― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 5 April 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)
Once again, I refer you all to the wonderfully great Criterion messageboard of http://pub125.ezboard.com/bcriterioncollectionforum/
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 5 April 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)
Try that...
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 5 April 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 5 April 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 5 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)
I just ordered my copy - $18. on DVD-R. Natch. - along with a copy of <em> F is for Fake </em> from www.pimpadelicwonderland.com
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Weekend is owned by New Yorker films but no plans for a DVD have been made. It may come on Region 2 at some point.
― Rashomon, Friday, 16 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Saturday, 17 April 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 17 April 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)
And because they can - they've got the name and the identity to hook in film geeks, where else are you going to turn, New Yorker?
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 18 April 2004 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 April 2004 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)
I haven't seen it, but supposedly it was aimed at the special effects mavens out there. Also I recall reading an interview with one of the Criterion folks who said that the revenues from the Armageddon allowed them to fund a lot of other less-popular titles.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)
Here's just the start of the relevant section:
Specifically, with "Armageddon": You'd be silly to overlook blockbusters as a genre and leave them out of a film library. They drive so much. They drive tastes and shooting styles and visual references that appear all over the world in commercials and on TV as well as on movie screens. They're part of a huge cultural cross-pollination. And special effects are one of the most important aspects of a certain kind of contemporary filmmaking.
― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)
Is The Rock Criterion still in print? I'd much rather have that than Armageddon.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Those were the days when you actually got your $140 million dollars worth out of your production budget.
― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)
I miss the days when a budget topping $80mln was big news and a reason to go see the film. Now that barely buys you a romantic comedy.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 22 April 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 22 April 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)
it depends on how you look at it. it my mind, there's no need for it to necessarily become somethi@5{te the suggestion that short films/music videos/avant-garde & experimental work are just a "warm-up" for a feature length narrative. it's kind of absurd to but a limitation of film that it has to be 90-180 minutes long with actors, dialogue & a plot. at least 50% of my favorite cinematic works don't fit into the categorization, and whenever i hear about people complaining about a lack of innovation in film, it's usually because all they watch are feature length narratives.
but as for the idea of the innovation in these works not "catching on" in the mainstream, you simply have to look around you to see their influence: magazines, billboards, popular films and music, even architecture. it's everywhere, and most of the good, innovative feature filmmakers will be the first to admit that they've been influenced by someone like michel gondry, spike jonze, jem cohen, etc.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)
two words: HOLY SHIT.
― joseph (joseph), Friday, 23 April 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 7 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)
so rejoice, damn you.
― joseph (joseph), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)
JUNE: Sorcerer*; Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould*; Midnight; Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser; The Wiz*; and 4K upgrades of Brazil and Mishima.
*4K available
― Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 March 2025 16:23 (one year ago)
Janus Contemporaries July: All We Imagine As Light
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 April 2025 19:52 (one year ago)
JULY: You Can Count On Me*; Carnal Knowledge*; The Big Heat*; and 4K upgrades of The Adventures of Antoine Doinel box and Barry Lyndon
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 April 2025 17:19 (one year ago)
straight after I finally cracked and bought the blu of BL
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 15 April 2025 22:52 (one year ago)
Only a day late--downright prompt.
AUGUST: The Burmese Harp (UHD); Fires on the Plains (UHD); Cairo Station; A Confucian Confusion/Mahjong; Shoeshine (UHD); Vermiglio; Saving Face; Compensation
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:54 (one year ago)
Early (Partial) Announcement for SEPTEMBER: Wes Anderson 4K Box, plus standalone Blu/4Ks of Isle of Dogs & French Dispatch
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208-the-wes-anderson-archive-ten-films-twenty-five-years
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 May 2025 17:19 (one year ago)
The Rest Of SEPTEMBER: Read My Lips*; The Beat That My Heart Skipped; Flow*; Born In Flames; and 4K Upgrades/Reissues of High and Low & This Is Spinal Tap.
