Bob Dylan Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 omg I just ordered the entire Jacques Tati Criterion collection. I'm like 150$ in the hole. Who cares! Mr. Hulot bitches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 keep funnyordie out of this thread astroboy ill admit i have my head up my ass, but ill still take astroboy over funnyordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Anyone take advantage of the sale they had on the site right before they put the new webpage up? It was like 40% off everything. Of course by the time I had money to buy anything, all the releases I wanted were sold out. I'll probably be buying myself these for Christmas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Soothsayer Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 That Teshigahara is beyond excellent, so is that Naruse :) Good picks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest atropa Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 exciting that the exterminating angel is finally getting a criterion. looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Soothsayer Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Watched The Browning Version again last night...this film is fantastic. I like it more every time I see it, and this really is one of my favorite releases on Criterion. Michael Redgrave's performance in this is probably one of the better performances I've ever seen anyone give in a film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Anyone picked up 'White Dog'? Also, this gives me something to look forward to in the new year: Hell fuckin' yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beatfanatic Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 i love movies and everything and i understand that they are quality products but they are just too damn expensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 didnt know there was a movie on Woman in the Dunes. im gonna have to peep that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rook Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 The Third Man The Passion of Joan of Arc Ordet Day of Wrath Gertrude Virgin Spring Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries Smiles of a Summer Night Andrei Rublev Charade Peeping Tom Breathless The 39 Steps The Rules of the Game M 8 1/2 Solaris Seven Samurai Rashomon The 400 Blows The Bicycle Theif Tokyo Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MajaIloveyou Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Following WATMM advice i went after Sweet Movie. I went into the awesome artsy film little place and asked kindly, while holding under my arm recently purchased Bootlegs, "Do you have a 70's film called Sweet movie? by some russian director i think" I was inmediatly corrected on the nationality part, followed by a "yes, we have it, let me search for it" After a few minutes of diving into piles of films the one in question poped up. i was also offered the previous work, (Misteries of the organism?) but i thought this one was enough for today. after the transaction i read the description at the back, seemed sweet enough indeed. 5/5 Seriously Im so glad i bought it. 5 top sick moments in order of sickness: 1. kids at the boat being seduced. 2. the whole dinner/shit fest 3. Baby massage 4. Stabbed and bitten @ the sugar thing 5. The black guy's muscles Oh and i really enjoyed the black and white scenes, they were beautiful. I'm definitively watching it again, and i cant wait to show it to as many friends as possible, what an amazing piece. cant believe i missed it for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 i really need to check this out again. havent seen it in ages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MajaIloveyou Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 The person i watched it with felt extremely uncomfortable, i cant deny i did put my hand on my forehead thiking wtf is this? at some points. but still, i feel like watching it over and over again. opposed to Salo which i had enough at 1 watch. i still have the extras for tomorrow, interviews and stuff. +1 for my tiny critetion collection also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Soothsayer Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Seriously, if you liked Sweet Movie, check Mysteries of the Organism. imo, it's a better film than Sweet Movie. Also, to make your Salo/Sweet Movie connection complete, watch the extra on the Sweet Movie disc w/Anna Prucnel singing the song in the finale of the film, only w/altered lyrics by Pasolini :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Soothsayer Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 k, here's some fuckin' exciting news right here...I'm pulling this from another message board: "We hosted Marilyn Brakhage at Filmforum last Sunday, and she confirmed that they are working on a new Criterion with 29 more films (!). Actually, she is in Los Angeles this week working with the Academy Film Archive on the telecine. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com/2009/0 ... -brakhage/ The seven that we screened are among the 29: The Machine of Eden (1970, 16 mm, silent, 11 min) The Machine (of Eden) operates via “spots” - from sun’s disks (of the camera lens) thru emulsion grains (within which, each, a universe might be found) and snow’s flakes (echoing technical aberrations on film’s surface) blots (upon the lens itself) and the circles of sun and moon, etcetera; these “mis-takes” give birth of “shape” (which, in this work, is “matter” subject and otherwise) amidst a weave of thought: (I add these technicalities, here, to help viewers defeat the habits of classical symbolism so that this work may be immediately seen, in its own light): the “dream” of Eden will speak for itself. “He was born, he suffered, he died” (1974, 16 mm, silent, 7 min) The quote is Joseph Conrad answering a critic who found his books too long. Conrad replied that he could write a novel on the inside of a match-book cover, thus (as above), but that he “preferred to elaborate.” The “Life” of the