The Criterion Collection

[Roninblues]

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

Give her this and put a ring on her finger!!!



(No idea if the movie is any good, or even if it ends with a happily married couple, but it's the only Criterion I can think of with "wedding" in the title.)



https://www.blu-ray.com/deals/?sortb...icetrackings=0

How about Criterion's The Honeymoon Killers

[Al_The_Strange]

My Criterion flash sale order arrived. Yay!

Watched For All Mankind earlier on. A little dry perhaps, but the footage looks pretty good and I did get a kick out of watching the astronauts doing their thing. As cool as the shuttle launches and technical aspects are, it's good to see that they all have a sense of humor too. I think the film does show a human side to the space program I don't usually see, and the more I think about it the more I like it.

Watching The Graduate now. I always did appreciate it as a film/story, and the new Blu-Ray looks/sounds decent. There are some neat thematic details I never noticed before.

Also, maybe it's just me, but the opening shot with the guy on the escalator reminds me so much of the opening for Jackie Brown.

Will get to my third one, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold when I'm feeling more with-it.

[TheLaughingMann]

Saw Kagemusha's stock was getting low, so ordered it. Will decide between Lady Snowblood and Kuroneko between now and the end of the month.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann

So it looks like Kagemusha Criterion would be a better buy for me over Ran StudioCanal (least until the 4K cut releases), along with Three Outlaw Samurai and Sword of Doom.

It gets my vote. Especially over the current release of Ran -- at this point, I think it'll be wise to wait until the 4K remaster comes out.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann

Saw Kagemusha's stock was getting low, so ordered it. Will decide between Lady Snowblood and Kuroneko between now and the end of the month.

Oh cool.

Lady Snowblood is pretty hip, especially if you're a Kill Bill fan (or, I'd say it's on the same level as Shogun Assassin). Kuroneko is quite different from the rest -- more of a dreamy, folky ghost story. It is a good one though.

[deepseababy]

Originally Posted by takeasneededforpain

I looked through that link yesterday actually and seemingly everything that interested me appeared to only be available on DVD.

Have you seen Mulholland Drive? It's not a horror film like Rosemary's Baby per se, and it's not in the vein of Halloween or anything like that, but it's definitely inherently creepy and foreboding. I recommend it to fans of horror because it does essentially fit the criteria for a "horror" film, it's just an unconventional one. Sort of like Under the Skin. Another recommendation is Robert Altman's 3 Women... again, not really a conventional horror film, but a very eerie exercise indeed.

[Rich Pure Doom]

Originally Posted by deepseababy

Another recommendation is Robert Altman's 3 Women... again, not really a conventional horror film, but a very eerie exercise indeed.

3 Women can't be recommended enough times. Brilliant on all levels.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Rich Pure Doom

3 Women can't be recommended enough times. Brilliant on all levels.

Well after loving The Long Goodbye as much as I did, I find myself on the verge of a full-on Robert Altman journey of discovery.

Nashville and McCabe I already love.

Popeye will always have a special place in my childhood heart (RIP Robin Williams).

...3 Women may be next.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by takeasneededforpain

I looked through that link yesterday actually and seemingly everything that interested me appeared to only be available on DVD.

Like which ones? Some of those are available on excellent UK releases.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by DaBargainHunta

Give her this and put a ring on her finger!!!



(No idea if the movie is any good, or even if it ends with a happily married couple, but it's the only Criterion I can think of with "wedding" in the title.)

Originally Posted by AronofskyFan

Oh don't you worry, putting a ring on it is the plan sooner rather than later . Never seen the movie or any other from the director but that would be funny

For the record, it does have a happy ending and is something of a stuffed wedding cake in texture. I didn't care for the movie, but I understand people abroad have loved it as a piece of Indian exotica. It was awarded the Golden Lion in its time.

[pedromvu]

I never see much talk about Black Orpheus and since there is a sale going on just wanted to give a recommendation for anyone on the fence.

This film really got me by surprise the first time I saw it and it is one of those where the music is so good that it gave me one of those special experiences where to this day just by hearing the music my brain goes back to a specific memory of feelings from when I first saw it, not sure if I can explain it well.

While most if not all performers are amateur I hardly even noticed or else it hardly matters in this, they all show some great dance moves at the least.

I watched this before Orpheus and I couldn't get much into that (to be fair I have never been able to connect much with Cocteau work), it's funny how two french directors conceived such different adaptations with the same source material although this is a much looser one.

