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Criterion Channel subscribers received a $10 gift cert code on Friday, so the flash sale will likely be this Tuesday to tie in with the first wave of Janus Contemporaries and the Tod Browning Sideshow Shockers collection (Freaks, The Unknown, and The Mystic). Here's what's going to be eligible since the July Barnes and Noble sale if one wants to catch up... Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (4K Combo) Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (Blu-ray) Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema (Blu-ray collection) [Includes: Elvira Madigan, The Baby Carriage, Raven's End, and Adelin 31] Drylongso (Blu-ray) The Princess Bride (4K Combo) Walkabout (4K Combo) The Trial (4K Combo and Blu-ray) La Bamba (Blu-ray) Moonage Daydream (4K Combo and Blu-ray) Don't Look Now (4K Combo) Videodrome (4K Combo) Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers (Blu-ray collection) [Includes: Freaks, The Unknown, and The Mystic] The Innocent (Janus Blu-ray) No Bears (Janus Blu-ray) EO (Janus Blu-ray) and what will be eligible for sale by the time the November B&N sale starts: The Others (4K Combo and Blu-ray) Nanny (Blu-ray) Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar (Blu-ray) The Last Picture Show (4K Combo) - also includes Texasville Mean Streets (4K Combo and Blu-ray) Tori and Lokita (Janus) The Eight Mountains (Janus) Godland (Janus) La ceremonie (Blu-ray)
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Oct 14, 2023 17:56
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Egbert Souse posted:Criterion Channel subscribers received a $10 gift cert code on Friday I just recently subbed, do they send a code to your account email or what?
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Oct 14, 2023 20:03
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Drewsky posted:I just recently subbed, do they send a code to your account email or what? It's emailed, but I think it's primarily charter customers who did the initial signup.
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Oct 14, 2023 20:07
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Yeah I stopped wanting all their emails and unsubscribed last year and missed out on at least 1 coupon lol.
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Oct 14, 2023 21:05
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January 2024 titles: The Apu Trilogy (4K Combo Collection) - Jan 2 Blood Simple (4K Combo) - Jan 9 Lone Star (4K Combo and Blu-ray) - Jan 16 Chantal Akerman Masterpieces 1968-1878 (Blu-ray Collection) - Jan 23 Mudbound (Blu-ray and DVD) - Jan 30 Trainspotting (4K Combo and Blu-ray) - Jan 30 The Akerman collection features the four features and one short from the new deleted (!) Eclipse DVD set, Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, plus an additional three short films and Jeanne Dielman. Blood Simple, Lone Star, and Trainspotting are in Dolby Vision on the UHDs while The Apu Trilogy will be SDR. Trainspotting is another laserdisc return.
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Oct 17, 2023 21:09
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I'm refusing to buy Blood Simple until they add in the joke commentary from the DVD.
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Oct 17, 2023 21:56
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Almost bought For All Mankind for the second time but I had already added it to my collection on Criterion. Should really get around to watching it.
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Oct 18, 2023 03:48
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Those January releases are the first time I’ll be doing multiple movies in one month for a loooong time. Akerman, Trainspotting, and Lone Star are definite buys (love me some Sayles). And speaking of sa(y)les- I picked up the Whit Stillman set, Inland Empire, and for some reason I didn’t have Wings of Desire and so I went ahead and rectified that. Night of the Hunter is one of those movies I love and I always go “hey I’ll pick that one up the next sale” and that’s been going on for something like 10 years now.
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Oct 18, 2023 08:14
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My apologies if it's been mentioned ITT already, but I can't believe how cute the box for The Princess Bride is. Are there other Criterion releases that have non-standard boxes like that?
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Oct 29, 2023 04:21
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:My apologies if it's been mentioned ITT already, but I can't believe how cute the box for The Princess Bride is. Are there other Criterion releases that have non-standard boxes like that? Quite a few of them come in cardboard fold-outs, particularly the 4K ones but a lot of blurays too. I don't have any others that look like a book, but Do The Right Thing's packaging is built around a companion tome that comes with it.
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Oct 29, 2023 16:08
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The Del Toro boxset’s packaging is cool, it’s square and folds out in all four directions
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Oct 29, 2023 17:05
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The blu-ray for Videodrome is done up to look like a VHS slipcase, iirc
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Oct 29, 2023 19:53
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Hahaha that's wonderful.