film is scratched on black leader. The “elaboration” of color tonalities is as the mind’s eye responds to hieroglyph. Burial Path (1978, 16mm, color/silent, 15min (18fps)) The film begins with the image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film, in the tradition of Thot-Fal’n, graphs the process of forgetfulness against all oddities of remembered bird-shape. The film might best be seen along with Sirius Remembered and The Dead as the third part of a trilogy. Visions in Meditation #4 (1990, 16 mm, silent, 19 min) I’ve made three pilgrimages in my life: the 40-some-year home of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Emily Dickinson’s in Amherst, and the mountain ranch and crypt, would you call it?, of D.H. Lawrence, outside Taos. I keep returning to the Lawrence environs again and again; and this last time attempted photography in that narrow little building where his ashes were (or were not) deposited (contradictory stories about that). There is a child-like sculpture of The Phoenix at the far end of the room, a perfectly lovely emblem to deflate any pomposity people have added to Lawrence’s “I rise in flames ….” The building is open, contains only a straw chair (remindful of the one Van Gogh painted) and a broom, which I always use with delight to sweep the dust and leaves from this simple abode. I have tried to make a film as true to the spirit of Lawrence as is this gentle chapel in homage of him. I have attempted to leave each image within the film free to be itself and only obliquely in the service of Lawrence’s memory. I have wanted to make it a film within which that child-Phoenix can reasonably nest. – S.B. Boulder Blues and Pearls and… (1992, 16 mm, Sound by Rick Corrigan, 23 min) Music by Rick Corrigan. Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it - i.e., a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing from thought’s grip of life. Persians 1-3 (1999, 16 mm, silent, 8 min) Persian Series #1: This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes intersperced by darkness, then becomes lit lightning-like by sharp multiply-colored twigs-of shape, all resolving into shapes of decay. Persian Series #2: Multiple thrusts and then retractions of oranges, reds, blues, and the flickering, almost black, textural dissolves suggesting an amalgam approaching script. Persian Series #3: Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both rounded and soft-edged shapes shot with black. Chinese Series (2003, 35mm, silent, 2 min) “Stan Brakhage had been planning a film inspired by Chinese ideograms for years; he made his unfinished Chinese Series in his dying months, scratching its marks on black 35-mm film. In its two haunting minutes, exploding lines flirt with the depiction of recognizable objects.” – Fred Camper, from the Chicago Reader, September 12, 2003." WOOHOOO!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rook Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 The Third Man The Passion of Joan of Arc Ordet Day of Wrath Gertrude Virgin Spring Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries Smiles of a Summer Night Andrei Rublev Charade Peeping Tom Breathless The 39 Steps The Rules of the Game M 8 1/2 Solaris Seven Samurai Rashomon The 400 Blows The Bicycle Theif Tokyo Story Flowers of St. Francis (!!!!) Au Revoir Les Enfantes Diary of a Country Priest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Soothsayer Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Yeah Flowers of St. Francis is wonderful, the scene when Francis meets St. Claire is very endearing. I'm happy Criterion is about to release so much more Rossellini(none of it in the same vein of Flowers of St. Francis, though)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Soon to add to the list... FINALLY!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autopilot Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I like this one: I have also seen approximately 0 of the movies mentioned in this thread. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beatfanatic Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Too expensive (fifty bucks for a movie, WTF!), never bought one. They lost many cinephile with that price bracket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 you definately get what you pay for though and if you hunt you can find them for $20-25. barnes and noble has buy 2 get one free right now :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 been waiting to see their bluray output, like The Man Who Fell to Earth, atlhough they need to do some scifi releases like Solaris or Brazil on hi def. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest atropa Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 criterion is looking great this year - both rossellini releases + the eclipse boxset; color kurosawa; wajda's danton - looking forward to this one; two oshima's; two amazing bunuel's and sirk's magnificent obsession which I'll be watching for the first time soon. hope they keep pace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eh Speedy Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 only ones i've got are Time Bandits Slacker Two-Lane Blacktop though i've seen a bunch more from netflix. don't know them all but apparently i wasn't to impressed. love the packaging but i've got to get over that shit. i've already got a copy of Dazed and Confused in a more regular edition and don't plan on buy the Criterion of it. i kind of wanted to, but i had to realize that, that was really fucking stupid and a waste. if i'm going to buy Criterion it's because that's the only way i can get it at the time. also Criterion does updated more expensive editions of movies they've already put out. Seven Samurai for one, if that's not the only one. i'd rather just get the older version to save a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Two-Lane Blacktop what extras does this have? i have the old anchor bay release and its got fuck all for extras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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