The Criterion Collection

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Oh c'mon. The premise wasnt the looniest thing that's ever been in a film. It definitely wasnt constructed around the story. The direction and score was carried the movie but the combat scenes were so much fun! For a stylized action thriller I thought it was executed very well.

I'm with iScottie on both of those..

[jw007]

Originally Posted by Jett Blu

I hated Brazil, I could not finish it, I thought it was very terrible.

Well, I tried to force myself to like it and eventually I have come to a newfound appreciation especially after seeing this on Blu-ray. The quality of the Criterion transfer is stunning.

On the matter of Gilliam, I really would love to see The Fisher King on a Criterion BD. I have a feeling this is going to happen. The 2011 BD release by Image Entertainment had no supplements and the PQ wasn't the best. I think this is a perfect candidate for a Criterion upgrade! (the film was once available on Criterion LD - Laserdisc).

Who else wants The Fisher King on Criterion Blu-ray? Say yes!

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

I'm with iScottie on both of those..

I'm with Visco. Those are both really fun films. Not high art, but very entertaining.

[Rich Pure Doom]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Oh c'mon. The premise wasnt the looniest thing that's ever been in a film. It definitely wasnt constructed around the story. The direction and score carried the movie but the combat scenes were so much fun! For a stylized action thriller I thought it was executed very well.

I loved Drive after one viewing but it's flaws and lack of any real depth really became apparent in a second viewing. Hanna on the other hand, I just flat out hated on first viewing. Awful, empty film.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

This isn't any help, but this just reminded me to say that I watched this a few nights ago and really liked it, definitely worth the purchase.

Is it a Summer Movie or a Winter Movie?

It's so weird, I haven't been in the mood for serious cinema lately. I could probably watch another 50 '80's romantic comedies before I finally check out The Life of Oharu or The Sacrifice

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

I haven't gotten rid of any Criterions, but if I did decide to do so, there's a lot I'd want to take out of my collection.

I'm getting rid of my Eyes Without a Face DVD tomorrow.
...because the Blu-ray is coming out soon.

I'm actually taking quite a few of my remaining DVDs to the used store tomorrow, and almost splitting my DVD collection in half. I'm keeping the Criterions yet to be upgraded (Le Samourai, Bob Le Flambeur, Le Doulos, Carnival of Souls, The Vanishing, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, etc. etc. etc.) and a few other choice selections, but kicking a bunch of other movies to the curb since I don't see myself watching them frequently anytime in the future. I've been holding on to my Universal Horror Legacy Collection DVD sets, for instance, but decided recently that I rarely revisit any of the sequels anyway, and, when I'm in the mood for Universal Horror, I generally watch the main movies that I have on the Blu-ray set.

[deepbreathsanddeath]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Is it a Summer Movie or a Winter Movie?

It's so weird, I haven't been in the mood for serious cinema lately. I could probably watch another 50 '80's romantic comedies before I finally check out The Life of Oharu or The Sacrifice

Haha I get like that too. The easiest way for me to lose the desire to watch serious cinema of an actual movie at all is if I start watching a season of television or worse yet, have a marathon of multiple seasons. After I'm done, it takes me a while to get back in the mood to actually sit down and watch a movie all the way through.

I'm a bit like that at the moment since I just finished a dexter marathon (all 7 seasons and the currently aired episodes of the final season).

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

It's so weird, I haven't been in the mood for serious cinema lately. I could probably watch another 50 '80's romantic comedies before I finally check out The Life of Oharu or The Sacrifice

It's not that serious. Ok, the subject matter is very serious, but the viewing experience was...uh...'breezy'. Yeah, sure, I like that word. Plus, it's very good, which obviously helps. I'm not selling it very well, am I?

I'm with you, though, I'm not in the mood for films as often as tv shows these days.

[starman15317]

Originally Posted by MrStayPuft

Criterion is one of the best companies when it comes to pleasing fans, so I know this would NEVER HAPPEN, but just for discussion sake, I have a curiosity.

