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Post by Neverending on Jul 30, 2015 23:27:41 GMT -5
No one told me that Tootsie was in the Criterion collection.
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Post by Dracula on Jul 31, 2015 5:24:31 GMT -5
No one told me that Tootsie was in the Criterion collection. They seem to have recently gotten an interest in re-considering the prestige films of the 80s that had sort of been placed on the back burner by the film community (The Big Chill, Broadcast News, A Room With a View, Babette's Feast, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, etc.). |
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Post by Neverending on Jul 31, 2015 16:08:07 GMT -5
No one told me that Tootsie was in the Criterion collection. They seem to have recently gotten an interest in re-considering the prestige films of the 80s that had sort of been placed on the back burner by the film community (The Big Chill, Broadcast News, A Room With a View, Babette's Feast, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, etc.). The lack of Amadeus makes me question the entire company. That's one of the greatest films of all-time and most people under 30 have ignored it because they assume a movie about classical music is gonna be boring. Criterion should be exposing Amadeus to a whole new audience and generation. |
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Jul 31, 2015 16:43:38 GMT -5
They seem to have recently gotten an interest in re-considering the prestige films of the 80s that had sort of been placed on the back burner by the film community (The Big Chill, Broadcast News, A Room With a View, Babette's Feast, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, etc.). The lack of Amadeus makes me question the entire company. That's one of the greatest films of all-time and most people under 30 have ignored it because they assume a movie about classical music is gonna be boring. Criterion should be exposing Amadeus to a whole new audience and generation. I'm sure it comes down to rights or something, why wouldn't they want to include "Amadeus" if they could? You're right though, the film is not your typical plodding biopic; it's got tons of energy and charm and is the best of the 80s Best Picture winners for sure. Obviously it's acclaimed, but I agree that it maybe doesn't get as much attention these days as it should. Criterion would have all of the amazing films if they could. |
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Post by Neverending on Jul 31, 2015 16:58:23 GMT -5
I agree that it maybe doesn't get as much attention these days as it should. If it wasn't for music classes, no one would watch it. |
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Post by thebtskink on Jul 31, 2015 17:28:39 GMT -5
My friends and I went around school imitating Scalieri's final breakdown scene for days after being shown that in Middle School.
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Post by Dracula on Jul 31, 2015 18:09:24 GMT -5
They seem to have recently gotten an interest in re-considering the prestige films of the 80s that had sort of been placed on the back burner by the film community (The Big Chill, Broadcast News, A Room With a View, Babette's Feast, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, etc.). The lack of Amadeus makes me question the entire company. That's one of the greatest films of all-time and most people under 30 have ignored it because they assume a movie about classical music is gonna be boring. Criterion should be exposing Amadeus to a whole new audience and generation. Warner Brothers owns the rights, they almost never work with Criterion. Also, there's a perfectly good Blu-Ray for that movie already, there's not a whole lot of reason for Criterion to "save" it. |
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Post by IanTheCool on Jul 31, 2015 22:44:47 GMT -5
Is there any way a poor Canadian can get in on these sale prices?
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Post by Dracula on Jul 31, 2015 23:00:55 GMT -5
Is there any way a poor Canadian can get in on these sale prices? Road trip  |
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Post by iverdawg on Sept 16, 2015 17:19:31 GMT -5
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Post by Dracula on Sept 16, 2015 17:38:06 GMT -5
December is always light for them, they put out all their heavy hitters in November for the Holiday shopping season. New Harold Lloyd though, that's always nice. |
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Post by PG Cooper on Oct 6, 2015 11:53:00 GMT -5
Flash 50% off sale from Criterion.com. If you also took advantage of the $10 credit gift to fans of the Facebook page, this could be a good day.
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Post by Doomsday on Oct 6, 2015 12:45:38 GMT -5
I had the $10 credit so I picked up Band of Outsiders and Blow-Out.
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Post by Doomsday on Oct 17, 2015 1:23:39 GMT -5
Inside Llewyn Davis for sure.
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Post by Dracula on Oct 17, 2015 6:39:44 GMT -5
Never thought I'd see such a stuffed edition of a Coen Brothers movie. Those two don't really seem like special features and seem to insist that their movies get fairly modest releases.
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Post by PG Cooper on Oct 17, 2015 10:46:39 GMT -5
Awesome. Glad I haven't picked up Inside Llewyn Davis yet.
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Post by Doomsday on Oct 17, 2015 12:36:20 GMT -5
I had it on order from Amazon one time and just hours later Criterion released their annual drawing that hand hints of the releases for the upcoming year. One was clearly Inside Llewyn Davis so I cancelled asap.
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Post by Dracula on Nov 16, 2015 21:09:56 GMT -5
Hell yes on both of those. Cool to see The Emigrants/The New Land getting a decent release as well. Watched a version of that not long ago which was... compromised.
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Post by PG Cooper on Nov 17, 2015 9:11:03 GMT -5
Hell yes on both of those. Cool to see The Emigrants/The New Land getting a decent release as well. Watched a version of that not long ago which was... compromised. What are you talking about, Drac? That dub was amazing! |
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Nov 18, 2015 13:11:33 GMT -5
Wow, The Graduate, that's awesome and kind of unexpected. There's certain Hollywood classics you think are just gonna remain where they are and not be able to get the Criterion treatment, but this is great. I wonder if it will open the doors for others as well.
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Post by Doomsday on Nov 18, 2015 13:18:02 GMT -5
I don't even like The Graduate that much but I might pick up a Criterionized version of it.
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Nov 18, 2015 13:31:42 GMT -5
Really? I think it's excellent. So ahead of its time and still extremely watchable today. I'd love to see them touch it up, I bet it'll look great on blu-ray once they do.
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