1,000 DOLLARS, WTF?
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1,000 DOLLARS, WTF?
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Yeah they are rare like only 600 made.
I paid 99 kr for it( 15 dollars) not criteron
For those who dont already know it,Criterion is coming out with a new label called Eclipse
Their first release is:
First there was news on The Alejandro Jodorsky Box Set now there is this:
Extras:
-New, restored high-definition digital transfer
-Audio commentary featuring director Stuart Cooper and actor Brian Stirner
-Mining the Archive, a new video featuring Imperial War Museum film archivists detailing the war footage used in the film
-“Capa Influences Cooper,� a new photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa
-Cameramen at War, the British Ministry of Information’s 1943 film tribute to newsreel and service film unit cameramen
-Germany Calling, a 1941 British Ministry of Information propaganda film, clips of which appear in Overlord
-Journals from two D-day soldiers, read by Brian Stirner Theatrical trailer
-English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
-PLUS: A new essay by critic Kent Jones, a short history of the Imperial War Museum, and excerpts from the Overlord novelization, by Cooper and Christopher Hudson
Comes out in April
03/13/07
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* New video interview with Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
* New video interview with director Kon Ichikawa and actor Mickey Curtis
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens
03/13/07
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* New video interviews with director Kon Ichikawa and actor Rentaro Mikuni
* Original theatrical trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A new essay by renowned critic and historian Tony Rayns
03/20/07
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Audio commentary by screenwriter Malvin Wald
* An analysis of the film’s NY locations by author James Sanders
* A new video interview with NYU film professor Dana Polan
* Footage from Jules Dassin’s 2003 appearance at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
* Stills gallery
* PLUS: A new essay by critic Luc Sante
04/17/07
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* New English-language audio commentary by writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz
* Video introduction by Jodie Foster
* A new video featurette on the film’s banlieue setting
* Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vicendeau and notes by Costa-Gavras
* More!
04/17/07
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Audio commentary by film noir specialists Alain Sliver and James Ursini
* A new interview with author Paul Mason
* Theatrical trailer
* Stills gallery
* Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* PLUS: A new essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
05/15/07
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Excerpts from a video interview with Shohei Imamura, produced by DG of Japan
* Theatrical trailer and teaser
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Atkinson
* a 1994 interview with Imamura by writier Toichi Nakata, and writings by Imamura
And finally, I’m sure there’s a few region handicapped US fans who have been waiting for this
Release Date: 05/15/07
* New high-definition digital transfer of the recent full restoration
* Optional Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 soundtrack
* Audio commentary by Jean-Pierre Melville historian Ginette Vincendeau
* New interviews with Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot
* Archival excerpts from French television programs
* Jean-Pierre Melville et "L’Armee des ombres (2006) a short doc
* Le journal de la Resistance (1944), a rare short doc
* Theatrical trailers
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: a booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin and historian Robert Paxton
05/22/07
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Audio commentary by Japanese-literature professor Jeffrey Angles
* New video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, Tokuzo Tanaka, and Kyoko Kagawa
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu
* and the story on which the film was based, Ogai Mori’s “Sansho dayu,” from 1915
* and a written form of an oral variation of the same tale
October
- New high-definition digital transfer, from the 2006 restoration by the Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, and supervised and approved by director of photography Xaver Schwarzenberger
- Two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the other on the restoration
- Hans Dieter Hartl’s 1980 documentary The Making of “Berlin Alexanderplatz”
*Phil Jutzi’s 1931, ninety-minute film of Alfred Doblin’s novel, from a screenplay cowritten by Doblin himself
- New video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections from Fassbinder, an interview with Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Raoul Coutard
- Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
- New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker
- New video essays: filmmaker and critic Mark Rappaport’s Jean Sebergand critic Jonathan Rosenbaum’s “Breathless” as Film Criticism
- Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède, an eighty-minute French documentary about the making of Breathless, with members of the cast and crew
- Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard, starring Belmondo
- French theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew, writings from Godard, Francois Truffaut’s original film treatment, and Godard’s scenario
