Did I say 5 discs? sorry, i was thinking along the same lines as you, and if that happens, it could be as little as 49.95, I just didnt want to make any assumptions.justeleblanc wrote:Wrong, 3 DVDs max. 2 per disc. plus 1.SncDthMnky wrote:You're right, per film the boxsets are cheaper.
I'm calling it now, 5 films directed by bergman before seventh seal, and 69.95 (at the most 79.95) msrp on the Eclipse line.
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1998 Mar
4 Amarcord
5 The 400 Blows
Apr
8 The Killer
May
3 The Lady Vanishes
7 A Night To Remember
10 Walkabout
Jun
6 Beaty and the Beast
9 Hard Boiled
Jul
12 This is Spinal Tap
13 The Silence of the Lambs
14 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
15 Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
16 Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Aug
2 Seven Samurai
17 Salò
18 The Naked Kiss
19 Shock Corridor
Sep
22 Summertime
Oct
20 Sid & Nancy
21 Dead Ringers
23 Robocop
24 High and Low
25 Alphaville
29 Picnic at Hanging Rock
30 M
Dec
26 The Long Good Friday
27 Flesh for Frankenstein
28 Blood for Dracula
1999
Jan
31 Great Expectations
32 Oliver Twist
33 Nanook of the North
Feb
11 The Seventh Seal
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Personally however, I think the idea about new Bergman releases is the most plausible. An eclipse is a shadow and the mentioning of spring fits in with the promise of a new label being launched in the spring of 2007. Whether it will be a boxset or five separate releases time will tell.[/quote]
maybe everyone's right... we know Walkabout, Salo, Shock Corridor, Naked Kiss, and Picnic At Hanging Rock have long been due for a reissueA victory over what?toiletduck! wrote:I know it's been said before, but it bears repeating... this thread has to be every Criterion employee's greatest victory.
-Toilet Dcuk
Nah I was just shooting out some artificial authority on the knowledge of the wacky clue. Eclipse as double features could be cool in general.SncDthMnky wrote:Did I say 5 discs? sorry, i was thinking along the same lines as you, and if that happens, it could be as little as 49.95, I just didnt want to make any assumptions.justeleblanc wrote:Wrong, 3 DVDs max. 2 per disc. plus 1.
But mocking internet film-geeks who pore over the minutiae of every sentence in the vain hope discerning some obfuscated clue as to what products they might purchase next is fun. Why, it's the very definition of fun.godardslave wrote:What happened to "fun"?
You're not. I questioned the connection a couple pages back in this very thread. But it matters not whether the Bergman's, if they are indeed Bergman films, are released on Criterion or Eclipse. I'll be pleased either way.toiletduck! wrote:EDIT: Well, apparently I'm the only one who finds this an obvious revelation...
Noticed that among all of the announced Criterion releases for next year, none of them have been the "cheap" ones. (Hope that's not going to become the norm, as it seems some of them could have been...)toiletduck! wrote:I'm just curious to see the official Eclipse pricing structure. Talk about a warm welcome.
AH! I want Criterion to release Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors so much!Cold Bishop wrote:Maybe Army of Shadows, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and three other films with "Shadow" in the title? Maybe The Shadow with Alec Baldwin, and John Lone will be included?
Probably not?!....but I want my Forgotten Ancestors, dammit.
...And I thought we determined the pictures meant nothing.
I'm guesing the trend will continue with eclipse being introduced.fdm wrote:Noticed that among all of the announced Criterion releases for next year, none of them have been the "cheap" ones. (Hope that's not going to become the norm, as it seems some of them could have been...)toiletduck! wrote:I'm just curious to see the official Eclipse pricing structure. Talk about a warm welcome.
Is that definition of fun funny-ha-ha or funny-weird?Jeff wrote:Why, it's the very definition of fun.
