The Criterion Collection

[The Chosen One]

Decided to make a separate thread from the movie thread...


April Releases were just announced yesterday.
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THE 400 BLOWS (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

The unforgettable debut feature by François Truffaut (Jules and Jim) is a wrenchingly personal coming-of-age story that introduced the character that would become the director’s lifelong cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud, in one of the screen’s great child performances). With the utmost sensitivity, The 400 Blows dramatizes the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, characterized by aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. The film marks its maker’s official transition from influential critic to one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs, and is considered the first true work of the French New Wave.

1959 • 99 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English subtitle • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Two audio commentaries, one by cinema professor Brian Stonehill and another by François Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
• Rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan
• Newsreel footage of Léaud at Cannes in 1959
• Excerpt from a 1965 French television program in which Truffaut discusses his youth, his critical writing, and the origins of Antoine Doinel
• Television interview with Truffaut from 1960 about the global reception of The 400 Blows and his own critical impression of the film
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Annette Insdorf

TITLE: THE 400 BLOWS (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2349BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11431-8
ISBN: 978-1-60465-830-9
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 4/8/14

BREAKING THE WAVES (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

Lars von Trier (Antichrist) became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love) stuns, in an Oscar-nominated performance, as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Insomnia’s Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil-rig accident. Breaking the Waves, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits.

1996 • 159 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier, editor Anders Refn, and location scout Anthony Dod Mantle
• New interview with filmmaker and critic Stig Björkman
• New interviews with actors Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård
• Interview from 2004 with actor Adrian Rawlins
• Watson’s audition tape, with commentary by von Trier
• Deleted and extended scenes, with commentary by von Trier
• Deleted scene featuring the late actor Katrin Cartlidge
• Cannes Film Festival promotional clip
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: An essay by critic David Sterritt

TITLE: BREAKING THE WAVES (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2320BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11471-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-833-0
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 4/15/14

MASTER OF THE HOUSE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

Before he got up close and personal with Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr) fashioned this finely detailed, ahead-of-its-time examination of domestic life. In this heartfelt story of a housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband, Dreyer finds lightness and humor; it’s a deft comedy of revenge that was an enormous box-office success and is considered an early example of feminism on-screen. Constructed with the director’s customary meticulousness and stirring sense of justice, Master of the House is a jewel of silent cinema.

1925 • 111 minutes • Black & White • Silent • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with a recent score by Gillian Anderson, presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray
• New interview with Dreyer historian Casper Tybjerg
• New visual essay on Dreyer’s camera work and editing by film historian David Bordwell
• New English intertitle translation
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu

TITLE: MASTER OF THE HOUSE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2352BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11481-3
ISBN: 978-1-60465-834-7
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 4/22/14

RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

Early in his career, Don Siegel (The Killers) made his mark with this sensational and high-octane but economically constructed drama set in a maximum-security penitentiary. Riot in Cell Block 11, the brainchild of producer extraordinaire Walter Wanger (Foreign Correspondent), is a ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about prisoners’ rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons. In Siegel’s hands, the film is at once brash and humane, showcasing the hard-boiled visual flair and bold storytelling for which the director would become known and shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras.

1954 • 80 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary by film scholar Matthew Bernstein
• Excerpts from the director’s 1993 autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by his son Kristoffer Tabori
• More!
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, a 1954 article by coproducer Walter Wanger, and a 1974 tribute to Siegel by filmmaker Sam Peckinpah

TITLE: RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2351BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11461-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-832-3
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 4/22/14


IL SORPASSO (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)

The ultimate Italian road comedy, Il sorpasso stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman (Big Deal on Madonna Street) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Z) as, respectively, a waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and the bookish law student he takes on a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy. An unpredictable journey that careers from slapstick to tragedy, this film, directed by Dino Risi (the original Scent of a Woman), is a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life. A holy grail of commedia all’italiana, Il sorpasso is so fresh and exciting that one can easily see why it has long been adored in Italy.

