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I RT'd it. Haven't used Twitter in a year but this is worth it. Even though I a)will not win and b)am probably not even able to win because I live in Canada. 
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Signed up for Twitter for this... Here's hoping!
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I entered as well. Good god, now that's a prize....
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Is this open to people in the UK? Not that I'd be able to play the DVDs anyway.
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zenintrude posted:Like all Godard movies? What! I've been ripping through Godard lately and so far Pierrot, Une Femme, and Breathless were all awesome  . Also totally retweeted that tweeter thing.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:What! I've been ripping through Godard lately and so far Pierrot, Une Femme, and Breathless were all awesome The one he made with the Rolling Stones is one of the dullest films I've ever seen.
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Mar 5, 2011 18:39
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cloudchamber posted:The one he made with the Rolling Stones is one of the dullest films I've ever seen. To chime in on the Godard hate, "Alphaville" is the only Criterion I ever sold to someone else after buying it. Seeing as that's one of his most acclaimed films, I've had zero interest in checking any of his other movies out.
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Robert Denby posted:To chime in on the Godard hate, "Alphaville" is the only Criterion I ever sold to someone else after buying it. Seeing as that's one of his most acclaimed films, I've had zero interest in checking any of his other movies out. Your loss. You should at least watch loving Breathless just so you know what it is, its a pretty important piece of cinema history no matter what you think of it.
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Band of Outsiders is the Godard movie for people who don't like Godard.
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Robert Denby posted:To chime in on the Godard hate, "Alphaville" is the only Criterion I ever sold to someone else after buying it. Seeing as that's one of his most acclaimed films, I've had zero interest in checking any of his other movies out. Godard is extremely hit or miss. Some of his films are interesting while being terrible (Tout Va Bien), some are stupid while being kind of enjoyable (Une Femme Est Une Femme), some are very boring (Masculin/Feminine) and some are flat out great (Contempt, Vivre Sa Vie, Band of Outsiders). Everyone has the ones they like and don't. God knows I do. (I also couldn't get through Alphaville)
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I like most of Godard and love a pretty good portion of it, and I've never heard anyone represent Alphaville as "one of his most acclaimed films." I do think it's cool and interesting how even among people who are generally well-disposed towards him, a lot of his movies are polarizing. Tout Va Bien is a good example. It's one of my favorites, but a lot of Godard fans are pretty chilly towards it. Contempt, too-- although I rewatched it recently and appreciated it much more. Edit: A lot of his most immediately exciting, even manic work unfortunately is sort of low-profile in the U.S.-- Pierrot le Fou, Week End, and La Chinoise aren't talked up as much as they probably should be.
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Sheldrake posted:Godard is extremely hit or miss. Some of his films are interesting while being terrible (Tout Va Bien), some are stupid while being kind of enjoyable (Une Femme Est Une Femme), some are very boring (Masculin/Feminine) and some are flat out great (Contempt, Vivre Sa Vie, Band of Outsiders). Everyone has the ones they like and don't. God knows I do. On the flip side, I enjoyed Alphaville and don't care for Contempt.
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Robert Denby posted:To chime in on the Godard hate, "Alphaville" is the only Criterion I ever sold to someone else after buying it. Seeing as that's one of his most acclaimed films, I've had zero interest in checking any of his other movies out. I don't think Alphaville was particularly good, but it isn't really that indicative of the rest of his body of work.
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I absolutely LOVE Week End but it's certainly not for everybody. I would recommend Pierrot le Fou and Breathless to just about anybody though, and Band of Outsiders is excellent as well.
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I tried watching Pierrot le Fou, and I just had to stop. Honestly, I thought it was a total piece of poo poo because it just felt like a string of random scenes strung together. I mean, maybe I'm missing something in the film, but it seems like it's just a deconstruction of cinema without actually being worth watching. I really would welcome someone explaining why I should reconsider my immense dislike for the film.
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Cemetry Gator posted:I tried watching Pierrot le Fou, and I just had to stop. Honestly, I thought it was a total piece of poo poo because it just felt like a string of random scenes strung together. I mean, maybe I'm missing something in the film, but it seems like it's just a deconstruction of cinema without actually being worth watching. I'm not going to try and convince you feel otherwise. When I first saw Breathless back in college it bored me to tears. However, I recently decided to take his work up again recently and I started with Pierrot le Fou (good thing I bought it too seeing as how it eventually went OOP). To my surprise I actually rather enjoyed Pierrot le Fou. I'm not exactly sure what it was about it that appealed to me more than Breathless did. Maybe it had something to do with it being in color or maybe I just liked the characters more, but I found it to be a refreshing film in a mellow sort of way. I still think it drags at a few parts, but I still enjoy the picture all the same.
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Anyone think we'll ever see any Sofia Coppola on Criterion? I'd love a fully packed Blu for The Virgin Suicides, though I know Paramount will eventually just crap out a half-hearted effort.
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zenintrude posted:Anyone think we'll ever see any Sofia Coppola on Criterion? As for Godard, I think he's one of those directors where people who really like film as a subject in and of itself get more out of his films than general audiences, particularly if you're talking about his early films (up until the late '60s/early '70s), which are the ones that tend to get talked about the most in general film discussion. A lot of the films mentioned here---like Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville (both from 1965) are a bit difficult to digest if you're trying to approach them as straightforward narratives the way you'd approach your typical Hollywood film. Definitely not for everyone, but you can see why he's one of those filmmakers that other filmmakers seem to like so much.
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Godard films are interesting if you love cinema for the sake of cinema. The story a Godard film tells is not really the draw, and in many cases it is almost nonsensical or at least so lacking in details that you just know the emotions the characters are feeling and what the basic situation is. The dialogue, the performances, the camera movements, the editing, the soundtrack - those are the real draws in a Godard film.
