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aslouie -> The Criterion Collection (9/14/2008 12:22:18 AM)
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For any serious cineastes here, I'm wondering how many of us are very familiarized by The Janus Films' home entertainment company (subsidiary?), that takes interesting considerations as to which films in world cinema deserves the high brow status, like say The 400 Blows, Seven Samurai, Fellini's Roma, The Seventh Sign (hopefully referring to the Ingmar Bergman classic as opposed to... never mind[;)]), Wages of Fear, Insomnia (the Swedish original, as opposed to the Al Pacino-starring remake), alongside film festival/cult classics like John Woo's The Killer, Hard Boiled, American independent classics a la (Wes Anderson's) The Life Aquatic Steve Zissou, even certain Hollywood fare like Robocop (possibly in part that it's directed by the same Paul Verhoeven who brought us Turkish Delight and Soldier of Orange, and the fact that prominent critics remarked that Robocop feels like an adult, intellectualized version of a boyhood fantasy cartoon).
But with the current advent of CC's reissue of Pasolini's Salo, I can't help but be reminded of Criterion's past selection of... MICHAEL BAY's Armageddon and the SIMPSON/BRUCKHEIMER actioneer, THE ROCK![sm=eek.gif][sm=icon_smile_yikes.gif]
Methinks it might have something to do with being a 1990's time capsule to what was the rise of high concept Hollywood flicks... Meh...
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