The Criterion Collection • Page 28

Easy choice to preorder Mirror

 

Just ordered Fast Times... my first Criterion in quite a while.

 

Went wild today.

World of Wong Kar-wai
The Silence of the Lambs
Blue Velvet
Marketa Lazarova
Mirror
Bringing Up Baby
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Memories of Murder
Nightmare Alley
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Taste of Cherry
Thief
Throne of Blood


Probably pick up 2 more before the month is out. Deciding between The Double Life of Veronique, Woman in the Dunes, The Cremator, Moonstruck, Some Like it Hot, Eyes Without a Face and Sweet Smell of Success.

 

Got Come and See and Fast Times. I’d rec Streetwise for anyone who hasn’t seen/heard of it

 

same. can't wait for Tuesday

 

nabbed the WKW set on Amazon before it got backordered baybeeeeeeeeee

 

Uncut Gems!

 

Sandman in there twice now. Joaquin Phoenix in there at all? I don't think so!

 

Incredible month. Uncut Gems, Ratcatcher upgrade, some Bogart, Devi, let’s goooo.


First A24 film in the collection, but someone pointed out it probably has more to do with Netflix having some of the rights as well. So we’ll see what comes of it.

 

The Shindo and the Ray are the big ones for me, though neither film so near my favourite from either filmmaker. I’m not in a rush to grab any of these but it’s a solid slate of releases.

Very excited to pick up After Hours in a couple weeks though.

 

After Hours??

 

oops mistype, meant After Life After Life

 

Where is the best place to start with Bela Tarr?

 

He only has 9 feature films. Looks like most people seem to agree that his 5th film is where it really gets to the A+ material. Starting with Damnation and going forward sounds like a solid way to go.

I like starting at the beginning and working my way up to see how the director's change.

 

My WKW set got backordered so I canceled and subsequently went buckwild at my B&N. Think I'm done for now. Haven't seen any of these except Straw Dogs.

Mirror
Flowers of Shanghai
Kwaidan
The Vanishing
Deep Cover
Straw Dogs
Woman in the Dunes
Mishima
Che (Part 1 and 2)

 

Deep Cover is so great. I bought Mishima at a recent B&N sale, I should get around to watching it

 

Werckmeister Harmonies is much more conventional. Satantango is great but it is 20 hours long. The Turin Horse almost feels like Tarr was trolling people about what they would sit through.

 

Watch The Vanishing now

 

Made my own “Criterion Closet”, cut some strips of cardboard from some old vinyl shippers lying around so the blu rays could stand up right. Only missing The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Throne of Blood which are on my nightstand. Wife wasn’t crazy about where I had them stacked before (above the guest bed shelf).


also, the Fellini box is a real pain in the butt to display. Pizza box/board game design makes it tough.

 

Woah 4k announcements! Citizen Kane, Menace II Society, Mulholland Drive! And more!

 

My wallet is conflicted about this. I knew it was coming, and I don’t need to upgrade my blu-rays but not upgrading The Red Shoes or Mulholland Drive is gonna be tough. But excited to grab the new combo packs.

it’s also gonna make it harder to pick up some of the old blu rays I want even though theoretically it would criterion decades to upgrade everything.

 

Any recs for an UHD player? The one I got from Target stinks

edit:
Region free preferably

 

The Red Shoes and Citizen Kane are must haves