1962 • 105 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interviews with screenwriter Ettore Scola and film scholar and professor Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
• Interview from 2004 with director Dino Risi by film critic Jean A. Gili
• Introduction by actor Jean-Louis Trintignant from a 1983 French television broadcast of the film
• A Beautiful Vacation, a 2006 documentary on Risi featuring interviews with the director and his collaborators and friends
• Excerpts from a 2012 documentary that returns to Castiglioncello, the location for the film’s beach scenes, featuring rare on-set color footage
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Phillip Lopate and Antonio Monda, as well as excerpts from Risi’s writings, with an introduction by film critic Valerio Caprara

TITLE: IL SORPASSO (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2353BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11491-2
ISBN: 978-1-60465-835-4
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 4/29/14

[jpx7]

Cool list here (http://www.criterion.com/lists/147839-akira-kurosawa-s-favorite-criterions) of Akira Kurosawa's favorite Criterion titles, culled from a discussion with his daughter regarding his favorite one-hundred films (one per direction).

[The Chosen One]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk

Not a criterion film but it was filmed in 1902... before 50pound and OKHawk were even born.

[Hawk]

Not a criterion film but it was filmed in 1902... before 50pound and OKHawk were even born.

Here's a colorized version with a soundtrack that was created especially for the film by one of my favorite (French) electronic musical duos, Air:

http://vimeo.com/39275260

If you want to take a 'trip', this is certainly an interesting starting point.

[jpx7]

Recently purchased and watched the Criterion Collection version of The Rock on dvd, for reasons beyond the usual Criterion Collection collecting criteria*.

The film honestly does hold up pretty well.

Then I watched it through again with commentary. Michael Bay really is a craven, classless, cash-obsessed asshole who can barely string two coherent sentences together; almost every anecdote he begins ends confusingly, at best, but mostly reach a point of withering pointlessness. Nicolas Cage, on the other hand, is actually extraordinarily lucid—something I would not have necessarily anticipated, given his acting performances.

*(I've been undertaking a pretty rigorous interrogation of Cage's oeuvre over the past few weeks—and, in case you're wondering, yes: the project began before the pertinent Community episode.)

[The Chosen One]

List of Criterion Releases for May

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ACE IN THE HOLE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.

1951 • 111 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
• Portrait of a “60% Perfect Man”: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring interviews with Wilder by film critic Michel Ciment
• Interview with actor Kirk Douglas from 1984
• Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Institute
• Excerpts from an audio interview with Wilder’s coscreenwriter Walter Newman
• Video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
• Stills gallery
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin

TITLE: ACE IN THE HOLE (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2355BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11571-1
ISBN: 978-1-60465-837-8
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 5/6/14

Overlord (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Overlord-Blu-ray/97173/)

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this immersive account by Stuart Cooper of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity.Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on human smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.

Special Features:

Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Stuart Cooper, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring Cooper and actor Brian Stirner
Mining the Archive, a 2007 video piece featuring archivists from London's Imperial War Museum detailing the footage used in the film
Capa Influences Cooper, a 2007 photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa
Cameramen at War, the British Ministry of Information's 1943 film tribute to newsreel and service film unit cameramen
A Test of Violence, Cooper's 1969 short film about the Spanish artist Juan Genovés
Germany Calling, a 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film, clips of which appear in Overlord
Excerpts from the journals of two D-day soldiers, read by Stirner
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones, a short history of the Imperial War Museum, and excerpts from the Overlord novelization by Cooper and Christopher Hudson



Like Someone In Love (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Like-Someone-In-Love-Blu-ray/74249/)

Abbas Kiarostami has spent his incomparable movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. At first blush, his extraordinary, sly Like Someone in Love, which finds the Iranian director in Tokyo, may appear to be among his most straightforward films. Yet with this simple story of the growing bond between a young part-time call girl and a grandfatherly client, Kiarostami has constructed an enigmatic but crystalline investigation of affection and desire as complex as his masterful Close-up and Certified Copy in its engagement with the workings of the mercurial human heart.

Special Features:

New 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director Abbas Kiarostami, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Forty-five-minute documentary on the making of the film
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar and critic Nico Baumbach



Red River (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Red-River-Blu-ray/56981/)

No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. In it, John Wayne found one of his greatest roles as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted son, played by Montgomery Clift in a breakout performance, reach epic proportions during a cattle drive to Missouri, which is based on a real-life late nineteenth-century expedition. Yet Hawks is less interested in historical accuracy than in tweaking the codes of masculinity that propel the myths of the American West. The unerringly macho Wayne and the neurotic, boyish Clift make for an improbably perfect pair, held aloft by a quick-witted, multilayered screenplay and Hawks's formidable direction.

