Criterion Collection on DVD. Recommendations please.

Blech. Walkabout and Black Orpheus are pretty good. Schizopolis is a trifle. The rest I can't get into.

down by law
nights of cabiria
something by david lean
something by fassbinder other than ali or berlin alexanderplatz

if you want Lean then Brief Encounter is amazing!

I liked Europa and Le Deuxieme Souffle quite a bit.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is awesome.

Earrings of Madame De..., gentlemen!

ok ryan i'll get it. im getting three total.
alex they dont have any of those i don't think, have thumbed through so many times...would love to see SWCIFTC though, just read that this year.

diabolique
wc fields -- 6 short films
le trou
closely watched trains
...
hmm

xpost ok i'll get earrings

1 more

should i get bob le flambeur? melville's left me kind of cold so far.

earrings is indeed a stone cold classic.

that is one of the more entertaining melvilles, imo. only felt like watching it once though.

id be all over hiroshima mon amour, but that's a favorite of mine and i think other people feel pretty differently about it!

La Jetee/San Soleil has a great rewatch for $ value if they have that.

i don't think they do.

so bob or hiroshima or something else.

others they have i haven't seen:
night and fog
umberto d
m
honeymoon killers
knife in the water
le corbeau
scenes from a marriage and 3 women

thanks for your help btw ryan

umberto d!!!!!!!! looooove that movie.

m is freaking amazing too.

"eight million stories in the city" can't remember the name for some reason

is this a reference to "naked city"? get it!!

naked city is a good one

ok done

look out movie store clerks im gonna rent the shit out of you right now wowowow

xps oh no!

almost all of these are worth seeing once. if i was investing in a DVD i think M, Umberto D, Earrings are the ones I've seen most and enjoyed most over the years.

three that i have that i love: wages of fear, fanny and alexander, le samouraï

ok i'll get naked city cuz ryan already picked one

thanks all

xps haven't seen wages of fear, will make it one of my sweet backups

straw dogs is vv good imo but not for everyone

kind of rough watching i hear

its one i pick up everytime, look at, and put back. i'll get to it soon i'm sure.

naked city is an awesome movie. making me think of the great sam fuller titles criterion has. oh, pick up on south street! not as good, really, but i liked it a lot.

i looked at their website and saw they're starting to release their titles on blu-ray. made me realize how much i'm dreading the format change

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is awesome.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just watched this the other night!

If you like von Trier, Europa

(I don't particularly -- tho much worse was yet to come -- and it's still an interesting set)

Trouble In Paradise is a great bargain cuz it comes w/a fantastic hour-long Lubitsch silent film as a bonus. The same also goes for WR: Mysteries of The Organism which has a really cool 90s TV short by Makavejev.

Word to the wise, RE: Brief Encounter

Supposedly Criterion will be remastering it soon (new print touring US as I type). A blu-ray may be in the works as well.

if you're BUYING them I suggest getting newer ones only (the ones with the C instead of the line) because the video quality of the early ones is usually subpar

scratch that, they kept the old logo around longer than I realised. i still would be careful around #1-#100.

umberto d
m

m is essential!
umberto d is just good fun. so is knife in the water, apparently, but i haven't seen it yet.

destroy: scenes from a marriage, though; it ended my bergman season cold.

welles' f for fake would be my one criterion pick. maybe that and fishing with john.

jean painleve collection slated for april release (inc. the sounds of science documentary that yo la tengo scored) :D :D

also: two by nagisa oshima (in the realm of the senses/empire of passion) and stephen frears' the hit

Stupid Netflix. White Dog has been at the top of my queue for at least a month now.

Just watched Army of Shadows and enjoyed is maybe not the right word but I enjoyed it a lot. Particularly the scene where Gerbier wanders into the NAAFI dance which is really moving but bleak.

^^ JPM says that bit, the ldn sequence, is the closest to his own experience of the war.

It's cool because I kept expecting it to veer into some "fuck you rosbif you don't know what the war really means" territory but it doesn't, ultimately Gerbier comes across as detached from the possibility of pleasure or intimacy, at least I believed that until the scene where he thinks he's about to be executed and that one woman's face flashes back into his memory.

rad - http://www.theauteurs.com/

do it work

Okay that sounds great.

ya it is pretty good

just been chillin with the my dinner with andre discs. man, it is a different experience seeing it as a semi-jaded 30something than a wide-eyed teenager

All the punk rock nihilism you sensed when you were younger is now gone?

A double bill of Melville’s Le Doulos and Le Deuxieme Souffle makes for an especially kickass weekend.

Carnival of Souls is one of my favorite Criterion editions. Restored film plus amazing extras including the director's early industrial commercial work and a zillion hand-tinted postcards of the salt palace.

Also (pretty sure it's Criterion) - Le Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face). Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.

In the special features for the short, the director explains that it's in B&W because a color version would be horrific. that's some great deadpan. i hope.

Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.

is that le sang des betes, by georges franju? i finally saw this recently on google video, though i knew it was tucked away on some criterion something or other. it's pretty great. someone i know saw it on a double bill with eraserhead

-nb, finding the link i found that eyes without a face is franju; i've never got around to seeing it.

the site linked above looks good, by the way - excited to sit down with cria cuervos finally

The Auteurs looks like a pretty cool site...

I'm definitely a fan of Eyes Without a Face, great stuff. Haven't seen Le Doulos, but I actually just watched Le Deuxieme Souffle a few days ago, really good!

Also (pretty sure it's Criterion) - Le Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face). Great great movie, but there's an extra on there that's a short black & white documentary on French abbatoirs in the 50s. One of the most gruesome things I've ever seen.

+1 <3 that movie so much. the franju doc on the slaughterhouses is %_% more than anything but the interviews on the disc are great

All the punk rock nihilism you sensed when you were younger is now gone?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kind of the opposite! it's such a sad movie