Criterion Collection Sale 50% off

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Literally the only worthwhile director in the Criterion.

Also, I'm just now finding out he died last February.

>>84847583
Yes! Probably going to get Branded to Kill!

>>84847583
I don't think I have the necessary imagination to even begin to imagine being this pleb.

Can't wait to buy these overpriced films just so I can have le epic minimalism cover on my shelf. Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, the list goes on I'm a true cinephile!

>>84847837
now they're not so overpriced! :D

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>>84847837
>le epic minimalism cover

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>>84849346

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>>84847837
>judging by the cover

Less exciting now that Filmstruck has titles w/ bonuses, but still probably gonna cop The New World.

Stalker
Revanche
The Graduate
Branded to Kill (thanks for the reminder, above anon)
Moonrise Kingdom
The Third Man (if I can find it, been unsuccessful during the last few sales)

Fuck the memes. The Criterion collection has some great movies. Reddit just likes to talk about them too much.

>>84849763
i love Filmstruck but the streaming still blows. blurays look so much better its like night-and-day

>>84849861
>The Third Man (if I can find it, been unsuccessful during the last few sales)
that's because it's been out-of-print for years. you will only find it on eBay and other resellers at an exorbitant markup

Probably gonna grab the new World Cinema box set. The one with Taipei Story in it

>>84849866
>memes
Look at the average criterion consumer: >>84849861

Your brand is shit for plebs, get better taste in films.

>>84847837
They have the best restorations desu

>>84849945
>Criterion is shit because this random anon is a pleb
What?

>>84849933
i couldnt wait for the sale so i copped it on release. the whole set is fucking great (and Inisiang and Limite are such finds, no idea i hadnt heard of them before)

and desu, box sets are the way to go for these 50% sales as most of the single-film editions are ~40% off year-round on Amazon

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>>84849945
>I'm gonna condemn a whole company for a couple shit movies
>GET BETTER TASTE IN MOVIES YOU PLEB

>>84847513
i'm on kg and ptp so why the fuck would I buy any of these overpriced dvds

>>84849991
>random anon
That's most of their consumer base though, impressionable plebs.

some people like to collect things, other people don't. why is this so hard to grasp?

What are you guys going to be buying? I usually like to just make impulse buys when I go but, I know I will for sure be picking up the War Trilogy upgrade, Stalker, Life of Oharu.

Recommendations? I already have like 70 or so films in the collection currently.

>tfw no Chungking Express criterion release

>>84849713
idiot

>>84850041
Kg is pretty shit for obscure stuff, if you only like mainstream art house (like you) then I guess it's ok.
>>84850099
>recommendations
Getting better taste.

>>84850100
outta print
thank god it's not my favorite of his or i'd be crying too

>>84850143
here's your (you)

>>84850099
>Ikiru
>Brighter Summer Day
>Day for Night
>In the Mood for Love
>Harakiri
>Stalker
>Late Spring
>La Dolce Vita

I've never bought anything before so I just got some of my favorites along with some I haven't seen from directors I like.

>>84850171
>I'm in kg therefore I must be patrician!
Plebs like you killed the private tracker community.

>>84850190
one more (you) then you're on your own
don't spend it all at once silly

>>84850222
Le 9gag army le (you) is currency!
My fellow Kekistani upbote!!!

>>84850044
So you're too stupid to actually judge Criterion as a publisher without reverting to "muh plebs like it"

@84850247
k

>>84850099
now that i have a good paying job, i'm mostly going to upgrading some of my criterion dvds to blurays (yeah yeah, inb4 "de joos got me" or whatever).

upgrading:
>Amarcord
>Rashomon
>Throne of Blood
>Band of Outsiders
>Late Spring
>Rules of the Game

new:
>Straw Dogs
>The New World
>Tati box set
>Cries and Whispers
>High and Low
>Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

plus a few eclipse sets before they stop making them since no one buys them:
>Oshima
>Kinoshita
>Nikkatsu Noir
>Kurahara

>>84850247
Not him but I'll throw a (You) your way too. Enjoy

>>84849930
Even the Blu-ray is out of print? Damn.

>>84849945
:)

>>84850273
I have the Jon Troell and the French Canan one, they're pretty nice.
The consumer base is absolute cancer and home video is generally pretty shit.

>>84850314
>Even the Blu-ray is out of print?
yep

Studio Canal released a Region A blu-ray, iirc with pretty much all the same special features, except for the fact they DNR the fuck out of the transfer and the picture looks like dogshit

recommend me an Kino pls

>>84850151
It's my 2nd favorite from him so it sucks I can't get it unless I want to spend obscene amounts of money on ebay for one movie.

