nate Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Is there even such a thing as a bare bones Criterion release? I mean, I'm sure there is, but I don't know of any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 8, 2015 Author Share Posted October 8, 2015 Well, no commentary is the key. Im sure everything at least has trailers and what not. Were i at home, i could check my stack and find a concrete example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 3, 2015 Author Share Posted December 3, 2015 https://www.instagram.com/p/-1hBehSzS5/ criterioncollection on this day in 1984, we released our first laserdisc: Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Did anyone get anything grand in the Barnes & Noble sale last month? I'm waiting on "The Brood" and "It Happened One Night." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Did anyone get anything grand in the Barnes & Noble sale last month? I'm waiting on "The Brood" and "It Happened One Night." It caught me at a bad time. I had to stop myself from buying the Cassavettes set and The Apu Trilogy set. Thankfully, I think a lot of those films are on Hulu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 4, 2015 Author Share Posted December 4, 2015 I keep meaning to get Mulholland Drive but i know i have a backlog of stuff i still need to watch first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I'm giving this to myself for Valentines Day because I love me so much. http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Snowblood-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I picked it up the other week, not knowing anything about it apart from that it influenced Kill Bill. Only watched the first film so far. Weird to say, but it's got some pretty violence. I always thought the over the top blood spurting thing was Tarantino's creation, but here it is here existing in the 1970s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Origin might be SANJURO (1962). Probably most associated with the LONE WOLF AND CUB series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 And just watched the second Lady Snowblood. Not as good as the first, but this film must be where Tarantino lifted his foot fetish from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 50% off today only on Criterion's site. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 50% off today only on Criterion's site. I hate you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 50% off today only on Criterion's site. I hate you. Trust me. I know. I am always broke when these things happen. I still have a $10 credit for joining the site through my Facebook account too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zev Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Has anyone here seen the Criterion release of Night and the City yet? I'm wondering what the "alternate presentation' of the movie consists of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I haven't seen it, but it's the UK cut of the film. As per IMDB - "An alternate British version exists that includes scenes deleted in the American version, different title credits, a different opening scene with Widmark and Tierney, and a completely different score composed by Benjamin Frankel. This version runs 101 minutes, 5 minutes longer than the American version." And from this AV Club review - Actually, Night And The City’s degree of cynicism depends to a large degree upon which version you watch. Criterion’s new Blu-ray upgrade of the film, which ports over all of the bonus features from their 2005 DVD, also has enough room to add the complete U.K. cut, which runs six minutes longer and features a different beginning and ending—Harry isn’t introduced trying to rob his girlfriend in the British version, and the finale is given a more romantic spin. (Dassin declared the American version closer to his intention.) The two cuts also feature entirely different scores, with the U.S. version composed by Franz Waxman and the U.K. version by Benjamin Frankel. Even if you don’t want to watch both from start to finish, be sure to at least check out the video essay comparing the two, which really drives home the crucial difference that music, or the lack thereof, can make. Waxman’s frantic score is often more effective than Frankel’s subdued cues; on the other hand, Frankel opts to let a major chase sequence near the end unfold without any music at all, and the silence proves more suspenseful than Waxman’s strings. It makes for radically different viewing experiences, even as both the night and the city remain constants. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 June!~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 They could draw a cowboy ridin' that thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zev Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 The cowboy might be considered spoilerific by the 7 people that have somehow become Criterion enthusiasts that haven't seen Strangelove yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Coming in July: the In Laws 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 14 hours ago, odessasteps said: Coming in July: the In Laws Audio commentary includes Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. I'm in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/movies/tcm-and-criterion-to-offerstreaming-service-filmstruck.html?referer= TCM and Criterion to partner on streaming service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Damn I was enjoying the Criterions on Hulu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 That is a big blow to Fandor as well. I will probably drop both the minute this change takes place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 MCCABE & MRS MILLER in August. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 I anxiously await the upgrade on my copy of "Fantastic Planet." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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