Hey, new on this site, been following the Coming Soon thread for quite some time. Anyways, does anyone know anything about the Kurosawa 25 Film Set? And do you think any of the other Criterion Kurosawa films are going to be getting the blu-ray treatment like Kagemusha? (btw I know what happened to Ran BD, lol sucks)
Hey new here, just upgraded to blu-ray as well, returned the criterion DVD’s and bought the blu-rays for Seventh Seal, For All Mankind, Chungking Express, Last Emperor, El Norte and 400 Blows. Also recently just bought the new blu-ray releases Kagemusha and Playtime.
Still gonna get Wages of Fear and The Third Man, also does anyone think The Last Year at Marienbad or The Last Metro are worth getting? I heard these two movies aren’t that great, and can be kinda slow.
Just moved from Vancouver to Edmonton a year ago, missing Vancity. I’ve been trying to find some good independent video stores that sell Criterion movies in Edmonton, but no luck, got most of em at BestBuy, Futureshop or HMV. Anyone know any place else in Edmonton that sells Criterions? (not really easy to find stores like I did in Vancouver)
Hey, new here at the auteurs, I was wondering what films in the Criterion Collection are suitable to watch for the whole family? For ratings I would take it up to PG-13 maybe even rated R as long as the violence isn’t too graphic but no nudity and sex scenes at all and or anything else that is innapropriate.
And the reason why I upgraded to Blu-ray was that the Criterion Blu-rays were the same price or almost the same price as the DVD, that’s never the case for other companies or mainstream distributors. They usually have the DVD for 25-35 and the blu-ray version ends up being 30-50 bucks, so props to the Criterion Collection for not going that way and keeping the DVD and Blu rays evenly priced.
I’m just gonna list the Criterion Collection movies I have (I’ve seen and opened like half of them), most of them I think are pretty suitable to watch with the family (16 and up). Please let me know if it isn’t suitable, because then I can return it and get something else then or just watch it alone, if the movie is worth keeping.
Ordered by Spine #
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Lady Vanishes
5. 400 Blows
10. Walkabout
11. Seventh Seal
24. High and Low
51. Brazil
52. Yojimbo
53. Sanjuro
54. For All Mankind
112. Playtime
151. Traffic
157. Royal Tenenbaums
233. Stray Dog
267. Kagemusha
300. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
316. Ran
374. Bicycle Thieves
378. Fires on the Plain
379. Burmese Harp
380. Naked City
381. La Haine
402. The Milky Way
409. Days of Heaven
414. Two-Lane Blacktop
422. The Last Emperor
431. Thief of Bagdad
438. Mon Oncle Antoine
442. Twenty-Four Eyes
446. An Autumn Afternoon
453. Chungking Express
458. El Norte
460. Simon of the Desert
465. Dodes’ka-den
468. Science is Fiction
469. The Hit
The Red Balloon
Eclipse Series
11. Larisa Shepitko
15. Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu
Criterion should release these classic anime movies on Blu-ray.
Akira
Jin-roh
Paprika
Metropolis
Ninja Scroll
Appleseed Trilogy
Grave of the Fireflies
Ghost in the Shell Trilogy
Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki Movies:
-Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Ponyo, etc.
Blu-ray Criterion Anime Shows
Samurai 7
GunGrave
Mushi-Shi
Death Note
Eureka Seven
Gundam Wing
Cowboy Bebop
Dragonball Series
Full Metal Alchemist
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Strawdawg: Yeah dude, I was thinking about getting that one, but I don’t think it’s gonna be a suitable movie to watch with the whole family (see Family Criterion movies thread I made). So I might pass on that one for now.
Nice thanks for the site. I think the Kurosawa set is probably gonna be a boxset like the Essential Art House sets, gonna have to wait and see where that goes. Also The Charlie Chaplin Criterion Collection looks like it’s gonna be promising as well.
Just posted some of this on another thread, but heres the best Animated anything.
