Criterion Collection on DVD. Recommendations please.

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June's release schedule is (lame-looking Claude Berri father-son shit aside) the most attractive line-up they've come up with since, well, May (if you're not an all-region-DVD-player-pwner). Well, maybe not, since their Chris Marker double feature doesn't look to be adding much new to the European set I've had for years.

But still, two Makavejev artsploitations and If... ain't bad.

― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I will never understand why Criterion includes fucking Michael Bay and Kevin Smith

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Good lord, I must rob a bank.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post not for THOSE releases admittedly.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The new goodies for The Third Man look cool.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm worried rewatching it now will knock If... down a few pegs, but damned if it wasn't about my favorite film ever when I first saw it as a 13- or 14-year-old.

― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

(That was, to be clear, in the mid-90s, not 1968.)

― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

can't believe they're doing sweet movie. mcdowell commentary on if... should be entertaining.

― Edward III, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait. That's Michel Simon in that Berri thing. I might have to still give it a chance.

― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

It's weird looking back on this thread now and seeing some of the Criterions that were supposedly forthcoming that didn't pan out. I hope they're still working on those Bunuel titles.

I never did a POX Criterion titles. With today's announcement, I guess I should: Sans soleil, La Jetée, 3 Women, All That Heaven Allows, Gertrud, Ugetsu, Cleo from 5 to 7, The Art of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, L'avvenura and Grey Gardens. Oh, and Balthazar. Oh, and The Naked Kiss and Ivan the Terrible. Damn, the collection's getting big.

― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I will never understand why Criterion includes fucking Michael Bay and Kevin Smith

Shakey Mo Collier on Friday, March 16, 2007 2:15 PM (33 minutes ago)

so they can afford to put out the other stuff

― s1ocki, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa WR!!!

― s1ocki, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't seen it, but I bet Sweet Movie ends up among the "most hated" Criterion movies (at least among Criterion mindsets) along with Fat Girl, Jubilee and Hopscotch.

― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

today is the last day of a 40% off sale on all criterions on deepdiscountdvd.com

― botero, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

ends up among the "most hated" Criterion movies (at least among Criterion mindsets) along with Fat Girl, Jubilee and Hopscotch.

Giving a fucking Kevin Smith movie the Criterion treatment is a crime that can never be repaid.

― kenan, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

there's plenty of nutso shit in the criterion collection for people to hate on at this point, salo, symbiopsychotaxiplasm, brakhage, the ones you mentioned. sweet movie will test some constitutions, tho.

― Edward III, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Who the hell would hate on Brakhage?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

or Passolini?!?!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I have not seen Sweet Movie, either, but it looks fascinating. Maybe I should see it just to hate it?

― kenan, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Who the hell would hate on Brakhage?

Ned Raggett on Friday, March 16, 2007 3:02 PM (5 minutes ago)
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or Passolini?!?!

Shakey Mo Collier on Friday, March 16, 2007 3:04 PM (4 minutes ago)
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sure none of you hipster fucks would, but there are plenty of criterion collectors who are like wtf with the autopsies and pooeating (ned this is pronounced pooe-ating). internet message boards have been rife with salo-induced revulsion for years.

― Edward III, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

"hipster fuck" is a term of endearment btw

― Edward III, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

today is the last day of a 40% off sale on all criterions on deepdiscountdvd.com

This is actually how I stumbled on the June calendar. I was going to see what some of the recently released discs were so I could fill a few gaps and buy one or two at DDD. But after looking at what's coming out in the next few months, I decided I probably shouldn't spend the money now.

― Eric H., Friday, 16 March 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

That Deep Discount sale has been extended through Thursday the 22nd (and BTW, they've also got a selected Kino sale that rolls til' the 31st.)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

the Claude Berri movie is good, u hata! no milestone, but...

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i am SO FUCKING STOKED for sweet movie!! that cover is amazing

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I own very few Criterions -- not gonna fall into my music collection nightmare again... I think just Notorious, My Own Private Idaho, My Darling Clementine, and The Wages of Fear.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I HATED My Own Private Idaho. I can't find anything redeeming in it at all.

