The Criterion Collection

[g.schweet]

Maybe, I'm getting a little ahead of the game, but set your dvr/set your video recorder/free your plans for Friday 5:00pm. TCM is playing "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (1917) starring Mary Pickford(!), not available on any dvd I know of.

Edit: Found out I may be wrong. TCM most likely will be showing "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (1937) with Shirley Temple, as seen in the tcm.com schedule (there seems to be a Shirley Temple marathon). My dvr and the imdb schedule says the Pickford 1917 film in the info, which caused some premature happiness on my part, and is now the reason for my confusion. So disregard this message probably, and don't get your hopes up if your like me and want to see the 1917 film.

[Dragon Lee]

Do they still do replacement cases for older BDs?

[Volume11]

Originally Posted by g.schweet

Maybe, I'm getting a little ahead of the game, but set your dvr/set your video recorder/free your plans for Friday 5:00pm. TCM is playing "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (1917) starring Mary Pickford(!), not available on any dvd I know of.

I TCM x 1,000,000,000.

[Show spoiler]Please excuse my PDA, but sometimes I just can't help it.

Your DVR support is a vulgar act of class warfare.

[BasicGreatGuy]

Originally Posted by g.schweet

Maybe, I'm getting a little ahead of the game, but set your dvr/set your video recorder/free your plans for Friday 5:00pm. TCM is playing "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (1917) starring Mary Pickford(!), not available on any dvd I know of.

I TCM x 1,000,000,000.

[Show spoiler]Please excuse my PDA, but sometimes I just can't help it.

Thanks so much for the heads up. Will try and set the dvr right now.

It is showing on Friday July 23 at 8pm.

[SpiderBaby]

I buy dvds when I have to. I mean, how else can I watch John Cassavetes' Husbands. The upcoming von Sternberg silents. Dillinger is Dead. And every other dvd only title that has came out the past couple years. We are still in the time where companies go the cheap route and don't do everything blu, thinking there isn't enough buyers for something. So people like us have to still buy dvds, because they don't think they will make enough money to put something out on blu.

Back to the Husbands dvd, Sony should of put that out on blu when they released it last summer. We could have a Cassavetes blu right now. But either way, I'm glad I bought the dvd.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by Volume11

Your DVR support is a vulgar act of class warfare.

Yeah!

[g.schweet]

Originally Posted by BasicGreatGuy

Thanks so much for the heads up. Will try and set the dvr right now.

It is showing on Friday July 23 at 8pm.

I guess because I'm on the left coast it's 5pm for me.

[jhiggy23]

CG, I have a question for you. I watched Vivre Sa Vie the other nite and absolutely love it, but I have a question and I know you're much more knowledgeable about the film and about Godard. What is the purpose/allusion he is making in the "bandit gunshot scene" and what is the purpose of cutting the music off, as he does multiple times? Are they simply stylistic choices, or do they have more meaning than that? Thanks in advance.

[Chaotic]

How is Walkabout? Just bought it today. Its my first Criterion blu (im still waiting on 3 i ordered a few days ago)

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

How is Walkabout? Just bought it today. Its my first Criterion blu (im still waiting on 3 i ordered a few days ago)

I'm indifferent about it. I gave it 3 stars (out of 4). I didn't love it but I didn't hate it. surfdude has a really good review of it in the review/rate.

[g.schweet]

Originally Posted by Volume11

Your DVR support is a vulgar act of class warfare.

Your right I think I'll buy the VHS for $150 then.

Edit: And I guess there is a DVD of Poor Little Rich Girl but i think I'll pass. I mean that VHS is such steal.

[g.schweet]

SO apparently there might me a mix up with the film I was promoting and want to see. I happened to be browsing the TCM schedule online, and it says they're playing Shirley Temple 1936 film which would make sense because there are more Temple films after, but the imdb schedule and my dvr (how I found out initially was searching for "silent" on my dvr) says it the Pickford 1917 film.

8 ball says "outlook doesn't look good". Sorry, If I got anyone's hopes up. I guess I have to see it by other means if it is indeed the Temple one. Excuse me while I .

Edit: My bourgeois, warfaring technology is evil

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

CG, I have a question for you. I watched Vivre Sa Vie the other nite and absolutely love it, but I have a question and I know you're much more knowledgeable about the film and about Godard. What is the purpose/allusion he is making in the "bandit gunshot scene" and what is the purpose of cutting the music off, as he does multiple times? Are they simply stylistic choices, or do they have more meaning than that? Thanks in advance.

Sorry jhiggy23 for getting back so late. I was off the computer.

