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Gigi M. · #626 Post by **Gigi M.** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:47 pm

jmj713 · #627 Post by **jmj713** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:49 pm

No Rublev hint here either...

Hopefully the re-release of Andrei Rublev can happen before the year's end.

Cinephrenic · #628 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:53 pm

Mackie?

keeproductions · #629 Post by **keeproductions** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:58 pm

I can't get beyond thoughts of "The Carol Burnett Show" or even Bobby Darin's show.

The only Brecht reference I can find on Mack the Knife is directed by Menahem Golan.

justeleblanc · #630 Post by **justeleblanc** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:58 pm

Def 3 Penny. Though isn't there a Mac the Knife song in PIERROT LE FOU?

Michael Kerpan · #631 Post by **Michael Kerpan** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:02 pm

Pabst did a version of "Threepenny Opera".

davebert · #632 Post by **davebert** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:08 pm

Correct, sir. I will be looking forward to it!

cgray · #633 Post by **cgray** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:42 pm

I thought Andrei Rublev had the nickname "Mackey"... ?

#634 Post by **zedz** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:45 pm

Sure didn't see The Threepenny Opera coming. Good elements for this film are pretty scarce, to the best of my knowledge, so this could be a real event.

As for Tokyo Olympiad going OOP, it's a great film in a great edition, so snap it up if you don't have it. I have nil interest in the Olympics per se, but I still find Ichikawa's film rivetting.

Tribe · #635 Post by **Tribe** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:59 pm

Wow...Mackie's back in town can only mean Threepenny Opera!

Tribe

#636 Post by **cdnchris** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:28 am

zedz wrote:As for Tokyo Olympiad going OOP, it's a great film in a great edition, so snap it up if you don't have it. I have nil interest in the Olympics per se, but I still find Ichikawa's film rivetting.

Agreed. I admittedly had zero interest in the film, only became marginally interested when Criterion released it on DVD, finally got around to seeing it and immediately picked it up. Sports documentaries do little for me but this is one of the DVDs I've viewed the most in my collection.

mrschroeder1982 · Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:36 am

Just a little follow-up on all those contests:

I actually won the Eclipse contest (the one about the guy who was in four of the five titles in Eclipse 1), so I get my choice of any Bergman title in the catalog. I don't own it yet, so I decided to snap up "Wild Strawberries." Looking at the choices now, maybe I should've chosen the Bergman box set (Winter Light, The Silence, etc.), but I kinda doubt Criterion would've let me choose a box set.

Anyway, this is my chance to gloat, yes. But it's also a way of saying that people do win these contests, so keep trying in the future!

Here's how stupid I was... I saw the quote "Mackie's back in town" and thought, "Is Criterion really gonna do a Bob Mackie movie?" (facepalm)

Antoine Doinel · #638 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:04 pm

mrschroeder1982 wrote:Here's how stupid I was... I saw the quote "Mackie's back in town" and thought, "Is Criterion really gonna do a Bob Mackie movie?" (facepalm)

Or maybe a boxset of Bob Mackie costumed films, housed in an authentic Mackie dvd box created exclusively for Criterion!

And congratulations!

colinr0380 · #639 Post by **colinr0380** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:41 pm

mrschroeder1982 wrote:Anyway, this is my chance to gloat, yes. But it's also a way of saying that people do win these contests, so keep trying in the future!

Congratulations mrschroeder1982!

(Damn US-only competitions that I can't enter.... grumble, mumble, grouch....)

sevenarts · #640 Post by **sevenarts** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:40 pm

so what was the answer to that question, anyway?

arsonfilms · #641 Post by **arsonfilms** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:50 pm

sevenarts wrote:so what was the answer to that question, anyway?

Wasn't it Stig Olin?

Matango · #642 Post by **Matango** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:07 pm

"Now, as part of a promotion with DVD Planet, if you purchase all three of these Criterion titlesâ€”F for Fake, The Honeymoon Killers, and General Idi Amin Dadaâ€”you'll also receive another original: your very own Criterion cap, absolutely free."

Really? I can hardly contain my indifference.

Greathinker · #643 Post by **Greathinker** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:50 pm

Sheesh, they can at least throw in a pack of criterion trading cards.

Cinephrenic · #644 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:05 pm

I want playing cards.

arsonfilms · #645 Post by **arsonfilms** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:13 pm

Cinephrenic wrote:I want playing cards.

Coming in 2008: Janus Films: 52 Years, 52 cards

Cinephrenic · #646 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:35 pm

52 Most wanted films on DVD from Criterion.

Musashi219 · #647 Post by **Musashi219** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:02 pm

I received a free Criterion cap from them when they messed up my Janus t-shirt order (took them two months to re-stock one of the sizes, they felt bad). Plus I already own F For Fake and The Honeymoon Killers so I think I'm good.

Matango · #648 Post by **Matango** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:24 am

Cinephrenic wrote:52 Most wanted films on DVD from Criterion.

With Mulvaney as the Joker

jesus the mexican boi · Tue May 15, 2007 4:12 pm

New newsletter suggests we're getting Godard's BREATHLESS.

Gigi M. · #650 Post by **Gigi M.** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:12 pm

That's what I thought!!!

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