used to be a really great company but the moron in charge now is a full-on woke anita sarkeesian acolyte so now they mostly care about "celebrating" movies made by minorites and women no matter how shit they are
their catalog fricking sucks these days and even the special features, the selling point for a lot of their movies, is lacking and getting mogged by lots of other companies these days.
The front page of criterion channel right now has two gay showcases, first thing you see when visiting. Big splash panel of a dude in drag. They're putting mediocre movies like Love & Basketball, Devil in a Blue Dress, One Night in Miami, and Love Jones in the collection simply because they're by black filmmakers, and stuff like Marlon Riggs films and Paris is Burning simply because they're gay. They haven't collapsed completely and still routinely put out classics, but they're pandering to the woke crowd pretty heavily these days.
Yeah it definitely feels like the quality of films on there has dropped in recent years (although Ghost Dog and Deep Cover were some of my favorite releases).
Frick, you're right. I used to love those but completely forgot about them once they started doing that.
>Ayy yo, I don't know any of these movies, bruh! >Aw sheeit, I seen this one once when I was gargling my troony bfs cum and spat it all over the screen yo! >Yo movies is being so important for real.
They just released Raging Bull on 4k so you're wrong. The fact is that Criterion actually has good homosexual and Black person films while other companies are scrambling to build catalogs because they never gave a shit about those demographics. Criterion has those movies because they believe in the film first and the homosexual behind the camera second.
they occasionally release a decent movie so they don't go fricking bankrupt
also, citing a 4k release when they've dragged their feet for a decade before finally releasing 4k movies at a snail's pace (and previously scanning their remasters at 2k to save money) is pretty funny
I mean 4k is a meme. It's over priced. Not only does it require a new TV, but a player AND a new video cable. And people are just barely being forced into it.
Also Mullholand Drive in 4k was worth the wait.
I can't afford physical copies of Criterion movies but I have a Criterion Channel subscription
Based. Even 1 criterion on sale ($20) is like two months of the channel sub. I basically have a years sub but buy discs of my absolute most favorite films that I know I will rewatch over and over like Kubrick and Cronenberg stuff. Plus I only buy the discs when they're half off. I will not pay $40 for any movie unless it's like a box set collection or something like Santa Sangre.
one of the biggest things, for me at least, was their special features. If you can't even think about what special features stick out to you, what are you actually doing spending $40 on a lifeless Blu-Ray? Support a company who is actually putting work into their releases like Arrow or Kino Lorbor or whatever. Criterion has been slacking hard and appealing to the wrong kind of crowd. they're basically Funko Pops for people who pretend to be into movies now.
[...]
they're like 5 years too late on 4K releases, really hard to care about the kind of shit they're releasing these days when I just checked the site and shit like The Sound of Metal and Okja are getting releases.
It looks like it was filmed yesterday, color and detail is amazing. And yes, perky erect nipples and bush.
4K is definitely not a meme, you have no idea what you are talking about at all.
4k is a huge frick meme but a absolute moron tier meme like Dolby Atmos and HDR.
>t. 4k projector owner and enjoyer
2 years ago
Anonymous
how is 4K or HDR a meme
2 years ago
Anonymous
4k is a meme because like I said it requires you to rebuy everything you have. Most movies on 4k are overpriced. Streaming 4k is a huge frick meme. It's especially a huge super frick meme for video games. Also HDR is a relatively stupid idea because it only benefits OLED TVs and is not a finished "product" with different companies competing on what the HDR standard should be. LCDs, projectors can't really take advantage of HDR and cinemas don't even use it. Also most cinemas don't even do 4k movies since everything is basically 2K (aka 1080p). Plus the worst part is gays praising 4k on their dinky little TVs when only a projector (like what I have) and something like a 90" image can even begin to showcase the higher resolution.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>it's a meme because I'm poor
lol, do you not realize that every single time a new format comes along people are going to have to update their tech for said products and early wave pricing is outrageous? why don't you go look at how expensive Blu-Ray players and full 1080P tvs were back when they first dropped and imagine how fricking moronic you would look calling the jump from 480p to 1080p a meme because you have to get a new tv to be able to actually see the jump in quality. kys moron.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Also most cinemas don't even do 4k movies since everything is basically 2K (aka 1080p)
wow, you're an actual moron who doesn't know anything about the subject
please frick off and die
2 years ago
Anonymous
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When I saw The Bling Ring (shut up) in the movie theater was actually the first time I'd ever even heard the term 4k at least for anything in particular. Before the movie started it said this movie is shown in digital 4k. And that was in summer of 2013 so almost a decade ago. I think Idiocracy was the last movie I'd seen in the theater before that.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Majority of cinemas are NOT 4k you homosexual.
