The Criterion Collection

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

On the Criterion front, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp has a remarkable Technicolor transfer. It's a beautiful upgrade of a great film.

P&P on blu-ray is a treat. I revisit The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus fairly often. They get better with each viewing.

[octagon]

Bigger Than Life was DeLuxe but always comes to mind when I think of Technicolor. It looks absolutely fantastic but the synergy between the film's title, the film's subject matter and the literal film itself is just one more layer of 'do you see what we did there'.

[joie]

I think that Martin Scorsese said in the "Red Shoes" extras that it had never looked as good because with a computer they were able to register the color layers better than they had ever been registered before.

[Ausjdm]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

P&P on blu-ray is a treat. I revisit The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus fairly often. They get better with each viewing.

I bought Red Shoes on blu. I was alittle tight on money almost bought C. Blimp and Black Narcissus for that B1F1 sale. How good are the bluray upgrades on those two vs DVD?

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by Ausjdm

I bought Red Shoes on blu. I was alittle tight on money almost bought C. Blimp and Black Narcissus for that B1F1 sale. How good are the bluray upgrades on those two vs DVD?

the P&P blu rays are some of the best looking in the entire collection.
The restoration on Colonel Blimp is especially beautiful.

[Scottie]

I just finished Seconds.

I liked the first portion before Hamilton arrives to The Company, but not much else. I don't really see why everybody raves about it, but I guess that's just me.

I've never been a big fan for cult films, so I'm not really surprised by disliking this one.

[smoss469]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I just finished Seconds.

I liked the first portion before Hamilton arrives to The Company, but not much else. I don't really see why everybody raves about it, but I guess that's just me.

I've never been a big fan for cult films, so I'm not really surprised by disliking this one.

The Rock Hudson piece was where I lost interest too. I plan on rewatching it over my Christmas vacation though.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

I can neither confirm nor dispute your claim. I can tell you this: I went to Barnes and Noble the day of the release of Nashville and Grey Gardens. I suspected something very similar to what you may be suspecting. Three days later when I went back to the store, both titles were in stock, and I was able to take advantage of the "B1G1 free" sale.

It just turned out it was spelled under a different name on the website which I never would have thought of checking. I think there is some truth to these new releases being immediately reserved and unavailable on the shelves though.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by momaw

Why 1967?

Well this is the year Hollywood changed forever so it was the transition between old vs. modern cinema. Here is an article you can check out on this: http://cinema-fanatic.com/2010/05/23...anged-forever/

[pro-bassoonist]

Fantastic news!

Tsai Ming-liang's new film, Journey to the West, will have its world premiere in Berlin

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=12870

Xi You (Journey to the West)
France / Taiwan
By Tsai Ming-liang
With Lee Kang-sheng, Denis Lavant
World premiere

Pro-B

[jw007]

Well, I ended up going to B&N earlier today and purchased Nashville and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion! Both were 40% off but I also was able to use the 30% coupon (but actually it wasn't used!). The cashier was having "one of those days" so she ended up "forcing" a 30% discount for me on one of the titles and thus the coupon was never effectively used! That means I still have a chance to use this again (and I might do it on the World Cinema Project box set).

I got lucky... and since its the holiday season, the cashiers don't want to be stingy, so they are going ahead with whatever extra coupons/discounts they're being presented with 'round here. So a forced 30% discount sure is nice!

[fdm]

Originally Posted by jw007

Are you a collector of older films? To me, anything before 1967 is considered "old" in my collection. I like that Pale Flower falls right in between old and contemporary cinema.

No particular focus calendar-wise, or country-wise, usually go for most anything that might interest me. (Gotta stop that though )

[jw007]

I must ask this question here since I think it is valid.

Is the Martin Scorcese World Cinema Project box set worthy of a blind-buy purchase?

I'm leaning towards buying this but would like to hear other people's thoughts.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by jw007

Well this is the year Hollywood changed forever so it was the transition between old vs. modern cinema. Here is an article you can check out on this: http://cinema-fanatic.com/2010/05/23...anged-forever/

Was that article sub-titled 'and by 'forever' we mean 'for about ten years'?

[jw007]

Originally Posted by octagon

Was that article sub-titled 'and by 'forever' we mean 'for about ten years'?

[brandon_260]

Originally Posted by Cinemach

I settled for the amaray release of Dr. Mabuse: der Spieler, but in either form it gets a high, high recommendation. It's probably my favorite of Lang's silents, one of my favorite silents period, and the presentation is fantastic.

It's a fantastic film. My second favorite from its decade. Though for some reason my interest in Testament is very muted, even though I own the film. I would like to get around to it soon though.

[Mansinthe]

Originally Posted by smoss469

The Rock Hudson piece was where I lost interest too. I plan on rewatching it over my Christmas vacation though.

I liked the rock hudson part more where everything goes nuts.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I just finished Seconds.

I liked the first portion before Hamilton arrives to The Company, but not much else. I don't really see why everybody raves about it, but I guess that's just me.

I've never been a big fan for cult films, so I'm not really surprised by disliking this one.

Now, I really enjoy Cult Films. Maybe because in the pre-internet era there was a genuine sense of discovery when you actually found these films in an art theater or on a bootleg tape. Damn I'm Old!

Anyway, I liked Seconds but I also enjoyed the John Randolph performance more than the Rock Hudson one.

[Visco.]

Originally Posted by octagon

I've not yet gone back to it but yeah, I think I'm going to pay a bit more attention when I eventually do. There were too many 'wait, what's this now' moments for me to give it a fair evaluation after only that single viewing.

Yeah, at one point in the film I actually thought I had missed something since the momentum of the film is almost randomly is misdirected.

After reading and realizing I got the right idea of the film I raised my Letterboxd rating to a 3.5/5. I thought it was beautifully directed and written. There was one shot that I absolutely loved:

[Show spoiler]the shot of the elderly couple coming out of the church with the two behind them was amazing. I think it was trying to show correlation between the two.

[manunited1]

Just watched Frances Ha and loved it like most of Noah's movies. I may have to grab the bluray at some point.

Still yet to watch my new purchases, Carlos, Salo and Three Samurai. I have a lot of Zatoichi films to get through first

I am really interested in grabbing Blowout but know zero about it...