Criterion Additions

ugh @ Criterion being yanked from Hulu several months before Filmstruck has their shit together enough to release a Roku app

Filmstruck's a little slower than mubi, as in, I have a few more loading hiccups throughout the movie, especially in the evening.

I had to open another browser and turn off adblock to make their merchant software work. Their account status and login stuff is confusing.

The stream breaks after a few hours (?) of inactivity, so you can't pick up where you left off. You have to check to see what minute you're at and reload.

The library is big, but there's no easy way to sort through it, e.g. by decade, director, actor, country of origin, or genre. There are some duplicates in the library (there'll be a Criterion and non-Criterion version side by side), and it's not clear where the "extras" are. I didn't see a lot of movies in the Turner Classic Movies vein. I thought it was a TCM-related service, but the catalog is more ostentatiously "prestigious" than TCM's.

The picture is good on my laptop. The subtitles are left-justified black bars with white text. I'd like to have better subtitle options like Viki or Drama Fever have, but what Filmstruck has now is usable.

Rumblefish confirmed in latest newsletter.

ohhhhh <3

Somehow during that year or so in my childhood when I was obsessed with Hinton, I never saw this film, so I'm innerested.

my favorite mickey rourke

i guess he's the reason they thought this was a less embarrassing pick than The Outsiders would've been

lol ye prob right

Well, that and B&W cinematography and more Tom Waits acting and Stewart Copeland score in 5.1.

MARCH: 45 Years; Canoa: A Shameful Memory; Multiple Maniacs; Being There; and Blow-Up.

Whoa

Does Criterion have a trade-in policy for all of the movies I already own and that they keep reissuing?

New Year's Drawing!

http://i.imgur.com/DqESNdk.jpg

tombstone = They Live By Night? seems kind of counterintuitive though
I note there are 16 candles...

i hope the flags (cuba or puerto rico) aren't buena vista social club.

I think they are...Wenders usually licenses his films to Criterion when the rights revert back to him. (Supposedly the long cut of Until The End of The World is coming once Warners license (which prevented that cut from being issued in the US) expires).

some good guesses i saw on another forum:
stalker (stalk R)
ghost world (whirled)
mysterious object at noon
marius (marry S), fanny, cesar (caesar)

the cook looks like jeanne dielman to me
no idea about the waving T

Criterion Forum?

Some definitely check out: Janus Films is fixing to tour the Marseille trilogy; Terry Zwigoff said Ghost World was coming; Jeanne Dielman got a resto recently, and Criterion hasn't done a bluray.

I thought the Jeanne Dielman resto was was for the OG criterion? did they rly do another one in the last couple of years???

rly rly rly super hoping this is some I Am Cuba thing w/ the flag

Someone on another board suggested the cook was for Tampopo.

omg i wd LOVE tampico omg

Is there a good restoration of Stalker that's been released before now? The only versions I've seen desperately needed work

i was just looking at dvdbeaver's comparison a few days ago and they're all still rubbish i think

yeah you can stream it on YouTube in the same quality

I downloaded the filmstruck app to see what they have in their catalog (not subscribing right now)

AND STALKER IS THERE AS A CRITERION RELEASE

it doesn't let you preview, maybe I'll do the free trial now just to see how it looks

They just added Me And You And Everyone We Know on Filmstruck as well.

Also: Janus is touring Tampopo, so that's a lock.

yeah, it just did a run at film forum

I thought the Jeanne Dielman resto was was for the OG criterion? did they rly do another one in the last couple of years???

I can't find the info now, but Janus sponsored a 2 or 4K restoration that they toured around the time Akerman died. The original DVD (from 2009) was slightly controversial among fanboys because it was DVD-only when they were starting to do simultaneous Blu/Standard releases, and there were some reports that they used too much compression squeezing the main feature onto one disc, resulting in image issues on higher-end playback systems.

APRIL: Woman of The Year; The Buena Vista Social Club; Tampopo; and Rumble Fish.

...and standalones of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort.

Are any ILXors also posters at criterionforum.org?

I lurk there, occasionally post, but not on the reg.

Taipei Story confirmed in latest newsletter.

MAY: Ghost World; Dheephan; Othello (Welles); World Cinema Project Vol. 2 (Dual-Format box); a remaster of Good Morning; and Jeanne Deilmann on Blue.

Deets on WCP set: https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2

Other Notes: I Was Born, But... is a bonus on the Good Morning reish; and Othello includes both the '52 & '55 cuts.

omg

Supposedly a flash sale's happening today?

If that's true, I'm ordering:

the Before trilogy
In a Lonely Place
Heart of a Dog
Muriel

Damn it, they always wait until the moths are fluttering around my outturned pockets.

Maybe swap in Mildred Pierce for Muriel. Don't know what brand of romantic melodramatic suffering I'm in the mood tbh.

I know they hold their cards a little closer to the vest when it comes to new releases, but do they ever discuss longer-term projections wrt which titles they plan on releasing on Blu-ray? When I see, for example, the OOP Ugetsu DVD selling for hundreds of dollars, I'm torn on whether I should pounce on something like the increasingly-expensive Peeping Tom DVD or whether I should just chance it and wait for a possible future upgrade.

At this point, it's senseless to spend a lot on their early DVDs, some of which have picture quality that would make old school Koch Lorber blush. (I've had fingers crossed for a Taste of Cherry upgrade for a decade running.)

There's a more than acceptable Region 2 DVD of Taste of Cherry still in print - multi-region players are your friends:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taste-Cherry-DVD-Homayon-Ershadi/dp/B00080Z3NQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1488295469&sr=1-1&keywords=taste+of+cherry

BR or better.

VR Taste of Cherry or GTFO

I was going to pick up the Mulholland Dr. blu-ray but a) it's streaming in HD on netflix b) my library has the Criterion DVD and I just rented it to watch the features! Problem solved!

Also the Chungking blu-ray is already OOP? And the DVD is not?? wtf????

brb locking my copy in a sealed fire-proof safe

Turns out I also had a $50 gift certificate through loyalty points after I ordered. So I got three more -- The Long Day Closes, Orpheus and Fox and His Friends. Arty gay qualities.