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When I saw The Bling Ring (shut up) in the movie theater was actually the first time I'd ever even heard the term 4k at least for anything in particular. Before the movie started it said this movie is shown in digital 4k. And that was in summer of 2013 so almost a decade ago. I think Idiocracy was the last movie I'd seen in the theater before that.
But I mean did you go to an AMC or Imax? Or Joe's $5 Weekdays where the 70s carpet smells like piss.
>it's a meme because I'm poor
lol, do you not realize that every single time a new format comes along people are going to have to update their tech for said products and early wave pricing is outrageous? why don't you go look at how expensive Blu-Ray players and full 1080P tvs were back when they first dropped and imagine how fricking moronic you would look calling the jump from 480p to 1080p a meme because you have to get a new tv to be able to actually see the jump in quality. kys moron.
Sorry gay, but 4k barely adds any value to the majority of current movies. That's why us Chads have to be picky and go by reviews on Bluray.com or other sites or check IMDB if a movie was shot on film and properly transferred to 4k. Also to make matters worse they're going to be pushing 8k soon and I feel like Bluray JUST became a standard and 4k JUST hit mainstream, and already it will be replaced while VHS and DVD lasted years.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It was Regal
2 years ago
Anonymous
you literally said >2K (aka 1080p)
lmfao
>go by reviews on Bluray.com
homosexual doesn't know about dvdbeaver
>they're going to be pushing 8k soon
fricking kek
>I feel like Bluray JUST became a standard
wow, you are an actual moronic person, do you have to wear a helmet?
2 years ago
Anonymous
2k is 1080p, moron. >Muh 1440p
No, you fat moron.
2 years ago
Anonymous
kys
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's not even how resolution works in a proper sense. You should show the picture at different resolutions.
I prefer Tartan Asia Extreme
BASED.
you one of the dumbest homosexuals i've ever seen on 4ch. think about that.
Keep sneeding, chud.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>1440p morons at it again
>>In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives is the dominant standard for 2K output and defines 2K resolution as 2048 × 1080. For television and consumer media, 1920 × 1080 is the most common 2K resolution, but this is normally referred to as 1080p.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>they're going to be pushing 8k soon and I feel like Bluray JUST became a standard and 4k JUST hit mainstream
yeah, you're definitely moronic and have no clue what you're talking about but keep exposing yourself as someone who doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. you're the very typical "film buff" drone who Criterion capitalizes off of lmao.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Samsung and Hisense are literally selling 8k TVs right now. What's not to understand? That's going to be the next push soon. Most new HDMI cables are already 8k ready.
2 years ago
Anonymous
homie you think bluray just became the standard, i don't give a frick what you have to say because you are clearly an idiot.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Bluray wasn't even adopted on PCs. Most PCs still come with DVD drives and not Bluray drives. Think about that. And match that DVD sales. You'd be surprised how many people buy a Bluray just for the DVD and digital code.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Most PCs still come with DVD drives
most PCs don't have optical drives at all, you fricking sperg
2 years ago
Anonymous
you one of the dumbest homosexuals i've ever seen on 4ch. think about that.
god, I bet this looks amazing in UHD. I wish Criterion would do more 4K releases of stuff with beautiful visuals instead of meme releases from the last decade.
