The Criterion Collection

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I'll raise you one on that point.

I loved 3 Women. It's criminally underrated and often overlooked, but it's one of the most unique and rewatchable ones for me.

I almost did a blind buy on this a few weeks ago during the B&N sale. Wish I had now.

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

You're probably gonna like Persona

Just got this in the mail from Netflix. Can't wait to sit down and take it in.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I hope so! (I've only seen The Seventh Seal by Bergman and I didn't like it)

I still haven't seen Seventh Seal... not sure why... just always something else to see.

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, however, will probably be decades where my Top 20 List completely throws critical acclaim under the bus.

Race with the Devil, The Towering Inferno, Westworld, and Assault on Precinct 13 will likely rock out my 1970s list.

The 1980s Top 20 will include the Roger Moore Bond flick, For Your Eyes Only, along with a myriad of teen flicks. You've been warned.
In fact, survey says that my Top 20 of the 1980s may only include one or two Criterion releases.

The 1990s Top 20 will probably include Point Break. You've been warned.

Some great flicks there... Race with the Devil, The Towering Inferno, and I love all the Roger Moore Bond films. He's my Bond since he was the first Bond for me... Live and Let Die is one of my all time favorite Bond movies.

As for 90's Criterion.. for me it starts with Chasing Amy. Not sure if I've metnione it here before, but this film helped me get through a rough time of being single. I've met Kevin a few times, but on the first meeting I got to talk to him for a few and told him what the film meant to me and how it helped me for many years. He told me that it was the same for him, the making of the movie was his release. (same kind of thing he says in the commentary and at his Q&As if you ask about Amy.

And for your 90's flick, I say... "Caught my first tube today, Sir."

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Sometimes. In all honesty, though, I have a tendency of putting my clothes through the washer/dryer cycle, picking the clothes to wear out of the dryer each morning, and then knowing that it's laundry day again when the dryer is empty. The perils of being a single guy who lives in a man cave.

Been there, done that too many times when I was single. heck, I still do it and I'm married... though the wife tends to yell.

[lordmorpheus72]

Looks like I'll be picking up 400 Blows and Breathless soon.

edit: Found 400 Blows at Amazon for $28.00, from a buyer, but fulfilled by Amazon.

[Mansinthe]

i need help.. i wanna order 3 movies at B&N

1. Breathless (OOP etc)
2. things to come

3.
wages of fear / band of outsiders / a man escaped ?

or should i add another one and order 6 movies ^^ (lol)

[The Great Owl]

I'm going to continue putting off a purchase of The 400 Blows in hopes that The Adventures of Antoine Doinel will be released on Blu-ray someday.

I hope that my instincts serve me well.

[Mansinthe]

did criterion ever release a boxset after there was already a single release of a movie?

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I saw Wake in Fright at a theater last year when it was first re-released. Man, oh man...that was such a great flick to see on the big screen. There's a lot of debate about the picture quality of the Blu-ray, but I think that it looks superb, and that it does justice to what I saw on the big screen.

Tourist Trap gets lumped in with the other late 1970s low-budget throwaway horror films, as it probably should, but there's something really special about the movie and it has an extra little "oomph" and a certain gleeful spark that all of the other horror movies from that era lack. It's one of those horror flicks that you go into with low expectations, sort of like the many straight-to-video horror flicks these days, but it really takes you off guard. It's an odd thing of beauty. Speaking of beauty, it features Tanya Roberts (The Beastmaster, That '70s Show) in one of her early roles.
You may watch Tourist Trap and think to yourself that it's no big deal. I adore the film, though.

I'll never forget the first time I saw John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. I was 11 years old, and I saw the movie one Sunday afternoon on a black-and-white TV in my bedroom while nobody else was at home. When the little girl went back to get her vanilla twist cone, I was floored by that scene.
"WTF? No way that just happened! Did that really just happenb? Whoah...that really happened!" So horrible, but so...so...awesome.

SOLD!!


