The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
#9476
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Finally got around to watching the CC disc for Rumble Fish. What a gorgeous print.
#9477
Banned by request
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Looks like The Magnificent Ambersons and True Stories have gotten a one week delay from 11/20 to 11/27.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=24220
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=24220
#9480
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
La verite for me.
#9482
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
#9483
DVD Talk Limited Edition
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
I have been waiting for a decent release of To Sleep with Anger. I'm going to spend so much money during B&N's next Criterion sale.
#9484
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
#9485
DVD Talk Legend
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Many took one of the parts of the teaser drawing at the end of 2017 as hinting Lost Highway. Given multiple Lynch movies have recently been released on blu-ray by Criterion made it rather believable.
#9486
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Wonder which clue was the one people thought referenced "LH"?
#9487
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
I don't think any hint does. It was just wishful thinking. It's one of their most requested to release titles.
#9488
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
We are incredibly touched and encouraged by the flood of support we’ve been receiving since the announcement that FilmStruck will be shutting down on November 29, 2018. Our thanks go out to everyone who signed petitions, wrote letters and newspaper articles, and raised your voices to let the world know how much our mission and these movies matter to you.
Well, if you loved the curated programming we’ve been doing with our friends at FilmStruck, we have good news for you. The Criterion Collection team is going to be carrying on with that mission, launching the Criterion Channel as a freestanding service in spring 2019.
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The Criterion Channel will be picking up where the old service left off, programming director spotlights and actor retrospectives featuring major Hollywood and international classics and hard-to-find discoveries from around the world, complete with special features like commentaries, behind-the-scenes footage, and original documentaries. We will continue with our guest programmer series, Adventures in Moviegoing. Our regular series like Art-House America, Split Screen, and Meet the Filmmakers, and our Ten Minutes or Less section will all live on, along with Tuesday’s Short + Feature and the Friday Night Double Feature, and of course our monthly fifteen-minute film school, Observations on Film Art.
Our library will also be available through WarnerMedia’s new consumer platform when it launches late next year, so once both services are live, Criterion fans will have even more ways to find the films they love.
We will be starting from scratch, with no subscribers, so we will need all the help we can get. The most valuable thing you can do to help now is go to Criterion.com/channel (https://www.criterion.com/channel) and sign up to be a Charter Subscriber, then tell your friends to sign up too. We need everyone who was a FilmStruck subscriber or who’s been tweeting and signing petitions and writing letters to come out and to sign up for the new service. We can’t do it without you!
Well, if you loved the curated programming we’ve been doing with our friends at FilmStruck, we have good news for you. The Criterion Collection team is going to be carrying on with that mission, launching the Criterion Channel as a freestanding service in spring 2019.
We’ve been trying to make something a little different for the past two years—a movie lover’s dream streaming service, with smart thematic programming, where the history of cinema can live and breathe, where a new generation of filmmakers and film lovers can explore the classics or revel in rarities, where adventurous cinephiles can champion films that have never gotten their due, and newcomers can easily find guidance from major filmmakers, top scholars, curators, and other experts from all walks of life.
The Criterion Channel will be picking up where the old service left off, programming director spotlights and actor retrospectives featuring major Hollywood and international classics and hard-to-find discoveries from around the world, complete with special features like commentaries, behind-the-scenes footage, and original documentaries. We will continue with our guest programmer series, Adventures in Moviegoing. Our regular series like Art-House America, Split Screen, and Meet the Filmmakers, and our Ten Minutes or Less section will all live on, along with Tuesday’s Short + Feature and the Friday Night Double Feature, and of course our monthly fifteen-minute film school, Observations on Film Art.
Our library will also be available through WarnerMedia’s new consumer platform when it launches late next year, so once both services are live, Criterion fans will have even more ways to find the films they love.
We will be starting from scratch, with no subscribers, so we will need all the help we can get. The most valuable thing you can do to help now is go to Criterion.com/channel (https://www.criterion.com/channel) and sign up to be a Charter Subscriber, then tell your friends to sign up too. We need everyone who was a FilmStruck subscriber or who’s been tweeting and signing petitions and writing letters to come out and to sign up for the new service. We can’t do it without you!
#9489
DVD Talk Legend
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
That's not the one I remember. So if that's the one from 2017 I must have got the time frame incorrect. I do remember one of those multiple image doodles causing multiple people to include Lost Highway. Obviously they were wrong.
#9490
DVD Talk Limited Edition
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Interesting that Criterion will be on the Warner service late next year as well as its own. Wonder if that news will prompt people to wait for the Warner service instead of signing up for Criterion's?
#9491
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
In for Bergman and Fassbinder (I hope I can still get decent coin for my Berlin Alexanderplatz DVD set.) I really like Visconti, but I turned Death in Venice off about 30 minutes in, I should probably try to rewatch it at some point. I've never seen the other 2, but I've loved the Clouzot I've seen so far, so I may pick it up down the line.
#9492
DVD Talk Hero
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Amazon has the Bergman box for 50% off ($150) right now... I think I may as well bite.
#9493
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Mine should be arriving from B&N today. I sold a bunch of my Bergman DVDs for $150 to someone locally. Plus discounted gift cards made an even extra bonus. No money out of pocket on that one.
#9495
DVD Talk Special Edition
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
A Face in the Crowd? Isn't that a movie?
#9496
DVD Talk Legend
#9497
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
A film by Elia Kazan doesn’t seem odd to me. It is a great film.
#9498
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
^ and bizarrely, more relevant today than it's seemed in many a decade.
#9499
DVD Talk Legend
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
That's a good point, and assuming they have the rights to far more WB titles (possibly including others by Kazan), maybe it jumped to the front of the line for that reason. If so, then it makes far more sense.
#9500
DVD Talk Hero
re: The Criterion Collection 4K/Blu-ray Discussion and Release Thread
Face in the Crowd is fantastic movie, with an absolutely incredible performance from Andy Griffith - seriously, dude is on fire in this movie - you'd have no idea it's Matlock.
Been waiting for the blu ever since I lent out my DVD and never got it back.
Been waiting for the blu ever since I lent out my DVD and never got it back.