The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
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re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Looks like the new titles are up for December
Lady Vanishes
Design for Living
Tokyo Drifter
Branded to Kill
Lady Vanishes
Design for Living
Tokyo Drifter
Branded to Kill
09-15-11, 12:35 PM
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December is always a slow month - if I remember correctly, the only new title last December was Cronos, plus an upgrade of Videodrome.
The two new Suzukis were in great need of upgrades, so I'm excited for those. I'm happy with my DVDs of Design for Living and The Lady Vanishes, so I probably won't get those in Blu, at least not immediately.
The two new Suzukis were in great need of upgrades, so I'm excited for those. I'm happy with my DVDs of Design for Living and The Lady Vanishes, so I probably won't get those in Blu, at least not immediately.
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09-15-11, 01:29 PM
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I am very excited right now...two of my favorites just got a MASSIVE upgrade. Hmmm, now I have to see who wants my old DVD's...
09-15-11, 02:54 PM
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This is great, Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill are 2 of the titles that I wanted on blu. I am extremely surprised that they are coming so soon. Tokyo Drifter is going to look great on bluray.
09-15-11, 03:56 PM
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I never got either Suzuki film, so those are an easy call. I wish Youth of the Beast had been included.
09-15-11, 04:08 PM
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That Tokyo Drifter cover is really, really, really, really awful. Like, one of the worst covers I've ever seen period, not just Criterion. I'll probably get The Lady Vanishes sometime. Not really interested in the others.
09-15-11, 04:42 PM
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4 titles in December? Wasn't expecting that. In for the Lady Vanishes upgrade (just sold my DVD this morning) and Design for Living. I haven't seen the Suzukis - I'll rent the DVDs before deciding.
09-15-11, 06:35 PM
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, have no use for the other 3 though.
09-15-11, 07:28 PM
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09-15-11, 07:33 PM
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Design for Living
Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s” agree*ment, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A risqué relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable—or unwilling—to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. Design for Living is Lubitsch at his most adroit, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure.
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- “The Clerk,” starring Charles Laughton—director Ernst Lubitsch’s segment of the 1932 film If I Had a Million, which he made just before Design for Living
- Selected-scene commentary by film professor William Paul
- Play of the Week: A Choice of Coward, a 1964 British television production of the play Design for Living, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward
- New interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride on Lubitsch and Ben Hecht’s screen adaptation of the Coward play
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan
Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s” agree*ment, in this continental pre-Code comedy freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A risqué relationship comedy and a witty take on creative pursuits, it concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable—or unwilling—to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. Design for Living is Lubitsch at his most adroit, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure.
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- “The Clerk,” starring Charles Laughton—director Ernst Lubitsch’s segment of the 1932 film If I Had a Million, which he made just before Design for Living
- Selected-scene commentary by film professor William Paul
- Play of the Week: A Choice of Coward, a 1964 British television production of the play Design for Living, introduced on camera by playwright Noël Coward
- New interview with film scholar and screenwriter Joseph McBride on Lubitsch and Ben Hecht’s screen adaptation of the Coward play
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Kim Morgan
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I agree that I very much want Pandora's Box on Blu.