Special Features:

New 4K digital restoration of the rarely presented original theatrical release version, the preferred cut of director Howard Hawks, with monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2K restoration of the longer version of Red River
New interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions
New interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River
New interview with western scholar Lee Clark Mitchell about western genre literature
Audio excerpts of a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich
Excerpts from a 1970 audio interview with novelist and screenwriter Borden Chase
More!
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1991 interview with Hawks's longtime editor Christian Nyby; a new paperback edition of Chase's original novel, previously out of print



The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Life-Aquatic-with-Steve-Zissou-Blu-ray/74285/)

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson); a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett); and Zissou's estranged wife, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston). Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Seu Jorge, and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure comedy.

Special Features:

New, restored digital transfer, approved by director Wes Anderson, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
Commentary by Anderson and cowriter Noah Baumbach
New interviews with actors Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Jeff Goldblum
This Is an Adventure, a documentary by Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, and Matthew Prinzing chronicling the production of the movie
Mondo Monda, an Italian talk show featuring an interview with Anderson and Baumbach, hosted by Antonio Monda
Interview with composer and Devo member Mark Mothersbaugh
Ten performances of David Bowie songs in Portuguese by Brazilian recording artist and actor Seu Jorge
Intern video journal by actor Matthew Gray Gubler
Multiple interviews with the cast and crew, featuring behind-the-scenes footage
Making-of featurette
Nine deleted scenes
Behind-the-scenes photos and original artwork from the film
Trailer
PLUS: An insert featuring a cutaway view of The Belafonte, the ship from the film, Eric Anderson's original illustrations, and a conversation between Wes and Eric conducted in 2005

[jpx7]

I'm really anticipating Red River—which is a very good film but the basis of an even more fascinating essay by Robert Pippin (http://amzn.com/0300172060) in his Hollywood Westerns and American Myth*—but Ace in the Hole is probably the most exciting of the May crop to me, since I've long wanted to see it (Wilder plus Douglas plus a great premise).

*I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

[jpx7]

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Flash sale.

[The Chosen One]

Sheit.

[The Chosen One]

Sheit.

working on tennis Courts for Next 45 Minutes. Seriously hope Thief, Mr. Fantastic Fox and Mad Mad World are there. There's more but I have to look at my wallet lol

[The Chosen One]

working on tennis Courts for Next 45 Minutes. Seriously hope Thief, Mr. Fantastic Fox and Mad Mad World are there. There's more but I have to look at my wallet lol

Very pissed. I wanted to get Mad Mad, Nashville and King of the Hill, and Rififi...

But I did the over $50 free shipping deal and got

Thief
Foreign Correspondent
Fantastic Mr. Fox

[jpx7]

Very pissed. I wanted to get Mad Mad, Nashville and King of the Hill, and Rififi...

But I did the over $50 free shipping deal and got

Thief
Foreign Correspondent
Fantastic Mr. Fox

Rififi isn't on back-order yet, if that's the issue. I'm looking at Babette's Feast, Heaven's Gate, and a few others.

[The Chosen One]

Rififi isn't on back-order yet, if that's the issue. I'm looking at Babette's Feast, Heaven's Gate, and a few others.

Mad Mad World is back in play.

I may get Mad Mad, Rififi, and one more title...


Hoping Nashville or King of hte Hill go back in play.

[jpx7]

Grabbed the two I mentioned, plus The Shop on Main Street. Debating an additional order.

[jpx7]

Also collected Secret Sunshine (www.criterion.com/films/27750-secret-sunshine), High and Low (www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low), and The Night Porter (www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter) during that last sale—plus happened to come across a really great deal (a few dollars lower than the Criterion sale-price) on a copy of an early Renoir talkie, Boudu Saved from Drowning (www.criterion.com/films/756-boudu-saved-from-drowning), on Amazon.

