The Criterion Collection

**TheGodfather** · 03-10-2011, 21:29

Mijn eerste gedachte was White Dog en Drunken Angel .
Maar Stray Dog lijkt me dan misschien logischer...

**TheGodfather** · 03-10-2011, 21:57

Zojuist via twitter:

We think you're really going to like our January line-up...

Enig idee? Belle Du Jour?

**BobdH84** · 03-10-2011, 22:01

Op Facebook is men al aardig overtuigd dat het BELLE DU JOUR is, met Catherine Deneuve. Lijkt mij ook zeer aannemelijk. Als dat een onderdeel van de cover is, en daar lijkt het wel op, dan gaat 'ie overigens prachtig worden.

**TheGodfather** · 03-10-2011, 22:19

Want hij lijkt wel heel erg (lippen en haar) op:

**TheGodfather** · 14-10-2011, 22:34

Januari releases:

SYNOPSIS:

The Moment of Truth, from director Francesco Rosi is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero—played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelin. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring’s action, as close to death as possible. Like all of the great Italian truth seeker’s films, this is a not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world—and perhaps the greatest bullfighting movie ever made.

Disc Features

New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Interview with director Francesco Rosi from 2004
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Matthews

Belle de jour

SYNOPSIS:

The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve hides a cracked interior in the actress’s most iconic role: Séverine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and its viewers’), as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions. Fantasy and reality commingle in this burst of cinematic transgression, which was one of Buñuel’s biggest hits.
Disc Features

New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Audio commentary featuring Michael Wood, author of the BFI Film Classics book Belle de jour
New video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright and film scholar Linda Williams
New interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
Excerpt from the French television program Cinéma, featuring interviews with Carrière and actress Catherine Deneuve
Original and American release trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Melissa Anderson and a 1970s interview with director Luis Buñuel

Godzilla

SYNOPSIS:

Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels. This first thrilling, tactile spectacle continues to be a cult phenomenon; here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the 1956 American reworking starring Raymond Burr.

Disc Features

New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series)
New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr
Audio commentary for Godzilla, King of the Monsters by Kalat
New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects
New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
Theatrical trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman

Traffic

SYNOPSIS:

Traffic examines the question of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. With an innovative, color-coded cinematic treatment distinguishing his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpin’s wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The film, delivering a complex and nuanced take on this issue of such great international importance without sacrificing any energy or suspense, is a contemporary classic, and the winner of four Oscars, for best director, best screenplay, best editing, and best supporting actor for Benicio del Toro

Disc Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Steven Soderbergh and supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer Larry Blake (with 5.1 and 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on the Blu-ray editions)
Three audio commentaries, featuring Soderbergh and writer Stephen Gaghan; producers Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz and consultants Tim Golden and Craig Chretien; and composer Cliff Martinez
Twenty-five deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Soderbergh and Gaghan
Three sets of demonstrations: one on film processing and the look of the Mexico sequences; one on film editing, with commentary by editor Stephen Mirrione; and one on dialogue editing
Additional unused footage of various scenes, from multiple angles
Theatrical trailers and television spots
Gallery of trading cards depicting the U.S. Customs canine squad used to detect narcotics and illegal substances
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Manohla Dargis

Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin

SYNOPSIS:

Filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin, widely known for his early-seventies collaborations (including Tout va bien) with Jean-Luc Godard in the Dziga Vertov Group, established his singular voice with this trio of accomplished, fascinating, and nontraditional documentaries, made in Southern California after his relocation there. Poto and Cabengo (1978) is a compelling visit with two young San Diego twins who have invented their own language. In Routine Pleasures (1986), Gorin conjoins the story of a group of model train enthusiasts in Del Mar with a meditation on the work of critic and painter Manny Farber. And My Crasy Life (1992) is an expectation-shredding exploration of a Samoan gang in Long Beach. With these three films, Gorin excavates hidden communities that are a part of everyday American life, and shows himself to be a major chronicler of what is eccentric and beautiful in our common culture.