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant
- New interview with Van Sant
- Walt Curtis, the Peckerneck Poet: a documentary about the author of the book Mala Noche, directed by animator and friend Bill Plympton
- Storyboard gallery
- Original trailer edited by Van Sant
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by film editor Roberto Silvi
- Audio commentaries featuring executive producer Michael Fitzgerald and producers Wieland Schulz-Keil and Moritz Borman on the film; screenwriter Guy Gallo on selected scenes; and actor and filmmaker Danny Huston, John Huston’s son, on the main title sequence
- Theatrical trailer
- New video interview with Jacqueline Bisset
- Notes from “Under the Volcano” (1984), an hour-long documentary on the film’s production, directed by Gary Conklin
- Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976), filmmaker Donald Brittain’s 99-minute, Academy Award–nominated documentary, narrated by Richard Burton, about Under the Volcano author Malcolm Lowry
- Audio interview with John Huston from 1984
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a essay by film scholar and critic Christian Viviani
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Terrence Malick, editor Billy Weber, and camera operator John Bailey
- New Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Weber, art director Jack Fisk, costume designer Patricia Norris, and casting director Dianne Crittenden
- New audio interview with Richard Gere
- New video interviews with cinematographers Haskell Wexler and Bailey, and a video interview with Sam Shepard from 2002
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Adrian Martin and a chapter from director of photography Nestor Almendros’s autobiography
November 2007
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- New audio commentary featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
- A 30-minute documentary on the making of Drunken Angel
- A new video piece that looks at the challenges Kurosawa faced in making Drunken Angel
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by cultural historian Ian Buruma and a reprint from Kurosawa’s Something Like an Autobiography
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
- Video introduction by Ingmar Bergman from 2003
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic John Simon and an appreciation by filmmaker Catherine Breillat
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
- Crook’s Tour, a 1941 feature-length Charters and Caldicott adventure, available for the first time on home video, with Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne reprising their beloved The Lady Vanishes roles
- Excerpts from Francois Truffaut’s legendary 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock
- Mystery Train, a new video essay about Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes by scholar Leonard Leff (Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood) Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art
- PLUS: A new essays by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
^ I watched Brute Force yesterday. Quite solid. [quote=“Laydback”]
Au Hasard Balthazar (Didn’t get to finish it. But I should give it another try since I keep hearing good things about it)
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Better late than never. Gonna watch it today.
actually i have Chungking Express now. no idea when i’ll get around to watching it
anyone actually seen Fires on the Plains? Just the box art makes me want to check it out
^ I haven’t, but for you to get help and for me to post more on this topic,
Can we please bump the sh*t outta this! I am surprised this Criterion page isn’t going through the roof.
Here, I’ll start.
For the past month here is what I got from Criterion.
Blu-rays:
DVDS:
Next couple of months I’m looking at:
Blu-rays
DVDs
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anyone actually seen Fires on the Plains? Just the box art makes me want to check it out
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I’ve seen it and read the book it is based on by Shohei Ooka. I read the book first and loved it, which is why I saw the film. Not sure which I like best though, because they are both excellent. There are battle scenes, but the focus of the story is a starving, tired Japanese soldier trying to survive near the end of the war. It’s a psychological war film, not like a battle-heavy one. But I think the cover shows that.
Here are the Criterions I own:
- RASHOMON
- SEVEN SAMURAI
- SEVENTH SEAL
- RAN
- IKIRU
- M
- THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
- THE LEOPARD
- 8 1/2
- ANDREI RUBLEV
- TOKYO STORY
- CHILDREN OF PARADISE
- THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
- FANNY & ALEXANDER BOX SET
- THE THIRD MAN
- BATTLE OF ALGIERS
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
AND IN A WEEK OR SO I WILL BE GETTING
- CONTEMPT
- WAGES OF FEAR
- SEVEN SAMURAI (3 DISC SET)
- SEVENTH SEAL (NEW EDITION)
Of the ones coming out soon I definitely want to get THE HUMAN CONDITION and there’s many I wish to own like Renoir’s RULES OF THE GAME, Bergman’s TRILOGY, Dreyer’s THREE FILMS and VAMPYR, and much much more…
Oh and good news that Soderbergh’s CHE is coming on Criterion
I’m gonna be participating in a Criterion marathon starting next month (A horror marathon the following month) but this means I don’t have enough money to buy new Criterion discs. I’m just gonna fill up the netflix account, watch online, or flip the TV on (I don’t know how it is overseas, but Criterion movies come on a lot IFC or Sundance)
These two Eclipse releases on the horizon look awesome.
