No.2183
Surprised there's no Criterion thread yet.
I'm interested to see some of the Fassbinder blurays coming out. I've also got John Ford's
My Darling Clementine ready to watch whenever I have time. And I'm happy to see my favorite Todd Haynes movie getting an HD upgrade in the near future.
http://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?f=1&s=release_datehttp://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?f=2&s=release_dateThe last Criterion I saw was the Ray Milland supernatural mystery
The Uninvited. As I expected, it was good but not great. It rates about the same as
Ministry of Fear, another decent Milland Criterion.
No.2186
I'll see if my local video rental store has My Darling Clementine in tomorrow and maybe some czech new wave since they seem to have a lot.
No.2257
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No.2258
Trying out hulu for the criterion selection.
The quality is good enough and they have a lot of non criterion releases on there that a lot of patricians might not have even known about.
No.2259
Hulu usually has a number of titles that aren't yet available on physical media
No.2503
death of a cyclist doesn't come up very frequently, but it really hit the spot with me
i haven't seen many spanish films from this era. does anyone have other suggestions?
No.2528
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> obligatory
No.2549
I liked The Inheritance from the Masaki Kobayashi eclipse set. Looking forward to watching the others.
No.2663
Hell yeah, the mildly traumatizing cartoon Watership Down is getting released next year. I haven't seen that since I was a kid.
No.2668
Ever since the Barnes & Nobel sale of these films I have been able to acquire quite a nice amount of new Blu-rays.
I recommend the films House, 3 Women, The Red Shoes, and La Grande Bellezza
No.2692
>criterion
this is /film/ not /pleb/
No.2696
>>2692kek
go back to reddit kid
>Americans No.2697
Getting back to one of the films mentioned in OP, I thought Ford's My Darling Clementine was uneven. The technical aspects, especially the noirish lighting, were stunning throughout. But the meandering screenplay builds no tension until over an hour has passed; it's understandable why Zanuck wanted cuts for the theatrical release.
Victor Mature is out of place in a non-spaghetti Western. He's like Stallone in a Stetson.
Clementine is quite a qt but she barely has screen time. It's not her story yet they named it after her, in lieu of a more evocative, exciting title.
No.2747
Comments on this set? Japanese horror is often interesting, but the individual titles didn't rate too highly when I read about them.
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/928-eclipse-series-37-when-horror-came-to-shochiku No.2802
Whoa, can any graphic designers explain this? Does this sort of box art fly off the shelves in today's boutique stores?
It looks like someone took a blurry phone pic of their television. I'd think selling a (mostly forgotten) Civil War movie would mean a hint on the cover about the Civil War?
No.2803
>>2802>blurry + firecheck those Lost River posters too
No.3107
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> Force majeure director Ruben Östlund stopped by the Criterion production office and took a few films from the DVD closet. Check out what he picked!
No.3145
>>3107i don't know anything about this guy but i really enjoyed that story
how is Force Majeure by the way?
No.3148
FYI: A Hollis Frampton Odyseey can be had for like, $6 on Amazon right now.
No.3150
No.3152
>>3150ha ha, that's too bad
criterion's choice of new films can be a little suspect
No.3169
>>3148nice call, that's a great disc
No.3189
Criterion is great, without them we wouldn't have insanely good transfers of many great films… But damn are typical Criterion collectors the worst kind of tryhards. Just like… midwestern nerds that want to feel cultured. It's so easy to be a cinephile now as long as you blindly buy everything Criterion puts out and give the most basic analysis that tends to go completely against what the filmmaker is about or going for. I doubt there is a bigger difference between artist and consumer in any other medium really.
The other day I went on /r/criterion and I found a thread. Apparently they've started a "recommendation committee" that, once a month, vote on a film that will be pitched (or I should say spammed) to Criterion for their consideration in a letter/form. Think rare, obscure, OOP and poorly transferred stuff. Films that, for the first time in possibly decades, will look as it was intended, not some god-forsaken 4:3 aspect ratio fifth generation VHS rip recorded on TV in the 90s. Guess what film they picked?
