in a similar note: reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/g8lr5e/movies_i_think_they_should_put_out_on_blu_ray/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Oh dear, there only like one comment chain in that thread that starts with someone saying how ridiculous/dumb the idea is...every other nchain starts with folks agreeing

This is why i rarely ever go to that sub these days i swear

I got really tired of pickup/sale pics taking up 95% of the pages, but the nail in the coffin for me was when that Godzilla set came out and like literally 10 people said "that's a really cool release but i'm not really a fan so im not as excited for it" — which triggered several hundred new posts over the next week or two, screaming about how the "majority of the sub's users HATED" the godzilla set announcement (literally like 2 dozen comments total saying they weren't fans of it)....and how a "tiny minority" of people who wanted it (AKA, the majority of the sub) felt excluded from the community lmao.

And also all the posts "Picked this title up today, feel like it's one of Criterion's most under-appreciated releases cause nobody ever talks about it" — and it's a picture of In the Mood for Love or some s***

r/criterion is horrible and I. feel like it didn't used to be so bad.

Just idiots posting fake covers and memes and talking about why popular modern movie with a Blu release owned by a big distributor isn't in.

Damn i thought you'd seen a lot more than that

And i knew you liked Spellbound too, but didnt expect that high of a rating

And that community also seems to be saturated with people who regularly say ridiculous stuff like: "That's a good film but it doesn't really fit in Criterion's library, it's better suited for something like Arrow" — or some variation of that nonsense where people adamantly believe that Criterion only releases a select few kinds of films, mostly arthouse, and doesn't do genre stuff.

LMAOOOO

The Criterion forum >>>>>>>>>> Criterion subreddit

Also just one of the best internet film communities in general too

jamaica inn and saboteur r hitchcocks biggest turds so far. jamaica got some lush ass photo and masterful acting by laughton tho

there are multiple I started but never finished (I Confess, The Man Who Knew Too Much OG, The Wrong Man and a few others).

I wanted to rewatch Spellbound for a long time and even though the film has some flaws it absolutely overcomes them. For example, the psychoanalytical a***ysis by the characters is pretty meh and far from realistic. However, it is also only a pretext for what is actually going on. Either using psychoanalysis to help people to overcome their traumas or manipulate them. Hitchcock's style itself works really well with that extremely melodramatic touch way before Vertigo and imo almost as good. I also prefer the dream sequence to the one in Vertigo.

The recent rewatches definitely changed a few things. Psycho falling a bit, NbNw overtaking Vertigo, To Catch A Thief climbing up etc..

Yeah spellbound so dope.

Ive been sleeping on Wrong Man for so long Need to watch

wrong man one of the first hitch i saw, back when i got my first dvd bundle. got a soft spot for it.

Godard and Rivette put it in their top-tier Hitch films too

Not sure how up to date it is but LB saying I've seen 61%

Didnt know you'd seen that many either haha

Im only at 47%

filmographies ive logged the most;

39 hitch
29 ford
29 scorsese
28 bergman
27 lang
26 kurosawa
17 hawks
17 wilder
17 altman

Mine are:

• Godard - 60

• Ozu - 33

• Bergman - 32

• Hitch - 30

• Tourneur, Kurosawa - 27

• Brakhage - 26

• Hartley - 24

• Rappaport, Clarke - 19

• De Palma, Straub-Huillet - 18

• Ferrara, Oshima, Safdie bros, Scorsese, Varda, Chaplin - 17

Also wtf no "sort by longest" option for lists on LB? Smh

Im def working on my Ford count too over the next couple months, trust

safdies have 17 films?

i wish you could also hide silent films like you can shorts so you could get a better sense of how many talkies youve seen by the dudes that have dozens of each

The forum on their own site?

Nah, Criterionforum.org

Talked it about with you before, in the OG fam thread. It's the site where I got those old Godard annual film write-ups

Didnt realize id seen that many
Safdies either tbh I knew id watched all but one of their features, and then several shorts. But i was underestimating how many short ive seen of theirs haha

@Elric - def peep that Dreyer i sent you on snap (the one i just logged on LB). All the shots of people in nature/outdoors are great, but the ending set piece must've been an incredible task to pull of — or at least it was made to appear that way

Which was it again

I thought they had 3 and I really hated the till uncut gems

Glomdalsbruden (1926)