The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 12:02:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp/ 32 32 February Criterion Releases: Essential Art House Volume II https://staging2.theplaylist.net/february-criterion-releases-essentia-20090203/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/february-criterion-releases-essentia-20090203/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:40:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=8697 This October the prestigious DVD restorative company, The Criterion Collection, broke its usual mold of offering expensive but excruciatingly detailed revisions of classic yet oft forgotten films by releasing a package of stripped down versions of classic films in a reasonably priced packaged titled “Essential Arthouse Volume I.”

The set was touted as being six black and white foreign films that were semi-accessible (but not mainstream enough to be universally scorned by true buffs) and able to save you the time and money of toiling away at film school, since it was essentially film school packaged in a box.

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