Criterion Additions

Shampoo!!

An awful lot of mainstream '80s starting to creep into the CC this year.

mainstream '80s=License To Print Money

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Controversial, yet intriguing.

NOVEMBER: True Stories; The Magnificent Ambersons; Some Like It Hot!; and A Story From Chikamatsu.

...and The Bergman box.

PS: The True Stories Blu comes w/a CD of the complete score!

another month, another After Hours no show

Patience, young Flappy. At least you're not my buddy who's waiting years on The Tenant, or anyone else holding out for the Eisenstien Silent box (which the ducks are allegedly finally getting in a row for the CC to do).

I know I know

actually what I wanted to ask was why SLIH and not The Apartment

The Welles alone, but then also the Mizoguchi on top of that? A no complaint month.

XP Arrow did a loaded Blu of The Apartment a couple years ago. Not sure if it's still in print (there was limited 1st edition w/a coffee table book with a book less version to follow).

Landing SLIH is pretty big. Never thought MGM would let that go.

now that you mention it I've seen that edition, pretty sure it's still in print. and yeah it is amazing they got SLIH, afaik that was never rumored / intuited from the doodle.

Perhaps I should start a different thread for other boutique home video distribution companies, but I thought y'all might be interested to know that there's a big Kino sale going on atm, with tons of stuff marked under $10: https://www.kinolorber.com/list/view/code/aug18sale

(Couldn't pull it together to take advantage of the last several Criterion sales, but you better believe I just shelled out some bucks for a haul of b-grade '50s sci-fi and '80s Cannon 'classics'.)

To Sleep With Anger confirmed in latest newsletter.

Is it? Seems like it could be Inside Out

Disney is not licensing out a Pixar film.

DECEMBER:Panique; A Dry White Season; Forty Guns; and an upgrade of Sawdust & Tinsel.

Forty Guns will have A Fuller Life as a bonus feature.

the 25 film Zatoichi set is due out in the uk in november, for £150. i am tempted.

I love that Zatoichi set! I don't mind the repetitive narratives at all, though.

Non-Criterion release of possible interest: a set of six early Clouzot features (1931-1933), coming from Kino in November

I Wanna Hold Your Hand confirmed in latest newsletter.

JANUARY: In The Heat of The Night; 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days; Mikey and Nicky; Notorious (upgrade/reissue); and 24 Frames.

A shame that their not replicating the Notorious cover art from their original DVD release, as I've always loved that one:

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I do love that cover (I have the original), but the new cover is p cool imo. Hope that 24 Frames is a sign of more Kiarostami releases & upgrades.

50% flash sale on now, over tomorrow at noon EST.

Damn u, Criterion. Literally just last night splurged on a Shout Factory sale. It's okay, I don't have to eat or anything.

got Rossellini's War Trilogy, Pearls of the Czech New Wave, and Thief. bummed that Shoah was sold out.

ok I'm insane and bought the Dekalog so I could get a gift certificate. got the Dušan Makavejev and Agnès Varda Eclipse boxes.

B&N 50% off sale starts on November 2nd and lasts until December 3rd... will be able to get the Bergman box for ~$135 with B&N membership (or the phone number of anyone who has a membership).

fuck I forgot the B&N sale applied to preorders, already got the Bergman box for $195

Let The Sunshine In confirmed in latest newsletter.

nice!

got the Dietrich/von Sternberg set, and plan to watch one a day for the next week, yahoo

I was at a Barnes and Noble yesterday, and an old British man asked me "how do I know which ones are sale?"

He seemed quite delighted when I told him all of them and then picked out A Matter of Life and Death.

Adorable.

I would just buy on the website and have them deliver, but the site isn't applying the additional membership discount that knocks an extra couple bucks off. So off to the store with me to grab Sisters.

Adorable.

My first Criterion haul:
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Limited myself to just the Sisters re-up and then, thanks to KJB's haul post, An Actor's Revenge.

And am only additionally getting Crucified Lovers and Magnificent Ambersons for the remainder of the sale, once they're released.

An Actor's Revenge is the only one I haven't seen and I just requested a Netflix copy.

Got mine in the mail today:

Ugetsu
Topsy-Turvy
One Eyed Jacks
World on a Wire
A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

I have a list of upgrades that I keep putting off:

3 Women
Yi Yi
Late Spring
F for Fake
Jeanne Dielman
M
L'eclisse
Au hasard Balthazar

This as good a thread as any to say that I started the <i>Marseille Trilogy</i> the other day and don't watch any of the extras until you've seen all three movies unless you're fine with MAJOR spoilers.

Watched IN A LONELY PLACE for the millionth time, then was scandalized by the featurette about Gloria Grahame