Hi, thanks for watching! Looking for more Criterion Collection recommendations? Watch this video here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zIHnD-0hP7o.html
With High Sierra, Double Indemnity, and Citizen Kane, I hope Criterion now has access to some other greats. For noirs, I'd love to see The Big Heat, The Big Sleep, and The Big Combo (that's PD, but still). Having Kane I hope means Casablanca is nigh.
Yeah there's still plenty of Golden-age classics that need the treatment, some that are still waiting on a BluRay release period that I'm surprised Criterion haven't gotten to like Arsenic & Old Lace, The More The Merrier, Talk Of The Town etc.,
The Criterion DVD format has been essential for the public library market in the USA. Every small town in the USA has a public library, and cities have multiple library locations, and they all purchase Criterion DVDs as well as Blu-Rays.
I do often forget about the libraries you have in the US. I wish we had such well stocked libraries here in England. It is so great that people are able to experience these movies for free via their local library.
@@ElliotCoen I live in central Kentucky and I visit libraries in small towns near my home with populations between 2,500 and 12,000, and they are all incredibly well-stocked with Criterion titles (mostly DVDs but also newer blu-rays). The other nice thing is that anyone can make a request online for the library to buy a new book or video disc to add to their colllection, and I have requested many Criterion discs and they always seem to order the movie and grant my request.
@@iakona23 That's awesome, about adding requested titles. But Blu-rays are now as cheap, as DVDs were 15 years ago, if not cheaper, so I don't think it'll be a problem for libraries to just order BD instead of DVD. Players surely as cheap, every used store in US has one laying around for $50 or cheaper, so everyone can afford it, say, instead of 1 family trip to a cinema.
@@LennyNero2019 You're wrong. There are far more DVD players out there than Blu-ray players. I live in a big city in Canada and they do not carry any Blu-rays, which makes sense. Anyone who has a Blu-ray player can play a DVD player but the reverse is not true. Buying Blu-rays would mean a large number of patrons, including those who cannot afford a Blu-ray player and seniors who are not interested in upgrading, would not have access. By buying DVD, they ensure that that purchase price for the disc can serve the most number of users.
@@wclark3196 Yes, there are more DVD players, and DVDs still sell more statistically, I'm just saying it wouldn't be bad or expensive for anyone to upgrade, because it's getting ridiculous. Also, 'they' should and could have released some kind of HD video on DVD media right away, as it perfectly fits h.264 compressed even 1080p files on a 7gb dual layer disc. So all those people wouldn't really have to upgrade. They chose to milk the customers one more generation, but got kind of screwed, as nothing got such a huge adoption, as DVD, anymore.
Mr. Klein is the movie that I’m most interested in. I like Double Indemnity and I am excited that it comes in 4K. The special features sound very good for Double Indemnity.
Really pleased to see more and more classic films coming to the 4k format. It really is best suited to showcase film's natural qualities. I'll be picking up Double Indemnity for sure
4K and regular bluray rights tend to be separate, a curious but welcome side-effect of labels going 4K is them being able to grab rights to big movies on 4K where the studio would never give away the rights for DVD/regular bluray due to huge sales.
I just bought Double Indemnity on BluRay less than a year ago! And a lot of the special features on that disc are on the new Criterion disc. I’ll have to see what the packaging looks like overall. I wasn’t happy with the Citizen Kane 4K packaging.
I agree with you, Robert. The Citizen Kane packaging was a letdown. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! It doesn't even fit on my shelf because of it being wider than a usual Criterion release.
@@ElliotCoen The worst part about that release was the extra 12mm it sticks out from the rest of my collection! Love your channel. I watched ‘The Red Shoes’ about 4 months back finally - love love loved it! It’s been on my Criterion Channel list forever but pushed it up because of how you hold it in such high regard. Will you upgrade your Criterion BluRay to the 4K? Just received Criterion’s ‘Miller’s Crossing’ on a blind buy. Looking forward to watching this one for the first time.
