Criterion Collection on DVD. Recommendations please.

the criterion release i saw most recently (and loved more than anything i've seen lately): band of outsiders

I've had ridiculous luck with a number of Criterion releases turning up used in my neck of the woods -- most recently, Andrei Rublev and The Third Man.

As for prices/extras: keep in mind that Criterion has to license the rights to these films and then does their best to work with the top of the line prints, people, and equipment to make the best transfers possible. This costs a lot of money for discs that generally don't exactly fly off of a standard retailer's shelves. That is why the discs are expensive, not the extras. The extras are added both because the hard-core cineastes appreciate them and because they help justify the price a bit more. But most of those extras cost very little extra to produce or obtain. It's the transfers themselves that are the largest expense. Take Playtime, for example. It's going to be re-released in a few months, but the delay is because they have finally gained access to a 65mm telecine machine - something that is extremely rare and not at all cheap. The transfer will be that much better for it, but if you think that the CC is raking in the dough, I can assure you that they are not.

That all being said, don't trust the prices on the official site. I highly recommend buying through Deep Discount DVD, who generally have the best prices on most titles and offer free US shipping.

Oh, and just as a matter of point, Straw Dogs also just went out of print last week.

My girlfriend gave me Criterion's Band of Outsiders for our 4-year anniversary. Great gift.

Steven Seagal: auteur.

The recent HVE (Criterion parent comp.?) releases have been more interesting to me than a lot of the Criterions. I don't need ANOTHER Bergman box set, and extras are meaningless.

Apparently, Ebert recently said on his TV show that this will be coming out next year - hooray!!

Enjoy MP3s from the movie here.

(Also, would TOMBOT like to add for the third time that he wishes they'd do more WKW?)

I haven't harrassed but it's tempting. But more often I'm content to see what rabbits they randomly pull out of hats.

'life and death of colonel blimp' is notable cos michael powell is on the commentary (aged like 85) which might be a record.

Though I do know people who e-mail Criterion every random release thought they have so they probably don't notice, that I e-mailed them twice.

This, I admit, would be a dream for me.

-- Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyza...), Today 8:20 AM. (allyzay)

Kino just rereleased everything but ITMFL and AOT last year...

Also: watched Kumonoso Jo for the gazillionth time last night and the first for the crit. version... so fresh! so clean!

for the dr. king interview.

Not Criterion, but I watched Siberian Mammoth last night, the doc about I Am Cuba which I missed when it screened at Film Forum, and is just out on DVD. Pretty fascinating. Cubans hated it and the USSR was too timid to show it because Cuba was too westernized. Scorsese says that had he seen the film as a student he would have been a different filmmaker. Hmmm.

info here: http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61290

i'm not sure but in 2018 I got an email about being a charter subscriber and have been one since. I think it was from people who had filmstruck subscriptions and then became initial members of the Criterion channel?

Kerry Condon being brill in the Criterion Closet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c

Would almost rather they held contests tho for people to do raids of the Criterion closet like notables do on their YT channel.

― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Monday, September 28, 2015 4:40 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Stand in the same spot as Michael Cera!"

― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, September 28, 2015 5:02 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Charter members are ones who got a membership in the first month. I got a membership card for being subbed for the first 3 months.

All right, I joined in out of the gate, I can enter. And I will!

<You Will Stand In The Same Spot As Michael Cera!>

Have I mentioned lately that I've been in the closet and got Night of the Hunter blu-ray?

Thievery. You broke in under cover of night. (Well maybe not.)

I entered too but honestly I would pay good money to hack it so Ned wins