It looks like it was filmed yesterday, color and detail is amazing. And yes, perky erect nipples and bush.
[...]
4k is a huge frick meme but a absolute moron tier meme like Dolby Atmos and HDR.
>t. 4k projector owner and enjoyer
Lmao gay.
because those were somewhat mainstream movies and those were the only dvds made of them for a long time
I still have a sealed Life Aquatic DVD I got for $5. Also black white releases are very kino. Both Modern Times and The Killing look absolutely amazing with a great bitrate and upscale beautifully in a Bluray/4k player.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>hur dur i immediately disproved my own point >haha you are gay
My favorites are Altman movies and the Thin Red Line blu ray
I want them to get a blu ray for werckmeister harmonies so bad
It's less that it's woke and that they're being paid to "canonize" a lot of modern american films which have been sorta reduced from art to liberal pandering and self loathing
The filmmakers and production companies want to solidify the "importance" of their films which were forgotten by modern film culture literally weeks after their releases
It doesn't make the company bad, since their main shtick is just overall film preservation/restoration/availability
>Europa but no Breaking The Waves >The New World/The Thin Red Line but no Tree of Life
nice collection but missing a handful of movies i'd assume you would have based on your current picks
I prefer Dancer in the Dark over Breaking the Waves but at the same time the next Lars purchase is probably gonna be House That Jack Built just because it's very satirical in a way I like Tree of life is my second least-liked Malick film. I think that aesthetically and emotionally aside from Song to Song is one of his most "wow so Malick!" films. There's nothing particularly inventive about the aesthetic and it doesn't have as much feeling (for me) compared to like Thin Red Line, New World and To the Wonder
I've still got to get Jack on Blu-Ray, it's not my personal favorite of his but damn is it by far his most entertaining movie. feels like if you're into Lars its a must have when you can look at it from a meta perspective as a movie on his career as a person who loves to push boundaries.
and while I wasn't very big on TToL, I can understand why a lot of Malick fans love the movie. I just think it gets a big cheesy in certain parts and overstays its welcome.
Revanche is extremely cathartic for me I had a barely-related but similar traumatic experience and "letting go" to try a second chance at the whole situation, taking in a new style and perspective. This resonated for me
Is it true that the Wong Kar Wai collection is fricked? I know about that he fricked with the aspect ratios and colors, but I remember hearing that even the discs have issues with playback.
So WKW did mess with some of the grading in certain shots and he decided to mess with the aspect ratio a little bit
If you're only looking for like the previous bluray or dvd version it does look different, particularly ChungKing and Fallen Angels, but they still are for the most part gorgeous
Iirc in the booklet included he's like "A director re-release should be like a director's cut where you can alter things you didn't like or weren't able to do"
So for all we know this might be closer to his "original" vision
Is it true that the Wong Kar Wai collection is fricked? I know about that he fricked with the aspect ratios and colors, but I remember hearing that even the discs have issues with playback.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is my favorite film they've released but it didnt add that much except the upgrade to bluray which wasnt needed that much for me since its 2.35 aspect ratio. Weekend by Godard might be tied for favorite since it benefitted much more from a bluray release. As for just the release itself like special features and stuff, nothings really jumping out at me actually. The two I mentioned had most of their features previously released and some actually Criterion couldnt even get the licensing for I assume like the Weekend commentary or at least one of them. So honorable mention to films like Sweet Movie and Salo which for me at least would have been lost forever if not for Criterion
Yeah I've got a few but for example I stopped participating in their sales because now my state of Texas charges sales tax on them. And that was really the only way I'd been buying them for awhile so no real plans to ever get any more.
one of the biggest things, for me at least, was their special features. If you can't even think about what special features stick out to you, what are you actually doing spending $40 on a lifeless Blu-Ray? Support a company who is actually putting work into their releases like Arrow or Kino Lorbor or whatever. Criterion has been slacking hard and appealing to the wrong kind of crowd. they're basically Funko Pops for people who pretend to be into movies now.