Synechdoche, NY
But hey, they seem to be doing pretty well business-wise. Basically the idea seems to be, watch these films, and you will know cinema. But there is *so* much more out there, and not all of the Criterion shit has to be good.
But yeah, overall, I'm glad they exist. Their restoration and transfer work is good enough that I can overlook the lames that buy the films, and perhaps everything I've mentioned is part of a bigger problem in cinephilia (or just straight concentrated plebetry)
idk m8… pic related, mfw
No.3193
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>>3189That's pretty funny. It sounds like that subreddit isn't as dead as it used to be.
Your post reminded me of this video exposing Teen Criterion Culture. Proceed with caution.
No.3197
>>3189> A wildly ambitious film from the mind of Charlie Kaufman, whose first turn as a director highlights his ability to tell a multi-layered story about human emotion, interaction and overall fascination. If characters alone could merit Criterion releases, Philip Seymour Hoffman's Caden Cotard is a worthy combatant. While the films original blu release offered a good enough transfer and decent supplements, there is more that can be done with this film. It was named Roger Ebert's #1 film of the 00's and still, it is a criminally under-seen film that would benefit from a criterion release.Ouch. The thinking seems to be "I want an expensive version of my favorite film." I'm a little puzzled by the idea that a Criterion release gives a film wider exposure than a Sony Pictures bluray on Amazon for ten bucks.
At least their 4th place suggestion was somewhat rare
> thejlar - The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick - 1972 - Wim Wenders No.3202
No.3210
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>>3202Here's the sequel.
And in case you're wondering, the answer is yes. This guy is indeed wearing a fedora in his youtube profile picture.
No.3216
>>3193>>3210This is how I will picture the users of this board from now on.
No.3226
>>3216"In thecollector1138 We Trust"
No.3250
What qualifies a movie for the Criterion Collection?
I wish more Tarkovsky films were in there.
No.3251
>>3250Ultimately it's whatever they can secure rights to release.
I never investigated the reason for the lack of Tarkovsky, but somwhoe Criterion only released titles from the early half of his career. It's strange considering titles like Stalker were always a little hard to find on DVD, and it still isn't even on bluray.
No.3298
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No.3323
“Stalker” needs either new transfer from film to digital or new frame jitter stabilization work. Content-aware stabilizer they used on DVD release was horrible and even ripped the picture sometimes.
No.3328
>>3323Are you talking about the RusCiCo DVD? I don't recall noticing a problem but it's been a while.
No.3338
>>3328Encoded from VOB file from an Artificial Eye/Russico DVD.
On some horizontal pans edge of the frame with repeated content (bricks, dirty walls) becomes fucked up.
No.3362
>>3338wow, that's really shaky. definitely needs to be fixed.
No.3384
>>3362I thought the train was causing the shaking?
No.3485
They should fuck off the shit they've been releasing lately.
Stop pandering to films that don't need saving/are cash-cows and actually bother fulfilling their "Mission statement"
Anyone know if or when they'll be releasing more stuff the Scorcese world cinema foundation?
A Brighter Summer Day has been on the books since at least 2012.
No.3487
>>3485agreed. did you see this shit
>>3189 No.3488
I was wondering about Keisuke Kinoshita. Sometimes there's at least one good title in an Eclipse set.
Other than that I concur their new releases seem like the same old releases.
No.3513
I think BFI MOC and Second Run are all putting out more interesting titles lately. I've got Turksib and Epic of Everest waiting to be watched.
No.3514
>>3488Shochiku released
Twenty-four Eyes and
Carmen Comes Home on Blu-ray recently, should be available somewhere
No.3515
>>3513BFI's supposed to be releasing a Dreyer Boxset in a few months
No.3516
>>3514Do you happen to know about any of these?
