Videodrome (1983)

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Originally Posted by bigshot

I've seen all of Cronenberg's films going all the way back to Rabid. I'm a fan of his stuff. Heck, I even have a five foot tall prop Mugwump from Naked Lunch that i rescued from the shredder hanging over my bar.

I like David Cronenberg films... But is he a great Director like the ones that Criterion normally focuses on? Uh, no. Not really. His films are weird and silly and awkward and a lot of fun, but they aren't particularly meaningful or influential. He's a weird cult/horror director.

I guess I just remember back in the laserdisc days where every film Criterion released was a major title. Maybe they've run out of classics and have to scavenge for things that fall between the cracks of major studios.

It's just that Videodrome is one of the most aggressively goofy films Cronenberg ever made (Scanners and The Brood come very close).

It seems to me you clearly don't understand "the collection" You may not feel Cronenberg is a "criterion worthy" director where as another may think Godard isn't. Sure there are films that are not my favorites in the collection but as far as the dvd and blu-ray collection is concerned there isn't a single movie in either that isn't important in its own rights to make it into the collection. Everyone has different taste in film and criterion does a wonderful job of releasing important and sometimes hard to find or even forgotten films for people of every genre. If you are puzzled about criterion putting out videodrome, what do you have to say of Robinson Crusoe on Mars or Fuller's Naked Kiss coming out?