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Og Oggilby posted:I've only started reading that forum and I have to say that the posters there are hilarious. Too bad they don't seem to allow new registration anymore. Hilarious because they're so uptight about packaging, or hilarious because they're always trying to out-snob each other? I rarely post there, I can't stand most of them. However, it's a good source of info like this: quote:So I got the chance to talk to Criterion President Peter Becker last night at a screening of the Last Emperor (which by the way is an amazing restoration and transfer). Keeping you guys in mind I had to ask him a few questions... A film written, directed by and starring Mishima should be interesting (although according to iMDB it's only 30 minutes). He was pretty good in Afraid to Die. EDIT: now that I think about it, I'd wager she meant she was working on Patriotism as a bonus for the upcoming Mishima release. FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Feb 20, 2008 |
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FitFortDanga posted:Hilarious because they're so uptight about packaging, or hilarious because they're always trying to out-snob each other? I rarely post there, I can't stand most of them. However, it's a good source of info like this: Both. At least they're not overrun by poo poo threads like on a few other HT forums, but the Criterion/Eclipse speculation threads read like a 20 page BYOB circlejerk.
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Og Oggilby posted:I'm bored: Would only buy this if all of them came with an MST3k version! Also laughed at your joke about the Salo brown case.
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Finally! #429 - The Lovers  - New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the complete, uncensored version - Selection of archival interviews with Louis Malle, actors Jeanne Moreau and José Luis de Villalonga, and writer Louise de Vilmorin - Gallery of promotional material from the U.S. theatrical release - New and improved English subtitle translation - PLUS: A new essay by film historian Ginette Vincendeau #430 - The Fire Within  - New, restored high-definition digital transfer - Archival interviews with director Louis Malle and actor Maurice Ronet - Malle's Fire Within, a new video program featuring interviews with actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff - Jusqu'au 23 Juillet, a 2005 documentary short about Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's novel Le feu follet and dadaist writer Jacques Rigaut (the inspiration for the main character), featuring actor Mathieu Amalric, writer Didier Daeninckx, and Cannes festival curator Pierre-Henri Deleau - New and improved English subtitle translation - PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critic Michel Ciment and historian Peter Cowie #431 - The Thief of Bagdad  - SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: - Restored digital transfer - Two audio commentaries: one featuring renowned directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and one with film and music historian Bruce Eder - New interviews with special-effects experts Ray Harryhausen, Dennis Muren, and Craig Barron about the technical achievements of The Thief of Bagdad - The Lion Has Wings (1940), Alexander Korda's propaganda film for the English war effort, during The Thief of Bagdad's production hiatus - Excerpts from codirector Michael Powell's audio dictations for his autobiography - Selections of music by composer Miklos Rózsa not used in the final film - Stills gallery featuring rare Dufaycolor images of the film's production - Theatrical trailer - PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film scholars Andrew Moor and Ian Christie Frankly, I think they've done enough Malle, but I'll check them out anyway. Also Powell is always good. That cover is insane, though. Overall, I'd consider this to be yet another lackluster month. FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Feb 21, 2008 |
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I really wish they would start releasing some more obscure poo poo. Ideally at least one release per month should be something I've never (or only rarely) heard of.
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i almost flipped my poo poo when i saw the lovers and the fire within. Those two were on my wish list for criterion releases. After these two, then they can stop releasing Louis Malle movies. I took a class on him last year and have been obsessed with seeing the fire within again for so long. Can't wait!
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cryme posted:I really wish they would start releasing some more obscure poo poo. Ideally at least one release per month should be something I've never (or only rarely) heard of. Now that they have the Eclipse line, the Merchant Ivory series, and the budget short film discs for The Red Balloon, etc. - it wouldn't be a bad idea if they would put out bare-bones discs of whatever else they have. Basically, if they're planning a full-on Criterion, an Eclipse styled single disc would be like a work in progress without the extra digital work and supplements. If the bare-bones is $10-14, it won't be a big deal when the more expensive $25-35 full-on Criterion comes out. Warner Bros. did this with Blade Runner by releasing the bare-bones remastered '92 director's cut for $9 a year before the ultimate 4-disc and 5-disc sets. At least this method would get films that have already have decent remasters existing like stuff already released in R2 or have been shown on TCM.
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Feb 22, 2008 01:03
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 Some folks are saying this is Mon Oncle Antoine. Beats me.
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The top ten list from Beastie Boy Adam Yauch in the recent newsletter was hilarious:Adam Yauch posted:1. Seven Samurai I'm also really looking forward to those Malle films. Great cover designs, too.
