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Nice slate. Though I was hoping for Europa Europa or some of the August titles, crossing my fingers for November to have some of those.

schellenbergk wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:37 pmI'm particularly looking forward to seeing "The Devils" - which somehow I have missed through the years.

The Devils is easy to miss because it was only released on DVD in the UK in 2012. Hope this means Warner is lessening its grip a little, though I know you can't read much into the channel's temporary licenses. Pumped to finally see it.

Wasn't it on Filmstruck back in the day in a horrible quality R-rated version?

kcota17 wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:05 pm Wasn't it on Filmstruck back in the day in a horrible quality R-rated version?

I am under the impression that this is the only one of two versions that Warner Brothers has allowed to escape from it's vaults in a commercial capacity. The other being the X rated cut on the BFI release which includes more graphic footage (The one with all the naked nuns I think?). It sucks that we probably won't get Russell's Director's Cut because WB for whatever reasons is still so unbelievably prickly about this damn movie it's ridiculous.

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel during November:

12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet, 1957
An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli, 1951
And Life Goes On, Abbas Kiarostami, 1992
The Arbor, Clio Barnard, 2010**
The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli, 1953
The Barkleys of Broadway, Charles Walters, 1949
Big Night, Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, 1996
Blow Out, Brian De Palma, 1981
Brigadoon, Vincente Minnelli, 1954**
Broadway Melody of 1940, Norman Taurog, 1940
Cabin in the Sky, Vincente Minnelli, 1943
Caché, Michael Haneke, 2005
The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Peter Greenaway, 1989
Corpo celeste, Alice Rohrwacher, 2011
Crocus, Suzan Pitt, 1971
Dear Phone, Peter Greenaway, 1976
Death of the Soundman, Sorayos Prapapan, 2017
Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991
Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981
El doctor, Suzan Pitt, 2006
The Draughtsman’s Contract, Peter Greenaway, 1982
Easter Parade, Charles Walters, 1948
Eat Drink Man Woman, Ang Lee, 1994
An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo, 2018
A Face in the Crowd, Elia Kazan, 1957
The Falls, Peter Greenaway, 1980
Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, 1970
Give a Girl a Break, Stanley Donen, 1953
H Is for House, Peter Greenaway, 1976
Hacked Circuit, Deborah Stratman, 2014
The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972
The Harvey Girls, George Sidney, 1946
Homework, Abbas Kiarostami, 1989
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Tsai Ming-liang, 2006
I Love Melvin, Don Weis, 1953
In the Good Old Summertime, Robert Z. Leonard, 1949
The Inland Sea, Lucille Carra, 1991
Intervals, Peter Greenaway, 1969
It’s Always Fair Weather, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1955
Jefferson Circus Songs, Suzan Pitt, 1973
Joy Street, Suzan Pitt, 1995
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., Leslie Harris, 1992
Kes, Ken Loach, 1969
The King of Marvin Gardens, Bob Rafelson, 1972
Klute, Alan J. Pakula, 1971
The Last Detail, Hal Ashby, 1973
Lili, Charles Walters, 1953
The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006**
Meet Me in St Louis, Vincente Minnelli, 1944
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch, 2001
Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
No Place Like Home, Perry Henzell, 2006
On the Town, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1949
Oslo, August 31st, Joachim Trier, 2011**
The Pillow Book, Peter Greenaway, 1996**
Pinball, Suzan Pitt, 2013
The Pirate, Vincente Minnelli, 1948
Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway, 1991
Raging Sun, Raging Sky, Julián Hernández, 2009
Reprise, Joachim Trier, 2006
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Stanley Donen, 1954
Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, 2013**
Summer Stock, Charles Walters, 1950
That’s Entertainment!, Jack Haley Jr., 1974
They Live By Night, Nicholas Ray, 1948
Through the Olive Trees, Abbas Kiarostami, 1994
Vertical Features Remake, Peter Greenaway, 1978
Visitation, Suzan Pitt, 2011
A Walk Through H, Peter Greenaway, 1978
Water Wrackets, Peter Greenaway, 1990
Windows, Peter Greenaway, 1975
The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher, 2014
Yentl, Barbra Streisand, 1983
A Zed & Two Noughts, Peter Greenaway, 1985

**Available in the U.S. only

Prospero’s Books, bitches!

kcota17 wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:05 pm Wasn't (Russell's THE DEVILS) on Filmstruck back in the day in a horrible quality R-rated version?

Can't speak for the quality of what was run on Filmstruck, but the version of THE DEVILS on the Criterion Channel looks great. It's the R-rated version, apparently, without the notorious "Rape Of Christ" sequence. Still well worth seeing.

Roscoe wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:46 pm

kcota17 wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:05 pm Wasn't (Russell's THE DEVILS) on Filmstruck back in the day in a horrible quality R-rated version?

Can't speak for the quality of what was run on Filmstruck, but the version of THE DEVILS on the Criterion Channel looks great. It's the R-rated version, apparently, without the notorious "Rape Of Christ" sequence. Still well worth seeing.

I know it would be hard to tell since Criterion doesn’t list the rating but is it the R rated version or the X rated version on there?

The R rated version I believe was on FilmStruck (or Shudder... one of them) and is heavily edited and is presented in a non-anamorphic print

The X rated version should be better quality as it was released by the BFI and is still missing the Rape of Christ.