I've got the Cassavetes Five Films box, the Fanny & Alexander 5-disc box, Videodrome, Man Bites Dog, and The Royal Tenenbaums which I got used on the cheap.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wow they're finally releasing La Haine stateside.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweet Movie : Cast

Miss World 1984 - Carole Laure
A sailor from the Potemkin - Pierre Clementi
Capt. Anna Planeta - Anna Prucnal
El Macho - Sami Frey
Director General of the Chastity Belt Foundation - Jane Mallet
Otto Muehl and the members of the Therapy Commune, Vienna
Mama Communa - Marpessa Dawn
Jeremiah Muscle - Roy Callender
The Mouse - Leonide
Mr. Dollars - John Vernon

I love a good cast of characters. Uh...THAT John Vernon?!

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I own very few Criterions -- not gonna fall into my music collection nightmare again..
I hear you. The few I have are all in foreign languages so I figure I can consider them classier language instruction tapes.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

According to the IMDB, it is indeed that John Vernon.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

...as you've never seen him before.

I've got almost 20 criterions but I had no qualms about transferring my music nightmare to a film nightmare. godard and bergman probably account for half of them.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

sweet movie is something else lemme tell ya.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I know exactly what John Vernon looks like- he was a guest star on every single TV in the late 60s and the 70s, no?- but I can't remember if he was in any movies.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

So broke the next few months, what with the Eclipse Louis Malle and Ozu box sets/Army Of Shadows...heaven.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link

After my father ruined the Criterions I had collected over several years, he got me the almost-complete collection a few years ago. I am now out of date, and have constantly resisted the desire to catch up. I think it might be time to give in.

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I checked IMDB and I definitely pictured the right guy even if I got his screen credits confused. I think there was another dude who looked a lot like him.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link

been wanting the full length TV movie series version of Fanny and Alexander for ever and ever.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

my criterion POX:
hiroshima mon amour
tokyo story
f for fake
through a glass darkly
ordet
tout va bien
l'avventura
harlan county usa
playtime
rules of the game

at one point i had about half of the collection, but i have fallen way off pace.

― t0dd swiss, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I really only started collecting DVDs a year or so ago, so my personal Criterion Collection is very thin. Still, it already includes a couple or so of my favorite movies ever:

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Play Time
In The Mood for Love
8 1/2
Brazil
Naked Lunch

― kenan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

*counts* 28 total for me. Not bad.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

oh! and

F for Fake

I forgot that one, because it's on top of the TV, having been watched very recently. :)

― kenan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

list yours, ned!

― kenan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

going through the list quickly, i probably have between 80-90 criterion dvds

― t0dd swiss, Thursday, 22 March 2007 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link

now really, I'm curious -- how many times will you watch each of those? especially, unlike with records, you can't do something else simultaneously, amirite?

Watching nearly any film more than every 3-4 years kinda kills it for me.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Always depends on the film.

list yours, ned!

When I'm home, maybe. A fair amount of familiar titles, really. The trick as I've muttered before lies in finding them used.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got 40, which includes the titles in two boxes (The Adventures of Antoine Doinel & The Complete Monterey Pop Festival). Got all of the Godards and Truffauts, most of the Melvilles and Bunuels. My trick (if you want to call it that) is never EVER paying full price via DD, a good brick & mortar store (increasingly rare) or Amazon pre-orders. Most of the time when I find something used, it's either something I already have or the price is too close to a reduced online rate for a sealed copy. Sales tax usually makes 'em even if not higher for the used copy.

Netflix though, has put a dent in my purchases. I've probably only bought like 3 or 4 DVDs this year.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I quit Netflix and started buying, precisely because I knew I'd want to watch my faves more than once. I'm the opposite of Morbs: I can watch a film I love over and over and it gets better each time.

I own about 20 Criterions now. Got "Boudu..." and "Alphaville..." in the mail today and can't wait to pop 'em on this weekend.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

0, I just rent them. But I might buy the Third Man rerelease and the Chris Marker set.

― abanana, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm now going through the supplements on Harlan County USA, after watching the feature. Oh man. This is the real deal...wow.

Just saw this tonight. Completely agree.

― Jamesy, Saturday, 31 March 2007 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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