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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


I got the Elephant Man, Salo, the Nikkatsu Noir boxset, the complete Lady Snowblood, and the Monsters and Madmen boxset (with two Boris Karloff films I'd never even heard of :prepop:)

A friend also got me the complete Agnes Varda boxset, which was so cool it almost made me forget to even make this post about what I got in the sale. Gonna need to dedicate a whole month at some point just to watching everything on there

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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


June releases announced

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1371495572159528963
https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1371495748253126658

Pickup on South Street
Pariah
The Human Condition
Visions of Eight (8 short documentary pieces from the Munich Olympics)
Streetwise and Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs (featuring Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Affirmations, Anthem, Color Adjustment, No Regret, and Black Is...Black Ain't)

Great month, likely preordering that Marlon Riggs collection

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


September titles

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1404909682309935111

Love & Basketball
Throw Down
Mona Lisa
The Damned

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Kart Barfunkel posted:

What’s the Damned about? I love the cover.

A rich family in early-30s Germany does business with the Nazis to maintain their status, and the family self-destructs

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


bobkatt013 posted:

He is not currently in jail like Gerard jones

Would be if he hadn't literally fled

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


I'm starting a new job tomorrow so I might actually be able to get some stuff this time :woop:

I'll look into getting the Marlon Riggs set and either the Wong Kar Wai set or The Lure

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Roth posted:

Arrow also has their own streaming service that is really good.

Real happy to hear this, I keep wondering if I should sub when I get some spare time

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Fate Accomplice posted:

never gonna happen but it would be awesome if criterion joined movies anywhere

:agreed:

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Elevator to the Gallows was the first one I saw on a whim and I loved that

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Pink Flamingos coming in June https://time.com/6148756/john-waters-interview-maisel-2022/

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


September releases:

Blow Out (4K)
Take Out
Exotica
Le Corbeau
Scorsese's World Cinema Project #4
Sound of Metal

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1537112151134969861

I'm getting Sound of Metal

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


The films are still great, even if the updated look isn't

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


I ordered the Fellini set, the Ingmar Bergman set, and A Man Escaped

Please no more sales

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1546560077322231808?s=20&t=FzH80EPJHnkJ52rBXgmHKA

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



Also 4K NOTLD

https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1546879550478581760?s=20&t=BEW8NWGHcZ44x3Rg4UQ1pQ

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Goddamn. May be the first month since I started paying attention where I’m interested in every release

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Gripweed posted:

Considering that Disney owns a pretty decent chunk of American cinema, refusing to play ball with them out of pique doesn’t seem like a great move for Criterion to make.

Also them outsourcing/loosening their grip on even some of their library for physical media distribution is a good way of disputing the "physical media is dead" myth for numerous reasons. As HBO Max is currently showing and as Disney's own/old The Vault approach showed, if you wanted something to not be seen, the easiest way to do it is...not let it be seen. Boutique labels like Vinegar Syndrome are already seconding this as being good for them/endorsing physical media as something that's not going away as much as the "physical media is dead" myth/memes want it to

https://twitter.com/jlalibs/status/1567908965006065664

Ideally this continues with more old/archived stuff that actually hasn't had an audience for a while, if ever, but you could have started with worse

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


December lineup

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1570444031326388234

Cooley High
The Velvet Underground
Michael Haneke: Trilogy (The 7th Continent, Benny's Video and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance)
3 Films by Mai Zetterling (Loving Couples, Night Games and The Girls)

I'm getting the trilogy bundles. Haneke :woop:

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

criterion getting less awesome in the last few years; arrow, severin, indicator, and vinegar syndrom getting more awesome.

Good tradeoff imo

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

But I thought easy big money to support operations was why they took disney’s money to release WALL-E????

Now it's why they have a $35 plain white shirt that says SCREWBALL on it

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Escobarbarian posted:

Jan announcements:

Baron Munchausen (4K)
Imitation of Life (1934, not the Sirk)
Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
Bergman Island

Pretty awkward timing on the Munchausen release given it’s not been that long since Sarah Polley came out with her stories about the awful set.

https://twitter.com/realsarahpolley/status/1586483511342796803?s=20&t=QvRDLp6Kl0__zWtU3Dk1_w
https://twitter.com/realsarahpolley/status/1586483512906944512

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


:getin:

https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1603430475275509760

Other March releases:
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Last Hurrah for Chivalry
Mildred Pierce

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Crosspost

Chris James 2 posted:

Criterion going to be releasing Triangle of Sadness, Petite Maman, Moonage Daydream and All The Beauty And The Bloodshed :woop:

https://twitter.com/neonrated/status/1614028432614232073?s=20

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


April releases announced

The Fisher King 4K
The Seventh Seal 4K
Triangle of Sadness
Small Axe: Five Films by Steve McQueen (Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red White And Blue, Alex Wheatle and Education)