I'm extremely excited about the latter, because (a) it stars the inimitable French comedian and eccentric Michel Simon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Simon), who has a tremendous turn in Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (an absolutely phenomenal film in its own right), and (b) it's another in a series of forlorn tramp tries to kill herself by drowning, is saved by male protagonist: narrative ensures cinematic set-ups I have been encountering recently—with Sternberg's The Docks of New York (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Docks_of_New_York) and Bergman's Port of Call (www.criterion.com/films/643-port-of-call) being particularly notable examples.

[jpx7]

High and Low (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_Low_%281963_film%29). Wow.

[jpx7]

I've made a concerted effort to start adding some female directors to my collection, even though Criterion's volume of female-directed films is somewhat-embarrassingly scant.

The first pick was an easy one, as its reputation preceded itself: Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter. A dark, fascinating film of fundamental human perversity—base, cruel, oppressive impulses of decadence and domination—almost liberated by a perversity of the psycho-sexual persuasion, one which once bound and never really ceases to govern two ultimately star-crossed lovers.

Also: I already knew this from Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (amongst other films), but Charlotte Ramling is really ****ing attractive.

[jpx7]

Hey, KeithLockhart: what do you think of this month's most recent title announcements?

[The Chosen One]

I've been behind on updating the announcements in this thread.

I've never seen Scanners, but it's Cronenberg so after watching Videodrome it gives me hope.

I'm a sucker for French movies (love the language), so Pickpocket looks like something I'll enjoy.

Looking forward to seeing the original Insomnia, as I enjoyed the Nolan remake. Stellan Skarsgaard is in it so that's always a plus.


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Slightly OT but I'm ecstatic that Life Aquatic is finally coming out on Criterion Blu Ray!! Just watched Grand Budapest Hotel and loved it!

[jpx7]

I've never seen Scanners, but it's Cronenberg so after watching Videodrome it gives me hope.

Videodrome is, without a doubt, one of my favorite films—it is, in a lot of ways, Marshall McLuhan's ideas reified.

But I'm a huge Cronenberg fan in general: I'm glad Naked Lunch received the blu-ray treatment, and I'm highly anticipating Scanners, as it's one of his I've never seen. Now I just wish they'd win back the rights to Dead Ringers and give that the full blu-ray upgrade.


I'm a sucker for French movies (love the language), so Pickpocket looks like something I'll enjoy.

French is awesome, and Pickpocket is awesome; I saw it in theatres a couple years ago, but I'm excited to see what extras and special features they might pack onto the disc.



Slightly OT but I'm ecstatic that Life Aquatic is finally coming out on Criterion Blu Ray

Likewise; it's a great film, and I believe the only Criterion Anderson that hadn't been upgraded.

Still haven't seen Grand Budapest yet, sadly.

[The Chosen One]

I have Naked Lunch. It's one of a hundred criterions I haven't opened to view yet.

Life Aq is the last to get criterion blu treatment. Fantastic Fox got criterion release recently so the last Wes film not criterion yet is Moonrise which I loved.

I watched 400 blows and Army of Shadows again... 400 is always great and Army of Shadows while long is such a compelling watch. Best of Melville I've seen yet.

[jpx7]

I watched 400 blows and Army of Shadows again... 400 is always great and Army of Shadows while long is such a compelling watch. Best of Melville I've seen yet.

I found Army of Shadows pretty breathtakingly fantastic, but I still think Bob le flambeur is my favorite Melville—though Le Cercle rouge and Le Silence de la mer are superb films, the latter being especially interesting when held in juxtaposition to L'armée des ombres, both being interrogations of acceptance and resistance in the face of Nazi occupation.

[The Chosen One]

I've been slacking on this.

Best Buy currently has a 50% off all Criterions sale going on right now.

There's also a $10 off $100 retailmenot coupon for Best Buy to make the deal sweeter.

[The Chosen One]

Upcoming Releases:

September:
September 10th, it will release David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977).
September 23rd, it will release Roman Polanski'sMacbeth (1971) and Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961).
September 30th, it will release Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybèle (1962) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul(1974).October:
October 14th, it will release John Ford's My Darling Clementine.
October 21, it will release Orson Welles' F For Fake and Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. :emot-siren.gif.17:
October 28th, it will release a seven-disc box set with films directed by Jacques Tati and George Sluizer's The Vanishing.

