The Criterion Collection

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Originally Posted by Xtempo

What is the deal with the release of Criterion's Howards End? I recently watched that and enjoyed it since I got Room With A View earlier and love that as well. I enjoyed the bonus content on that and was searching for Howards End. I came across there was a production error or something is this true?

I can't remember what the error was but Cohen rereleased it with a 4K remaster that is better than the criterion but it was misframed. They did a replacement for it but I guess the replacement is still misframed along with brightness and/or color timing issues I believe. It's been a problematic title on blu ray.

[Arawn]

Originally Posted by bonehica

I had an elderly lady pat me on the shoulder and tell me "everything will be alright" at the end of Demme's "Philadelphia" when I saw it in the theater. That's how hard I was sobbing. It sucks...

Philadelphia has the same effect on me. Not the film, the actual place.

[Xtempo]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

I can't remember what the error was but Cohen rereleased it with a 4K remaster that is better than the criterion but it was misframed. They did a replacement for it but I guess the replacement is still misframed along with brightness issues I believe. It's been a problematic title on blu ray.

It is the only place ti get the bonus features from Criterion right? I suppose I might have to get both though

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Xtempo

It is the only place ti get the bonus features from Criterion right? I suppose I might have to get both though

Everything but "The Wandering Company" is ported over to the Cohen.

[Xtempo]

This is crazy. All Criterion LaserDisc in one video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa56...ature=youtu.be

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by Xtempo

This is crazy. All Criterion LaserDisc in one video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa56...ature=youtu.be

That's Daisuke, lovely chap. I think he has every Criterion Laserdisc, DVD & Blu Ray ever released.

[Spiderwalk]

Originally Posted by Gerby

That's Daisuke, lovely chap. I think he has every Criterion Laserdisc, DVD & Blu Ray ever released.

He's probably the nicest, most polite person currently on YouTube. He always takes the time to respond to comments too.

[thebalconyfool]

Originally Posted by Spiderwalk

He's probably the nicest, most polite person currently on YouTube. He always takes the time to respond to comments too.

I agree, he's such a lovely guy. I have been following him on youtube for awhile now. I love his videos.

[Xtempo]

I seem to be late on things but at least now I've discovered him his videos are great!

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by Xtempo

This is crazy. All Criterion LaserDisc in one video!

Very impressive. At on point I was intent on doing something similar, but I got tired of trying to find items in good shape since not many people shipped LD correctly and 1/2 of them were damaged in transit from Ebay sellers. It was especially difficult trying to extract information on those titles with multiple releases like the first several titles. I ended up with around 200 Criterion disc -- about 120 which were bought after DVD took over and people were sort of clearing out titles. Most of them weren't super cheap even then

It appears he uses Ikea Billy bookcases for many of his BD's in double Rows to save space from the background of the Video.
I haven't looked, but I wonder what he stores his LD's in. The Billy's really aren't deep enough esp for those boxsets unless he wants 2-3 inches sometimes hanging off the edge. I did find some other Videos with what appear to be non IKEA 15-16 inch shelves -- shiny so I think they're metal

[The Great Owl]

I just placed an order for...

Stranger than Paradise
Night on Earth
Mystery Train
Police Story/Police Story 2
A Face in the Crowd

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

It appears he uses Ikea Billy bookcases for many of his BD's in double Rows to save space from the background of the Video.
I haven't looked, but I wonder what he stores his LD's in. The Billy's really aren't deep enough esp for those boxsets unless he wants 2-3 inches sometimes hanging off the edge. I did find some other Videos with what appear to be non IKEA 15-16 inch shelves -- shiny so I think they're metal

LD's are the same size as a vinyl record, right? I use this guy: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20275885/ for my records and it has some extra room so they aren't hanging

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by gbm82

LD's are the same size as a vinyl record, right? I use this guy: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20275885/ for my records and it has some extra room so they aren't hanging

Depends. Some of them are essentially that same size, the boxsets can be be both taller and deeper depending on the release.

