Del Toro Talks Cronos Blu-ray
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Del Toro Talks Cronos Blu-ray
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Del Toro Talks Cronos Blu-ray
Posted November 12, 2008 08:24 AM by Josh Dreuth
At a press event for the Blu-ray and DVD release of his latest film 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army', director Guillermo del Toro commented that Lionsgate will soon be announcing a "special Blu-ray edition" of his film 'Cronos'. He commented, "I think I want to revisit, re-time, restructure the sound for the Blu-ray experience in a big way."
When asked if extras would just be ported from the previous DVD release or if more work was being done, he commented, "We're going to do, basically, the most exhausting extras that can ever be put together. There are many editions around the world with different extras, but there is no definitive edition."
Expect an official announcement from the studio soon.
Posted November 12, 2008 08:24 AM by Josh Dreuth
At a press event for the Blu-ray and DVD release of his latest film 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army', director Guillermo del Toro commented that Lionsgate will soon be announcing a "special Blu-ray edition" of his film 'Cronos'. He commented, "I think I want to revisit, re-time, restructure the sound for the Blu-ray experience in a big way."
When asked if extras would just be ported from the previous DVD release or if more work was being done, he commented, "We're going to do, basically, the most exhausting extras that can ever be put together. There are many editions around the world with different extras, but there is no definitive edition."
Expect an official announcement from the studio soon.
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Great news!
I'll probably pick up the Blu-Ray. Will hold onto my R1 for memories sake
I'll probably pick up the Blu-Ray. Will hold onto my R1 for memories sake
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From blu-ray.com
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2054
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Del Toro Talks Cronos Blu-ray
Posted November 12, 2008 08:24 AM by Josh Dreuth
At a press event for the Blu-ray and DVD release of his latest film 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army', director Guillermo del Toro commented that Lionsgate will soon be announcing a "special Blu-ray edition" of his film 'Cronos'. He commented, "I think I want to revisit, re-time, restructure the sound for the Blu-ray experience in a big way."
When asked if extras would just be ported from the previous DVD release or if more work was being done, he commented, "We're going to do, basically, the most exhausting extras that can ever be put together. There are many editions around the world with different extras, but there is no definitive edition."
Expect an official announcement from the studio soon.
Nice!
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2054
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Del Toro Talks Cronos Blu-ray
Posted November 12, 2008 08:24 AM by Josh Dreuth
At a press event for the Blu-ray and DVD release of his latest film 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army', director Guillermo del Toro commented that Lionsgate will soon be announcing a "special Blu-ray edition" of his film 'Cronos'. He commented, "I think I want to revisit, re-time, restructure the sound for the Blu-ray experience in a big way."
When asked if extras would just be ported from the previous DVD release or if more work was being done, he commented, "We're going to do, basically, the most exhausting extras that can ever be put together. There are many editions around the world with different extras, but there is no definitive edition."
Expect an official announcement from the studio soon.
Nice!
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I guess things changed since November 12, 2008.
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If you don't mind paying full-retail, you can get a copy of Cronos that's signed by GdT right here.
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Re: Del Toro Talks Cronos Blu-ray
http://www.criterion.com/explore/125...l-toros-top-10
1.)
Throne of Blood
High and Low
Ran
2.)
Seventh Seal
Fanny & Alexander-TC
3.)
Beauty and The Beast
Eyes without a Face
4.)
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
5.
Time Bandits
Brazil
6.)
Onibaba
7.)
Spartacus
Paths of Glory
8.)
Sullivan's Travels
Unfaithfully Yours
9.)
Vampyr
Haxan
10.)
Spirit of The Beehive
Night of The Hunter
Guillermo del Toro’s Top 10
In compiling his top ten Criterions, Cronos director Guillermo del Toro had a hell of a time limiting himself. Del Toro humorously bemoaned the “unfair, arbitrary, and sadistic top ten practice,” so instead he decided on ties or rather, “thematic/authorial pairings.”
In compiling his top ten Criterions, Cronos director Guillermo del Toro had a hell of a time limiting himself. Del Toro humorously bemoaned the “unfair, arbitrary, and sadistic top ten practice,” so instead he decided on ties or rather, “thematic/authorial pairings.”
Throne of Blood
High and Low
Ran
Kurosawa’s being one of the essential masters is best represented by these, his most operatic, pessimistic, and visually spectacular films. Try and guess which is which. How he managed to be both exuberant and elegant at the same time will be one of life’s great mysteries.
Seventh Seal
Fanny & Alexander-TC
Bergman as a fabulist—my favorite—is absolutely mesmerizing. These two films have the primal pulse of a children’s fable told by an impossibly old and wise narrator. Fanny and Alexander is Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, and John Calvin rolled into one. Both tales are ripe with fantastical imagery and a sharp sense of the uncanny. Also, I am often surprised at how the humor and comedic elements in The Seventh Seal seem to be overlooked in favor of its reputation as a quintessential “serious” art film.
Beauty and The Beast
Eyes without a Face
Beauty and the Beast may be tenuous and delicate where Eyes Without a Face is overripe and pulpish, but these films are gorgeous, dark poems about fragility and horror. Both fables depend on sublime, almost ethereal, imagery to convey a sense of doom and loss: mad, fragile love clinging for dear life in a maelstrom of darkness. The clash of haunting and enchanting imagery has seldom been more powerful. Eyes Without a Face boasts an extraordinary soundtrack too!
