The Criterion Collection

[tisdivine]

Did anyone else go through the emotional rollercoaster that I did with the FlimStruck email earlier lol

Saw an email from Criterion instantly thought it was the flash sale announcement. Was so pumped up then realized it was an announcement about FS and was instantly super sad only to read said announcement and get moderatly excited again at the $100 a year price, two weeks free and the super close launch date.

Criterion I love you but you're killing me over here!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

I wish there were more decent witch films...

This may not be quite what you have in mind, but it's awesome, awesome, awesome.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by Saucerful

I know, it was just too easy!

All joking aside though, that's an impressive collection you've got. Mine is only about a quarter that size. I hope to be adding some more next month.

Thanks...but at this point in my life, trying to be a "completist" is too exhausting. I have no desire to own every single film in the Criterion Collection, but now I even question whether or not even half of the films I own aren't ones I really "need" to own. Really, I don't need to own anything, but as a collector, its a thing I have where I go through collection phases and then when I have enough (or too much), I am exhausted or disenchanted. I guess it kind of is what happens if you're super wealthy and you get bored from all the money you have and just want to experience more of life rather than be weighed down by all the possessions and capital in your life. It's all baggage in the end and you can't take it with you when you die. I want to live lighter these days and having a huge movie collection doesn't help this matter. But sure, I can perhaps rip or digitize all my films and store it all neatly on two external hard drives (like I recently did with my 1,000+ CD collection), but man, having that physical copy with the artwork really adds to the value.

I recall iScottie once owned every single Criterion film but I think he posted a while back that he sold some of his collection off. Owning everything is too costly for me and even owning 200-300 Criterions is a lot of $ spent.

[bjsummers]

Hey Gang, I just received a very big moratorium list from Eone in Canada. Can anyone confirm these are out of print, or just unavailable through Eone?

A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
Alambrista! (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Alambrista! (n/a Quebec)
Alexander Korda's Private Lives - Eclipse Series 16
And Everything Is Going Fine
And Everything Is Going Fine (Blu-ray)
And The Ship Sails On
Andrzej Wajda - Three War Films
Autumn Afternoon, An
Beauty And The Beast
Bergman Island (n/a Quebec)
Big City, The
Bigger Than Life
Bigger Than Life (Blu-ray)
Blast Of Silence
Border Radio (n/a Quebec)
Boudu Save From Drowning
Branded to Kill (n/a Quebec)
Brazil Special Edition
Browning Version, The (1951)
By Brakhage - An Anthology
Canterbury Tale, A
Casque D'or
Charulata
Chronicle of a Summer (n/a Quebec)
Clean, Shaven
Coupe De Grace
Crazed Fruit
Cul-de-sac
Danton (n/a Quebec)
Death Of A Cyclist (n/a Quebec)
Devil And Daniel Webster
Documentaries Of Louis Malle Set - Eclipse Series 2 (n/a Quebec)
Double Suicide
Dusan Makavejev - Free Radical - Eclipse Series 18 (n/a Quebec)
Eclipse Series 40: Late Ray
Eclipse Series 41: Kinoshita and World War II
Equinox
Essential Art House - Volume 2
Europa (n/a Quebec)
F For Fake
Fat Girl
Fat Girl (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Fighting Elegy
Fires on the Plain
Fishing With John (Programs 1-4)
Fists in the Pocket
Fugitive Kind, The
Gate Of Flesh
Gate of Hell (n/a Quebec)
General Idi Amin Dada - Self Portrait
George Bernard Shaw On Film - Eclipse Series 20
George Washington (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Good Morning
Great Adaptations
Green for Danger
Hands Over the City
High And Low
House Of Games
I Fidanzati
Identification of a Woman (n/a Quebec)
Il Posto
Indiscretion Of An American Wife/ Terminal Station
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Jigoku
Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey
Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey (Blu-ray)
Jubal (Blu-ray)
Jubilee
Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women - Eclipse Series 13
Kill!
Knife In The Water
Koko - A Talking Gorilla
Kuroneko
La Cage aux Folles
La Commare Secca aka The Grim Reaper
La Jetée / Sans Soleil (n/a Quebec)
La Ronde
La vie de boheme (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Last Days Of Disco, The
Last Emperor, The
Last Metro, The
Late Spring
Le Beau Serge (n/a Quebec)
Le Deuxième Souffle (n/a Quebec)
Le Havre (Blu-ray)
L'enfance nue (n/a Quebec)
Les cousins (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Les cousins (n/a Quebec)
Les Enfants Terrible (n/a Quebec)
Les visiteurs du soir (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Letter Never Sent
Life of Oharu, The
Lola Montès (n/a Quebec)
Lonesome
Lonesome (Blu-ray)
Louie Bluie
Lovers, The (n/a Quebec)
Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer - Eclipse Series 35 (n/a Quebec)
Maitresse
Makioka Sisters, The
Makioka Sisters, The (Blu-ray)
Mala Noche (n/a Quebec)
Mamma Roma
Marketa Lazarova (n/a Quebec)
Master of the House
Medium Cool (Blu-ray)
Miss Julie (n/a Quebec)
Moment of Truth, The (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Moment of Truth, The (n/a Quebec)
Monsieur Verdoux
Monsoon Wedding
Monsoon Wedding (Blu-ray)
Monsters & Madmen (n/a Quebec)
Monterey Pop (Blu-ray)
Murmur of the Heart
Music Room, The
My Life As A Dog
My Man Godfrey
Mystery Train
Naked Kiss, The (n/a Quebec)
Organizer, The (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Organizer, The(Criterion) (n/a Quebec)
Oshima's Outlaw Sixties - Eclipse Series 21 (n/a Quebec)
Overlord
Overlord* (Blu-ray)
Pale Flower (n/a Quebec)
Patriotism (n/a Quebec)
Pepe Le Moko
Phantom Carriage, The (n/a Quebec)
Pigs, Pimps, And Prostitutes - 3 Films By Shohei Imamura (n/a Quebec)
Pornographers, The
Presenting Sacha Guitry - Eclipse Series 22 (n/a Quebec)
Rebel Samurai Sixities Swordplay Classics
Red Beard
Revanche (n/a Quebec)
Ride With The Devil
Rosetta
Rosetta (Blu-ray)
Rossellini's History Films - Renaissance And Enlightenment - Eclipse Series 14 (n/a Quebec)
Salvatore Giuliano
Samurai Spy
Sansho the Bailiff (n/a Quebec)
Schizopolis
Secret Sunshine
Secret Sunshine (Blu-ray)
Seduced and Abandoned
Shock Corridor (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Shock Corridor (n/a Quebec)
Silent Naruse - Eclipse Series 26 (n/a Quebec)
Sólo con tu pareja
Stage And Spectacle - 3 Films By Jean Renoir
Story Of A Prostitute
Summer Interlude (n/a Quebec)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sweetie
Sweetie (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Sword Of The Beast
Tanner '88
Things To Come
This Sporting Life
Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin - Eclipse Series 31
Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures - Eclipse Series 36
Times of Harvey Milk, The (Blu-ray) (n/a Quebec)
Times of Harvey Milk, The (n/a Quebec)
Tiny Furniture
Tokyo Drifter (n/a Quebec)
Tout Va Bien
Traffic
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Vengeance Is Mine (n/a Quebec)
Virgin Spring, The
Walker (n/a Quebec)
Weekend
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
White Mane
Wild Strawberries
Wise Blood
World on a Wire (n/a Quebec)
Yi Yi
Young Torless
Youth Of The Beast

