Suggestions for the Criterion Collection

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by RK2249, Oct 15, 2017.

  1. Kubricker

    Kubricker Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

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    Yep. It wasn’t so great though was it? Had it’s moments.
     
  2. The only reason it wasn’t held in as high esteem was because of how great Chinatown was.
     
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  3. darkmass

    darkmass Forum Resident

    Three points...

    1) The Two Jakes is not Chinatown.

    2) The Two Jakes dovetails well with Chinatown, with due consideration for the cultural changes over the intervening years and due consideration for the life progression of Jake Gittes.

    3) The Two Jakes is a dark movie, written with great care...and it is a very, very good movie.
     
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  4. Phase IV

    Saul Bass' only feature length film as director. Criterion could license the alternate ending version and present both as seamlessly branching for the film. A commentary and documentary focusing on the post-production tug of war with Fox, the recut, Bass' intention, interviews with Mayo Simon, a presentation of the original script as a an interactive feature, one of the shorts out there on Bass' career as a title designer, etc. and this would be a great presentation for a minor cult classic that deserved far better than it got. Oh, and the theatrical trailer which had some footage cut from the original film.
     
  5. LitHum05

    LitHum05 El Disco es Cultura

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    Virginia
    Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace.
     
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  6. PhilBorder

    PhilBorder Senior Member

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    I've watched carefully several times. Read the screenplay a few times too. As much as I've wanted to like it, it just doesn't work, imo. The plot is somewhat confusing and Nicholson isn't an attentive enough director to clarify some of the confusion. Everything is given equal weight. And the acting ranges from stilted (Perry Lopez) to annoying (Madeline Stowe). I commend Nicholson for stepping in to rescue a sinking project, but it needed a better director. A more ruthless director.

    That said, the production design is evocative, and the ending is poignant.
     
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  7. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    I would suggest Fricke's Samsara (subtitle: Holy CRAP That's Gorgeous / Eww Gross, Let Me Outta Here), but I'm not sure Criterion could improve upon its' flawed messaging by making the images incrementally even crisper. Slip Baraka and Chronos into the box, and you've sure got a challenger to Reggio's -Quatsi trilogy.
     
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  8. amonjamesduul

    amonjamesduul Forum Resident

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    Yes!The curent version looks great but it's unforgivable they did not include at least the original ending.
     
  9. amonjamesduul

    amonjamesduul Forum Resident

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    I would love a Criterion version(or any) of The fantastic animation festival.
     
  10. Jrr

    Jrr Forum Resident

    With you on this....I really wanted to like this too and just couldn't get into it. Rare that I don't like a Jack movie but I don't know, maybe I was expecting too much of a sequel. Interesting someone here said it wasn't supposed to be...I thought it was but I guess I was mistaken. Was like the Rogue One movie...I guess I thought it was going to be something other than it was, and I didn't initially enjoy it. But when I watched it a second time at home when the DVD came out I loved it. Sometimes it's really our fault for having inaccurate expectations; in that case it's good to try and watch again down the line. I should try to do that with Two Jakes.
     
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  11. joelee

    joelee Hyperactive!

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    2001
    King Kong

    please
     
  12. Time Is On My Side

    Time Is On My Side Forum Resident

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  13. Rachael Bee

    Rachael Bee Miembra muy loca

    I don't see that one. It's even on UHD-BD at this point. It's not going to Criterion lane.

    Hollywoodland has only been released in the U.K. on Wee-jun Bee locked disc. Universal doesn't seem to think much of it. It, they might hand over to Criterion...???
     
  14. Kubricker

    Kubricker Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

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  15. Time Is On My Side

    Time Is On My Side Forum Resident

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    The current discs are crap. All the film grain removed, DNR'd to death. This is one that would benefit greatly from Criterion treatment.
     
  16. Rachael Bee

    Rachael Bee Miembra muy loca

    Lionsgate isn't gonna hand this film over to Criterion. What you say is true but studios seldom hand over titles that they can easily exploit. This one is one of the least likely Criterion titles ever.
     
  17. Kubricker

    Kubricker Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

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    Some others while glancing at my old dvd copies:

    Blue Velvet (!)
    The Dead Zone - always loved the wintry feel that permeates this movie.
    Miller’s Crossing
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
    Sunset Boulevard
    Man Of The West
    Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
     
  18. Malinky

    Malinky Almost a Gentleman.

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    Totally with you on this one, if ever a film needed updating in glorious color and sound, it`s `Stop Making Sense`.

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  19. Time Is On My Side

    Time Is On My Side Forum Resident

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    The Ghost and the Darkness
    -This one doesn't even have a US Blu-ray release, you have to get the German one

    Star Trek - The Motion Picture (Director's Cut)
    -This one also does not even have a Blu-ray release

    Goodfellas
    Robocop
    Gladiator
    The French Connection
    The Fifth Element
    Predator
    Top Gun

    -All of these have a really poor transfer

    Mission Impossible
    Last Action Hero


    With Last Action Hero, the audio just sounded bad to me and it isn't even lossless, it has a 448kbps AC3 5.1 track?!? The same is probably true for a lot of other Blu-ray releases from Mill Creek.

    I also found the Blu-ray of Goldeneye doesn't really look all that great. Does anyone know why this one just doesn't look that good or am I just imagining things again? All of the other Bond Blu-rays have looked good to me except that one specifically.

    Speaking of Bond, what happened with Spectre? You watch the Blu-ray of Skyfall and it looks amazing but then Spectre and it's like the colors are just not as vibrant and dynamic. I thought I read somewhere that Skyfall was shot with an Arri Alexa and Spectre was shot on film, am I just seeing the differences between those two formats? Uggh where is Vidiot when you need him.
     
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  20. Time Is On My Side

    Time Is On My Side Forum Resident

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    Lethal Weapon Director's Cut
     
  21. Kubricker

    Kubricker Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…

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    Atlanta
    The Searchers

    Haven’t looked much at my WB copy but I’m sure there’s hordes of people clambering for a mono DTS-HD MA soundtrack!
     
  22. LeBon Bush

    LeBon Bush Hound of Love

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    This. Period.
     
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  23. mBen989

    mBen989 Senior Member

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    Arrow did this a while back but there's an issue with the transfer.

    As for Two Jakes, I think this is an Olive Films release at best.
     
  24. Jerry Horne

    Jerry Horne WYWH (1975-2025)

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    AMEN!!
     
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  25. Duke Fame

    Duke Fame Sold out the Enormodome

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