Also, Gomorrah got a hell of a fast Criterion release. Cover art is amazing.
Che is coming in December and hoping to see some Fellini on Blu-ray soon. I ordered Kagemusha and Playtime on Blu (came out Tuesday) and can’t wait for Pierrot Le Fou in Sept.
[quote=“Laydback”]I’m gonna be participating in a Criterion marathon starting next month[/quote]
Marathon’s going pretty well so far (Extras/Supplements are included as well as the films)
Rundown of what I’ve seen so far with brief reactions:
1st:
1. #408-Breathless___Jean-Luc Godard___1960
My first time viewing & 5th-viewed Godard film. What surprised me the most about this was that it actually had a basic outline (Something that I’m not accustomed to seeing compared to his other fragmented works) but this was, by far, the most engaging film I’ve seen of his since Alphaville (My 1st Godard)
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2. “KSAN Radio Interview” (#99-Gimme Shelter___David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin___1970)
Didn’t expect to hear Godard’s Weekend to get mentioned (Ironically, for this marathon) Sonny Barger’s rant is priceless. Great extra.
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3. #198-Ali: Fear Eats the Soul___Rainer Werner Fassbinder___1974
My first Fassbinder film and I didn’t know what to expect. Glad to say that that I was pleased with this “Blind-viewing”. Though I wasn’t the biggest fan of the abrupt or inconclusive ending, the film had already won me over with it’s blunt sincerity of the characters. Too many films of this kind has to have it’s characters hiding their secrets from everyone else for far too long. So it was refreshing, for once, to see a movie where the inner feelings are immediately on display.
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4. #214-The Devil and Daniel Webster___ William Dieterle___1941
Before this viewing, all I had previously seen of this movie were the final 20 minutes (Trial scene) and I kicked myself for not being able to see the whole film. Well, this time around, I actually wished I could’ve seen one of the shorter versions as I felt that the film took a while to get going. I still love the finale a whole lot though…Loved Simone Simone too.
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2nd:
5. #79-W.C. Fields-Six Short Films
Favorites in order:
The Pharmacist (1933)
The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
Pool Sharks (1915)
The Dentist (1932)
The Golf Specialist (1930)
The Barber Shop (1933)
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6. #156-Hearts and Minds___ Peter Davis___1974
Since all war-documentaries tend to be the same to me, I don’t have much to say here. But there’s a lot of aspects that get covered here and the always strong (Graphic) footage will always leave an impression no matter what.
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3rd:
7. #131-Closely Watched Trains___Jirí Menzel___1966
My first disappointment. The opening 20 minutes-or-so kept my attention, but the film really began to lose me when Milos (The Main character) goes through his crisis. I would’ve assumed that his re-awakening would have shifted the movie into another gear, but it continued to stay in it’s previous mode. The conclusion seemed promising, but was too rushed.
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8. "“Cinépanorama” & “Cannes 1959” (#5-The 400 Blows___François Truffaut___1959)
Interesting to know that Truffaut mentions that he was appreciative of Arthur Penn’s work…But Penn was still mostly a TV-director by '59. I’m guessing that The Left Handed Gun must’ve really left an impression!
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9. #21-Dead Ringers___David Cronenberg___1988
As other reviewers seem to mention, tremendous performance(s) by Jeremy Irons and an always welcomed specific-tone by Cronenberg, but I was still left expecting more.
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4th:
10. #226-Onibaba___Kaneto Shindo___1966
Intriguing story that I wish could’ve gone on a little longer. I was surprised by the frank sexual nature of it, given that it would take a few more years untill imagery like this would be commonplace.
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11. #426-The Ice Storm___Ang Lee___1997
Dysfunctional family-life never felt so fresh. This film also comlpetely renewed my interest in checking out more of Lee’s work.
Few things I couldn’t help but point out:
The resemblence between Christina Ricci and Tobey Maguire as siblings was quite eerie. It was also a bit surreal to hear Maguire (In his Peter Parker voice) talk about Reed Richards!
