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CinnamonToastFunk posted:Is the Martha Graham set worth getting? Not unless you're big into dance, no.
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FitFortDanga posted:I had a hell of a time deciding where to put the MGM box. My shelving situation is kind of hosed up, so right now it's currently sandwiched between Magic Flute and Autumn Sonata because that's where it fit the best. But now I think I'll move it to the end like you did. Haha yeah, I debate the Saraband spot in my head as well. In the end, I like it better coupled with Scenes... more than hanging out with Faithless at the end of the MGM box. I actually haven't watched Faithless yet; I think I'm going to do a Bergman marathon in a month or so and plow through everything chronologically and end with that. I seem to recall getting the disc for like $8 or something in a sale, so I figured it I might as well pick it up. Also, I really don't see the point in spine-number order. If I had nearly every single release I would consider it, but otherwise, who cares what order they came out in? In my head it's more logical to scan by director. That said, excluding Early Bergman I do the Eclipse sets on another shelf by the series number.
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zeroordie posted:Also, I really don't see the point in spine-number order. If I had nearly every single release I would consider it, but otherwise, who cares what order they came out in? In my head it's more logical to scan by director. That said, excluding Early Bergman I do the Eclipse sets on another shelf by the series number. Oh god, I think I've just completely internalized the spine numbers. Regardless, I would think about doing that way, too, but there'd be too many directors I'd only have one movie for, and it would feel weird.
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Sheldrake posted:Regardless, I would think about doing that way, too, but there'd be too many directors I'd only have one movie for, and it would feel weird. I tried sorting by director once and I agree, it was really weird having single movies sitting in seemingly out of place spots. The biggest reason I switched back was because the first director that came up alphabetically in my collection was Ben Affleck 
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Has the whole world gone mad? Am I the only person who just organizes alphabetically anymore?
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Criminal Minded posted:Has the whole world gone mad? Am I the only person who just organizes alphabetically anymore? I organize everything else alphabetically, but for Criterion it just feels more appropriate to go by director.
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Criminal Minded posted:Has the whole world gone mad? Am I the only person who just organizes alphabetically anymore? I organize Criterions by spine number and everything else alphabetically. It would drive me crazy not seeing those numbers increase in a progressive order.
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Cacator posted:I organize Criterions by spine number and everything else alphabetically. It would drive me crazy not seeing those numbers increase in a progressive order. Exact same way I do it.
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Aug 11, 2009 02:11
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Ingmar Bergman (in chronological order) Alfred Hitchcock (in chronological order) Akira Kurosawa (in chronological order) Satyajit Ray (in chronological order) all other movies (in alpha order) stand-up comedy TV series (in alpha order) Blu-Ray discs (in alpha order)
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I kind of organize my books and CDs like that: alphabetically by author/musician, then chronologically for an author/musician's body of work. I wish that method looked good with my DVDs...
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Am I the only one who just puts movies on a shelf in no particular order? I'd have to shift my entire collection every time I got a new movie if I kept them organized because I have no room on the individual shelves to put an extra movie, and that'd be really annoying. I try to keep the criterions together, but that's about it.
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I used to keep everything chronological... one shelf for pre-1930, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, etc. with box sets, collections, compilations, and other oddball stuff given their own sections. It works for me since alphabetical puts Manos: The Hands of Fate between Manhunter and Mary Poppins... and no one else I know is going to give a poo poo about spine numbers. Even one friend who's a fan of Criterion DVDs didn't notice they were numbered until after accumulating a lot. Chronological looks awesome to me since it looks a bit more respectable and feels more scholarly. Separating BluRays becomes ostentatious. Although, I might change my mind only on the Criterions after buying so freaking many of their DVDs and BluRays after the B&N and Amazon sales. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Aug 11, 2009 |
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Bande apartheid posted:Am I the only one who just puts movies on a shelf in no particular order? I'd have to shift my entire collection every time I got a new movie if I kept them organized because I have no room on the individual shelves to put an extra movie, and that'd be really annoying. I try to keep the criterions together, but that's about it. My DVDs only occupy eight shelves (not counting boxsets) - four on a big bookcase, four on a much smaller one. So it's not a big deal to shift it over when I get a new DVD which isn't that often anyway these days since I'm using Netflix a lot. My box sets aren't in any particular order FitFortDanga posted:Ingmar Bergman (in chronological order) I would do something like this, but I don't have many directors I own a bunch of films by. Scorsese I own a bunch by, ditto Bergman but a lot of the Bergmans are in box sets so it'd be pretty scrimpy. Other than that, I don't own more than probably 10 films by any other director. I've seen a bunch of Woody Allen but I own less than half of them, because I still live at home and my dad owns just about every Woody movie.