The unrated version has the Rape of Christ scene and hasn’t really been released beside screenings.

kcota17 wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:24 pm

Roscoe wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:46 pm

kcota17 wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:05 pm Wasn't (Russell's THE DEVILS) on Filmstruck back in the day in a horrible quality R-rated version?

Can't speak for the quality of what was run on Filmstruck, but the version of THE DEVILS on the Criterion Channel looks great. It's the R-rated version, apparently, without the notorious "Rape Of Christ" sequence. Still well worth seeing.

I know it would be hard to tell since Criterion doesn’t list the rating but is it the R rated version or the X rated version on there?

The R rated version I believe was on FilmStruck (or Shudder... one of them) and is heavily edited and is presented in a non-anamorphic print

The X rated version should be better quality as it was released by the BFI and is still missing the Rape of Christ.

The unrated version has the Rape of Christ scene and hasn’t really been released beside screenings.

I couldn't say exactly which version. It looked great, not looking stretched -- so maybe it was the X version. Whatever it is, go ahead and check it out.

So do we have any evidence yet to suggest that Criterion is using the channel to assess what It should release on disc? I've held off on watching some things in the hope that it might get an eventual disc release (titles I'm particularly interested in having), but if this is the case, maybe I should forego that & watch anyway?

There's no reason to believe they use the channel for that purpose.

Lowry_Sam wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:42 am So do we have any evidence yet to suggest that Criterion is using the channel to assess what It should release on disc? I've held off on watching some things in the hope that it might get an eventual disc release (titles I'm particularly interested in having), but if this is the case, maybe I should forego that & watch anyway?

I highly doubt it. But even if they were I dont understand your logic here. More views would show a title is popular enough to release it. But again there is no evidence of them doing this even going back to the days on Hulu. Just watch what you want to watch.

I was told that if I wanted better sound I should buy the discs, so there is that.

Roscoe wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:33 pm

kcota17 wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:24 pm

Roscoe wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:46 pm

Can't speak for the quality of what was run on Filmstruck, but the version of THE DEVILS on the Criterion Channel looks great. It's the R-rated version, apparently, without the notorious "Rape Of Christ" sequence. Still well worth seeing.

I know it would be hard to tell since Criterion doesn’t list the rating but is it the R rated version or the X rated version on there?

The R rated version I believe was on FilmStruck (or Shudder... one of them) and is heavily edited and is presented in a non-anamorphic print

The X rated version should be better quality as it was released by the BFI and is still missing the Rape of Christ.

The unrated version has the Rape of Christ scene and hasn’t really been released beside screenings.

I couldn't say exactly which version. It looked great, not looking stretched -- so maybe it was the X version. Whatever it is, go ahead and check it out.

I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it should be noted that the image is upscaled standard definition.

Roger Ryan wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:14 pm
I haven't watched the whole (THE DEVILS on Criterion Channel), but it should be noted that the image is upscaled standard definition.

Interesting. Looks like the upscaling on my 4K TV works really well. I didn't notice any of the usual drawbacks of that kind of thing.

starmanof51 wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:40 pmProspero’s Books, bitches!

One can only hope this means we'll finally get that Criterion release of The Cook, the Thief that's been rumored for over a decade now.

I love all the early Greenaway stuff too - Vertical Features Remake in particular should be more widely seen, and The Falls, of course...

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A 30-day free trial.

A reduced subscription fee for as long as you keep your subscription active. The regular fee will be $10.99 a month or $100 a year, but as a Charter Subscriber you’ll pay $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year.

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A holiday gift-certificate present, for use on the Criterion Collection website.

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Received my Criterion Channel Charter Subscriber membership card in the mail today... Anyone else?

I got a metal card and some sort of mystifying chain-like thing....

I'm at loss at what to do with the card. Hang it from a keychain rack?

My family asks me "what is this for" -- I stand mute -- perplexed, with no answer....

FigrinDan wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:14 pm

domino harvey wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:31 pm Bonuses for being a charter member

A 30-day free trial.

A reduced subscription fee for as long as you keep your subscription active. The regular fee will be $10.99 a month or $100 a year, but as a Charter Subscriber you’ll pay $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year.

Concierge customer service from the Criterion Collection, including a customer ID and a special e-mail address.

A holiday gift-certificate present, for use on the Criterion Collection website.

A Charter Subscriber membership card.

Received my Criterion Channel Charter Subscriber membership card in the mail today... Anyone else?

Did anyone receive an email from UPS about TECHNICOLOR HES SE LLC being the ones sending these cards? Because I just received one of those emails and this is the only reason why I can think of.

Mine came via regular mail in a regular envelope. I thought it was a new credit card at first

So what happened is that this was an email from Kino - sent to a different address! - about my recent order shipping. Since it was coming from TN via Louisville, I thought it was the Criterion warehouse Thanks for the info, mfunk.

Upon returning home from my vacation, I thumb through the mail & see a generic white envelope, but with a Criterion return address & what feels like a very substantial credit card..... could this be a gift card as thanks for my recent order & regrets that it still hasnt shipped yet? No it's a metal membership card for signing up to the channel.

Michael Kerpan wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:02 pm I got a metal card and some sort of mystifying chain-like thing....

So should I feel deprived now that mine did not come with a "chain-like thing"?

Lowry_Sam wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 9:28 pmSo should I feel deprived now that mine did not come with a "chain-like thing"?

Maybe you tossed out the chain by accident (it wasn't really obvious).

I figured our to fasten in into a closed loop holding the card -- eventually.