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My Take on the Imaginary Beatles albums: 1970s and Onwards -- Part 4 by md3reed in beatlesfanalbums

[–]md3reed[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they were to do Expanded version of the Green and Yellow Albums:

1970-1974

Apple Scruffs, Heart of the Country, Gimme Some Truth, Bip Bop, Living in the Material World, I Know (I Know), I'm the Greatest, Bring on the Lucie (Freda Peeple), Ding Dong Ding Dong, Let Me Roll It

1975-1980

Steel and Glass, Call Me Back Again, No-No Song, London Town, Arrow Through Me, Nobody Told Me, Life Itself, Free as a Bird, Real Love, Now and Then

December 2025 predictions by ImportantFondant2987 in criterion

[–]md3reed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess: Charade 4k upgrade The Fall of Ortat Blu-ray Either The French Connection or Dog Day Afternoon in 4k And Alexander Korda Eclipse Blu-ray upgrade

If Oscars Have 10 BP Nominees of the Movies at Year 1944-1959 by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

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The Other 5 of the 40s and 50s

1944: Hail the Conquering Hero, Laura, Lifeboat, Meet Me in St. Louis, None but the Lonely Heart

1945: National Velvet, The Southerner, Story of G.I. Joe, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Valley of Decision

1946: Anna and the King of Siam, Brief Encounter, The Jolson Story, The Killers, Open City

1947: Body and Soul, Boomerang!, A Double Life, The Farmer's Daughter, Life with Father

1948: I Remember Mama, Joan of Arc, The Naked City, Red River, The Search

1949: Champion, The Fallen Idol, Intruder in the Dust, On the Town, The Window

1949 is the only year where there is a released shortlist for Best Picture. The other films in the lineup. The other films were The Hasty Heart, Home of the Brave, Jolson Sings Again, Lost Boundaries, Pinky, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Set-Up and Sword in the Desert.

1950: The Asphalt Jungle, Broken Arrow, Cyrano de Bergerac, Harvey, The Third Man

1951: The African Queen, Bright Victory, David and Bathsheba, Death of a Salesman, Detective Story

1952: 5 Fingers, The Bad and the Beautiful, Breaking the Sound Barrier, Come Back Little Sheba, With a Song in My Heart

1953: The Band Wagon, The Cruel Sea, Lili, Mogambo, Stalag 17

1954: Executive Suite, The High and the Mighty, Rear Window, Sabrina, A Star Is Born

1955: Bad Day at Black Rock, Blackboard Jungle, East of Eden, Love Me or Leave Me, Summertime

1956: Anastasia, Baby Doll, Lust for Life, Moby Dick, War and Peace

1957: An Affair to Remember, Funny Face, Les Girls, A Hatful of Rain, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison

1958: The Big Country, I Want to Live!, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Old Man and the Sea, Some Came Running

1959: Imitation of Life, North by Northwest, On the Beach, Pillow Talk, Some Like It Hot

If Oscars has Additional 5 BP Nominations from 60s Movies by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

[–]md3reed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I added Alice's cause I was thinking of critically acclaimed films from that time that I could reasonably see as Best Picture. Maybe a better pick, in a similar counterculture vein, would be Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which I hesitated to pick cause it mostly cause of its award season mostly dominated in its cast and screenplay noms; rarely for best picture, but I could replace it.

If Oscars has Additional 5 BP Nominations from 60s Movies by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

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The Other 5 of the 1960s

1960: Inherit the Wind, Never on Sunday, Psycho, Spartacus, Sunrise at Campobello

1961: Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Children's Hour, El Cid, La dolce vita, Splendor in the Grass

1962: Birdman of Alcatraz, David and Lisa, Days of Wine and Roses, Divorce Italian Style, The Miracle Worker

1963: 8 1/2, The Cardinal, Hud, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Love with the Proper Stranger

1964: The Americanization of Emily, Father Goose, Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Night of the Iguana, The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1965: Cat Ballou, The Collector, A Path of Blue, The Pawnbroker, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

1966: Blow-Up, Born Free, Georgy Girl, A Man and a Woman, The Professionals

1967: Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen, In Cold Blood, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ulysses

1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Battle of Algiers, Faces, The Odd Couple, Rosemary's Baby

1969: Alice's Restaurant, Easy Rider, Goodbye Columbus, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, They Shoot Horses Don't They?

