The Criterion Collection

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I'm starting my blu-ray Criterion collection and wanted to get some suggestions. I ordered M, Seven Samurai, and Benjamin Button. Which others would you recommend as must own? Thanks

The Thin Red Line
Days of Heaven
Everlasting Moments
Vivre Sa Vie
Last Year at Marienbad
Playtime


Those are prob my favorites, but the rest I own plus Paris, Texas and El Norte I find to be great.

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

I love "Wages of Fear" But "Last Year At Marienbad" and "Bigger Than Life" are both pretty high up on the list......

Forgot Wages of Fear. That too.

You trying to get an inside line on some Diabetes testing supplies or something?

No, it's just cool to get people that look like him pissed off (red faced, cussing through that big a** mustache), which if you have a Stepfather, you need to do. He'll prob faint or something.

[rezpekt]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I'm starting my blu-ray Criterion collection and wanted to get some suggestions. I ordered M, Seven Samurai, and Benjamin Button. Which others would you recommend as must own? Thanks

The 400 Blows
Wings of Desire
8 1/2
Repulsion
The Seventh Seal
Days of Heaven
El Norte
Bigger Than Life

[Beta Man]

Well.... actually, if you're starting your Blu-ray Criterion Collection, then I'd get the now out of print ones that are still on shelves some places...... and then work your way through any title you can find cheapest until you buy them all.....


If you're looking to obtain some films you may enjoy that were released by Criterion (or films to help you live out a film-geek-alter-ego) then you should buy find the most French film critic you can, and see what his favorites are from the current releases

[fdm]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I'm starting my blu-ray Criterion collection and wanted to get some suggestions. I ordered M, Seven Samurai, and Benjamin Button. Which others would you recommend as must own? Thanks

I can only go by the titles I've seen, but (in no particular order):

Days Of Heaven
Red Desert
The Seventh Seal
The Leopard
8 1/2
Vivre Sa Vie
Yojimbo/Sanjuro

Honorable mentions to

Last Year At Marienbad
The Red Shoes
Paris, Texas
Walkabout

but only because they might not be everybody's cup of tea. They're just as good as the others.

[Lepidopterous]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Okay, this is the last one, since we got too much now.


Elevator to the Gallows (CG, Deads3t, ShellOilJunior I take it would like it too)
Brazil (neo)
The Lady Eve (Sukuri)
Life Aquatic or Tenenbaums (Juiceboxjerry, Chad)
Andrei Rublev (keldons, ChadFL, MortenR)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Old Geezer, CG, ShellOilJunior)
The Vanishing (italy12)
Vampyr (italy12)
Anything from Jarmusch (rkish, of course CC, ShellOilJunior-Night On Earth)
Tokyo Story (wmermine1)
Armageddon (JediFonger)
Salo (jcs913, CC)
Eisenstein: The Sound Years (ChadFL, P@t_Mtl)
Rushmore, Robinson Crusoe, or Night Train to Munich (aggienader08, who F'd my little game up)
Jules and Jim (CG, CC)
Winter Light, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Last Temptation of Christ (Illy Scorsese)
Kurosawa films (Illy Scorsese, aggienader08, P@t_Mtl, neo, F it, a bunch of people)
Spartacus & Sid & Nancy (Beta)
Diabolique (jcs913)
Dillinger is Dead (neo, CG)
Traffic, Harakiri, The Human Condition, Solaris (neo)
Equinox (Deads3t)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (P@t_Mtl)
Two-Lane Blacktop (herzog4life, CG)
Spirit of the Beehive, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Cries and Whispers (herzog4life)
Harakiri, Naked, and Woman in the Dunes (Poolthief)


The top voted:

1. Kurosawa Films (alot of F'n people.)

2. Elevator to the Gallows (3 people)
Andrei Rublev (3 people)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (3 people)
Jarmusch Films (3 people)

3. Eisenstein: The Sound Years (2 people)
Life Aquatic (2 people)
Jules and Jim (2 people)
Dillinger is Dead (2 people)
Two-Lane Blacktop (2 people)
Salo (2 people)

I know I'm late but Hiroshima Mon Amour would most definitely be my #1.

Others not mentioned that I would list are Band of Outsiders, In the Mood for Love, and The Bicycle Thief.

[silentblu]

Nobody else has mentioned it.

Stagecoach

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by DjMethod

I know I'm late but Hiroshima Mon Amour would most definitely be my #1.

Others not mentioned that I would list are Band of Outsiders, In the Mood for Love, and The Bicycle Thief.

