The CRITERION DVD and Blu-ray Thread

[Justin101]

This is not directly about Criterion but will affect the collectors, WowHD and it's partner outlets such as Deep Discount has, since yesterday, started applying 20% VAT to all orders over £15. This makes many items significantly more expensive than we're used to paying.

Example, I had a disc in my basket yesterday which was £16.50 and ended up being £19.80. It might be better buying from Amazon again, where you still have to pay the VAT but if you don't get charged by customs they refund it back to you.

[Graeme73]

Seems they're adding the VAT on everything...I was just about to purchase Escape from LA for under £7, and it still added the 20% on?

I didn't know about Amazon, though.

[Graeme73]

Weird. Just tried again with Escape from New York (£14+) and I managed to order it without VAT being added...

[Rob4]

i ordered 3 items from WOWHD yesterday. all the individual purchases were under £15 but the total order came to £39 - no VAT was added to the total.

is it possible that it depends on whether something is posted from the UK or from overseas?

[Justin101]

I've tried myself and orders under £15 are not having VAT added to them!
If it's happening to you try clearing your browsers cache.

[Susan Foreman]

Presumably this will just be an American release

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema - November 20th, 2018

"In honor of Ingmar Bergman’s one-hundredth birthday, the Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of his films ever released on home video. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. The struggles of faith and morality, the nature of dreams, and the agonies and ecstasies of human relationships—Bergman explored these subjects in films ranging from comedies whose lightness and complexity belie their brooding hearts to groundbreaking formal experiments and excruciatingly intimate explorations of family life.

Arranged as a film festival with opening and closing nights bookending double features and centerpieces, this selection spans six decades and thirty-nine films—including such celebrated classics as The Seventh Seal, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander alongside previously unavailable works like Dreams, The Rite, and Brink of Life. Accompanied by a 248-page book with essays on each program, as well as by more than thirty hours of supplemental features, Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema traces themes and images across Bergman’s career, blazing trails through the master’s unequaled body of work for longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Films In This Set

• Crisis - 1946
• A Ship to India - 1947
• Port of Call – 1948
• Thirst - 1949
• To Joy - 1950
• Summer Interlude - 1951
• Waiting Women - 1952
• Summer with Monika - 1953
• Sawdust and Tinsel - 1953
• A Lesson in Love - 1954
• Dreams - 1955
• Smiles of a Summer Night - 1955
• The Seventh Seal - 1957
• Wild Strawberries - 1957
• Brink of Life - 1958
• The Magician - 1958
• The Virgin Spring - 1960
• The Devil’s Eye - 1960
• Through a Glass Darkly - 1961
• Winter Light - 1963
• The Silence - 1963
• All These Women - 1964
• Persona - 1966
• Hour of the Wolf - 1968
• Shame - 1968
• The Rite - 1969
• The Passion of Anna - 1969
• Fårö Document - 1970
• The Touch - 1971
• Cries and Whispers - 1972
• Scenes from a Marriage - 1973
• The Magic Flute - 1975
• The Serpent’s Egg - 1977
• Autumn Sonata - 1978
• Fårö Document - 1979
• From the Life of the Marionettes - 1980
• Fanny and Alexander: The Theatrical Version - 1982
• Fanny and Alexander: The Television Version — 1983
• After the Rehearsal - 1984
• Saraband - 2003

Special Features

• Thirty-nine films, including eighteen never before released by Criterion
• Digital restorations, including a new 4K restoration of The Seventh Seal and new 2K restorations of Shame, The Touch, Waiting Women, and The Serpent’s Egg, among many others, with uncompressed monaural and stereo soundtracks
• Introductions to eleven of the films by director Ingmar Bergman
• Six audio commentaries featuring film scholars Peter Cowie and Birgitta Steene
• Over five hours of interviews with Bergman
• Interviews with many of Bergman’s key collaborators, including actors Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Bergman, Erland Josephson, Gunnel Lindblom, Liv Ullmann, and Max von Sydow and cinematographer Sven Nykvist
• Daniel and Karin’s Face, two rarely seen documentary shorts by Bergman
• Documentaries about the making of Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander, The Magic Flute, The Serpent’s Egg, The Touch, and Winter Light
• Extensive programs about Bergman’s life and work, including Bergman Island, . . . But Film Is My Mistress, Laterna Magica, Liv & Ingmar, and others
• Behind-the-scenes footage, video essays, trailers, stills galleries, and more
• PLUS: A lavishly illustrated 248-page book, featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors including Cowie, Alexander Chee, Molly Haskell, Karan Mahajan, Fernanda Solórzano, and many others; selections from Bergman’s own writing and remarks on his work; and detailed guides to the feature films and supplements included in the set

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[Nostalgic]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Confirmed: Criterion Intends to Release Showa Godzilla Films on DVD/Blu-Ray - Godzilla 2 Movie News

Does anybody know if Criterion intend to bring these out on region 2? We are sorely lacking in Godzilla releases here in the Uk!

[bleakshaun]

I hope it does come to the UK would love a blu ray copy of hour of the wolf

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[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

OCTOBER'S TITLES: No horror.

SHAMPOO
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY
SISTERS
THE NAKED PREY

Only one title for me then.

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

OCTOBER'S TITLES: No horror.

SHAMPOO
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY
SISTERS
THE NAKED PREY

Only one title for me then.

I know everyone has their own definition of horror and mine is quite wide so Sisters is covered for me. Won't be getting it though as the Arrow is good enough for me.

The Naked Prey is a more naturalistic version of The Most Dangerous Game, so whilst not horror per se, certainly owes something to its more horrific antecedent. Won't be getting this either as already have the Eureka.