Films that should get a Criterion release

[Mr. Felix]

Great and/or important that aren't recognized enough and/or that don't have a decent DVD release at the moment.

Harold and Maude

The Magnificent Ambersons

Lost Highway

Angela

Dr. Mabuse - Der Spieler

Bowling for Columbine

The short films of Bill Plympton

Le Voyage dans la Lune

[mr. dynamite]

while browsing the criterion collection, i noticed taht they seem to have ZERO westerns in their list,

while i can sort of understand this, at the same time i am sure there are plenty of westerns (actually im positive) that warrant a place in the collection moreso than something like The Rock or Armageddon,

not robocop though,
robocop is great.

but westerns dont really get much credit from the artsyfartsy community, so it will rpobably never happen.

[motorcyclemptiness]

Morgan Stewart is Coming Home and How I Got Into College

[motorcyclemptiness]

Throw in Soul Man and you've got a meaty box set.

[Reginald I. Perrin]

Originally posted by *felix* stars as BraZil!

Bowling for Columbine


Good god, no. That blowhard doesn't deserve such treatment. The only treatment he deserves is to be lined up with the likes of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity etc. and getting punched in the throat for sharing pretty much all of their traits barring ideology. No knock on you, but I cannot stand Michael Moore, and felt I had to be honest on my views on him.

The one Criterion I would love to see, is a Bergman film/TV series called Face to Face. It's a mid-'70s work, and is amazingly not available anywhere bar bootlegs, and those who have seen it rate it amongst his best. I want to see this movie really badly.

Oh, and assorted lost Welles works. But that's more in general, rather than exclusively having Criterion do them. The Other Side of the Wind especially. The "F For Fake" DVD (while I don't have it) includes a fabulous documentary with plenty of lost footage from Oja Kodar's archives of so many projects...clips from the Other Side of the Wind, the Deep, Merchant of Venice, a thoroughly unfinished adaptation of the Dreamers, readings of Moby Dick, lashings of some incredible shorts, a FUCKING AWESOME F for Fake trailer...god, it's good.

[motorcyclemptiness]

I got F for Fake for Nick for Christmas (for for for for) and there is so much goodness. They're releasing "The Complete Mr. Arkadin" soon, which I look forward to.

I'm a tad disappointed with some of the Bergman releases. Wild Strawberries and Seventh Seal really don't have much of anything extra.

[Reginald I. Perrin]

The more recent Bergmans are supposed to be really good, I think. I think Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries were amongst the first ones they did...(A quick look says I was right for Seventh Seal - spine #11. Wild Strawberries is spine #139). Another problem with the DVD for Seventh Seal, apparently, is that it's not really the best quality version you can get of it. I think that belongs to the UK version. However, the DVD's for Scenes from a Marriage and the monster Fanny and Alexander set look great.

But, for me? They could pretty much release Face to Face barebones and I'd still want to do my best to pick it up.

And yeah, the Complete Mr. Arkadin looks great. Three versions, episodes of "Lives of Harry Lime"...I've only seen the "Confidential Report" version. I don't think it measures to his best works (I don't like the lead actor), but it's a fine film.

[vaya con dios]

Lost Highway is coming out this year on DVD, as is the second installments of Twin Peaks.

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by krut!!!!
while browsing the criterion collection, i noticed taht they seem to have ZERO westerns in their list,

while i can sort of understand this, at the same time i am sure there are plenty of westerns (actually im positive) that warrant a place in the collection moreso than something like The Rock or Armageddon,

not robocop though,
robocop is great.

but westerns dont really get much credit from the artsyfartsy community, so it will rpobably never happen.

The Seven Samurai could count. It's got a Western type of philosophy, I mean hell it was even remade as a western film.

It would be cool if Dead Man was re-released by Criterion. They've already done Down By Law.

[mr. dynamite]

i think stranger than paradise reallly needs a criterion release,
any release erally,
the current version of it is out of print,

also it would be neat if they could get the rights back to The Killer and Hard-Boiled, two of the greatest action films i have ever seen.

[Herr Lipp]

Lost Highway is a waste of time. David Lynch is a bit of a dickhead.

[Mr. Felix]

Originally posted by vaya con dios
Lost Highway is coming out this year on DVD, as is the second installments of Twin Peaks.

woot!

you do mean Region 1 right?

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by Herr Lipp
Lost Highway is a waste of time. David Lynch is a bit of a dickhead.

You didn't see it because of the Pumpkins song, did you?

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by *felix* stars as BraZil!
woot!

you do mean Region 1 right?

Well, yeah. It was already released once before, but it was a crappy fullscreen.

[Mr. Felix]

Originally posted by vaya con dios
Well, yeah. It was already released once before, but it was a crappy fullscreen.

I know. I own it.

[Herr Lipp]

Originally posted by vaya con dios
You didn't see it because of the Pumpkins song, did you?

not because of that. I knew it was on there though, and had an interesting review in the paper. but you're pretentious as fuck if you think that movie is worth two shits. it's completely devoid of anything remotely interesting, and is so pseudo-intellectual-snobbish I want to twat Lynch with a toilet cistern lid "Saw" style.

[Mr. Felix]

Originally posted by Herr Lipp
not because of that. I knew it was on there though, and had an interesting review in the paper. but you're pretentious as fuck if you think that movie is worth two shits. it's completely devoid of anything remotely interesting, and is so pseudo-intellectual-snobbish I want to twat Lynch with a toilet cistern lid "Saw" style.

Just because you didn't understand it doesn't mean it isn't a great film.

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by *felix* stars as BraZil!
I know. I own it.

pwnt

[Herr Lipp]

Originally posted by *felix* stars as BraZil!
Just because you didn't understand it doesn't mean it isn't a great film.

ha ha. that exact line is quoted on IMDB or some other film review page of this movie. I rebutt with:

Just because you don't understand it, doesnt mean it IS a great film!

[vaya con dios]

regardless of your opinion on it, it really did do a lot with the medium that hasn't exactly been as expressed as essentially as Lost Highway did... the idea of a Mobius strip, which i dig...
as someone who digs mystery, not to mention absolutely obsessive over small shit as a teenager (like the Fibonacci sequence, for example), it appealed to me. more on the "Moebius strip" here:

http://www.geocities.com/~mikehartmann/papers/herzogenrath3.html


the co-writer, Barry Gifford, of the inspired book stated this, regarding the vagueness of the picture:

"Let's say you don't want to be yourself anymore. Something happens to you, and you just show up in Seattle, living under the name Joe Smith, with a whole different reality. It means that you're trying to escape something, and that's basically what Fred Madison does. He gets into a fugue state, which in this case means that he can't go anywhere - he's in a prison cell, so it's happening internally, within his own mind. But things don't work out any better in the fugue state than they do in real life. He can't control the woman any more than he could in real life. You might say this is an explanation for what happens. However, this is not a complete explanation for the film. Things happen in this film that are not - and should not be - easily explained."