The Criterion Collection

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

Kayley Cuoco, alone, is enough for me to change the channel. Just can't watch her. No me gusta.

There are SO many people here who are fortunate that I'm not a mod.

(J/K)

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

...and features some beautiful women, too.

Truthiness. Catherine Deneuve at the height of her beauty, for one.

[diskspinner]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

There are SO many people here who are fortunate that I'm not a mod.

(J/K)



Truthiness. Catherine Deneuve at the height of her beauty, for one.

Wait...What??? Catherine Deneuve is there in one of the movies???
Seriously??? I absolutely adore her...

I was actually inclined towards Tati set because I feel I am more familiar with what to expect...However since criterion is discontinuing blu+DVD sets...I am also thinking of getting the Demy one...it may not last till July sale (separate blu & DVD version may come out though)...

[Namuhana]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Nobody here knows the rights costs, how much work had to be put into the 2 items (Apu with the destroyed original elements), Criterion was still pretty new to BD then vs much more established in the BD now, the economy is better in 2015 than it was in 2011, and of course because they think they can.

Originally Posted by diskspinner

Wait...What??? Catherine Deneuve is there in one of the movies???
Seriously??? I absolutely adore her...

I was actually inclined towards Tati set because I feel I am more familiar with what to expect...However since criterion is discontinuing blu+DVD sets...I am also thinking of getting the Demy one...it may not last till July sale (separate blu & DVD version may come out though)...

Get the Demy set. Seriously. I blind-bought the set at the beginning of the B&N sale and I enjoyed each film, and two of the films--The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort--have become two of my favorite films. And, Deneuve is in three of the films: Umbrellas, Rochefort, and Donkey Skin.

I, too, haven't seen the other sets, but you really can't go wrong with the Demy set. You really can't.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by diskspinner

Wait...What??? Catherine Deneuve is there in one of the movies???
Seriously??? I absolutely adore her...

I was actually inclined towards Tati set because I feel I am more familiar with what to expect...However since criterion is discontinuing blu+DVD sets...I am also thinking of getting the Demy one...it may not last till July sale (separate blu & DVD version may come out though)...

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (one of the top five movies ever, IMO)

The Young Girls of Rochefort (brilliant)

Donkey Skin (oh yeah!)

Should be a fun trip.

ETA: Looks, like I was Ninja'd by Namuhana But you get the point. Heh.

[Roninblues]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

What movie(s) have made you teary or cried your eyes out? Anyone else can answer this question.

Bambi, when I was 5.

[SkyAntoine]

Originally Posted by Martin_31

What movie(s) have made you teary or cried your eyes out? Anyone else can answer this question.

Make Way for Tomorrow and Tokyo Story. Those sappy family dramas get to me every time.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jmclick

There are movies that I love, and some that I absolutely revere ... Shoah belongs in the latter category. I honestly consider it, not the most enjoyable film in the Collection, but the most important and the most prestigious; and I use both of those adjectives as terms of highest compliment. It is also the most enlightening. I have never understood the Holocaust on any level ... how hate and prejudice could play out on such an epic and barbarous scale; Shoah comes the closest of any book, film, or other vehicle to explaining how madness swept an entire country, then proceeded to infect a continent and the entire world.

I tried for years to see it, having read several reviews that called it "the most important film ever made about the Holocaust" (Scheuer among them), but it was never accessible. I was sorely disappointed when it was restored and released back into theatres in 2010 for a limited run; it did not screen anywhere in Texas where I was living at the time. When I found out that Criterion had acquired it, I was ecstatic. I had managed to see a bootlegged, imported DVD in 2011; when the Criterion release debuted in June of 2013, I went to Barnes and Noble in Arkansas to buy it, and they told me to wait a week for the 50% off sale. I did, and it became not only the cornerstone of my Criterion Collection, but the beginning of my relationship with Barnes and Noble ...

I wanted to give a thanks to your post but I ran out of them (because I was "liking"/"thanking" people who responded to my initial post on 5 least favorite blind-buys). In any case, I've had this Shoah box set sitting in my cabinet for over a year or two and I have yet to try and tackle this thing. I'm just wondering how on earth this can be screened in a theater if its 10 hours long? Was there a shortened or abridged version?

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by jmclick

Many years ago on late night TV when I was a kid, I discovered this little-remembered film that I sobbed most of the way through, starting when a man slapped a boy. It usually played once a year in the middle of the night, so I would set my alarm and get up to watch it. I cried every time, and it still makes me misty-eyed whenever I see it. It's better-known now than it was when I discovered it: It's a Wonderful Life.

I hear you. I've probably seen It's a Wonderful Life about the same number of times as you have over the years. Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to let it get to me and every year without fail, by the time Clarence gets his wings, I'm a puddle.

Little wonder the army chose Capra to make propaganda movies during WWII. Resistance is futile.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by SkyAntoine

Make Way for Tomorrow and Tokyo Story. Those sappy family dramas get to me every time.

Try Hirokazu Kore-eda's Nobody Knows.

[jw007]

I wanted to add, in agreement with Great Owl, that A Safe Place may be one of the least watchable films in my Criterion Collection. I forgot about that one, because its in a box set that I highly admire, showcasing some great early indie American cinema from the late 1960s.

[bwdowiak]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Try Hirokazu Kore-eda's Nobody Knows.

I've been meaning to see this. It is streaming on Netflix if anyone wants to see it.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by Roninblues

Bambi, when I was 5.

And, as Bill Murray asked-"Who didn't cry, when Old Yeller got shot?"

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

And, as Bill Murray asked-"Who didn't cry, when Old Yeller got shot?"

For the love of God, man, spoiler that!

[WonderWeasel]

TCM is showing The Apu Trilogy tonight, starting at 8 EST.


Sorry if this has already been mentioned.

[SkyAntoine]

Newsletter is out. What title with Phoenix?

[SammyJankis]

It's Petzold's Phoenix, one of the year's very best. Stoked for this.

[Roninblues]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Try Hirokazu Kore-eda's Nobody Knows.

Awaiting an upgrade.

[dmarvin]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Any guesses?

What state is it? Nevermind; it's Arizona
Raising Arizona?

[aes3728]

Christian Petzold's Phoenix

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by SkyAntoine

Newsletter is out. What title with Phoenix?

Not seen the clue yet but Christian Petzold's Phoenix has been rumoured for a while now.