I doubt they are deliberately excluding Canadians. It probably has more to do with issues involving rights have been acquired by other companies for the Canadian market.Antoine Doinel wrote:Well, your odds just got better since I can't order the damn thing because I'm a Canadian citizen. It seems we don't exist for Criterion north of the border.
Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films
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It seems that Amazon.com doesn't sell the book/dvd set anymore. Fortunately, i was able to pre-order the book separately, since Criterion now consider us puertoricans as equals and will even gladly ship to the territory for free.
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The regular Criterion edition of these titles are available without any problems in Canada. I think it's more of a shipping issue. I'm sure sending a $500 DVD set across the border UPS would cause customs/duty problems.Andre Jurieu wrote:I doubt they are deliberately excluding Canadians. It probably has more to do with issues involving rights have been acquired by other companies for the Canadian market.
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No real information for us, other than the fact that it is "confirmation" that the rest of the films are eventually coming to CC...
Presenting some of the greatest films ever
"We didn't make it for the true Criterion fan. It wasn't our goal for the people who had 80 percent of the films to make them buy this to get the other 20 percent," Turell said.
Criterion will continue to release its own editions of films in the "Essential Art House" set, Turell said. The set was created for cinema lovers who want an instant collection of some of the world's greatest films, Turell and Becker said.
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Here's the whole article, for archival purposes (and for the lazy):
Presenting some of the greatest films ever
POSTED: 3:41 p.m. EDT, October 26, 2006
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- You need only hear their last names -- Bergman, Fellini, Truffaut, Kurosawa -- to know you're in the company of the giants of international cinema.
The pioneering distributor that has kept good company with these and other premier filmmakers is celebrating half a century of foreign classics with the mammoth DVD collection "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films," which was released Tuesday.
The set gathers 50 DVDs of films Janus has brought to U.S. audiences, among them Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" and "Wild Strawberries," Federico Fellini's "The White Sheik" and "La Strada," Francois Truffaut's "The Four Hundred Blows" and "Jules and Jim" and Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai."
The set comes with a 240-page book with background on the movies and Janus Films, including an essay of appreciation by Martin Scorsese.
"We wanted to put something up on the shelves to really get a sense of what that film heritage means," said Peter Becker, president of DVD label Criterion, the sister company of Janus. "It's so staggeringly impressive, the group of films that this company over the course of 50 years had the honor and responsibility of representing here in the U.S."
Other films in the set include Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" and "The Thirty-Nine Steps," Luis Bunuel's "Viridiana," Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game," Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky," Fritz Lang's "M," Yasujiro Ozu's "Floating Weeds" and Marcel Camus' "Black Orpheus."
The set is expensive, with a list price of $850, though it's available in the $600 to $650 range at various online retailers, including Janus' own Web site. Given the breadth of the package, it works out to a bargain price of $12 to $13 a film, said Becker and Jonathan Turell, managing director of Janus Films and chief executive officer of Criterion.
Most films in the set are available separately in Criterion editions. The "Essential Art House" versions are just the movies, though, without the audio commentaries, background documentaries and other extras in the elaborate Criterion releases.
"We didn't make it for the true Criterion fan. It wasn't our goal for the people who had 80 percent of the films to make them buy this to get the other 20 percent," Turell said.
Criterion will continue to release its own editions of films in the "Essential Art House" set, Turell said. The set was created for cinema lovers who want an instant collection of some of the world's greatest films, Turell and Becker said.
Touring the country
Janus was founded in 1956 by Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey, who had begun showing foreign films a few years earlier at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They quickly established Janus as the top domestic distributor of overseas cinema, releasing films by Bergman, Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrzej Wajda.
Saul Turell and William Becker, fathers of Janus Films' current caretakers, bought the company in 1965, continuing to release new foreign films as well as acquiring classics from decades past for the Janus library.
"Essential Art House" features three documentaries made by Saul Turell, "The Great Chase," presenting classic pursuit sequences from silent films; "The Love Goddesses," examining sexy screen sirens; and the portrait "Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist."
Selections from the company's catalog have been playing in a Janus Films retrospective at New York's Lincoln Center. A Janus retrospective opened Wednesday at Cambridge's Brattle, with similar Janus film series touring through next year in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Toronto and other cities.
One of the hardest tasks in assembling the set was narrowing the film selection down from about 90 Janus titles initially considered for the package, Becker and Turell said.
"You never want to leave any of your children out, but it was easier since we weren't putting the children up for adoption. The films we didn't include were still in the library," Turell said. "I haven't lost any sleep thinking, oh my God, 'Lord of the Flies' isn't in here, 'Three Penny Opera' isn't in here.
"It's not that this list is the 50 greatest. It's a great introduction to some of the greatest movies of all time."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press
Presenting some of the greatest films ever
POSTED: 3:41 p.m. EDT, October 26, 2006
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- You need only hear their last names -- Bergman, Fellini, Truffaut, Kurosawa -- to know you're in the company of the giants of international cinema.
The pioneering distributor that has kept good company with these and other premier filmmakers is celebrating half a century of foreign classics with the mammoth DVD collection "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films," which was released Tuesday.