Thanks.

I didn't want to say any Godards, as it wouldn't of been a surprise coming from me. But Band of Outsiders on blu would be loved by me.

[billzfan]

I ordered Seventh Seal and am leaning towards 8 1/2 next. Has anyone heard any rumors about which titles may be going out of print? I'll order those first.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I ordered Seventh Seal and am leaning towards 8 1/2 next. Has anyone heard any rumors about which titles may be going out of print? I'll order those first.

The Third Man
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Pierrot le fou

The last two are still farily easy to find at a reasonable price.

[kndy]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION RELEASE OF 2010

544-550 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BLU-RAY RELEASE OF 2010

517-518 By Brakhage: An Anthology Volume One and Two Stan Brakhage

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BOX-SET RELEASE OF 2010

528-531 3 Silent Classics by Josef Von Sternberg

BEST ECLIPSE SERIES OF THE YEAR (2010):

19 Chantal Akerman In the Seventies
or
21 Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties

Cool Picks! Here are mine:

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION RELEASE OF 2010

497-500 Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy Roberto Rosselini

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BLU-RAY RELEASE OF 2010

2 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BOX-SET RELEASE OF 2010

544-550 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

BEST ECLIPSE SERIES OF THE YEAR (2010):

21 Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties

I haven't watched "The Actuality Dramas of Allan King" but I heard that set is great!

[neo78956]

The 3 disc re-release of SEVEN SAMURAI was my first Criterion dvd. Now, it remains my all time favorite film and the Criterion blu-ray is coming to my doorstep in three days time. The circle is now complete.

[capnnarcolepsy]

In the past few hours I've watched "Empire of Passion", and had a Paul Morrissey double feature with "Flesh for Frankenstein" and "Blood for Dracula". Where does one go from here? "Salo" or "Pink Flamingos" probably. Good thing I own them both.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by kndy

Cool Picks! Here are mine:

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BLU-RAY RELEASE OF 2010

2 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa

BEST CRITERION COLLECTION BOX-SET RELEASE OF 2010

544-550 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

You get them early correct? I remain overly jealous

[ccfixx]

For the Chaplin fans, DVDBeaver has its review of Flicker Alley's DVD release of "Chaplin at Keystone" up. The set is only $59.95 with free shipping from Flicker Alley's own site.

CC

[Arkadin]

cc--interesting info regarding the Chaplins.
thanks for that; I'll be placing a UK order soon.
btw: someone mentioned bagsunlimited; their HD DVD/blu-ray bags WILL just fit over the Criterion plastic cases--it's much tougher if they are still in the shrinkwrap.
it's a tight fit, but I have them on all my Criterion cases.
I've used bagsunlimited for years and they are a great company.

[kndy]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

You get them early correct? I remain overly jealous

Not the BBS story (hoping) but I did get "Seven Samurai" and it looks great!

[pro-bassoonist]

Final press specs:

ARMY OF SHADOWS - BD
This masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville (Le doulos, Le cercle rouge) about the French Resistance went unreleased in the United States for thirty-seven years, until its triumphant theatrical debut in 2006. Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Melville’s most personal film, featuring Lino Ventura (Le deuxième souffle), Paul Meurisse (Diabolique), Jean-Pierre Cassel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), and the incomparable Simone Signoret (Casque d’or, Diabolique) as intrepid underground fighters who must grapple with their conception of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime.

1969 • 145 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• High-definition digital transfer of the 2004 restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Optional DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring film historian Ginette Vincendeau
• Interviews with Lhomme and editor Françoise Bonnot
• On-set footage and excerpts from archival interviews with director Jean-Pierre Melville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters
• Jean-Pierre Melville et “L’armée des ombres” (2002), a short program on the director and his film
• Le journal de la Résistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines during the final days of German-occupied France
• Film restoration demonstration by Lhomme
• Theatrical trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Amy Taubin and historian Robert O. Paxton, as well as excerpts from Rui Nogueira’s Melville on Melville

TITLE: Army of Shadows (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1969BD
UPC: 7-15515-06681-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-371-7
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 1/11/11


BROADCAST NEWS – BD
In the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Terms of Endearment, The Simpsons) was synonymous with intelligent television comedy—his shows were insightful about work and love and always tapped into the zeitgeist. With his transition to film in the 1980s, he became a master Hollywood storyteller, and none of his films was more quintessentially Brooks than
Broadcast News. This caustic inside look at the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter (Raising Arizona, The Piano), in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks). Brooks’s witty, gentlyprophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.

