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Skeletron posted:I watched Black Narcissus tonight ... The composer would have done well to watch The Music Room. The same Music Room that was made over a decade after Black Narcissus?
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Looks like Amazon bumped up the price on the Saura set to $45. I ordered mine at $34 this morning and just got a shipment notification.
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Speaking of out of print blu rays, the flash sale reminded me that I think it's time to sell mine. I'm not really willing to part with the Saura set or Chungking Express, but I'm not a collector so can't really justify keeping some of them around for how much they are worth. Anyone here interested in The Third Man, Last Year at Marienbad, or Pierrot Le Fou?
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I went to a screening of the new Stalker restoration yesterday and itt's absolutely gorgeous. It's been over a decade since I originally saw it on dvd so I can't say how much of an upgrade it is, but I'm very excited to pick up the new blu ray now.
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I think the Eureka Masters of Cinema series has a few that are only available in region B that would be relevant to people in this thread. I just watched their blu ray of King Hu's Dragon Inn (1967) this week, and I know they just put out Hou Hsiao-hsien's Daughter of the Nile (1987). For region free playing I just use my computer. If you've got a pc blu ray drive it's the software that decides whether to respect the region coding or not. I just rip to the pc then use Plex to play on the tv or wherever. Plex is also great for friends so I don't have to worry about loaning out of region or expensive out of print discs.
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Amazon has a few Criterions up for <$20 https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_...nid=10346811011 Kwaidan, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Safety Last are all also $20 and some change.
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Basebf555 posted:Kwaidan for $20 is a steal, it's one of those Criterions that I'd have gladly paid full price for. I added it to my Filmstruck watchlist. That and Jeanne Dielman are the ones jumping out at me right now, but I've already got my B&N sale list and money put away so will be avoiding any blind buys for now at least.
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The current Stop Making Sense blu ray is good release and worth picking up.Hector Beerlioz posted:Dear Criterion, please rerelease The Killer and Hard Boiled and add Bullet to the Head as well, please and thankyou. If they can manage this I'd really hope they could include A Better Tomorrow
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My Criterion Third Man blu ray sold for $160 on ebay. I bought the StudioCanal blu for $10 then spent $100 on the Criterion sale and $50 on the Arrow sale.
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Basebf555 posted:Yea I love The Third Man but that regular blu ray is so cheap and still looks great. A few featurettes and commentary tracks aren't worth $150. Featurettes and commentary? More like spine and number
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It has good extras, I'm just being cynical The big 90 minute documentary is on both releases FancyMike fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Oh I definitely agree, it just gets a little crazy with the OOP ones. When I sold off a couple OOP Criterions my untouchable ones were the Eclipse Saura flamenco set and Chungking Express. I wouldn't buy either for what they go for now, but also won't sell regardless of streaming availability. It was so nice when I replaced that hideous Tarantino Presents dvd
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You've got to go back to this review to compare to the Paramount blu rays for anyone that already has one of those sets: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_reviews_62_/twin_peaks_blu-ray.htm Weird that those shots didn't get carried over to the new review. Looks like the Criterion is from the same transfer but the screenshots do look slightly better to me. I won't be upgrading, but it looks like the set I bought back in March isn't available anymore.
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oneforthevine posted:And Taipei Story is not Edward Yang’s finest work, though it’s still worth a look. I think you're kind of under-selling this one. It's very good and definitely worth a watch as more than just a lesser work by a great director. I liked it a lot and want to buy the whole set even though it's the only one I've seen from it. edit: Criterion has for whatever reason not released many Chinese-language films and I think it'd be really great for them to get into the New Taiwanese Cinema beyond just those couple Yang releases. It's something I've been trying to catch up with and the availability of some of these movies makes it pretty tough. Even from someone more well known like Hou Hsiao-hsien the films can be pretty tough to track down and even then the quality is usually awful. I'd love to see A City of Sadness get a proper restoration and release. And if they could get a hold of the Assayas Hou documentary I'd pay full price on day one for that. FancyMike fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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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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Le Samouraï, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Dekalog for me. Been trying to cut back on blind buys but Fantastic Mr Fox is the only one of those I've seen. Had to stop at these because I've been buying too many movies lately and there are a couple upcoming Masters of Cinema releases I need to buy. I'm at about 50 unwatched in the collection and one of my 2018 goals is to get through them all.
