Which films would you release if you were Criterion?
10-13-05 | 12:27 AM
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First, the "possible" ones...
Licensed from Universal:
- Abel Gance's Napoleon (3-disc edition with both the Carl Davis and Carmine Coppola orchestral scores in 5.1 sound. Extras include Kevin Brownlow commentary [Probably with extra participants like other historians, American edition supervisor Robert Harris, American version presenter Francis Ford Coppola, etc.], his documentary on Abel Gance [The Charm of Dynamite], a reprinting of his book on the film, behind-the-scenes footage that DOES survive, a featurette on the many versions of Napoleon, the segment from Cinema Europe on Napoleon, the original script in PDF format [This exists!], and maybe image gallerys... tons of stills and posters exist)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (2-disc edition with fully restored sound and silent editions. Commentaries by appropriate historians. Not sure of other possible extras.)
Via Fox:
- Holy Matrimony (Hilarious comedy that Fox has kept out of public view for years. Has been restored by UCLA. Stars Monty Wooley and Una O'Connor and has an Oscar nominated screenplay by Nunnaly Johnson)
Via Buena Vista:
- The Thief and the Cobbler (Fully reconstructed version remastered in 2.35:1 anamorphic. Commentary by Richard Williams. Include the workprint footage of pencil tests and storyboards. Also include the bastardized 1996 release version a la the "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil)
- Nothing Sacred (A Selznick film Disney is sitting on, despite being fully restored! This Carole Lombard comedy needs to be released!)
- Also, they should allow Criterion to re-issue their editions of Rebecca, Spellbound, and Notorious. Perhaps they could do The Paradine Case, too.
Via New Line/Fine Line:
- Nothing - They do a great job and I can't think of any films.
Others:
More British Hitchcock. I'd buy a 2-disc Blackmail with sound and silent versions remastered in HD. Add some commentaries, the sound test, and the Cinema Europe segment, it'll be great.
Licensed from Universal:
- Abel Gance's Napoleon (3-disc edition with both the Carl Davis and Carmine Coppola orchestral scores in 5.1 sound. Extras include Kevin Brownlow commentary [Probably with extra participants like other historians, American edition supervisor Robert Harris, American version presenter Francis Ford Coppola, etc.], his documentary on Abel Gance [The Charm of Dynamite], a reprinting of his book on the film, behind-the-scenes footage that DOES survive, a featurette on the many versions of Napoleon, the segment from Cinema Europe on Napoleon, the original script in PDF format [This exists!], and maybe image gallerys... tons of stills and posters exist)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (2-disc edition with fully restored sound and silent editions. Commentaries by appropriate historians. Not sure of other possible extras.)
Via Fox:
- Holy Matrimony (Hilarious comedy that Fox has kept out of public view for years. Has been restored by UCLA. Stars Monty Wooley and Una O'Connor and has an Oscar nominated screenplay by Nunnaly Johnson)
Via Buena Vista:
- The Thief and the Cobbler (Fully reconstructed version remastered in 2.35:1 anamorphic. Commentary by Richard Williams. Include the workprint footage of pencil tests and storyboards. Also include the bastardized 1996 release version a la the "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil)
- Nothing Sacred (A Selznick film Disney is sitting on, despite being fully restored! This Carole Lombard comedy needs to be released!)
- Also, they should allow Criterion to re-issue their editions of Rebecca, Spellbound, and Notorious. Perhaps they could do The Paradine Case, too.
Via New Line/Fine Line:
- Nothing - They do a great job and I can't think of any films.
Others:
More British Hitchcock. I'd buy a 2-disc Blackmail with sound and silent versions remastered in HD. Add some commentaries, the sound test, and the Cinema Europe segment, it'll be great.
10-13-05 | 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by PatrickMcCart
More British Hitchcock. I'd buy a 2-disc Blackmail with sound and silent versions remastered in HD. Add some commentaries, the sound test, and the Cinema Europe segment, it'll be great.
10-13-05 | 06:45 PM
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Kicking and Screaming (the 90's Noah Baumbach movie, NOT the Will Ferrell one)
The teenage movies of Steven Spielberg (might be horrible, but could be interesting- especially the war movie he made as a kid)
Kicking and Screaming (the 90's Noah Baumbach movie, NOT the Will Ferrell one)
The teenage movies of Steven Spielberg (might be horrible, but could be interesting- especially the war movie he made as a kid)
10-13-05 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by evenswr
How about The Man Who Knew Too Much box set, containing both the original 1934 film and the 1956 Jimmy Stewart remake?
