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The Golden Age of Television box is great and makes me sad live TV drama faded and died so quickly and hasn't really come back. They're 60-year old kinescopes that feel as immediate and unique as breaking news.
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The Time Dissolver posted:The Golden Age of Television box is great and makes me sad live TV drama faded and died so quickly and hasn't really come back. They're 60-year old kinescopes that feel as immediate and unique as breaking news. 50s television in general is incredible. Shout! Factory released a few sets with all of Ernie Kovacs' surviving shows and specials. He was doing all this crazy experimental stuff on national TV while film-based artists were still on the fringe.
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Davros1 posted:Do they ever do TV shows? I'd love for the BBC versions of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People get their treatment. Especially Smiley's People, since the DVD is horrendous. A couple of the Ingmar Bergman releases they have are miniseries
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Davros1 posted:Do they ever do TV shows? I'd love for the BBC versions of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People get their treatment. Especially Smiley's People, since the DVD is horrendous. Dekalog
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Nov 17, 2017 06:37
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World on a Wire was a two-part TV movie so that kinda counts
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bobkatt013 posted:Dekalog Are you able to turn subtitles off? I was thinking of getting my parents that for Christmas.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Are you able to turn subtitles off? I was thinking of getting my parents that for Christmas. They’re Polish? Subtitles are always removable on Criterion’s releases unless it’s burnt in on the film source like Mysterious Object at Noon.
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Nov 17, 2017 12:30
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Egbert Souse posted:They’re Polish? Yeah. They both left Poland a year or two before it was made. And with the current B&N sale, it might be a good Christmas gift.
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Nov 17, 2017 12:55
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Just wanted to say that the two episodes of The Dick Cavett Show with Katharine Hepburn included on The Philadelphia Story are among the best extras they've included on a release. Hepburn is electrifying in the interview.
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I hope they do the same if they ever release Husbands.
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Nov 27, 2017 06:20
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Dick Cavett does some great interviews, and he's probably talked to enough people that a fourth of the releases could have it as a supplement. I like the one where Groucho Marx and Truman Capote dont get along.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I hope they do the same if they ever release Husbands. They'll probably get Husbands since it's a Sony title. Probably just waiting for them to complete a 4K master. At this point, Criterion seems to be able to get any title they want as long as it's not already with another label. On the CF.org, someone noted that Warner's current editions of A Clockwork Orange and Excalibur just went OOP.
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In case nobody here has seen it, the Cavett Show episode where Cassavetes, Falk, and Gazzara promote Husbands is basically its own Cassavetes film. They show up drunk, stumble around, babble incoherently, and annoy Cavett so much that at one point he leaves the set. It's on Dailymotion and it's nearly impossible to watch all the way through.
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Nov 28, 2017 02:42
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Egbert Souse posted:A Clockwork Orange and Excalibur just went OOP. 
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honestly criterion's recent focus on more mainstream hollywood stuff is kinda disappointing
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Nov 28, 2017 02:53
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As long as those sales can subsidize those curios and obscurities that come around every few months, I'm ferr it
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Parallax posted:honestly criterion's recent focus on more mainstream hollywood stuff is kinda disappointing You say that like I didn’t just buy Stalker a couple months ago
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Parallax posted:honestly criterion's recent focus on more mainstream hollywood stuff is kinda disappointing They seem to mix it up really well. Though, one value of Criterion getting high-profile films like Dr. Strangelove and The Silence of the Lambs is the presentation. Classy packaging, booklets, and no-nonsense discs. You put a disc in the player and it goes straight to the main menu where one press of "play" goes right into the movie. That's half their value. Not having bullshit like forced trailers, FBI warnings, lovely menu systems, and garbage quality packaging.
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Nov 28, 2017 03:50
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Who's going to say no to more Kubrick in the collection anyway?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Who's going to say no to more Kubrick in the collection anyway?
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:You say that like I didn’t just buy Stalker a couple months ago Don’t forget that we have unofficial confirmation of things like True Stories, Dersu Uzala and Napoleon.
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I really don't care about packaging or books or nice menus and I know they still put out a lot of non-American studio stuff, I just feel like the ratio has shifted as time has gone along. There's other imprints like Arrow which have picked up some of that lapse, but there's still a ton of lesser known poo poo I'm more interested in being readily available than another Kubrick release
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I think part of it comes from popularity - the wider an audience, the less niche releases can be to be feasible - but Arrow isn't really picking up any slack that Criterion is possibly letting off when they're releasing stuff like Basket Case.
