Thread: The Criterion thread

Criterion Announces February Titles

The Criterion Collection has announced five titles for Blu-ray release in February. On February 5, the studio will release The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kino****a, 1958). A week later, it will release The Kid With A Bike (Dardenne Brothers, 2011). On February 19, it will release On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954). On February 26, it will release Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 1961) and Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954).

Sansho The Bailiff is a great movie, but I doubt I'll be upgrading the DVD version anytime soon. The rest of these choices don't do a whole lot for me.

Criterion Announces March Titles

On March 12th, the studio will release Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang, 1944) and The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., 1958). A week later, it will release Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1943). On May 26th, it will release A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956) and Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947).

The Blob!

The band Ministry named themselves after Ministry of Fear.

I haven't seen the movie though. :/

Criterion Lets You Guess What Their 2013 Slate Will Look Like

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Criterion Lets You Guess What Their 2013 Slate Will Look Like

I love when they do this ****. I was just wondering if they were going to upgrade Le Samourai last night, too...

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Criterion Lets You Guess What Their 2013 Slate Will Look Like

People are saying...

Eraserhead
Scanners
Le Samourai
Safety Last
3:10 To Yuma (the original)
Devil's Backbone
Jigoku (aka Gate Of Hell)
Naked Lunch


None are confirmed, obviously, but they all make sense. Holy crap, that's a nice lineup.

Agreed, and nary a Wes Anderson movie in the bunch.

Hmmm, a Scanners Criterion? :O

*insert exploding head gif here*

Scanners was the first laserdisc I ever bought.