i saw this being added ('on order' only) to the Zip catalogue a few weeks back but i didn't say a thing anywhere on the net (most notably on the criterionforum) for fear of everyone adding it to their lists, thus diminishing greatly my chances of ever seeing it.
HARD BOILED (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) John Woo, 1992
well, guess what? to my fucking surprise they got (at least) a copy last week ... and this morning, they shipped me a disc ... i'm so completely dumbfounded. this is one Criterion's most prized out-of-print titles. i haven't seen the disc yet but the specs are definitely Criterion's (there are a bunch of different editions floating around). i've never seen the film, and everybody knows by now that i'm a huge Criterion fan, so this is an outstanding surprise.
btw, Zip's customer service is lightning fast now. i requested Carole Laure's CQ2 this morning (after having seen the trailer on the Camping sauvage disc), not even a couple of hours later and the title's been added to the site.
i just checked my mail and got my Garbage tickets for the Montreal show in two weeks :) happy about that.
i also got HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE (EXTREME UNRATED) from Zip.
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