The set gathers 50 DVDs of films Janus has brought to U.S. audiences, among them Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" and "Wild Strawberries," Federico Fellini's "The White Sheik" and "La Strada," Francois Truffaut's "The Four Hundred Blows" and "Jules and Jim" and Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai."
The set comes with a 240-page book with background on the movies and Janus Films, including an essay of appreciation by Martin Scorsese.
"We wanted to put something up on the shelves to really get a sense of what that film heritage means," said Peter Becker, president of DVD label Criterion, the sister company of Janus. "It's so staggeringly impressive, the group of films that this company over the course of 50 years had the honor and responsibility of representing here in the U.S."
Other films in the set include Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" and "The Thirty-Nine Steps," Luis Bunuel's "Viridiana," Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game," Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky," Fritz Lang's "M," Yasujiro Ozu's "Floating Weeds" and Marcel Camus' "Black Orpheus."
The set is expensive, with a list price of $850, though it's available in the $600 to $650 range at various online retailers, including Janus' own Web site. Given the breadth of the package, it works out to a bargain price of $12 to $13 a film, said Becker and Jonathan Turell, managing director of Janus Films and chief executive officer of Criterion.
Most films in the set are available separately in Criterion editions. The "Essential Art House" versions are just the movies, though, without the audio commentaries, background documentaries and other extras in the elaborate Criterion releases.
"We didn't make it for the true Criterion fan. It wasn't our goal for the people who had 80 percent of the films to make them buy this to get the other 20 percent," Turell said.
Criterion will continue to release its own editions of films in the "Essential Art House" set, Turell said. The set was created for cinema lovers who want an instant collection of some of the world's greatest films, Turell and Becker said.
Touring the country
Janus was founded in 1956 by Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey, who had begun showing foreign films a few years earlier at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They quickly established Janus as the top domestic distributor of overseas cinema, releasing films by Bergman, Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrzej Wajda.
Saul Turell and William Becker, fathers of Janus Films' current caretakers, bought the company in 1965, continuing to release new foreign films as well as acquiring classics from decades past for the Janus library.
"Essential Art House" features three documentaries made by Saul Turell, "The Great Chase," presenting classic pursuit sequences from silent films; "The Love Goddesses," examining sexy screen sirens; and the portrait "Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist."
Selections from the company's catalog have been playing in a Janus Films retrospective at New York's Lincoln Center. A Janus retrospective opened Wednesday at Cambridge's Brattle, with similar Janus film series touring through next year in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Toronto and other cities.
One of the hardest tasks in assembling the set was narrowing the film selection down from about 90 Janus titles initially considered for the package, Becker and Turell said.
"You never want to leave any of your children out, but it was easier since we weren't putting the children up for adoption. The films we didn't include were still in the library," Turell said. "I haven't lost any sleep thinking, oh my God, 'Lord of the Flies' isn't in here, 'Three Penny Opera' isn't in here.
"It's not that this list is the 50 greatest. It's a great introduction to some of the greatest movies of all time."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press
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Maybe they had it all planned and just forgot to release it. Like they keep forgetting to include booklets and forgetting to include scenes in some movies or the right dialogue in others.toiletduck! wrote:Duh..duh..DUH!Turell wrote: "I haven't lost any sleep thinking, oh my God, 'Lord of the Flies' isn't in here, 'Three Penny Opera' isn't in here.
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..and on occasion forget to flip scenes the right way around and size up boxes correctly.Matt wrote:Maybe they had it all planned and just forgot to release it. Like they keep forgetting to include booklets and forgetting to include scenes in some movies or the right dialogue in others.
I've gone thread crapping crazy today. Apologies.
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Regarding The Threepenny Opera...
A few years ago...this was a month or two before the official announcement of the released film; mind you, but HVE listed both La Strada and The Threepenny Opera with $39.95 pricetags as coming from the Criterion label. Both vanished quickly from their page, but only La Strada surfaced officially a month or two later.
Worth noting, perhaps?
A few years ago...this was a month or two before the official announcement of the released film; mind you, but HVE listed both La Strada and The Threepenny Opera with $39.95 pricetags as coming from the Criterion label. Both vanished quickly from their page, but only La Strada surfaced officially a month or two later.
Worth noting, perhaps?
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Has anyone actually written them and asked about this? Just a thought.Nothing wrote:so the January titles have been announced and still no sign of individual releases for the films exclusive to this set (which Janus had already been sitting on for years before this). Do Criterion really enjoy annoying their dedicated customers that much?
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Why not order it from dvdplanet HERE? Remember to enter the coupon code JANUS to save $25 (expires 10/31/06).Cobz wrote:Does anyone know how us UK residents will be able to purchase this?
Mine shipped 4 days ago and is most likely at customs right now!
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It seems some people on this forum are better informed than others. Has Mulvaney left Criterion organization? Or did he get promoted, hence does not get involved in answering consumer mail? Dangers of naming a menu button after a person.....Nothing wrote:I mailed 'Mulvaney' a month or so ago and received no reply.
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