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Their 2017 output is pretty impressive in terms of variety not even including Blu upgrades. His Girl Friday Something Wild (1961) Fox and His Friends Black Girl Cameraperson The Tree of Wooden Clogs Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Mildred Pierce The Before Trilogy 45 Years Canoa Multiple Maniacs Being There Blow-Up Buena Vista Social Club Woman of the Year Tampopo Rumble Fish Dheepan Ghost World World Cinema Project, Vol. 2 They Live By Night The Marseille Trilogy The Lodger L'argent Stalker Lost in America The Breaking Point Meantime La poison Festival Certain Women The Piano Teacher David Lynch: The Art Life Othello The Lure Barry Lyndon Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Personal Shopper The Philadelphia Story Jabberwocky Desert Hearts Election 100 Years of Olympic Films Plus reissues for Good Morning, Rebecca, Sid & Nancy, Straw Dogs, Jeanne Dielman, Ugetsu, Rossellini's War Trilogy, Hopscotch, Vampyr, Le Samourai, and General Idi Amin Dada.
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I, Butthole posted:Arrow isn't really picking up any slack that Criterion is possibly letting off when they're releasing stuff like Basket Case. Arrow Academy is absolutely playing in Criterion's ballpark though, and their releases are frequently phenomenal.
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Masters of Cinema have some real good stuff over in the UK too. Lots of high quality stuff that should be right up Criterion's alley usually at a decent price and sometimes region free.
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Egbert Souse posted:Warner's current editions of A Clockwork Orange Yes please. It could really need the kind of treatment that Barry Lyndon got. I watched ACO not long ago and it barely looks better than a DVD.
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Nov 28, 2017 07:59
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sethsez posted:Arrow Academy is absolutely playing in Criterion's ballpark though, and their releases are frequently phenomenal. It looks like there's a lot of cross pollination with titles though - are they the same masters/features? And I'm never going to not ask for more Kubrick to be given the Criterion go-over.
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I, Butthole posted:It looks like there's a lot of cross pollination with titles though - are they the same masters/features? I think they usually each have exclusive features. The masters/transfers vary too. Generally, especially the last couple of years, Arrow's BDs have better compression. An interesting recent example of different transfers is Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs. Criterion used the master supplied by Ritrovata which, unsurprisingly, doesn't look very good. It has the typical Ritrovata look of low contrast and wonky colours (the most infamous is their horribly yellow The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). Arrow were unhappy with the result (just like they were with Ritrovata's work on Deep Red) and did their own colour correction after watching a 35mm vintage print and consulting with Olmi. (To be fair, Criterion also claims that their edition is approved by Olmi.) The differences are massive, and, I think, all in Arrow's favour. Lots of caps: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/123879/picture:2 http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/123878/picture:2 http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/123877/picture:3
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Eyes Wide Shut would be one of the best releases from Criterion ever. I bet it would also be one of their best-selling.
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I hope on one if the Kubricks they put Stanley Kubrick's Boxes which is basically an episode of hoarders about a severely ocd person
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Criterion is taking questions for Jim Jarmusch through the 8th of December. They've confirmed a release of Dead Man for 2018.
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Cloks posted:Criterion is taking questions for Jim Jarmusch through the 8th of December. They've confirmed a release of Dead Man for 2018. If I didnt care for Down by Law would I like Dead Man?
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Hector Beerlioz posted:If I didnt care for Down by Law would I like Dead Man? Probably not. But more importantly you should see a therapist.
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Steen71 posted:Probably not. But more importantly you should see a therapist. My therapist is Michael Cain from Dressed to Kill
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Cloks posted:Criterion is taking questions for Jim Jarmusch through the 8th of December. They've confirmed a release of Dead Man for 2018. Called it! Sorta!
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One last haul: All That Jazz, Videodrome, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Hector Beerlioz posted:If I didnt care for Down by Law would I like Dead Man? I haven't seen Down by Law, but I'm not usually a Jarmusch guy and Dead Man loving rules.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:My therapist is Michael Cain from Dressed to Kill Oooh. Please never watch the last half hour of that movie.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:If I didnt care for Down by Law would I like Dead Man? I like both but they're very different movies. Dead Man is Jarmusch's best, IMO. The bigger question is if you like Westerns.
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