All Criterion Collection, Eclipse, and Essential Art House series (brands of Criterion) titles are on sale at Barnes & Noble (50% off) until August 1st, both at stores and online. I just got Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) on bluray and it looks fabulous. Image from DVDBeaver.com.
What are the Top 5 or 10 discs from your collection? Mine are as follows (all regular ray/dvd):
- The Double Life of Véronique (Kieślowski, 1991) - Slavoj ŽiŽek's essay from included booklet
- In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
- Children of Paradise (Carné, 1945)
- Red Beard (Kurosawa, 1965) - roger ebert's the great movies
- Contempt (Godard, 1963)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson, 2001)
- The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
- Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932) - 'lost treasure' from sense of cinema
- Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
- A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961)
Honorable Mentions (bluray): Chungking Express, Days of Heaven, and Seven Samurai
Revised 7/20/11: Real Honorable Mention (dvd) is A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961).
Revised 8/4/11: replaced M with A Woman is a Woman (i have the older version of M).
Revised 8/4/11: replaced M with A Woman is a Woman (i have the older version of M).
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real honorable mention (dvd): a woman is a woman (godard, 1961)--the difference between the original dvd and the criterion version is night and day.
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