Criterion Additions

hahaha. whooops.

came here to post (too late) A Man Escaped news. Yay!

yeah! was really excited to A Man Escaped announced. i'm glad Badlands finally got a decent release, but man do i hate this cover.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/release_images/4051/651_BD_box_348x490.jpg?1355768740

Yeah that's a real shame.

I mean obv if the transfer approaches that of Days of Heaven who gives a shit but still

that cover srsly hurts me

not a fan at all of the indie-comic artwork stuff they've been doing these past few years tbh.

Belated, but Repo Man confirmed in latest newsletter.

!!!

Have At It:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/320993_10152418367780565_2053729630_n.jpg

HAROLD LLOYD!

I couldn't even figure out Eraserhead.

(http://criterioncast.com/art/wacky/wacky-new-years-drawing-hints-at-the-criterion-collection-2013-line-up/ for possible spoilers)

Over on the Criterionforum, somebody id'd the woman in clue F as Diane Keaton in Looking For Mr. Goodbar (candy box + glasses she wears in much of film). Alot of these are double or even triple clues, so it could fit with the Repo Man genericism of the box.

I'd be as excited about Goodbar in the CC as anyone could be who allegedly dislikes the movie.

how excited would you be about Babette's Feast?

As excited as I would be about any movie I have no intention of every watching in my life.

It is now believed on the message boards that the candy lady is Jane Horrocks in Life Is Sweet by Mike Leigh:

http://i50.tinypic.com/2eoxg8n.png

April: Gate of Hell, Repo Man, a Pierre Etaix collection, a remaster of Richard III, a blu of Naked Lunch and Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System.

blu upgrade of The Lord of The Flies confirmed in latest newsletter.

hehe Repo Man features Cox’s “cleaned-up” television version of the film as an extra! excellent.

MAY: 3:10 To Yuma (original), Jubal, Medium Cool, Life Is Sweet, and a blu of Band of Outsiders.

Amazing

Uh, so every movie in the Criterion Collection is available for free streaming on Hulu this weekend?!

they sure are

Every movie in the CC and then some.

Watching right now.

Is there another way to view the titles than that nearly random cover categorization? Kind of annoying.

uh, commercials? Fuck that shit.

Indeed both of those things are annoying. Is there an instantwatcher for Hulu?

Mrs. Redd just sent me a link to Richard Brody's picks: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/02/criterion-for-all-ten-to-watch.html

Morbs, I talked about this on one of the Criterion threads and also the Hulu thread -- I was sick of that cover art thing too, tracked down a list of Hulu-streaming Criterions, and made this:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEd2blozRllOSjlqSVpLd1MxbkNUTVE

I printed it out two ways, sorted alphabetically by title and by director. Very handy if I do say so.

Thanks, William. Clicked on the director column but couldn't find the Sort function.

Watched A Married Couple yesterday and got completely bummed out. Maybe will watch Zorn's Lemma in a bit.

OK, changed the view from Spreadsheet to List and had more success.

Click on the column you want to sort by and left-click -- "sort A > Z" and "sort Z > A" will be available options. Column C is the average IMDB ratind, D is the runtime, E is the year of release.

*rating

I guess that would be right-click for most users -- I have my mouse buttons set up opposite from the common usage.

Hahahaha we watched Married Couple, too, although loved it / turned it off 3/4 of the way through since it looked like it'd just be another 25 minutes of fighting (watched Woman Under the Influence before that, so had kinda reached a yelling tap-out point.

The website seemed to constantly recommend it and I kept wondering what it was: some Ingmar Bergman film I'd forgotten I had seen?

Probably has something to do w/ being so familiar w/ Netflix's user interface, but using Hulu is kind of a drag, esp. on the Wii. Also, seems bonkers not to have some mention of CCollection on the Hulu frontpage?

All this will be just a dream soon, like those incredible 99 cent deals on Magma box sets on Amazon once long ago.

Wouldn't let me watch In The Realm of the Senses without signing up, in case I wasn't mature enough.

I know this freebie thing is waning but the fave Criterion I have found through HUlu is The Devil And Daniel Webster. Really great RKO film full of excellent characters and amazing suspense. It made me want to go back to church ––– I don't know that any other movie has literally put the fear of God in me like this one did.

This sounds SUPER DUMB but a lot of Criterions are right out for me because of subs – I watch movies mainly to get schooled on some bit of culture, to have some fun, but also to have something going on while I knit, so I just can't catch all the subtitles. I am sure the more filmically pure are vicariously committing hari-kari here.

I would also recommend EQUINOX very highly if you like stop otion effects, B flicks with a heart, or occult phenomenon! It's a wonderful labor of backyard love and just a genuinely good movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE1UlPPId-o

"but also to have something going on while I knit"

we have a cauldron of boiling oil ready.

still can't watch anything through ads, I can get all these at the library.

damn, shoah on blu

also - things to come, safety last!, Marketa Lazarová

...and Wild Strawberries on blu.

counting down for Repo Man

april plz hurry up

shoah hasn't had a decent north american dvd release yet. i'm glad criterion got it.

Advance Confirmation for what appears to be Baumbach's new Frances Ha (from IFC) in the latest newsletter.

August:The Life of Oharu, Babette's Feast, The Devil's Backbone & blus for The Ice Storm and Lord of The Flies (which also gets a standard def upgrade).

(Oharu was annoyingly missing from the recent mizuguchi reissues here in the uk - was in neither the eureka 8xdvd nor the artificial eye 4xdvd boxes)