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#178 - MY LIFE AS A DOG (Blu-Ray, 9/13) (same features as DVD) #230 - 3 WOMEN (Blu-Ray, 9/13)  (same features as DVD) #579 - THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Blu-Ray/DVD, 9/27)  * New digital transfer, restored in collaboration with the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute * Two scores, one by acclaimed Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL * Audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg * Interview with Ingmar Bergman excerpted from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait, by Gösta Werner * The Bergman Connection, an original visual essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on The Phantom Carriage’s influence on Bergman * New and improved English subtitle translation * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg * More! #580 - LE BEAU SERGE (Blu-Ray/DVD, 9/20)  * New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * New audio commentary featuring Guy Austin, author of Claude Chabrol * Segment from a 1969 episode of the French television series L’invité du dimanche in which Chabrol revisits Sardent, the town he grew up in and the film’s location * A 2011 documentary by filmmaker Pierre-Henri Gibert on the making of Le beau Serge * New and improved English subtitle translation * Theatrical trailer * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty * More! #581 - LES COUSINS (Blu-Ray/DVD, 9/20)  * New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin * A 2011 documentary by filmmaker Pierre-Henri Gibert about the making of Les cousins, featuring director Claude Chabrol, star Stéphane Audran, assistant directors Charles Bitsch and Claude de Givray, and others * New and improved English subtitle translation * Theatrical trailer * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty #582 - CARLOS (2-disc Blu-Ray/4-disc DVD, 9/27)  * New digital transfer, supervised and approved by directors of photography Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition * New video interviews with director Olivier Assayas, Lenoir, Le Saux, and actor Édgar Ramírez * Twenty-minute making-of documentary on the film’s OPEC raid scene * Original theatrical trailer * PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Colin MacCabe and Greil Marcus, plus biographies on selected historical figures portrayed in the film, written by the film’s historical adviser, Stephen Smith * Much more!
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My take: My Life As a Dog - I haven't seen this since high school, this might be a good opportunity to check it out again. Except Netflix won't have it. Sigh. 3 Women - One of my favorite Altmans, not sure I like it enough to buy, though. Le Beau Serge/Les Cousins - I've been wanting to see more Chabrol, but the little I've seen has been underwhelming. The Phantom Carriage - Must-buy, but I'm really hoping that "More" means they might add Bergman's The Image Makers. It's one of his best teleplays, and the absence of it would be a huge missed opportunity. Carlos - Heard nothing but good things, definite rental at least
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Jun 15, 2011 19:56
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Man, they must really be digging the triangular cover art lately.
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Jun 15, 2011 20:35
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Oh god The Phantom Carriage. Looks like it's time to buy a blu-ray player.
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Aorist posted:Man, they must really be digging the triangular cover art lately. They just think it's acute.
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Jun 15, 2011 21:28
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Sheldrake posted:They just think it's acute. Yeah I think you might be right.
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Jun 15, 2011 21:49
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Your cute little game is far from obtuse.
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Jun 15, 2011 22:03
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I hate you all equilaterally.
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Jun 15, 2011 23:55
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Isosceles... gently caress.
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This thread has gone off on an amusing tangent.
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I like squares.
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Jun 16, 2011 02:39
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I like squares. The right angles rule.
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But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at Euclid.
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Seriously, why are regular polygons even in the Collection?
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Jun 16, 2011 04:42
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I've wanted to see The Phantom Chariot for a while. The only Sjostrom film I've seen is He Who Gets Slapped. Great to see more silents on Blu... I'm guessing the two Chabrols signal that they're not doing any more DVD-only releases outside Eclipse.
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Egbert Souse posted:I'm guessing the two Chabrols signal that they're not doing any more DVD-only releases outside Eclipse. Anyway, The Phantom Carriage is great and I'm glad it'll be getting more exposure.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:I thought this has been obvious for a while. Why would the two Chabrols be what tips you off? If you wanted to point to a single release that signaled this a much better example would be the extraless The Makioka Sisters. Yeah, that's an indicator. I really wish they'd have two main price tiers like they used to have for DVDs. $30 MSRP for bare-bones or trailer-only, $40 for releases with more supplemental content. Or put out a double feature like BFI does.
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Egbert Souse posted:Yeah, that's an indicator. I really wish they'd have two main price tiers like they used to have for DVDs. $30 MSRP for bare-bones or trailer-only, $40 for releases with more supplemental content. Or put out a double feature like BFI does. Well Blow Out has Murder a la Mode and The Killing will have Killer's Kiss, so they are doing double features in the BFI style here and there.