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1083-eclipse-series-41-kinoshita-and-world-war-iiThat's why I mentioned Kinoshita. I'm intrigued at the idea of films from Japan during WWII, but was wondering if they were worth watching.
No.3519
>>3516Haven't seen any of those, managed to snag 720p copies of
Legend of a Duel to the Death,
The Young Rebels,
The Rose on His Arm,
The Garden of Women and
Spring Dreams though.
No.3707
No.3708
>>3298>Artificial Eye Of course I shouldn't have expected it to come to America.
Maybe I should just buy Euro one for all the other shit that criterion is too pleb to give a blu ray release. They can keep putting out their yearly tiny furniture and frances ha and a bunch of Godard and Truffat that nobody wants (of course they don't even have two of his best films but just released the soft skin for god knows what reason).
And why the fuck does Buneuel only have one blu ray release? Why the fuck doesn't Ordet have it's own blu ray release? Where the fuck is Angelopoulos? Where the fuck is Paradjanov? Why do you love Ray so much yet not have the Apu trilogy? Why the fuck are you releasing two forgettable Costa-Gavras films on the same fucking day?
No.3716
>>3707Is this guy for real?
Everyone in these videos says "Cry-Teary–
Yawwn" which is not how I pronounce it.
No.3722
>>3708>Where the fuck is Angelopoulos? New Yorker Video owns the North American rights or they did…
>ParadjanovKino-Lorber
No.3729
>>3708>Paradjanovin the trash
No.3748
bout to watch me some donkey on hulu plus free trial #24
No.3794
2046 Criterion blu ray when
No.3815
>>2697Not a huge fan of it either. Maybe Henry Fonda is too passive for my liking.
No.3854
Hey Austrlian members of /film/ I want to start a DVD collection, but living in Australia there aren't many options to buy stuff, the big retailers wont sell more obscure or older movies so I don't know where to look. Is criterion the place for me or are there good DVD stores around this isolated land mass? I'd prefer to not be buying online from over seas because I don't want to make the mistake of buying a foreign DVD that isn't compatible with the player I have here
No.3855
>>3854Locals probably have better insight but I know the Directors Suite label puts out some good stuff in Australia
http://www.madman.com.au/actions/label.do?method=view&labelId=62 No.3860
Has anyone ever considered opening up a label to compete with Criterion in North America, grabbing semi-obscure titles that haven't been remastered and options ignored by the likes of Facets, New Yorker Video, older and neglected Criterion and Kino releases?
This is capitalism dammit, they shouldn't have a monopoly on the market.
No.3875
They have a 50% off sale for the next 16 hours or so
http://www.criterion.com/sale No.3876
No.3878
No.3920
i'll watch this when it comes out. mainly because old movie + weird name makes me curious.
No.3928
What can you guys say for good CC films that don't get mentioned very much?
One that sticks out for me is The Browning Version. I didn't know what to expect but it was a nice surprise.
No.3972
What movies do you wanna see on Criterion?
I'd fucking LOVE for Angel's Egg to be added. No Blu-Ray exists of it that includes an English translation, it's such a shame. To my knowledge, Criterion only has two animated films on their entire catalog, so I feel that this would make for a fantastic installment.
Arty, aesthetically beautiful, and strangely universal in its message; Whether you're a devout Christian or a militant atheist, you can find something to adore in the allegory the film presents and the symbolism laced all the way through. It can be viewed as a bashing, or a praising of Christ, both in equal abandon.
Would you guys like to see this as well? How would one go about requesting it?
No.3985
>>3928I quite liked How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Hadn't heard of it before watching it, but it was a surreal comedy that hit the spot.
>>3972I'd like to see an Eclipse set of Rowland Brown's three films as a director. (Another he co-directed is on Warner Archive.) Brown is well known as an accomplished screenwriter but his own films from the pre-code era barely show up on TCM, much less home video.
