200 The Honeymoon Killers

[knives]

Damn, why now with all of these late to the party films?

[bamwc2]

Damn, why now with all of these late to the party films?

I reviewed them because Gary never did, and I felt like doing so. There's nothing more to it. In the past year, I did the same with a bunch of older AE and BFI discs as well. More to come, btw.

[CSM126]

I hate to rag even a little on this disc, but I don't think it's accurate to say the soundtrack is "clear". Honeymoon Killers is a terribly muffled and tinny sounding film and I usually need the subtitles on to discern what anyone's saying. It's not Criterion's fault (I asked about it and they replied that there was nothing to be done about it), but I think the review is a little misleading there nonetheless (I also notice that it's the same cut-and-pasted wording from the other reviews in this batch...).

[Person]

I actually like it when Beaver (or Gary's chums) review an old DVD. It helps keep such titles in our consciousness. And it's always good to have more CC titles reviewed with screencaps somewhere for reference.

[bamwc2]

To posted on my Beaver review:

Well folks, I goofed. Shortly after Gary posted my reviews for these five Criterions, I began receiving notification that the pictures were not representative of the video quality of the releases. Although I initially defended my captures, I recently realized that when I took the screen captures, the software that I use to do this was incorrectly configured. Fortunately these are the only reviews of mine that were affected. I will redo the captures as soon as possible, but since they are currently in storage roughly 300 miles away from me, it will likely take a week or two before I can get that done. I apologize for the difficulty and I assure you that I will take every step in the future to ensure that this won’t happen again. I’ll end by reiterating for those who are considering purchasing these discs, THE IMAGE ON THE DISCS LOOKS BETTER THAN WHAT IS CURRENTLY DISPLAYED.

[bamwc2]

The pics have all been fixed.

[Venom]

If anyone watches the show Cold Case, the episode Lonely Hearts was based on Martha and Ray, though much more fictionalized and in the 1980s ("ripped from the headlines" is probably the proper term). Not nearly as good as this film of course, but worth checking out if you like the show or similar ones.

Everyone's pretty much said everything I would (positive that is, two thumbs way up from me) about the film so I'll add: Doris Roberts is in this!

[atcolomb]

Director Leonard Kastle 1929-2011. "Kastle, whose first film was destined to be his last, died May 18 at his home in Westerlo, N.Y., after a brief illness, said Tina Sisson, a friend. He was 82".

[swo17]

Blu-ray upgrade coming Sep 29

[Drucker]

DVD Beaver

[Orlac]

There was a theory on the net that Shirley Stoler was former model Shirley Kilpatrick, who in 1957 played THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER!!!

[Minkin]

Blu-ray.com

[djproject]

Interesting packaging error:

[MichaelB]

They never said it had to be the film's director...

[tenia]

It's like the news of the day. Sure, but which year ?

[Brian C]

I can't read who the director is ... could someone spoil the joke for me?

[Roger Ryan]

I can't read who the director is ... could someone spoil the joke for me?

Looks like "Jan Troell" to me.

[tenia]

I can't read who the director is ... could someone spoil the joke for me?

Looks like "Jan Troell" to me.

It is.

[Ashirg]

Jan Troell approved The Honeymoon Killers release. I don't see what's the issue here...

[djproject]

Jan Troell approved The Honeymoon Killers release. I don't see what's the issue here...

Actually, he only would have approved it if Midnight Cowboy was a bonus feature

(Oh come on, I earned the reference ... look at my sparse posting history =] )

[olmo]

Oh dear, I was thinking the error was that the new 4k restoration had been approved by Kastle even though he's been dead for over four years.

[tenia]

Oh dear, I was thinking the error was that the new 4k restoration had been approved by Kastle even though he's been dead for over four years.

Yeah, they really would have gone the extra mile with that.

[CSM126]

I don't know, David Maysles died twenty to thirty years ago and Criterion still put his name and signature on director approved stickers.

[tenia]

I don't know, David Maysles died twenty to thirty years ago and Criterion still put his name and signature on director approved stickers.

It could have a logic in these cases, because Criterion is sometimes using HD masters old enough to have been approved by these persons when they were still around. The same goes with some Bergman movies for instance (like Smiles of a Summer Night : Bergman died in 2007 but the HD master was approved for the DVD which was released in 2004).

Interestingly enough however, for both Grey Gardens and Gimme Shelter, only Albert is quoted as having supervised the restorations, never David.

But in the case of The Honeymoon Killers, it is a new 4K resto, so the same logic can't apply there.