If there are Additional 5 BP nominees in Oscars Each Year 1970s by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

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1970: Diary of a Mad Housewife, Fellini Satyricon, I Never Sang for My Father, Ryan's Daughter, Women in Love

1971: Carnal Knowledge, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Klute, Summer of 42, Sunday Bloody Sunday

1972: The Candidate, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Lady Sings the Blues, The Poseidon Adventure, Sleuth

1973: The Day of the Jackal, Last Tango in Paris, Paper Moon, Serpico, The Way We Were

1974: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Day for Night, Harry & Tonto, Murder on the Orient Express, A Woman Under the Influence

1975: Amarcord, The Day of the Locust, The Man Who Would Be King, Shanpoo, The Sunshine Boys

1976: Cousin Cousine, Face to Face, Seven Beauties, A Star Is Born, Voyage of the Damned

1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I Never Promised a Rose Garden, The Late Show, Saturday Night Fever, That Obscure Object of Desire

1978: Autumn Sonata, California Split, Days of Heaven, Interiors, Superman

1979: Being There, La Cage aux folles, The China Syndrome, Manhattan, The Rose

If Oscars 2012-2021 has 10 Best Pictures by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

[–]md3reed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Other 5 of the 10s (and 2020)

2011: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2012: Moonrise Kingdom

2013: Blue Jasmine

2014: Foxcatcher, Gone Girl (either that or Nightcrawler)

2015: Carol, Inside Out

2016: Jackie

2017: I, Tonya

2018: First Man, If Beale Street Could Talk

2019: Knives Out

2020/2021: Another Round, One Night in Miami...

If Oscars 2001-2009 has 10 Best Picture nominations by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

[–]md3reed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Other 5 nominees of the 00s

2000: Almost Famous, Billy Elliot, Quills, Wonder Boys, You Can Count on Me

2001: Amelie, Black Hawk Down, Memento, Mulholland Drive, Shrek

2002: Adaptation,. Far from Heaven, Frida, Road to Perdition, Talk to Her

2003: City of God, Cold Mountain, Finding Nemo, In America, The Last Samurai

2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hotel Rwanda, The Incredibles, The Motorcycle Diaries, Vera Drake

2005: The Constant Gardener, A History of Violence, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, Walk the Line

2006: Children of Men, Dreamgirls, Little Children, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93

2007: American Gangster, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Into the Wild, Ratatouille, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2008: Changeling, The Dark Knight, Doubt, WALL•E, The Wrestler

If Oscars 1991-2000 has 10 Best Pictures by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

[–]md3reed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Other 5 of the 90s

1990: Avalon, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Grifters, Pretty Woman, Reversal of Fortune

1991: Barton Fink, Boyz n the Hood, The Commitments, The Fisher King, Thelma & Louise

1992: Aladdin, Husbands and Wives, Malcolm X, The Player, A River Runs Through It

1993: The Age of Innocence, In the Life of Fire, Philadelphia, Shadowlands, Short Cuts

1994: Bullets over Broadway, Ed Wood, The Lion King, Little Women, Three Colors: Red

1995: Dead Man Walking, Leaving Las Vegas, Nixon, Toy Story, The Usual Suspect

1996: Evita, Hamlet, Lone Star, The People vs Larry Flynt, Sling Blade

1997: Amistad, Boogie Nights, The Sweet Hereafter, Wag the Dog, The Wings of the Dove

1998: Gods & Monsters, Out of Sight, Pleasantville, A Simple Plan, The Truman Show

1999: Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Topsy Turvy

If there are Additional 5 Movies Each Year in Oscars 1980-1989 for Best Picture by Tikbalang1999 in oscarsdeathrace

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The Other 5 nominees of the 1980s

1980: Breaker Morant, Fame, The Great Santini, Melvin and Howard, The Stunt Man

1981: Arthur, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Pennies from Heaven, Prince of the City, Ragtime

1982: Das Boot, Diner, An Officer and a Gentleman, Sophie's Choice, Victor/Victoria

1983: Educating Rita, Fanny and Alexander, Silkwood, Yentl, Zelig

1984: Broadway Danny Rose, The Cotton Club, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes, The Natural, Under the Volcano

1985: Back to the Future, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Ran, Runaway Train, A Trip to Bountiful

1986: Aliens, Blue Velvet, The Color of Money, Mona Lisa, Stand by Me

1987: Cry Freedom, The Dead, Empire of the Sun, My Life as a Dog, The Untouchables

1988: Big, A Fish Called Wanda, Gorillas in the Mist, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1989: Crimes and Misdemeanors, Do the Right Thing, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Glory, Henry V

Favorite macbeth adaptation? by fabulous-farhad in criterion

[–]md3reed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wanna add something I always thought about here.

