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lol I went through the exact same journey reading this.
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The Criterion Channel is going to start doing live special screenings, and oh boy does this suck
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Gripweed posted:The Criterion Channel is going to start doing live special screenings, and oh boy does this suck holy lmao
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May 24, 2021 08:19
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I watched Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan the other night and couldn't believe this movie was made in 1959. I really wish it were available on BD.
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Gripweed posted:The Criterion Channel is going to start doing live special screenings, and oh boy does this suck I can't wait for Chris Cuomo to do Broadcast News.
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May 24, 2021 22:59
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about to sign up for the criterion channel 14 day trial anybody got any sweet promo codes?
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With the news of Amazon buying MGM, is anyone else concerned about the future of Criterion's MGM-licensed titles? I might use the next B&N sale to grab some of the MGM titles I don't have yet. Just in case.
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May 26, 2021 20:22
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I’d see those movies probably disappearing off the Channel when the time is up, although the question is how many MGM titles are there on Criterion that aren’t part of the catalog that Turner bought and ergo are out of Jeff Bezos’s hands
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Good possibility Amazon buying MGM doesn’t change much for licensing. Universal has been licensing stuff for the Channel despite Peacock, Disney just started licensing Fox titles despite Disney+ and Hulu, and even Warner has the thing with HBO Max where Janus stuff shows up there and Warner stuff shows up on the channel. Amazon having their properties on both Prime and Criterion Channel mean more market share for them. Not to mention physical media. One never knows, but remember that Comcast buying Universal resulting in them spending a million dollars to restore weird poo poo like King of Jazz or letting Kino Lorber do a UHD of Touch of Evil.
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May 27, 2021 00:55
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Yeah the companies aren't yet in a mentality of "EVERYTHING is exclusive to our service", even when Disney+ started they were licensing some of the earlier Marvel films to Amazon Prime, including The Avengers. They have some things exclusive but will license other stuff.
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am i right that amazon only bought the catalogue from 1986 (or thereabouts) and on? the rest of the catalogue was sold off ages ago iirc
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fun hater posted:am i right that amazon only bought the catalogue from 1986 (or thereabouts) and on? the rest of the catalogue was sold off ages ago iirc The official announcement mentioned a film catalog of 4000 titles, and name dropped several produced well before the 80's.
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Origami Dali posted:The official announcement mentioned a film catalog of 4000 titles, and name dropped several produced well before the 80's. i had to go back and look, if this new york times article is right, i think we're both right, they just sold the scrap to warner: quote:The e-commerce giant said on Wednesday that it would acquire the 97-year-old film and television studio for $8.45 billion — or about 40 percent more than other prospective buyers, including Apple and Comcast, thought MGM was worth. The studio, which had been shopped around for months, was once home to “more stars than the heavens,” as Louis B. Mayer liked to brag. But its vast production lot and pre-1986 film library were sold off decades ago. (Sony Pictures now occupies the lot, and Warner Bros. owns classic MGM films like “Singin’ in the Rain,” “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone With the Wind.”) quote:Although its library is diminished, MGM still owns 4,000 older movies, including pre-1986 films that come from two MGM divisions, United Artists and Orion. Those movies include “Rocky,” “RoboCop,” “The Pink Panther,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and the James Bond catalog. Other titles include “Legally Blonde,” “Moonstruck,” “Basic Instinct,” “The Thomas Crown Affair” and “Tomb Raider.” (Fun fact: In true Hollywood fashion, MGM’s roaring lion mascot is lip-syncing; a cranky tiger sounded more ferocious.)
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quote:United Artists This infamously includes The Alamo (1960), which MGM has repeatedly prevented 70mm restorations of, and may be in unrestorable condition at this point. All modern home video releases are from 35mm.
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Does the US edition of World of Wong Kar-wai also have this bizarre thing going on where every page of the included book is also a sleeve, even the ones without art cards in? Never seen anything like it before. It’s funny that they also have art on the inside that you can barely see
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Escobarbarian posted:Does the US edition of World of Wong Kar-wai also have this bizarre thing going on where every page of the included book is also a sleeve, even the ones without art cards in? Never seen anything like it before. It’s funny that they also have art on the inside that you can barely see Yes.