*4K Available
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 June 2025 16:22 (one year ago)
Tap is back!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 June 2025 23:06 (one year ago)
And so say all of us
― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 17 June 2025 11:02 (one year ago)
Interesting time to be like "seriously guys check out this Audiard guy"
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 17 June 2025 11:03 (one year ago)
I saw the two that they are releasing at the time and remember them as OK. But Rust and Bone was one of the cheesiest movies I've ever seen.
Also, in one of greatest coincidences I've ever experienced, when I got in the car after leaving the theatre, "Legs" by ZZ Top was playing on the radio. I swear this is true
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 18 June 2025 05:05 (one year ago)
Janus Contemporaries is being rebranded as Criterion Premieres in September with the release of Misericordia.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 June 2025 19:15 (one year ago)
OCTOBER: Deep Crimson*; Nightmare Alley (del Toro, w/B&W Director's Cut & Color Theatrical)**; Altered States*; A History of Violence*; The Shrouds (Criterion Premieres); and 4K upgrades of Eyes Without A Face & Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
*4K Available**Dual-Format Blu/4K Only
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 July 2025 16:37 (eleven months ago)
NOVEMBER: Eyes Wide Shut; Él; Hell's Angels; House Party; Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features*; and 4K upgrades of The Breakfast Club & Burden of Dreams.
*Blu-ray Only
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 August 2025 18:23 (ten months ago)
DECEMBER: David Byrne's American Utopia*; Pee Wee's Big Adventure*; Salaam Bombay!*; Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray; and 4K Upgrades of I Know Where I'm Going! & His Girl Friday.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 September 2025 18:27 (nine months ago)
i would like 1 copy of pee wee's big adventure, please
― 龜, Monday, 15 September 2025 18:40 (nine months ago)
great news that they're finally upgrading a black & white Powell & Pressburger! hopefully they'll do A Canterbury Tale too at least
― rob, Monday, 15 September 2025 18:42 (nine months ago)
A bunch of their films have apparently been restored in 4k, no idea if or when they will ever show up in the United States. I have no idea how these decisions are made, sometimes it's rights, sometimes it's some impenetrable strategy. Same with, say, Criterion and Kurosawa. Between the US and Europe and Japan, a lot of his movies have restored source materials, but the rollout is so strange and unpredictable and sort of willy-nilly. It's become this big game of impatience and delayed gratification and even simply managing expectations.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 September 2025 18:55 (nine months ago)
increasingly more physical media collectors are saying it: we need full communism now
― rob, Monday, 15 September 2025 19:00 (nine months ago)
The Annihilation of Fish available!
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 October 2025 23:13 (eight months ago)
^^On the channel! Milestone is handling the physical release.
Anyways, JANUARY: Kiss of The Spider Woman (1985)*; Birth*; The Dead*; Captain Blood*; Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 5 (Chronicle of the Years of Fire; Yan Daabo; Kummatty; and The Fall of Otrar); Caught by the Tides (Criterion Contemporaries); and 4K upgrades of Yi Yi & Dead Man.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 16:12 (eight months ago)
Birth on bluray/4k at last! Getting that, Eyes Wide Shut and I Know Where I'm Going in consecutive months, what a time to be alive
― or something, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 16:21 (eight months ago)
Captain Blood
Whar 1924 version? Criterion I am disappoint.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 18:11 (eight months ago)
FEBRUARY: The Man Who Wasn't There*; Network*; Cloud (Criterion Contemporaries); a Blu Upgrade of The Lubitsch Musicals Eclipse set; and 4K upgrades of Playtime, A Woman Under The Influence, and 3:10 To Yuma
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 November 2025 19:12 (seven months ago)
Looks like AWUTL is actually just a Blu spin-off from the Cassavetes Blu Box. No 4K (yet?)
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 November 2025 19:26 (seven months ago)
Playtime in 4K! I have been waiting for this.