10-13-05 | 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by jpfisher
I'd love to see a two-disc with this and The Lion in Winter -- that film deserves a much better transfer.
10-13-05 | 11:24 PM
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Halloween (with all the laserdisc supplements)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (with the deleted scenes)
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (That's right!)
King Kong
Amadeus
And So On...
A Nightmare on Elm Street (with the deleted scenes)
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (That's right!)
King Kong
Amadeus
And So On...
10-16-05 | 12:13 AM
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La Grande Vadrouille
Battleship Potemkin and other Eisenstein Silents
Breathless
The Bicycle Thief
Metropolis
Nosferatu
The Decalogue
A Matter of Life and Death
L'Atalante
Le Jour Se Leve
La Terra Trema
L'Age D'Or
Un Chien Andalou
The Blue Angel
Pather Panchali
The Piano
Wings of Desire
Napoleon
Pandora's Box
Double Life of Veronique
Los Olvidados
The Conformist
Les Vampires
Spring in a Small Town and more classic Chinese films (not Hong Kong)
Landscape in the Midst
Belle du Jour
Don't Look Now
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Trainspotting
La Grande Vadrouille
Celine and Julie Go Boating
10-16-05 | 12:29 PM
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I know this is in bad taste, and it's not a good cover I made, but I had to get this one out of my mind. I would like to see anybody try to make this as a Criterion release!
10-16-05 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Charlie_Chaplin
Here are films that I would release if I were Criterion:
Battleship Potemkin and other Eisenstein Silents
Breathless
The Bicycle Thief
Metropolis
Nosferatu
The Decalogue
A Matter of Life and Death
L'Atalante
Le Jour Se Leve
La Terra Trema
L'Age D'Or
Un Chien Andalou
The Blue Angel
Pather Panchali
The Piano
Wings of Desire
Napoleon
Pandora's Box
Double Life of Veronique
Los Olvidados
The Conformist
Les Vampires
Spring in a Small Town and more classic Chinese films (not Hong Kong)
Landscape in the Midst
Belle du Jour
Don't Look Now
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Trainspotting
La Grande Vadrouille
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Battleship Potemkin and other Eisenstein Silents
Breathless
The Bicycle Thief
Metropolis
Nosferatu
The Decalogue
A Matter of Life and Death
L'Atalante
Le Jour Se Leve
La Terra Trema
L'Age D'Or
Un Chien Andalou
The Blue Angel
Pather Panchali
The Piano
Wings of Desire
Napoleon
Pandora's Box
Double Life of Veronique
Los Olvidados
The Conformist
Les Vampires
Spring in a Small Town and more classic Chinese films (not Hong Kong)
Landscape in the Midst
Belle du Jour
Don't Look Now
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Trainspotting
La Grande Vadrouille
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Citizen Kane
Vertigo
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Searchers
The Godfather
Sunrise
Singin' in the Rain
Raging Bull
Lawrence of Arabia
Touch of Evil
La Dolce Vita
City Lights
Sunset Blvd.
The General
Some Like it Hot
Casablanca
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The Gold Rush
Rear Window
Persona
Intolerance
Chinatown
The Night of the Hunter
It's a Wonderful Life
Modern Times
The Mirror
The Wizard of Oz
Nashville
The Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
Blade Runner
North by Northwest
Pierrot le fou
Sherlock, Jr.
All About Eve
My Darling Clementine
Barry Lyndon
On the Waterfront
A Clockwork Orange
The Man with a Movie Camera
Nosferatu
The Apartment
Last Year in Marienbad
Gone With the Wind
Blue Velvet
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach
His Girl Friday
Double Indemnity
My Life to Live
A Man Escaped
Duck Soup
GoodFellas
Star Wars
11-05-05 | 09:42 PM
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Fistful of Dynamite.
The only Sergio movie to have not only just received terrible treatment in the theaters but equally terrible treatment on DVD as well. The U.K. version cut six seconds out, the infamous final flashback is still only in the Italian version, and there's no U.S. release at all, not to mention there's still at least a good 20 to 30 minutes of important footage still not seen(The Viega torture, another flashback, desert taunting scene, etc.)