**TheGodfather** · 15-10-2011, 17:08

De hoes van Kuronenko is trouwens wel tof gedaan: er zit een soort effect op zoals je wel eens ziet bij "lenticular covers"Criterionforum.org

**TheGodfather** · 20-10-2011, 21:31

Dazed and Confused blu-ray @dvdbeaver

Island Of Lost Souls blu-ray @ dvdbeaver

Identification of a Woman

**TheGodfather** · 25-10-2011, 23:10

Roept U maar!

**Coen P.** · 26-10-2011, 11:05

I Vitelloni (Fellini) ('de kalveren')

**StefaanD** · 26-10-2011, 11:57

Die beestjes zien er toch wel volwassen uit Coen

**Coen P.** · 26-10-2011, 12:48

Ach Stefaan, betere gok dan dit wordt het niet voor me. Heb nog nooit zo'n schetsje goed gegokt

**Coen P.** · 26-10-2011, 12:53

Lees her en der een David Lean / Noel Coward ('cow herd') box met 4 films (Which we Serve, This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit en wellicht Brief Encounter) (5 koeien in de vorm van een 4)

**Coen P.** · 26-10-2011, 13:06

Een Miklos Jancso box wordt ook genoemd.

Net als Bela Tarr's Satantango. Leuke pun: waarom zijn de koeien zo dun? Because they are Hungary.

**StefaanD** · 26-10-2011, 20:50

Oorspronkelijk gepost door Coen P.

Ach Stefaan, betere gok dan dit wordt het niet voor me. Heb nog nooit zo'n schetsje goed gegokt

Nou jij komt tot een gok, zo ver geraak 'k zelfs niet

Enne Hungary knap gevonden, zijn zeker geen dikbillen.

**TheGodfather** · 30-10-2011, 20:28

Oorspronkelijk gepost door Coen P.

Net als Bela Tarr's Satantango. Leuke pun: waarom zijn de koeien zo dun? Because they are Hungary.

ok die is wel heeeeel flauw

The Rules Of The Game blu-ray @ dvdbeaver

Trois Couleur Trilogy blu-ray @ dvdbeaver:
Bleu Blanc Rouge

**Rogier Burghout** · 31-10-2011, 14:18

Traffic komt er zeker in....Ben heel erg benieuwd naar de verschillende kleurenpaletten en de HD DVD die ik heb heeft niet een bijster sterke transfer. Plus dat deze ook nog eens zo kaal is als wat. Had de Criterion dvd; maar ben erg blij dat ik deze kan upgraden naar Blu.

**TheGodfather** · 04-11-2011, 22:23

The Red Shoes blu-ray @ dvdbeaver (vergelijking tussen de Criterion en 2 andere blu-ray versies)

Fanny och Alexander @ dvdbeaver.com

**bureaulamp** · 04-11-2011, 22:59

en de criterion uitverkoop is begonnen bij Barnes Und Noble

**TheGodfather** · 12-11-2011, 00:06

12 Angry Men @ DVDBeaver

Rushmore @ DVDBeaver

**Brakhage** · 16-11-2011, 18:08

Het zal wel een fout zijn, maar zowel World on a Wire en Anatomy of a Murder die allebei in februari uit gaan komen, zijn nu op Amazon te pre-orderen voor het bespottelijke bedrag van 16.99!

**TheGodfather** · 16-11-2011, 20:25

Oorspronkelijk gepost door Brakhage

Het zal wel een fout zijn, maar zowel World on a Wire en Anatomy of a Murder die allebei in februari uit gaan komen, zijn nu op Amazon te pre-orderen voor het bespottelijke bedrag van 16.99!

Nu weer terug op 27,99...

**TheGodfather** · 17-11-2011, 22:32

Kom maar weer door met die suggesties en ideeën:

Krijgen we na Godzilla nu The Godfather vs. King Kong??

**Brakhage** · 18-11-2011, 17:00

Oorspronkelijk gepost door TheGodfather

Kom maar weer door met die suggesties en ideeën:

Krijgen we na Godzilla nu The Godfather vs. King Kong??

Het is duidelijk 'Being John Malkovich', die al eerder bevestigd was.

**TheGodfather** · 18-11-2011, 18:10

Ah ok! nice

wist niet dat die al bevestigd was

**rogue** · 18-11-2011, 19:28

Hij zal allicht beter zijn dan de HD-DVD die ik eerst had.

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