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Egbert Souse posted:It works for me since alphabetical puts Manos: The Hands of Fate between Manhunter and Mary Poppins... Those awkward combinations are my favorite part about alphabetizing. I have Knocked Up next to Koyaanisqatsi and I used to have Munich next to My Neighbor Totoro. My favorite is still Hotel Rwanda/Hot Fuzz/Hot Rod
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Egbert Souse posted:Separating BluRays becomes ostentatious. I put my Blu-Rays on the bottom because the bottom shelf isn't tall enough for regular DVDs. I really need a new shelving unit.
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Friedpundit posted:Those awkward combinations are my favorite part about alphabetizing. I have Knocked Up next to Koyaanisqatsi and I used to have Munich next to My Neighbor Totoro. My favorite is still Hotel Rwanda/Hot Fuzz/Hot Rod Solaris -> Some Like It Hot -> Space Jam
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Doing it in alphabetical order would be a pain in my opinion, whenever you get a new movie the whole collection shifts all over the place. I have the movies grouped into basic categories, and then usually have them grouped by director within those categories. It's broken down into "Family Films", "Comedies", "Drama", "Action", "Comic Movies", "Animated", "Classic Japanese", "Classic American", "Chinese/Hong Kong", "Korean", "Japanese", "Thai", and my wife's "Chick Flix" movies. Lastly I have my TV DVDs in a separate section all together.
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Used to be alphabetical and I'm a poster child for having so many it becomes impossible to keep them that way. There's still a general alphabetical listing, but generally it's the most recent purchase going at easy reach. I do still seperate TV shows, though that's pretty small collection.
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I got my Raymond Bernard Eclipse from B&N today, but the Les Miserables case is all cracked. Can I get a replacement case from Criterion or do I need to send the whole thing back to B&N?
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Egbert Souse posted:I got my Raymond Bernard Eclipse from B&N today, but the Les Miserables case is all cracked. Can I get a replacement case from Criterion or do I need to send the whole thing back to B&N? I'm pretty sure you can contact Criterion directly about stuff like that.
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zandert33 posted:Doing it in alphabetical order would be a pain in my opinion, whenever you get a new movie the whole collection shifts all over the place. I must be confused anyway because no matter how you organize them, aren't you going to have to shift the entire collection? Even if my collection is organized Scorsese-Kurosawa-Tarantino-Cassavetes-whatever, if I all of the sudden buy a new Cassavetes movie on DVD, everything shifts!
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Criminal Minded posted:I must be confused anyway because no matter how you organize them, aren't you going to have to shift the entire collection? Even if my collection is organized Scorsese-Kurosawa-Tarantino-Cassavetes-whatever, if I all of the sudden buy a new Cassavetes movie on DVD, everything shifts! True, but then again my "classic Japanese" section, for example, has some extra space for future DVDs. I guess you could leave extra space per shelf doing it alphabetically though.
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Chronological order, by purchase date. That's the system the film archive I moonlight at uses, and it's impressive as hell when you can retrieve a disc on request, having only memorized where anything/everything is by context-memory and general release date.
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I have a question: has anyone here seen the Criterion’s transfer of The Blob? As someone who proudly owns a Criterion Collection version of Equinox, it seems like something that would be fun to own. However, DVDBeaver doesn’t seem to have any info on it so I don’t know much about the transfer.
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Macrame_God posted:I have a question: has anyone here seen the Criterion’s transfer of The Blob? As someone who proudly owns a Criterion Collection version of Equinox, it seems like something that would be fun to own. However, DVDBeaver doesn’t seem to have any info on it so I don’t know much about the transfer. http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews11/the_blob_.htm
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Looks good, apparently. I love that technicolor 50's stock. Everything looks like it's made out of candy.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Looks good, apparently. Son of a bitch! I searched for "Blob" on their site and nothing ever came up. What the hell?  Thanks anyway. I appreciate the help.
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What the heck. I've been on Criterion's site a billion times and was never before aware that they released the motherfucking Blob.
