Image/Fono Roma (Italie)", and there's a StudioCanal logo stamped on the bottom. It's unquestionably an SC-held title."

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by ccfixx

My mother would be proud, CG. I'm pretty sure she's had a similar dream about you, as well. I'm pretty sure she's been craving some of that young stuff lately since my stepfather, unfortunately, looks like Wilford Brimley.

CC

You have a stepfather that looks like Wilford Brimley? Awesome.

[JediFonger]

i think this should be 1 of the points of this thread. otherwise talking about lusting after the latest titles... w/o explaining WHY is kind of m00t >P

Originally Posted by ccfixx

Oh, if only I had a dollar for every time that Jedi has asked this same exact question?

CC

[hedliniv]

In all seriousness do you think that Criterion would ever pickup and release "The Jerk"?

[captveg]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

3. Opinions man. It was a joke anyways. Why would I spend $30 to toss it out a window?

Oh, opinions are fine. It's just that you were describing the film to someone who hasn't seen it, and I was making a counterpoint to your dismissal. Just as you would to mine if I said Pierrot le fou could be tossed out a window (because I wouldn't spend $30 on it, personally).

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Edit: Ah ha! I found this on CriterionForum about Army of Shadows:

"While it is licensed from Rialto, the copright is attributed to "StudioCanal Image/Fono Roma (Italie)", and there's a StudioCanal logo stamped on the bottom. It's unquestionably an SC-held title."

SC may hold the rights, but it they licensed the rights to Rialto for a certain amount of time - say, through 2012 - then Criterion's license from Rialto would still be valid, and not directly through SC.

[kndy]

If you were part of a panel to select the Criterion Collection Release of the Year and narrow one for each category, think you can do it?

Which would you pick as your Criterion Collection Release of the Year 2010 (choose only one for each category and explain why):

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION RELEASE OF 2010

2 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa (Blu-ray)
10 Walkabout Nicolas Roeg (Blu-ray)
30 M Fritz Lang (Blu-ray)
44 The Red Shoes Michael Powell (Blu-ray)
48 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus (Blu-ray)
52-53 Yojimbo/Sanuro Akira Kurosawa (Blu-ray)
57 Charade Stanley Donen (Blu-ray)
93 Black Narcissus Michael Powell (Blu-ray)
235 The Leopard Luchino Visconti (Blu-ray)
248 Videodrome David Cronenberg (Blu-ray)
408 Breathless Jean-Luc Godard (Blu-ray)
496 Che Steven Soderbergh
497-500 Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy Roberto Rosselini
501 Paris, Texas Wim Wnders
502 Revanche Götz Spielmann
503 Lola Montes Max Ophuls
504 Hunger Steve McQueen
505 Make Way for Tomorrow Leo Mccarey
506 Dillinger is Dead Marco Ferreri
507 Bigger Than Life Nicholas Rey
508-511 Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa
512 Vivre Sa Vie Jean-Luc Godard
513 Summer Hours Olivier Assayas
514 Ride with the Devil Ang Lee
515 The Fugitive Kind Sidney Lumet
516 Stagecoach John Ford
517-518 By Brakhage: An Anthology Volume One and Two Stan Brakhage
519 Close-Up Abbas Kiarostami
520 Everlasting Moments Jan Troell
521 Mystery Train Jim Jarmusch
522 Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni
523 Night Train to Munich Carol Reed
524-526 The Only Son/There Was a Father Yasujiro Ozu
527 The Secret of the Grain Abdellatif Kechiche
528-531 3 Silent Classics by Josef Von Sternberg
532 Louie Bluie Terry Zwigoff
533 Crumb Terry Zwigoff
534 L’Enfance Nue Maurice Pialat
535 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima
536 The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick
537 The Magician Ingmar Bergman
538 Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick
539 House Nobuhiko Obayashi
540 The Darjeeling Limited Wes Anderson
541 The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton
542 Antichrist Lars von Trier
543 Modern Times Charles Chaplin
544-550 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
551 Cronos Guillermo Del Toro Mexico

