Any Criterion Collection fans?
 

Barnes and Noble is having a 50% off sale on all their criterion dvd's.
I went yesterday and got Last Temptation of Christ and Videodrome.

I just thought some of you movie buffs on the board might like to know, since I don't think ya'll would find out on your own due to the fact htat most of you hate barnes and noble... XD.

Sidenote: I can't guarantee its not just in Houston.. but I would think not.

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i never buy DVDs retail though, cuz i have netflix to rent anytime, and then access to university libraries, and i don't like to own things if i don't have to, as they need care & attention, but fuck yes, i looooove criterion, they fucking rule my DVD universe and i have the biggest boner for them.

ps delete yr dupe post

If only I had the moneyz! :(

Same man. I got their Seven Samurai 3-disc set and have loved them ever since. Regardless of the dvd features, I have yet to be dissapointed with the quality of any of hte movies they release, especially not in picture or sound : p

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Salo
some of Bergman's stuff has recently came out.

I say get anything, really.

how long does the sale last?

For those of you who love Criterion AND High-def, Amazon is also having a big discount sale on Criterion Blu-Rays.

I picked up Chungking Express and Last Year at Marienbad for roughly $40. Not bad considering one Criterion Blu @ list price is nearly $40.

Thanks for the B&N info, Alan. Unfortunately my local B&N doesn't have a multimedia section.

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their dvds are fucking great

gimme shelter, royal tenenbaums, monterrey pop, fear & loathing..

p.s. Thanks for the heads up

They've released some garbage (Armageddon? What the fuck?) and their discs are typically way too expensive. Having said that, they have released more amazing movies (and they're extremely professional about it) than any other company I can think of. At the top of my head, I'd check out the following:

400 Blows
The Killer
Schizopolis
Hard Boiled
Seventh Seal
Chungking Express
Dead Ringers
Withnail and I
Robocop
Tokyo Story
Naked Lunch
Videodrome
Slacker
Ran
Virgin Spring
Jigoku (a bit dated but has some of the scariest visuals I've ever seen)
Sweet Movie
Mala Noche
Fat Girl
Last Year at Marienbad
Alphaville
Andrei Rublev
HAXAN
Branded to Kill
Tokyo Drifter
Wild Strawberries
Eyes Without a Face
Taste of Cherry
Jubilee (a bit overrated but definitely worth a watch)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Obscure Object of Desire
Pierret Le Fou
Breathless
Made in USA
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Elements of Crime
Exterminating Angel
In the Realm of the Senses
Repulsion
My Own Private Idaho
F For Fake
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
In the Mood For Love
Man Bites Dog (!)
Contempt
Through a Glass Darkly
Band of Outsiders
Life of Brian
Sisters
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
By Brakhage (Dog Star Man is in my top 10 films of all time)


I'm sure there's way more I'm forgetting, and obviously more I haven't seen but the above are all great, great releases that I've owned or rented off of nflix.


The main problem with criterion is that they haven't released any Takeshi Kitano films.

You can get the same deals on their website, I posted the link above.

I'm trying to decide which one to go get tomorrow...
Salo
The Man Who Fell To Earth
or some more Kurosawa (reccomendations please, all I have is seven samurai)

Haha no prob. Nice avatar.
I got their awesome issue of Videodrome yesterday for 15 bucks.

Get some Kurosawa, out of your choices.

I wouldn't bother with Salo. It's vastly overrated.

Any specific reccomendations?
I'm thinking Ikiru.

Oh yeah, I'm also interetsed in The Grand Illusion

I've seen Ikiru and it's really good. It's much less stylized and mind-bending than the other Kurosawa films I've seen, but it's very well-done and pretty damn...emotionally intense. Think of a Mizoguchi film, if you've ever seen one. No fancy bullshit, just stripped down story-telling with great acting and subtle cinematography.

By the way...i bought 300 dollars worth of criterion shit from this sale. And I'm tempted to get more, but I'm so against this kind of splurging. So many good films though!

Haha glad I was able to alert you to it.
What'd you pick up?

Nice sale,but i think wrong region code for me!, i think i might get an all region player soon so i can buy this one! -

http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/655

You can't go wrong with Kurosawa. Get them all if possible.
Same goes for Sam Fullers films. One of my alltime favorite directors.

Also:
The Third Man - Carol Reed
The Spirit of the Beehive - Victor Erice (Spanish cinema at it's best)
Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime and Europa are must haves in my book.
The list goes on and on...

Oh, and Salo is NOT overrated as some may say. It's a masterpiece, zots.

I like The Element of Crime but Europa wasn't my thing at all. Hell, I liked Epidemic better, and that was one of the biggest messes of a film I've ever witnessed. But, yeah, I've now seen every Von Trier film aside from the two newest ones, and I actually think "The Five Obstructions" might be the most interesting. Antichrist looks amazing though, can't wait to see that.

As for Salo, it just kinda bored me. The book is way better, hahahaha...

ok here's the booty:
seven samurai
man bites dog
brakhage
science is fiction
in the mood for love
pigs, pimps, prostitutes
solaris
three by teshigahara
8 1/2
empire of passion
joan of arc
vampyr
sansho the bailiff
ugetsu
2 o3 things i know about her
bande apart
sweet movie
grey gardens

if anyone hasn't seen spirit of the beehive, you must

Fifty percent off?!

Son of a bitch....

I wonder if it applies to the online site.

Fuck yeah!

I love Sweet Movie so much. It's a bit of a mess but it's a brilliant mess.

Man Bites Dog is too good for words.

In the Mood for Love is too beautiful.

So many great movies.

I love messy movies. Some Godard stuff, some of Herzog's stuff. I guess I like when messy=raw/rough around the edges; not necessarily convoluted like...inland empire or something. That's why i bought the pigs, pimps, prostitutes set blindly. Intentionally messy Japanese new wave? Sign me up!

It does, the link is on the first page.

thanks!

i bought wild strawberries yesterday, and will buy more after next paycheck.

Just got back from the local b&n, picked up Man Bites Dog > )

Got on there on the first day and it's in the mail--Berlin Alexanderplatz, Sawdust and Tinsel, Perriot le Feu (sic?) and Sullivan's Travels. They even shipped to Ireland. Nice job. $130 the lot.
The next Kurosawa you get should be Ran if you like the expanse, Throne of Blood if you think Mifune is God and Ikiru if you want a bit of heart. And movie trivia: the theme from Girls of the Playboy Mansion features in Ikiru. But it's got more to it than that, I suppose....

good shit for anyone with netflix:
http://criterioncast.com/2009/12/21/...on-on-netflix/