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The Best Show on WFMU => Mike And His Ilk. => Topic started by: JeffertonFromTX on February 23, 2015, 11:23:31 PM

Title: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on February 23, 2015, 11:23:31 PM

I always figured that Mike and the rest of you reprobates would have at least a few gems. I always blind buy Criterion when I can and when they have a sale. I've got Godzilla, Hausu, In the Realm of Senses, Seventh Seal, and Rashomon just to name a few.

Any of you got any winners?

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on February 24, 2015, 11:47:12 AM

Mine:

(http://i57.tinypic.com/mu8oww.jpg)

I have a bunch of DVD-Rs I copied from Netflix a long time ago as well (not pictured)

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on February 24, 2015, 12:47:57 PM

Oh....oh....my....

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Omar on February 24, 2015, 01:17:54 PM

I have about 150 Criterion releases. In terms of OOPs, the most notable are The Killer and This is Spinal Tap for DVDs (not sure if those still have any value), and The Man Who Fell to Earth, Chungking Express and Pierrot le fou for Blu.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on February 24, 2015, 01:50:09 PM

The only blus I have are Night of the Hunter and Ministry of Fear, but damn, they look amazing. I've been debating if I should rebuy all releases I own on blu just because of how great the transfers were.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on February 24, 2015, 03:36:14 PM

depends on the size of our tv/your projection...I project my Criterion (and some other good company's) DVDs and they still look great...I generally only upgrade to blu-ray if I don't own the DVD or if I know the transfer is a LOT better. Or sometimes like Zombie and Cannibal Holocaust if it's a favorite film with a new release.

I just got Polanski's Macbeth, but haven't watched it yet

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: BadGuyZero on February 24, 2015, 05:43:34 PM

Here's a few of the Criterion titles I have...

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-iOXJS1SJPIw/VOz9Ymjbe9I/AAAAAAAAEcY/EXhmZQqtCbQ/w696-h642-no/2015-02-24%2B16.08.42.jpg)

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on February 24, 2015, 06:53:14 PM

Meet the cop...that can't be stopped. These made my day.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: BadGuyZero on February 24, 2015, 08:58:51 PM

At the time of its release the Criterion "Close Encounters..." laserdisc was the only way to get the original theatrical version on home video.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on February 25, 2015, 12:12:03 AM

What is the difference between the cuts? I can't even tell you which one I've seen.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: josh c on March 21, 2015, 11:39:04 AM

I'd love to get a copy of "Chungking Express" on Blu. What a movie.

I have about 43 or 44 movies at this point. All FOTs should check out the WILLIAM KLEIN Eclipse set. Essential viewing.

As far as recent releases go, the LES BLANK box is a monster. Mike would probably be into it.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on March 21, 2015, 03:12:24 PM

I've been wanting to jump on some of those Eclipse sets and that Klein one was on the top of my list.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on March 21, 2015, 07:13:11 PM

I LOVE Les Blank. Looking forward to upgrading vhs copies to blu ray and seeing some stuff I've never seen.
William Klein box is great. ..

I forgot I loaned all my silent films to a coworker for art reference for his game,  so I also have Vampyr, the Chaplin films,  and the Phantom Carriage.

For wants,  I want the blu ray version of battle of Algiers.  Only have a dvdr currently...
need the blind swordsman set but it's  $$$

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on March 22, 2015, 04:23:35 PM

Phantom Carriage is incredible. I caught it once really late at night on TCM and I was mesmerized.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: josh c on March 24, 2015, 11:30:10 AM

I'd die if they ever put out a new edition of "Dead Ringers" on blu-ray.