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Le Saboteur posted:I got the Complete Jacques Tati and thats good for me. I've never seen any of his work and I'm looking forward to digging into that set. Wanted to pick up that set too, but it will have to wait. I've only seen The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but it was incredible you're in for a real treat. edit: whoops. Time to make another cup of tea and wake up FancyMike fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:What are some of everyone’s favorite non-Kurosawa foreign picks?
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I have a couple of theirs and think Shout Factory usually does good releases. They don't mention the transfer for Wild at Heart so it's probably the same as the existing blu-rays. Can't remember if it was the old US or the region-free UK release but I watched one of them recently and didn't have any complaints about the video quality.
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July releases are up: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood (Josef Von Sternberg) #930, Jul 3 - Morocco - Dishonored - Shanghai Express - Blonde Venus - The Scarlet Empress - The Devil is a Woman
 Bull Durham (Ron Shelton) #936, Jul 10
 Dragon Inn (King Hu) #937, Jul 10
 Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh) #938, Jul 17
 A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger) #939, Jul 24
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It's a very good month of releases. All of them are a must-watch except maybe Bull Durham. Dragon Inn is pretty much a perfect martial arts movie. And the extras are all different from the Masters of Cinema release, hopefully they go up on Filmstruck I really shouldn't double dip.
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Steen71 posted:Well, we can keep our fingers crossed that Criterion fixes the colour scheme on Dragon Inn. I don't think it's very likely, though. They're not going to touch the colors. The cinematographer was involved in the restoration and it's the same one Eureka released back in 2015. A Touch of Zen has some of the same color complaints from the blu-ray.com forum types and they didn't touch that one, the Criterion and Eureka discs are pretty much identical. For what it's worth I didn't notice anything wrong while watching either movie and think they both look great with the new restorations. Related, Amazon has pre-orders for Kino's release of King Hu's Legend of the Mountain up at $13.25. It's a fantastic movie and the new restoration looks very good.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:E: also, is Dragon Inn related to A Touch of Zen? Same writer/director, King Hu and they're both wuxia movies. Dragon Inn was his first movie after leaving Hong Kong for Taiwan following a falling out with the Shaw Brothers over his film Come Drink With Me. It's pretty straightforward as an action movie, but is still incredibly good. A Touch of Zen stretches the genre into new and exciting places and has one of the best third act turns ever. Hopefully they keep up with these restorations I'd love to be able to buy new blu-rays of The Fate of Lee Khan, Raining in the Mountain, or The Valiant Ones.
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http://variety.com/2018/film/news/terrence-malick-tree-of-life-longer-criterion-version-1202807034/ Tree of Life Criterion coming later this year with a new 3 hour cut
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Basebf555 posted:I blind bought A Touch of Zen and that turned out to be an extremely good decision. A stunningly beautiful film that totally justifies it's length. I'll definitely be picking up Dragon Inn when the next sale comes around. Dragon Inn is definitely one of the top action movies of all time. And I would recommend watching more King Hu his lesser known films are still amazing. Kino just put out the new restoration of Legend of the Mountain and it’s got some of the best King Hu nature photography and is easily the best movie I’ve seen so far this year.
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Egbert Souse posted:Andrei Rublev finally went OOP on DVD, so a Blu upgrade is probably coming soon. It's touring from Janus Films right now. So this would leave The Mirror as the only Tarkovsky feature without a US blu-ray right? I still need to pick up the new Kino release of The Sacrifice
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Basebf555 posted:Personal Shopper is pretty unique. I'm not sure I'd recommend someone blind-buy it but if you've done some research on it you can probably predict for yourself if you'd like it. Not sure what I'm buying yet but I've got about $100 put away for the sale so it should be fun. Everyone please buy Dragon Inn we need more wuxia from Criterion.
