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#1755
July 10, 2010, 10:53:10 AM
it bothers me, too. And I like both those things.

it just looks like poorly edited copywork.
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

cinemanarchist

#1756
July 10, 2010, 11:33:00 AM
I love it, but I would love it more without the fold. I don't think it enhances the cover in any way.
My assholeness knows no bounds.

OrHowILearnedTo

#1757
July 10, 2010, 02:56:16 PM
Also don't care for the fold. Don't like the fonts either. Looks fan made.

socketlevel

#1758
July 10, 2010, 06:14:14 PM
i'm down with the fold
the one last hit that spent you...

Ravi

#1759
July 11, 2010, 01:22:21 AM
I agree with socketlevel, down with the fold!

samsong

#1760
July 11, 2010, 02:15:44 AM
pretty disappointed with this one.  it's phoned in not just in concept but in execution--the image doesn't curl inward the way the text does.  the criterion covers of late have been pretty lazy, mostly just (admittedly well-chosen) stills from the film.  even the ones that flex a little more creativity tend to miss the mark in terms of conveying the essence of the film (ie walkabout).

OrHowILearnedTo

#1761
July 13, 2010, 03:14:22 AM


ah thats better.

modage

#1762
July 13, 2010, 08:46:42 AM
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Stefen

#1763
July 13, 2010, 03:13:49 PM
I'm tempted to get that AK 100 25 films by Kurosawa boxset. It would be like $8 a film.

Anyways, ????


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Gold Trumpet

#1764
July 15, 2010, 01:32:39 PM
   


Paths of Glory
   *  New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
    * New audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins
    * Television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas
    * New video interviews with Kubrick's longtime executive producer Jan Harlan, Paths of Glory producer James B. Harris, and actress Christiane Kubrick
    * Excerpt from a French television program about real-life World War I executions similar to the events dramatized in Paths of Glory
    * Theatrical trailer
    * PLUS: An essay by Kubrick scholar James Naremore



House

    *  New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
    * Constructing a House, a new video piece featuring interviews with director Nobuhiko Obayashi, story scenarist and daughter of the director Chigumi Obayashi, and screenwriter Chiho Katsura
    * Emotion, a 1966 experimental film by Obayashi
    * New video appreciation by director Ti West (House of the Devil)
    * Theatrical trailer
    * New and improved English subtitle translation
    * PLUS: An essay by Chuck Stephens



The Darjeeling Limited

    *  New high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
    * Anderson's short film Hotel Chevalier (part one of The Darjeeling Limited), starring Natalie Portman, with commentary by Anderson
    * Audio commentary featuring Anderson and cowriters Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola
    * Behind-the-scenes documentary by Barry Braverman
    * Anderson and filmmaker James Ivory discussing the film's music
    * Anderson's American Express commercial
    * On-set footage shot by Coppola and actor Waris Ahluwalia
    * Audition footage, deleted and alternate scenes, and stills galleries
    * Original theatrical trailer
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody and original illustrations by Eric Anderson

The Perineum Falcon

#1765
July 15, 2010, 02:06:59 PM
You've forgotten one, GT:



    *  New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
    * New visual essay by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
    * Brief 1967 video interview with director Ingmar Bergman about the film
    * Rare English-language audio interview with Bergman, conducted by filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Stig Björkman
    * New and improved English subtitle translation
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoff Andrew, a reprinted essay by Assayas, and an excerpt from Bergman's autobiography Images: My Life in Film
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

Gold Trumpet

#1766
July 15, 2010, 02:28:25 PM
Thanks!

modage

#1767
July 15, 2010, 03:07:30 PM
I finally just bought Paths of Glory too!  Fuck, I'm 0-3 on waiting forever for a special edition, finally giving up and buying the regular one, and criterion announcing their verison within a few weeks.  Or maybe I'm 3-3.  The point is: fuck.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Gold Trumpet

#1768
July 15, 2010, 03:35:49 PM
I will try to better post rumors so people have an idea of what films are in the pipeline. Lots of Chaplin is coming soon so unless you have a need to have Chaplin asap, hold off for the Criterion editions. I will try to better look into what else is coming as well.

The Perineum Falcon

#1769
July 15, 2010, 03:42:25 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on July 15, 2010, 03:35:49 PM
Lots of Chaplin is coming soon so unless you have a need to have Chaplin asap, hold off for the Criterion editions.
Yay! You just saved me a shit-ton of money.

Also, any rumor as to when Antichrist is coming out? I figured October was a shoe-in, but I guess this means November?
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.
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