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Escobarbarian posted:This conversation is a great way to make sure nobody watches any Gundam ever Yeah, mission accomplished.
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FitFortDanga posted:Yeah, mission complete.
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With the sale starting tomorrow, here's an overview of Criterion's releases since the November 2022 sale... 4K UHD: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Three Colors Dazed and Confused Mildred Pierce The Fisher King The Seventh Seal Triangle of Sadness* Wings of Desire Branded to Kill Thelma & Louise* The Rules of the Game Time Bandits After Hours* - July 11 The Ranown Westerns - July 18 Breathless - July 18 One False Move* - July 25 * denotes new Blu-ray edition released alongside UHD+Blu Combo Blu-ray: Michael Haneke: Trilogy [The Fifth Continent/Benny's Video/71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance] Three Films by Mai Zetterling [Loving Couples/Night Games/The Girls] Cooley High The Velvet Underground Imitation of Life (1934) Lars Von Trier's Europe Trilogy [The Element of Crime/Epidemic/Europa] This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection Bergman Island (2021) Two Films by Margurite Duras [India Song/Baxter, Vera Baxter] Romeo and Juliet (1968) Hollywood Shuffle Last Hurrah for Chivalry Inland Empire Chilly Scenes of Winter Small Axe Targets Petite Maman The Servant Medicine for Melancholy The Watermelon Woman - July 11 and there's also one big box: Pasolini 101 Includes: Accattone, Mamma Roma, Love Meetings, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Oedipus Rex, Teorema, Porcile, and Medea (And before anyone asks why it's not a complete Pasolini box, it's probably meant to contain just his 60s films, as The Trilogy of Life and Salo have already been out for a while and will likely get UHD upgrades eventually) Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger of those Ranown Westerns but if they're half price I might. It'd be a blind buy but I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to add Westerns on UHD to my collection.
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Basebf555 posted:Probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger of those Ranown Westerns but if they're half price I might. It'd be a blind buy but I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to add Westerns on UHD to my collection. It's a little overpriced considering all the films are between 71-78 minutes long, but IIRC the Indicator Blu set was about $50 before it went on sale. Still worth it as these are excellent films.
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Considering picking up the Three Colors set, I’ve never seen them or even know anything about them but it seems like a pretty safe blind buy.
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gey muckle mowser posted:Considering picking up the Three Colors set, I’ve never seen them or even know anything about them but it seems like a pretty safe blind buy. If you're an arty snob like (I presume) the rest of us, yeah, it's about as safe as it gets.
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Going after all the Ozu I can get (but also preparing myself to go overboard).
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My main goal is to get all the Coens minus the bastardized Miller's Crossing. Then whatever I see that jumps out at me. My partner hasn't seen, like, any Coens Bros. movies, and I want to do Chronological Coens as a little project. Oh, and the After Hours 4k.
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The only one I can think of picking up is The Girl Can’t Help It. Though I’m sure I’ll find something else.
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Is After Hours for sure going to be on sale?
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Wait is this the first home video HD release of After Hours? god drat
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dorium posted:Is After Hours for sure going to be on sale? If it's available during July, it will be on sale
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dorium posted:Going after all the Ozu I can get (but also preparing myself to go overboard). Got a hunch Ozu might be getting a big box before the end of the year as there's been big theatrical revivals of his entire surviving work, much like what was done for Pasolini and Fellini. dorium posted:Is After Hours for sure going to be on sale? All July releases will be on sale either as online preorders or in-store. In the past, I usually preordered anything coming out the last week of the sale just to be safe, but After Hours will be first out the gate. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Is the Qatsi trilogy worth a blind buy?
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Have you seen Baraka and Samsara? If you like either of those, you'll probably enjoy the Qatsi films on some level. They're all very much a mood thing though.
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Koyaanisqatsi is worth the box, the other two are fine. obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU9QQHLCJy4 BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Pro BN.com tip: searching for "essential jacques demy criterion" returns nothing. But if you just search for "essential jacques demy", you'll find it (and 50% off).
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Yikes, 3 items in my cart already sold out before I could order them. Can I expect those to replenish during the sale or am I out of luck for now? edit: and they're back. All is right with the world. SeductiveReasoning fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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If Criterion or BN site is out of stock, Amazon is price matching almost all the sales. Newer releases seem to cap at 35% though
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Egbert Souse posted:Got a hunch Ozu might be getting a big box before the end of the year as there's been big theatrical revivals of his entire surviving work, much like what was done for Pasolini and Fellini. Ah good looking out on the Ozu stuff. Perhaps I'll wait then and prioritize other releases. Good Morning will just have to hold me over until then.
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What is the number one best western in The Collection?