And just posted a few days ago:
The Criterion Collection has announced six titles for Blu-ray release in November: On November 11th, it will release Monte Hellman's The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind. On November 18th, it will release Frank Capra's It Happened One Night. On November 25th, it will release Michelangelo Antonioni'sL'avventura, Sydney Pollack's Tootsie, and Les Blank: Always for Pleasure.

[The Chosen One]

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[jpx7]

I've been slacking on this.

Yea, being in Europe for almost five weeks, and the hectic couple months since returning, put a serious damper on my collecting and keeping tabs on the Collection.


Best Buy currently has a 50% off all Criterions sale going on right now.

I missed that, but I'm excited for Criterion's official sale, which should be approaching. I have $50 of credit at criterion.com after having finally crossed the Loyalty Points threshold during the previous sale.

[jpx7]

via Criterion's Flash Sale:

-- Ace in the Hole (http://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole) (Dual Format); 1951; directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas
-- People On Sunday (http://www.criterion.com/films/27625-people-on-sunday) (Blu Ray); 1930; directed by Curt and Robert Siodmak, produced Edgar G. Ulmer, written by Billy Wilder, and photographed by Fred Zinneman and Eugen Schüfftan
-- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (http://www.criterion.com/films/302-jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles) )(DVD); 1975; directed Chantal Akerman — Part of my big push (don't call it that) to add more female-directed films to my collection
-- Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko (http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/75-eclipse-series-11-larisa-shepitko) (DVD); comprised of Wings (1966) and The Ascent (1976), both of which sound great — Part of my big push (don't call it that) to add more female-directed films to my collection

via a lovely gift, two of my all-time favorite French crime-wave films:

-- Touchez pas au grisbi (http://www.criterion.com/films/941-touchez-pas-au-grisbi) (DVD; OOP); 1954; Jacques Becker
-- Bob le flabeur (http://www.criterion.com/films/690-bob-le-flambeur) (DVD; OOP); 1956; Jean-Pierre Melville

via a purchase a Amoeba Records, the legendary used-disc store in SF's Haight-Ashbury:

-- A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/369-i-a-story-of-floating-weeds-floating-weeds-i-two-films-by-yasujiro-ozu) (DVD); 1934 and 1959 — Been on my list for a long while; I've seen the later of the two films at the cinema, and it's magnificent
-- À nous la liberté (http://www.criterion.com/films/714-a-nous-la-liberte) (DVD); 1931; René Clair — Criterion claims it's a "a potent indictment of mechanized modern society and an uproarious comic delight", and the parallels to Modern Times—released several years later—were so strong that a lawsuit was even advanced

[The Chosen One]

Things of note,

Amazon currently has a 50% off all Criterion Horror Flicks.

$19.99

Anti-Christ ($19.49)
Cronos
The Devil's Backbone
Eyes Without a Face
Godzilla (Gojira)
House (Hausu)
Island of Lost Souls
Kuroneko
Repulsion ($19.49)
Rosemary's Baby
Scanners
Videodrome ($19.49)

$15.49

The Uninvited

Also, Barnes and Nobles has a 50% off all Criterion titles coming up soon, which can be combined with their 20% off and 15% off coupons to make it the best deal you can get.

Sale starts 11/11/'14 and runs for 3-4 weeks I believe.

[jpx7]

Amazon currently has a 50% off all Criterion Horror Flicks.

Picking up any?

I have some Amazon gift-card cash, so I may have to grab one or two before Hallowe'en, while they're price-reduced.

[The Chosen One]

Picking up any?

I have some Amazon gift-card cash, so I may have to grab one or two before Hallowe'en, while they're price-reduced.

Considering I have so many of them already... I really wanna pull the trigger on Scanners. And maybe Island of Lost Souls.

[The Chosen One]

Criterion flash sale jpx7

My walllllllettttt

[jpx7]

Yo, Heywood: B&N 50% Off Criterion Sale.

[The Chosen One]

Ugh. My wallet.

[jpx7]

Ugh. My wallet.

I'm luckily to have a small cache of B&N gift-card money saved up for just this exigency. Not making the choosing any easier, however.

