Comments on: First review for Criterion’s ‘High and Low’

By: Fabien

Fabien — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:27:06 +0000

You're welcome, Jeremy. :p About this serie, in fact, Criterion shows a page about it, now : Essential Art House. From what I read here and there, it features blatantly existing Criterion editions of the films, without (or with few) bonuses, making those great films more accessible (15.96$ per DVD). Always from what I read, it could be the exact same films than those of the 50 years of Janus films box, but divided into boxset volumes, in which case we should see Ikiru and Seven Samurai in future volumes, cheapers and with new packaging. (Sorry for being a little off topic.)

By: Jeremy Quintanilla

Jeremy Quintanilla — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:08:16 +0000

News to me, thanks Fabien.

By: Vili Maunula

Vili Maunula — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:58:18 +0000

Interesting. Since I have not seen any pre-promotion of this myself, and the Criterion website seems silent about it as well, I assume that it must be just the first release of the film repacked. Although there are rumours that Criterion intends to update all of their "first generation" Kurosawa releases like they have done with Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Seven Samurai and now High and Low. We'll wait and see.

By: Fabien

Fabien — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:42:10 +0000

Neither do I, and the reviews aren’t dated, and it’s difficult to find the desired information on the site.
I stumbled upon it totally by chance and was surprised to be the first to post it on another movie-goer board.

By the way, and not completely unrelated to this topic, Criterion seems planning a Rashomon release on september within the first box of the new Essential Art House collection.
I fear there is no further detail and this is unofficial but I may be mistaken.

By: Vili Maunula

Vili Maunula — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:23:04 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up, Fabien! Too bad that DVD Beaver doesn’t (as far as I can see) offer any RSS feed, so I never know what is going on at their site.

By: Fabien

Fabien — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:30:18 +0000

One or two weeks ago, DVD Beaver published a technical review of this new edition.
Their conclusions are very similar to those of DVD Town.

By: Jeremy Quintanilla

Jeremy Quintanilla — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:01:00 +0000

I like having several version on the same movie.So far I have both Criterion versions of a Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro. I will be sure to add High and Low.