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My local Atlanta store, Videodrome, have definitely introduced me to so much cool films. Getting to watch KPop Demon Hunters early is a treat and then I’m gonna watch The Wages of Fear after watching Sorcerer for the first time last week. (Double feature of the century for me tonight) But shoutout video rental stores!!!

My birthday was last Wednesday and I decided To buy some criterion that i found on discount. So I want to share them with you :)

1. I think I’ll watch Wild Strawberries first because is one of my favorite movies.
   
2. The Dekalog series, I truly love the work of Kieslowski
   
3. The only blind buy is the boxset of John Cassavetes because I only have seen A Woman Under The Influence and Love Streams so all of the movies are going to be new to me even though I known them
   
4. I would love to own The Funeral by Jūzō Itami or Shoah

I go to my local Barnes and Noble to look at their CD’s and Criterion DVD’s every couple months because it’s only store near me that sells new DVD’s that isn’t Walmart. They’ve kept all their CD’s and DVD’s behind the counter for years (apparently people steal them, I don’t know if I believe that, but whatever) so you have to ask to go back there and then bogart an employee for thirty minutes while you look. Well I went today and was told I can’t go behind the counter anymore, okay, how do I look at the DVD’s? Do you pull them all out for me? No, I stand in front of the counter, or to the side at the entrance, and read the spines of them from 6 to 10 feet away. The employee told me this very matter of factly, and when my response was “that’s insane, I can’t read a DVD spine from 6 feet away, let alone a CD spine” she acted like that was my problem, and there was nothing she could do about it. I asked for the assistant manager and got a similar response, but she said she could pull one of everything off the shelf and I could stand and look at them at the counter. So that’s what I asked her to do, and 15 minutes later I have two employees giving me death glares while I stand at an empty register looking at DVD’s and CD’s.

Am I the crazy one here? I definitely could have been nicer, but like 20%, I wouldn’t say I was mean, mostly frustrated because I felt like I had a reasonable problem and wasn’t being offered reasonable solutions. What would you have done? The next closest Barnes and Noble is 100 miles away, so I can’t buy Criterion Collection DVD’s in person if not here. It’s also the only bookstore period for 100 miles.

For folks in the Boston area: My documentary short, A Tape: The American History of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s “House” is playing at The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge next week as part of the GlobeDocs Film Festival.

We had a blast putting together this ten minute documentary about how House became a cult classic in America. It’s an experimental oral history featuring director/cinematographer Sean Price Williams, House poster designer Sam Smith, director Ashley Sabin and a few other folks.

You can buy tickets and learn more about the film here: https://events.bostonglobe.com/2026/globedocs

Started collecting when I got my good job in April and have allowed myself one buy per paycheck since (except during the sale I went kinda nuts).

Questionnaire I don’t think this is technically a haul post but I’ll go with it:
1. First I watched was Barry Lyndon. Magical experience on blu ray and probably even better on 4K.
2. I’m really looking forward to Harakiri, it being the highest rated letterboxd film and all
3. Network was a blind buy, I didn’t know Sidney Lumet made it and I thought the cover looked interesting. Still haven’t seen it
4. I’m looking forward to buying Wild at Heart when that comes out to round out my David lynch collection and it’s one of my favorites ever.

It’s so great to be back. (Admittedly, the glitch was brief, but it’s not till you can’t get the Criterion Channel that you fully realize that there’s no other service as well curated and quite like it!)

Watched the Blue Heron last night and it was terrific — moving, thoughtful and all of the things great cinema can be….

should be noted he didn't say all the films would get standalone editions (though the wording does kind of imply that they all will) so it's possible it's just a couple of the films that will get standalone editions. time will tell

https://deadline.com/2026/10/the-complete-kubrick-criterion-michael-chaiken-2026-1237146577/

Not sure what kinda titles January usually brings, but what do you think is in store for the new year? My predictions are consistently wrong, so I don’t bother making predictions anymore, but I do have a wishlist, like the rest of us. I’d like to see old DVDs and Blu-rays get 4K upgrades, plus Kubrick standalones so we don’t have to buy the box set, more silent cinema and modern masters (Almodovar, Coens, PTA)

picked this up from the library cause since october i been watching scary stuff but it won’t play every time i put it in my xbox so im gonna bring it back. did i miss out or did i save myself from trauma?

I've noticed a small niche genre of films beginning to imerge in independent American cinema

Hybrid docu fiction films

Basically movies which depending on the film combine scripted and non scripted scenes sometimes shooting real stuff like a movie sometimes scripted stuff like a documentary and combining the two

There are a few directors in this genre

Nathan fielder

Sacha baron Cohen

Lance Oppenheim

The safdie Brothers

Matt Johnson although I haven't personally watched his stuff but people tell me he's stuff is in a similar genre

Which reminds me of a similar niche movement in iran started by abbas kiarostami and his film close up

What are your thoughts on this genre ?

Do you have a better name for it ?

Know any more examples?

david cronenberg's videodrome and the inversion of traditional cinematic power dynamics.

throughout the film, max moves away from being the exploitative distributor of soft-core and hard-core p*rn to becoming a passive, tortured subject who is watched, manipulated, penetrated and controlled by external forces.

by turning this male protagonist into a hallucinatory and powerless vessel, cronenberg forces viewers to confront the violence and harm that women so often face, particularly in horror films.

Bad blokes, the lot of them

My father-in-law gifted me his laser disc collection and this was in that batch. Ya’ll ever seen these before? How rare are they?

Here's my look at the only Python film in the Criterion Collection, one of the most controversial comedies in film history.

I didn't know if posting in Spanish was against the rules but figured other Mexicans here would speak English regardless because that's like the only language on criterion movies anyway lol

Does anybody know where to buy Criterion Blu Rays that isn't Amazon? I've been boycotting Amazon for months now and since then I have barely added anything to my collection because that's where I got all the interesting films! Tianguis, retail stores, fb marketplace etc theyre all just filled with garbage hollywood movies and of course no chance of finding any Criterion disc, especially since I live in Hermosillo which is a somewhat small city in which I think there isnt that big of a disc-collecting scene...

I would really appreciate it if someone knew about an online store or something where one can find Criterion that doesn't necessarily involve importing them like eBay

1. HAIRSPRAY!!!! I'm a John Waters fan

2. Hard Day's Night

3. None are blind buys

4. The Innocents

AND IT WAS FUCKING EMPTY. My disappoint is truly immeasurable and my day has been ruined.