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by ThisKid

With my collection, I've hit the wall with my Limited Edition shelf in my wardrobe. I can't fit any more titles on it. And I'm getting more Criterions (which go on that shelf), so I might need to reshuffle my collection. What did I do to receive such horror?

That's why I expanded to the dining room. . Although Criterions stayed in the office.

[SkyAntoine]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

Wow

Filmstruck beta testers - we receive the service for free until the end of 2016. Check your emails!

I tried my best to give them $100 today, but couldn't find a link to pay. Then, I get the email I get free service thru 2016. Thank you, FilmStruck!!

[themp3000]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

That's why I expanded to the dining room. . Although Criterions stayed in the office.

[Show spoiler]

This made me drool. Beautiful shelves and presentation. I've been fighting to keep some shelf space here myself, purging titles I don't care to own in large, frequent batches. Mostly been successful.

[jedidarrick]

Originally Posted by mrjohnnyb

To everyone else:

Hopefully, tomorrow is Criterion October Flash Day!

I thought they usually did Flash Sales on Tuesdays.
By the way, what time do these flash sales usually begin? Do they begin at 9 am pacific time?

[mrjohnnyb]

Originally Posted by jedidarrick

I thought they usually did Flash Sales on Tuesdays.
By the way, what time do these flash sales usually begin? Do they begin at 9 am pacific time?

They usually start the sale sometime around noon or soon thereafter.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Not seen this or even looked into it...

Neon Demon was a good 'witch' film, depending on how you wanted to look at it! I also loooove the witch themes in Antichrist!, the recent Macbeth had an awesome portrayal of the witches too - I preferred them to Polanski's take on the witches.

But yeah... there are too many goofy witch films lol although back in the day I was a sucker for Buffy the Vampire Killer lol

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is my favorite TV show of all time, by far. Well, the first 5 seasons anyways.