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Online order arrived the other day and I bought more than I should have. The Demy set was the only blind-buy and I'm really glad I got it, watched Lola last night and it was great.
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Egbert Souse posted:Amazon also seems to have a lot of Criterions for 40-45% off. They've also got Scanners for $17.24 and in stock. It's been that price a lot lately though often on backorder.
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Basebf555 posted:Just blind-bought In the Mood For Love last week. How was this not nominated for several Academy Awards? At the very least Best Foreign Language Film and Costume Design. loving Gladiator won for costume design that year and among the other nominees were 102 Dalmatians and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Come on. The Academy is bad, especially with foreign films. I just checked and no Cantonese language film has ever been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Farewell My Concubine is the only Chinese-language film nominated for the category directed by someone other than Ang Lee or Zhang Yimou.
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Basebf555 posted:I don't know how they don't see it as embarrassing when you have situations like with In the Mood For Love, where a film is getting recognized and celebrated by Cannes, the BAFTAs, and a laundry list of other prestigious awards and it's just nowhere to be seen anywhere in your nominations. I agree. Though there's also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that year which was a very big deal. Both did very well at the HKFA but Ang Lee got all the big awards. Hopefully their efforts at expanding the Academy and adding diversity will help in the future but to me the whole process with the Foreign Language category seems busted. A short list of filmmakers with submissions and no nominations: Wong Kar-wai, King Hu, Ann Hui, Johnnie To, Sylvia Chang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang
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Samuel Clemens posted:IIRC, nominees for Best Foreign Language Film have to be officially submitted by the country they were made in, and each country only gets one slot at most. I can think of a number of reasons why China pushed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon instead of In the Mood for Love. China's submission was Breaking the Silence. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was Taiwan's and In the Mood for Love was submitted by Hong Kong.
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I don't even have that many Bergmans but that set will free up so much shelf space.
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Are we posting Criterion wuxia wish lists? Because I have a few for that None of these have a blu-ray release: Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984, Lau Kar-Leung) Dao (1995, Tsui Hark) Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979, John Woo) And some Chang Cheh would be great. The Heroic Ones (1970) has a blu-ray release already, but One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and Golden Swallow (1968) do not. I wonder how difficult it would be to license Shaw Bros movies. Amazon has a bunch right now but most of them are English dub only which suuuucks
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Dragon Inn is amazing and I think the fights are good and hold up just fine.
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Magnolia is really high on my list of movies I want to rewatch, it's just hard to find that much time. Not sure it needs a Criterion release though, since it's readily available on a good quality blu-ray already.Basebf555 posted:Hard Eight as well. I rewatched this one not too long ago and don't love it, but it's still pretty good and I think would be a good fit for Criterion. According to a reddit ama he's working on a blu-ray which would be great, as the dvd I think is oop. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7quthe/im_paul_thomas_anderson_writer_and_director_of/dss4ath/
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Basebf555 posted:I put it on without remembering that it's close to 3 hours, and I got to around the 2hr 30 minute mark and I couldn't believe that much time had gone by. Every single scene draws you in, and in different ways so there's never a lull. Like, sometimes you have a scene that's eye-popping visually and that's great, then it transitions to a scene of Seymour-Hoffman or Baker-Hall being powerhouse actors, then to Cruise and the most unique performance of his career, then John C. Reilly being his usual underrated self, and it's all so compelling that 3 hours really does not feel at all like 3 hours. It's not about how long it feels so much as it being one I'd really rather not split up when watching. Five month old child at home means I can't remember the last time I had an uninterrupted 3 hours to do anything. Same reason I haven't watched that Barry Lyndon blu I bought like six months ago yet.
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