Anime Movies
Akira
Jin-roh
Paprika
Highlander
Metropolis
Ninja Scroll
Appleseed Trilogy
Grave of the Fireflies
Ghost in the Shell Trilogy
Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki Movies:
-Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Ponyo, etc.
Anime Shows
Samurai 7
GunGrave
Mushi-Shi
Death Note
Afro Samurai
Basilisk
Samurai Champloo
Eureka Seven
Rurouni Kenshin
Gundam Wing
Cowboy Bebop
Yu Yu Hakusho
Dragonball Series
Full Metal Alchemist
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Animated Movies
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: Gotham Knight
Batman: Subzero
Batman and Superman Movie
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Justice League: New Frontier
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (Sept 09, can’t wait as well)
Wallace and Gromit movies
Chicken Run
Secret of NIMH
Watership Down
James and the Giant Peach
Iron Giant
TMNT
Animatrix
Animated Shows
Batman Beyond
Beast Wars
TMNT
Teen Titans
Hey Arnold
The Tick
Doug
The Boondocks
Spiderman-The Animated Series
X-Men: The Animated Series
Justice League
Samurai Jack
and
Batman: The Animated Series (One of the greatest shows ever, a masterpiece)
Oh I see, gonna find out more about it, what about Polanski’s other film Knife in the Water, hows that one, I heard it also has some kinda sexual themes in it as well, would it be suitable?
Nice man, I’ve been looking for that movie for a while now. I saw the trailer at Bestbuy once, and it looked very interesting, but I couldn’t ever find that movie. But thanks a lot man for telling me about that movie and the name The Fall, looks like an underrated movie, gonna check it out for sure, thanks again man.
I got the first two Lester, haven’t opened Thief of Bagdad yet though, just in case a blu ray version comes out.
By the way, I would consider movies like The Dark Knight, The Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Stray Dog, 400 Blows, etc family films that I can watch with my family. But stuff like Simon of the Desert, or Life Aquatic I wouldn’t watch with family because they contain nudity in them, the movies are good though, just the nudity ends up seperating it from being a family film.
So anyone else know movies that would be great with family, list your favorites as well, thanks.
This movie was amazing, I thought it was very unique and original. Also had a message of universal brotherhood, if you could look past the different/maybe weird and unique style of the movie.
Time Bandits is pretty hard to find, and pretty expensive as well, and I heard that the Criterion version wasn’t that great, probably will just wait for blu-ray criterion, that is, if they ever re-release it.
Ryan: Nah, the Kurosawa set isn’t going to be one movie with #500 spine number, it’s gonna be a bunch of his movies in one boxset so it probably is gonna be an Essential Art House boxset or maybe an Ultimate Eclipse Series set. Because people who have collected most of Kurosawa’s movies won’t wanna rebuy all the same movies just for missing a couple of Kurosawa OOP/rare movies in there collection, well depends on how desperate they are, I guess.
Thanks for the heads up mitchell, lol and nice story Sandwiches, pretty typical for most families. Doesn’t the royal tenenbaums have some nudity or sexuality in it like Life Aquatic?
Dalton, was thinking of getting Mon Oncle, but probably will wait for blu-ray, since Playtime just got blu-ray release.
Jordon those 4 movies are impossible to find at retailers, hopefully they get the blu-ray criterion treatment, same with au revoir les enfants.
La Strada is an amazing family film, got it on the essential art house dvd though.
Essential Art House DVD’s
Grand Illusion (dvd) – 10/10
Ikiru (dvd) – 10/10
Rashomon (dvd) – 10/10
Wild Strawberries (dvd) – 9/10
The Hidden Fortress (dvd) – 9.5/10
Black Orpheus (dvd) – 8.5/10
Richard III (dvd) – 6.5/10
La Strada (dvd) – 10/10
Stray Dog (dvd) – 9.5/10
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (dvd) – 7.5/10
Curious Case of Benjamin Button (dvd) – 7.5/10
Simon of the Desert (dvd) – 8/10
The Red Balloon (dvd) – 9.5/10
Star Trek (theater) – 9/10
Up (theater) – 9.5/10
District 9 (theater) – 9.5/10
The Godfather (on the new blu-ray player) – 10/10
The Last Emperor (blu-ray) – 8/10
400 Blows (blu-ray) – 10/10
Chungking Express (blu-ray) – 10/10
The Dark Knight (blu-ray) – 10/10
It did win the oscar for a reason, it is a bit overrated, but still a gem. Although I still think The Dark Knight is a way better picture and it totally got robbed by the oscars for not even getting nominated, no wonder why they changed the best picture nominee’s from 5 to 10 starting this year, pretty sad.
Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux almost 3 years ago
Hey, new on this site, been following the Coming Soon thread for quite some time. Anyways, does anyone know anything about the Kurosawa 25 Film Set? And do you think any of the other Criterion Kurosawa films are going to be getting the blu-ray treatment like Kagemusha? (btw I know what happened to Ran BD, lol sucks)
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Criterion's lame blu-ray debut almost 3 years ago
Hey new here, just upgraded to blu-ray as well, returned the criterion DVD’s and bought the blu-rays for Seventh Seal, For All Mankind, Chungking Express, Last Emperor, El Norte and 400 Blows. Also recently just bought the new blu-ray releases Kagemusha and Playtime.
Still gonna get Wages of Fear and The Third Man, also does anyone think The Last Year at Marienbad or The Last Metro are worth getting? I heard these two movies aren’t that great, and can be kinda slow.
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Vancouverites Unite almost 3 years ago
Just moved from Vancouver to Edmonton a year ago, missing Vancity. I’ve been trying to find some good independent video stores that sell Criterion movies in Edmonton, but no luck, got most of em at BestBuy, Futureshop or HMV. Anyone know any place else in Edmonton that sells Criterions? (not really easy to find stores like I did in Vancouver)
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Top Films of 2009 - so far almost 3 years ago
Up
District 9
Star Trek
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
Hey, new here at the auteurs, I was wondering what films in the Criterion Collection are suitable to watch for the whole family? For ratings I would take it up to PG-13 maybe even rated R as long as the violence isn’t too graphic but no nudity and sex scenes at all and or anything else that is innapropriate.
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
Oh yeah, that one is amazing man, shows how beautiful the innocence of a child is.
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Criterion's lame blu-ray debut almost 3 years ago
Oh I see Drew, might have to check it out.
And the reason why I upgraded to Blu-ray was that the Criterion Blu-rays were the same price or almost the same price as the DVD, that’s never the case for other companies or mainstream distributors. They usually have the DVD for 25-35 and the blu-ray version ends up being 30-50 bucks, so props to the Criterion Collection for not going that way and keeping the DVD and Blu rays evenly priced.
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
Thanks Glemaud, gonna check em out.
I’m just gonna list the Criterion Collection movies I have (I’ve seen and opened like half of them), most of them I think are pretty suitable to watch with the family (16 and up). Please let me know if it isn’t suitable, because then I can return it and get something else then or just watch it alone, if the movie is worth keeping.
Ordered by Spine #
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Lady Vanishes
5. 400 Blows
10. Walkabout
11. Seventh Seal
24. High and Low
51. Brazil
52. Yojimbo
53. Sanjuro
54. For All Mankind
112. Playtime
151. Traffic
157. Royal Tenenbaums
233. Stray Dog
267. Kagemusha
300. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
316. Ran
374. Bicycle Thieves
378. Fires on the Plain
379. Burmese Harp
380. Naked City
381. La Haine
402. The Milky Way
409. Days of Heaven
414. Two-Lane Blacktop
422. The Last Emperor
431. Thief of Bagdad
438. Mon Oncle Antoine
442. Twenty-Four Eyes
446. An Autumn Afternoon
453. Chungking Express
458. El Norte
460. Simon of the Desert
465. Dodes’ka-den
468. Science is Fiction
469. The Hit
The Red Balloon
Eclipse Series
11. Larisa Shepitko
15. Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu
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Animated Films on Criterion almost 3 years ago
Criterion should release these classic anime movies on Blu-ray.