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Hey guys - I lurk the gently caress out of this thread, thought that I would pop in and respond to all of this Godard chatter. Godard is my favorite director, which isn't saying a hell of a lot considering that I'm just a 19 year old art school kid, but regardless I'd like to throw in my two cents. To anyone that is perplexed, frustrated, or bored with Godard but wanting to figure out what all of the hype is about, I highly recommend this essay "Godard and Counter Cinema" by Peter Wollen. http://books.google.com/books?id=22...d%27est&f=false Here's the basic thesis... quote:More and more radically Godard has developed a counter-cinema whose values are counterposed to those of orthodox cinema. I want simply to write some notes about the main features of this counter-cinema. My approach is to take seven of the values of the old cinema, Hollywood-Mosfilm, as Godard would put it, and contrast these with their (revolutionary, materialist) counterparts and contraries. In a sense, the seven deadly sins of the cinema against the seven cardinal virtues. They can be set out schematically in a table as follows: This could be pretty elementary poo poo and not worth mentioning, but I've found that article to be invaluable in my viewing of Godard and a big reason that I have fallen in love with his films. For anyone wondering, my favorites are Weekend and Masuclin Feminin. 
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Flutch posted:Hey guys - I lurk the gently caress out of this thread, thought that I would pop in and respond to all of this Godard chatter. Godard is my favorite director, which isn't saying a hell of a lot considering that I'm just a 19 year old art school kid, but regardless I'd like to throw in my two cents. I think those just speak to his overwhelming (and personally, what I find to be very appealing and fertile) debt to Brecht. Edit: Even though those sort of reach their ludic peak in (probably) Week End and their technical peak in 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, I'd recommend Les Caribiniers to somebody curious about these methods-- they're at their most rough and vigorous there. It's also one of his funniest movies.
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So Criterion just posted this on facebook... Is this something that's already been confirmed or is it something new? I personally have no idea. Looks like it might be the top half of some new cover art?
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Criterion just posted this on their facebook page. Any ideas?
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It's probably the cover for Black Moon
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Up here in wintry Canadia, my DVD of Sweet Smell of Success just came in the mail. This is the first Criterion purchase I've ever made and I have yet to pop it in the player, but the booklet includes two Ernest Lehman short stories involving Sidney Falco and JJ Hunsecker that I'm already finding are worth the investment. You can almost hear the dialogue in your head being spoken by Lancaster and Curtis, but the original description of Hunsecker seems almost the opposite of the actor: Soft, short, and I think the word "porcine" might have been employed at one point. Also the dynamic between the two characters is quite different from the film; the stories are both told from Sidney's POV and the tone makes him much more sympathetic, almost desperate to escape Hunsecker's clutches. Hunsecker is also far more obnoxious, by an almost ridiculous magnitude. In fact the world of the short stories is so different from the film that they seem like alternate dimension versions of each other; I really enjoyed the stories, but they run off a much different energy than the movie. If you read the original screenplay though, especially the ending, the roots of the source material show through far more, with Sidney's aching to tell Hunsecker what he really thinks of him, and actually yelling at Susie to "get out before it's too late", definitely a side expressed more in the stories than the final film. Now I just need to borrow a friend's house to watch it on a screen that isn't 10+ years old.
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DetoxP posted:So Criterion just posted this on facebook... Is Amadeus already on Criterion?
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scary ghost dog posted:Is Amadeus already on Criterion? No. Wish it was though. The Blu-Ray from Warner is very DNR-heavy.
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Anybody still waiting for their BBS boxset on Blu-Ray from the half off sale? I ordered almost two weeks ago and it still hasn't shipped (plus Criterion hasn't answered my email I sent them two days ago)
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 If this is related to an upcoming release it's gotta be Fincher-related considering all the music videos Michael K. Williams has been in.
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STEVIE B 4EVA posted:
Oh poo poo... Omar's comin'.
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Omar doesn't have a Blu-Ray player, apparently.
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Sporadic posted:Anybody still waiting for their BBS boxset on Blu-Ray from the half off sale? I ordered almost two weeks ago and it still hasn't shipped (plus Criterion hasn't answered my email I sent them two days ago) I'm still waiting on Sweet Smell of Success and Cronos, if that's any consolation to you.
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FitFortDanga posted:Omar doesn't have a Blu-Ray player, apparently. He did, but Marlo smashed it.
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Does anybody know when will it be the next B&N sale?
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Sporadic posted:Anybody still waiting for their BBS boxset on Blu-Ray from the half off sale? I ordered almost two weeks ago and it still hasn't shipped (plus Criterion hasn't answered my email I sent them two days ago) My copy of The Thin Red Line and Cronos just shipped today, I was gettin pretty worried too.
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The whole cover: Also, apparently something by Cocteau will be in next week's announcements. Hoping for La Belle et la bete on Blu.
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Heh, first time I've guessed something right from the newsletter teasers. Looking forward to watch it, at last, though I didn't really like the cover.
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 Goons who live in NY, MA, MS, CA or CO: The Criterion 50% off sale has begun again, sort of, kinda:Through 3/16/11, save 50% off any one item at select B&N store locations: http://images.barnesandnoble.com/pimages/email/2011/03/Coupons/0314_mem_coupon.gif Edit: the barcode isn't appearing. If you're a member, you should've received an email about this coupon, though! codyclarke fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Mar 14, 2011 |
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cf.org just posted new threads for Makioka Sisters, Kiss Me Deadly, People on Sunday, Zazie dans le metro, Black Moon, Insignificance and an Eclipse set of Raffaello Matarazzo. But I see nothing on Criterion's website yet. Great lineup if it's true.
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