Woohoo!

[yendi]

This weekend, lokilokust posted a list of Criterion DVDs that she owns.

For some strange reason, I decided to write up my own list.

This is the equivalent of walking up to John Holmes (when he was alive), dropping trou, and saying, "now, how's this for a penis?"

I decided not to bother once it became clear that I had fewer than thirty Criterion DVDs*.

That said, I did wander by the Criterion Web Page.

And on this page, I saw that they're releasing a Criterion edition of Metropolitan!

This is only one of my top ten films of all time, and probably #1 on my list of films whose non-existance on DVD is a fucking crime. No release date, but it'll be out sometime in 2006, with commentary by Whit Stillman and some of his cast members (including Chris Eigeman). This is most definitely a film I'll own on the day of release.

*At one time, compiling this list would have been simple, as I kept my DVDs sorted by category, like "Criterion," "John Carpenter," "Jackie Chan," etc. But my wife insists on this bizarre organizational system called "alphabetizing," I don't quite get it myself, but I humor her.

Comments

[yendi]

Honestly, I think the CC has expanded so much over the last few years, it's hard to try to pin it down to any one area. The second they released Armageddon, that was pretty much ensured (and probably before that, with Chasing Amy), but even before that, I'm sure arguments can be made against Robocop, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and the John Woo flicks. Hell, even Yojimbo and Sanjuro were comparatively mainstream, as these things go. I'm pretty sure that people in ten years will still be rallying against whatever new release Criterion has (although, unless they start a Uwe Boll line, I can't really imagine they'll ever sink lower than Michael Bay).

The way I see it, if no one else was ready to release and restore these movies, Criterion's doing a good thing.