No.3999
Wow, June titles are shit, another dud month. The only film that wasn't already a known quantity or in the collection already is The Bridge, which looks boring. They need to quit fucking around put out the Apu trilogy ASAP
No.4012
Fucking Decalogue when?
No.4014
>>3999I'm glad to see Valerie at least. Is there already a good American blu Ray release for it?
No.4015
>>3972>>3972Pastoral to die in the country
Valley of the bees
The Earth Trembles
Hypothesis of a stolen painting
More yang
Blu Ray releases of already released films (Andrei Rublev, exterminating Angel, Some Bresson)
Ordet, Ashes and Diamonds, and The Ascent having their own blu ray releases.
No.4017
>>4015Ha ha, I thought this was the list of new releases and thought "That's really not so bad."
Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting would be a nice addition. It's a little dense to watch because you're often reading a paragraph of philosophy via subtitles. Some very nice black and white photography though. The old DVD might have been interlaced … I can't quite remember but it seems like it had some minor issues.
No.4022
>>4017it looks like the blacks are too light as well
No.4045
>>3928Green for Danger doesn't get mentioned often. A very solid and well-performed murder mystery, sometimes comic but ending in disaster for the professionals involved. Has one clever flashback that only makes sense at the end, once the real killer's intimidated his underling into confessing for him.
>>3972•Twice Upon a Time for animation (really needs a Blu, lot of potential for supplements)
•Lonely Requiem
•Mr. Moto box
•Iphigenia
•'30s Madchen in Uniform (Young Törless is getting lonely)
No.4047
Jesus, Criterion's suggestions email account is quick to respond. I suggested something and they came back in less than an hour, and they were polite as hell, too.
Even if the movie I suggested never gets in, I'm gonna remember that. Made me happy.
No.4049
>>3485> world cinema foundationI heard Craig Keller of Masters of Cinema talk about the WCF and related bureaucratic hurdles they encounter when trying to get film distribution from these smaller countries. Some film restorations are only licensed for showing at a cinema, some countries only have one or two people working in the particular film archive, some rights holders go missing for a while (as an Egyptian did after the Arab Spring)…
It sounds like WCF releases are often more challenging than putting out the average French or Italian film.
No.4184
>>3920That was a bit of a hidden gem until this release. I wonder how it will be received.
From what I've seen, Robert Montgomery had some cool ideas as actor/director.
No.4283
Should I buy YiYi, Solaris,Lola Montes,Richard III or the complete Jean Vigo?
I don't feel right buying more than two movies when no sale
No.4286
>>4283i haven't seen all of those, but the two i'd prefer to own are solaris and vigo
No.4305
>>4283Vigo set's worth getting for supplements/better PQ if you don't want to watch the movies via Hulu+. I really like Solaris and think its BD is great, still waiting on A Brighter Summer Day or The Terrorizers to start on Yang. A shame La Signora Di Tutti isn't on Hulu+, because the MOC BD just went OOP and Criterion hasn't gotten a version out yet.
No.4362
>>4305Terrorizers had a Blu-ray release in Taiwan with English subtitles (OOP now).
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Terrorizers-Blu-ray/22265/ No.4406
Oh wow another shit month outside Hiroshima mon amour.
Who the fuck asked for The Black Stallion, and who gives a fuck about Jan Troell?
No.4414
>>4406I know, and Black Stallion already got released last year
No.4420
Has anyone seen this? It's a new release from Second Run.
http://www.secondrundvd.com/release_pictures.php> Dušan Hanák's renowned film was voted by critics as the best Slovak film of all time. Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček (1913–2004) whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images, Hanák created his own distinctive impressions of the artist's work in reflecting a myriad of human stories. No.4422
>>4420It's been getting some buzz lately on karagara.
Second Run has a great selection of forgotten masterpieces but I can't justify buying dvds in this day and age.
