Buildin the Criterion collection...

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:06 pm

did we ever talk about Viridiana? refresh my pot addled brain pls

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:17 pm

No, don't you know, we only watch movies from Asia.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:26 pm

and with good reason too, they're eyes are half closed so it's like the see the world in widescreen

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:26 pm

and with good reason too, they're eyes are half closed so it's like the see the world in widescreen. whole ethnicity made for jumping really high and filming it

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:50 pm

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:56 pm

don't roll your eyes like you're better than me blueface

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:59 pm

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:23 pm

i'm gonna beat that yellow eye rolling bitchass silly

new criterions for the month of noviembre

and the one i'm REALLY psyched for...

Hmm.... dir by carol reed and written by graham greene - where have i heard that before? oh yeah, in the best movie of all time

T-Wrex · Post by **T-Wrex** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:42 pm

i just picked up Tin Drum from the library.. probably going to watch it tonite.

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:41 pm

Drizzle, you won't be disappointed by the Fallen Idol. It was the last movie I got to see at my beloved Cleveland Cinematheque and it's good. Not Third Man good, but very good.

Also, is Veronique a re-release? Seems familiar. Maybe some other company put it out a while ago and I just see it on the shelves all the time.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:47 pm

StormShadow wrote:Drizzle, you won't be disappointed by the Fallen Idol. It was the last movie I got to see at my beloved Cleveland Cinematheque and it's good. Not Third Man good, but very good.

Also, is Veronique a re-release? Seems familiar. Maybe some other company put it out a while ago and I just see it on the shelves all the time.

It's weird that the big Casino's got it now (fallen idol), i've seen like $40 reg 3 lying around teh local indy store for a while, and i always hesistated. last week i finally decided to spend the dough - of course not there anymore. Who's laughing now Kim's Video?

veronique is actually out on reg 2 i think

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:11 am

criterion needs to release more chambara...

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:20 am

darkwingduck wrote:criterion needs to release more chambara...

Oh, they're doing okay. We had that Rebel Samurai set last year and that sure to be hot fire 3 disc Seven Samurai coming out in a couple weeks. Which will surely be one of the very best dvds of the year along with Mr. Arkadin and maybe the Naruse and Buster Keaton box sets if MoC releases them on time.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:35 pm

ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938), Sergei Eisenstein ג¢ ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958), Andrzej Wajda ג¢ L'AVVENTURA (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni ג¢ BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (1959), Grigori Chukhrai ג¢ BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946), Jean Cocteau ג¢ BLACK ORPHEUS (1959), Marcel Camus ג¢ BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945), David Lean ג¢ THE FALLEN IDOL (1948), Carol Reed ג¢ FIRES ON THE PLAIN (1959), Kon Ichikawa ג¢ FISTS IN THE POCKET (1965), Marco Bellocchio ג¢ FLOATING WEEDS (1959), Yasujiro Ozu ג¢ FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952), Ren

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:44 pm

Are Milos Forman's early films any good?

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:54 pm

HOLY SHIT

Did you notice the new movies?

FIRES ON THE PLAIN (1959), Kon Ichikawa
LE JOUR SE L

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:14 am

Icesickle wrote:

Are Milos Forman's early films any good?

they were pretty incredible, and extremely important as far as the Czech New Wave goes

check The Fireman's Ball and The Loves of a Blonde

at the new Ichikawa

seriously considering saving money to buy this

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:02 am

Andvil wrote:seriously considering saving money to buy this

Haha, me too. Even though I own half of them.

I don't mind waiting for the new Ichikawa, but damn I want that fucking book gimme the book!

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:30 pm

i'm considering this as well, most of the ones i have from here are burned from netflix

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:14 pm

Actually, I only own about 14 of the movies after going through the list. I wonder though, some of those movies are from two-disc editions, will the arthouse book contain the special features discs, or just the movie one? Also, I think I'd still have to buy the Fallen Idol and Fires on the Plain because I love Criterion packaging.

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:12 pm

I'd imagine they're all just the movie, unless they all also have special features on the one disc.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:34 am

details on the yojimbo/sanjuro rerelease:

Criterion has released the details of their upcoming re-releases of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sanjuro, due out in January of 2007!

Special features for Yojimbo:
ג¢ All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
ג¢ Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
ג¢ Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
ג¢ A 45-minute documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
ג¢ Theatrical trailer and teaser
ג¢ Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
ג¢ New and improved English subtitle translation

Special features for Sanjuro include:
ג¢ All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
ג¢ Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects
ג¢ Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
ג¢ A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
ג¢ Theatrical trailer and teaser
ג¢ Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
ג¢ New and improved English subtitle translation
ג¢ PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and notes and statements from Kurosawa and his cast and crew

The films will be released together as a set, as well as seperately. SRP is $69.95 for the set and $39.95 for the individual titles.

crazy, looks like a nice companion piece to the 7 samurai rerelease

def getting the double set

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:40 am

awesome

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:46 am

SANJURO YOJIMBO COMBO...awesome news!

drizzle wrote:
ג¢ PLUS: A booklet

oh man...i love their booklets...!!!

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:54 pm

Thank God.

I was slightly afraid that the rereleases were going to be held back until way into next year.

Great news!

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:04 pm

drizzle wrote:details on the yojimbo/sanjuro rerelease:

HOLY SHIT...I couldnt see the cover art before...SHIT IS INCREDIBLE...

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:17 pm

we need to infiltrate teh criterion forums and start making suggestions n' shit

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:39 pm

drizzle wrote:we need to infiltrate teh criterion forums and start making suggestions n' shit

You mean Criterionforum.org? They don't listen. Masters of Cinema apparently do listen, from what I've seen on there. Might as well just email Criterion, that seems to be the surest way of letting them know something.

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:44 pm

Drizzle, you're fucking up. There was a bunch more than that.

(Another nail in the coffin of Eclipse)

Also some indie thing called Border Radio (no boxart yet)

and some bigger versions of the Kurosawas:

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:10 pm

i saw this on kfccinema.com which has fuckall to do with bresson

i like how they're doing a lot of the old horror, good tidings for the future