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Origami Dali posted:Just an early heads up. B&N Criterion 50% off sale will be back on starting July 12th. Commence weeping over your soon-to-be-empty bank accounts. Why will Secret Sunshine not be out until this finishes nyaaaaaargh Maybe I'll pick up something low-key. Baby's First Criterion. (I say that every year. It's depressing.)
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I'm thinking of blind-buying Secret Sunshine in the future. Is it worth it? I've seen Poetry and I really, really enjoyed that.
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Friedpundit posted:I'm thinking of blind-buying Secret Sunshine in the future. Is it worth it? I've seen Poetry and I really, really enjoyed that. It's my favourite of three Lee films I've seen. Jeon Do-yeon gives probably the best female performance of the last ten years in it and it's immensely heartbreaking and captivating and the cinematography is second-to-none. Definitely worth a blind buy if you so much as watched five seconds of Poetry and thought "this might be decent".
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Pigeon Shamus posted:Jeon Do-yeon gives probably the best female performance of the last ten years in it Mulholland Drive still falls within ten years so this obviously can't be true. 
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Criminal Minded posted:Mulholland Drive still falls within ten years so this obviously can't be true. I see what you are saying and I can only say that you are tragically, tragically wrong, sir.
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edit: wrong thread
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My Blu copy of Insignificance is actually Blow Out, on disc. :O That's quite a printing error. Rob at Criterion is replacing it for free thankfully. I wonder how many others have had this problem. Edit: kaujot, I didn't realize that in addition to living a street over from me, you are also a Criterion fan. We must trade films sometime! got dat wmd fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Jun 19, 2011 01:15
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Has anyone bought and watched the blu of Solaris yet?
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Yes and it's certainly worth buying, especially for the essays.
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Sounds interesting. I wish Criterion would release more by Andrei Tarkovsky. The other two titles currently in the catalog are in my opinion not as interesting as his other films. I'd love to see a Stalker or Nostalghia on Blu-ray. Especially Stalker since it's cinematography is unmatched. I send Criterion an email regarding this about a year ago, and they replied that they wouldn't release more Tarkovsky films for the near future.
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They've been working on an HD upgrade for Andrei Rublev for years now. It's only a matter of time.
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kaujot posted:They've been working on an HD upgrade for Andrei Rublev for years now. It's only a matter of time. Oh my god I'd forgotten about that. I'm so excited.
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September 27 is going to be expensive for me. The worst/best part about Criterion announcing movies (especially on Blu) that I really want is that I get all excited and can't wait for the release date and end up buying something else in the meantime. Not exactly the worst kind of problem to have though.
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Saw House the other night. Oh boy, what a trip, I'm going to have to watch it again.
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So, Criterion posted this pic on Facebook with the caption "Hard at work on our 2012 release schedule... It's going to be a great year!" Needless to say, the cf.org guys have been poring over it with magnifying glasses and Blade Runner "zoom-enhance" kinda poo poo or whatever. This is some of the stuff they've come up with. Take all of this with a massive grain of salt: Qatsi trilogy My Dinner With Andre War Room Odd Man Out Autumn Sonata Life of Oharu Canterbury Tales Gorin Paris nous appartient Satyricon La Promesse Decameron Lonesome (Ride Lonesome?) Ministry of Fear Spartacus Heaven's Gate Sunday Bloody Sunday The Bridge Mailer/Mahler L'Argent The Soft Skin Summer With Monika Night to Remember Dr. Seuss Trial of Joan of Arc La Haine Vagabond La Regle de jeu Satyajit Ray Apu Obviously some of these are Blu-Ray upgrades, some are already known, some would be nice additions. I'll wait for official announcements (or at least newsletter clues) before I start getting excited about any of them though.
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I misread "Decameron" as "Decalogue" and became irrationally excited. Oh well. New Bresson and Ray is cause for celebration enough.
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FitFortDanga posted:Mailer/Mahler I'd be so into an Eclipse set of Norman Mailer's movie.
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They are so bad, though. 
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I'm okay with Maidstone.
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If Fanny and Alexander on blu-ray doesn't happen in 2012...
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I am right there with you. The delay is killing me.
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FitFortDanga posted:--- This means they'll be releasing the entire Apu trilogy?
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