No.4428
>>4420Yeah I just watched that the other day actually. It's really great, it really nails the gritty Eastern Europe rural aesthetic, and there are some beautiful shots. It is also unique as a semi-"ethnographic film" because it actually lets the people tell their own story, it all feels very natural. I would highly recommend it.
No.4434
>>4422I love their catalog but I won't buy from them again until they start releasing blurays. It's surprising they still haven't gotten into HD.
I found out there's a previous DVD release (which looks fine) so it's not really new. But I'd never heard of this film before.
>>4428That's encouraging. I look forward to seeing this. Too bad all the rips look shitty…500 pixel width!?
No.4567
No.4569
>>4567
Scorsese has very good taste. It's nice that he included a lot of information on each of his choices.
I don't know how Tokyo Drifter could be anyone's #1 pick (Nicolas Winding Refn). It's an illogical mess with a few cool scenes.
No.4570
>>4569
illogical mess?
sounds like most good movies
No.4571
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Nikkatsu Noir > Tokyo Drifter
No.4572
>>4569
>Tokyo Drifter
>Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順 Suzuki Seijun?), born Seitaro Suzuki (鈴木 清太郎 Suzuki Seitarō) on 24 May 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility.
I think he succeeded.
I haven't see any of his films, which one do you guys recommend?
No.4573
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>>4572
I don't know his best, but I'd recommend seeing what the fuss is all about…
Since >>4569 already revealed that the movie doesn't make sense, you might even enjoy it if you're not expecting a coherent plot.
No.4574
new costa-gavras blurays…who has seen these?
No.4575
No.4580
No.4675
New releases announced for August:
> Presenting Truffaut’s movie about moviemaking Day for Night, De Palma’s Dressed to Kill, Reisz’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and the Dardennes’ Two Days, One Night, plus Dassin’s Night and the City on Blu-ray for the first time and our latest Eclipse series, Agnès Varda in California.
I might try to watch some of these: http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1124-eclipse-series-43-agnes-varda-in-california
Eclipse Series 43: Agnès Varda in California
> The legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose remarkable career began in the 1950s and has continued into the twenty-first century, produced some of her most provocative works while living on the West Coast of the United States. After temporarily relocating from France to California in the late sixties with her husband, Jacques Demy, so that he could make his first Hollywood film, Varda became entranced by the politics, youth culture, and sunshine of the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, and created documentary explorations and fictional narratives—sometimes within the same film. She returned a decade later, and made more fascinating portraits of outsiderness. Her five revealing, entertaining California films, encompassing shorts and features, are collected in this set, which demonstrates that Varda was as deft an artist in unfamiliar terrain as she was on her own turf.
No.4677
>>4675
Day for night is his third best film behind Jules.
They rest seem whatever. It always seems that there's only one film per month that interests me.
No.4678
>>4675
The Jacques Demy film mentioned there is probably Model Shop.
I think it's worth watching even though I didn't really like it, ha ha. It's 90 minutes of 2001's Gary Lockwood bumming around Los Angeles – not like a beach hippie but like a French New Wave shiftless protagonist.
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Does this mean we get Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish cinema in December?
No.4959
>>4936
I never have too high expectations for criterion.
Glad to see more Kieślowski and Breaker Point is great film.
They really don't need more James Ivory or Wes Anderson. I hate their trend of finding some whatever director still alive and constantly giving them spotlight.
No.4960
>>4959
it's political at that point
No.4962
I like that they included The Valerie Project as an extra audio track on this one.
>>3986
No.5026
>>4572
Seijun's Youth of the Beast (1963) is a much better film than Tokyo Drifter. And it actually stays mostly coherent.
My only problem with Criterion is they focus too much on that artsy fartsy borefest cinema. And they've all but ignored classic HK cinema, probably because it's not pretentious enough. Oh, and 2 of my favourite films are of course amongst the few that are OOP.