Hmm, Leone and Criterion...
The only Sergio movie to have not only just received terrible treatment in the theaters but equally terrible treatment on DVD as well. The U.K. version cut six seconds out, the infamous final flashback is still only in the Italian version, and there's no U.S. release at all, not to mention there's still at least a good 20 to 30 minutes of important footage still not seen(The Viega torture, another flashback, desert taunting scene, etc.)
Hmm, Leone and Criterion...
11-05-05 | 10:35 PM
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Another vote for:
Originally Posted by RichDB10
The Thin Red Line
11-05-05 | 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by lauren42088
whats the deal with criterion films anyways? is it like just another version?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Criterion Collection is a joint venture between Janus Films and The Voyager Company that was begun in the mid 1980s for the purpose of releasing authoritative consumer versions of "classic and important contemporary films" on the laserdisc and DVD formats.
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Criterion pioneered many innovations in the way movies are presented on video that have become standard today.
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Their debut release were the 1984 laserdiscs of Citizen Kane and King Kong. In both cases, Criterion pioneered the concept of the "special edition," in which a movie is presented with numerous bonus materials including trailers, directors' audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes documentaries, alternate endings, deleted scenes, and more. This concept was quickly embraced by almost all other home video companies, from the mainstream to small speciality labels like Masters of Cinema and Elite Entertainment. Today, special edition DVDs, even for the most trivial of films, are becoming the norm rather than the exception.
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Today, though they are no longer alone in the care and dedication with which they treat their films, nor in the elaborate content of their special editions, the Criterion Collection remains synonymous with quality.
However, as most any brand associated in the mind of consumers with quality, Criterion DVDs tend, on the whole, to be much more expensive than DVDs released by other entities. Whether this pricing structure is due to increased costs necessary to ensure the best possible film elements and extras and to compensate for a smaller market for the titles it releases, or whether it is a means to capitalize on the cachet of its reputation has been hotly debated. With an emphasis on quality over quantity, only a comparatively few films have been selected to be "saved" by them.
The Criterion Collection is a joint venture between Janus Films and The Voyager Company that was begun in the mid 1980s for the purpose of releasing authoritative consumer versions of "classic and important contemporary films" on the laserdisc and DVD formats.
...
Criterion pioneered many innovations in the way movies are presented on video that have become standard today.
...
Their debut release were the 1984 laserdiscs of Citizen Kane and King Kong. In both cases, Criterion pioneered the concept of the "special edition," in which a movie is presented with numerous bonus materials including trailers, directors' audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes documentaries, alternate endings, deleted scenes, and more. This concept was quickly embraced by almost all other home video companies, from the mainstream to small speciality labels like Masters of Cinema and Elite Entertainment. Today, special edition DVDs, even for the most trivial of films, are becoming the norm rather than the exception.
...
Today, though they are no longer alone in the care and dedication with which they treat their films, nor in the elaborate content of their special editions, the Criterion Collection remains synonymous with quality.
However, as most any brand associated in the mind of consumers with quality, Criterion DVDs tend, on the whole, to be much more expensive than DVDs released by other entities. Whether this pricing structure is due to increased costs necessary to ensure the best possible film elements and extras and to compensate for a smaller market for the titles it releases, or whether it is a means to capitalize on the cachet of its reputation has been hotly debated. With an emphasis on quality over quantity, only a comparatively few films have been selected to be "saved" by them.
11-06-05 | 08:37 AM
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I would focus more on american classic films..I haven't been excited about a Criterion release month since the awesome one with Unfaithfully Yours and Heaven Can Wait...there are so many good films that have never been released and need to be restored, but no they go revisit Kind Hearts and Coronets..I don't get it. So many great films from Ronald Colman, Ray Milland ,Robert Mitchum ,Lana Turner, Robert Taylor, Jean Arthur etc..just wasting in some vault.
11-06-05 | 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Mscott716
I would focus more on american classic films
11-06-05 | 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Mscott716
I would focus more on american classic films..I haven't been excited about a Criterion release month since the awesome one with Unfaithfully Yours and Heaven Can Wait...there are so many good films that have never been released and need to be restored, but no they go revisit Kind Hearts and Coronets..I don't get it. So many great films from Ronald Colman, Ray Milland ,Robert Mitchum ,Lana Turner, Robert Taylor, Jean Arthur etc..just wasting in some vault.