Oh my!!!! Double Indemnity???? On 4K???? DEAL ME IN!!! When I opened my Instagram and saw the Criterion release I literally jumped off my chair. It is a fantastic noir film with an extraordinary cast and screenplay. However, this coming from a huge noir film fanatic, I would have rather wanted Laura directed by Otto Preminger to be released. Much like Double Indemnity, Laura is filled with lots of memorable lines and with one of the swiftest and air gasping scenes probably of the 1940’s. Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb are the cast to die for! I am praying that Criterion releases this in the near future.
Laura is a great one. I don't know about the rights situation for that film in the US, but I guess anything is possible, seeing that we've had such classics as Citizen Kane and now Double Indemnity entering the collection.
Great video Elliot! Like many others, I'm stoked for Double Indemnity on 4K. On top of that release, I'm most excited about Mississippi Masala and The Funeral. Two completely different reasons, of course. Haha! Thanks for giving us your thoughts, cheers!
Hey Elliot, I purchased Double Indemnity on Blu ray and it arrived the day before this announcement. I have returned it. Excited beyond silliness about this 4K. It makes me very optimistic for future 4Ks from Criterion. I've seen almost 14,000 different movies and of course, many of them multiple times. Double Indemnity is one of only 50 that scored a perfect 10. I'll be in for Mr. Klein as well. Huge fan of Losey and Delon.
@@ElliotCoen here you go. I switch allegiance between Citizen Kane, Vertigo and 2001 as my all time favorite movie. 2001 : A Space Odyssey 39 Steps, The Amadeus Apocalypse Now Asphalt Jungle, The Badlands Battleship Potemkin Before Sunrise Brief Encounter Casablanca Chinatown Citizen Kane Cries And Whispers Die Hard Doctor Strangelove... Double Indemnity Field Of Dreams Goodfellas Grande Illusion, The Harlan County, USA Hustler, The In The Name Of The Father Into The Wild It's A Wonderful Life Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai De Commerce, Bxls Late Spring Lawrence Of Arabia Leave Her to Heaven Letter From An Unknown Woman Maltese Falcon, The Man Escaped, A Mary And Max Network Night Of the Hunter, The North By Northwest Ordet Passion Of Joan Of Arc, The Psycho Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Stalker Sunset Boulevard Taxi Driver Tokyo Story Unforgiven Vertigo Voyage In Italy Wall-E Wild Strawberries Winter Light Witness For The Prosecution
@@ElliotCoen of course I love to hear other people perspectives and am open to hearing that there are tragic omissions. It would be cool for you to run a series of posts/videos about your top 50 or whatever. Have a great weekend.
Yet another informative video mate, haven’t heard of most of these but your video definitely got me interested. Just watched Le Samuraï with Alain Delon and loved it and his performance so will definitely want to see more of his work. Look forward to the next video as alway 👍🏻
Oh, I would love to cover the great releases from Kino and Warner Archive, but unfortunately it's a bit out of my budget to import those releases on top of everything I already buy! Hopefully one day I can get a hold of their releases someway somehow :)
I have the Masters of Cinema release and I can’t see any reason why I’d want to upgrade to 4K. I’d just be feeding the pathology. Soon after I’d be thinking about upgrading every other film I own and the cost spirals!
The cost does indeed spiral! I'm already too far down the rabbit hole personally. I totally understand though that folks don't want to be upgrading everything to 4K, as each release is rather expensive.
I'm with you wholeheartedly. Unless, there is a marked restoration and bonus features that make the difference, I'm holding on to most of my HD (2K) collection.
Elliot, do you own any Criterions on DVD? Louie Bluie (Spine# 532) is a Terry Zwigoff documentary that has never been released on Blu Ray and is a great companion to Crumb (Spine# 533) and Ghost World (Spine# 872).
Absolutely the template for American Film Noir! And, as much as I love the 80's neo noir 'Body Heat,' 'Double Indemnity' is the film that laid the road for seduction, deceit and murder. In fact, the two can be bookends to the genre.
Just bought Double Indemnity on Blu-Ray for a buck at my local library's sale. Kinda sad that I won't be getting the newest thing.... but overally still chuffed.
