Hey Paul,
Yeah Ive heard some great things about Ran, and with the money I will be getting for my B-Day I will probably get it along with Diabolique or maybe Band of Outsiders.
Anyways, I order Criterions rarely from Best Buy, Amazon but sometimes if I find one for 20-22, like I found Le Samourai, 400 Blows, and Cries & Whispers. I just love Ingmar Bergman. But for everything else I use DVDpricesearch.com and it mainly says DVDplanet is the best deal so I've only used them. Actually I used F.Y.E. two weeks ago to get the Sergio Leone Anthology for $35. Unfortunately for me I live in a small town in Pennsylvania and there arent many options, I did find Yojimbo/Sanjuro set here, but thats it. There was a store that had Ace in the Hole, Army of Shadows but it recently went out of business. So it depends, but Amazon and DVDplanet I will probably use for my B-Day.
Umberto D and M should be coming any day now, cant wait. I have seen a good chunk of M, it was posted on google video in its entire length. I was intrigued, but just dont enjoy watching films on computers.
Anyways, any suggestions on any Bergman films to get? I own 7th Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona (non-criterion), Cries and Whispers. The Virgin Spring looks interesting, as does Smiles of a Summer Night, and the criterion trilogy they released of his. That asides, I am looking forward to purchasing The Ice Storm when it is released by Criterion in March.
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paul-von-szalay
17 years ago
Hi again psuceleb,
I really like Bergman too and have quite a few of his films. Besides the ones you already own, my favorites are: Fanny and Alexander, Virgin Spring (which has the Swedish medieval setting in common with the Seventh Seal), Scenes from a Marriage, and Smiles of a Summer Night. Although not a Criterion release, Bergman's "Shame" is also fascinating-a very non-Hollywood Swedish "war" movie.
Even though I don't live in a small town (the Seattle area), I still have a hard time finding Criterion releases in the brick and mortar stores. So much so, that I don't even bother looking for them there anymore. When I do find them, they're priced a the suggested retail price (i.e., $29.95 or $39.95), which I would never pay considering how much less I can get them for at DVD Planet or any other online outfit for that matter.
Happpy Criterion viewing...
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mikeg28
17 years ago
Criterion titles that I own include:
Rules of the Game
Tokyo Story
400 Blows
8 1/2
Fanny and Alexander boxed set
Wild Strawberries
My Life as a Dog
Hoop Dreams
George Washington
Ratcatcher
Slacker
Yi Yi
Rushmore
I'd say among the next ones I'm hoping to purchase would probably come from the following (which I've seen after renting from Netflix):
L'Avventura
The Seventh Seal
Dazed And Confused
Au Hasard Balthasar
Bicycle Thieves
Jules et Jim
Spirit of the Beehive
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ccewilliams
17 years ago
My collection probably looks like nothing against some of yours but like others I'm nowhere near done:
Olivier's Shakespeare (Henry V, Hamlet, Richard III)
Seven Samurai (Rerelease)
The Lady Vanishes (Rerelease)
Beauty and the Beast (Rerelease)
M (Rerelease)
Oliver Twist
Nanook of the North
Yojimbo (Rerelease)
Sanjuro (Rerelease)
The 39 Steps
Passion of Joan of Arc
The Third Man (Rerelease)
Eisenstein: The Sound Years (Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible)
The Hidden Fortress
Haxan
Solaris
Throne of Blood
The Rules of the Game
Ikiru
Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Lower Depths (1936 and 1957)
King of Kings
Kagemusha
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
Monsters and Madmen (The Haunted Strangler, Corridors of Blood, First Man into Space, The Atomis Submarine)
Bicycle Thieves
Sansho the Bailiff
Ace in the Hole
Drunken Angel
And the Eclipses:
The First Films of Samuel Fuller
Raymond Bernard
Postwar Kurosawa
I have to try to find Tokyo Story.
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psuceleb
17 years ago
Got the Last Emperor this morning, I didnt expect it to be at Best Buy yesterday and didnt have $50 on me, so I came back and got it today.
Whats funny is its not supposed to be released until next Tuesday, the 26th.
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