They just released Raging Bull on 4k so you're wrong. The fact is that Criterion actually has good homosexual and Black person films while other companies are scrambling to build catalogs because they never gave a shit about those demographics. Criterion has those movies because they believe in the film first and the homosexual behind the camera second.
they're like 5 years too late on 4K releases, really hard to care about the kind of shit they're releasing these days when I just checked the site and shit like The Sound of Metal and Okja are getting releases.
>what are you actually doing spending $40 on a lifeless Blu-Ray?
Because I don't. That's why I said the sales were how I was mostly getting them.
Kino Lorber is having a sale right now but I dont think I'm gonna get anything. Looks like they dropped Rawhead Rex down again though. Thats what really jumped out to me.
they're almost always on sale on Amazon, not the half off you'd find in Barns N Noble or on their website but you can regularly find stuff for 30-50 percent off.
>Okja
Thing about Criterion is once they add one movie by a director to the collection, they'll add absolutely any other movie by that director as well (see Jabberwock), so Okja is in there bc they wanted Memories of Murder and Parasite. Not to mention they've got a deal with Netflix, which is why The Irishman, Roma, and Marriage Story are in there. You can usually tell what studios they're doing business with from what they're releasing a particular year, at one time they were dropping tons of MGM stuff.
Is it just me or does it seem like Criterion takes way too long to release new movies? The whole 5 movies a month thing is getting really tiresome. We know you have the rights to way more stuff so just release is already.
I'm so glad that Parasite got so incredibly popular so that we could get a release of this kino.Finding an affordable blu ray was basically impossible before.
I hope they get the distribution rights for Castaway on the Moon someday.
Was supervisor for the print department in a DVD replication place many years ago. Criterion was a client.
What was decent about the job was how trivial it was to walk out with a spindle of about 50 new fliks a day. would usually get a few screeners per day.
My Demonoid ratio was legendary for a while. Remember giving frens a stack of a few hundred at a time. Entire Manga collections etc
I paid for their streaming service for my mom and she's just been confused by how it works as am I. It has a decent collection but it's like you have to know what is on their platform already
My go to is going to the list of movies leaving the platform and month and watching anything I recognize as having a spine number or that I'm just interested in
The criterions I own are: >Deep Cover >Ikiru >Jabberwocky >The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou >MacBeth >Stalker
I'm thinking about buying Uncut Gems as I've heard it's great but it's a US-only release so I'd have to import it which is quite expensive.
As a foreigner dude is region locking a thing where you live? A lot of the blu rays I can get of nonamerican films are region locked and it's one of the big motivators in me ripping stuff than purchasing it
Yeah most US releases I've imported are region locked to Region A (I'm in the UK which is Region B), I bought a multi-region blu ray player to play them, it was fairly expensive though (about twice the price of a regular player) because bypassing region locks means doing some kind of modification to the hardware. It was a good investment though because there were quite a few things I wanted that aren't released here and likely never will be.
Yeah most US releases I've imported are region locked to Region A (I'm in the UK which is Region B), I bought a multi-region blu ray player to play them, it was fairly expensive though (about twice the price of a regular player) because bypassing region locks means doing some kind of modification to the hardware. It was a good investment though because there were quite a few things I wanted that aren't released here and likely never will be.
Oh and if you were asking if UK releases are region locked, generally they are, I haven't filled out all the region codes in my library spreadsheet, but of those I have 251 are region locked to B, and 89 are region free.
