Criterion News and Discussion

[SHAFTR]

Not entirely the right thread, but i've always wanted to see Arthur Penn's "Mickey One" and I'm pretty sure it isn't on DVD.  That would seem like a film that would make sense on Criterion, given it's influence.

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from dvdbeaver:

November Criterions

Ugetsu Monogatori (Mizoguchi, 1953)
Ran (Kurasawa, 1985)
Tales of Hoffman (Powell & Pressburger, 1951)
and possibly Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)

what's this "possibly" business?!
yay for mizoguchi... hopefully The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums will be released not too far after Ugetsu.

My christmas list. Yay for Criterion!

[cine]

[Pubrick]

a good time to be gay and japanese!

[edison]

From the newsletter:

"Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe Lucien, and Au revoir les enfants coming in early 2006."

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Also, according to CCforum, Clement's Forbidden Games and Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player are the titles to drop in December. Same policy as last year with just two titles for the entire month.

[analogzombie]

December. Same policy as last year with just two titles for the entire month.

good, I can catch up from the past few months.

I wonder if their decision to release only a couple in december is related to the fact that, that's when a lot of the prestiege Oscar contenders are released. I mean, there will actually be films in theaters competing for the the Criterion obsessive's dollars.

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I wonder if their decision to release only a couple in december is related to the fact that, that's when a lot of the prestiege Oscar contenders are released. I mean, there will actually be films in theaters competing for the the Criterion obsessive's dollars.

Criterion says it is to give the producers vacation time.

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Catching up with the latest. Every now and then, events all around the country highlight films likely to be part of the Criterion fold sooner or later. These are some films showing around the country in special engagements waving the Criterion banner, plus a special honoring of certain members of Criterion at Telluride.


Barbara Kopple presents
HARLAN COUNTY, USA
Tues., Oct. 11 at 7:00
NEW RESTORED PRINT
Barbara Kopple. 1976. 103 min. PG. US. Criterion/Janus.
Acclaimed filmmaker Barbara Kopple is best known for her brilliant documentaries on tough subjects from labor disputes to the assassination of a president. She won her first Academy Award in 1977 for Harlan County, U.S.A., and became the only female documentary filmmaker ever to have won two Oscars when a second came in 1991 for American Dream, which explored the human cost of the economic decline of America's industrial heartland.

Harlan County, U.S.A. is on everyone's list of greatest documentaries ever made - a tight, taut, timeless story of union strife in a Kentucky coal-mining town. Full of dramatic confrontations, labor songs and bluegrass music, violence, surprise, and a hard-won wisdom born of struggle, this magnificent, vastly influential film was named to the National Film Registry by Congress and designated an American Film Classic.
Q&A with filmmaker Barbara Kopple & New York Times critic Janet Maslin


MIRACLE IN MILAN, 1951, Criterion/Janus, 92 min. Director Vittorio de Sica fable-like classic describes the chaotic postwar Italian society with an ironic and satirical approach. Little Toto is found in a cabbage patch by Lolotta and raised to become a socially devoted young man dedicated to the improvement of health and wealth among the poor in Milan. The film offers a very clear message, but the bizarre and imaginative structure of the film (at one point, the poor townspeople fly on the brooms of street-cleaners to a better land!) stunned the critics and the public. "Radiates a strong and fascinating aura of bitter-sweet humor..." – New York Herald Tribune. Written by de Sica and Cesare Zavattini, from Zavattini's novel Toto Il Buono. Starring Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Guglielmo Barnabo, Paolo Stoppa, Brunella Bovo.

plus, courtesy of a post at CCForum.....

"Criterion is putting in an appearance at Telluride. Besides the fact that the Beckers and Turell will be receiving a "special medallion," the program guide refers to Spirit of the Beehive as "a Criterion/Janus" film. Rialto's new print of Army of Shadows will also be shown for the first time."

[samsong]

cover art for pickpocket and shoot the piano player


lazy but fine


wtf

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

WHAT!?!?!

Shoot The Piano Player has just received one of the worst Criterion covers ever.

[Pubrick]

cover art for pickpocket and shoot the piano player

haha it's like sumone at the criterion office just discovered pictionary.

"hey, how bout for pickpocket we hav sum dude's pocket being picked!"
"that's pictorrific!"
"oooh man i'm on fire here, how bout for shoot the piano player we have a dude playing piano -- WAIT BUT NO PIANO, cos that might confuse ppl into thinking we want to shoot the PIANO itself -- and then put a target on him like he's gonna be shot!"
"dude, we're so fucking abstract.."

[Ravi]

WHAT!?!?!

Shoot The Piano Player has just received one of the worst Criterion covers ever.

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

Oh shit, that one's much cooler.

[cowboykurtis]

Oh shit, that one's much cooler.

how the hell is it cooler? its the same fucking image