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I hope the Netflix deal means army of the dead gets added to the collection
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Escobarbarian posted:Does the US edition of World of Wong Kar-wai also have this bizarre thing going on where every page of the included book is also a sleeve, even the ones without art cards in? Never seen anything like it before. It’s funny that they also have art on the inside that you can barely see That's a french fold.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:That's a french fold. Like how I made birthday cards as a kid? It looks really cool, I’ve just never seen it in a book like that before
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Here's an unsolicited recommendation of Funeral Parade of Roses on the channel
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Ingmar terdman posted:Here's an unsolicited recommendation of Funeral Parade of Roses on the channel I will second that recommendation.
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Ingmar terdman posted:Here's an unsolicited recommendation of Funeral Parade of Roses on the channel Arbelos has a very nice release of this on blu-ray: https://shoparbelosfilms.com/collections/blu-ray/products/funeral-parade-of-roses-blu-ray
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Really great video from an unlikely source: https://youtu.be/iTBW6jbHgX0
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pospysyl posted:Really great video from an unlikely source: https://youtu.be/iTBW6jbHgX0 I appreciate his more serious film and game crit, it's good
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What are the major gems leaving Criterion Channel this month? I've seen: The Thing The Crazies Experiment in Terror Hard Eight Season of the Witch Hills Have Eyes Duck Soup Driller Killer McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Marx Bros stuff. Images To Sleep With Anger Days of Heaven
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I liked Babylon a lot
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Franchescanado posted:What are the major gems leaving Criterion Channel this month? Is this because of the Amazon deal, or just a normal occurrence?
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It’s completely normal. There’s a category on the site that shows what’s leaving every month.
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Franchescanado posted:What are the major gems leaving Criterion Channel this month? McCabe & Mrs. Miller is probably a top 10 Western of all-time, so don't miss out on that one unless you just don't like Westerns.
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Ok Comboomer posted:Is this because of the Amazon deal, or just a normal occurrence? Amazon’s purchase of MGM is only affecting these films… United Artists (1952-ish to present, though there’s a handful of pre-50s titles that didn’t revert to producers) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (late May 1986 starting with Poltergeist II to present) Orion Pictures (except for the early 1979-1981ish Warner coproductions) American International (late-50s through early 80s) Cannon (except for Warner coproductions like Cobra) US rights to Embassy/Nelson (StudioCanal owns non-NA rights - films like The Graduate and This is Spinal Tap) Lots of smaller libraries like Filmways, Gladden/Sherwood, Empire, Atlantic, The Samuel Goldwyn Company (not the pre-1960s films), Sigma III, etc.
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Franchescanado posted:What are the major gems leaving Criterion Channel this month? Gilda Babylon Force of Evil Caught Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Awaara House of Games
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Very excited to stream the American International library on Amazon.
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September titles https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1404909682309935111 Love & Basketball Throw Down Mona Lisa The Damned
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Chris James 2 posted:September titles Melvin Van Peebles set looks real dope
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Really excited for Mona Lisa. I saw it on the channel last year and loved it
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Oh, hell yeah, The Damned really deserved a high-quality transfer.
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How's Throw Down? I grew up on Heroic Trio and Executioners because they aired on USA or TBS or whatever when I was a kid.
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Dangerous Person posted:Really excited for Mona Lisa. I saw it on the channel last year and loved it I remember catching it on either FilmStruck for the time that was alive or way back when it might have been on Netflix It’s so drat good, Hoskins totally deserved the Oscar nom he got for it, kind of was a two man race with him and Newman for Color of Money and either was a good win
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Mona Lisa indeed slaps. What’s the Damned about? I love the cover.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:What’s the Damned about? I love the cover. A rich family in early-30s Germany does business with the Nazis to maintain their status, and the family self-destructs
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