Criterion Film Club

[gglass4269]

Welcome to the official for the Criterion Film Club! Once a week, we watch a select film from the collection and discuss, much like your typical book club. If you are interested in joining, please visit our sister thread,

Click here to join the Criterion Film Club!

All discussions will take place in the the dvd reviews section of the forum, You do not need to take part every week, but participation, even with a film you're not interested is strongly encouraged. (If everyone loved the film, we wouldn't have much to discuss!) Feel free to leave questions or concerns in this forum, but please keep all thread capping out of the actual review threads. Thanks, and welcome to the club!

Members selceted to pick a film have one week to pick. After that their chance to pick will be forfited

-Griffin


SCHEDULE

9/14 Do the Right Thing Criterion Film Club Week Five: Do the Right Thing
9/21 This Sporting Life
9/28 Brakhage: An Anthology
10/5 Jigoku

MEMBERS

1-gglass4269 *
2- NYstreetrat
3-IronWaffle
4-chris_sc77 *
5-critterdvd
6-darkside
7-zombeaner
8-Maxflier
9-Sondheim
10-visitor Q *
11-TheDuke
12-MTRodaba2468 *
13-chase3001
14-William Fuld
15-Chad
16-trespoochies
17-JoeySeven
18-mike7162
19-hindolio
20-bsktballDude1
21-Flicker
22-Sparrow
23-riotinmyskull *
24-mikelowry
25-Trevor
26-macnorton
27-Giles
28-tommykb127
29-KillerCannibal
30-Dick Laurent
31-MoviePage
32-Hokeyboy
33-CardiffGiant
34-LickTheABCs
35-jbnugent
36-Sessa17
37-illennium
38-Ginwen
39-Zizoujuve *
40-GoldenJCJ
41-SanityRemoved
42-Mike UFC
43-whaaat
44-TheHypnoToad
45-Tim Tucker
46-Matthew Ackerly
47-ericc22
48-Luther Heggs
49-notkevinbacon
50-too much
51-Mabuse
52-Kory
53-utopianz14
54-Kerborus
55-GenPion
56-Mister Peepers
57-gjamesm
58-jdpatri
59-InnocentBlood
60-Gobear
61-Deco King
62-ivelostr2
63-Sernov
64-excom101
65-NoirFan
66-Randy810
67-gryffinmaster
68-John Sinnott
69-Demonmoon68
70-sleepyhead55
71-brizz
72-davidlynchfan
73-PythonMonty504
74-jewellrunner
75-DamDavila



Criterion Film Club Week One: Empire of Passion
Criterion Film Club Week Two: George Washington.
Criterion Film Club Week Three: F For Fake
9/7 The Ruling Class

[chase3001]

Count me in.

[TheDuke]

Sounds good, probably will be only good for those of us with Netflix though.

[KillerCannibal]

I'm in, although I'd only be participating for the titles I own as I'm not a renter. Sounds like a good idea.

[gglass4269]

How do you guys think the process of choosing a film should go?

[Sessa17]

I'm down, personally I'd love it if the first film was Wages of Fear as I'm gonna watch it this weekend.

How about maybe one fairly recently released Criterion one month, a catalogue title the next.

Or you can go by Director & choose a different director each month (or maybe 2 Criterions a month). My only suggestion is maybe avoid the more mainstream Criterions, who hasn't seen Seventh Samurai or The Rock for instance, probably not much to discuss for those.

[critterdvd]

I'd be interested in a club. But like others said my participation would obviously be determined by netflix availability haha.

[X]

Originally Posted by gglass4269

How do you guys think the process of choosing a film should go?

Start with #1.

[riotinmyskull]

i'm in!

[gglass4269]

Originally Posted by X

Start with #1.

But what about when we hit films like Hardboiled or Spinal Tap? Would we just talk about the film, since they have different releases now?

[doob]

sounds cool I'm in if i can afford it

[chris_sc77]

i dont see why not. I'll try to participate.

[Sondheim]

Between my personal collection and the local libraries I have access to all but about fifty or so Criterions - so I'd enjoy doing something like this.

[KillerCannibal]

Don't start at #1. Make it a random drawing of numbers if anything. I'd prefer the uncertainty of what's to come than to know exactly what film we'll be discussing until the end of time.

[riotinmyskull]

someone should start a horror film club as well

[visitor Q]

Originally Posted by TheDuke

Sounds good, probably will be only good for those of us with Netflix though.

Check out your local libraries. Near me each library is part of a much larger network of libraries so what may not be in stock is usually still attainable within a short period of time since they ship titles within the network all the time. I would assume most libraries work like that these days, but I could be wrong.

Originally Posted by gglass4269

I'm thinking of starting a Criterion Film Club

Great idea! Which forum would it take place in? DVDs, Movies ...?

[Trevor]

In.

One suggestion: Separate threads for each item. That way, there won't be a need for spoilers.

[IronWaffle]

Originally Posted by KillerCannibal

I'm in, although I'd only be participating for the titles I own as I'm not a renter. Sounds like a good idea.

Same here.

[manicsounds]

I thought this thread was saying that Criterion was going to issue "Fight Club" on DVD

[jjcool]

I would be up for this. I really hope that you dont exclude any titles just because some people may think they are "too mainstream". Those are the titles that are going to have the most people own them, and hopefully the most people in the discussion.
Definitely should be a separate thread for each title.

[Cheato]

Seems like the discussion(s) should be in the Reviews forum, since you'll (I say you, since I seriously doubt I'd participate, no offense intended) essentially be creating a group review.

[Maxflier]

Couldn't it be done in the Groups forum? Maybe a group could be made for the Criterion Film Club and then all the threads could be in it's forum?
Then again that may doom it, since I don't think anyone actually uses the groups section of the forum.

[Sessa17]

Originally Posted by Trevor

In.

One suggestion: Separate threads for each item. That way, there won't be a need for spoilers.

Just use the spoiler code. It's no big deal. I once started a Buffy thread with literally over 50 pages of responses, never saw the series before, & not once person spoiled a single thing for me. I just never clicked on the spoiler warnings.

[Sparrow]

I'll definitely participate, so +1

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by Sessa17

Just use the spoiler code. It's no big deal. I once started a Buffy thread with literally over 50 pages of responses, never saw the series before, & not once person spoiled a single thing for me. I just never clicked on the spoiler warnings.

Except that a lot of people participate with threads mainly through email notifications, and spoiler tags don't work in those.