Via Norbizness I've learned today that come August the world is going to be a better place.
There are a handful of old movies that I've never seen that I wish I could see on dvd (If ..., The Heiress, Last Year at Marienbad), but really I think I'm more annoyed by my inability to see those few (relatively) recent movies that I fell in love with when I saw them, but which haven't yet made it to dvd. Well the movie out of that set, the one I've most longed to see again, is finally going to be released courtesy of the folks at Criterion - Noah Baumbach's superb Kicking and Screaming. It's perhaps the finest film about what happens (or, rather, doesn't) after you graduate from college - and if not the finest, it's surely the funniest. I am so buying this. Now if someone would just release The Last Days of Disco on dvd as well ...
Posted by armand at June 27, 2006 02:27 PM | TrackBack | Posted to MoviesThey did recently release Whit's Metropolitan on Criterion, so maybe Barcelona and Last Days of Disco won't be too far behind. I'm more stoked about the 3-disc Seven Samurai special edition.
Posted by: norbizness at June 27, 2006 08:31 PM | PERMALINK3-disc Seven Samurai special edition
Sweet. The last time I watched that was in a codeine fueled haze, so it's about time for a sober, critical view.
Posted by: binky at June 27, 2006 10:36 PM | PERMALINKWhile not a Criterion release, Barcelona has been on dvd for years. As to why that one was on dvd long before Metropolitan and even longer than the still unreleased Last Days of Disco, I've no idea. Maybe because it costarred Mira Sorvino?
Posted by: Armand at June 27, 2006 10:49 PM | PERMALINK