The Rusico DVD release has better subtitles, which translate more background dialogue and capture some idioms better, but the image and sound quality of the Criterion Blu Ray is obviously superior.
all malick, lynch, gilliam, jarmusch,
the silent era shit like chaplin and dreyer
all the non-american shit too
I got 8 1/2 as a gift, been eyeing the three colors series
>silent era
unironically how do you watch that without killing yourself
Eraserhead because of all the short films
None of those short films were good tho
They gave insight on Lynch because they wear his influences on his sleeve
The Alphabet and the Grandmother were great
used to be a really great company but the moron in charge now is a full-on woke anita sarkeesian acolyte so now they mostly care about "celebrating" movies made by minorites and women no matter how shit they are
this just isn't true
it literally is
their catalog fricking sucks these days and even the special features, the selling point for a lot of their movies, is lacking and getting mogged by lots of other companies these days.
The front page of criterion channel right now has two gay showcases, first thing you see when visiting. Big splash panel of a dude in drag. They're putting mediocre movies like Love & Basketball, Devil in a Blue Dress, One Night in Miami, and Love Jones in the collection simply because they're by black filmmakers, and stuff like Marlon Riggs films and Paris is Burning simply because they're gay. They haven't collapsed completely and still routinely put out classics, but they're pandering to the woke crowd pretty heavily these days.
>Paris is Burning
I hate diversity, but that movie is genuinely good. I can watch it in youtube for free though.
didn't they get some gay ass basketball movie in there and uncut gems LMAO
How is Uncut Gems any worse than having Armageddon or Kevin Smith movies?
There is no fricking way they have Kevin Smith shit in Criterion.
Anon...
https://www.criterion.com/films/615-chasing-amy
Yeah it definitely feels like the quality of films on there has dropped in recent years (although Ghost Dog and Deep Cover were some of my favorite releases).
they ruined the criterion closet videos by only letting homosexuals and minorities no one's heard of in there now
Frick, you're right. I used to love those but completely forgot about them once they started doing that.
>Ayy yo, I don't know any of these movies, bruh!
>Aw sheeit, I seen this one once when I was gargling my troony bfs cum and spat it all over the screen yo!
>Yo movies is being so important for real.
They just released Raging Bull on 4k so you're wrong. The fact is that Criterion actually has good homosexual and Black person films while other companies are scrambling to build catalogs because they never gave a shit about those demographics. Criterion has those movies because they believe in the film first and the homosexual behind the camera second.
they occasionally release a decent movie so they don't go fricking bankrupt
also, citing a 4k release when they've dragged their feet for a decade before finally releasing 4k movies at a snail's pace (and previously scanning their remasters at 2k to save money) is pretty funny
>decade
more like 5 years
I mean 4k is a meme. It's over priced. Not only does it require a new TV, but a player AND a new video cable. And people are just barely being forced into it.
Also Mullholand Drive in 4k was worth the wait.
Based. Even 1 criterion on sale ($20) is like two months of the channel sub. I basically have a years sub but buy discs of my absolute most favorite films that I know I will rewatch over and over like Kubrick and Cronenberg stuff. Plus I only buy the discs when they're half off. I will not pay $40 for any movie unless it's like a box set collection or something like Santa Sangre.
See above.
>Also Mullholand Drive in 4k was worth the wait.
How so? Do you get to see the hairs on her bush?
It looks like it was filmed yesterday, color and detail is amazing. And yes, perky erect nipples and bush.
4k is a huge frick meme but a absolute moron tier meme like Dolby Atmos and HDR.
>t. 4k projector owner and enjoyer
how is 4K or HDR a meme
4k is a meme because like I said it requires you to rebuy everything you have. Most movies on 4k are overpriced. Streaming 4k is a huge frick meme. It's especially a huge super frick meme for video games. Also HDR is a relatively stupid idea because it only benefits OLED TVs and is not a finished "product" with different companies competing on what the HDR standard should be. LCDs, projectors can't really take advantage of HDR and cinemas don't even use it. Also most cinemas don't even do 4k movies since everything is basically 2K (aka 1080p). Plus the worst part is gays praising 4k on their dinky little TVs when only a projector (like what I have) and something like a 90" image can even begin to showcase the higher resolution.