Excited for the new Wallace Shawn/Andre Gregory box.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on March 24, 2015, 01:48:11 PM

They did Scanners and The Brood, surely Dead Ringers will be on its way soon.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: josh c on March 26, 2015, 12:19:51 PM

Yeah, their recent "Scanners" edition, along with the superb "Videodrome" and "Naked Lunch" double-discs, makes me think "Dead Ringers" will make it out at some point.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on March 27, 2015, 04:51:16 PM

I sold my Naked Lunch a few years back and that still haunts me. I still have Videodrome and I randomly pour over the special features on it. That interview with Mick Garris interviewing Landis, Cronenberg, and Carpender is golden.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: josh c on March 28, 2015, 12:34:42 PM

I don't really care about early Cronenberg at all but "Naked Lunch" gives me the legitimate CREEPS. The bugs, the floppy sex thing, the parasitic sex scene. So repulsive. The end of "Dead Ringers" has an equal level of creepiness to me; there's just a raw emotional vulnerability in that final scene with the twins.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on March 28, 2015, 02:27:20 PM

It really is him at his most icky. I know people attribute that to The Fly or The Brood, but Naked Lunch is just so detached from reality and it takes you way the hell out where the buses don't run. I tried reading the book and it didn't give me the same spark.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: agent_jimmy on March 29, 2015, 01:12:19 AM

i think dead ringers is the creepiest thing i've ever seen. not the sort of thing i can exactly pin down either. i've showed it to some people and they didn't feel the same.

has anyone read his book, consumed? i got a dead ringers vibe from it. or more accurately compared it (negatively) to dead ringers. Reading the book made me want to watch dead ringers. also, it was weird to hear him talking about iPhones and such.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on March 29, 2015, 03:29:16 PM

I had NO idea there was a novel of Dead Ringers. I'm trying to fill my Cronenberg gaps and Dead Ringers is next on my list.

I watched M. Butterfly the other night and I really loved it. Mainly because it is the first one of his movies that has any bit of warmth to it.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on July 02, 2015, 05:04:29 PM

one of my favorite movies just got released on Criterion and is SUPER cheap on both formats on amazon right now...

http://www.amazon.com/Valerie-Her-Week-Wonders-Blu-ray/dp/B00UUOVLLS/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1435871006&sr=1-1&keywords=Valerie+and+Her+Week+of+Wonders (http://www.amazon.com/Valerie-Her-Week-Wonders-Blu-ray/dp/B00UUOVLLS/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1435871006&sr=1-1&keywords=Valerie+and+Her+Week+of+Wonders)

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: josh c on July 03, 2015, 12:45:08 PM

Criterion has been killing it lately. I have the first two already, but I want to pick up that Wallace Shawn/Andre Gregory boxset. One of the movies (maybe A Master Builder) has an hour-long convo with Shawn, Gregory and Fran Lebowitz, which sounds like my hallucinatory perfect Criterion extra.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on July 04, 2015, 03:06:07 PM

Criterion's box sets are always dynamite. I need to save up for at least one of them.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on July 07, 2015, 02:59:44 PM

another 50% off sale at Barnes and Noble today!

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Omar on July 07, 2015, 06:05:32 PM

"Thank you, Criteri-ON!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s)

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on July 13, 2015, 02:09:05 PM

just got these (plus Sullivan's Travels which hasn't arrived yet...)

(http://i62.tinypic.com/ej7i91.jpg)

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on July 13, 2015, 05:50:42 PM

That Mignola cover for Devil's Backbone is dynamite. I love it so much.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on July 13, 2015, 11:22:24 PM

Quote from: agent_jimmy on March 29, 2015, 01:12:19 AM

i think dead ringers is the creepiest thing i've ever seen. not the sort of thing i can exactly pin down either. i've showed it to some people and they didn't feel the same.

Dead Ringers made me physically nauseous. I too cannot put a finger on exactly why. Swore off Cronenberg for a solid decade after that.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on July 13, 2015, 11:46:39 PM

A Serbian Film and Men Behind the Sun were the two films that really fucked me up in adulthood...

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on July 19, 2015, 03:48:03 PM

I still REALLY want to see A Serbian Film. I know it will probably ruin me, but still, my morbid curiosity needs to win out. Martyrs is a movie that really effects me every time I watch it. The first time I watched it I was shocked, the second time I cried, and every time after that I've had a different reaction.

Title: Re: Criterion DVDs
Post by: Mike Desert on August 25, 2015, 03:01:44 PM

Just ordered the Zatoichi box set, it's 56% off today only on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Zatoichi-Swordsman-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B00EO2I6OM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440528979&sr=8-1&keywords=zatoichi (http://www.amazon.com/Zatoichi-Swordsman-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B00EO2I6OM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440528979&sr=8-1&keywords=zatoichi)