Other companies like Arrow are also starting to beat them at their own game, using better compression techniques.
http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/multi_comparison.php?disc1=5422&disc2=3605&hd_multiID=1497#auswahl
No.5028
>>5026
I like Arrow too. It's impressive how easily they raised 120k to start releasing material in the US.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/arrow-video-usa#/story
No.5035
>>5026
> 2 of my favourite films are of course amongst the few that are OOP.
Could you name them? One of mine is Le trou.
And which HK films do you like? That's one area I have only seen a small number. Hard Boiled was disappointing to me (and the Criterion DVD was pretty crappy from what I remember).
No.5036
>>5026
>artsy fartsy borefest cinema
Example?
No.5037
>>5035
Le Circle Rouge & Chungking Express. At least with Le Circle Rouge there's the StudioCanal release though. I'm not paying $100+ for the Criterion versions.
Hard Boiled & The Killer are the most well-known films Internationally I guess. It's a shame that the best release they've had is a DVD upscale that's been DNR'd to hell, but that's the same sad story for most of HK cinema. Golden Harvest (one of the big film studios in the 70s-90s) sold all their rights to Fortune Star that just release all their Blu-Rays as half-assed upscales. And it seems like every studio other than Shaw Bros. all left their film stock to rot in a leaky cupboard. I mean, I could name some amazing films that have never even been given a half-decent DVD release.
HK cinema would definitely need its own thread, but I can give you a few recommendations. It essentially boils down to two types of films: Martial Arts & Heroic Bloodshed (Triads vs. cops, violent action drama). I don't know if Kung Fu films interest you but i'll make some recommendations for the second genre:
Long Arm of the Law (1984)
City on Fire (1987)
The Big Heat (1988)
Full Contact (1992)
Ebola Syndrome (1996 - doesn't belong in this genre but it's classic HK)
Once Upon a Time in Triad Society (1996)
The Longest Nite (1998)
Beast Cops (1998)
The Mission (1999)
Election (2005)
Drug War (2013)
Now I know you'll never find a Jackie Chan film on Criterion, but his HK work is a great example of that brilliant fight choreography that you won't find in Hollywood. We're talking 100s of reshoots and extending filming time to make sure everything looks perfect. There are some real classics in the HK back-catalogue though that are screaming out for a restoration.
>>5036
The second largest contribution in Criterion's catalogue is from France.
No.5041
I don't know about the bluray, but the best Hard Boiled DVD was from HK Video. It had French subs but I saw a custom English disc on a torrent site.
I think the Criterion DVD was one of their worst releases quality-wise. Poor image and sub translation.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare5/hardboiled.htm
>>5037
Cool, thanks for the recs man. I haven't fully explored this area either.
No.5090
Kino Lorber released this on blu ray recently. Probably will be my next purchase along with the recent translation of the book.
>>5037
I would say Mad Detective is better than Drug War and Johnnie To's best film.
No.5124
I have maybe 10 of these. They're really neat to have in the collection, but I'm going to try to look for ones with better special features because I haven't found many that I'm satisfied with. I'm looking for more commentaries, too. I hope they release more of Todd Solondz in the future. I wanna hear him do a commentary on one of his films.
No.5125
>>4283
All I know is that YiYi is worth a watch but definitely not worth buying a special edition for, especially if you haven't seen it yet.
No.5136
>>5090
Hard to be a God was such a tough watch. Not in that it's dull and really long but I just felt fucking dirty after watching it. I needed a shower man. It really sucked me into that world.
No.5137
Criterion 50% off sale and Barnes and Noble
I'm not sure how long it lasts
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/50-off-the-criterion-collection/_/N-2dy8
No.5139
>>5137
Should I use this as a chance to buy the human condition trilogy or wait and hope for a blu ray release?
No.5141
No.5143
>>5139
I'd wait until November when they usually have another 50% sale.
Human Condition is HD on Hulu so they probably already have the upgraded transfer.
No.5211
Kwaidan, Mulhooland Dr. and The Brood in their release queue
All pretty familiar but I'm grateful for a quality upgrade (especially for Kwaidan). I haven't seen Mulholland Dr. since it came out.