― ernestp, Tuesday, 18 November 2025 05:01 (seven months ago)
MARCH: The Blade*; A Man and A Woman; Killers of The Flower Moon*; Testament; and 4K reissues/upgrades of Viridiana and Classe tous risques.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 December 2025 18:59 (six months ago)
APRIL: John Singleton's Hood Trilogy box (Boyz N The Hood; Poetic Justice; and Baby Boy)*; Point Blank*; Resurrection (Criterion Contemporaries); and 4K upgrades of Life of Brian; Trouble In Paradise; and Gilda.
Eclipse #48: Kinuyo Tanaka Directs
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 January 2026 17:25 (five months ago)
thank you sweet lord for finally upgrading Trouble in Paradise
― obvious old hat (rob), Friday, 16 January 2026 17:48 (five months ago)
While raiding the closet, Laura Dern dropped the news that Criterion is working on a release of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore with Scorsese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs
― cryptosicko, Tuesday, 10 February 2026 12:55 (four months ago)
MAY: Lenny*; Sentimental Value*; Body Heat*; Fresh Kill; The Delta; Peter Hujar's Day (Criterion Premieres); and a 4K upgrade of Stray Dog.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 February 2026 16:54 (four months ago)
That Laura Dern Closet Picks gave me life. And she's fantastic in Is This Thing ON?, which I'm guessing she was promoting.
― congragulations (stevie), Friday, 13 February 2026 17:02 (four months ago)
my Lubitsch box has shipped!
― ILX is like synthpop Kerrang (sleeve), Friday, 13 February 2026 17:05 (four months ago)
JUNE: It Was Just An Accident*; Desperate Living*; Hairspray (1988)*; High Art; West Indies: Fugitive Slaves of Liberty; Magellan (Criterion Premieres); upgrades of Charade and Five Easy Pieces; and a Blu upgrade of the Carlos Saura Flamenco Trilogy Eclipse box.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 March 2026 04:19 (three months ago)
JULY: Mike Mills Box (Beginners; 20th Century Women; and C'mon C'mon)"; Cruel Story of Youth*; Hud*; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore*; The Crying Game*; a 4K upgrade of The Elephant Msn; and The Love That Remains (Criterion Premieres)
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 April 2026 16:35 (two months ago)
Seems like Cruel Story of Youth has been in the pipeline for Iike 20 years
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 April 2026 16:36 (two months ago)
there's a Eureka edition of Cruel Story... released 2015 according to amazon.
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 April 2026 16:48 (two months ago)
I meant stateside. It had been tied up with New Yorker for awhile, and after they went under the first time it was rumored to have been picked up by Criterion. I remember checking it out late night on TCM Imports in 2006-7 and figuring I'd get to see it again soon.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 April 2026 17:51 (two months ago)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore looks great.
― boners for bombs (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 April 2026 17:53 (two months ago)
Strange time to be releasing The Crying Game.
― cryptosicko, Sunday, 26 April 2026 20:58 (two months ago)
I dunno, v much reclaimed by trans critics from what I know.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 27 April 2026 17:34 (two months ago)
AUGUST: American Dream; Little Odessa*; Eclipse Series 49: Five Radical Documentaries by Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi; and 4K upgrades of Harlan County USA; Coupes de torchon; and Safe.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 May 2026 18:10 (one month ago)
Actually, Coup de torchon is Blu-only.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 May 2026 18:15 (one month ago)
SEPTEMBER: Days and Nights In The Forest*; The Secret Agent*; Nouvelle Vague (2025)*; Three Films by Leos Carax box (Boy Meets Girl; Mauvis sang; and The Lovers On The Bridge)*; Two Prosecutors (Criterion Premieres); a Blu upgrade of Shoah; and a 4K upgrade of 12 Angry Men.
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 June 2026 17:02 (two weeks ago)
This is harder than it looks!(note - hit escape to exit)https://the-criterion-closet.vercel.app
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 16 June 2026 20:51 (two weeks ago)
annoyed that the spines aren't real scans. in fact, they are upside down.
― Bog Dork (koogs), Wednesday, 17 June 2026 14:36 (two weeks ago)