I was mostly joking about The Craft, though it's actually a decent way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, and a hilariously over-the-top (at times, anyways) Faruiza Balk. Of course, I've always had a thing for Neve.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

Those Dolls movies look more interesting than ever, don't really have high hopes but now I need to watch them

Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls both arrived in the mail last week.

They were both blind buys. Of course, from what I've heard about Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, it might make me go blind. Wait...what? Did I say that? Nevermind.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by SkyAntoine

I tried my best to give them $100 today, but couldn't find a link to pay. Then, I get the email I get free service thru 2016. Thank you, FilmStruck!!

I haven't gotten an email today .

[mikesncc1701]

I didn't see a stand alone thread for Gimme Shelter so I'll talk here. As it happens, I'm stuck in an evacuation zone in Jacksonville, one of the sites of the upcoming Hurricane Matthew. I sent my wife and daughter who's only 1 month old to my Pops' house as I needed to stay home and take care of our animals and if anything happens, be here to make sure the house is taken care of. My wife doesn't like loud movies and such and especially with the newborn, I can't really crank up my system as it might damage her ears. I've had Jumpin' Jack Flash stuck in my head for weeks now so when they left, I popped open a cold beer, stuck in Gimme Shelter and turned it up just short of what would probably damage my speakers. I'm not a huge Stones fan outside of a select few songs but my god is this one encapsulating film. Just brilliant in the way everything is handled. I love the way the Maysles capture everything in cinematic form but still keep the rawness and integrity of the subject matter. It's like you're literally being transported to the 60's and these concerts. You never feel like an outside observer and always get caught up in the environment. It's really a great example of the "it has something for everyone" camp. It's great if you like documentaries, it's great if you're a music enthusiast, or simply one that likes films or pop culture history. One of my favorite blu-rays. It looks incredible and sounds even better.

The Rolling Stones-Jumpin Jack Flash - YouTube

[polsk_aus90]

Originally Posted by mikesncc1701

I didn't see a stand alone thread for Gimme Shelter so I'll talk here. As it happens, I'm stuck in an evacuation zone in Jacksonville, one of the sites of the upcoming Hurricane Matthew. I sent my wife and daughter who's only 1 month old to my Pops' house as I needed to stay home and take care of our animals and if anything happens, be here to make sure the house is taken care of. My wife doesn't like loud movies and such and especially with the newborn, I can't really crank up my system as it might damage her ears. I've had Jumpin' Jack Flash stuck in my head for weeks now so when they left, I popped open a cold beer, stuck in Gimme Shelter and turned it up just short of what would probably damage my speakers. I'm not a huge Stones fan outside of a select few songs but my god is this one encapsulating film. Just brilliant in the way everything is handled. I love the way the Maysles capture everything in cinematic form but still keep the rawness and integrity of the subject matter. It's like you're literally being transported to the 60's and these concerts. You never feel like an outside observer and always get caught up in the environment. It's really a great example of the "it has something for everyone" camp. It's great if you like documentaries, it's great if you're a music enthusiast, or simply one that likes films or pop culture history. One of my favorite blu-rays. It looks incredible and sounds even better.

The Rolling Stones-Jumpin Jack Flash - YouTube

Anytime that song is mentioned it reminds me of one the best encapsulations of character committed to screen:

Mean Streets - De Niro's entrance - YouTube

And then thinking about that scene gives me cause to remember one of my favourite character introductions, that of Jep in The Great Beauty.

All the best with the hurricane situation - I hope you and your family fare well.

[mikesncc1701]

Originally Posted by polsk_aus90

Anytime that song is mentioned it reminds me of one the best encapsulations of character committed to screen:

[Show spoiler]Mean Streets - De Niro's entrance - YouTube

And then thinking about that scene gives me cause to remember one of my favourite character introductions, that of Jep in The Great Beauty.

All the best with the hurricane situation - I hope you and your family fare well.

Yeah I definitely need to rewatch Mean Streets. I got the DVD at a closing Big Lots for like 75 cents. Loved it but I only saw it the one time.

And thanks for the wishes

[theater dreamer]

I keep mine in alphabetical order, too, as I want to be able to find movies without having to consult a master spine number list.

Originally Posted by Saucerful

Criterion... in alphabetical order?!

[theater dreamer]

You and your family, and everyone else there with you, please stay safe. Looks like a monster storm.

Originally Posted by mikesncc1701

Yeah I definitely need to rewatch Mean Streets. I got the DVD at a closing Big Lots for like 75 cents. Loved it but I only saw it the one time.

And thanks for the wishes

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by theater dreamer

I keep mine in alphabetical order, too, as I want to be able to find movies without having to consult a master spine number list.

Pfft. True fans have spine numbers memorized.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

That's why I expanded to the dining room. . Although Criterions stayed in the office.

Possession Love that release!

[theater dreamer]

Beautiful collection!

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

That's why I expanded to the dining room. . Although Criterions stayed in the office.