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Oct 29, 2023 20:47
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When you open the packaging for the original Godzilla a little Godzilla head pops out at you
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Oct 29, 2023 21:10
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Cool stuff I've noticed... Lone Wolf and Cub has a secret compartment containing a surprise. The Celebration has clear plastic with spot color instead of paper for the case slick so that you can see the discs inside. Time Bandits has a lenticular slipcover on the UHD edition (as well as the first run of the Blu-ray) The Koker Trilogy is packaged so that each digipak is nestled within another. True Stories, Ace in the Hole, and His Girl Friday have booklets in the form of folded newspaper prints. Dr. Strangelove has a faux LIFE Magazine for the essay and a replica mini-bible for the production notes, contained with an envelope marked "PLAN R" [(Only reason why I didn't sell it off when I got the Sony UHD) Repo Man looks neat under a blacklight.
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Oct 29, 2023 21:20
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Pink Flamingos has a slipcover that looks like a brown paper package stamped with Divine's address, with the case itself looking like a portrait of her character, and the booklet is styled like a zine. 
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Oct 29, 2023 21:27
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There's the giant Godzilla book that's too big to fit on any shelf
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Oct 29, 2023 21:30
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also the standalone Godzilla disc has a pop-up book effect
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Oct 29, 2023 22:03
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The Repo Man blu has a booklet that's thick enough to have a spine and the whole thing is super nice
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Oct 29, 2023 23:55
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Egbert Souse posted:
I've owned this set for years and had no idea about this one
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Oct 30, 2023 00:06
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:Are there other Criterion releases that have non-standard boxes like that?   
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Oct 30, 2023 02:03
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Dangerous Person posted:I've owned this set for years and had no idea about this one Same here, I just found it after two years thanks to that post.
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Oct 30, 2023 21:37
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Riki-Oh is on criterion channel. what a world
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Nov 3, 2023 04:17
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Brexit the Frog posted:Riki-Oh is on criterion channel. what a world  edit; gotta be dubbed tho
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Nov 3, 2023 11:58
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Brexit the Frog posted:Riki-Oh is on criterion channel. what a world And Trash Humpers
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Nov 3, 2023 16:12
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https://imgur.io/a/z9dGmY5 did i do good for $30 at goodwill John Romero fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Nov 6, 2023 |
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Nov 6, 2023 19:33
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John Romero posted:https://imgur.io/a/z9dGmY5 Yes, thirteen Criterions ~$2.30 each seems good.
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Nov 6, 2023 23:23
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John Romero posted:https://imgur.io/a/z9dGmY5 
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Nov 6, 2023 23:40
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based on the age of some of them (old as poo poo or came out after the blu rays started), i can only assume either a local college upgraded or a true freak died
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Nov 7, 2023 04:08
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Are they former library copies? I see those go up for sale a lot
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Nov 7, 2023 04:11
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John Romero posted:https://imgur.io/a/z9dGmY5 hiroshima mon amour is worth $30 alone
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Nov 7, 2023 04:14
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Blind bought Targets and Short Cuts. I know I shouldn’t be buying blind but I believe in these. Please slap, movies. Edit: Targets indeed rules, holy poo poo. Kart Barfunkel fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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Nov 8, 2023 05:24
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Targets rules. A prescient commentary on gun culture in America and a great career-end performance by Karloff.
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Nov 8, 2023 06:02
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Anyone have thoughts on Bringing Up Baby and Holiday? I’ve been in a mood for golden age Hollywood comedies and I really loved The Awful Truth when I watched it a few months ago.
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Nov 8, 2023 06:29
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Anyone have thoughts on Bringing Up Baby and Holiday? I’ve been in a mood for golden age Hollywood comedies and I really loved The Awful Truth when I watched it a few months ago. They’re both great. I’d say Bringing Up Baby is the greater great, what with especially that leopard. Watch that one first.
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Nov 8, 2023 06:34
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Anybody got any strong opinions on this first slate of Janus Contemporaries?
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Nov 8, 2023 14:31
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Eight Mountains was good EO was bad.
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Nov 8, 2023 18:18
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Anyone have thoughts on Bringing Up Baby and Holiday? I’ve been in a mood for golden age Hollywood comedies and I really loved The Awful Truth when I watched it a few months ago. Bringing Up Baby is obviously a solid screwball comedy classic, but I found Holiday to be a wonderful underrated blind-buy years ago. Calling it a "dramedy" isn't as accurate, but I think it has more a breezy sort of feel that's more about characters. Of course, where on earth can you go wrong with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant being directed by George Cukor?
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Nov 9, 2023 00:47
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Blind bought Targets and Short Cuts. I know I shouldn’t be buying blind but I believe in these. Please slap, movies. Short Cuts was great. Stacked cast, brilliantly interwoven stories about Angelinos. Lots of similarities to Magnolia but far less melodrama. Feels a lot more natural. Of course with that natural feeling, the arcs of some of these characters are less obvious on an initial viewing. I’m sure this is a film that benefits rewatches
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Never bought any Criterion releases before until I found Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Dreams recently at a second hand store. I'm definitely looking forward to finding more Kurosawa out in the wild.
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