Buildin the Criterion collection...

[TeenageMoustache]

FYI: You can preorder Devil's Backbone and get the 50% off price.

[jamrage]

FYI: You can preorder Devil's Backbone and get the 50% off price.

Good looks, I'm going to have to see if I can get Seconds then.

[Dan]

Bunz is out of the country, so I'm going to jump in here and post the November releases.

[drizzle]

wtf they're sitting on some obscure goshas but they put out a zatoichi that's already been out 5 times over?

[Dan]

wtf they're sitting on some obscure goshas but they put out a zatoichi that's already been out 5 times over?

It's the entire series. 27 disc set.

[drizzle]

that's much cooler but still salty about no goshas

[darkwingduck]

that blind swordsman ish is getting copped on the next 50% sale fo shizz

[Tommy Bunz]

I pretty much shit my pants when i got saw the criterion releases on my fbook in the airport
Fucking thrilled that they are putting the Ichi movies out, never thought they would because I never considered they'd drop them all in one shot and it wouldn't be worth it for them to release individually.
Kinda bummed at how much I spent buying all of the Homevision dvds but oh well.
Guess they finally got the rights situation to #14 figured out...first time its ever getting a legit release. Think the Weinsteins had the rights and were being faggots about it or something if i remember correctly. Had no idea they had the rights to 27 either.
Bluray set is fucking purrrrrty

Now they need to get the rights to the TV episodes, I only got 4 out of 6 of those sets before they went OOP.


Also, I didn't see anyone else mention it but Criterion is no longer doing individual bluray/dvd releases....everything from here on out is going to be BR/DVD combo sets.

[Tommy Bunz]

Kinda sad that neither of the Cronenbergs they are sitting on made it out this year.

December releases


awesome cover, awesome movie





Box set of 6 rarely-screened but critically acclaimed foreign films.

[drizzle]

holy shit Investigation is finally coming in the US!

[aleph]

^Welcome news, indeed! That, and the OG Housemaid are must-sees. Was gonna catch Investigation at Anthology this wk but now I can afford to miss it

[Tommy Bunz]

FUCKING THIEF FINALLY!!!!! shitting my pants. Plus Rififi on blu
No idea why they are putting out It's a Mad Mad Mad World when its already got a bluray release elsewhere.

January

[darkwingduck]

JEEEEZUS!!!!

Jan. 14th!!!!

[Tommy Bunz]

B&N 50% off sales starts today, runs til 12/2

[Tommy Bunz]

February

[jamrage]

Anybody got any coupons for Barnes & Noble for this criterion sale?

[Dan]

Anybody got any coupons for Barnes & Noble for this criterion sale?

Just pm'ed you my 20% off coupon.

[Tommy Bunz]

There's a 30% mastercard coupon coming out soon, next week or two. I'll post it when it comes out

[Tommy Bunz]

pretty bummed this coupon goes dead two days before the Zatoichi set comes out. Already sold all my homevision dvds in anticipation

[Tommy Bunz]

Just used the 30% black friday coupon on the Zatoichi set. The packaging is pretty much the best thing ever.
Got that and Seconds for like $90. Pretty awesome considering I just sold all my Zatoichi dvds for $150

[Tommy Bunz]

March Titles. Love Persona, really happy to see it join the collection.

Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices. An ambitiously constructed, elegantly photographed meditation on adolescence, the first full-length film by director David Gordon Green features remarkable performances from an award-winning ensemble cast. George Washington is a startling and distinct work of contemporary American independent cinema.

Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris’s documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking’s body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination. Telling the man’s incredible story through the voices of his colleagues and loved ones, while making dynamically accessible some of the theories in Hawking’s best-selling book of the same name, A Brief History of Time is at once as small as a single life and as big as the ever-expanding universe.

A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director’s most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas’s Star Wars. The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action, and compassionate humanity.

For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome itself, in all its monumental glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. Featuring sensuous cinematography, a lush score, and an award-winning central performance by the great Toni Servillo, this transporting experience by the brilliant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a breathtaking Fellini-esque tale of decadence and lost love.

By the mid-sixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays an actress who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential ideas. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark shadows and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.

Harold Lloyd’s biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed. This crowd-pleaser is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd’s slapstick brilliance and incandescent charm, and it’s accompanied here by a new orchestral score by Carl Davis.

[drizzle]

wait hold the fuck up Investigation Of A Citizen came out and we barely even noticed

that's inconceivable,that shit is pure crack

[aleph]

^ saw it last month- Gian Maria Volonte = Greatest Italian Actor Ever

Also saw The Freshman, Lloyd's on a par w/Chaplin and Keaton

[Tommy Bunz]

Criterion's new years drawing. Some good stuff...Deer Hunter, Scanners, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Ringu, Red River, Hard Day's Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Red Sun (surprised they are putting this out)

[drizzle]

really hope that's really taht red sun

it's not even that rare but there's never been a really good us release

[darkwingduck]

Red Sun (surprised they are putting this out)

why? Mifune and Delon both are criterion golden childs...makes total sense to me. This news is giving me a major BONERZ*. One of my favorites ever!

* thanks to URSULA ANDRESS.

[Andvil]

Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration and/or Meet the Raisins???????

[Dan]

Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration and/or Meet the Raisins???????

[drizzle]

is H supposed to be scanners?

[aleph]

^That's what I'm thinking... Is J a Tati box set?