When Criterion first started putting out blu rays, their initial releases came in digipacks. Let's say from the get go, they said ALL their blu rays would continue to be released in digipacks, no matter if they're 1 disc or multi-disc sets. Would you continue to buy them?

I'll admit to replacing and paying for a few of their earlier digipack releases with standard cases, but I would continue to buy them. I probably wouldn't buy as many, and might only select my absolute favorites, but digipacks wouldn't stop me.

I would still buy them. I kind of see why people don't like them (I have Dazed and Confused and it's annoying that there's nowhere for the booklet to go) but it's not a deal breaker.

[starman15317]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Rob Reiner needs to be on Criterion BluRay. My suggestion: The Sure Thing. "Penny Lover" and "You Might Think" would sound so great on an uncompressed audio track.

How about North?

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by deepbreathsanddeath

Haha I get like that too. The easiest way for me to lose the desire to watch serious cinema of an actual movie at all is if I start watching a season of television or worse yet, have a marathon of multiple seasons. After I'm done, it takes me a while to get back in the mood to actually sit down and watch a movie all the way through.

I'm a bit like that at the moment since I just finished a dexter marathon (all 7 seasons and the currently aired episodes of the final season).

Cool. I'm not sure how serious many would consider it, but I re-watched Dancer in the Dark without a hitch yesterday. So I watch them the same, it's just a bit harder to put them in the player. Maybe my stack of Blindbuys (about 80+) is too tall. I end up picking the "lighter" ones, so I don't need to fully commit. It feels great watching a film you know is gonna be outstanding without the burden of knowing you have dozens of other flicks to get through.

I have fun either way, so ultimately it's not much of an issue.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

It's so weird, I haven't been in the mood for serious cinema lately.

I've been riding a huge wave of "classic acclaimed cinema" lately, thanks to the recent Criterion purchases and such. Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Powell/Pressburger, Fritz Lang, etc. I've never been one to place much regard in the IMDB Top 250 movie list, but I did notice recently that about 75% of the movies that I've revisited during the past month appear on that list.

Actually, the eight months or so have been a lot like that, because I've been building up my "all killer, no filler" Blu-ray collection of favorite films while finally grabbing a few previously-unseen greats from Criterion, Olive, and Twilight Time.

My viewing fare over the last several months has been almost like a film school course, but I'm also having a blast. These films do not feel like "homework", and that's why I chose to upgrade a lot of them from old DVD copies.

[Scottie]

Let's play pretend...

[Show spoiler]Pre-Orders To Keep

• 3 Films By Roberto Rossellini (unseen)
• Autumn Sonata (unseen)
• Devil's Backbone (unseen)
• I Married A Witch (unseen)
• Ice Storm (unseen)
• John Cassavetes: Five Films (unseen)
• La Notte (unseen)
• Spy Who Came In From The Cold (unseen)

Pre-Orders To Cancel

• Babette's Feast (unseen)
• Big City (unseen)
• Charulata (unseen)
• Slacker (unseen)
• To Be Or Not To Be (unseen)

Pre-Orders I'd Need To See Before I Can Make A Decision

• La Cage Aux Folles
• Earrings Of Madame De...
• Eyes Without A Face
• Seconds
• Uninvited