The IKEA Bestas 15 inch might work thought I'm not sure the actual shelf could hold the weight of a fully loaded 2+ foot width ao you;d have used smaller width units

I'd forgotten about the Kallax Shelves which certainly would work for the standard discs anyway -- if each shelf is 13in high that would work, but LD are significant heavier than LP's, but 12-13 inches per shelf might be reasonable. They have a shinier surface so that could be what Daisuke was using and the holes I can see on the side panels in his video seem to be similar so I'm betting that's what he using there.

12-13 inch width Laserdisc would be around 50 lbs which is certainly above the recommended 30lb per shelf on the IKEA sit

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

12-13 inch width Laserdisc would be around 50 lbs which is certainly above the recommended 30lb per shelf on the IKEA sit

A quick search suggests a LD is about 1/2lb. I think I keep about 50 lps on each shelf, so that would be about 25lbs plus the packaging. And looking at this video:

The Films (TV Works) of Dario Argento 20: Do You Like Hitchcock? - YouTube

Those look like my shelf with the same headroom, except mine is black.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by gbm82

A quick search suggests a LD is about 1/2lb. I think I keep about 50 lps on each shelf, so that would be about 25lbs plus the packaging. And looking at this video:
The Films (TV Works) of Dario Argento 20: Do You Like Hitchcock? - YouTube
Those look like my shelf with the same headroom, except mine is black.

A single disc release would be around 10 oz depending on whether it was thin cardboard of thicker stock/bifold, but anything much more than 1:45 would often have 2 discs so a lot of single movies would be 20-22+ oz.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Everything but "The Wandering Company" is ported over to the Cohen.

Just avoid the UK Blu (also from Cohen) which doesn’t have the Criterion extras. The Wandering Company had an individual UK DVD release so it’s still accessible.

Originally Posted by Arawn

Philadelphia has the same effect on me. Not the film, the actual place.

The film made me cry a lot but I feel that with every film that tackles AIDS. I was a mess after Can You Ever Forgive Me?; I think especially being a part of the LGBTQIA community makes it even more resonant when you either know people who are HIV positive, or many of the actors and and writers and filmmaking talents you look up to were lost, and feeling like it was such recent ‘history’ and still has effects in the present - there’s been a shift but there also hasn’t.

Also I concur that Daisuke is fantastic, always very informative and makes me want to track down some laserdisc titles maybe at some point in the future.

[mediocre]

Anyone else get this email today? Night on Earth is still coming out this Tuesday, right? Guess it's what I deserve for preordering from the dumpster fire that is Amazon:

Hello,

We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on January 26, 2019:
***
* "Night on Earth (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]"
*** Estimated arrival date: April 17, 2019

We hope to see you again soon!

Sincerely,


Customer Service Department

FWIW Stranger Than Paradise, which I preordered at the same time, is still showing delivery for Tuesday the 9th...

[Agent23]

I started collecting CC a couple months ago. So I’m not quite up on all their releases and announcements. Was wondering if Peeping Tom or Zodiac are in the plans?

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Agent23

Was wondering if Peeping Tom or Zodiac are in the plans?

No.

[gbm82]

I've been slowly working my way through the BBS set, I'd only seen Five Easy Pieces before (a few times). When I got the set I put on Head and thought it was fun, if not slightly flawed. Certainly a nice start and I plan to rewatch it.

Following shortly was Easy Rider, perhaps it was the years of hearing about it and having it on my list (and my enjoyment of Five from the get go -I always associated them together) but I felt mostly underwhelmed. Still I could understand how it fit into the overall picture at the time.

Drive, He Said for whatever reason could not grab me, I turned it off about midway, tried again the next day and still...nothing. After this I shelved the set for a few months.

Dusting it off I put on The King of Marvin Gardens. Wow!! I loved it, possibly even more than Five. Perhaps I just burned myself out on the set (and American New Wave in general) and needed a break, or maybe Drive just doesn't resonate like the others, but now I'm excited, again, to see The Last Picture Show and A Safe Place for the first time.

Of course I'll need to watch Five shortly after, as I've only seen it in classes or streaming so far... and then I'll revisit Drive. Hopefully it'll click then...