No.5218
>>5211
There's already a bluray of The Brood. I have a 1080p rip anyway. Maybe it was a Euro release.
No.5221
>>5218
bluray of Mullholland Drive too, I've got a 1080p copy on my external HD. interested to see any special features though
No.5223
>>5211
Kawaidans still great but I wish they would have brought over Samurai Rebellion instead.
a special day seems good too.
No.5348
All the talk about lion hunting reminded me of The Naked Prey. It's a survival/hunting story filmed in the countryside of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia at the time).
I'd give it a solid B+.
No.5351
>>5137
The 50% off sale is back on for the weekend
No.5354
Why is literally more than half of all Melville on criterion out of print?
No.5362
>>5354
The licensing must have expired? Sometimes they have issues with Studio Canal…an ongoing discussion about that here:
http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10391
No.5367
this is getting a criterion release before a brighter summer day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcPUgOhdKE
No.5368
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>>5367
Well I can't vouch for that at all, but Murakami is an interesting contemporary artist
No.5393
>>5367
that's it, i refuse to give those cunts any more of my shekels until they release something worth while
No.5440
Dardenne brothers: yea or nay?
I never bothered to check out their work.
No.5454
No.5572
>>5564
He knows his feelumms.
But has he made anything good himself? I only made it halfway through Pervert's Guide to Cinema.
No.5664
HEY GUYS
WELCOME TO CRITERION
No.5665
Nothing but the best from these guys!
No.5674
>>5665
Probably their most pathetic month yet in a year full of pathetic months
No.5675
I used to care more about their releases, but they are slipping into mediocrity
That said the Hulu+ selection is still pretty good
No.5727
Does Criterion even sell movies in Canada? I looked around most of the stores that still carry movies and have never seen a single Criterion film in my life, so I mostly just buy DVDs from used bookstores and torrent chinese cartoons because they have the most seeders, not to mention that there's no way I could join a private tracker with my pathetic upload speed.
No.5732
>>5727
I thought they sold in Canada. Do you have a Barnes and Noble nearby?
Or do you ever see DVDs of stuff like The Seventh Seal, Solaris, or 8½? I think those were the first Criterions I watched. They were at the local library.
No.5811
>>5727
HMV and Best Buy, but they're generally over-priced compared to the States, I get mine south of border during B&N sales
>>5732
our libraries generally do carry DVDs, better quality than old torrents of obscurer stuff
No.5812
>>5090
Kino-Lorber is releasing Faust on Blu in November if anyone noticed.
No.5845
>>5811
>>5812
sneaky bastard, you post interesting comments but don't want anyone to notice...
No.5888
>>5732
>>5811
I didn't even know Barnes and Noble was in Canada since I never saw any, so there probably aren't any in the area. The nearest HMVs and Best Buys are over an hour away, haven't seen any Criterion films in them either.
No.6006
Watched the clip that Criterion put up for A Special Day and it looks pretty great. Definitely seems like one of those rare surprise releases.
https://www.criterion.com/films/28659-a-special-day
No.6287
>>6284
Nice, I've been hoping to locate a good copy of Je t'aime, je t'aime
Film Movement has a large DVD catalog but I've seen very few of these
Mostly films from the last decade or so
http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?FINDBY=Title
No.6534
Holy fuck when did this happen
No.6583
>>6534
oh man, I've been waiting so many years for this. Almost redeems the last year of mostly bland shit Criterion has been putting out. Stoked
No.6597
>>3193
I was once browsing the Criterion releases at a Barnes and Noble with my sister when we were approached by two guys who looked more or less like the ones in this video. They asked us, "Are you guys 'Criterion collectors'?" and I immediately said no.
I didn't know that there existed an entire subculture of teens who spend their allowances on Criterion releases until this thread, but I now think they were trying to recruit me and my sister.
No.6784
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