The Criterion Collection

[Jobla]

MATEWAN will be a day one purchase for me.

HAXAN I would buy during a B&N sale.

[Polaroid]

Well sucks to have to wait another week for big release...

...however, where is Ray he should be over the moon with the new Top Gun trailer! Maybes thats supine #1000 :P

[GenPion]

Spine 1,000 better be a massive Kurosawa box-set, Godzilla box-set, or Wong Kar-Wai collection. Fingers crossed!

[The Sovereign]

Originally Posted by Jobla

MATEWAN will be a day one purchase for me.

HAXAN I would buy during a B&N sale.

Assuming that there's a sale in November, you shouldn't have to wait long for either.

[andantelise]

Great line up. I'm in for all except When We Were Kings. I was just about to buy the DVD for Haxan at B&N. Haxan is a seminal horror film, up there with Vampyr.

[Hoke Moseley]

Originally Posted by GenPion

Spine 1,000 better be a massive Kurosawa box-set, Godzilla box-set, or Wong Kar-Wai collection. Fingers crossed!

Rumor is it'll be all three in one set.

[javy]

Originally Posted by pikachufan1336

Haxen is foundational fantasy film

Actually, Haxan is anything but fantasy. It documents how closed-minded puritanical misfits would label something that they didn't understand as evil. And then these unfortunate ones, believing they're "bad", would suppress their natural humanness causing them to actually become insane.

I'm not saying there wasn't or aren't those who practice sorcery, but most are often misunderstood.

[deepscan]

Great to hear Criterion is digging further into the Paramount pre-50 titles not owned by Universal Television (at least the silent features). Some of these have already been issued in the UK by Masters of Cinema, so for the first time in a long time we have MoC titles issued here by Criterion. Interesting to see what they will do with THE LAST COMMAND.

[timothy ramzyk]

Originally Posted by javy

Actually, Haxan is anything but fantasy. It documents how closed-minded puritanical misfits would label something that they didn't understand as evil. And then these unfortunate ones, believing they're "bad", would suppress their natural humanness causing them to actually become insane.

I'm not saying there wasn't or aren't those who practice sorcery, but most are often misunderstood.

I've always been of the opinion that Haxan plays both sides of the fence by devoting more of it's running time to the lurid illumination of demonic, Medieval woodcuts and paintings than debunking ignorance. I some ways it's more of an artful Dwain Esper film that spends an hour treating us adults-only exploitation, only to redeem itself as "educational" in the final act.

[javy]

Originally Posted by timothy ramzyk

I've always been of the opinion that Haxan plays both sides of the fence by devoting more of it's running time to the lurid illumination of demonic, Medieval woodcuts and paintings than debunking ignorance. I some ways it's more of an artful Dwain Esper film that spends an hour treating us adults-only exploitation, only to redeem itself as "educational" in the final act.

I do find all those things fascinating, and I appreciate that aspect of the film. Though my exposure to religious intolerance couldn't help but to soak up the theme I already spoke of.

I enjoy Haxan and will definitely be upgrading this one.

[StarDestroyer52]

I'm stoked for 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg. I seriously almost picked up the Eureka copy of The Last Command(how did I leave the title out?) a few weeks ago but took it out of my cart at the last moment. Also, I still think were going to get a Godzilla set so everything is still good.

[andantelise]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

I'm stoked for 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg. I seriously almost picked up the Eureka a few weeks ago but took it out of my cart at the last moment. Also, I still think were going to get a Godzilla set so everything is still good.

For the Last Command?

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by andantelise

For the Last Command?

Yes, I meant to type that. I'm still tired it seems

[andantelise]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Yes, I meant to type that. I'm still tired it seems

Just making sure there wasn't already a MoC collection of all three films that I wasn't aware of.

[Luke Dodge748]

I'm not familiar with any of these titles, but most CC I get are usually blind buys. Haxan seems interesting as does Matewan... Wasn't worth the hubbub on here lol

[Narcissus]

When We Were Kings for me.

Spine 1000:
Stanley Kubrick Box Set Featuring New Restorations of:
Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket & Eyes Wide Shut.

Included Box Set Titles:
1955 Killer's Kiss - New Single Release
1956 The Killing
1957 Paths of Glory
1962 Lolita
1964 Dr. Strangelove
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1971 A Clockwork Orange
1975 Barry Lyndon
1987 Full Metal Jacket
1999 Eyes Wide Shut

[Rolling Joe]

Two of my favorite 80's films, Local Hero in September and Matewan in October.

Thank you Criterion!

Now, how about Albert Finney's tour de force Under the Volcano on Blu? And then maybe the Wonderful Sidney Pollack film, Havana from 1990?

I broke down and ordered Havana from Amazon DE a few months ago. The transfer is outstanding. On some scenes, I thought I was watching a 4k UHD disc. It deserves a decent release in North America.

[tatterdemalion]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

I'd make do with a Glauber Rocha or a Mikio Naruse boxset.

I believe I've never seen a Rocha film but I'm all in for Naruse. Him and Imamura Shohei are under-represented on bd. I understand Naruse is barely known outside of Japan but Imamura is well known in the art-house circle. He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes more times than any other Japanese director. We need The Eel, Dr. Akagi, Black Rain etc etc to be released. And for Naruse I hope we get at least Mother, Floating Clouds and Lightning along with an upgrade of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs someday.

Of the new announcements I definitely will buy Haxan. I had the dvd but sold it when I was short of cash about 10 years ago. I couldn't afford the Godzilla box set if, or when, it's announced. I'd love it if they could put the two MST3K episodes on it. Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster with Joel and the Bots! "Do you see half of what I see?"

[SuperFlyHighGuy]

Haxan is a pretty great film and a welcome upgrade for Halloween season, definitely in for that.

The only other title I've seen is When We Were Kings and it's a very memorable documentary, excited for that one too.

Whatever #1000 ends up being it sounds like a biggie. Hopefully it's not Citizen Kane though as some have mentioned - I already have a deluxe set of that on blu-ray and it's beautiful.

[octagon]

Wow, I can't remember the last time I was all in on everything.

I've had When We Were Kings on my wishlist for years, that's huge.

The Sternberg set is an autobuy and Haxan and Matewan sound right up my alley.

Excellent month