Akira
Jin-roh
Paprika
Metropolis
Ninja Scroll
Appleseed Trilogy
Grave of the Fireflies
Ghost in the Shell Trilogy
Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki Movies:
-Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Ponyo, etc.
Blu-ray Criterion Anime Shows
Samurai 7
GunGrave
Mushi-Shi
Death Note
Eureka Seven
Gundam Wing
Cowboy Bebop
Dragonball Series
Full Metal Alchemist
Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
lol I knew someone was gonna say Salo, sooner or later, ahahha
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Criterion's lame blu-ray debut almost 3 years ago
Strawdawg: Yeah dude, I was thinking about getting that one, but I don’t think it’s gonna be a suitable movie to watch with the whole family (see Family Criterion movies thread I made). So I might pass on that one for now.
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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux almost 3 years ago
Nice thanks for the site. I think the Kurosawa set is probably gonna be a boxset like the Essential Art House sets, gonna have to wait and see where that goes. Also The Charlie Chaplin Criterion Collection looks like it’s gonna be promising as well.
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Non-Disney Animation almost 3 years ago
Just posted some of this on another thread, but heres the best Animated anything.
Anime Movies
Akira
Jin-roh
Paprika
Highlander
Metropolis
Ninja Scroll
Appleseed Trilogy
Grave of the Fireflies
Ghost in the Shell Trilogy
Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki Movies:
-Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Ponyo, etc.
Anime Shows
Samurai 7
GunGrave
Mushi-Shi
Death Note
Afro Samurai
Basilisk
Samurai Champloo
Eureka Seven
Rurouni Kenshin
Gundam Wing
Cowboy Bebop
Yu Yu Hakusho
Dragonball Series
Full Metal Alchemist
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Animated Movies
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: Gotham Knight
Batman: Subzero
Batman and Superman Movie
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Justice League: New Frontier
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (Sept 09, can’t wait as well)
Wallace and Gromit movies
Chicken Run
Secret of NIMH
Watership Down
James and the Giant Peach
Iron Giant
TMNT
Animatrix
Animated Shows
Batman Beyond
Beast Wars
TMNT
Teen Titans
Hey Arnold
The Tick
Doug
The Boondocks
Spiderman-The Animated Series
X-Men: The Animated Series
Justice League
Samurai Jack
and
Batman: The Animated Series (One of the greatest shows ever, a masterpiece)
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Criterion's lame blu-ray debut almost 3 years ago
Oh I see, gonna find out more about it, what about Polanski’s other film Knife in the Water, hows that one, I heard it also has some kinda sexual themes in it as well, would it be suitable?
Nice man, I’ve been looking for that movie for a while now. I saw the trailer at Bestbuy once, and it looked very interesting, but I couldn’t ever find that movie. But thanks a lot man for telling me about that movie and the name The Fall, looks like an underrated movie, gonna check it out for sure, thanks again man.
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
I got the first two Lester, haven’t opened Thief of Bagdad yet though, just in case a blu ray version comes out.
By the way, I would consider movies like The Dark Knight, The Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Stray Dog, 400 Blows, etc family films that I can watch with my family. But stuff like Simon of the Desert, or Life Aquatic I wouldn’t watch with family because they contain nudity in them, the movies are good though, just the nudity ends up seperating it from being a family film.
So anyone else know movies that would be great with family, list your favorites as well, thanks.
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SHOULD THE CRITERION COLLECTION INCLUDE TELEVISION SHOWS? almost 3 years ago
Definitely The Wire and The Shield on blu-ray criterion
As for animated/anime shows, definitely Batman: The Animated Series, and Samurai 7 because of The Seven Samurai for criterion blu-ray.
And I guess Charlie Chaplin is coming to CC for sure, so thats taken care of.