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Criminal Minded posted:What the heck. I've been on Criterion's site a billion times and was never before aware that they released the motherfucking Blob. Yeah, it's one of the many oddities of their library and I've never seen it available in any store I've been in. My local Barnes and Noble will sell Salo, but God forbid that The Blob would be available for purchase. Regardless, it's been in the Criterion for a while and it's never gone out of print.
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penismightier posted:I love that technicolor 50's stock. Everything looks like it's made out of candy. Anyway, the Criterion DVD does look (and sound) great.
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3-Strip Technicolor ended around 1954-1955 while the industry switched to Eastmancolor negative by mid-decade. This is mainly because they were able to print in the Technicolor dye-transfer process from Eastmancolor negative. Not quite the same since the earlier films using the stocks were a bit grainier and had some minor issues. If you see the Rear Window restoration, you'd notice it's slightly grainy despite most of it being sourced from the negative. Robert Harris put up a full list of American/British 3-strip films on his column at The Digital Bits: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/robertharris/harris072303.html (I think it's fairly complete, but I recall a few more films from 1953-1955 Dye-transfer printing continued through the mid-1970s, though. Suspiria and the original 1995 prints of Toy Story were dye-transfer and a lot of 1998-2002 films used Technicolor's revival of the process (most notably Pearl Harbor and Bulworth, and Apocalypse Now Redux). Disney was the main exception as they continued to shoot all their animated features in 3-strip through the 1980s (the last being The Little Mermaid).
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Thought I'd share this link for any fellow Chicagoons on the thread. If you don't know of it, there's a great little chain of stores called Reckless Records thats sells used Criterions. http://www.reckless.com/index.php?p...rue&srch=Search
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Friedpundit posted:Thought I'd share this link for any fellow Chicagoons on the thread. If you don't know of it, there's a great little chain of stores called Reckless Records thats sells used Criterions. I miss Reckless. When I was way into collecting music, I spent a shitload of money and time in there.
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That's me right now. Back at home this week, I found a fair sum of leftover spending money from high school and about 20 DVDs I didn't want. I'll be there for hours when I'm back in Chicago next week. Vinyl records and Criterions ahoy 
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Possible new announcements today (could be tomrorow or Monday though). Among the titles that are known to be in the pipeline: Rossellini war trilogy Cronos Che The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover Gimme Shelter BR Picnic at Hanging Rock BR Walkabout BR Kwaidan BR Down By Law BR Au Revoir Les Enfants BR something by Ford? Revanche by Brakhage 2 A Brighter Summer Day Insignificance Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Gray's Anatomy Make Way for Tomorrow Scorsese shorts Vivre sa Vie more Wenders Out of these, my fantasy month would be (preferably all on Blu): The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover Picnic at Hanging Rock by Brakhage 2 Gray's Anatomy FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Aug 14, 2009 |
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I wonder if Until The End Of The World is even a minor possibility. It sounds like a really interesting film.
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I am hoping for: Che: I wasn't able to see it in theaters, and I'm just fascinated to see what they did with the story. The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover: Zed and Two Naughts disturbed me more than any movie I have ever seen (by far). I had actually swore off Greenaway after that movie. In the years since, despite hundreds of movies fading, Zed and Two Naughts is still haunting, and is one of my most cherished movie experiences (as in I cherish that I had the opportunity to see it on a big screen like I did - I'm still not ready to actually try watching the film again). As such, I've been waiting patiently for a good chance to see The Cook et al. - hopefully the wait won't last much longer. Insignificance: Roeg always interests me, even if nothing else about this film sounds all that great. Gray's Anatomy: Spalding Gray is just cool. When I was younger, I waited up to 3:00 am to watch "Monster in a Box" on HBO, assuming it was going to be an awesome, low budget horror movie. I was obviously very annoyed to see what it really was, so I watched out of spite, yet he completely won me over.
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There's also The Wedding March, and the Paramount Von Sternberg silents. Also, I didn't realize Monsoon Wedding was from Universal... this gives me hope Criterion gets to handle Spartacus for BluRay.
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FitFortDanga posted:Possible new announcements today (could be tomrorow or Monday though). Among the titles that are known to be in the pipeline: Not to derail entirely, but what did you think of Che? I never got a chance to see it, but was very interested, and I've heard very good things. Back on track: VERY excited about Down by Law; just watched it the other day and thought it was one of the upper-tier adventure movies I've seen. Love the characters and it should look gorgeous in high-def.
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