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TrixRabbi posted:I'm intrigued by everyone who thought it was Badlands. I just finished watching it and there's not a shot anywhere similar to that in the movie. At least nothing in the Purple/Orange sky area.    Eh. Having not seen the film in years, it's the first thing I thought of when I saw that screenshot too.
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TrixRabbi posted:I'm intrigued by everyone who thought it was Badlands. I just finished watching it and there's not a shot anywhere similar to that in the movie. At least nothing in the Purple/Orange sky area. It looks a lot like the poster at a cursory glance.  edit: drat, great minds SubG.
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Since they have a working relationship with MGM now, think it could be Heaven's Gate? (I've never seen it so I am most likely wrong but I have been hoping it would pop up eventually)
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Sporadic posted:Since they have a working relationship with MGM now, think it could be Heaven's Gate? (I've never seen it so I am most likely wrong but I have been hoping it would pop up eventually) Heaven's Gate is like every color of the rainbow, if the entire rainbow was sepia.
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Ah, I can definitely see it now. Shame it isn't.
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Has anybody seen Alambrista? Sounds pretty cool, and Ned Beatty is the light of my life so I'm shocked I've never heard of it.
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Pfirti86 posted:I just finished watching Tiny Furniture. It wasn't as terrible as some of you were making it out to be, but I found myself really starting to hate the main character about 10 minutes into the film, and that feeling never went away. I also hated the main character and felt that she was a completely pathetic individual. Along with Bellflower, it seems like the writer/director/star just adapted their diary to script form with no real attention to good storytelling, shot it, and presented it as some brilliant insight into the modern youth experience. The sad thing is that critics seem to be eager to lap this poo poo up. I wasn't a fan of Fish Tank either, but it's light-years ahead of Tiny Furniture.
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New announcements today. Will we get La Promesse? Being John Malkovich? Alambrista? Y Tu Mama Tambien? Welp, I'm heading out to lunch right now, which is particularly a guarantee they'll be posted in the next half hour.
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#607 - A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY (BR/2-disc DVD, April 9) * Early Films Manual of Arms (1966 • 17 minutes • Black & White • Silent) Process Red (1966 • 3 minutes, 30 seconds • Color • Silent) Maxwell’s Demon (1968 • 4 minutes • Color/Black & White • Silent) Surface Tension (1968 • 9 minutes, 30 seconds • Color • Monaural) Carrots & Peas (1969 • 5 minutes • Color • Monaural) Lemon (1969 • 5 minutes • Color • Silent) Zorns Lemma (1970 • 60 minutes • Color • Monaural) * Films from Hapax Legomena (nostalgia) (1971 • 36 minutes • Black & White • Monaural) Poetic Justice (1972 • 31 minutes, 30 seconds • Black & White • Silent) Critical Mass (1971 • 25 minutes, 30 seconds • Black & White • Monaural) * Films from Magellan The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I (1977–1980 • 6 minutes • Color • Monaural) Pans 0–4 and 697–700 (1974 • 1-minute each • Color • Silent) INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Part I (1975 • 5 minutes • Color • Silent) Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate I, 0 (1976 • 4 minutes, 20 seconds • Color • Silent) Winter Solstice (1974 • 33 minutes • Color • Silent) Gloria! (1979 • 9 minutes, 30 seconds • Color • Monaural) •Audio commentary and remarks by filmmaker Hollis Frampton on selected works •Excerpted interview with Frampton from 1978 •A Lecture, a performance piece by Frampton, recorded in 1968 with the voice of artist Michael Snow •Gallery of works from Frampton’s xerographic series By Any Other Name •PLUS: A booklet with an introduction by film critic Ed Halter and essays and capsules on the films by Frampton scholars Ken Eisenstein, Bruce Jenkins, and Michael Zryd #608 - HAROLD AND MAUDE (BR/DVD, April 17)  •New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition •Optional remastered stereo soundtrack •Audio commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson and producer Charles B. Mulvehill •Illustrated audio excerpts of seminars by Ashby and writer-producer Colin Higgins •New interview with songwriter Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) •PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Wood; a 1971 New York Times profile of star Ruth Gordon; and excerpted transcripts of two interviews, one from 1997 with star Bud Cort and director of photography John Alonzo and one from 2001 with executive producer Mildred Lewis #609 - ALAMBRISTA! (BR/DVD, April 17)  •New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition •New audio commentary featuring director Robert M. Young and coproducer Michael Hausman •New interview with actor Edward James Olmos •Children of the Fields, a 1973 short documentary by Young, accompanied by a new interview with the director •Trailer •PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Charles Ramírez-Berg #610 - THE ORGANIZER (BR/DVD, April 24)  •New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition •Introduction by director Mario Monicelli from 2006 •Trailer •PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman ECLIPSE SERIES 32: PEARLS OF THE CZECH NEW WAVE (4-disc DVD, April 24)  * Pearls of the Deep * Daisies * A Report on the Party and the Guests * Return of the Prodigal Son * Capricious Summer * The Joke
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My take: Hollis Frampton - Only seen Zorn's Lemma... curious to see more, but very hesitant about it. Rental. Harold and Maude - A favorite back in college, now I find it a bit too twee. Seen it a bunch of times, but might check it out for the extras. Possible rental. Alambrista - Never heard of it before yesterday. Maybe good, I dunno. Rental. The Organizer - I've enjoyed the Monicelli I've seen (Madonna Street, Grande Guerra) but not enough to blind-buy anything. Rental. Czech New Wave - Daisies is terrific and Capricious Summer is good. I've heard good things about Party and the Guests. Rental, possible (but doubtful) purchase Criterion: saving me money in 2012
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FitFortDanga posted:#608 - HAROLD AND MAUDE (BR/DVD, April 17) Love that cover. I like Harold and Maude but I'm not sure how much, I'll have to watch it again and then decide if I'll be picking it up. I will probably blind-buy The Organizer as I am a huge fan of ~comedy italian style~ films.