Also I have never read about a Brazilian point of view of this film, so I can't be sure how accurate the culture is portrayed as I know a foreign perspective doesn't always lend well to make an authentic picture.

Anyway for me this is just a powerful tragic story that in it's darkest aspects is very atmospheric and told with an amazing soundtrack that will be forever ingrained in my mind, I mean not for nothing at the time it bested such films as Nazarin, 400 Blows, Hiroshima mon Amour for the Palme d'or, and Criterion's own The Bridge at the Oscars, even though I can see how in this day many see it as an injustice due to some of those films being much more popular or influential.

[drb124]

Got my shipment in from the Flash Sale. Still waiting on Gilda.

[TheLaughingMann]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

It gets my vote. Especially over the current release of Ran -- at this point, I think it'll be wise to wait until the 4K remaster comes out.

EDIT:


Oh cool.

Lady Snowblood is pretty hip, especially if you're a Kill Bill fan (or, I'd say it's on the same level as Shogun Assassin). Kuroneko is quite different from the rest -- more of a dreamy, folky ghost story. It is a good one though.

Even then with ran, who is doing the remastering? I would rather have kagemusha for the value as a cinema gem and the supplements. And I do love me some kill bill and a great ghost story.

[Page14]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

I never see much talk about Black Orpheus and since there is a sale going on just wanted to give a recommendation for anyone on the fence.

This film really got me by surprise the first time I saw it and it is one of those where the music is so good that it gave me one of those special experiences where to this day just by hearing the music my brain goes back to a specific memory of feelings from when I first saw it, not sure if I can explain it well.

[Show spoiler]While most if not all performers are amateur I hardly even noticed or else it hardly matters in this, they all show some great dance moves at the least.

I watched this before Orpheus and I couldn't get much into that (to be fair I have never been able to connect much with Cocteau work), it's funny how two french directors conceived such different adaptations with the same source material although this is a much looser one.

Also I have never read about a Brazilian point of view of this film, so I can't be sure how accurate the culture is portrayed as I know a foreign perspective doesn't always lend well to make an authentic picture.

Anyway for me this is just a powerful tragic story that in it's darkest aspects is very atmospheric and told with an amazing soundtrack that will be forever ingrained in my mind, I mean not for nothing at the time it bested such films as Nazarin, 400 Blows, Hiroshima mon Amour for the Palme d'or, and Criterion's own The Bridge at the Oscars, even though I can see how in this day many see it as an injustice due to some of those films being much more popular or influential.

I'm happy to see somebody give this film some respect. I think it might be the 2nd Criterion I ever bought ... on DVD back in the days when I didn't have a clue what Criterion was all about. It didn't take me too long to upgrade it to blu-ray. What drew me to it in the first place was that I read that it had a magnificent score ... like a pulse that starts at the beginning of the film and is constant throughout. (Like you, once I "heard" the movie, I can't forget the music). To me, it was, in a way, hypnotic. I haven't watched it in years and need to do something about that. (Oh, and it's very colorful too).

[Arch Stanton]

Originally Posted by deepseababy

Have you seen Mulholland Drive? It's not a horror film like Rosemary's Baby per se, and it's not in the vein of Halloween or anything like that, but it's definitely inherently creepy and foreboding. I recommend it to fans of horror because it does essentially fit the criteria for a "horror" film, it's just an unconventional one. Sort of like Under the Skin. Another recommendation is Robert Altman's 3 Women... again, not really a conventional horror film, but a very eerie exercise indeed.

I stand by MD as being the scariest film I've ever seen. Not just in terms of pure shock moments/the two jump scares but as a whole experience of dread and doom.

[ShellOilJunior]

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[shadedpain4]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

http://metrograph.com/events/

Who's up for a road trip?

[Scottie]

I'm convinced that all good things happen in New York City and Los Angeles.

[ThatOneGuy]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I'm convinced that all good things happen in New York City and Los Angeles.

As someone who lives in Miami, I can tell you the majority of the good things for film does happen near exclusively for New York and LA.

[Vinyl]

Anyone get Burroughs: The Movie? What does everyone think of it? It looks really interesting but don't see many people here picking it up.

[Knaldskalle]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I'm convinced that all good things happen in New York City and Los Angeles.

All six US screenings of Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) a few years ago was in Oakland, CA, arranged by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. There's sometimes stuff going on in Chicago as well.

But New Mexico... nada.