Criterion Collection on DVD. Recommendations please.

september releases just announced: 2 by jarmusch, robinson crusoe on mars (?!), threepenny opera

oh and a martha graham dance film

'army of shadows' and 'spirit of the beehive' are the two best movies ever.

i like 'army of shadow' but no way to 'spirit'.

'shadows'.

swiss family robinson?

'shadows'.

-- That one guy that quit, Saturday, June 16, 2007 5:30 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

You like Cassavetes too?

I do!! I've got the boxset

My favorite line in Woman Under the Influence: "Why are you not having any clothes on?"

I haven't seen it in so long! When is that said?

Wait wasn't he mad at her?

Falk's mom says that when their daughter streaks through the living room after the "Swan Lake" yard party.

woah woah woah

They released a fancy version of The Bicycle Thieves and nobody let me know??

'army of shadows' and 'spirit of the beehive' are two of the most overrated movies ever.

spirit of the beehive compared to what, e.t. the extraterrestrial?

sometimes I don't even know where to begin with you, morbs.

They released a fancy version of The Bicycle Thieves and nobody let me know??

We thought you knew already! ;-)

I picked up on a payday and finally watched it a few weeks ago. Pretty spiffy presentation. It's good to see Criterion getting around to some of the major canonical stuff (Bicycle Thieves, the upcoming issues ofBreathless and Days of Heaven) that's thus far escaped their net. Could bode well for stuff like Open City.

xpost

starting with a handful of Arturo Ripstein films?

I've never understood the Days of Heaven love, cept for Almendros.

I have a total of $55 in my wallet and had resolved to stop buying DVDs completely. Do I eat sammiches for a while and buy The Bicycle Thieves... or do I go without.

I hardly ever buy em. BT will always be around.

la jetee on tuesday!

Shop around first, but don't dip into yr food money.

Posted this on ILF, but it can go here too

I haven't actually got the new newsletter yet, but I've come across the text, and boy o boy have they got a bombshell to drop:

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,
We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.

Here’s what’s in the pipeline:

The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear

Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we’ll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg’s outback masterpiece at the same time.

o dam

Nice, hope there's a Roeg-boxset a la Cassavettes.

Chungking Express will be awesome I bet. The current US DVD is a disaster.

can't wait to get rid of my chungking dvd w/tarantino's mug

i want the 5 hour cut of Bottle Rocket (for some reason)

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I, too, came here to post about Chungking.

So what's a good blu-ray player? I keep wanting to get a PS3 for that and GTA IV, but the latter is better on the xbox I think? And consoles make too much noise. Toshiba blu-ray?

I can't understand getting a blu ray player instead of a PS3 at this point. None of the stand alone players seem to have a killer feature (and none of them play PS3 games) and aren't really cheaper.

Cheapest player on Amazon is $393.84. PS3 is $399 and the remote control is $20.

Does the PS3 have a timer display? That's all I look for in a player.

Wow, they're doing "El Norte"!

I had no idea it was a big enough movie to get this kind of treatment, that's really great.

xpost, you mean like a clock? I put black tape over those!

Contempt

if they went with pierrot le fou I'd be tempted. but I guess they wanted hi-def bardot-butt.

Someone help!

I'm trying to narrow this list down to two...which TWO of these do I need to own? All things considered...the film, the package, the extras, etc. etc.

House of Games
Jubilee
My Own Private Idaho
Naked
Ran
Stranger Than Paradise
Two-Lane Blacktop

Sorry, Hate (L'Haine) was supposed to be on there too! Make sure it is considered.

Checking out the deepdiscout sale I presume?

Ran
Stranger Than Paradise

Of course. I've got a bunch of other Criterions but haven't bought any for a couple years now. Pretty exciting. I wish I could afford four, but...alas.

Two-Lane Blacktop, but two copies.

If not that, TLB and Ran.

House of Games is fun, but it doesn't look any better on DVD than on the regular cable showings (or maybe IFC doesn't have it in heavy rotation anymore?).

Of course. I've got a bunch of other Criterions but haven't bought any for a couple years now. Pretty exciting. I wish I could afford four, but...alas.

I hear that. I got the Varda box from them a few weeks back during the password sale (came out to like 55 bucks), which was probably the only way I could get it. Wanted to get the Rohmer one then too, but they suddenly stopped carrying it.

recommendations? i'm going to the movie store in 1 hour!

!

they have maybe 250

a bunch of new ones came out today..chungking express is my fav of those.

do want to see that. don't know if they'd have it yet.

possible ones:

straw dogs
death of a cyclist
hiroshima mon amour
black orpheus
walkabout
"eight million stories in the city" can't remember the name for some reason
schizopolis