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Most people remember David Lean for his big-scale epics, like Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, or The Bridge on the River Kwai. But here he is at his most precise and poetic. Both movies are epics of the spirit, and both are plagued by grand, utterly magical moments and settings; whether showing Oliver’s mother straining and in pain, by intercutting with a flexing branch of thorns, or by lovingly lingering on Miss Havisham’s decaying splendor, Lean understand the need for hyperbole in order to manage the larger-than-life Dickensian archetypes. Some of the passages in both films skate the fine line between poetry and horror.
Time Bandits
Brazil
Terry Gilliam is a living treasure, and we are squandering him foolishly with every film of his that remains unmade. Proof that our world is the poorer for this can be found in two of his masterpieces. Gilliam is a fabulist pregnant with images—exploding with them, actually—and fierce, untamed imagination. He understands that “bad taste” is the ultimate declaration of independence from the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. He jumps with no safety net and drags us with him into a world made coherent only by his undying faith in the tale he is telling. Brazil remains one of the most important films of my life, and Time Bandits is a Roald Dahl–ian landmark to all fantasy films. Seeing Time Bandits with my youngest daughter just two weeks ago, I was delighted when she laughed and rejoiced at the moment when Kevin’s parents explode into a cloud of smoke.
Onibaba
(Tied with Kuroneko.) Horrors and desire, death and lust go hand in hand in Onibaba and Kuroneko, a perverse, sweaty double bill from Kaneto Shindo. I saw these two films at age ten, and they did some serious damage to my psyche. Both are perfect fables rooted in Japanese folklore but distinctly modern in their approach to violence and sexuality. As exuberant and exquisite as a netsuke carving, these atmospheric jewels show mankind trapped in a cosmically evil world. The tales seem to fit together so perfectly that they fuse into one as time goes by. Onibaba and Kuroneko make a perfect double bill for the second circle of hell.
Spartacus
Paths of Glory
Kubrick was a fearsome intellect. His approach to filmmaking and storytelling remains as mysterious at it is compelling. The illusion of control over the medium is total. Both films speak eloquently about the scale of a man against the tide of history, and both raise the bar for every “historical” film to follow. Paths of Glory is a searing indictment of the war machine, as pertinent now as it was in its day. I suspect, however, that Kubrick was also a highly instinctive director, and that he grasped incessantly for his films. An anecdote tells us of him begging Kirk Douglas to stay in bed a few more days after an accident, because Kubrick was using the “downtime” to understand the film they were making.
Sullivan's Travels
Unfaithfully Yours
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, as the saying goes—and Sturges’s films and meteoric, puzzling career confirm this. These are masterful films full of mad energy and fireworks, but Sullivan’s Travels also manages to encapsulate one of the most intimate reflections about the role of the filmmaker as entertainer. Many have attempted to mine the same field as Sturges, and all have failed. A rara avis in the landscape of film.
Vampyr
Haxan
Sheer terror and sheer poetry, but both stem from distinctive medieval traditions. Häxan is the filmic equivalent of a hellish engraving by Bruegel or a painting by Bosch. It’s a strangely titillating record of sin and perversity that is as full of dread as it is of desire and atheistic conviction, and a condemnation of superstition that is morbidly in love with its subject. Vampyr is, strictly speaking, a memento mori, a stern reminder of death as the threshold of spiritual liberation. Like any memento mori, the film enthrones the right morbid imagery (skull, scythe, white limbo) in order to maximize the impact of the beautiful, almost intangible images that conclude it. If only Criterion had acquired my commentary track—sigh—from the UK edition.
Spirit of The Beehive
Night of The Hunter
The two supreme works of childhood/horror. Lamentations of worlds lost and the innocents trapped in them. Sublime fairy tales of despair that depict the adult world as a toxic environment for kids to exist in. Secret treasures kept in the hearts of children must be safeguarded from the corruption of an adult world full of certainty and arrogance. Both films are so beautiful and so dark—they truly make me weep in awe.
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... he commented, "We're going to do, basically, the most exhausting extras that can ever be put together.
If I wanted the "most exhausting extras", I'd purchase a Jazzercise or Aerobics DVD instead.
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Major kudos to Del Toro for making an awesome list of favorite Criterions! Most of the ones he's mentioned are favorites of mine as well. However, there were a few I hadn't seen yet. I'll have to check them out sometime soon now.
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Damn. I never buy Criterion's upon release as anything remotely near $40 shipped is way too rich for my blood on a single film. To get a signed copy of Cronos I'd be willing to make an exception... unfortunately, I really can't afford to at this point in time.
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Didn't even know Del Toro did a commentary on the UK release of Vampyr. That would have been killer on the R1 Criterion.
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Just got my signed copy in today! Very nice of del Toro to do this, am very happy with the purchase.
For those wondering, the blu ray came without shrinkwrap, and he just signed vertically on the outside of the front cover in silver marker.
For those wondering, the blu ray came without shrinkwrap, and he just signed vertically on the outside of the front cover in silver marker.
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