There's nothing here that's not already available on DVD elsewhere in the English-speaking world, but Shoah, Marketa Lazarova, and Safety Last are all flat-out masterpieces, so I'd say this is a pretty great month.

DVD can kiss it.

I might agree with that when I finally get a projector and a screen three times the size of my current (42") TV. As it is, I really value Blu-ray, but I still don't feel the need to upgrade a majority of the titles in my collection. Plus, there are still far too many really, really great movies not yet available on Blu-ray for me to adopt a "screw DVD" attitude.

Wild Strawberries is the biggest announcement for me

Holy crap! Great month!

Shoah...that's gotta to be a box set, right? $140 retail??

When the rumors of Things to Come on Criterion first surfaced, I hoped that there would be a longer cut to be salvaged from the vaults, but it appears that the 96/97 minute cut is the longest that there is, barring some later discovery. Oh well.

I first watched this fascinating movie on a local PBS station at 10pm on a Tuesday, I believe, in a horrible looking and sounding print. This was in the early 80s I think. Looking forward to the Criterion.

Wild Strawberries!

I'll be picking up everything, but Shoah.

I've never seen Things To Come, but I've read the work it's based on. Looking forward to more science fiction in the collection.

Nothing exciting to me this month. I love Wild Strawberries, but I don't really feel the need to upgrade it.

WILD STRAWBERRIES, SAFETY LAST and THINGS TO COME for me!

put me down for Safety Last and Wild Strawberries!

Me too, hope it's the 1st of many Harold Lloyd BDs!

It would be a great month with just Wild Strawberries and Safety Last. Glad to see that Safety Last includes the full length documentary Harold Lloyd: Third Genius.

That's really strange, I was just watching some old Siskel and Ebert clips on YouTube last night and watched the "Best of 1985" episode where Siskel ranked Shoah as his number 1 film of the year.

Harold Lloyd. They will be mind.

I want to see Shoah, but I don't know about the replayability and the price.

A good way to gauge:

Do you own Schindler's List? If Yes, how many times have you rewatched it in the past year? Now subtract 2.

On facebook, Criterion posted a link to James Franco's top Criterion movies list and simultaneously quoted Spring Breakers. Awesome.

Jeez people, I thought Shoah was the reason you upgraded to Blu-ray. How many of you have put off buying Night and Fog because it's still in SD?

I have to say, I don't envy the BD reviewers on this one. Have to temper that enthusiasm for the tech specs.

great month

Very excited about Shoah (if you can use that word about that film). I'm sure the restoration for a nine hour film was expensive and time consuming. $99 for 4 BD discs isn't so bad. Or get it for $50 at the next B&N sale.

Also Amazon is having a 50% off sale on six Criterion titles.

I picked up the Network UK blu of Things to Come a few months back, but for the new Criterion extras, especially the Kalat commentary, I don't mind double-dipping.

"Criterion once again provides us with an unparalleled technical disc here. The pain in their eyes is perfectly clear thanks to the deep blacks of their pupils. While, this is a film about survivors of one of the great tragedies in human history, one of the great tragedies of Blu-ray history has been avoided. You will find no DNR here folks, just the rich, human textures of sad faces not waxy sorrow."