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GrandpaPants posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again, give me a Satoshi Kon box set. I have no idea why it's so difficult to find his work in blu ray (besides Paprika weirdly enough), but just gimme Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Perfect Blue and I'll double dip on Paprika. Paranoia Agent could use a nice blu-ray set too, and is Kon's greatest accomplishment IMO.
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I was gonna suggest a collection of Makoto Shinkai's short films, but then I realized he was making those on his home computer in the early 2000s, so it's probably impossible to do HD versions of them  So instead I'm gonna ask for a Criterion release of Gunbuster.
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Raxivace posted:Paranoia Agent could use a nice blu-ray set too, and is Kon's greatest accomplishment IMO. Ugh I want this so much
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Gripweed posted:So instead I'm gonna ask for a Criterion release of Gunbuster. Like you would think between the success of Shin Godzilla or the 30th anniversary of GunBuster last year that somebody might have tried to cash in on that but I guess not.
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It’s not anime but it’s crazy to me there’s never been a good Ralph Bakshi box set. I really wish we could just get a good release of Coonskin.
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The_Rob posted:It’s not anime but it’s crazy to me there’s never been a good Ralph Bakshi box set. I really wish we could just get a good release of Coonskin. Vinegar Syndrome was supposed to release it years ago. Shout! Factory released Heavy Traffic. Fritz the Cat is owned by MGM, so it could by anyone since they licensed to literally every boutique label with the exception of Flicker Alley.
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discotek already does criterion-level releases of stuff for anime. at this point i just want more niche labels to get bigger recognition, i don't give a gently caress if it's criterion. it's kinda exhausting hearing people beg for things that criterion will almost never release because of whatever biases they have or have had in the past
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GrandpaPants posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again, give me a Satoshi Kon box set. I have no idea why it's so difficult to find his work in blu ray (besides Paprika weirdly enough), but just gimme Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Perfect Blue and I'll double dip on Paprika. Perfect Blue just got a release on blu recently too
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Parallax posted:discotek already does criterion-level releases of stuff for anime. at this point i just want more niche labels to get bigger recognition, i don't give a gently caress if it's criterion. it's kinda exhausting hearing people beg for things that criterion will almost never release because of whatever biases they have or have had in the past Yeah, I'm fine with films simply getting a proper release. Or a release at all. Criterion is indeed the grandfather of great video treatment, but now there's also Arrow, Shout!, Kino Lorber, Indicator, and Eureka. A lot of Criterion fans were pissed off when Kino got a bunch of their OOP titles from StudioCanal - The Milky Way, Alphaville, Leon Morin: Priest, Le Doulos, Bob le Flambeur, Last Year at Marienbad, Port of Shadows, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and Touchez pas au grisbi. Except I look at it as if we're getting "bonus" titles on top of Criterion's regular slate.
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Parallax posted:discotek already does criterion-level releases of stuff for anime. at this point i just want more niche labels to get bigger recognition, i don't give a gently caress if it's criterion. it's kinda exhausting hearing people beg for things that criterion will almost never release because of whatever biases they have or have had in the past but Discotek's releases don't look as fancy on my shelf.
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GrandpaPants posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again, give me a Satoshi Kon box set. I have no idea why it's so difficult to find his work in blu ray (besides Paprika weirdly enough), but just gimme Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Perfect Blue and I'll double dip on Paprika. Perfect Blue just got released through Shout Factory, I think.
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The only company I can think of that does Criterion-level releases of anime is AnimEigo, but I think the current theory is that they're doing the limited editions of the anime they still have the rights to left and once they're done, they're folding.
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i mean discotek doesn't have fancy cases but they do have https://twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/1155597709610553345 and they're also putting out space cobra the movie on UHD-BD, the first anime one released in the west
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Kino has a good a selection of movies but I’ve never been a fan of their transfers. The picture is always leaving something to be desired. I’d still buy a blu Ray of the red and the white from them but they only have the dvd. Give me a blu Ray of that drat movie.
