Criterion Collection on DVD. Recommendations please.

^^ 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

hey s1ocki have u started replacing w/ the blu rays? iyo r they "worth it"?

totally depends

i have some wicked gorgeous ones that i love, esp stuff shot with that format in mind like planet earth

some, like 400 blows, look good, but the source is so grainy to begin with you're not going to get a crisp image anyway... but the grain looks better if that makes sense, it compresses easier to a larger resolution...

it's hard to say cuz i've found quality on regular DVDs varies so wildly. in general, ya, they look nicer on a nice big tv. but at least half the time it would be hard to tell the difference.

sounds like a scam (because I can't afford it).

i cant really either but im @ my parents and they have some elaborate plasma rig w/ blu ray and ive got consumer goods envy of the worst sort

@ s1ocki okay i was really mostly curious about criterion specifically i mean their prints are obv gonna be among the best where possible and my friend al1se came over w/ a couple of criterion blu rays that looked incredible and im like fukk ~~~ last thing i need is 2 replace a few dozen of these u_u

ya like i said the only crit blu i have is 400 blows. i find their initial roll-out to be super weird. bottle rocket? i mean i love that movie but... not my first choice for blu. can't wait for the inevitable restored red shoes tho.

yo lamp go rent planet earth on bluray if you want your eyes to bleed with joy

Fortunately, I'm not some image freak who knows what "artifacts" and "edge enhancement" are.

my parents have planet earth thats what started all of this + my friend and i watched in the realm of the senses and lol bottle rocket

also two of my top 10 all times - wages of fear and the third man - are already blu ray which is also makin me desire. basically thinkin if i can get a decent price on a used ps3 then

Fortunately, I'm not some image freak who knows what "artifacts" and "edge enhancement" are.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, June 19, 2009 3:55 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

neither am i! u can def go overboard on this stuff. but if you love the moving image i dont see why you shouldnt love it looking as best as it can!

i actually do know what artifacts are

The nuances of a film looking good vs great in different incarnations -- I just don't see them, usually.

(just like i don't care about the "bad production" on Husker Du records)

horses for courses!

bad production or whatever on a record isn't really a good analogy - a better one would be listening to it on tape vs cd or vinyl

maybe morbz just needs new glasses?

took a look it seems like for all mankind is coming out on br this summer hmmmm

ya want

mp3 compression and 4x3 aspect ratio are both bullshit. You want the full meal deal right?

Righteous online sale from Barnes & Noble

why do they do this to me

:(

Damn it. My daughter's tonsils picked a great time to blow up.

ordered Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel, Days of Heaven & Breathless

oh man. this might get ugly.

just refused to look at the Blu-Ray options

Criterion's making their blu-rays region 1 only - pretty huge letdown now that most big companies seem to have decided to go the region-free route. I understand that probably Criterion just doesn't own the liscening for their stuff outside the US but still...sadface.

anyone seen Wise Blood?

it's weird that some of the blurays are on sale some aren't?

even tho they're all supposed to be?

The new dvd or just the movie?

x-post

All the first page Blu Rays are 50% off, some on the second page aren't Criterions or are pre-orders.

loool i just bought 11 movies :-/

thanks, ilx!

Dan, yes, I've seen Wise Blood. Cracked movie, one of Huston's very best. Profound sense of place. The Criterion looks fantastic but the extras were de trop and not that illuminating.

i just got the new repulsion disc. half want to dive in, half don't feel up to teh psychodrama tonight.

Seconding Wise Blood. It's an incredible film, Dourif's performance especially. And how can you resist a movie with Brad Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton?

Just spent money I shouldn't have on Withnail & I, the Monsters & Madmen box set, Haxan, Patriotism and Masculin Feminin.

That Cassavetes box is tempting. I don't know why. Most of those films aren't things I really feel like I want to sit through more than once. But it's a BOX! Eh.

I ordered Wise Blood. Also got the 5 disk Fanny and Alexander I've always wanted, Gimme Shelter and Days of Heaven.