There is a new edition, from Arrow Video, due for release next month in the U.K.: The Day Of The Jackal
Birdman Her Both feel like Criterion movies to me, and the current BDs are pretty bare bones, so the Criterion treatment would be most welcome.
My Criterion BR list so far: The Red Shoes Black Narcissus The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Wild Strawberries Smiles of a Summer Night The Seventh Seal The Third Man The Wages of Fear Paths of Glory The Thin Red Line M Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Paris, Texas Buena Vista Social Club The Night of the Hunter Island of Lost Souls Late Spring Tokyo Story Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Heaven's Gate Tampopo Lola Montes Stalker Solaris The Emigrants/The New Land Carnival of Souls Babette's Feast Godzilla Seven Samurai The Apu Triology On DVD: Wooden Crosses/Les Miserables (combo) (upgraded to BR discs via BFI) As for what I'd like to see released (either by Criterion or one of the British companies): "The Hill" (in 1:1.66) Also Bela Tarr. We have only "The Turin Horse" on BR right now; his films beg to be upgraded for release. C.
Agreed. The Turin Horse is the only Blu-ray of Tarr's that I have as well. Would love to see Werckmeister Harmonies on Criterion Blu-ray.
Might as well update an old post of mine. (Anything bolded is new.) Here are the Criterions I have, arranged by spine number. This means I have the BluRay (or BluRay/DVD combo pack) A Night to Remember (#7) Brazil (#51) [2006 anamorphic reissue] Chasing Amy (#75) Gimme Shelter (#99) Spartacus (#105) Grey Gardens (#123) Häxan (#134) Children of Pardise (Les enfants du Paradis) (#141) [2012 reissue; yes, I bought the DVD thinking MPEG-2 compression would help disguise the flaws of the restoration] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (#145) The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) (#216) [2011 reissue] Naked Lunch (#220) The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (#235) Slacker (#247) Short Cuts (#265) F for Fake (Vérités et mensonges) (#288) Hoop Dreams (#289) Dazed and Confused (#336) The Beales of Grey Gardens (#361) Berlin Alexanderplatz (#411) Two-Lane Blacktop (#414) House (Hausu) (#539) Modern Times (#543) The Great Dictator (#565) Island of Lost Souls (#586) The Gold Rush (#615) Shallow Grave (#616) Quadrophenia (#624) Monsieur Verdoux (#652) Repo Man (#654) City Lights (#680) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (#692) A Hard Day's Night (#711) The Complete Jacques Tati (#729) Limelight (#756) Burroughs (#789) The Kid (#799) Lone Wolf and Cub (#841) Multiple Maniacs (#863)
New titles from Criterion: 100 Years of Olympic Films Jabberwocky Le Samourai Desert Hearts The Philadelphia Story I'm in for The Philadephia Story, Jabberwocky and Le Samourai
I don't see The Game directed by David Fincher on many lists. It's a great looking movie and entertaining. Great cast.
Me, I have... Brazil - the DVD set. You may ask, how can I get by with just that? Well, with at least one movie a week at the local arts cinema (member price for admission: FIVE BUCKS), infrequent Tivo captures, a small platoon of Pixars and classic toons, average 5 hours a day online, two hours of news/commentary weeknights, plus an average half-hour of news/snark (Daily Show Sam B, and infrequent visits to YouToob for John Oliver), the aggregate time it takes to read an average of 10 good comic books on the thundermug...and, lessee...over 25 hours per week of Tivo'd network and cable scripted series (we never watch anything in real-time anymore) - on a SLOW week! Hell, I don't have time to read the spedometer in my car... (If I dared risk money on stuff I'd never get the both of us time to watch, I might raid the Kriterion Klozet for some Kurosowa, some late-year animated films, and perhaps some SF (oh, how I do hate the term, "sci-fi"). But inevitably, this would essentially replace the dust on my media shelves with dust on the top of discs sitting ON my media shelves.
Eraserhead Mulholland Dr. Brazil Time Bandits Videodrome Naked Lunch Repo Man Dr. Strangelove Solaris Stalker Ghost World The Complete Lady Snowblood Lone Wolf And Cub Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman
Got me looking at Criterions and found out I need the 2 disc 'M' and the 'Safety First' Harold Loyd set. I wish they'd make it easy to see what is in all the various editions on their website though, not sure what is in the Criterion 'Rumble Fish' to know if I should leave my older non-Criterion edition for it...
You should seriously consider going region-free. You will never go back to a region-locked player again once you've gotten accustomed to having access to countless Region B/C discs that either aren't available in Region A or only available in inferior editions. Unlike DVD players, Blu-ray players require a simple, easily reversible hardware mod to enable region-switching. The kits are easily sourced and not too expensive, for example: OPPO BDP-103 105 USB Region Hardware Kit
This. The U.K. in particular has several excellent, boutique labels, including: Eureka! Masters of Cinema series Arrow Video and Academy ranges BFI, including the wonderful Flipside series Powerhouse Indicator series Artificial Eye Network on Air
I love that movie...I have it on HD-DVD (lol)...actually just picked it up recently. because it was pretty cheap. Looks and sounds great (though it's only Dolby Digital +.
[ I love and hate it when you have a protagonist who is a basically decent person who keeps making mistake after mistake and going down the tubes. That's a movie I watched between my fingers, like other people say they do with horror films. That title will be reevaluated, as Paxton is now gone, and it's, IMO, Billy Bob Thornton's one great performance. Sling Blade is more a one note stunt, to me.
I have a Toshiba A-35 with the 5.1 analog outputs. Takes forever to load and there are lots of problematic HD-DVD discs but the picture and sound are great...and it's still working
Very true...makes you hope you don't ever succumb to temptation and make the same mistakes they do. I would hope so but you never know. I really liked BBT's performance in Sling Blade though. I think it's more nuanced than it seems. His performance in The Man Who Wasn't There is more singular, but I still like it.
If you're going for the best version of M then it's the German Universum digibook edition. The restoration team got to complete the work they were doing that pushes it ahead of either the Eureka or Criterion (also their work) for both picture and sound quality.
Finally got around to watching this...what a great movie! Don't know why I thought it was inaccessible, or dare I say, boring. I hate to admit it but I had to rewatch it entirely as I fell asleep (twice) watching it...not because it was boring or slow but because I was tired and never should have popped it in. Listened to some of the commentary track too...very insightful...makes me appreciate a great film even more. Thanks for suggesting/shaming me into getting this on Blu-ray...well worth it.