So far I'm leaning towards ordering Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (http://www.criterion.com/films/27860-valerie-and-her-week-of-wonders), Eclipse 17: Nikkatsu Noir (http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/655-eclipse-series-17-nikkatsu-noir), and the Pierre Etaix box (http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/947-pierre-etaix). Need to pick at least one more standalone blu-ray or cheaper set to use up the gift-card balance.

[The Chosen One]

Do you have Barnes membership?

Save a lot had a great deal two yeats ago. $25 B&N gift card for $15. It made my criterion purchases after coupons and membership discount like $8 per.

[jpx7]

Ugh. My wallet.

What'd you buy?

I ended up ordering Fish Tank, The Double Life of Véronique, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, the Pierre Etaix box-set, and Eclipse 17: Nikkatsu Noir.

[The Chosen One]

What'd you buy?

I ended up ordering Fish Tank, The Double Life of Véronique, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, the Pierre Etaix box-set, and Eclipse 17: Nikkatsu Noir.

Only ended up getting a few titles. I'm gonna have to wait for November when I have more money in the wallet.

Big announcements by Criterion today:
The Apu Trilogy
Ikiru (YES MORE KUROSAWA BEEN WAITING FOR THIS)
Code Unknown
In Cold Blood
Eclipse Series
Bob Dylan

[jpx7]

Big announcements by Criterion today:
The Apu Trilogy

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Finally.

(Don't Look Back is pretty damn great, as well. I'm also really excited about A Room With a View, which is a September release.)

[zitothebrave]

So you guys know

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EO2I6OM?ref_=gbsl_tit_l-1_4822_7b82422d&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

[jpx7]

So you guys know

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EO2I6OM?ref_=gbsl_tit_l-1_4822_7b82422d&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

A crazy good deal; I jumped on it.

[jpx7]

Flash sale, The Don.

I ordered:

-- A Room with a View (Blu-Ray)
-- Cronos (Blu-Ray)
-- The Uninvited (Blu-Ray)
-- Sweetie (Blu-Ray)
-- Two Days, One Night (Blu-Ray)
-- The Flowers of St. Francis (DVD)
-- Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals (DVD)
-- To Be or Not to Be (Blu-Ray)

Grabbed a couple Hallowe'en-appopriate films and a big load of Lubitsch.

[The Chosen One]

Damnit, didn't know the flash sale was yestrday.

[jpx7]

Damnit, didn't know the flash sale was yestrday.

You still have an hour and a half to take advantage, Mr The Don.

[The Chosen One]

Well that was awkward. At the time I posted in this, I had like 7 movies in my shopping cart at work and was going to pay for it at home.

Took a nap that ended up being long and extended, and thus I didn't checkout.

[The Chosen One]

Picture of 1/2 of my criterion collection, most haven't been open yet.

http://i.imgur.com/jIBSwgk.jpg

[jpx7]

Picture of 1/2 of my criterion collection, most haven't been open yet.

http://i.imgur.com/jIBSwgk.jpg

You should watch Badlands and Days of Heaven yesterday.

Also: there's a B&N 50% sale, in the event you need more unopened films.

[The Chosen One]

You should watch Badlands and Days of Heaven yesterday.

Also: there's a B&N 50% sale, in the event you need more unopened films.

I have watched both of those actually. MALICK MALICK.

[jpx7]

I have watched both of those actually. MALICK MALICK.

One I'm fairly certain I'll order from B&N this round is The New World; also leaning strongly towards that Whit Stillman trilogy. I usually try to wedge in one Eclipse set, too—any suggestions?

[bravos4evr]

You should watch Badlands and Days of Heaven yesterday.


ahhh good Malick, back before he crawled up his own ass......

[The Chosen One]

ahhh good Malick, back before he crawled up his own ass......

Voyage of Time looks like it's gonna be amazing.

Most of what Malick has done since those days has been more experimental.

[jpx7]

Not sure what, if anything, you ( Forever Fredi ) acquired during this year's summer B&N sale. I grabbed Blind Chance, La chienne, La Ciénaga, In the Mood for Love, Limelight, and two Eclipse: Julien Duvivier in the Thirties and Late Ozu. I've seen In the Mood for Love before (it's absolutely brilliant), as well as most of the films comprising Late Ozu, but thought the time was finally right to purchase and (eventually) rewatch them.

