Ozu + Tomine. So good, it’s almost unbearable.
CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!
LATE SPRING edition.
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy that love and / or readership should be shamelessly bought. so in honor of Criterion’s first Yasujiro Ozu blu-ray (the cover art of which, as with the original DVD, looks sorta like a Tumblr photo post), i thought it might be fun to give everyone out there a chance to take home one of the most beautiful stories about home ever told.
THE PRIZE: 1 Criterion DVD or Blu-ray (your choice, but choose the blu-ray) of Yasujiro Ozu’s LATE SPRING. Depending on the response, i may have more than 1 winner so that the ratio of entrees to prizes isn’t silly.
TO ENTER: just “like” and / or Re-blog this post (or RT on Twitter @Criterioncorner). each note will count as a separate entry, so everyone can theoretically submit a maximum total of 3 entries, if that’s how you roll.
giveaway will be closed at 11:59 P.M. EST on Friday, 4/20/2012. winners will be randomly selected. the odds may not be ever in your favor, but someone (or a few someones) are gonna get something sweet for nothing.
good luck, and thanks for reading!
CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!
GODZILLA EDITION
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy that love and / or readership should be shamelessly bought. so in honor of the 2012 and the impending doom of our civilization, i thought i’d offer a chance to bring home everyone’s favorite world-destroyer, GODZILLA! MMMRAAAHHHWWWFFFF!! (that’s how Mothra told me to spell Godzilla’s cry, but you can’t ever really trust that guy).
THE PRIZE: 1 Criterion DVD or Blu-ray (your choice) of Ishiro Honda’s GODZILLA.
TO ENTER: just “like” and / or Re-blog this post. each note will count as a separate entry, so every fellow blogger can therefore submit a maximum total of 2 entries.
giveaway will be closed at 12 P.M. EST on Friday, 2/3/2012. 1 winner will be randomly selected from the notes. so the odds should be okay if not super awesome, but someone’s gonna get something sweet for nothing.
good luck, and thanks for reading!
In [SALO], sex is nothing but allegory, the metaphor for the commodification of bodies subjected to power. I think that consumerism manipulates and violates bodies neither more nor less than Nazism. My film shows the sinister connection between consumerism and Nazism.
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— Pier Paolo Pasolini, excerpted from the filmmaker’s recently discovered penultimate interview, recorded just weeks before his murder. the interview was thought to be lost, but Pasolini’s swedish translator recently rediscovered all of the materials. you can / should head over to Richard Brody’s New Yorker blog ”The Front Row” for all of the details and a bit more context. there’s even a link to the raw audio. (via criterioncorner) |
CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!!
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy that love and / or readership should be shamelessly bought. so in honor of the holiday season - and to make up for lost time / clear my shelf of some extra stuff i’ve got lying around - i thought i’d throw the biggest Criterion Corner giveaway yet.
The Prize:
- DVD of Sidney Lumet’s 12 ANGRY MEN!
- Blu-ray of Claude Chabrol’s LES COUSINS!
- 1 DVD box set of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s THREE COLORS! (opened but never watched and in mint condition… long story)
- 1 MYSTERY DVD!!!! (maybe a Criterion film, maybe just something I want to share with a stranger. definitely previously loved).
TO ENTER: just “like” and / or Re-blog this post. each note will count as a separate entry, so every fellow blogger can therefore submit a maximum total of 2 entries.
giveaway will be closed at 12 P.M. EST on Friday, 12/3/2011. 1 winner will be randomly selected from the notes. so the odds should be okay if not super awesome, but someone’s gonna get some great stuff for nothing.
good luck, and thanks so, so much for reading the blog and my Criterion Corner column on movies.com!
CRITERION GIVEAWAY!!!
KURONEKO (dir. Kaneto Shindo) 1968.
hey there, party people, it’s the first friday of the month and you know what that means… absolutely nothing, because i stick to a schedule about as well as Terrence Malick sticks to, um, a schedule, but enough with the totally forced comparisons, let’s give some free stuff away, shall we?
this month’s giveaway is… wait for it… or just look at the picture above that you’ve obviously already seen… Kaneto Shindo’s giddy / spooky / cat-tastic ghost story, KURONEKO! i added the exclamation point, but this is a movie in which classical filmmaking, wire-fu, and animatronic cat paws co-exist, often within the same shot… so, yeah, i’ll drop some exclamation points wherever i damn well please, thank you ve!!ry m!uch.
TO ENTER, EITHER RE-BLOG OR “LIKE” THIS POST (you get entered once for each action, so feel free to go nuts).
as usual i’ll pick a winner at random from the notes on Monday morning, and the dvd or blu-ray (your choice) will be sent to you directly from amazon on the day of the disc’s release, 10/18. good luck!
CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY: SEPTEMBER EDITION
this month’s prize: a dvd or blu-ray (winner’s choice) of CARLOS!!!!
to enter, all you have to do is re-blog this post. that’s it. on monday, i’ll randomly declare a winner from the re-bloggers / re-tweeters, and you’ll receive your dvd or blu-ray at the end of the month directly from Amazon when it’s released.
the same deal is going with RTs of a similar Criterion Corner Tweet, so RT that if you want to double your already not too-shabby odds of winning.
fun? fun. totally shameless… sure, but everybody wins, and - most of all - it helps to ensure that a bunch of people are aggressively spreading the word about how one of the best films of 2010 is due for an imminent Criterion release and that everyone should be getting jaaazzzzzzeeed! so get… doing whatever it is that you feel like you want do in this situation. awesome? awesome.
okay, toodles.
Criterion GIveaway!!!
Roman Polanski’s CUL-DE-SAC (DVD) 1966.
so i suddenly found myself with an extra copy of the latest Polanski film to be inducted into the Criterion Collection, and decided I’d rather give it to someone who wants it than let it collect dust in my apartment because i’m too lazy to try and sell it.
TO ENTER, JUST RE-BLOG THIS POST! (or RT the tweet that may have brought you here).
1 winner will be randomly selected on monday. winners of the previous contest, your copies of SECRET SUNSHINE will be shipped to you on tuesday.
the next (scheduled) contest / giveaway will be on September 1, and I’ll be running scheduled contests / giveaways on the 1st of each month after that.
…bonus points if you notice how sweet my clock is.
CONTEST!!!!!!!!!!!
WIN A FREE DVD or Blu-Ray of Lee Chang-dong’s SECRET SUNSHINE (the choice is yours)
so the Criterion Corner blog is on the precipice of hitting a neat milestone of some kind, and i want to express my gratitude to all the folks out there who’ve taken the time to share in the site (and possibly read the cinematical / movies.com columns, for which this site serves as a supplement). the blog has quickly become a reliably fun and rewarding experience for me, and that certainly wouldn’t be the case if i felt as though i were launching all this stuff into the void. so as my way of saying thanks and continuing a proud tradition of shameless self-promotion (and also drawing attention to a life-altering masterpiece i fear could be lost in the Criterion shuffle), i’m giving out a copy of Lee Chang-dong’s SECRET SUNSHINE!
trust me, you want this.
TO ENTER: JUST RE-BLOG THIS POST. i’ll pick a random re-blogger at midnight on the morning of Friday, 8/5/2011 and message them for details. Secret Sunshine will be released on 8/23/2011, and the disc will be mailed off shortly thereafter.
and once more, with feeling: THANK YOU. - David