>it's a meme because I'm poor
lol, do you not realize that every single time a new format comes along people are going to have to update their tech for said products and early wave pricing is outrageous? why don't you go look at how expensive Blu-Ray players and full 1080P tvs were back when they first dropped and imagine how fricking moronic you would look calling the jump from 480p to 1080p a meme because you have to get a new tv to be able to actually see the jump in quality. kys moron.
>Also most cinemas don't even do 4k movies since everything is basically 2K (aka 1080p)
wow, you're an actual moron who doesn't know anything about the subject
please frick off and die
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When I saw The Bling Ring (shut up) in the movie theater was actually the first time I'd ever even heard the term 4k at least for anything in particular. Before the movie started it said this movie is shown in digital 4k. And that was in summer of 2013 so almost a decade ago. I think Idiocracy was the last movie I'd seen in the theater before that.
Majority of cinemas are NOT 4k you homosexual.
But I mean did you go to an AMC or Imax? Or Joe's $5 Weekdays where the 70s carpet smells like piss.
Sorry gay, but 4k barely adds any value to the majority of current movies. That's why us Chads have to be picky and go by reviews on Bluray.com or other sites or check IMDB if a movie was shot on film and properly transferred to 4k. Also to make matters worse they're going to be pushing 8k soon and I feel like Bluray JUST became a standard and 4k JUST hit mainstream, and already it will be replaced while VHS and DVD lasted years.
It was Regal
you literally said >2K (aka 1080p)
lmfao
>go by reviews on Bluray.com
homosexual doesn't know about dvdbeaver
>they're going to be pushing 8k soon
fricking kek
>I feel like Bluray JUST became a standard
wow, you are an actual moronic person, do you have to wear a helmet?
2k is 1080p, moron.
>Muh 1440p
No, you fat moron.
kys
That's not even how resolution works in a proper sense. You should show the picture at different resolutions.
BASED.
Keep sneeding, chud.
>1440p morons at it again
>>In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives is the dominant standard for 2K output and defines 2K resolution as 2048 × 1080. For television and consumer media, 1920 × 1080 is the most common 2K resolution, but this is normally referred to as 1080p.
>they're going to be pushing 8k soon and I feel like Bluray JUST became a standard and 4k JUST hit mainstream
yeah, you're definitely moronic and have no clue what you're talking about but keep exposing yourself as someone who doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. you're the very typical "film buff" drone who Criterion capitalizes off of lmao.
Samsung and Hisense are literally selling 8k TVs right now. What's not to understand? That's going to be the next push soon. Most new HDMI cables are already 8k ready.
homie you think bluray just became the standard, i don't give a frick what you have to say because you are clearly an idiot.
Bluray wasn't even adopted on PCs. Most PCs still come with DVD drives and not Bluray drives. Think about that. And match that DVD sales. You'd be surprised how many people buy a Bluray just for the DVD and digital code.
>Most PCs still come with DVD drives
most PCs don't have optical drives at all, you fricking sperg
you one of the dumbest homosexuals i've ever seen on 4ch. think about that.
4K is definitely not a meme, you have no idea what you are talking about at all.
Dat 4K of The Red Shoes tho
god, I bet this looks amazing in UHD. I wish Criterion would do more 4K releases of stuff with beautiful visuals instead of meme releases from the last decade.
>4k is a meme because i'm a poorgay who can't afford to spend $1k on something that's apparently important to me
kys
See this post
Lmao gay.
I still have a sealed Life Aquatic DVD I got for $5. Also black white releases are very kino. Both Modern Times and The Killing look absolutely amazing with a great bitrate and upscale beautifully in a Bluray/4k player.