I finally broke into the extensive Zatoichi set, which I purchased last autumn, a week or so ago; through the first four, it's been well worth the price (still twenty-two more films to go).

[The Chosen One]

jpx7 what would you have done in this situation?

https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/5fenhh/a_fortuitous_sighting_for_my_final_bn_purchases/

[jpx7]

jpx7 what would you have done in this situation?

https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/5fenhh/a_fortuitous_sighting_for_my_final_bn_purchases/

I probably would've asked if he had any suggestions.

[jpx7]

Went a little heavier than I planned during yesterday's Flash Sale, given I've been traveling a lot recently, but I can't argue against any on my purchases:

The New World (https://www.criterion.com/films/28713-the-new-world)
Roma (https://www.criterion.com/films/28039-roma)
One-Eyed Jacks (https://www.criterion.com/films/28979-one-eyed-jacksA)
Chimes at Midnight (https://www.criterion.com/films/28756-chimes-at-midnight)
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project (Volume I) (https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project)


Some really great directors represented in the first four: the only pre-Tree of Life Malick film I haven't seen, meant to be an underappreciated gem; Criterion's most recent Fellini release, and one of my favorite types of narrative (city as subject); Brando's only directorial effort, another meant to be an underappreciated gem, as well as a brooding, highly-psychological western; and perhaps my favorite Welles film (all deference to Citizen Kane and F for Fake). The fifth and final item I'm treating more as a challenge: all of the films in said set (with the exception of Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid, which I have seen a couple times and which is brilliant) represent stories or storytellers that are understudied by me, so I'm attempting to remedy that.

[The Chosen One]

Went a little heavier than I planned during yesterday's Flash Sale, given I've been traveling a lot recently, but I can't argue against any on my purchases:

The New World (https://www.criterion.com/films/28713-the-new-world)
Roma (https://www.criterion.com/films/28039-roma)
One-Eyed Jacks (https://www.criterion.com/films/28979-one-eyed-jacksA)
Chimes at Midnight (https://www.criterion.com/films/28756-chimes-at-midnight)
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project (Volume I) (https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project)


Some really great directors represented in the first four: the only pre-Tree of Life Malick film I haven't seen, meant to be an underappreciated gem; Criterion's most recent Fellini release, and one of my favorite types of narrative (city as subject); Brando's only directorial effort, another meant to be an underappreciated gem, as well as a brooding, highly-psychological western; and perhaps my favorite Welles film (all deference to Citizen Kane and F for Fake). The fifth and final item I'm treating more as a challenge: all of the films in said set (with the exception of Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid, which I have seen a couple times and which is brilliant) represent stories or storytellers that are understudied by me, so I'm attempting to remedy that.

I missed it. I'm gonna have to wait for July. But there are some Filipino Criterions being released for the first time. Was so excited when they were announced. Thank you Scorsese for restoring and preserving.

I also might pick some up when I get a 20% or 50% B&N coupon.

[jpx7]

I missed it. I'm gonna have to wait for July. But there are some Filipino Criterions being released for the first time. Was so excited when they were announced. Thank you Scorsese for restoring and preserving.

I'm actually probably more excited about the films in Volume II, but I wanted to have/watch Volume I first, which is another reason I decided to splurge yesterday. Plus it's a pretty great deal: at $62, it's essentially $10 a film, with many of those films hard to find in good form otherwise.

[The Chosen One]

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jpx7

Just picked up a few.

[jpx7]

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jpx7

Just picked up a few.

Yea, I’m a bit more budget-limited by grad school, but I’m at minimum picking up Rossellini’s War Trilogy. Also hankering for Volume 2 of the World Cinema and the Late Ray Eclipse.

[jpx7]

Yea, I’m a bit more budget-limited by grad school, but I’m at minimum picking up Rossellini’s War Trilogy. Also hankering for Volume 2 of the World Cinema and the Late Ray Eclipse.

Actually ended up pivoting at the last moment: Red Desert, McCabe and Mrs Miller, and the Aki Kaurismaki "Proletariat Trilogy" Eclipse Set.