>>84850344
>The consumer base is absolute cancer
>muh plebs
Kill yourself

>>84850385
It's ok anon, you'll stop being one some day.
you won't though, faggot

>>84847583

>gook director

holy kek get a look at this pleb who thinks hes a cool kid

>>84850099
>>84850363
not only am i a pleb but i'm also poor!

my current collection:

David Lean Directs Noël Coward
Cassavetes Five Films
Pasolini Trilogy of Life
Samurai Trilogy
Seven Samurai
Hidden Fortress
Throne of Blood
Three Outlaw Samurai
Lone Wolf and Cub
Mulholland Dr.
Dr. Strangelove
In the Mood for Love
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom
The French Lieutenant’s Woman

about to purchase:
Branded to Kill
Stalker
probably Dheepan too cuz imma lib cuck

God damn this thread is cancerous. I forgot /tv/ was too cool for some of the greatest films ever made

>>84850446
Watch more films.

>Teshigahara trilogy is also out of print

Fuck this shit

>>84849945
>>84849861

>Stalker
>Revanche
>Branded to Kill

I wouldn't call those mainstream film picks.

>>84850512
Of course you wouldn't, you lack self awareness, pleb.

>>84850474
nigga i doubt you've seen even an eighth of the criterion collection

>>84850527
You don't know what mainstream means

>>84850550
>still replying to the retard

>>84850474
>hurr durr I know better than hundreds and hundreds of filmmakers, critics, and historians and decades of film analyses and

>replying to rym fags

>>84850474
This kind of person just may be worse than the average capeshit poster

>>84850535
I don't watch flicks. I watch kinos, something the Criterion collection is severely lacking.

>>84850610
hello plebbit

>>84850535
https://letterboxd.com/jbutts15/list/the-complete-criterion-collection/
I've seen 48% according to this list, but yes, thank god I haven't seen the rest.
>>84850578
>I-I swear I'm patrician
Laughable, watch more films.

Bought Stalker and Kwaidan

>>84850612
holy shit ur right he fell right into your hands with this >>84850615

>>84850734
That was not me, I don't use Reddit language.

>>84850734
Do not ever quote me again.

>>84850474
this is like saying that the NBA is overrated and that the best players were actually 1940s czech farmers

>>84850687
get back to your containment thread, /lbg/ pseud

>>84850702
The new Stalker remaster is on my list. Cases like this, where a real remaster is needed or better translations are what make the Criterion series worth it for me.

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>>84847513
Did I miss the sale? What's going on?

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>>84847513
Just get anything on this list that's on the Criterion Collection.

>>84850807
>pseud
I've seen more films than you, criterioncuck, sorry not everyone on 4chan is a pleb like you.
>>84850806
No, it's not remotely similar, not like you would understand.

>>84850833
it's through August 7th my man

>>84850833
it's until August 7, you have plenty of time

OP here
wow didn't know /tv/ got this bad

>>84850872
are you the /lbg/ DW Griffith poster?

kys

>>84849346
>he thinks that this is what minimalism is
Wew

>>84850299
>plus a few eclipse sets before they stop making them since no one buys them

That'll kinda suck. I have a feeling that if Criterion keeps making hard copies of all their blu rays (and I hope they do), it'll be increasingly less obscure titles and nearly all of their more obscure titles will be streaming only.

>>84850934
>Are you my strawman because I don't have arguments?
No.

>>84850474
But I watch both Criterionkino and regular kino already

McCabe and Mrs Miller worth it?

>>84851038
not making an argument, just curious

kys

>>84851007
i hope to god they make em bluray

>>84851054
No you don't, idiot phoneposter.

>>84851062
I would watch it first to see if it's your cup-of-tea. It's beloved by many people and has lovely cinematography, but Altman's use of dialogue and meandering storytelling can be off putting.

AIGHT BOYS

DAYS OF HEAVEN or BADLANDS?

why are you faggots spending money on this when the 4K release is inevitable and will come with a BD copy anyway

>>84850299
nice, check out
kuroneko-ghost story, so cool
black moon-a weird alice wonderland take
beauty and the beast-insanely beautiful
fantastic planet-bizarre animation

>>84851201
Badlands boi.

>>84851201
badlands obviously

>>84851107
I'm posting on desktop, though.

>>84851062
If you like other Altman movies, for sure.
Don't go in really expecting a normal Western though. It's a a Western in the same sort of way something like El Topo or Jarmusch's Dead Man is

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rate my poor financial decision

>>84851062
It's in my top 10 of all time
Pure poetry

>>84851571
I've only seen The Long Goodbye and it's one of my favorites

Criterion still has good movie selection but the quality control on their mastering and sourcing is seriously slipping.