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BLU-RAY RELEASE OF 2010

2 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa
10 Walkabout Nicolas Roeg
30 M Fritz Lang
44 The Red Shoes Michael Powell
48 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus
52-53 Yojimbo/Sanuro Akira Kurosawa
57 Charade Stanley Donen
93 Black Narcissus Michael Powell
235 The Leopard Luchino Visconti
248 Videodrome David Cronenberg
408 Breathless Jean-Luc Godard
409 Days of Heaven Terrence Malick
496 Che Steven Soderbergh
501 Paris, Texas Wim Wnders
502 Revanche Götz Spielmann
503 Lola Montes Max Ophuls
504 Hunger Steve McQueen
507 Bigger Than Life Nicholas Rey
512 Vivre Sa Vie Jean-Luc Godard
513 Summer Hours Olivier Assayas
514 Ride with the Devil Ang Lee
516 Stagecoach John Ford
517-518 By Brakhage: An Anthology Volume One and Two Stan Brakhage
519 Close-Up Abbas Kiarostami
520 Everlasting Moments Jan Troell
521 Mystery Train Jim Jarmusch
522 Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni
527 The Secret of the Grain Abdellatif Kechiche
532 Louie Bluie Terry Zwigoff
533 Crumb Terry Zwigoff
535 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima
536 The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick
537 The Magician Ingmar Bergman
538 Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick
539 House Nobuhiko Obayashi
540 The Darjeeling Limited Wes Anderson
541 The Night of the Hunter Charles Laughton
542 Antichrist Lars von Trier
543 Modern Times Charles Chaplin
544-550 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
551 Cronos Guillermo Del Toro Mexico

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BOX-SET RELEASE OF 2010

52-53 Yojimbo/Sanjuro (Blu-ray) Akira Kurosawa
497-500 Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy Roberto Rosselini
508-511 Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa
517-518 By Brakhage: An Anthology Volume One and Two Stan Brakhage
524-526 The Only Son/There Was a Father Yasujiro Ozu
528-531 3 Silent Classics by Josef Von Sternberg
544-550 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Essential Art House: Volume Five

BEST ECLIPSE SERIES OF THE YEAR (2010):

19 Chantal Akerman In the Seventies
20 George Bernard Shaw on Film
21 Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties
22 Presenting Sacha Guitry
23 The First Films of Akira Kurosawa
24 The Actuality Dramas of Allan King

[whbinder]

Originally Posted by The Drugstore

Any news on when The Game will be released. And will Criterion ever release Hard Boiled, The Killer, The Rock, and Armageddon on Blu-Ray. Waiting for BF to pick up The Thin Red Line, will also pick up Broadcast News

No news on The Game other than that it's being worked on. It could be as soon as February, but will likely be sometime in 2011.

Hard Boiled and The Killer are very unlikely as they no longer have the rights to either film. There have been cases in the past of Criterion regaining rights to films (such as Salo) but there's nothing, even on the rumor front, of this happening to Woo's films.

The Rock and Armageddon. Not impossible, but fairly unlikely for three reasons.

First, there are currently well produced Blu-rays of both titles (The Rock even maintains many of the Criterion extras) it's not impossible to licence these titles for dual release - it's happened before, but it's unlikely.

Second, The Rock and Armageddon were released for a large number of political reasons in their day which no longer exist. They were given to Criterion as part of a package to receive other less mainstream titles and they provided an economic shot in the arm that Criterion needed during their entry to DVD. They are also considred by many to be the two least worthy titles of Criterion release and as such there's a smaller market among Criterion collectors for these titles. (Larger audience in the general public perhaps, but see reason number 1)

Third, Criterion was undergoing a minor identity change in the late nineties. In the Laserdisc days they had a much wider reach in terms of obtaining rights and released far more contemporary titles (Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, etc) but with the DVD explosion they refined their focus to the more avant garde. Criterion 2010 is a different beast than the company that released the Bay titles.

So none of your four titles is impossible, but I would probably rate them as possibly the four least likely titles to be revisited of the entire collection.

Nonetheless, I wish you well in your quest to find quality Blu-rays of those titles.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by kndy

If you were part of a panel to select the Criterion Collection Release of the Year and narrow one for each category, think you can do it?

Which would you pick as your Criterion Collection Release of the Year 2010 (choose only one for each category and explain why):

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION RELEASE OF 2010

544-550 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BLU-RAY RELEASE OF 2010

517-518 By Brakhage: An Anthology Volume One and Two Stan Brakhage

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BOX-SET RELEASE OF 2010

528-531 3 Silent Classics by Josef Von Sternberg

BEST ECLIPSE SERIES OF THE YEAR (2010):

19 Chantal Akerman In the Seventies
or
21 Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties

[billzfan]

I'm starting my blu-ray Criterion collection and wanted to get some suggestions. I ordered M, Seven Samurai, and Benjamin Button. Which others would you recommend as must own? Thanks

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I'm starting my blu-ray Criterion collection and wanted to get some suggestions. I ordered M, Seven Samurai, and Benjamin Button. Which others would you recommend as must own? Thanks

Some of my favs:

Last Year at Marienbad
Vivre sa vie
Breathless
Bigger Than Life
Repulsion
Close-up

prob in that order.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I'm starting my blu-ray Criterion collection and wanted to get some suggestions. I ordered M, Seven Samurai, and Benjamin Button. Which others would you recommend as must own? Thanks

I love "Wages of Fear" But "Last Year At Marienbad" and "Bigger Than Life" are both pretty high up on the list......

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

You have a stepfather that looks like Wilford Brimley? Awesome.

You trying to get an inside line on some Diabetes testing supplies or something?