The Criterion Collection

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by crod33

Thanks, I just wish B&N weren't so expensive.

They are little more expensive on most blu-rays, but the regular price for Criterion discs, $39.95, so BN isn't far off. Amazon is generally cheaper unless you join the BN membership, and stack coupons during the sales.

[WonderWeasel]

Originally Posted by jmclick

Beaver Lake isn't too far away ... perhaps an hour's drive, maybe a little less. It would be more accurate to say that I live off the Elk River, not far from where it joins with Big Sugar Creek.

Do you not recognize the name of the town I live in, specifically as it relates to film history?

Honestly, I only recognized the name from road signs on my way to visit some friends who live in Wyandotte and Miami, Oklahoma, and family trips to Beaver Lake when I was a kid. I had to look up the connection to the 'Jesse James' film (my knowledge of film was acquired in an autodidactic manner, so there's large gaps lol.) That's awesome! I might have to make it down for Jesse James Days one of these years!

[WonderWeasel]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Sometimes Best Buy will have a few. Costco carries some. Used shops usually have a few.

I think you named the 2 main culprits though. I get 99% off my Criterions online or at B&N.

I second the used shops. Over the past couple months I've purchased 'Walkabout' for $21, 'All That Heaven Allows' for $8 (dual format missing the DVD but had everything else), 'The Red Shoes' for $21, and 'Anatomy of a Murder' for $15 (was missing the booklet) from used shops.

[WonderWeasel]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

90% of my Criterion Blurays are from BN. Getting them new for average of $14+ just spoils me from everything else even though it means waiting 6 months sometimes. I'll still get an occasional item during the Flash Sales, but even at a great price of $20 it still feels wrong.

I don't blame you one bit. The majority of mine have come from B&N sales and Christmas/birthday presents from family members I spent wayyy too much during the last sale.

Oh, and my apologies if this has already been mentioned, but TCM's 31 Days of Oscar is on. I'm about to sit down to 'The Thin Man' right now

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

I'm not sure you are in the minority to be honest, Goodbye To Language is on the verge of phenomenon status within cinephile circles and is selling out shows on both coasts of the US. It's topped polls all over the world too.

That doesn't mean that people prefer it to his classic work though. It just means that it's his most popular and well received film in a while. That isn't saying much really. Godard's fanbase is nothing now to compared to what it was in the 60's.

I'm glad that he has had a late career resurgence though.

[Polaroid]

Not Criterion related but OMG.

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Not Criterion related but OMG.

Where did you find this?
OMG!!!
I don't go anymore at the cinema, but I'm looking forward to go to this!

By the way, I would LOVE a narration free version, but i understand there won't be any!

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

Where did you find this?
OMG!!!
I don't go anymore at the cinema, but I'm looking forward to go to this!

By the way, I would LOVE a narration free version, but i understand there won't be any!

http://broadgreen.com/films

Theres a 3 page document on it too!

I'll be making the effort to travel out to see IMAX version

You could always mute it when its out and play your own soundtrack over it, or even get the soundtrack for the film and play over it

[SlickDamian]

Never heard of Voyage of Time, what is it?

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by SlickDamian

Never heard of Voyage of Time, what is it?

Its a Malick film that he's been working on for YEARS

VOYAGE OF TIME is a celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet. Malick is working first in the IMAX format for a 40-minute version with scientific narration by Brad Pitt, followed by a 35mm feature-length version with narration by Cate Blanchett.

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by D.I.T.C.

It absolutely crushes me that I'm no where near a 3D screening opportunity for this. I see the upcoming BD release has both 3D and 2D included. Would it even be worth seeing in 2D? I can't imagine it having anything close to the intended effect.

There are a couple of things that quite literally won't work in 2D, such as the much-lauded type of shot that Godard has seemingly invented, but it's still an impressive film regardless.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

There are a couple of things that quite literally won't work in 2D, such as the much-lauded type of shot that Godard has seemingly invented, but it's still an impressive film regardless.

