(Part 3) Top products from r/criterion

This is the Anchor Bay DVD mentioned previously. If you just want the disc, there are a few ex-rentals for $20 + shipping. I actually have a complete one with slipcover and insert listed on amazon for a ridiculously high price, but if you are interested I would happily sell it to you directly for much cheaper (or even just trade it for something).

There are also a few listed on ebay for about the same price, but one of the listings has conflicting photos (the disc is not what should be with that cover art), and the rest have no photos or description at all. Be careful, there are alot of "region free" and "import" versions with terrible quality.

As far as the blu ray goes, from what I've heard the American Herzog set, while certainly a step up from the DVDs, is not that great quality wise. I've heard the set to get is the BFI one from the UK/Europe. I have seen neither, and am only repeating internet speculation.

Hope this helps!

I've been wondering the same thing. I love Fassbinder and I've seen most of his movies. This is one of the big ones that I haven't. Thankfully Hulu Plus has a lot of his stuff, including some of my favorites. I really hope Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven comes out! May I also recommend a book if you like Fassbinder? Check out Fassbinder: The Life And Work Of A Provocative Genius.

OK, so it seems like he likes the weird visual stuff - this is sort of expensive, but you might want to look at the Cremaster book. It's the art of Matthew Barney from the film series (which is unavailable on disc, except for an excerpt on DVD from Cremaster 3). The book though is really big and beautifully designed, with lots of the strange artwork and visuals from the film series. A really handsome art book that's film related.

Yeah, Egoyan's Exotica. It's a great read.

yeah, i was just curious. Amazon and hpb are my only sources at the moment.

In the Blink of an Eye (Walter Murch)

Shot by Shot (Steven D. Katz)

Making Movies (Sidney Lumet)

Hitchcock/Truffaut (Francois Truffaut)

Something Like An Autobiography (Akira Kurosawa)

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Those are all must reads, in my opinion. But this is just off the top of my head. I'm not next to my bookshelf at the moment, so this is the best I can do right now! =)

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EDIT: Back with round two.

Seductive Cinema (James Card)

Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of the Other Side of the Wind (Josh Carp)

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (Donald Richie)

All the Emperor's Men: Kurosawa's Pearl Harbor (Hiroshi Tasogawa)

Making Documentary Films and Videos (Barry Hampe)

The Haunted Screen (Lotte Eisner)

This is the best book I've read on getting a real insight on prolific filmmaker's process. It's really a fantastic and informative read:
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors

...years ago I bought a huge compendium of weird horror fiction. That was the first time I read Daphne du Maurier's "Don't Look Now"
...then, I had a professor, who loves the Criterion Collection, tell me about the film when it released on CC. I had no idea there was a movie too. :) Now, I love it.

Assuming this is true (big grain of salt, though I'd love for it to happen), I wonder if the booklet will include any of the text from that book he wrote about her that never wound up being published.

Robin Wood's book called Ingmar Bergman is one of the best things I've read on him. https://www.amazon.ca/Ingmar-Bergman-Robin-Wood/dp/0814333605/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1549907960&refinements=p_27%3ARobin+Wood&s=books&sr=1-3. It's pricey but worth it.

Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey :)

https://www.amazon.com/An-Elephant-Sitting-Still-Blu-ray/dp/B07Z74Q298?tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

here you go, company called Kimstim, which I don't know much about. Although they have another Chinese movie which I am really interested in watching: Angels Wear White

A book of David Lynch's art? Interviews with filmmakers (in that vein, may I recommend Lynch on Lynch)? If you hone in on specific directors, there's a lot out there to explore.

Link for anybody interested in buying the book

I really dig Taschen's Movies of the... series.

The Film Handbook by Geoff Andrew

I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon

And if you like Orson Welles, even though it's not strictly about film, My Lunches with Orson is hilarious and an engrossing read.

No problem and if you do enjoy the works of Demy I would recommend this book as a subelement read

If you want a Criterion-specific read, check out this book on the making of Heaven's Gate.

I would love that just because I hate my version of Creepshow. I don't know if a better version has been released but I have one in that weird cardboard case with the plastic hing thing. Yeah, this one.

And then the DVD itself is one of those dual sided discs where one side is widescreen and the other is full screen.
Actually, I have a bunch of Tim Burton films this way too and I think it's literally the worse way to design a DVD and case.

Or I could you know just buy the regular blu, I guess.