>hur dur i immediately disproved my own point
>haha you are gay
wow, good one, anon
>I mean 4k is a meme
>Also Mullholand Drive in 4k was worth the wait.
t. shill
https://www.criterion.com/films/28317-tiny-furniture
explain this then
lmao what the frick
My favorites are Altman movies and the Thin Red Line blu ray
I want them to get a blu ray for werckmeister harmonies so bad
It's less that it's woke and that they're being paid to "canonize" a lot of modern american films which have been sorta reduced from art to liberal pandering and self loathing
The filmmakers and production companies want to solidify the "importance" of their films which were forgotten by modern film culture literally weeks after their releases
It doesn't make the company bad, since their main shtick is just overall film preservation/restoration/availability
>Europa but no Breaking The Waves
>The New World/The Thin Red Line but no Tree of Life
nice collection but missing a handful of movies i'd assume you would have based on your current picks
I prefer Dancer in the Dark over Breaking the Waves but at the same time the next Lars purchase is probably gonna be House That Jack Built just because it's very satirical in a way I like
Tree of life is my second least-liked Malick film. I think that aesthetically and emotionally aside from Song to Song is one of his most "wow so Malick!" films. There's nothing particularly inventive about the aesthetic and it doesn't have as much feeling (for me) compared to like Thin Red Line, New World and To the Wonder
I've still got to get Jack on Blu-Ray, it's not my personal favorite of his but damn is it by far his most entertaining movie. feels like if you're into Lars its a must have when you can look at it from a meta perspective as a movie on his career as a person who loves to push boundaries.
and while I wasn't very big on TToL, I can understand why a lot of Malick fans love the movie. I just think it gets a big cheesy in certain parts and overstays its welcome.
Revanche and Europa aren't talked about enough
Revanche is extremely cathartic for me I had a barely-related but similar traumatic experience and "letting go" to try a second chance at the whole situation, taking in a new style and perspective. This resonated for me
So WKW did mess with some of the grading in certain shots and he decided to mess with the aspect ratio a little bit
If you're only looking for like the previous bluray or dvd version it does look different, particularly ChungKing and Fallen Angels, but they still are for the most part gorgeous
Iirc in the booklet included he's like "A director re-release should be like a director's cut where you can alter things you didn't like or weren't able to do"
So for all we know this might be closer to his "original" vision
Is it true that the Wong Kar Wai collection is fricked? I know about that he fricked with the aspect ratios and colors, but I remember hearing that even the discs have issues with playback.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is my favorite film they've released but it didnt add that much except the upgrade to bluray which wasnt needed that much for me since its 2.35 aspect ratio. Weekend by Godard might be tied for favorite since it benefitted much more from a bluray release. As for just the release itself like special features and stuff, nothings really jumping out at me actually. The two I mentioned had most of their features previously released and some actually Criterion couldnt even get the licensing for I assume like the Weekend commentary or at least one of them. So honorable mention to films like Sweet Movie and Salo which for me at least would have been lost forever if not for Criterion
Yeah I've got a few but for example I stopped participating in their sales because now my state of Texas charges sales tax on them. And that was really the only way I'd been buying them for awhile so no real plans to ever get any more.
just pirate them dude
>Scanners.gif
one of the biggest things, for me at least, was their special features. If you can't even think about what special features stick out to you, what are you actually doing spending $40 on a lifeless Blu-Ray? Support a company who is actually putting work into their releases like Arrow or Kino Lorbor or whatever. Criterion has been slacking hard and appealing to the wrong kind of crowd. they're basically Funko Pops for people who pretend to be into movies now.
they're like 5 years too late on 4K releases, really hard to care about the kind of shit they're releasing these days when I just checked the site and shit like The Sound of Metal and Okja are getting releases.
>30 TB
sweet jesus
>what are you actually doing spending $40 on a lifeless Blu-Ray?
Because I don't. That's why I said the sales were how I was mostly getting them.
