The Criterion Collection

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Could be a July release. As good as June looks July could be even better. Historically CC saves the best for Nov and July...

My favorite is July of 2010.

[Show spoiler]2009
For All Mankind
Repulsion
2010
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
The Secret of the Grain
2011
Naked
Beauty and the Beast
The Music Room
High and Low
Leon Morin, Priest
Life During Wartime
2012
Down by Law
Metropolitan
The Last Days of Disco
Le Havre
2013
The Life of Oharu
Lord of the Flies
The Ice Storm
Babette's Feast
The Devil's Backbone

I hope you're right!

[Fellini912]

Originally Posted by iScottie

It better be soon. It's the best road movie made to date, in my opinion.

Correction: National Lampoon's vacation is the best road movie made to date.

[CHEЯNOБLY!]

Taking a while to announce...is it crazy for me to be secretly hoping for a CC release of Her?
I mean, Warner Bros., pretty big awards season....

[natureboy]

Originally Posted by Fellini912

Correction: National Lampoon's vacation is the best road movie made to date.

Thank you.

[monorail91]

Originally Posted by Fellini912

Correction: National Lampoon's vacation is the best road movie made to date.

IL SORPASSO all the way!

Originally Posted by CHEЯNOБLY!

Taking a while to announce...is it crazy for me to be secretly hoping for a CC release of Her?
I mean, Warner Bros., pretty big awards season....

I keep thinking that too... it'd be pretty great if it went straight to CC.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by Ausjdm

Sweet review! Can't wait to start the set myself soon!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Fellini912

Correction: National Lampoon's vacation is the best road movie made to date.

Best road trip movie?

Paris, Texas for the win.

The non-Criterion title, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, is a close second.

The Criterion title, The Wages of Fear, earns third place.

Also on the Criterion front...
Badlands, Two-Lane Blacktop, Five Easy Pieces, and Easy Rider are quite formidable road trip movies.

Other non-Criterions...
The Hitch-Hiker (1953), The Grapes of Wrath, The Sure Thing, Bonnie and Clyde, Duel, Into the Wild, and It Happened One Night are all good.

I guess that The Wizard of Oz is a road trip movie. Sort of.

A shameless honorable mention to Road Trip, simply because part of it was filmed at my alma mater (Georgia Tech), and it stars Amy Smart.

[Visco.]

Does Inside Llewyn Davis count as a road trip movie?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Does Inside Llewyn Davis count as a road trip movie?

I have not seen Inside Llewyn Davis yet. I've read a lot of favorable reviews of this movie, but it just does not quicken my pulse for some reason. The same with American Hustle. I should probably shell out a dollar for a Redbox rental for Inside Llewyn Davis just because I enjoy a few of the Coen Brothers movies.

I edited my above post to make room for The Hitch-Hiker (1953), which is available from Kino. William Talman plays such an awesome villain.

[Visco.]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I have not seen Inside Llewyn Davis yet. I've read a lot of favorable reviews of this movie, but it just does not quicken my pulse for some reason. The same with American Hustle. I should probably shell out a dollar for a Redbox rental for Inside Llewyn Davis just because I enjoy a few of the Coen Brothers movies.

I edited my above post to make room for The Hitch-Hiker (1953), which is available from Kino. William Talman plays such an awesome villain.

Given your post history, I can strongly recommend Inside Llewyn Davis. It's my third favorite Coen film and that's only after one viewing. Oscar Isaac is flawless and the cinematography...oh man.

I really liked American Hustle and I know it holds up on repeat viewings, but it didn't even crack my top 30 of last year. Some of the performances were pretty annoying to me. But the true problem of the film remains in the way the plot was handled. It's a vehicle for Russell's style.

The people that think he's mimicking Scorsese really need to get their eyes checked though.

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by Fellini912

Correction: National Lampoon's vacation is the best road movie made to date.

Wrong all round, it's The Muppet Movie.

[Aladinsane]

Don't know whether this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know the best place to trade criterion blu-rays is?? Is there a thread somewhere on here where people post trades??? how risky is it?? what are the chances i will send something and not get anything in return??

[jasonjl]

Originally Posted by Aladinsane

Don't know whether this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know the best place to trade criterion blu-rays is?? Is there a thread somewhere on here where people post trades??? how risky is it?? what are the chances i will send something and not get anything in return??

Just go to the trading forum, but first have a good amount of positive feedback for your trading score. Build up your trading score by doing minor/cheap purchases at first...and it should snowball from there as you get more reliable.

[Aladinsane]

Thanks

[Polaroid]

tad off topic with criterion but BFI is releasing 2001: A Space Odyssey back to the cinema!

wooo!

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

tad off topic with criterion but BFI is releasing 2001: A Space Odyssey back to the cinema!

wooo!

I last saw it at a screening a few years ago. Keir Dullea spoke after the film. Not a bad deal for $7.

[Polaroid]

Watching Godzilla - anyone know what other film used the theme tune from start? Bugging me!

Also - quite surprised by the anount of scratches on the film - can someone enlighten me as to why it's not a better quality release? It's 1954 and other films from this time arnt as bad?

Also it is bugging me as much as I appreciate the special effects for the time, I know it's minitures and I can't stop seeing miniatures haha
Thanks!

[Polaroid]

AH thought it would be something like that, out of all my Criteirons its probably the worst restore/transfer, not sure about tother released though.

Probably be better than whats out there by other companies though.

Also!

Look at this poster for new Godzilla:





Doesn't that look a bit too much like Criterions cover haha?

[Polaroid]

What recent film has used this music?

Godzilla ( 1954 ) Main Theme - Akira Ifukube - YouTube

I can't picture it >.< was it clover field?? ahhh

[blu-bry]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Also - quite surprised by the anount of scratches on the film - can someone enlighten me as to why it's not a better quality release? It's 1954 and other films from this time arnt as bad?

I've often noticed this with Japanese films of the period. Many older films of other countries don't look as old as some Japanese films. I can only guess that preservation wasn't a priority over there. That being said, I think the release is great considering what they probably had to work with.