The Criterion Collection

[SilentDawn]

Really loving this sale right now. I already picked up House and The Red Shoes from the sale but looking for more. I am considering these titles and I will probably be able to afford about three or four of them: Badlands (love malick's work), Breathless, The 400 Blows, Band of Outsiders, The Night of the Hunter, The Great Dictator (never seen a Chapin film, which is his best?) Any help would be greatly appreciated, Silent. Edit: I picked up The Night of the Hunter, The 400 Blows and Badlands to round out my criterion haul. Add House and The Red Shoes to that and it makes five great (hopefully) titles.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by bsitg

Haven't seen much talk about Sweet Smell of Success, but that looks like a good one. I really like Tony Curtis and Bert Lancaster. I'll probably end up getting this one.Soon to come:

Blow Out
The Night of the Hunter
Paths of Glory
Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success has generated plenty of talk over the years and virtually all of it is overwhelmingly positive and rightly so.

It's fantastic.

As is the rest of your foursome. Paths of Glory and Sweet Smell of Success are two of my favorite releases.

[blufellas]

Originally Posted by blurayoliver

Right, need an opinion on these, which of the following should I get? I'm only allowed to get one, which one shall it be?

Rosemary's Baby
Tiny Furniture
Blow Out
Badlands
Following
Quadrophenia
12 Angry Men
Le Havre
The Gold Rush
The Game
Bottle Rocket
Shallow Grave
The Darjeeling Ltd.
The Royal Tenenbaums
Modern Times
Rushmore

Which one should I get? I really can't choose

EDIT: I haven't seen any of these

All good movies, but 12 Angry Men is the best.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by blufellas

All good movies, but 12 Angry Men is the best.

Rosemary's Baby has been a personal favorite since I was a kid but yeah, it would be hard to recommend anything on that list over 12 Angry Men.

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by bentvalve

This has probably been asked 1000 times already but do most of you guys who keep your collections in alphabetical order sort your Criterion Blu-rays the same way or do you keep the Criterions together. I just checked and I think I have about 16 of them now so I am thinking about sorting them "Criterion: 12 Angry Men" then "Criterion: The 400 Blows" ....and so on.

I keep all my Criterions seperate, in alphabetical order, in groups of case type. First is all the releases in plastic cases, then the cardboard packages, with box sets at the end. I don't like the way it looks with the plastic cases and the cardboard cases mixed together.

[blufellas]

Originally Posted by octagon

Rosemary's Baby has been a personal favorite since I was a kid but yeah, it would be hard to recommend anything on that list over 12 Angry Men.

Yeah Rosemary's Baby is a great movie, it would probably be my second pick from that list.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

I don't like the way it looks with the plastic cases and the cardboard cases mixed together.

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[benbess]

Originally Posted by SilentxStatik24

Really loving this sale right now. I already picked up House and The Red Shoes from the sale but looking for more. I am considering these titles and I will probably be able to afford about three or four of them: Badlands (love malick's work), Breathless, The 400 Blows, Band of Outsiders, The Night of the Hunter, The Great Dictator (never seen a Chapin film, which is his best?) Any help would be greatly appreciated, Silent.

I'm a big Chaplin fan. Great Dictator is good, but imho second rank.

I think Gold Rush and Modern Times are both much better. Coin toss between those two for me.

[Visco.]

Goodness, with all this love for 12 Angry Men, I'm beginning to regret purchasing The Thin Red Line instead.

[blufellas]

I got a few more yesterday.

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[blufellas]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Goodness, with all this love for 12 Angry Men, I'm beginning to regret purchasing The Thin Red Line instead.

I love both of those movies, I just love 12 Angry Men a bit more. I think either one is a good choice.

[Visco.]

Originally Posted by blufellas

I love both of those movies, I just love 12 Angry Men a bit more. I think either one is a good choice.

I'm seriously about to purchase 12 Angry Men right now just to get that feeling of regret out of my gut.

[FrankBlue]

I'm leaning toward to purchase The Last Emperor. Did anyone seen this movie?

[octagon]

Originally Posted by sc1957

Alphabetizing is the tried and true methods that's worked forever.

Nonsense, I say...nonsense.

Libraries don't mindlessly alphabetize. Neither do bookstores or museums or art galleries or video stores or cemetaries.

And do you know why?

Because no civilized society could long survive a system that puts Above the Law at one end of a building and Under Siege all the way at the other.

Seriously, what kind of person would do that?

[Jr7936]

don't feel bad with thin red line, for me I would choose thin red line any day over 12 angry men, and I have owned both, but i kept thin red line, and traded 12 angry men

last emperor is great but you will want the 4 disc dvd set as well, with the television version, due to the fact that it's not on the blu ray

[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by octagon

Nonsense, I say...nonsense.

Libraries don't mindlessly alphabetize. Neither do bookstores or museums or art galleries or video stores or cemetaries.

And do you know why?

Because no civilized society could long survive a system that puts Above the Law at one end of a building and Under Siege all the way at the other.

Seriously, what kind of person would do that?

Melvil Dewey would be so proud of you.

[FrankBlue]

Originally Posted by Jr7936

last emperor is great but you will want the 4 disc dvd set as well, with the television version, due to the fact that it's not on the blu ray

Is there's a difference between the television version and movie theater version?

[Jr7936]

yes it's longer, and it adds more scenes
but the discs that have the bonus features are the same, and the only other difference is a much bigger booklet with more essays and expanded essays from the blu ray book
163 min blu ray version | 219 min (television) dvd version

[FrankBlue]

Originally Posted by Jr7936

yes it's longer, and it adds more scenes
but the discs that have the bonus features are the same, and the only other difference is a much bigger booklet with more essays and expanded essays from the blu ray book
163 min blu ray version | 219 min (television) dvd version

That's a bummer. Does Criterion Collection plans to revisit in the future, where it'll have the 219 minute version?

[JohnWayne]

Hey guys, what are some good horror criterions? I already have Videodrome and Rosemary's Baby