Kino Lorber is having a sale right now but I dont think I'm gonna get anything. Looks like they dropped Rawhead Rex down again though. Thats what really jumped out to me.
they're almost always on sale on Amazon, not the half off you'd find in Barns N Noble or on their website but you can regularly find stuff for 30-50 percent off.
>Okja
Thing about Criterion is once they add one movie by a director to the collection, they'll add absolutely any other movie by that director as well (see Jabberwock), so Okja is in there bc they wanted Memories of Murder and Parasite. Not to mention they've got a deal with Netflix, which is why The Irishman, Roma, and Marriage Story are in there. You can usually tell what studios they're doing business with from what they're releasing a particular year, at one time they were dropping tons of MGM stuff.
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I can't afford physical copies of Criterion movies but I have a Criterion Channel subscription
I own one (1) Critertion release, F for Fake. I've been thinking of buying more but not sure where to even start.
Fire Walk With Me is another one where they couldn't get the licensing for a pretty cool documentary on the old New Line dvd
Chasing Amy
By far the most common one to see at pawn shops etc for a dollar. 2nd would probably be Royal Tenenbaums.
always amazes me it was in the collection
because those were somewhat mainstream movies and those were the only dvds made of them for a long time
Is it just me or does it seem like Criterion takes way too long to release new movies? The whole 5 movies a month thing is getting really tiresome. We know you have the rights to way more stuff so just release is already.
I'm so glad that Parasite got so incredibly popular so that we could get a release of this kino.Finding an affordable blu ray was basically impossible before.
I hope they get the distribution rights for Castaway on the Moon someday.
Nobody tell this dude about the horrendous job they did to the coloring for this movie
what's wrong with it?
I own Yi Yi and A Brighter Summer Day. Very glad those films are available to everyone now
Fallen Angles and Slacker
I own neither
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I preferred To the Wonder as well but wouldnt really say I fully digested either film.
Was supervisor for the print department in a DVD replication place many years ago. Criterion was a client.
What was decent about the job was how trivial it was to walk out with a spindle of about 50 new fliks a day. would usually get a few screeners per day.
My Demonoid ratio was legendary for a while. Remember giving frens a stack of a few hundred at a time. Entire Manga collections etc
I prefer Tartan Asia Extreme
I don't own any but I really like their Joan Of Arc release
Where the frick is their release of Cure
I paid for their streaming service for my mom and she's just been confused by how it works as am I. It has a decent collection but it's like you have to know what is on their platform already
My go to is going to the list of movies leaving the platform and month and watching anything I recognize as having a spine number or that I'm just interested in
release when?
The criterions I own are:
>Deep Cover
>Ikiru
>Jabberwocky
>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
>MacBeth
>Stalker
I'm thinking about buying Uncut Gems as I've heard it's great but it's a US-only release so I'd have to import it which is quite expensive.
As a foreigner dude is region locking a thing where you live? A lot of the blu rays I can get of nonamerican films are region locked and it's one of the big motivators in me ripping stuff than purchasing it
Yeah most US releases I've imported are region locked to Region A (I'm in the UK which is Region B), I bought a multi-region blu ray player to play them, it was fairly expensive though (about twice the price of a regular player) because bypassing region locks means doing some kind of modification to the hardware. It was a good investment though because there were quite a few things I wanted that aren't released here and likely never will be.
stop consooming criterions and get a region free BR player like any non moron already has.
no
Oh and if you were asking if UK releases are region locked, generally they are, I haven't filled out all the region codes in my library spreadsheet, but of those I have 251 are region locked to B, and 89 are region free.
The Bergman, Fellini, and WKW sets are all great. Also really like the Three Colours boxset.
I have the Criterion Laserdisc of Robocop.
The Rusico DVD release has better subtitles, which translate more background dialogue and capture some idioms better, but the image and sound quality of the Criterion Blu Ray is obviously superior.
I have the Ford films and some other westerns they've released. Do not give a shit about their foreign catalog