The Criterion Collection

[silverlakephil]

I hope B&N does restock it for the 50% sale because the marketplace prices are quite high.

[CriterionBlues]

Three Films of Teshigahara may not be technically OOP, but it is listed at OOP prices. Even at Amazon.

[silverlakephil]

Originally Posted by CriterionBlues

Three Films of Teshigahara may not be technically OOP, but it is listed at OOP prices. Even at Amazon.

399.99 is just ridiculous.

[PowellPressburger]

Speaking of Teshigahara, I want a BLU upgrade for Antonio Guadi badly on BLU. It would also be icing on the cake if Criterion could also include as a bonus disc the score by Toru Takemitsu.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Speaking of Teshigahara, I want a BLU upgrade for Antonio Guadi badly on BLU. It would also be icing on the cake if Criterion could also include as a bonus disc the score by Toru Takemitsu.

BLU upgrades on BLU are my favorite!

[LPMA]

Originally Posted by oildude

The Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara DVD set is not OOP. However, for some reason it cannot be ordered from the Criterion site. Here is a direct quote from their listing on Criterion.com

My best guess would be that their stock has run out and it wasn't a strong enough seller to warrant a second run yet.

[jw007]

I finally watched 8½, one of the greatest movies of all time (according to legions of critics)! I spent a couple nights watching the supplements too. I read so many reviews about people having to rewatch this a minimum of 4 times before they could adequately give their thoughts/review, but I just wanted to say, although it was frustrating at times, I understood Fellini's vision and look forward to seeing this again!

[ShellOilJunior]

Article on the new The Third Man restoration.

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/st...an-look-weird#

Before you get upset at the author please consider this:

Not all digital restorations are terrible looking (the presentation of the restored “The Apu Trilogy” is an example that has been championed) but it’s only recently, with the advent of 4K-resolution technology, that a DCP has been able to closely approximate the look and feel of celluloid. (If a theater advertises a 2K restoration of a film, don’t bother; you could get the same quality watching a DVD on a computer screen.)

[Yami]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Article on the new The Third Man restoration.

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/st...an-look-weird#

That's less an article about The Third Man restoration than the author's aversion to digital restoration and projection. The nonsensical statement that you quoted is enough to invalidate their whole argument

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by Yami

That's less an article about The Third Man restoration than the author's aversion to digital restoration and projection. The nonsensical statement that you quoted is enough to invalidate their whole argument

There's also his inability to spell Joseph Cotten's name correctly.

[bwdowiak]

I saw Alphaville last summer and that was a brand new DCP. Didn't look "weird" to me.

I don't want to entirely dismiss what he is saying, because honestly, I don't know enough about the subject, but this part is weird, too:

"Nick Pinkerton, in a column for Film Comment magazine, is instructive reading on the subject. He counters the view that a digital restoration would eliminate the problem of aging prints (with celluloid there is a natural degradation process, meaning every time the film runs through a projector, the quality gradually decreases) by offering the same experience seemingly forever. “[B]ut this presupposes that the movie looks good in the first place, as opposed to merely freshly scrubbed,” Pinkerton writes."

"freshly scrubbed" as he is using it here is equal to "having undergone a recent restoration," no?

so what would be wrong with that? if an unchanging digital copy is made of films that have undergone fantastic restorations, then that's a great thing.

maybe there's something I'm missing. ??

[Martin_31]

Do you (forum users) have a step-by-step process on how you go through a Criterion Blu-ray? For example, watching the film first, then reading the booklet/pamphlet, and lastly watching the supplements. Or the other way around?
I always watch the movie first, then read the booklet/pamphlet, and lastly watch the supplements except the audio commentaries. To be honest, I never listen to the audio commentaries.

[Vinyl]

Originally Posted by jw007

I finally watched 8½, one of the greatest movies of all time (according to legions of critics)! I spent a couple nights watching the supplements too. I read so many reviews about people having to rewatch this a minimum of 4 times before they could adequately give their thoughts/review, but I just wanted to say, although it was frustrating at times, I understood Fellini's vision and look forward to seeing this again!

Wow, reading your posts on the forums, you have seen SO much more than me, but haven't seen something everyone talks about?

Either way, it is a great movie and love that another of us have been initiated.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

Do you (forum users) have a step-by-step process on how you go through a Criterion Blu-ray? For example, watching the film first, then reading the booklet/pamphlet, and lastly watching the supplements. Or the other way around?
I always watch the movie first, then read the booklet/pamphlet, and lastly watch the supplements except the audio commentaries. To be honest, I never listen to the audio commentaries.

Depends on the film and what mood I am in :P will do in any order really, sometimes I like seeing the supplements to get me in the mood for the film, sometimes I want to dive right in

The Double Life of Veronique is probably only film that I watched 5 times in a row in one day (in the collection), a couple normal viewing and then a couple with the commentary track (which I loved) and then a final normal viewing. That film fascinates me I just can't stop watching it!

[lemonpie30]

Gosh, I feel like I've literally waited a lifetime for Mulholland Dr. on Blu-ray/Criterion. I'm so so so glad that's happening!

All these years later and it remains the greatest cinematic experience of my life!

I'd love for The Criterion to release another 2001 film, Ghost World. That would be cool!

[jmclick]

Originally Posted by silverlakephil

I hope B&N does restock it for the 50% sale because the marketplace prices are quite high.

None of the B&N stores in my area stock the blu-ray of Fish Tank, so when I wanted it during the last 50% off sale ... and wanted an additional 10% off in-store rather than free shipping from the B&N website ... I simply had my nearest store order a copy for me and picked it up there.

You might try doing the same as the sale approaches and see what happens.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by Vinyl

Wow, reading your posts on the forums, you have seen SO much more than me, but haven't seen something everyone talks about?

Either way, it is a great movie and love that another of us have been initiated.

Yes...for some reason I sometimes avoid some of the major classic old movies that "everyone talks about" because I've prob. read enough articles and journals and magazines on those films from back in film school up until today, when I had to write essays on specific sequences from the film. I see these films as "exercises" now because of that distinct stigma I gained as a younger scholar.

[Polaroid]

No newsletter clue D:?

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

No newsletter clue D:?

Probably next week, some times they send this mail that is not their usual newsletter, but they send another closer to the end of the month.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

Probably next week, some times they send this mail that is not their usual newsletter, but they send another closer to the end of the month.

AH ok never seen them skip one.....

I will just repost this to get people excited