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I might go with My Darling Clementine personally. I love One Eyed Jacks too but that one doesn't seem to be everyone's cup of tea. Actually scratch that, my real answer is McCabe & Mrs. Miller
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I’ll throw my hat in for 3:10 to Yuma
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Kart Barfunkel posted:What is the number one best western in The Collection? Dead Man
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I'm gonna second Stagecoach One Eyed Jacks is cool, it's The Marlon Brando Show but sneakily Karl Malden actually gives the best performance
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I grabbed Blood Simple on blu-ray, Baron Munchausen on 4k, Dazed & Confused on 4k, and INLAND EMPIRE on blu.
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That Baron Munchausen UHD is great. You might think that a lot of the optical effects and such might not look great in 4k but they actually did a great job with it.
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Basebf555 posted:Actually scratch that, my real answer is McCabe & Mrs. Miller It’s this
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Basebf555 posted:That Baron Munchausen UHD is great. You might think that a lot of the optical effects and such might not look great in 4k but they actually did a great job with it. fear and loathing is a sure thing but i'm also hoping for brazil
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Stagecoach is like the ur-western, every western made after it is influenced by it.
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GrandpaPants posted:Have you seen Baraka and Samsara? If you like either of those, you'll probably enjoy the Qatsi films on some level. They're all very much a mood thing though. I haven’t, but they’re on my list now! I saw that someone uploaded Koyaanisqatsi to YouTube in decent quality, so I’ll probably skip buying it during this sale. Last holiday my company gave out bonuses in the form of gift cards of our choosing, so I’ve been sitting on $250 worth of B&N Monopoly money with this sale in mind. Today’s haul: Thief The Great Escape Targets Memories of Murder Last Hurrah of Chivalry Buck and the Preacher The Incredible Shrinking Man High Sierra I’d intended on using part of that for some big box set, but to be honest I’m kinda at the same point with Criterion that I’m at with Arrow. After years of sales, I already own pretty much everything in their respective catalogs that I’d ever want.
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Koyaanisqatsi is probably my most watched criterion. I love that weird movie.
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I think this is the first time in a decade that I haven't picked something up during a sale. I'm actually really enjoying how many other specialty lables are on the market now that are as good or better than Criterion, and are more inventive with their choices.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I think this is the first time in a decade that I haven't picked something up during a sale. I'm actually really enjoying how many other specialty lables are on the market now that are as good or better than Criterion, and are more inventive with their choices. Tell me more. Anything you picked up or have your eye on?
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Tell me more. Anything you picked up or have your eye on? Sure thing Vinegar Syndrome and Arrow are old staples for cult film by now, I feel like Arrow has good distribution (I've seen them at B&N) and a wide range of titles as well as excellent packaging, but the disc options and presentations can be mixed imo. I also almost universally prefer the original arts to the new stuff they commission for the cases, so thankfully they are usually reversible. VS has an exhaustive range of products of all different types, but are truly cult imo and not all that uniform in packaging. (from Arrow I recently picked up Robocop, Hellraiser, and the "Love + Anarchism" set, three films by Kiju Yoshida, I think Arrow's box sets are fantastic, overall I just kind of trust their quality). Indicator has grown extremely fast in the US in just the last year (already hundreds of titles). They very often use the original poster arts and tag lines on their packaging but the case design is also nice and uniform, if spare, they put out both accessibly priced standard editions as well as fancy limited editions and look very nice on a shelf. Their box sets are very nice, prices are reasonable, and sales are frequent. They also have a very active twitter and are always announcing new poo poo. (Indicator titles I've nabbed recently: Night Tide, Scum, Christine, The Passenger, Inseminoid, Lilith, Hardcore, and See No Evil (Blind Terror) ) The one I'm truly excited about (hopefully not prematurely) is Radiance, which is just getting availability in the US and UK. Their supplementals and booklets are beefy, and package design kinda beats Criterion at its own game. LE's include reversible sleeves and a removable obi insert that has the at a glance technical info, classy stuff. Apparently they will announce new titles on July 5. (I picked up LE's of Yakuza Graveyard, Big Time Gambling Boss, and A Woman Kills (which also includes 5 short films). There are also Raro, Synapse, Severin, and Kino Lorber, all a bit more hit and miss for me. Kino has ugly package design but access to many obscure titles (recent Kino purchase is Valentino, The Conformist from Raro, and Frankenhooker from Synapse. Synapse is kinda budget imo but I think they're the only ones with access to this particular Henenlotter in the US, Arrow has it in the UK as well as access to his other films in both territories) Outside of that I recently bought Rain (1932) which was restored by the Mary Pickford Foundation which has access to a variety of titles from the silent era, and from Cinelicious I grabbed Belladonna of Sadness. Both packages are pristine. Oh and I bought The Keep from Sloppy Seconds which is budget as hell, like bootleg quality lmao
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