The Criterion Collection

[Tin Drum]

Originally Posted by Banned User

I'm so amazed at the complete lack of enthusiasm here for Marketa Lazarová. IMO by far one of the best films in the collection.

I started watching it one night and, obviously, my ADD was taking over and I had to turn it off for a later date where I can clear my mind to watch.

Gorgeous opening scene though!

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by octagon

The Blob

And Thief had a lot of competition but the scenes on Lincoln Avenue were the tie-breaker. I used to at a bar down the street from where a few scenes were shot and I can't wait to see that stretch of Lincoln between Belden and Webster the way it used to be.

which part of Thief was shot on Lincoln Ave? I don't recall. I remember, obviously, The Green Mill which is on Lawrence and Broadway and the car dealership which was on Western just south (I believe) of Irving Park. ...and then Balmoral Ave comes up.. I couldn't place it as to where the cross street is, but that's in my neck of the woods (pretty sure) on the nw side near O'Hare.

[Freeza]

1. Repo Man
2. Zatoichi
3. Wild Strawberries
4. Ivan's Childhood
5. Shoah

Blind: Zatoichi
Looking Forward: Persona

[jw007]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Final Poll - Best Release of 2013

Voting open until the end of the year. You may choose 5 for best release.


1st place - 5 points
2nd place - 4 points
3rd place - 3 points
4th place - 2 points
5th place - 1 point

http://tinyurl.com/BestCriterion2013

1. On the Waterfront
2. Nashville
3. A Man Escaped
4. City Lights
5. Badlands

Favorite blind buy: Seconds

2014 early pick: Thief

[The Great Owl]

The Barnes & Noble 40% off sale is still in effect, so I've just reserved these for pickup this afternoon...

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Serpico

I've been looking for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Serpico since they were released, but the Barnes & Noble "Pick Up in Store" function does not easily work for newer titles for some reason. As per the instructions that someone gave on this forum a few days back, I did the "Pick Up in Store" search for an older movie, and then copied/pasted the product numbers of these newer titles onto the URL to get the search to work. This may be why people are having trouble finding Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project set in local stores when performing a website query.

I've been wanting The Bridge on the River Kwai since I bought my Blu-ray player, but I've always somehow focused on other titles ahead of it. The 40% off will allow me to get the Blu-ray for less than $10, so there's no excuse.

Originally Posted by Banned User

I'm so amazed at the complete lack of enthusiasm here for Marketa Lazarová. IMO by far one of the best films in the collection.

I loved my first viewing of Marketa Lazarová, although my User Review for the movie is a rather laughable attempt to get my mind around the film. The visuals are both feral and beautiful.

[joie]

I saw so many in 2013 and bought only a few. Those were, in no particular order:

Life of Ohauru
The Big City
Journey to Italy
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
La Notte

For 2014, the only one I plan to buy, so far, is The Great Beauty. But I'll see many more than that.

[ShellOilJunior]

Those Ray films need more love. I really enjoyed The Big City and Charulata.

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Those Ray films need more love. I really enjoyed The Big City and Charulata.

hey SOJ - how would you describe those films? I am curious about them, but hesitant to put them on a blind buy want list. are they lyrical like Pather Panchali? (saw that one recently) are they plot driven? (guessing not) to be filed under the category of art films? do they feature explorations of Indian culture? what can one expect w/ these films?

curious. thanks!

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The Barnes & Noble 40% off sale is still in effect,

for how long will the 40% sale last, and when will the next 50% sale start? currently im thinking about ordering the last 2 bergman blurays im missing(smiles of a summer night , autumn sonata) and throne of blood (preorder)

and i probably would add one of these as well

Sado , A man escaped , wages of fear , naked lunch

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The Barnes & Noble 40% off sale is still in effect, so I've just reserved these for pickup this afternoon...

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Serpico

I've been looking for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Serpico since they were released, but the Barnes & Noble "Pick Up in Store" function does not easily work for newer titles for some reason. As per the instructions that someone gave on this forum a few days back, I did the "Pick Up in Store" search for an older movie, and then copied/pasted the product numbers of these newer titles onto the URL to get the search to work. This may be why people are having trouble finding Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project set in local stores when performing a website query.

I've been wanting The Bridge on the River Kwai since I bought my Blu-ray player, but I've always somehow focused on other titles ahead of it. The 40% off will allow me to get the Blu-ray for less than $10, so there's no excuse.




I loved my first viewing of Marketa Lazarová, although my User Review for the movie is a rather laughable attempt to get my mind around the film. The visuals are both feral and beautiful.

Was just there at lunch and the sales lady said it's running until Jan 2nd. I was hoping my copy of Pale Flower had come in, but no luck. So, I picked up:

The Third Man
The Complete Metropolis

I can't wait to watch The Third Man on blu-ray. I love Orson Welles and noir, so best of both!

My one question is, should I double dip on the Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis for the Fading Image documentary, or any other reason? The review doesn't really make it seem worth the dip, but thought I'd ask here and see what the general feeling was. Thanks for the feedback!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

for how long will the 40% sale be going, and when will the next 50% sale start? currently im thinking about ordering the last 2 bergman blurays im missing(smiles of a summer night , autumn sonata) and throne of blood (preorder)

and i probably would add one of these as well

Sado , A man escaped , wages of fear , naked lunch

The next 50% off sale may not happen for a long while at Barnes & Noble, but the store periodically issues great coupons.

