All Things: Criterion

[adgy-san]

Criterion Announces April Titles

The Criterion Collection has announced five titles for Blu-ray release in April: On April 14th, it will release Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941) and Carol Reed' Odd Man Out (1947). On April 21, it will release Jean Renoir's The River (1951). And on April 28th, it will release Jean-Pierre Melville's Le silence de la mer (1949) and Peter Yates' The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973).

The Friends Of Eddie Coyle is pretty great, but looks like I get this month off from buying stuff.

 

[LetTigerIn]

The Friends Of Eddie Coyle is pretty great, but looks like I get this month off from buying stuff.

Really? Dang. I'm a nudge away from buying all 5. A light nudge, because I'll definitely buy 3.

 

[adgy-san]

Really? Dang. I'm a nudge away from buying all 5. A light nudge, because I'll definitely buy 3.

I've only seen 2 of them, Eddie Coyle and the Melville one, and while I liked them both I don't know how often I'd re-watch them. The others I'd like to see first. Especially Sullivan's Travels, after reading some excited comments about that release. I bet it'll show up on Turner Classics sooner than later, though. It seems like they do mini Joel McCrea marathons every couple weeks.

 

[adgy-san]

Also, the link doesn't mention it, but the Eclipse box set for the month is three silent Ozu crime dramas.

Probably pick that up at some point.

 

[LetTigerIn]

I've only seen 2 of them, Eddie Coyle and the Melville one, and while I liked them both I don't know how often I'd re-watch them. The others I'd like to see first. Especially Sullivan's Travels, after reading some excited comments about that release. I bet it'll show up on Turner Classics sooner than later, though. It seems like they do mini Joel McCrea marathons every couple weeks.

Sullivan's Travels is a must.

 

[adgy-san]

The Criterion Collection On Fandor: Nine Films Featuring Setsuko Hara

If I could just convince someone to add 2-3 more hours to every day, I might have time to watch more stuff like this.

 

[adgy-san]

Criterion Announces May Titles

The Criterion Collection has announced six titles for Blu-ray release in May: On May 19, it will release Mark Rydell's The Rose, Charlie Chaplin's Limelight. and Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow. And on May 26, it will release Costa-Gavras' State of Siege and The Confession, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Merchant of Four Seasons.

 

[adgy-san]

Jean-Pierre Melville’s Noir Improvisations: Two Men in Manhattan, Le Doulos, Le Deuxieme Souffle

This is a REALLY long article.

 

[adgy-san]

Ben Wheatley’s Top 10 Criterions

 

[jerseydevil]

Criterion Collection Blu-rays and DVDs 50% off for 24 Hours
http://collider.com/criterion-collection-sale-blu-ray-dvds/

Watership Down and hopefully Time Bandits...here I come!!!!!

 

[adgy-san]

Criterion Collection Blu-rays and DVDs 50% off for 24 Hours
http://collider.com/criterion-collection-sale-blu-ray-dvds/

Watership Down and hopefully Time Bandits...here I come!!!!!

Ordered for myself:

Watership Down
A Brief History Of Time
Sword Of Doom
Safe

Pre-orders don't qualify, otherwise The Thin Blue Line would have been on there, too.

 

[adgy-san]

Criterion Announces June Titles

The Criterion Collection has announced five new titles for Blu-ray release in June: On June 16, it will release Louis Malle's My Dinner with Andre (1981), Jonathan Demme's A Master Builder (2013), and Andr? Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films (three-disc set). On June 23, it will release Bernhard Wicki's The Bridge (1959) and Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991). And on June 30, it will release Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces (1970) and Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970).

Fisher King!!!

 

[adgy-san]

NOT being released by Criterion, but...

The Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection Blu-ray

Released by the BFI on 20 April 2015, this strictly limited edition Blu-ray box set presents a number of his most revered films alongside some of his lesser-known fiction and documentary shorts, as well as an extensive selection of extra features.

The eleven films included in this set are:

Master of the House (1925)
Good Mothers (1942)
Day of Wrath (1943)
The Fight Against Cancer (1947)
The Village Church (1947)
They Caught the Ferry (1948)
Thorsvaldsen (1949)
Storstr?m Bridge (1950)
A Castle Within a Castle (1955)
Ordet (1955)
Gertrud (1964)

With current exchange rate, you're looking at about $65 before shipping from Amazon UK.

I think I might have to buy this...

 

[orpheus]

That looks like a swell collection. Day of Wrath is a really good movie.

 

[adgy-san]

Watch: 16-Minute Video Essay About Jean-Pierre Melville's Masterpiece 'Le Samourai'



Why isn't this on Blu yet, Criterion??

 

[adgy-san]

Criterion Announces July Titles (Pre-Orders Up)

The Criterion Collection has announced five new titles for Blu-ray release in June: On July 7, it will release Robert Siodmak's The Killers (1946) and Don Siegel's The Killers (1964). On July 14, it will release Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Jan Troell's Here's Your Life (1966), and Carroll Ballard's The Black Stallion (1979). And on July 21, it will release Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012).

 

[adgy-san]

Criterion Announces August Titles

The Criterion Collection has announced five new titles for Blu-ray release in August: On August 4, it will release Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950). On August 11, it will release Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). On August 18, it will release Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980) and Fran?ois Truffaut's Day for Night (1980). Abd on August 25, it will release Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night (2014).

On August 11, the Criterion Collection will also release on DVD Eclipse Series 43: Agn?s Varda in California.

Dressed To Kill is an interesting choice.

 

[adgy-san]

“186 Movies That Should Be In The Criterion Collection”

 

[orpheus]

“186 Movies That Should Be In The Criterion Collection”

I've been saying Los Olvidados needs the Criterion treatment! One day...

 

[LetTigerIn]

“186 Movies That Should Be In The Criterion Collection”

Do it, Deano.