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1615399996001751040

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1630638482459598848

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


I thought it was pretty good/great, just not as much as the original which is a classic. The ending ruled and I felt it deserved better than its reputation ("box office flop" and critically forgotten due to being sandwiched in-between releases of other, also-pretty-good/great films West Side Story and Tragedy of Macbeth)

In terms of GDT's filmography I only love Pan's Labyrinth, Pinocchio, and Crimson Peak more; caveats are I haven't seen Devil's Backbone yet, and it's been a while since I saw Cronos so that could do for a rewatch. Shape of Water's close but I'd prefer rewatching this than that

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Out at the end of June: Pasolini 101

quote:

One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities—and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society’s downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, the nine uncompromising, often scandal-inciting features he made in the 1960s still stand—on this, the 101st anniversary of his birth—as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance.

Accattone
Mamma Roma
Love Meetings
Gospel According to Matthew
Hawks and the Sparrows
Oedipus Rex
Teorema
Porcile
Medea

quote:

Two shorts made by director Pier Paolo Pasolini for anthology films: La ricotta (1963) and The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969)
Two documentaries made by Pasolini during his travels
New program on Pasolini’s visual style as told through his personal writing, narrated by actor Tilda Swinton and writer Rachel Kushner
Audio commentaries on Accattone and Teorema
Documentaries on Pasolini’s life and career featuring archival interviews with the director and his close collaborators
Episode from 1966 of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps
Interviews with filmmakers and scholars
Trailers
New English subtitle translations
PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a 100-page book featuring an essay and notes on the films by critic James Quandt, and writings and drawings by Pasolini

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


I got Marriage Story, Solaris, Eve's Bayou, and three trilogies (Three Colors, von Trier's Europe trilogy and Haneke's trilogy), and I had $27 worth of coupons :woop:

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/criterionchannl/status/1644732339497447425

PSA to check your emails, they sent out $10 coupons for the store. Their coupons never expire and can be stacked, so you don't have to spend it now if you wanted to wait for a sale

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


July titles:

One False Move
After Hours
The Watermelon Woman
Breathless 4K
And the Ranown Westerns: 5 Films directed by Budd Boetticher (The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station)

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1646901781929107456

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Flash sale

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1652803915513987078

Grand Budapest Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Fantastic Mr Fox
Darjeeling Limited
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket

And from his top 10:
The Earrings of Madame de...
Au hasard Balthazar
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Classe tous risques
L'enfance nue
Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters
The Exterminating Angel

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1656699179219943426?s=20

quote:

Starting this fall, Criterion will proudly join Janus Films in presenting Janus Contemporaries, a new line of home-video editions of first-run releases, fresh from theaters, following their streaming premieres on the Criterion Channel.

...The Blu-ray and DVD editions will include new interviews with the filmmakers produced by Criterion as part of the Criterion Channel series Meet the Filmmakers, and will retail for $29.95 (Blu-ray) and $24.95 (DVD).

...With a more robust first-run lineup than it has had since the 1960s and powerful partnerships with theatrical specialists Sideshow and the Criterion Channel streaming service, Janus is uniquely well positioned to bring the best films from around the world to theaters and homes across North America. The launch of Janus Contemporaries completes that picture.

First announcements:
EO
No Bears
The Innocent
Godland
Tori and Lokita
The Eight Mountains

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Escobarbarian posted:

Also a method acting section with a conversation between Ethan Hawke, D’Onofrio, and Isaac Butler (I don’t know who that last guy is)

I haven't checked it out yet but Isaac wrote a semi-recent award-winning 500-pager on the history of method acting https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/method-9781635574777/

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


September announcements:

The Princess Bride 4K
Walkabout 4K
Orson Welles' The Trial
La Bamba
and Moonage Daydream

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Sir Mat of Dickie posted:

There was a recent 4K of The Trial from Studiocanal. Wonder if I'll regret having that one and not the Criterion version.

Seems like no

https://twitter.com/jlalibs/status/1669384597614780416?s=20

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Also Kino and Severin just started their own sales, and Vinegar Syndrome is announcing 21 new titles in 6.5 hours

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Nanny rules, saw it at Sundance and thought it was done for in terms of finding a bigger audience as a Prime exclusive later. Happy as hell rn, definitely worth a watch

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Janus Contemporaries’ first releases announced. Coming in October

EO
No Bears
The Innocent

https://www.criterion.com/janus-contemporaries

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


The November Janus Contemporaries releases:

Godland
The Eight Mountains
Tori and Lokita

https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1694742236510970182?s=20

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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


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