Re: Assault: I couldn't imagine seeing that scene as a child. Shocked the hell out of me as a grown man. I'm still not even sure what to make of it, it still feels really, really sick (on behalf of Carpenter). Wasnt it Carornter who said something to the effect of "you have to get as close to the line between good and poor taste"? (Wording is probably off)

Originally Posted by SimBelm

I always draw up a big list of films from the decade I should see and end up watching hardly any of them, hence me missing out on the last few lists, I don't feel right making a top 20 when I've only seen 30-60 from each decade, I'll slowly change that over the next several years (it's been nice reading these polls so far for suggestions alone). I'm a lot more confident from the 60s onwards, I haven't seen enough Altman though so he'll inevitably go into my watchlist for the 70s poll.

One film I'd like to recommend for those compiling their 70s picks is Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire, available free on YouTube from the Korean Film Archive.

[Show spoiler]here

. The print isn't in great condition and there are burned in French subtitles, but you can view it in HD and the English YouTube subtitles are great quality, YouTube also lets you change the font size and colour enough to cover up the burned in French subs. For me this is right up there with Fassbinder and Almodovar in terms of somewhat modern melodrama (Neo Melodrama?), despite print damage, the film bursts right out of the screen with glorious colours, scorching you with it's insane psychosexual nastiness.

Yes, thank you for your honesty SimBelm. By no means are my lists the "definitive" ones, as I have, both, much to see for the first time and much to revisit. But I am over the moon about each and every film I put in those those polls. I can't wait for the 60s poll (only 2 more weeks!). However, I need to see some more Bresson before then.

[TJS_Blu]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

did criterion ever release a boxset after there was already a single release of a movie?

Yes, but not very predictable...Hitchcock for example.

[Mansinthe]

did they change the current B&N sale to members only? i add 6 movies to my cart, go to the checkout and dont get the discount after picking international shipping

[mimurph1]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

did they change the current B&N sale to members only? i add 6 movies to my cart, go to the checkout and dont get the discount after picking international shipping

what was the 6th film you settled on?

[Mansinthe]

now it workt after adding the movies again

i ordered 6 movies

1 Breathless (OOP etc)
2. things to come
3. wages of fear
4 band of outsiders
5 a man escaped
6 summer interlude (bergman )


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wtf now went to the "track my order page" and the discount is gone?

[mimurph1]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

now it workt after adding the movies again

i ordered 6 movies

1 Breathless (OOP etc)
2. things to come
3. wages of fear
4 band of outsiders
5 a man escaped
6 summer interlude (bergman )

seems like you had the the criterion binge today

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by mimurph1

seems like you had the the criterion binge today

nope i went back to my order (tracking the order number) and the discount is gone again? now i did cancel everything...

[Abdrewes]

Everybody see the new Robocop trailer? :bitesnails:

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

nope i went back to my order (tracking the order number) and the discount is gone again? now i did cancel everything...

mine is not letting my use my $5 off $50 new member's coupon. on hold now with support.

EDIT: Missed the not good on promos line. plus she told me if something online is listed at more than 20% off msrp, then codes won't work. so how the H-E-Double hockey sticks do you use the d$%m coupons??

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

mine is not letting my use my $5 off $50 new member's coupon. on hold now with support.

support? phone? email ? chat? i did try the chat and its offline..

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

Looks like I'll be picking up 400 Blows and Breathless soon.

edit: Found 400 Blows at Amazon for $28.00, from a buyer, but fulfilled by Amazon.

Don't forget they are both available directly from Criterion still, if anyone is looking for them...

[The Great Owl]

When payday rolls around on September 13, I'm going to the Barnes & Noble site to pull the trigger on...

To Be or Not to Be
Repulsion
The Killing

I hope that nobody takes offense to this, but the recent Polanski discussions in this thread reminded me that I still haven't upgraded my Repulsion DVD.

[Judex]

Originally Posted by Mansinthe

now it workt after adding the movies again

i ordered 6 movies

1 Breathless (OOP etc)
2. things to come
3. wages of fear
4 band of outsiders
5 a man escaped
6 summer interlude (bergman )


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wtf now went to the "track my order page" and the discount is gone?

Get Summer Interlude from allyourmusic on Amazon.co.uk i think they ship to Germany.

£12.62 delivered.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B007A9EGB8/ref=sr_1_2_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1378476177&sr=8-2&keywords=summer+interlude&condition=new

[Mansinthe]

thanks nice price. but im gonna wait till my order is cancelt...

4 of 6 are cancelt. i wonder why the discount did not work this time -.-