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lull · #26 Post by **lull** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:26 am

i just got:

"Masculine Feminine" with Shoot the Piano Player(!).
Ugetsu with Ran.

Narshty · #27 Post by **Narshty** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:10 pm

I got a HOFFMANN in my RAN.

(RAN's bloody good, by the way. Much better than Kurosawa in the 50s and 60s. I don't know why, but his films are a lot more enjoyable when everyone sits stonefaced and cross-legged for 90% of the time.)

oldsheperd · #28 Post by **oldsheperd** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:30 pm

I got Tales of Hoffman with both Ran and Tales of Hoffman. I don't think I got one with Shoot The Piano Player.

Dr. Mabuse · #29 Post by **Dr. Mabuse** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:36 pm

Anyone got a card in their "Forbidden Games"? Mine was empty.

#30 Post by **zedz** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:43 pm

Dr. Mabuse wrote:Anyone got a card in their "Forbidden Games"? Mine was empty.

Ditto

#31 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:13 pm

I got Le Samourai with Piano Player. None with Forbidden Games or Ugetsu. Haven't bought Hoffmann or Ran yet (expecting them for Christmas)

colinr0380 · #32 Post by **colinr0380** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:06 am

Okay, I'll add mine - got an Ugetsu in my Ran!

jorencain · #33 Post by **jorencain** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:04 pm

I just picked up "Shoot The Piano Player" and.......NO POSTCARD! I was pissed. Thank god the film was great, and the whole package is fantastic; otherwise there would have been carnage.

arsonfilms · #34 Post by **arsonfilms** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:41 pm

I actually didn't get anything in Ran OR Shoot the Piano Player.

I feel cheated.

I'm just glad I don't buy DVDs for the promotional inserts. Not to say that the postcards wouldn't be cool, but the DVDs themselves are everything I'd hoped they'd be.

Toshiro De Niro · #35 Post by **Toshiro De Niro** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:24 am

this gallery was included in Criterion's last newsletter.
http://www.criterion.com/nl106/postcards.html
Seems like they're printing artwork from older releases as well. Imagine in a couple of years when they've printed hundreds of postcards how obsessed some collectors might become with them

LightBulbFilm · #36 Post by **LightBulbFilm** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:10 pm

What's the deal with these post cards? Why does everyone love them soo much. So far the only one that I've noted differences in is the Masculie Femine postcard compared to the cover. I got Hoffman with Ran, but I wasn't extatic.

Napier · #37 Post by **Napier** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:23 pm

Hey Light Bulb,since you got no love for the post card i'll gladly take Hoffmann of your hands. I will PM my p.o. box to you.THANKS ALOT! I've got 4 Masculine Feminine cards.

Theodore R. Stockton · Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:38 pm

If we start trading, I got an extra Ugetsu that I'll trade for anything else.

LightBulbFilm · #39 Post by **LightBulbFilm** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:25 pm

Napier wrote:Hey Light Bulb,since you got no love for the post card i'll gladly take Hoffmann of your hands. I will PM my p.o. box to you.THANKS ALOT! I've got 4 Masculine Feminine cards.

If I did send it to you, I'd write your address DIRECTLY on the postcard, with penscribbles all over it

hammock · #40 Post by **hammock** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:21 pm

I have 2 X Hoffman and would like to swap 1 X for something else (not Ugetsu). Anyone?

I would also be delighted to receive scans of the postcards not listed on this site: http://www.criteriondungeon.1go.dk/post.htm

Morbii · #41 Post by **Morbii** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:59 am

I got Ugetsu in Ran and Hoffman in Hoffman (!!)

Didn't get anything for Piano Player. Nothing in Ugetsu either, but I did get a bonus 2006 catalog on top of the one that was already in there!

Theodore R. Stockton · Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:45 pm

I still have one extra Ugetsu and am looking to trade for
Hoffmann or Le Samurai.

Red Beard · #43 Post by **Red Beard** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:10 am

I have an extra Hoffmann that I'd be willing to trade for Ugetsu. PM if you want to trade.

Toshiro De Niro · Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:09 pm

apparently Criterion isn't the first to include postcards in their releases. I found one in an Anchor Bay release Return to Oz (released in 1999)

colinr0380 · #45 Post by **colinr0380** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:43 pm

imiba wrote:apparently Criterion isn't the first to include postcards in their releases. I found one in an Anchor Bay release Return to Oz (released in 1999)

Yes, I think Anchor Bay have done it with most of their releases, usually with the chapter listings for the film on the back.

Toshiro De Niro · #46 Post by **Toshiro De Niro** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:13 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
imiba wrote:apparently Criterion isn't the first to include postcards in their releases. I found one in an Anchor Bay release Return to Oz (released in 1999)
Yes, I think Anchor Bay have done it with most of their releases, usually with the chapter listings for the film on the back.

i think you're referring to their poster-replica inserts, but that one is a smaller-size postcard with space for stamp and addresses on one side and a still from the movie on the other.

colinr0380 · #47 Post by **colinr0380** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:12 am

imiba wrote: i think you're referring to their poster-replica inserts, but that one is a smaller-size postcard with space for stamp and addresses on one side and a still from the movie on the other.

Ah, yes. I didn't realise that they did just a normal postcard in that release!

Dr. Mabuse · #48 Post by **Dr. Mabuse** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:20 pm

Have any of the january releases (The Bad Sleeps Well and The Virgin Spring) included postcards? I didn't get any in the ones I bought

Toshiro De Niro · Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:53 pm

My Bad Sleep Well didn't have one

edit: neither Ran nor Virgin Spring nor Forbidden Games, nor Shoot the Piano Player!

#50 Post by **domino harvey** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:33 am

I got a Ugetsu with my Shoot the Piano Player, wish I'd gotten Masculin Feminin tho

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