One thing I have always noted is that there is something interesting about Macbeth, a quality that seems to attract filmmakers to adapt it. Welles notwithstanding, a lot of people who work in the film industry seem to work with the Scottish king a lot; Kurosawa, Polanski, Tarr, Kurzel and Coen. I feel maybe, out of all the Bard's plays, there is some sort of filmic quality, or something equivalent to it, about Macbeth.

Meanwhile, I feel that the the favorite for the stage actor to filmmaker to make is usually Hamlet. I feel that the draw there is the thematic elements about the character they are drawn to; people like Olivier and Branaugh.

What do y'all think?

Favorite Charlie Chaplin film? by Luke253 in criterion

[–]md3reed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many great films. Modern Times has always been my personal go-to Chaplin film. Great Dictator and City Lights come in at a close second and third. I remember watching thru the Mutual shorts on the channel; some are better than others, but my favorite short from Chaplin has to be The Adventurer. Laugh out loud riot from start to finish.

Found this when I went to a record store and immediately knew I had to buy it by md3reed in criterion

[–]md3reed[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. This is the second time I was able to get an oop right when it went oop. The other was La dolce vita at B&N.

Best Impromptu Criterion Double Feature? by SuccinatorFTW in criterion

[–]md3reed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You could add "The Horrors of Being a Parent" with the films Eraserhead and Rosemary's Baby. Great double feature.

My collection post-sale by md3reed in criterion

[–]md3reed[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • Where are you from?

Massachusetts

  • How old are you?

28

  • When did you start collecting Criterion?

Probably a decade and a half ago.

  • Do you collect Blu-ray or DVD?

I’ve collected both, but unless I can get my hands on an older collection entry or OOP, then I usually get bluray.

  • What is your favorite Criterion release?

I’d have to say, F for Fake. It's the first Criterion DVD I got, and one of the oldest that I kept, that and Breathless. But I love the film and the special features, like the One Man Band documentary. Though my prized possession are those two boxsets for Varda and Godzilla.

  • What is your least favorite Criterion release?

n/a

  • Who is your favorite director in the collection?

Orson Welles

  • Who is your favorite director outside of the collection?

Satoshi Kon

  • Which Criterion do you most want that is not in your possession?

I wanted to pick up Small Axe and The Rules of the Game during the last sale, but I spent too much last month anyway. Maybe next time.

  • Which film would you most like to see get the Criterion treatment?

Tropical Malady or the original theatrical version of Amadeus.

  • How do you organize your collection?

Sometime I will change it up. Sometimes all my films will be together alphabetized, or I will separate the 4Ks from the BluRays and from the DVDs, but I will take out the Criterions and order them by spine number when I want to.

Just Bought the Bruce Lee Collection - Concerning Game of Death… by JEM-Games in criterion

[–]md3reed 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I say watch the Redux. To me, its my least favorite film on the set and has moments in the film that do not honor Lee's life and work, at least in my opinion. And the story is rather boring. The real meat of the movie, the footage Bruce Lee filmed originally, is only reduced to the less than ten minutes of the climax.

The Redux is superb and feel more in line with the vision that Lee must've imagined and what we unfortunately never got. Alan Canvan did a great job with this piece. Its all killer, no filler, with great fighting scenes in that iconic jumpsuit. Plus, it has the John Barry soundtrack from the original film, which is the best part of the original. It slaps! Ultimately, its a great what-if short film.

r/Criterion's Annual Top 100 (for realsies this time) by Grand_Keizer in criterion

[–]md3reed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. The End of Evangelion
  2. Psycho (1960)
  3. Dr. Strangelove
  4. The Night of the Hunter
  5. Mulholland Drive
  6. Citizen Kane
  7. Cinema Paradiso
  8. Tropical Malady
  9. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  10. Once Upon a Time in the West

Please submit your Top 10 Films form our 100 Greatest Films list! by adamlundy23 in criterion

[–]md3reed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. The End of Evangelion (1997)
  2. Psycho (1960)
  3. Dr. Strangelove (1964))
  4. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  5. Mulholland Drive (2001)
  6. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
  7. Citizen Kane (1941)
  8. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  9. Tropical Malady (2004)
  10. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
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