Criterion 2013 Clues (Scanners, Eraserhead and The Devils Backbone?)

[Katatonia]

Originally Posted by Chomp

Nice…sounds like the transfer is slightly superior to the Eureka BD. I’m definitely looking forward to this one. It’s just unbelievable Criterion was able to secure this title for release.

Here's comparisons between the Eureka & Criterion Blu-rays: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdrev...dvd_review.htm

The Criterion definitely looks better to me, judging from those screenshot comparisons.

[bruce h]

Mondo Digital on NAKED LUNCH:

http://www.mondo-digital.com/nakedlunch.html

[zbinks]

http://www.criterion.com/films/27914...vil-s-backbone

Originally Posted by Film Info

The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us—as would his later Pan’s Labyrinth—that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.

Originally Posted by Disc Features

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

• New 2K digital film restoration, approved by director Guillermo del Toro and cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring Del Toro
• Video introduction by Del Toro from 2010
• New interviews with Del Toro about the process of creating the ghost Santi and the drawings and designs made in preparation for the film
• ¿Que es un fantasma?, a 2004 making-of documentary
• Spanish Gothic, a 2010 interview with Del Toro about the genre and its influence on his work
• Interactive director’s notebook, with Del Toro’s drawings and handwritten notes, along with interviews with the filmmaker
• Four deleted scenes, with optional commentary
• New featurette about the Spanish Civil War as evoked in the film
• Program comparing Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez’s storyboards with the final film
• Selected on-screen presentation of Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches alongside the sections of the final film they represent (Blu-ray edition only)
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Kermode

[highclassrob]

Originally Posted by zbinks

http://www.criterion.com/films/27914...vil-s-backbone

I like the Mignola cover!

[dave13]

agreed, that cover is very nice!

funny how we all get so bent out of shape when other companies (Shout! Factory, etc) create their own cover art, yet Criterion, who almost never use original poster art, are never berated for the same issue.

EDIT: just checked the Criterion website, and noticed that this release is spine # 666. no way that's a coincidence.

[X-human]

Might as well post that The Criterion Collection shared this on Facebook Friday:

Get a glimpse into the mind of David Lynch as a young man.

Free on Hulu all week:
The Short Films of David Lynch
http://www.hulu.com/the-short-films-of-david-lynch
Six Men Getting Sick, The Alphabet, The Grandmother, Premonition Following an Evil Deed, The Amputee Version 1, The Amputee Version 2

Their Blu-ray releases can't come soon enough!

[bruce h]

Pre-order for THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE blu now up:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20

[Katatonia]

Originally Posted by Chomp

Nice…sounds like the transfer is slightly superior to the Eureka BD. I’m definitely looking forward to this one. It’s just unbelievable Criterion was able to secure this title for release.

Originally Posted by Katatonia

Here's comparisons between the Eureka & Criterion Blu-rays: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdrev...dvd_review.htm

The Criterion definitely looks better to me, judging from those screenshot comparisons.

...and here's detailed screen comparisons between the two. Criterion easily wins here as far as Repo Man goes.

[Anaestheus]

Originally Posted by X-human

Their Blu-ray releases can't come soon enough!

No. Barnes and Noble's 2 for 1 sale can't come soon enough.

[bruce h]

There's a surprise Criterion sale going on over at Amazon, with quite a few recent titles available for 50% off.

REPO MAN: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20
NAKED LUNCH: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20
BADLANDS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20
THE BLOB: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20

And a bunch of others like BLOW OUT, MEDIUM COOL, RUSHMORE, HOUSE, etc. Beats waiting for the B&N sale, plus no tax! (I grabbed Melville's LEON MORIN, PRIEST, too, because it's OOP. Not sure I'll ever watch it, but at least I'll have it if the mood arises, haha.)

[buck135]

Am I the only one that desperately wants Criterion to finally release The Life Aquatic on blu-ray already? It's the only Wes Anderson film not on blu, and it's a favorite of mine.

[spawningblue]

Originally Posted by bruce h

There's a surprise Criterion sale going on over at Amazon, with quite a few recent titles available for 50% off.

REPO MAN: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20
NAKED LUNCH: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20
BADLANDS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20
THE BLOB: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ag=cinema09-20

And a bunch of others like BLOW OUT, MEDIUM COOL, RUSHMORE, HOUSE, etc. Beats waiting for the B&N sale, plus no tax! (I grabbed Melville's LEON MORIN, PRIEST, too, because it's OOP. Not sure I'll ever watch it, but at least I'll have it if the mood arises, haha.)

I wish I could take advantage of this sale but with the duty and Shipping costs to Canada this deal isn't much of a deal. I will wait for the Barnes and Noble sale which ends up being cheaper for us up here.

Originally Posted by buck135

Am I the only one that desperately wants Criterion to finally release The Life Aquatic on blu-ray already? It's the only Wes Anderson film not on blu, and it's a favorite of mine.

Nope, that's one of my most wanted titles from them!

[deepred]

Keep hoping for a Shivers/Rabid/Brood box-set announcement!

[buck135]

Originally Posted by deepred

Keep hoping for a Shivers/Rabid/Brood box-set announcement!

That would be awesome.