Criterion Collection on DVD. Recommendations please.

I always quixotically assume that there will arrive some day where I'm able to just sit down any given day and watch 2, maybe 3 movies ... and then do it again the next day. That's not my life, hasn't been my life since I was in my early 20s, and probably won't be my life again for quite some time. But I continue to hope.

― Rich E. (Eric H.), Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:46 AM (thirty minutes ago)

lol the imaginary me who somehow enjoys all my physical media has such a cool life

I can think of worse movies to be traumatized by your babysitter with than Carnival of Souls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco

xp
128GB USB flash drives are now about $10-15 each (just googled it), so that could replace disks.

I can lose a whole evening just trying to decide what to watch.

The number of Golden Girls episodes I use to stall while mulling whether I should tackle Tarr's Damnation, Damon Packard's Fatal Pulse or three unseen Fassbinders is considerable

re: flash drives, I actually listen to hi-res music that way. Put the FLAC's on a flash drive, organized in a folder, plug it into my Oppo, select that folder, and it just plays. I still prefer a disc though which is more user friendly.

Terrible timing for this big NYT feature to run after the flash sale but hey (gift link). Michael Bay will not surprise you. Neither will Wes Anderson.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/magazine/criterion-collection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZE0.Rm7i.80CdVj5IE1Sl

meanwhile, who scored the complete Kate & Allie DVD box? you're looking at him!

Anderson, who asked that verbal tics like “uh” and “um” not be excised from his quotes ...

Really puts his whole deal into sharp focus there

Not Wes, his brother!

“I learned it from you, bro!”

modified all region 4K player

and not to brag but a certain someone DID also recently score a SEALED DVD box of the complete run of The Facts of Life. that someone? it was me! that someone was me!

xpost -- good thing too! (I hadn't had a 4K player before this, so it was a good investment all around.)

The all-region part, of course, is still pretty handy for the old Blu-rays if you've started collecting those from multiple regions

Especially if you live in a region B backwater like me. One of our chain stores was doing a clearance on budget bluray players which were all-region DVD and menu-switchable for BD regions, I bought 3 so if one fails I have a backup. About 30% of my collection is region A and my Sony 4K player is hard locked to region B BD, region 4 DVD (which I believe is illegal in Aus, but whatever).

Yeah my player automatically plays any region DVD and Blu-rays, just have to select a button on the remote. A saviour.

(Should be a comma after 'DVD' there. You get the drift.)

on brand Wes Anderson from that NYTimes article

Anderson, who asked that verbal tics like “uh” and “um” not be excised from his quotes, told me that he had always admired how Criterion covers tended to be “more adventurous than, uh, what a movie studio would be inclined to go with.”

I'd argue Region B is actually a better region than A to be in these days! But yeah I own a multi region player.

There are even region B Criterion discs, I own a couple

In 'not at all of interest to ivy and others' news, some of the forthcoming releases in June:

https://www.criterion.com/films/33670-bound

https://www.criterion.com/films/27974-querelle

https://www.criterion.com/films/33289-victims-of-sin

yessss Bound

Another good batch for July:

https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?popular=coming-soon

Preordered Perfect Days, Le Samourai, Farewell My Concubine and Black God, White Devil.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSD7Kpr7XxqaxyAFSU1wvyiMczNIA7oZGQJUKnZdksDPg&s

"Whatta 'bout me, Ned?"

I have no thoughts on the matter.

That's a helluva set for a movie I have almost no interest in owning

XP Haha, I already forgot they were also doing Risky Business too...thought it was funny you were slighting just one title.

https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/438230209_7400901270037141_1008300569344314893_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=tDQpJPz8oUcQ7kNvgHxykhl&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&oh=00_AfD_BWMLDkJ0T-PUWPqIj8d50RwjsT4vY9cJ-_p7XmUR8g&oe=66375592

https://bit.ly/3JH5BYg

what's a charter subscriber? like the channel?

People who signed up when it first launched.

i'm not sure but in 2018 I got an email about being a charter subscriber and have been one since. I think it was from people who had filmstruck subscriptions and then became initial members of the Criterion channel?

Kerry Condon being brill in the Criterion Closet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c

Would almost rather they held contests tho for people to do raids of the Criterion closet like notables do on their YT channel.

― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Monday, September 28, 2015 4:40 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Stand in the same spot as Michael Cera!"

― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, September 28, 2015 5:02 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Charter members are ones who got a membership in the first month. I got a membership card for being subbed for the first 3 months.

All right, I joined in out of the gate, I can enter. And I will!

<You Will Stand In The Same Spot As Michael Cera!>

Have I mentioned lately that I've been in the closet and got Night of the Hunter blu-ray?

Thievery. You broke in under cover of night. (Well maybe not.)

I entered too but honestly I would pay good money to hack it so Ned wins

Criterion now owned by Indian Paintbrush. Wonder what that will mean. Hopefully it’s a god thing. Hope they don’t move to the west coast though.