Films To Keep

• 3 Women
• 3:10 To Yuma (unseen)
• 12 Angry Men
• 39 Steps
• 400 Blows
• Anatomy Of A Murder
• Antichrist
• Army Of Shadows
• Au Revoir Les Enfants
• Badlands
• Band Of Outsiders
• Battle Of Algiers (unseen)
• Belle De Jour
• Breathless
• Le Cercle Rouge
• Certified Copy (unseen)
• Charade
• Chungking Express (unseen)
• Cronos
• Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
• Darjeeling Limited
• David Lean Directs Noel Coward (unseen)
• Days Of Heaven
• Dazed And Confused
• Diabolique
• Double Life Of Veronique
• Down By Law
• Everlasting Moments (unseen)
• Fish Tank
• Following
• For All Mankind
• Game
• Gold Rush
• Great Dictator
• La Haine
• Heaven's Gate (unseen)
• High And Low (unseen)
• Hunger
• In The Mood For Love (unseen)
• Insignificance (unseen)
• Kid With A Bike
• Killing
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Lady Vanishes
• Last Days Of Disco
• Last Year At Marienbad
• Late Spring (unseen)
• Leon Morin, Priest
• Leopard (unseen)
• Life Of Oharu (unseen)
• Lola Montes (unseen)
• Lonesome (unseen)
• Lord Of The Flies (unseen)
• Man Escaped
• Marketa Lazarova (unseen)
• Medium Cool
• Ministry Of Fear
• Modern Times
• Monsieur Verdoux
• Night Of The Hunter
• On The Waterfront
• Paris, Texas
• La Promesse
• Rashomon
• Red Desert (unseen)
• Red Shoes (unseen)
• Repulsion
• Revanche
• Ride With The Devil (unseen)
• Royal Tenenbaums
• Secret Of The Grain (unseen)
• Secret Sunshine (unseen)
• Seven Samurai (unseen)
• Solaris (unseen)
• Thin Red Line
• Three Colors Trilogy
• Traffic
• Wages Of Fear
• Week End (unseen)
• Yojimbo / Sanjuro (unseen)

Films To Get Rid Of

• 8 1/2
• ¡Alambrista! (unseen)
• Amarcord (unseen)
• And Everything Is Going Fine (unseen)
• Black Moon
• Black Orpheus (unseen)
• Blob
• Branded To Kill (unseen)
• Brazil
• By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One And Two (unseen)
• Chronicle Of A Summer (unseen)
• Complete Monterey Pop Festival (unseen)
• Crumb (unseen)
• Fat Girl
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
• Gate Of Hell (unseen)
• Gimme Shelter (unseen)
• Godzilla (unseen)
• Gomorrah
• Gray's Anatomy (unseen)
• Harold And Maude
• Le Havre (unseen)
• Hollis Frampton Odyssey (unseen)
• House (unseen)
• Howard's End (unseen)
• If... (unseen)
• In The Realm Of The Senses (unseen)
• Island Of Lost Souls
• Kagemusha (unseen)
• Life During Wartime (unseen)
• Life Is Sweet
• Makioka Sisters (unseen)
• Man Who Fell To Earth (unseen)
• Man Who Knew Too Much
• Metropolitan (unseen)
• Mikado (unseen)
• Moment Of Truth (unseen)
• Monsoon Wedding (unseen)
• Music Room (unseen)
• El Norte (unseen)
• Organizer (unseen)
• Orpheus (unseen)
• Pale Flower
• People On Sunday
• Qatsi Trilogy (unseen)
• Quadrophenia (unseen)
• Richard III (unseen)
• Robinson Crusoe On Mars
• Rosetta
• Rules Of The Game (unseen)
• Safety Last!
• Samurai Trilogy (unseen)
• Seventh Seal
• Shallow Grave (unseen)
• Shock Corridor
• Summer Interlude (unseen)
• Sweetie (unseen)
• Things To Come (unseen)
• Third Man
• Three Outlaw Samurai (unseen)
• Times Of Harvey Milk (unseen)
• Tiny Furniture (unseen)
• Tokyo Drifter
• Topsy-Turvy (unseen)
• Trilogy Of Life (unseen)
• Vanya On 42nd Street (unseen)
• Wings Of Desire