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The DVDBeaver comparison on Antonio Gaudi is a perfect example of how awful Image Entertainment's discs are. The difference is like night and day.
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To be fair, Image DVDs are only as good as what materials they get. Same for the Milestone label, as this was a very early release for them. A lot of their early DVDs are still quite good like the Hearst-licensed Flash Gordon serials. Image once had to distribute all those early Kino DVDs, which Kino keeps repackaging a decade later.
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There are also situations like the 1923 Hunchback of Notre Dame where the source material sucks - all 35mm copies of the film are gone and they had to work from 16mm. So even though it's supposedly remastered and whatnot it's only going to look so good.
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I spotted Straw Dogs and Dazed & Confused (both $30) at a local used DVD place along with Smiles of a Summer Night ($12). Are they worth picking up? Specifically Straw Dogs and Smiles of a Summer Night since I've seen neither (although I've heard a lot about Straw Dogs).
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Straw Dogs is going for huge prices just used, so get it if it's only $30. Probably can make money if you re-sell it.Horseface posted:There are also situations like the 1923 Hunchback of Notre Dame where the source material sucks - all 35mm copies of the film are gone and they had to work from 16mm. So even though it's supposedly remastered and whatnot it's only going to look so good. Most of the silents Image released were from Film Preservation Associates, who usually does great work. Hunchback had a very early DVD, but a remastered SE came out recently from a new 1080i digital restoration. Licensing is a really scary prospect since there's always the danger that you're stuck with a crappy transfer. Criterion has been fortunate to avoid that for the most part since they're so picky (besides the lousy first editions of M and Salo). Even the big studios get lemons like Paramount licensing to Lionsgate an atrocious VHS-quality transfer of The Quiet Man. At the same time, Lionsgate recieved flawless remasters from StudioCanal for their Hitchcock, Godard, and Bunuel sets.
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IndieRockLance posted:I spotted Straw Dogs and Dazed & Confused (both $30) at a local used DVD place along with Smiles of a Summer Night ($12). Are they worth picking up? Specifically Straw Dogs and Smiles of a Summer Night since I've seen neither (although I've heard a lot about Straw Dogs). I really like Straw Dogs, but it's a film I'd hesitate to recommend as a blind buy. Have you seen any other Peckinpah films? $30 for Dazed an condused sounds like too much since you can easily buy it online new for $25.
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Og Oggilby posted:Straw Dogs is going for huge prices just used, so get it if it's only $30. Probably can make money if you re-sell it. No, not really. Check eBay, most of the sales have been under $25. I wouldn't recommend it as a blind buy either. I guess most people like it, but I don't see it having a lot of replay value. And $30 for D&C is a rip-off. $12 for Smiles of a Summer Night is a good deal, and it's Bergman's best comedy.
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FitFortDanga posted:$12 for Smiles of a Summer Night is a good deal, and it's Bergman's best comedy. Now that we're on the subject, what other comedies did he make?
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Green Vulture posted:You say "best comedy" like Bergman was famous for them. From best to worst: Secrets of Women - three stories, the third of which is a nice little marriage-on-the-rocks farce The Devil's Eye - not bad, occasionally amusing, but it doesn't really work very well A Lesson in Love - very conventional, and kind of broad All These Women - horrible, horrible, horrible... in my opinion, his worst movie
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I'm selling some of mine if any of you are interested Seven Samurai remastered 3 disc $20 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas $20 La Haine $25 Rushmore $22 The Third Man remastered $25 Army of Shadows $26 Brazil remastered 3 disc $45 
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A post on criterionforum.org sort of hints at Criterion getting Ossessione.
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Og Oggilby posted:A post on criterionforum.org sort of hints at Criterion getting Ossessione. Hell yes! I'm a big fan of Visconti and that's my most-wanted of his.
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm selling some of mine if any of you are interested Is it because they are all reversed?  Those are some major quality control oversights by Criterion.
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It looks like the picture was taken in a mirror.
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The Bacon God posted:It looks like the picture was taken in a mirror. But that makes even less sense. Why hold them up to a mirror and take a picture when you could lay them on a shelf or floor and take the picture?
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Took the pic with a webcam
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You know that every photo editing software package ever made has a feature where you can flip a image, right? Hell, even Paint has flip.
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But why just not leave it normal?! WHY?!! I'll shut up now. I really want to get Antonio Gaudi.