Pretty much my thoughts. Commentaries I pretty much ignore (maybe once in a while being intrigued enough to skim through a bit here and there).HerrSchreck wrote: (buncha good stuff)
Nice! So the guy on the other thread about Robinson Crusoe was right. Great news indeed.This year at Criterion, we've had a lot of great releases, and we're already looking forward to what 2007 will bring. There are many treasures in store for the new year, including some of our latest acquisitions, such as John Huston's Under the Volcano, and titles from our laserdisc days, like Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
When we first came up with the idea for the Essential Art House box set as a way to celebrate Janus's fiftieth anniversary and to introduce a wider selection of people, who might not have been fans of foreign film, to many of the great titles of international cinema, we figured that the core Criterion audience was not our market. Well, we were half-right. The response to Essential Art House, the films and the accompanying book, has really been tremendous—we couldn't be more pleased—and much of it has come from Criterion fans. We've been honored that so many have chosen to give the box as a holiday gift—in fact, we sold out of the first disc pressing and have re-pressed all the discs we could to fill out the original packaging run. But barring a sudden surge in sales we should be fine through this holiday season. Essential Art House is available at the Criterion store for $650, with free shipping. Additionally, it's also available from DVD Planet, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and a few other retailers. And if you haven't seen Dave Kehr's story on the box set in the New York Times, we've attached a copy of it to this e-mail for you.
Don't forget, the online Criterion store also has T-shirts, hats, and mugs, all of which make great gifts. The store will be temporarily shutting down for the holidays on December 23, and reopening on January 2. Look forward to some exciting changes early next year, too. If you have any questions, e-mail us at [email protected].
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Derek Estes wrote:...renting the film...
It looks like another Universal-licensed title.imdb poster wrote:Under The Volcano is the most grindingly real portrayal of the true devastation of alcoholism ever put on film (I've seen them all from Lost Weekend forward). This is no romantic movie where a guy decides he will go to Vegas and drink himself to death in 6 weeks then meets a devastatingly gorgeous chick who takes care of him the rest of the way. In this film the real horrors of alcohol are convincingly portrayed as the main character loses all track of reality and cannot tell whether his wife is really her or a hallucination. And because of that intermittent fading out and in, he loses the one chance he might have had at redemption. There is no romance here. There is no fabulous girl to have sex with while he's dying. This guy lives in a world so much more terrifying than Nic Cage's world in LLV as to be about two entirely different human experiences.
Not everyone will be able to stand this. It's almost unremittingly awful. But for anyone who is an alcoholic, recovering or otherwise, or who has lived under its shadow as someone related to or in love with an alcoholic, this is textbook stuff. Malcolm Lowery was an alcoholic and died of the disease. He put all he had into this book. No punches are pulled. The benchmark of the genre.
Under the Volcano is, in fact, brilliant! (Both the original novel and Huston's adaptation.) It's essentially an unflimable novel that actually comes off, thanks in large part to a superb performance by Albert Finney. But a lot of credit goes to Huston; this and his adaptation of The Dead (another novel/novella that really shouldn't come off as a film but does) make fine capstones to his career.colinr0380 wrote:Under The Volcano sounds interesting:
It looks like another Universal-licensed title.imdb poster wrote:Under The Volcano is the most grindingly real portrayal of the true devastation of alcoholism ever put on film (I've seen them all from Lost Weekend forward). This is no romantic movie where a guy decides he will go to Vegas and drink himself to death in 6 weeks then meets a devastatingly gorgeous chick who takes care of him the rest of the way. In this film the real horrors of alcohol are convincingly portrayed as the main character loses all track of reality and cannot tell whether his wife is really her or a hallucination. And because of that intermittent fading out and in, he loses the one chance he might have had at redemption. There is no romance here. There is no fabulous girl to have sex with while he's dying. This guy lives in a world so much more terrifying than Nic Cage's world in LLV as to be about two entirely different human experiences.
Not everyone will be able to stand this. It's almost unremittingly awful. But for anyone who is an alcoholic, recovering or otherwise, or who has lived under its shadow as someone related to or in love with an alcoholic, this is textbook stuff. Malcolm Lowery was an alcoholic and died of the disease. He put all he had into this book. No punches are pulled. The benchmark of the genre.