Can you explain this shot please :P?

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by malakaheso

That doesn't mean that people prefer it to his classic work though. It just means that it's his most popular and well received film in a while. That isn't saying much really.

Unfortunately we have no real way of testing that. His post-60s work was far from "pretty much ignored" though, which was one of the points that you initially made. i've actually just checked and In Praise Of Love made more money at the US box-office in 2001 than Notre Musique did three years later, countering this idea that the latter marked Godard's "big comeback".

It stands to reason that his most famous work is going to be the most popular. The 60s work has been canonised by institutions like Criterion, so it's not surprising that those are the films that are best known. To paraphrase yourself tho, that doesn't mean that those who have seen a wide range of his work prefer it over the later stuff (in my experience it's quite the opposite, with the reputation of the later work putting many off from giving it a try. Those that do give the later work a shot tend to fall heavily for it). Thankfully the later work is getting it's turn in the spotlight now, with a couple of very good books having been published of late (Daniel Morgan's Late Godard is brilliant, while Michael Witt's Cinema Historian stands as one of the major events in Godard publishing) and the later films coming up for revaluation from the likes of Criterion and Cohen on home video.

Anyway, my initial point was that his latest film was well-received by both audiences and critics alike, countering this suggestion that you were in the minority in celebrating a film like Goodbye To Language.

Originally Posted by malakaheso

Godard's fanbase is nothing now to compared to what it was in the 60's.

What are you basing this on? Granted I'm approaching my evaluation of his popularity from a privileged, biased standpoint, but I've always seen him as consistently popular, especially here in Europe.

There's also a good case to be made for the idea that Godard was actually more popular in the early 1980s in the US than he was in the 60s, with the Dick Cavett interview on the recent Every Man For Himself disc (it helps that Godard decided to embrace, or at least tolerate, his celebrity around the time of that film's release, in an attempt to make a return to mainstream cinema).

[Tuco_76]

Originally Posted by filmmusic

Where did you find this?
OMG!!!
I don't go anymore at the cinema, but I'm looking forward to go to this!

By the way, I would LOVE a narration free version, but i understand there won't be any!

+1.. but Brad Pitt's the deal, obviously
The narration free parts in Tree of Life are so stunning.

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Can you explain this shot please :P?

There's a great article on it here. https://thedissolve.com/features/201...t-of-the-year/

In short tho -

[Show spoiler]at one point the two lenses of the 3D camera "split apart", so for ten seconds or so separate films are beamed in to each eye.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

There's a great article on it here. https://thedissolve.com/features/201...t-of-the-year/

In short tho -

[Show spoiler]at one point the two lenses of the 3D camera "split apart", so for ten seconds or so separate films are beamed in to each eye.

Oh wow - does it work well?

I've had a quick read up and the 3D reviews are really split :S

[Yami]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Oh wow - does it work well?



I've had a quick read up and the 3D reviews are really split :S

Yeah, it's breathtaking. Possibly my favourite cinematic experience last year - and I saw Satantango in 35mm

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Oh wow - does it work well?

I've had a quick read up and the 3D reviews are really split :S

Yeah, it's amazing, both of my audiences literally gasped, while people started cheering at Cannes. It's genuine spectacle, my mouth nearly hit the floor!

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by adamhopelies

Yeah, it's amazing, both of my audiences literally gasped, while people started cheering at Cannes. It's genuine spectacle, my mouth nearly hit the floor!

Originally Posted by Yami

Yeah, it's breathtaking. Possibly my favourite cinematic experience last year - and I saw Satantango in 35mm

I wanna see it now !

[I KEEL YOU]

Ah *Exhales*
Another century, another Godard revolution of film. So, what else is new?
In Breathless it was the edititing and camera movement/placement. Now it's 3D.

That shot sounds amazing. I have a suspicion that James Cameron will use it, or Michael Bay for some explosion effects or car wrecks or some **** like that.