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5th:
12. #101-Cries and Whispers___Ingmar Bergman___1972
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"Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love"
First viewing and my 4th-viewed Bergman film. The themes seemed to parallel Ice Storm but with obivously different interpretations by their directors. But I ended up perferring both Lee’s version and other Bergman-directed films over this. I did, however, really love those red fadeouts (Symbolizing the soul).
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13. #137-Notorious___Alfred Hitchcock___1946
I’m not the biggest Cary Grant fan around, but I get amazed at how the Cary Grant that I know never seems to ever show up in this movie. And Ingrid Bergman certainly had no easy task with this material. Not pure perfection, but awful close.
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6th:
14. #423-Walker___Alex Cox___1987
I can see how the critics could hate this, but even though I can’t say that I loved it myself, I still found plenty of joy with it (As I have with every other Cox film I’ve seen)
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15. #4-Amarcord___Federico Fellini___1974
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"Fellini’s Homecoming"
Watched w/ audio commentary on. It was kind of frustrating when (On the documentary) all the interviewees wouldn’t say why Fellini was always reluctant to revisit Rimini (His hometown) but it only took the commentators an ever-so-brief sentence to provide the answer.
As for the movie itself, it’s still a favorite of mine. It could be that I’m partial to Fellini’s post-NeoRealistic films, but to be honest, I haven’t given more of his earlier works a look. That might change soon (I Vitelloni will be my next Fellini)
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7th:
16. “Voices of Death” (#13-The Silence of the Lambs___Johnathan Demme___1991)
Needed to put something nice on after reading all this text. Albert Fish’s statements, in particularly, got to me.
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17. #443-La Ronde___Max Ophuls___1950
I’m a big fan of “Connected-Character” movies like this, but this ended up being a slight mixed bag for me. Good stories in the early going, but the middle stories became long and dull. Thankfully, things got back on track when Jean-Louis Barrault showed up. Chuckled outloud during the “Censored” scene.
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18. It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988) (#247-Slacker___Richard Linklater___(1991)
More watchable with the audio commentary on due to Linklater’s (Always) pleasing stories for first-time filmmakers.
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8th:
19. #116-The Hidden Fortress___ Akira Kurosawa___1958
It’s been several years since I’ve last seen this. Wasn’t too fond of all the humor the first time around, but I don’t know what I must’ve been thinking as I had a great deal of fun with this upon my 2nd viewing. It was great to re-visit these characters again and, overall, I’ve immediately developed a better appreciation for it.
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20. #273-Thieves’ Highway___Jules Dassin___1949
Probably would’ve liked the movie a little more if it went by the alternate title of “How ya like them apples?”. I’m still open to check out more of Dassin’s work (Liked Brute Force quite a bit) but I didn’t really see the big deal about this one. What I did like the most about it were those moments between Conte and Cortese.
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9th:
21. #44-The Red Shoes___Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger___1948
I was expecting another all-out performance-fest (ala Tales of Hoffmann) so I was pleased to see that there was a multi-dimensional tale at (Love triangle to go along with the behind-the-scenes look at ballet life) Though it’s not the type of movie I could watch again & again, I was still glad to give something like this a viewing.
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22. #43-Lord of the Flies___Peter Brook___1963
Haven’t seen the remake in many years, and while I was watching the original, I began to think that the remake was better crafted…But then the original really began to take off in it’s 2nd act. Not to mention, a much more beautiful ending to look at.
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23. “Carl Th. Dreyer (1966)” (#437-Vampyr___Carl Theodor Dreyer___1932)
Quite brief doc. covering Dreyer’s film work. Wondering if I’ve got enough time to add Day of Wrath for this challenge
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24. #253-A Woman Under the Influence___John Cassavetes___1974
This is only the 2nd Cassavetes film I’ve seen (The other being Killing/Bookie) and I found this one to be a MASSIVE improvement. Though I wouldn’t have mind seeing a little bit of trimming done after the “Six Months Later” caption, I was still blown away by this, nonetheless. Possibly the best film I’ve seen so far in this marathon.
It looks good. Nice short views on all these films. I want to watch a John Cassavettes, it kinda confirmed the opinions of F.W. about him.