1987 • 132 minutes • Color • Stereo • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director James L. Brooks and editor Richard Marks (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• New audio commentary featuring Brooks and Marks
• New documentary on Brooks’s career in television and film, featuring actors Marilu Henner (Taxi) and Julie Kavner (Rhoda, The Simpsons) and several other of Brooks’s collaborators
• Deleted scenes and an alternate ending, with commentary by Brooks
• New video interview with veteran CBS news producer Susan Zirinsky, one of the models for actress Holly Hunter’s character and an associate producer on the film
• Featurette containing on-set footage and interviews with Brooks, Hunter, and actor Albert Brooks
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Carrie Rickey

TITLE: Broadcast News (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1967BD
UPC: 7-15515-06661-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-369-4
SRP:$39.95 STREET: 1/25/11


ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS - BD
Special effects wunderkind and genre master Byron Haskin (The War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits) won a place in the hearts of fantasy film lovers everywhere with this gorgeously designed journey into the unknown. Robinson Crusoe on Mars tells the story of U.S. astronaut Commander “Kit” Draper (Paul Mantee), who must fight for survival when his spaceship crash-lands on the barren waste of Mars, a pet monkey his only companion. But is he actually alone? Shot in vast Techniscope and blazing color, this is an imaginative and beloved marvel of classic science fiction.

1964 • 110 minutes • Color • Monaural • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring screenwriter Ib Melchior, actors Paul Mantee and Victor Lundin, production designer Al Nozaki, Oscar-winning special effects designer and Robinson Crusoe on Mars historian Robert Skotak, and excerpts from a 1979 audio interview with director Byron Haskin
• Destination Mars, a video featurette by filmmaker and space historian Michael Lennick detailing the science behind the film
• Music video for Lundin’s song “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”
• Stills gallery
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Lennick as well as Melchior’s “Brief Yargorian Vocabulary” (a glossary of original alien dialect) and a list of facts about Mars, both from his original screenplay

TITLE: Robinson Crusoe on Mars (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1974BD
UPC: 7-15515-06741-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-381-6
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 1/11/11

SHOCK CORRIDOR – BD
In Shock Corridor, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss, The Big Red One) masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and dementia. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, madness closes in on him. Constance Towers (The Naked Kiss) costars as Johnny’s coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on race in sixties America and daring photography by Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter), Shock Corridor is now recognized for its far-reaching influence.

1963 • 101 minutes • Black & White/Color • Monaural • 1.75:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• New video interview with star Constance Towers by film historian and filmmaker
Charles Dennis
• Excerpts from The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera, Adam Simon’s 1996 documentary on director Samuel Fuller
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: Illustrations by cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World) and a booklet featuring an essay by critic and poet Robert Polito and excerpts from Fuller’s autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking

TITLE: Shock Corridor (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1970BD
UPC: 7-15515-06691-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-372-4
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 1/18/11

THE NAKED KISS – BD
The setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute (a crackerjack Constance Towers) relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But in the strange, hallucinatory territory of writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller (Shock Corridor, The Big Red One), perverse secrets inevitably simmer beneath a seemingly wholesome surface. Featuring radical visual touches, full-throttle performances, brilliant cinematography by Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter), and one bizarrely beautiful musical number, The Naked Kiss is among Fuller’s greatest, boldest entertainments.

1964 • 90 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.75:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• New video interview with star Constance Towers by film historian and filmmaker Charles Dennis
• Excerpts from a 1983 episode of the BBC’s The South Bank Show dedicated to director Samuel Fuller
• Interview with Fuller from a 1967 episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps
• Interview with Fuller from a 1987 episode of the French television series Cinéma cinémas
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: Illustrations by cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World) and a booklet featuring an essay by critic and poet Robert Polito and excerpts from Fuller’s autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking

TITLE: The Naked Kiss (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1972BD
UPC: 7-15515-06711-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-374-8
SRP:$39.95
STREET: 1/18/11

Pro-B

[billzfan]

I was just reading that Criterion no longer has the rights to La Dolce Vita. Is this true? It would be a shame if we never get a blu-ray release. It's one of my favorite films of all time.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by billzfan

I was just reading that Crierion no longer has the rights to La Dolce Vita. Is this true? It would be a shame if we never get a blu-ray release. It's one of my favorite films of all time.

They did not have the rights to begin with - so it is impossible for them to have lost them.

Yes, I expect to see a Blu-ray release in 2011.

Pro-B