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Friends Are Evil posted:Perfect Blue just got released through Shout Factory, I think. And GKids is showing a Millennium Actress restoration so that'll probably get a blu as well
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The_Rob posted:Kino has a good a selection of movies but I’ve never been a fan of their transfers. The picture is always leaving something to be desired. I’d still buy a blu Ray of the red and the white from them but they only have the dvd. Give me a blu Ray of that drat movie. Most of their releases use off-the-shelf masters provided by the licensors, especially MGM and Universal. They do some remastering and restoration themselves, plus many of the licensed titles have excellent materials. Here's some of the best I've seen so far: Becky Sharp - 4K restoration by UCLA and Paramount (mix of 35mm 3-strip camera negative, positives, dupe negative, and last reel from a dye-transfer print) Daredevils of the Red Circle - 4K transfer by Paramount (35mm fine-grain) The Adventures of Captain Marvel - 4K transfer by Paramount (35mm fine-grain) The Spiral Staircase - 4K transfer by Disney (35mm fine-grain) Under Capricorn - 4K restoration by CBS Digital and BFI (35mm camera negatives) Trigger, Jr. - 4K transfer by Paramount (35mm camera negative) Cease Fire! - 2K restoration by 3-D Film Archive and Paramount Sangaree - 2K restoration by 3-D Film Archive and Paramount Gog - 2K restoration by 3-D Film Archive and MGM The Big Country - 2K remaster Irma La Douce - 4K restoration by MGM Charly - 2K remaster by Disney The Lion in Winter - 4K restoration by StudioCanal The Atomic Cafe - 4K restoration La chinoise - 2K restoration by Gaumont Bob le flambeur - 4K restoration by StudioCanal Leon Morin, Priest - 4K restoration by StudioCanal Le doulos - 4K restoration by StudioCanal Last Year at Marienbad - 4K restoration by StudioCanal Alphaville - 4K restoration by StudioCanal The upcoming Blus of Hitchcock's Blackmail and Murder!, the Ealing comedies Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, and The Lavender Hill Mob, are all from new 2K/4K restorations as well. Sweet Charity will be a new 4K from Universal. And most of the Paramount silents - The Sheik, The Covered Wagon, Zaza, Stage Struck, It's the Old Army Game, Old Ironsides, You Never Know Women, Running Wild, and Beggars of Life are all from at least 2K masters supplied by the Library of Congress and Paramount. Their one UHD release, Hannibal, is also excellent quality with a 4K Dolby Vision remaster supervised by the DoP.
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Thought I’d take a last look before the end of the sale and found they did a decent sized restock. Picked up Lady Snowblood, Touch of Zen and Branded to Kill.
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Oh wow, completely whizzed right past me but When We Were Kings is getting added (bluray) in October, pretty much the best documentary on this planet. I have waited SO loving LONG for this... BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Police Story 1 & 2 added, and a couple of the Alec Guinness ones leaving at the end of the month.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Oh wow, completely whizzed right past me but When We Were Kings is getting added (bluray) in October, pretty much the best documentary on this planet. Oh hell yeah, I just watched Ali and am primed for this.
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Unmature posted:Oh hell yeah, I just watched Ali and am primed for this. Ali and WWWK would actually make a really good double feature because they both include a bunch of peripheral stuff about the time period and famous faces in the black community. Mario Van Peebles as Malcolm is great casting, the opening scene with Sam Cooke at the Copa, and that Lubezki camerawork 
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Alec Eiffel posted:What should I blind buy from B&N tomorrow? Tiny Furniture? Pick one of my underrated titles: The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates - Primary and Crisis are essential viewing Pierre Etaix - The Suitor and Le Grand Amour are two of the funniest films ever made, great if you like Tati and Bunuel A Hollis Frampton Odyssey - Worth it just for Zorns Lemma and (nostalgia) Lonesome - Late silent/part talky that's utterly charming. King of Jazz - Early 2-color Technicolor musical revue, gorgeous restoration and great music (including the first film appearance of Rhapsody in Blue) Bigger Than Life - Monster movie pretending to be a melodrama where James Mason wants to murder his family Master of the House - Carl Theodor Dreyer does a comedy and it's funny! War and Peace - Eight hours long, but redefines the idea of epic cinema and breezes by.
