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ianungstad · #77 Post by **ianungstad** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:26 pm

Wings of Desire is up!

#78 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:30 pm

And Monsoon Wedding

Tom Hagen · #79 Post by **Tom Hagen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:32 pm

And the Wings Blu will be selling at a laser disc-esq MSRP of $49.95!

Edit: Z is up! . . . and there is still something coming for spine 488 . . .

#80 Post by **mfunk9786** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:35 pm

And a Howard's End Blu, which has spine #488.

EDIT: And it's also $49.95!

Flike · #81 Post by **Flike** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:37 pm

Hahahaha, Monsoon Wedding on Blu also has an MSRP of $49.95

#82 Post by **mfunk9786** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:38 pm

Loving this (because I love drama). If these prices stick, I wonder how they'll justify it.

#83 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:40 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:And a Howard's End Blu, which has spine #488.

EDIT: And it's also $49.95!

I think I just shot myself. But at least Z is there.

EDIT: Are they reissuing Howard's End on DVD? If I recall there was actually nothing on the original.

Tom Hagen · #84 Post by **Tom Hagen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:42 pm

Apparently selling Blu's at the same price point as DVDs wasn't working as a business model. It looks like the hi-def consumers are going to have to subsidize the continued proliferation of hi-def releases . . .

movielocke · #85 Post by **movielocke** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:42 pm

http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/668" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Eclipse 18 Dusan Makajevev: Free Radical

obscure enough?

why not Z on bluray?

jbeall · #86 Post by **jbeall** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:43 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:And a Howard's End Blu, which has spine #488.

EDIT: And it's also $49.95!

Yeah, even though James Ivory apparently wanted the Merchant/Ivory collection to be a separate line, apparently mistaking M/I for a more prestigious brand-name than Criterion, I've always looked at it from the other direction: I never wanted Criterion's good name sullied by those damn M/I snoozefests. Oh well, they were gonna do it sooner or later.

Cinephrenic · #87 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:44 pm

2 films on Blu-ray $100. Please...

#88 Post by **mfunk9786** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:44 pm

movielocke wrote:obscure enough?

The films look delightful, though. Stuff like this and the Klein set are what the Eclipse line should be.

eerik · #89 Post by **eerik** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:53 pm

Sadly the new $49.95 SRP for Blu-ray releases is too high for me. Few dollars more than a DVD would be understandable but $10 is too much.

Jean-Luc Garbo · #90 Post by **Jean-Luc Garbo** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:53 pm

movielocke wrote:http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/668

Eclipse 18 Dusan Makajevev: Free Radical

obscure enough?

Not in the least. I demand proof of true obscurity by the immediate release of a Gorin box set!

Perkins Cobb · #91 Post by **Perkins Cobb** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:53 pm

Is this the first month in which every release on the main label is a reissue of a film already available on DVD? Shameful.

Murdoch · #92 Post by **Murdoch** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:55 pm

Hate to be the person who forks over SRP for a Howard's End blu.

"I paid $50 for this?" But really, who pays SRP for anything? Looks like a really boring month outside of the eclipse set.

Flike · #93 Post by **Flike** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:01 pm

We've had chances to nab 400 Blows, The Seventh Seal and The Third Man on Blu for $20-30, and they use Howard's End, Monsoon Wedding and Wings of Desire (alright, I enjoy WoD) to roll out the $50 MSRP.

#94 Post by **Jeff** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:10 pm

Perkins Cobb wrote:Is this the first month in which every release on the main label is a reissue of a film already available on DVD? Shameful.

That does kind of suck, but if it's any consolation, Wings and Z have been out of print for a while.

#95 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:11 pm

And the Z DVD sucked.

Tom Hagen · #96 Post by **Tom Hagen** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:17 pm

And they're expensive OOP dvds at that. Especially Wings; the prices it is fetching on Amazon are absurd.

colinr0380 · #97 Post by **colinr0380** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:20 pm

Well I'm happy with this month's releases - I can upgrade my TV recorded VHS of Z, finally recitfy the yawning gap in my knowledge by seeing Wings of Desire for the first time (and no, I haven't seen the Nicholas Cage/Meg Ryan remake, so I'll be a relatively pure viewer to the Wings experience!), and the only film I had of Makavejev before the two Criterion releases from 2007 and this new boxset was Montenegro taken from another BBC screening in the mid 90s, so I've somehow avoided the need for double dipping on any of his films so far!

Highway 61 · #98 Post by **Highway 61** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:22 pm

When Criterion first announced that they'd be selling their Blu-rays at the same price as their SD releases, I took it as a tacit confession that they were making money hand over fist with their pricing structure and should have revised it years ago. I guess not. As ridiculous as $50 a disc is, I won't be able to resist Wings, and if they had given the same treatment to Z, I would have got it too.

denti alligator · #99 Post by **denti alligator** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:44 pm

Any chances those prices are mistake?

Amazing Goose · #100 Post by **Amazing Goose** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:56 pm

Dang, all that speculation had me nursing an outside hope of an Eisenstein Silents box....

And no Halloween Cronos....?

Still, the Wings set looks promising. Every time Criterion's presented me with the SD or HD option, I've taken the Blu and have never regretted it. Still, the price hike is there.
I doubt the higher prices are a mistake.

And I suppose it's time I saw Z.

Overall, I'm happy with this month.

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