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Hopefully Criterion is one-step closer to releasing Zazie dans le Métro after all those second-rates Malle films
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New announcements! #432 - MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (no cover art yet) - DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES - New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Paul Schrader and cinematographer John Bailey - New audio commentary featuring Schrader and producer Alan Poul - The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima, a 55-minute BBC documentary about the author - New interviews with Donald Richie and John Nathan, collaborators and friends of Yukio Mishima - New interviews with Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka - A new audio interview with coscreenwriter Chieko Schrader - A video interview excerpt featuring Mishima talking about writing - Theatrical trailer - New and improved English subtitle translation - PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Kevin Jackson and a piece on the film’s censorship in Japan I'm not QUITE as fond of this movie as I used to be, but it's still a must-buy. Nice juicy extras. #433: PATRIOTISM  - New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the Japanese and English versions, with optional Japanese or English intertitles - A 45-minute audio recording of Yukio Mishima speaking to the Foreign Correspondents' Association of Japan - A 45-minute making-of documentary, featuring crew from the film's production - Interview excerpts featuring Mishima discussing war and death - New and improved English subtitle translation - PLUS: A new essay by renowned critic and historian Tony Rayns, Mishima's original short story, and Mishima's extensive notes on the film's production Heh, two supplements that are longer than the movie. Rental with a possible buy. #434: CLASSES TOUS RISQUES  - New, restored high-definition digital transfer - Excerpts from Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible, a documentary on the director by writers N. T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin - Archival interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career - Original French and U.S. release trailers - New and improved English subtitle translation - PLUS: New essays by director Bertrand Tavernier and critic N. T. Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville I don't know anything about this one. Sounds okay. #435: THE FURIES  - New, restored high-definition digital transfer - Audio commentary featuring film historian Jim Kitses (Horizons West) - A rare, 1931 on-camera interview with Walter Huston, made for the movie theater series Intimate Interviews - New video interview with Nina Mann, daughter of director Anthony Mann - Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes photos - Theatrical trailer - PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Robin Wood ans a 1957 Cahiers du cinéma interview with Mann, as well as a new printing of Niven Busch's original novel - More! I have yet to see an Anthony Mann western, but I keep hearing how great they are. #436: BEFORE THE RAIN  - DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Milcho Manchevski - Audio commentary featuring Manchevski and film scholar Annette Insdorf - New video interview with actor Rade Šerbedžija - Manchevski's award-winning music video of Arrested Development's "Tennessee" - Stills galleries of Manchevski's photographs and on-set shots - Theatrical trailer - New and improved English subtitle translation - PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ian Christie I'm very interested in this one. I love Insdorf's commentaries, too. No sign of a new Eclipse series yet.
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FitFortDanga posted:New announcements! Holy poo poo that is a badass cover. It's strange how much a Criterion cover can convince me to check out a movie.
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FitFortDanga posted:#435: THE FURIES Haven't seen it, but it sounds fantastic. And it comes with a book? Sweet.
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Jack Does Jihad posted:Holy poo poo that is a badass cover. I agree. I have never heard of the movie before, but drat, that cover makes me want to check it out.
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FitFortDanga posted:#432 - MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS What are the odds that this will have the Roy Scheider narration? (Also, any idea why that was replaced in the first place?)
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FitFortDanga posted:#434: CLASSES TOUS RISQUES This is a pretty solid French crime/gangster film - not so much New Wave, feels more like Rififi or Melville's stuff. I may look into this one.
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Has anyone here actually used DVD Planet? I noticed almost all their 2-disc sets were 5 bucks cheaper than Deep Discounts. I've heard DVD Planet has lovely customer service so I was kinda hesitant to order from them.
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Jack Does Jihad posted:Has anyone here actually used DVD Planet? I noticed almost all their 2-disc sets were 5 bucks cheaper than Deep Discounts. I've heard DVD Planet has lovely customer service so I was kinda hesitant to order from them. I used them once and had no problems, but that was probably 2-3 years ago.
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Jack Does Jihad posted:Has anyone here actually used DVD Planet? I noticed almost all their 2-disc sets were 5 bucks cheaper than Deep Discounts. I've heard DVD Planet has lovely customer service so I was kinda hesitant to order from them. I have and haven't had a problem. They ship from the same warehouse as Deepdiscount and I think are owned by the same parent company.
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Every time I've used DVD Planet, they've been great.
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Jack Does Jihad posted:Has anyone here actually used DVD Planet? I noticed almost all their 2-disc sets were 5 bucks cheaper than Deep Discounts. I've heard DVD Planet has lovely customer service so I was kinda hesitant to order from them. I've used 'em twice during the big sales, and sure the turnaround time isn't the greatest but the prices are worth it. I just wouldn't splurge on the cheapest shipping, I didn't really notice any difference between it and the free stuff.
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I'm pretty sure DVDPlanet is the same company as Deep Discount to tell you the truth, their invoices are exactly the same. DVDPlanet is best for Criterion
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