Criterion Postcards & Booklets

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thethirdman · #1 Post by **thethirdman** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:18 pm

Beginning in late 2005, the Criterion Collection decided to include postcards featuring the cover art of some of their most popular titles with catalog and new releases because "a number of you have asked for reproductions of cover art or original posters." The postcards are randomly inserted and not included in every Criterion case. Criterion has also been known to include a postcard with t-shirt orders and replacement requests. The postcards sometimes feature alternate artwork.

List of Criterion Postcards:

1. 8½
2. Ace in the Hole
3. Army of Shadows
4. L’avventura
5. Battle of Algiers, The
6. Bicycle Thieves
7. Brazil
8. Breathless
9. Burmese Harp, The
10. Complete Mr. Arkadin, The
11. Complete Monterey Pop Festival, The
12. Contempt
13. Dazed and Confused
14. Divorce Italian Style
15. Double Life of Véronique, The
16. Elevator to the Gallows
17. Fists in the Pocket
18. Grand Illusion
19. Green for Danger
20. Grey Gardens
21. Harlan County U.S.A.
22. House of Games
23. If....
24. Ivan’s Childhood
25. Kicking and Screaming
26. Kind Hearts and Coronets
27. La haine
28. Masculin féminin
29. Metropolitan
30. Monsters and Madmen
31. Naked City, The
32. Night on Earth
33. Overlord
34. Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist
35. Playtime
36. Ran
37. Le samouraï
38. Seduced and Abandoned
39. Seven Samurai
40. Shoot the Piano Player
41. Smiles of a Summer Night
42. Stranger than Paradise
43. Sweetie
44. Sweet Movie
45. Tales of Hoffmann, The
46. Third Man, The
47. Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
48. Ugetsu
49. Vengeance is Mine
50. Viridiana
51. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
52. WR: Mysteries of the Organism
53. Yi Yi

List of Recent Catalog Booklets:

1. Cult Classics
2. Documentaries
3. Film Noir
4. Technicolor

Related links:

Criterion newsletter
Postcard page at Criterion
Postcard page at Criterion Dungeon

peerpee · #2 Post by **peerpee** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:32 pm

I got a "LE SAMOURAI Criterion newsletter postcard" in my RAN.

tavernier · #3 Post by **tavernier** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:05 am

thethirdman wrote:My copy of The Tales of Hoffmann did not include the postcards mentioned in the latest newsletter. Are they supposed to be included in every case or only random cases? Should I contact Mulvaney about this or try to exchange it for another case? Did anyone receive the postcards in the Ran case?

UGETSU postcard was in HOFFMANN, MASCULIN FEMININ postcard was in RAN.

Napier · #4 Post by **Napier** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:29 am

I got a Masculin Feminin card in Ran and Hoffmann.

WTF!

blindside8zao · #5 Post by **blindside8zao** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:14 am

we need to start trading, so we can get all the ones we want, or all of them.

richast2 · #6 Post by **richast2** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:41 pm

I didn't get any postcards with Ugetsu

blindside8zao · #7 Post by **blindside8zao** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:35 am

i believe the postcards start with the nov 22 releases.

Feast on me · #8 Post by **Feast on me** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:15 am

I got a Tales Of Hoffman postcard in my Ran DVD, but got no postcard in my Tales of Hoffman DVD

jcelwin · #9 Post by **jcelwin** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:42 am

richast2 wrote:I didn't get any postcards with Ugetsu

Me neither. Bastards. Want to start a petition?

Andre Jurieu · #10 Post by **Andre Jurieu** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:48 am

I don't really care about which postcards I receive (we'll see if I'm still singing that tune when I get stuck with a Viridiana postcard), but somehow the perforations of the postcard also poked through onto my Tales of Hoffmann booklet. So, now the bottom third of my booklet is one bend away from detaching itself. That's kinda bunk. I'm also wondering how the hell it happened, since it would mean they attached the booklet and the postcard while making the perforations, which makes very little sense to me.

tavernier · #11 Post by **tavernier** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:57 pm

There were no postcards in either FORBIDDEN GAMES or PIANO PLAYER.

tasog37 · #12 Post by **tasog37** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:25 pm

I got a Masculin Feminine postcard in Ran.

I was really hoping for a Le Samourai one, but this is still pretty cool.

godardslave · #13 Post by **godardslave** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:30 pm

I've never got a postcard.

How rare are they?

blindside8zao · #14 Post by **blindside8zao** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:08 am

dunno, i too got a tales of hoffman in my ran.

thethirdman · #15 Post by **thethirdman** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:25 pm

I got a postcard for Le samourai in my copy of Shoot the Piano Player so they must not be limited to the November releases. In contrast, my copy of Forbidden Games did not have a postcard. Apparently, we are not guaranteed a postcard with every individual copy.

peerpee · #16 Post by **peerpee** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:22 am

I got a MASCULINE FEMININE postcard in my HOFFMANN. It's nice, coz it's the "art" cover design that wasn't used for the actual cover.

academyleader · #17 Post by **academyleader** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:41 am

I got an Ugetsu in Ran.

Ashirg · #18 Post by **Ashirg** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:50 am

I got Hoffman in my Hoffman and Musculine Feminine in my Ran

toiletduck! · #19 Post by **toiletduck!** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:28 pm

You got Hoffmann in my Ran!

I mean, I did.

-Toilet Dcuk

keeproductions · #20 Post by **keeproductions** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:00 pm

Got Le Samourai in my Ran and it's exactly what I wanted!

Napier · #21 Post by **Napier** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:32 am

Got another Masculin Feminin card in my Shoot the Piano Player. 3for 3 on this card.

mmiesner · #22 Post by **mmiesner** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:01 pm

does anybody else find it somewhat odd that we are only seeing postcards for releases from the last few months? i would think this would be a cheap way to promote their back catalog, but they are only promoting discs that have recently been released. i'd love to get something like an Autumn Sonata or Hiroshima mon Amour postcard, or to have them send out ones for future releases as well. that could be a cool way to let us know some upcoming releases: imagine opening up your Virgin Spring and getting a Holy Mountain postcard.

i need to change my pants after thinking about that.

Dr. Mabuse · #23 Post by **Dr. Mabuse** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:49 pm

Got Masculine Feminin in Tales of Hoffmann (ToH) and ToH in my Ran. 2 for 2 so far...

Theodore R. Stockton · #24 Post by **Theodore R. Stockton** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:17 pm

Damn it people, Ugetsu does not come with a post card. If you read the newsletter you will find that Ran and Hoffmann are the only November releases that have them.

richast2 · #25 Post by **richast2** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:02 pm

someone posted near the top that they had, in fact, gotten a postcard with their Ugetsu.