I posted early this morning over at Ain't It Cool about the twice-annual B&N Criterion sale starting late last night. I've got some mostly-finished pieces I'll be posting here about movies like Chaplin's The Gold Rush and other recent releases from The Criterion Collection.

Here's a link that takes you to the series of Criterion posts I wrote over the years at Hollywood Elsewhere. Many others are not properly tagged. Here's the Ozu series that I started a couple of years ago and am re-starting soon. The index rolls in reverse chronology. Here's the first installment, which does a serviceable job of introducing the man. I never got to Late Spring, which recently became the first Yasujiro Ozu movie to get the Blu-ray blessing in the States.

The more I look at those, the more I want to sit down and plow into cleaning things up in focused clumps.