There needs to be a Scarjo app.

I don't know. I don't actually follow any of them. Regardless, it's one of the weird traits of social media culture that people want to watch others buy and surround themselves with junk they wouldn't actually spend money on themselves.

Sorcerer!

Ugh. I just recently finally purchased Mishima. I guess you can thank me for the upgrade.

Some great titles are in the mix, though! Sorcerer and Brazil are great upgrade announcements, and I'm really excited about the Thelonious Monk documentary.

Super pumped for Sorcerer. One of my top tens.

Is this Criterion's 5th release of Brazil? (Including laserdisc)

Schweet, Brazil is the second best film of all time behind Blade Runner. You can disagree but you will still be wrong.

I probably wouldn't need to buy it, but I need to rewatch The Wiz. I don't think I have seen it since I was a kid. I used to look forward to seeing it the once a year it got shown on broadcast TV almost as much as the original Wizard Of Oz.

"Get on down, get on down the road!"

Isn’t it “Ease on down, ease on down the road”?

Holy shit... 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould... finally. Waiting for a BD release from anyone, and we get 4k to boot.
Always thought this would be a perfect Criterion release. One of my all-time favorite films. The cover art could've been better (should've used the original), but whatever.

The Monk release is great too.

Good Lord, they're making me purchase Brazil again

It's my favorite movie, I bought the massive Criterion LD box set in 1997. It cost $150 in 1997 dollars! And I was in my 20s barely making bupkis. That meant checking the Criterion website every day like clockwork until it was the Deal of the Day. 30% of, $105 was more palatable.

And then 2 years later the Criterion DVDs came out for like $40. Sigh... but I still have both. And the Blu-Ray. And soon this. But for now never stick your head out of a train.

Ha! Maybe so. Told you I haven't seen it since I was a kid.

There ain't that many movies that are more early-80s ABC Sunday Night Movie than The Wiz.

But ZOWIE Diana Ross was so wildly miscast.

Laserdisc
DVD
Blu-ray
4K

That's 4.

Well, I suppose, technically, I suppose Criterion did have two SKUs on Laserdisc for the deluxe CAV box set and a slimmed-down CLV edition with just the movie.

Weren't there two DVDs? Non-anamorphic and anamorphic? Or am I thinking of a different title?

I do recall the DVD box being reissued, and holding off to get the revised set. Just can’t remember what the cause was. Non-anamorphic would certainly fit the era.

I remember the first release of the Brazil Criterion DVD set being non anamorphic cause I sold it off when I moved to a widescreen TV and later I found a good deal on the re-issued DVD box bought it again to get the 16x9 version (just checked my records, 17.99 in 2013 at Half Price Books.)

Yeah, they reissued the 3-DVD boxed set in anamorphic widescreen as well as a single-DVD release of the directors cut.

Six releases, then?

The song was performed, in its entirety, on the Oscars less than two weeks ago!

Loved that and I love how knowledgeable she is on these movies.

Had a feeling based on that earlier clip that she and Letts probably already owned most of the collection. I suspect a a few other celebs who’ve been in there have the bulk of it as well, but I admire her honesty in taking doubles as giveaways for guests or (supposedly) other actors she wants to enlighten.

24 hours is on.

Ordered the Yojimbo / Sanjuro 4K set to replace my BDs, and also ordered the Gregg Araki 4K set. Used $50 in gift cards, so it came in under $50 with free shipping and after tax. Not bad.

I was tempted by Yojimbo/Sanjuro but thought I might wait for more reviews of the BFI set.

My all-UHD order is:

• Godzilla vs. Biollante
• Thief
• Cronos
• Performance
• Winchester ‘73
• 8 1/2
• Paris, Texas
• Risky Business
• Picnic at Hanging Rock

I normally wouldn’t order nearly so much, but I had $85 in stockpiled gift cards and figured “why not?”