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Everytime I read this I can hear Bono's voice. Get out of my head Bono!

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A solid month, though nothing that leaps out at me as an instant purchase (I really like the Polanski and Wong films, but I have a hard time getting excited about most upgrades.) I will admit that I knew nothing about The Forgiveness of Blood or the Gainsborough films before this, so I'll be sure to give those a rental.

I disliked Sunday Bloody Sunday, so that's the only one I definitely won't be picking up.

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I was hopping SBS would be the one by Paul Greengrass.

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Watch it, fall in love with it, sell it, buy the blu-ray.

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On board - awfully close to the 1/2 off sale at B&N. ;)

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personally I couldn't stand the movie.

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I still get funny looks when people see my Ghostbusters Criterion LD on the shelf.

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Rosemarys Baby once it hits about $15ish. Criterion is sure lovin' Ruth Gordon this year.

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Great to see Rosemary's Baby officially announced, and I'm really shocked but happy to see the original poster art being used. I haven't watched In the Mood for Love in years, but I just happened to watch 2046 recently so it has been on my mind.

Yeah, but that one was just, uh, BS. Well, it's titled Bloody Sunday.

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But why would they skip the spine numbers? It seems like they should announce everything in order.

Also, does anyone know of any other Criterions that use the original poster artwork? The only other ones I can think of are The Royal Tenenbaums, which used a modified version of the poster for the slipcover, and I believe the same with Life Aquatic.

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I'll pick up Rosemary's Baby for sure at some point. Maybe Sunday Bloody Sunday too.

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So excited for the release of Rosemary's Baby!

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will take all those provided ITMFL has the correct colour scheme reinstated. But why only 4 releases? Last few months have only been 4-5 too. Slowing down?

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Maybe getting people caught up on all the items that they missed with the flood of titles released in the past year? ;)

That or they are getting backed-up on deadlines with features on discs that were scheduled to be announced sooner but because of talents time restraints they have to push them back to a later date.

So there might be a few months where the titles will be flowing like the salmon of Capistrano.

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Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Although, that, like the two you mentioned are unique situations given their releases. I was surprised that Chasing Amy was not the original poster art. I was almost certain it was, given that it looks like an afterthought. Although, it took Criterion a while to really hit their stride with cover art.

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I was contemplating purchasing In the Mood for Love during this month's sale, but I thought this might be on the horizon and I have little time to watch movies these days. Glad to see that dragging my feet has been good.

I was trying to avoid purchasing DVDs from Criterion anymore, but I might go with Slacker as I can't imagine that's too high on the BD re-release for Criterion. Even if it was, I can't imagine much that would be revelatory.

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1. I'm a little bummed about the Rosemary's Baby supplements. Pretty light for a film that is one of my favorites. I've heard Robert Evan's thoughts on the film many times. I'm sure Polanski and Farrow will be interesting, but the interviews will probably by less than 20 minutes each. I would have really liked it to have an expert commentary.

2. Has anyone else noticed that the In the Mood For Love supplements are going to be very different on the Blu-ray?

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I would have liked a commentary too, but there is the full-length Komeda doc.

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ROSEMARY'S BABY

- New high-definition digital restoration, approved by director Roman Polanski, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interviews with Polanski, actor Mia Farrow, and producer Robert Evans
- Komeda, Komeda, a feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda, who wrote the score for Rosemary’s Baby
- 1997 radio interview with author Ira Levin from Leonard Lopate’s WNYC program New York and Company on the 1967 novel, the sequel, and the film
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park and Levin’s afterword for the 2003 New American Library edition of his novel, in which he discusses its and the film’s origins



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just give me a decent transfer and I'm hoping that's the case with Polanski onboard :thumbsup:

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I have, but it seemed to me that save for the differences in booklet contents (a similar situation to The Third Man), the omitted features sounded like they were mostly "old school" naviguation-type features that are slightly outdated nowadays.

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99,501 likes for CC facebook. They'll probably hit 100k in the next week or so. Then the CC website might do their own 50% off, but hopefully they wait awhile until after the BN sale.

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Please tell me where you have ever seen a Criterion Blu-ray sell for over 60% off MSRP, unless you're referring to used copies on eBay.

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Barnesandnoble.com, one week ago. :)

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I got The Samurai Trilogy for $18 and change after coupons and sales tax... almost 75% off brand new from B&N ;)

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Curious Case of Benjamin Button @ Amazon:
MSRP: $29.99
Price: $10.99 (63% off)

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That one hardly counts. Its production is handled by the studio, who has pretty much just arranged for it to be part of the collection.

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In the mood for love. Best.

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Rosemary's Baby, hell yes. Been waiting for this one to be announced.

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Anatomy of a Murder also uses the original poster art.

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It counts because it meets the OP's criteria. He's free to change his criteria if he wants to.

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B&N. Used. Etc. Benjamin Button is currently 63% off right now on Amazon. ;) (If you noticed I said $15ish. many Criterions on Blu-ray have sold in that range before, NEW)

If not, Criterion can just be happy with the limited amount of copies they sell (like everything else non-mainstream). I certainly won't pay $30 for a Blu-ray in 2012. I happily enjoyed As Good as it Gets on Blu-ray without forking over $30+ to Twilight Time.

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As others have mentioned, last week B&N had a few hours of overlap of the end of their B2G1 promotion and the start of their Criterion 50% off sale. I, and others, got a number of groups of three 39.99 list priced titles for 39.98 (19.99 x 2), or ~13.33 each before tax (67% off).

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Is Benjamin Button out of print? I'd like to grab that one before it gets nuts.

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It's not out of print and I don't see that happening anytime soon/at all either.

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Has there been any developments on the possibility of a Godard's Weekend Criterion release? I haven't been following Criterion speculation lately so would appreciate the "scoop.". Thanks in advance.

Very excited about Rosemary's Baby; but I agree the supplements seem weak.

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Weekend should be coming soon but don't have a timetable on it.

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Not trying to hijack this thread...

But...

I noticed a few dozen pages ago that there was a couple members discussing/wanting to sell their copies of 'The Man who Fell to Earth', 'The Third Man' and 'Pierrot Le Fou' if you still are or clearly knows of someone who does please PM/Email me. Thanks, Charlie Howard

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Unless that's changed in the last couple of weeks, Pierrot Le Fou could still be found for a reasonable price.

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Is it a known fact that they will do 50% when they hit that magic number?

Likes stand at 99,804 right now

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^
It would be Christmas in August if all pre-orders were included in such a sale.