I'm not sure when the 40% off sale ends, but I want to say December 24. Don't hold me to that.
(EDIT: I just read the above lordmorpheus post about the sale ending on January 2.)

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

for how long will the 40% sale last, and when will the next 50% sale start? currently im thinking about ordering the last 2 bergman blurays im missing(smiles of a summer night , autumn sonata) and throne of blood (preorder)

and i probably would add one of these as well

Sado , A man escaped , wages of fear , naked lunch

40% sale goes until Jan 2nd according to the sales lady I talked to.

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The next 50% off sale may not happen for a long while at Barnes & Noble, but the store periodically issues great coupons.

I'm not sure when the 40% off sale ends, but I want to say December 24. Don't hold me to that.

thanks to both of you. so im probably order the movies i mentioned above. maybe i will add naked lunch, i wouldnt say "videodrome" was one of my favorite movies but it was a "experince" naked lunch sounds like a odd movie as well.
since im a international customer i cant use any of these coupons anyway.


i wanted to add the kurosawa DVD sets as well. but im probably gonna wait for a 50% sale for that.

currently im watching the when horror came to shinjuku DVD set and the second movie i watched "genocide" looks really good for a DVD.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

I can't wait to watch The Third Man on blu-ray. I love Orson Welles and noir, so best of both!

I watched the StudioCanal Blu-ray of The Third Man the other night and loved it. The transfer is quite impressive in its own right. The Criterion Blu-ray is still my "Holy Grail" of Blu-rays, and I will continue to hunt for it at a reasonable price in used stores and such, but I'm quite thrilled with the StudioCanal Blu-ray.

This movie has some of the greatest visuals in cinema history. Every time I revisit it, I'm blown away.

I've always figured The Third Man as a darker twin of Casablanca, in that it shows a bleaker side of wartime human nature and it is rather unflinching with respect to showing the damage suffered by cities overseas, both in physical and mental terms.

[Mansinthe]

i dont get why the studiocanal release has no eng subs. at some movies and tv shows im fine without eng subs but with these older movies i prefer to have them just in case...
same goes for a lot of KINO releases (fritz lang movies for example)

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

i dont get why the studiocanal release has no eng subs. add some movies and tv shows im fine without eng subs but add these older movies i prefer to have them just in case...
same goes for a lot of KINO releases (fritz lang movies for example)

Yes, the lack of subtitles is the only thing that chaps me about the StudioCanal release, although I know enough of The Third Man from memory of previous viewings that I had no trouble understanding the dialogue.

Over the past two nights, I watched the Kino Blu-rays of The Stranger and Scarlet Street. These two discs are both excellent, and I fortunately had no trouble following the dialogue, despite the lack of subtitles.

Scarlet Street is one of the saddest films ever made. I love it, though.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I watched the StudioCanal Blu-ray of The Third Man the other night and loved it. The transfer is quite impressive in its own right. The Criterion Blu-ray is still my "Holy Grail" of Blu-rays, and I will continue to hunt for it at a reasonable price in used stores and such, but I'm quite thrilled with the StudioCanal Blu-ray.

This movie has some of the greatest visuals in cinema history. Every time I revisit it, I'm blown away.

Yeah they had the Studio Canal 50% off, plus my member 10%, so it was around 8 bucks. Couldn't pass it up! I'd love to find the Criterion of it, and Man Who Fell to Earth, but they are always way too much $$$$.

[lordmorpheus72]

Anyone see this on the Criterion Facebook page??

All our movies on iTunes are on sale, including Zatoichi's adventures at $5.99 apiece

Edit: Some clarification on that "sale":

The sale price for most is $9.99 HD/$7.99 SD, and some (like Zatoichi) are lower. Sale runs through end of year.

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Over the past two nights, I watched the Kino Blu-rays of The Stranger and Scarlet Street. These two discs are both excellent, and I fortunately had no trouble following the dialogue, despite the lack of subtitles.

Scarlet Street is one of the saddest films ever made. I love it, though.

that are the ones i have always a eye on. ;( i have no problems with stuff like game of thrones or forrest gump. they talk like on stage, really clear and easy to follow.
but now add some bad audio quality with maybe a odd way to talk and a strange accent and i might have my problems following the dialog.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Contrary to popular assumption, I am well aware that the Criterion Collection sometimes includes color films, and that many of these color films are worth watching. None of them made the cut with the above list, though.

This made me chuckle just a little. I did have a color film on my list, The Ice Storm

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I watched the StudioCanal Blu-ray of The Third Man the other night and loved it. The transfer is quite impressive in its own right. The Criterion Blu-ray is still my "Holy Grail" of Blu-rays, and I will continue to hunt for it at a reasonable price in used stores and such, but I'm quite thrilled with the StudioCanal Blu-ray.

This movie has some of the greatest visuals in cinema history. Every time I revisit it, I'm blown away.

I've always figured The Third Man as a darker twin of Casablanca, in that it shows a bleaker side of wartime human nature and it is rather unflinching with respect to showing the damage suffered by cities overseas, both in physical and mental terms.

Besides the Third Man, I've got a stack or 20 -30 discs to watch over Christmas Break, which starts at 5:00pm for me! I think I'm going to split the days up into genres, and one just Criterion release day.... but of course I have 4 Criterion/Eclipse releases that have 3 or more films. Crossing my fingers I get a lot of films in. (the wife isn't always a fan of sitting on the couch for 10+ taking in film after film)