No, maybe 5, two of which are Night of the Hunter and The Leopard, and I don't expect them to be able to really help me there since it would cost more to replace I assume. I think the others are Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven, and I forget the other one right now at work.

Very excited to get The Killing. Looks awesome.

My only complaint is the underwhelming extras on Cul de Sac. The featurette was already on the AB DVD, so Criterion are adding basically nothing.

I can fit 9 easily in my hand. (I just tried )

That's why I brought up 8 or 9. 9 is my number too. Uncomfortable but when it comes to these B&N sales...two hands can hold a lot.

Definitely in for The Killing

This is a very impressive August slate. I'm interested in Battle of Algiers and The Killing right off the bat. I love if.... as well, but for CC's I'm trying to concentrate on releases I don't own at all right now, so I'll probably hold off on that for a while since I have the CC DVD already.

While I will always yearn for the elaborate treatment Criterion was giving films before, I can't say I feel like arguing with their apparent new strategy of pumping up the bonus value by including secondary full feature films.

I know, right?

I mean...Murder A La Mod may not be amazing or nowhere near the level of Blow Out...it's still a very interesting look at the growth of a director and still visually interesting if only for that.

The Digital Bits has confirmed Killer's Kiss will be in HD!

Well, I'm in for The Killing, Cul-De-Sac and If....

I knew it had to be but it's so much better when it's confirmed.

I hate buying multiple movies that come in the same case (or on the same disc) when they're not in the same series of films, simply because I'm a nerd and I like alphabetizing and putting everything in its place. And especially for Kubrick, I'd like to have each of his films in its own case. I really wish Criterion would have put each film on its own disc. However, I very much appreciate that they're bringing lesser-known films to Blu-ray, and I love all of the effort they put in to creating a great package. I will buy and support this, without a doubt. My geeky love-to-organize stuff side is irked, but it will get over it.

if it means a movie that might not have recieved an individual release has a change by tagging along I'm all for it within reason and I think this is a case of definately within reason

Honestly, the fact that it's getting a Blu-Ray release is a pretty big something.

It's like with their eventual Y Tu Mama Tambien release. The MGM release is pretty good, but we know it'll be getting HD treatment thanks to Criterion releasing it, which is very benefitial to us...

Yes, but every Criterion main-line release gets a Blu-ray edition now.

Ah, but will it be real HD or upconverted? Criterion upconverts all of its SD bonus features to 1080i.

I can't wait till they release YTMT. My favorite Cuaron movie. Also my favorite film w/ either Bernal or Luna. Just love it.

Blow Out had Murder A la Mod and that was proper 1080p...fucking loved Blow Out.

Murder a la Mod was in (real!) HD, so hopefully the same will hold true here.

I've honestly never understood why Criterion upconverts all their standard-def extras. What really bugs me is when Blu-ray review sites crow about Criterion delivering all their extras in HD when on quite a few discs, most/all of them are glaringly sourced from SD. Writers who can't tell the difference between lousy upconverts and genuine HD really shouldn't be touching Blu-ray reviews.

Pretty sure it's because of the menu structure on their Blu-rays and a need for screen resolution. Only a simplified "Return to Menu"-style pop-up menu can often be accessed on other discs when the content shifts from HD to SD, so they upconvert the material in order to make the fluid bar navigation usable during all the features.

This is great news on the Killing. My old Kubrick boxed set and Killer's Kiss and the Killing are now on eBay.

Apologies for my ignorance, but I think I need a quick remedial lesson. SD is 480p, but upconverted becomes 720p, correct? So, wouldn't upconverted SD extras be 720p, not 1080i? And if not, wouldn't Criterion's 1080i extras on a Blu-ray look superior to those same extras on a SD, which would be at 720p?


Blu-ray.com review of Solaris

You can upconvert anything to anything else, really. It's like resizing an image in Photoshop. There's no cap that says 1280x720 is as high as you can go.

(Your receiver may max out at 720p for upconverting, though. My Harmon/Kardon definitely stops at 720p for upconverts and only does 1080i/1080p if that's what's directly sent to it, but that's not a limitation that Criterion is facing. There are a fair number of other 1080i/1080p upconverts on Blu-ray too, such as that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Christmas special, and you can barely flip a channel on cable/satellite without running into something upconverted to 1080i.)

It's the difference between the tools Criterion is using to upconvert vs. the gear in your home theater. I'd expect the difference to generally be negligible.

480p video also has the advantage of being much smaller and encoding more efficiently. Especially on single disc releases with quite a bit of upconverted extras (8 1/2, for instance), the 1080i upconverts are going to have to be very heavily compressed and/or they threaten the bit budget for the feature.

The menu explanation makes sense, although speaking just for myself, I've never found the popup menus on the SD extras on discs from every other studio to be confusing or disappointing.

I lost my MGM release so