The Criterion Collection

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.
 
KeithLockhart said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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BJ#1FAN said:
I've been slacking on this.
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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.

BJ#1FAN said:
Best Buy currently has a 50% off all Criterions sale going on right now.
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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.
 
via Criterion's Flash Sale:

-- Ace in the Hole (Dual Format); 1951; directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas

-- 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 )(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 (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 (DVD; OOP); 1954; Jacques Becker

-- Bob le flabeur (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 (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 (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
 
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.
 
BJ#1FAN said:
Amazon currently has a 50% off all Criterion Horror Flicks.
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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.
 
jpx7 said:
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.
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Considering I have so many of them already... I really wanna pull the trigger on Scanners. And maybe Island of Lost Souls.
 
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.
 
Heywood said:
Ugh. My wallet.
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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.
 
jpx7 said:
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.
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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
 
Heywood said:
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.)
 
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