>>84851832
>The Long Goodbye
Fantastic movie. It has a sublime blu-ray release by Arrow Video that I'd recommend if you don't already have it. It has the isolated soundtrack as an audio option.

>Paying normal price for dvd's instead of double the price
>"sale"

>>84847513
Isn't it only at Barnes & Nobles?

>>84851832
THERE'S A LOOOONG GOODBYE
AND IT HAPPENS EVERY DAAAAY

>>84851254
because you need 60"+ TV to fully experience 4k HDR and that is awfully close to overkill, and upscaling 1080p is very good already

>>84851321
>kuroneko
>beauty and the best
already seen both of those and loved them, will cop both eventually

>>84851766
p gud

haven't seen Repo Man or most of the Demys yet

>tfw won't buy Stalker or Solaris until Criterion has all of Tark's films in a box set

>>84852746
Do you want one that comes in a Tarkovsky head that you open to get the discs?
Kill yourself marvelshitter.

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>>84852938
yes so I can kiss it every morning. I love that lil guy

>>84852746
eh, I could live without Ivan's Childhood and The Sacrifice desu

>>84847513
No need to buy them. I've already torrented the remuxes.

I got punch drunk love and paris texas

>>84853055
>live without Sacrifice
Jesus christ you have shit taste. That's easily his second best film.

>>84853218
>Tark cosplaying as Bergman
no, thank you

>>84853317
>le he used the same actors and cinematographer therefore he's Bergman
It wasn't anything like a Bergman film you nigger

Again isn't this only at Barnes & Noble

>>84852746
>>84852938
>>84853027
>>84853055
>>84853218
ANDREI RUBLEV BLU RAY WHEN?

>>84853391
It's a great film but if you can't see the obvious homage to Bergman you're retarded.

>>84853457
The homages are so small and trivial it's not even worth commenting on let alone accusing Tark of "cosplaying".

>>84853441
Yes

>>84851832
everyone should experience the altman kino

>>84853167
>I got punch drunk love
I'm sorry

>>84853501
I'm not the retard that said it was Tarkovsky vos playing as Bergman, it's obvious he hasn't seen the Silence of God trilogy.
Still, I think the parallels are worth pointing out, specially since both appreciated each other's work.

bump for shil-, i mean, kino

>>84851201
days of heaven by a long shot. how many times are you going to rewatch badlands?

>>84850100
>>84850151
haven't they recently hinted that it might be coming back into print? It also played on tcm recently

got lone wolf and cub

>>84855165
a 90s WKW boxset is rumored to be in the works, apparently they bought the rights away from Kino Lorber.

Happy Together is already streaming on Filmstruck and Fallen Angels will be later this month. I think they also have Days of Being Wild, not sure about As Tears Go By (probable) or any version of Ashes of Time (not likely)

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thinking about pale flower. any opinions on it?

>>84851839
apparently they just fucked L'Argent, too. colors seems to be too warm

Downloaded The Devil's Backbone. What will I think of it?

Why are people so obsessed with the Criterion label? It's more important than the movie itself for some people. I see people buy Criterion even if it has a bluray release on another label for half the price. Often it's a better print because Criterion have been known to fuck things up like color grading in the past.

>>84855469
>SRP: $39.95
>Criterion Store price:$31.96
Wow epic sale. Only $30 for a single movie. It's even cheaper on amazon.

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>already own Before trilogy, albeit on separate DVDs
>tempted to double dip and buy the criterion blu-ray box set because the DVD transfers are shit

wat do

>>84855615
the sale is only at Barnes & Nobel

and while I agree that some people take Criterion too seriously, they by-and-large make a great product for collectors

>>84855615
>I see people buy Criterion even if it has a bluray release on another label for half the price
that's extremely rare, at least in their intended market (North America), as they are often the only home video rights holders for those films. the only examples off the top of my head I can think of are for contemporary American films (Fear and Loathing in LV, Time Bandits, Wes Anderson films) and then Criterion's release usually only comes out after the studio produced blu-ray goes oop. if one has a region-free player, than yeah, their options open up beyond Criterion

as for fucking up colors, contrast, sharpness, and such, it doesn't happen quite as often as you imply. maybe a couple dozen out of nearly 900 editions isn't a bad ratio (and some of those are just a matter of taste and not fidelity)

>>84853813
its PTAs best

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>>84847513
>buying media

>>84856129
>poorfag

will you be picking up all these classic films?

https://www.criterion.com/explore/216-paul-dano-s-top-10

>>84856326
good taste desu, tho his blurbs are a little bland