Now, you're talking about when he runs into the cafe? The purpose of that scene, your guess is as good as mine, but I know that it takes place on the outside of a window, which the film throughout refers to the outside from a window in it's shots as a place of freedom. But in this case, I'll make a guess as to (*Spoiler*) that it refers to things to come for her. I just know that the film is set up as a prostitution story but more focused on the betrayal and loss of love to her husband, or how Richard Brody says it, "a cautionary tale of the wages of infidelity". So that scene could just be how freedom on the "outside" is coming to an end? I love how the camera moves to the gun shots though.

Now for the way the film has it's music cuts, it might just be stylistic choices. I forgot what it said, but the commentary on the blu-ray explains this I believe. But jump cuts and music cuts has been in pretty much every Godard film from that era. I have read (in again Richard Brody's Everything is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard book) that unlike his first 3 films (which were in a rushed or handheld shots), this film was more "choreographed" with tracking rails and fixed focus shots. So this film actually was more, should I say "safe" in it's camera movements but again not so. He filmed conversations with the character's backs to us, which could be boring to some, but it actually shows how some conversations look as if you are just listening in on it from the other part of the room. I know this doesn't explain the music cuts in this film, but again the commentary I believe explains it.

[kndy]

Originally Posted by Volume11

They are DVD crackheads who have no patience to wait for titles to hit blu and they are pissed they have to upgrade equipment and titles. And the worst, as others have mentioned, was when I was told buying Blu Rays was a vulgar act of class warfare. Utter stupidity at its finest.

I've grown tired of these people rehashing things over and over again. And it would make things much easier if they can say "well, it cost too much and I can't afford it." Yet a few try to come up with reasons why Blu-ray is not so significant.

But to each their own.

Originally Posted by Volume11

Personally, I don't buy DVDs because they look and sound terrible to mediocre when stacked up against Blu Ray.

That's fine. I do prefer Blu-ray as well but unfortunately there too many films created 70-100 years ago that I'm watching and only a very few will come out on Blu that I don't see myself quitting on DVD just yet.

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Now for the way the film has it's music cuts, it might just be stylistic choices. I forgot what it said, but the commentary on the blu-ray explains this I believe. But jump cuts and music cuts has been in pretty much every Godard film from that era.

Yeah, I always thought of those musical cuts as stylistic and sometimes I feel it's Godard just tweeking the crowd. Especially for the film "Une Femme est une femme" and also "Bande à part".

In a way, I'm so glad he didn't do it on "Pierrot le fou" because I would have been ticked if there was a musical cut for "Ma ligne de chance".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YeWXAmpkUI

Btw, anyone else love this scene from the film?

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by kndy

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In a way, I'm so glad he didn't do it on "Pierrot le fou" because I would have been ticked if there was a musical cut for "Ma ligne de chance".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YeWXAmpkUI

Btw, anyone else love this scene from the film?

Yes. This whole movie is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUJz2Y-HYjM

[SpiderBaby]

Crumb packaging photos:

http://www.criterionforum.org/DVD-pa...collection/719

[g.schweet]

I actually used the "ma ligne de chance" scene in a presentation for one of my french language courses a couple years ago. I love the movie too (was actually my first blu purchase when I first converted last Dec.)

[Show spoiler]I'm not using smiley heart overload for that one, or else something bad's gonna happen to it again, like my dog eating it or something.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by g.schweet

I actually used the "ma ligne de chance" scene in a presentation for one of my french language courses a couple years ago. I love the movie too (was actually my first blu purchase when I first converted last Dec.)

Pierrot le fou on blu was the reason for me even signing on this site. If no one doesn't believe me, it came out last September, when I joined. Before then, I was still buying dvds only. But when this was announced last Spring, I went and got The Third Man and the other early blus over that summer, just to start and wait for the first Godard on blu. Ah, good times.

[Old Geezer]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

I still don't own any Criterion on regular DVD. I'm afraid if I buy a few I'll just go overboard like I do with Blu-Ray. Though I am tempted to pickup a few for this B&N sale

Just wanted to add my voice to the "You'd be missing too many great films" crowd. Wild Strawberries comes instantly to mind. I simply love that film. I've made 11 buys during this B & N sale including Haxan, Rashomon, Dillinger is Dead, and The Testament of Dr Mabuse on DVD. I'll never get them all, but I can try.

[Arkadin]

of course bd is amazing and far superior to dvd, but there are literally 100's of great films that will never make it to bd.
many of those are some of my favorites, so I don't see not buying dvds anytime soon.
2 years ago I couldn't wait for all my favorites to make it to bd, and was ready to say a fond farewell to sd forever.
but then most of the major studios decided they weren't going to release many of their older classics on bd, and I had to accept that it was once again time to embrace the sd world.
I suspect that the people that have sworn off dvd forever likely are not as familiar with many older films, or are content in their thinking that it's only a matter of time before the blu versions come along.
imo it's their loss, as I can easily look though my dvds and know that less than 10% will ever make it to blu-ray.
sad but true.