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"Braid" now available for Mac almost 3 years ago
Braid is a masterpiece, it should’ve gotten better reviews though
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Favourite film of the decade (so far)? almost 3 years ago
Definitely The Dark Knight, it’s the Seven Samurai of today IMO
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DISAPPOINTED BY DISTRICT 9 almost 3 years ago
This movie was amazing, I thought it was very unique and original. Also had a message of universal brotherhood, if you could look past the different/maybe weird and unique style of the movie.
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
Time Bandits is pretty hard to find, and pretty expensive as well, and I heard that the Criterion version wasn’t that great, probably will just wait for blu-ray criterion, that is, if they ever re-release it.
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"Braid" now available for Mac almost 3 years ago
93/100 is pretty good, but some sites like ign.com gave it 8.8/10 it should’ve gotten at least 9.5 or higher, but I guess 93 is a good score.
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Criterion's lame blu-ray debut almost 3 years ago
I see, yeah Oliver Twist is on dvd, it’s selling for 10-15 bucks, probably will pick it up.
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
Thanks for the heads up dude, so anyone else know if any of the movies I have are not suitable to watch with the family?
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Picture quality almost 3 years ago
This is one of the reasons why I didn’t go and buy the Samurai Trilogy, I’m gonna wait for Criterion to release it on blu-ray though (hopefully).
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Vancouverites Unite almost 3 years ago
K cool, thanks Myra, lol no luck so far, still gonna try..
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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux almost 3 years ago
Ryan: Nah, the Kurosawa set isn’t going to be one movie with #500 spine number, it’s gonna be a bunch of his movies in one boxset so it probably is gonna be an Essential Art House boxset or maybe an Ultimate Eclipse Series set. Because people who have collected most of Kurosawa’s movies won’t wanna rebuy all the same movies just for missing a couple of Kurosawa OOP/rare movies in there collection, well depends on how desperate they are, I guess.
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Criterion Movies suitable for the whole family almost 3 years ago
Thanks for the heads up mitchell, lol and nice story Sandwiches, pretty typical for most families. Doesn’t the royal tenenbaums have some nudity or sexuality in it like Life Aquatic?
Dalton, was thinking of getting Mon Oncle, but probably will wait for blu-ray, since Playtime just got blu-ray release.
Jordon those 4 movies are impossible to find at retailers, hopefully they get the blu-ray criterion treatment, same with au revoir les enfants.
La Strada is an amazing family film, got it on the essential art house dvd though.
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Last movie you saw and rate it almost 3 years ago
Essential Art House DVD’s
Grand Illusion (dvd) – 10/10
Ikiru (dvd) – 10/10
Rashomon (dvd) – 10/10
Wild Strawberries (dvd) – 9/10
The Hidden Fortress (dvd) – 9.5/10
Black Orpheus (dvd) – 8.5/10
Richard III (dvd) – 6.5/10
La Strada (dvd) – 10/10
Stray Dog (dvd) – 9.5/10
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (dvd) – 7.5/10
Curious Case of Benjamin Button (dvd) – 7.5/10
Simon of the Desert (dvd) – 8/10
The Red Balloon (dvd) – 9.5/10
Star Trek (theater) – 9/10
Up (theater) – 9.5/10
District 9 (theater) – 9.5/10
Harakiri (on this site) – 10/10
Akira (anime dvd) – 10/10
Spirited Away (anime dvd) – 10/10
Castle in the Sky (anime dvd) – 10/10
Nausicaa (anime dvd) – 9.5/10
The Godfather (on the new blu-ray player) – 10/10
The Last Emperor (blu-ray) – 8/10
400 Blows (blu-ray) – 10/10
Chungking Express (blu-ray) – 10/10
The Dark Knight (blu-ray) – 10/10
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What was the first Criterion movie you watched? almost 3 years ago
The Seven Samurai – First watched, first bought, and the best movie ever.
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Slumdog Millionaire Overrated Film of the Year almost 3 years ago
It did win the oscar for a reason, it is a bit overrated, but still a gem. Although I still think The Dark Knight is a way better picture and it totally got robbed by the oscars for not even getting nominated, no wonder why they changed the best picture nominee’s from 5 to 10 starting this year, pretty sad.
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