"Double Indemnity" i have the Masters Of Cinema Blu Ray its a lovely transfer Steel Book - and great extras I see the audio commentary, recorded in 2006 with film historian Nick Redman and screenwriter/historian Lem Dobbs that appeared on the R1 2DVD release of the film produced by Universal Studios is NOT! on this Criterion release the late Nick Redman knew his stuff its a fab commentary so do hang on to your old copy for that alone! "Double Indemnity" is the BEST film noir EVER no questions asked the film has been around 78 years! its nice all this 4k malarkey but its a film that doesn't need all that its been enjoyed by generations at the Cinema and on Tv - this proves that films like this are still being issued from 1944 - your current run of the mill modern garbage will not be getting reissued 78 years down the line and you know why because they are forgotten already and that's says it all for modern cinema whats left of it. Quick example I love Sir Kenneth Brannagh as an Actor /Director but his remake of "Death On The Nile" does not come anywhere near the Original from 1978 the Cast alone could not compete with the likes of - Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Jon Finch, Mia Farrow, Simon McCorkindale - sorry to say the reviews say it all they need to come up with something new remakes very rarely work! - Re your comments and DVD - They still well outsell Blu Rays by the thousand never mind 4K not bad for a format over 25 years old and still selling well! Great reviews Elliot your mad keen for all these titles don't empty your bank account just sit tight and wait for the SALE! it will come - Stay Safe - Mark.
I own double indemnity on dvd, blu ray , and the special edition blu ray with the photos, I own thousands of dvds and blu rays if I replaced all of them with 4 k , I would be in bankruptcy court, most of my films our in black and white, and the difference in quality is minimal,
For me it’s definitely Double Indemnity and 4k great news. Mr Klein will be the Studiocanal restoration which came out last year as part of the Vintage World Cinema series as Criterion now collaborate with them. Not sure if I’ll double dip on that one, but will likely pick-up the other titles Mississippi Masala is another Mira Nair film I have Salaam Bombay and Monsoon Wedding in my collection.
The funeral is fantastic, after watching tampopo I was so sad to find most of his films aren’t available. They are all on the channel though and this one is great. I also hope a taxing woman some day gets a release it’s hilarious and so much fun.
Finally more of the immortals arrive on UHD but I highly doubt it if the audio will be any different from Universal’s BD which is nowhere near as good as the laserdisc.
I know, it is surprising. I think the reality is that DVD still makes up over 50% of home video sales, so a lot of folks are still buying them. It's also been pointed out that the public libraries are a major customer of DVDs still. Thanks for watching, Richard!
"Criterion spine number 1,125..." I remember when new releases were just #125. And all I got over these years, is just about 15 titles. They sure release a lot I don't care for. 😁
Hi Stephen. I doubt Criterion will release the 4K disc here on the UK, but all 4K discs are region free, so if you import this, it will play on your player.
You know 1080p is so called 2K. For all time quality of resolution was counted by horizontal lines or pixels, 320 VHS, 480, 576 for DVD, 720 for 'HD', 1080p for 'Full HD' and BD, and then, when 2160p Ultra HD was supposed to be 2k, they've decided it doesn't sound cool, plus there's that 2k scare from 1999, and we're living in '2k' years, let's count how WIDE the picture is, then we, stupid freaking morons, can call it 4k, bigger number, more 'futuristic', and we can say it's 4 times better, even if most releases will be upscaled and there won't be any difference. Oh, here's another idea, let's add an artificial color filter, call it HDR, and let some hacks screw with color remastering...
Of these 5 films, I'm only familiar with Double Indemnity.......and sad to say, I've only seen it once (20 years ago) and I was not impressed. I was expecting to see the archetypical film noir, but instead I was served a tasteless mess of idiotic characters fooling around in a rather pedestrian setting. As I recall, the film has none of the mystique or tension commonly associated with the genre. Barbara sneaking around in a grocery store is about as exciting as it gets! So no, I won't be buying that one. The other ones don't stand out to me, either. They could be good, though. You never know. You just never know.
