#74 - Bow Down Before The Criterion Collection

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We discuss the most famous Laser Disc/DVD/Blu-Ray label ever and talk about our experience with their releases, our favorite discs, and their importance in the cultural landscape. We also focus on their films TINY FURNITURE, THE HARDER THEY COME, and EQUINOX. We talked about favorite DVD/Blu-Ray special features on our PATREON episode this week. You can join for five dollars a month and get a brand new exclusive episode every week at: WWW.PATREON.COM/THEIMPORTANTCINEMACLUB

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:10.7	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.
0:12.9	And today, we just wanted to do something that would make people happy.
0:16.3	We're going to be talking about the Criterion Collection.
0:18.1	You know, this is episode 74, but I guess you could say it's
0:21.0	kind of like spine number 74. So the Criterion Collection, you know what that is. It's the DVD
0:29.4	label that releases all the important films in amazing special editions that cost a lot of money.
0:35.9	It's the one where you go to the store and you look at the box and you say, boy, that sure looks nice. Then you put it back because you can't afford it. That's $75 or something like that. And that you always see people in used bookstores and stuff like that that sell DVDs. They always go to that right away. But it's always the same movies. It's always a monsoon wedding and a couple of other ones.
0:55.3	Days and Confused, the DVD edition. Some things that nobody wants. So when did you become aware of
1:01.0	the Criterion Collection? When I was a kid, yes, a kid, like seven, eight years old, my local
1:05.8	library had a CD-ROM called Criterion Goes to the Movies, which was all about their laser disc releases.
1:12.7	The box of it had, you know, a picture of Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, and you could scroll through
1:18.1	it and you can watch little CD-ROM clips of scenes from the movies.
1:21.7	Like you could see Robert De Niro in a very pixelated form go, you talking to me.
1:28.3	And I guess there was also information about, you know, what the special features were and stuff like that.
1:33.3	All that stuff was totally unattainable to me as a child because most video stories didn't stock
1:37.8	criterions because they're expensive.
1:39.2	No, they're so expensive.
1:39.9	I remember once going to a video store and wanting to rent hard-boiled on the Criterion DVD release because it has a commentary track with Roger Avery, the man who co-wrote Pulp Fiction that's nowhere else.
1:51.0	And the guy's like, oh, yeah, you'll have to put $100 deposit down.
1:54.1	And I'm like, I don't even have $100.
1:56.5	But I remember, like in 2005, I used to bike to this video store, a Roger's video, perhaps you
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