Films To Watch / Rewatch Before I Can Make A Decision

• America Lost And Found: The BBS Story (unseen)
• Ballad Of Narayama (unseen)
• Le Beau Serge (unseen)
• Beauty And The Beast (unseen)
• Being John Malkovich (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Bigger Than Life (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Black Narcissus (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Blow Out (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Bottle Rocket (rewatch; more than get rid of)
• Broadcast News (unseen)
• Carlos (unseen)
• Che (unseen)
• Children Of Paradise (unseen)
• Christmas Tale (unseen)
• Close-Up (unseen)
• Complete Jean Vigo (unseen)
• Les Cousins (unseen)
• Cul-de-sac (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Design For Living (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Eating Raoul (rewatch; it was a good one-time watch, maybe keep)
• Fanny And Alexander (unseen)
• Forgiveness Of Blood (unseen)
• Four Feathers (unseen)
• Harakiri (unseen)
• Identification Of A Woman (unseen)
• Ivan's Childhood (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• La Jetee / Sans Soleil (rewatch / unseen; more than likely get rid of)
• Jubal (unseen)
• Kes (unseen)
• Kuroneko (unseen)
• Last Emperor (unseen)
• Last Metro (unseen)
• Last Temptation Of Christ (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Letter Never Sent (unseen)
• Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (unseen)
• M (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Magician (unseen)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (unseen)
• My Life As A Dog (unseen)
• Mystery Train (unseen)
• Naked (unseen)
• Naked Kiss (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Naked Lunch (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Night To Remember (unseen)
• Paths Of Glory (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Phantom Carriage (unseen)
• Pierre Etaix (unseen)
• Pierrot Le Fou (unseen)
• Pina (unseen)
• Play Time (unseen)
• Purple Noon (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Repo Man (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Rosemary's Baby (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Rushmore (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom (unseen)
• Sansho The Bailiff (unseen)
• Senso (unseen)
• Shoah (unseen)
• Smiles Of A Summer Night (unseen)
• Something Wild (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• Stagecoach (unseen)
• Still Walking (unseen)
• Summer Hours (unseen)
• Summer With Monika (unseen)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (unseen)
• Sweet Smell Of Success (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Tin Drum (unseen)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (unseen)
• Umberto D. (unseen)
• Videodrome (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Les Visiteurs Du Soir (unseen)
• Vivre Sa Vie (rewatch; more than likely keep)
• Walkabout (unseen)
• War Room (unseen)
• Weekend (rewatch; more than likely get rid of)
• White Material (unseen)
• Wild Strawberries (unseen)
• World On A Wire (unseen)
• Yi Yi (unseen)
• Zazie Dans Le Metro (unseen)

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

It's not that serious. Ok, the subject matter is very serious, but the viewing experience was...uh...'breezy'. Yeah, sure, I like that word. Plus, it's very good, which obviously helps. I'm not selling it very well, am I?

I'm with you, though, I'm not in the mood for films as often as tv shows these days.

I've seen other Mizoguchi films, so I kind of know what to expect. Sounds like the perfect bad weather movie.

Seriously though, it's crazy that CC does not have any 80's high school/college comedies.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Oh c'mon. The premise wasnt the looniest thing that's ever been in a film. It definitely wasnt constructed around the story. The direction and score carried the movie but the combat scenes were so much fun! For a stylized action thriller I thought it was executed very well.

I'd rather tackle Miami Vice for a 6th or 7th time than rewatch twenty minutes of Hanna.

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

I'm with iScottie on both of those..

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Let's play pretend...

How do you know you want to get rid of films you haven't seen yet?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Seriously though, it's crazy that CC does not have any 80's high school/college comedies.

I'd love for Criterion to release Some Kind of Wonderful. That's my favorite of the John Hughes productions, and it's slightly off the middle of the road as far as those 1980s teen films go, which makes it perfect for the Collection.

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I've seen other Mizoguchi films, so I kind of know what to expect. Sounds like the perfect bad weather movie.

Yes, that's it!

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

How do you know you want to get rid of films you haven't seen yet?

The concept never interested me, I only bought them to be a completist.

Plus, I've seen similar films to several of those films that I have listed. For example, Tokyo Drifter and Branded To Kill seem rather similar, and I really disliked Tokyo Drifter.

[Scottie]

*patiently waits for Abdrewes to PM me with the request of holding TMWFTE and The Third Man for him should I decide to get rid of them*