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Seconding the Pierre Etaix set. It’s incredibly rewarding, and always great to have a director’s complete filmography in one place.
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I think everyone should own a copy of Double Life of Veronique.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I think everyone should own a copy of Double Life of Veronique. I wish I hadn't bought a used copy, there was something hosed up with the disc and the whole movie was tinted slightly yellow
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Alec Eiffel posted:What should I blind buy from B&N tomorrow? Tiny Furniture? Tiny Furniture should only be purchased if you own literally every other Criterion and just want to complete your collection. And even then just buy the case and just pretend. I watched Detour and I didn't realize it was only 68 minutes long, which explains why it moved so briskly. I kinda wish they had developed the Vera/Roberts relationship some more, but I appreciated the movie for what it was. Good blind buy.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I think everyone should own a copy of Double Life of Veronique. I have all their Kieslowski films on Blu and every single one is a masterpiece. Dekalog is especially rewarding. For those concerned about it being ten hours of heavy stuff, the tenth episode is a full-out comedy and hilarious.
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Egbert Souse posted:I have all their Kieslowski films on Blu and every single one is a masterpiece. I should go back then, the episodes (?) of Dekalog we watched for a European Cinema class were bummers.
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Sex Lies and Videotape, Klute, or Shampoo?
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Unmature posted:Sex Lies and Videotape, Klute, or Shampoo? Klute
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Egbert Souse posted:Klute Had SL&V in my hand and saw this comment and switch to Klute, thanks. Been dying to see it too, I’m a sucker for 70s thrillers
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Empress Brosephine posted:How is the face in the crowd blu? Excellent, as expected. You can guarantee anything Criterion licenses from Warner Bros. or Sony to look and sound incredible. Most of the Warner licenses have the scans handled by their in-house team (same ones who do all the great Warner Archive work).
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So do people like the Dietrich/von Sternberg movies? I finished watching through those the other day and I have to say I found them pretty underwhelming as a whole- not that any of them were outright terrible or even bad, but there was thtis strangely lethargic quality to most of them that made them a bit more of a chore than I expected. The Scarlet Empress was probably my favorite of the bunch and a lot of that was just because of how nuts the set design is in that film (Though it makes the bizarre number of title cards for a film from 1934 perhaps standout even more). I hadn't seen any of von Sternberg's films before watching these (I'll be getting that upcoming Underworld/Last Command/Docks of New York set for a point of comparison at least), but after having liked Dietrich in her later roles like in Destry Rides Again or Touch of Evil I was surprised by how little most of the films in this boxset did for me. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Raxivace posted:So do people like the Dietrich/von Sternberg movies? Morocco and The Devil Was a Woman didn't do much for me, but The Scarlet Empress, Dishonored, and Blonde Venus are fantastic. Also liked Shanghai Express. The silents set is going to be a must-see, though. The Last Command and Docks of New York are amazing, plus Underworld is very good (Ben Hecht gangster movie, what's not to like?)
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I know they’re stupid and free, and they also don’t mean anything but drat it I want my criterion membership card. Any word on when they are sending them out. I wanna be extra pretentious when I’m cutting lines of coke.
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Egbert Souse posted:Morocco and The Devil Was a Woman didn't do much for me, but The Scarlet Empress, Dishonored, and Blonde Venus are fantastic. Also liked Shanghai Express.
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The_Rob posted:I know they’re stupid and free, and they also don’t mean anything but drat it I want my criterion membership card. Any word on when they are sending them out. I wanna be extra pretentious when I’m cutting lines of coke. I want my Criterion email address. 
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cvnvcnv posted:I want my Criterion email address. weedlordbonerhitler42069@criterion.com already taken
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