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Another one... Blu-Ray upgrade of Late Spring, April 17th. I like it quite a bit, but I've already bought and sold it once. Pass.
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I've wanted to see Harold and Maude for a while now, so I might check this release out (also agreeing that it's a great cover). And the Blu-Ray for Late Spring is cool, probably means I'll be able find a good price on a used DVD from someone who upgraded.
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FitFortDanga posted:Hollis Frampton - Only seen Zorn's Lemma... curious to see more, but very hesitant about it. Rental. The Organizer sounds like the most interesting release to me, so I'm disappointed that, like The Letter Never Sent, it will have no extras.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:I hate Zorn's Lemma, but (nostalgia) and Poetic Justice are really cool experimental works. I'm annoyed that they didn't put out the whole Hapax Legomena series though, was hoping to watch the ones that aren't available anywhere. I'm also really curious how "Audio commentary and remarks by filmmaker Hollis Frampton on selected works" will work seeing as the guy died in 1984. There's a ton of extant audio material from Frampton at both the Harvard Film Archive as well as at Anthology Film Archives, so it's not like they were at any serious disadvantage in compiling those commentaries. As to why the whole Hapax saga isn't on there, I'm not 100% on the details, but I know Anthology just bankrolled a massive restoration of all of them in tandem with NYU, so it may not have been financially responsible to include/buy the rights to distribute them, or go to the trouble of their own restorations when those are already available. Beats me.
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In my continuing education on great (Criterion) Samurai films I just started watching my bluray of Harakiri and holy hell, the bamboo wakizashi scene is one of the most excruciating things I've seen in years, and this is coming from a big horror buff. I was grimacing through that entire scene. What a great, beautifully framed film so far, and after seeing his period work on Thirteen Assassins, I'm really looking forward to seeing Miike's remake, too. Also, while it's not a Samurai movie per say, Sansho the Bailiff is set in the same period and I've heard some really great things about it. Anyone able to share their personal experience?
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Hell Diver posted:What a great, beautifully framed film so far, and after seeing his period work on Thirteen Assassins, I'm really looking forward to seeing Miike's remake, too. Sansho the Bailiff is nothing like Harakiri. It's grim, but it's more similar to Ugetsu. Mizoguchi really isn't like Kobayashi at all. If you watch Ugetsu and like it and Sansho, I'd recommend Onibaba and Kuroneko. They have a fairly dream-like atmosphere and there are some mild horror aspects. Those two would probably be easier to watch for you than Sansho, I think.
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Sansho is like Despair: The Movie
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Criminal Minded posted:Sansho is like Despair: The Movie Lovely. I'll probably still give it a watch, but I also want to check out Kuroneko and Kwaidan along with a couple Kurosawa films whenever the next sales comes around. Thanks for the input, guys.
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Criminal Minded posted:Sansho is like Despair: The Movie I haven't seen Sansho is it really more depressing than Bresson stuff like Au Hasard Balthazar and Lancelot, I'm not sure I could take that 
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leokitty posted:I haven't seen Sansho is it really more depressing than Bresson stuff like Au Hasard Balthazar and Lancelot, I'm not sure I could take that Au Hasard Balthazar is a Disney movie compared to Sansho.
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Human Condition? Night and Fog? (I mean, as long as we're having the Criterion Despair Olympics....)
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STEVIE B 4EVA posted:Human Condition? Night and Fog? (I mean, as long as we're having the Criterion Despair Olympics....) Human Condition is pretty bad, yeah, but so drat repetitive that it doesn't maintain the sense of despair that Sansho does over 9 hours. Night and Fog has that weird jaunty music which is a bit of a mood killer. 
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Grey Gardens upgrade coming, via newsletter Le Havre coming, via iTunes
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Awesome on Le Havre
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Bresson's L'Argent also likely as a new Janus print is at Film Forum
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Where is my blu-ray The Hidden Fortress, Criterion? You said there would be blu-ray Hidden Fortress. 
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Lobsterdeth posted:Where is my blu-ray The Hidden Fortress, Criterion? You said there would be blu-ray Hidden Fortress. I've been wondering the same thing about Rashomon and Wild Strawberries. 
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Also there might be a Four Nights of the Dreamer DVD as there's a new print supervised by the DP, but it's not a Janus print so not a Criterion.
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Wild Strawberries must have De Duva as an extra. Criterion wanted it on The Seventh Seal, but couldn't arrange the rights/transfer in time. Its a hilarious parody that made Bergman laugh.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2QmLWWxq4
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Newsletter came out yesterday. I have absolutely no idea what the wacky animal signifies this time.
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I'm honest-to-god afraid of what high definition might reveal in Grey Gardens.
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I really like Grey Gardens and all, but meh, I was hoping for a more exciting blu upgrade. Like Tenenbaums or Colonel Blimp.
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So apparently the local Vintage Stock has a Criterion section now. I picked up my 3rd Criterion, Seven Samurai, but I noticed they had a copy of The Third Man. That's the really rare one right? They had it for 50 dollars, which is pretty ridiculous for a DVD, but on ebay it looks like it can go for a lot more.
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Well, it depends on how much you like the movie. It's probably one of my favorites, so I bought it back when it was in print, and you can think of it as just spending 10 bucks more than if you'd bought most new Criterions at regular price at Barnes & Noble. Of course, if you're looking to flip it, it's simultaneously a good investment and a terrible waste of one of Cotten and Welles' best roles.
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Oh I've seen the movie before. Its a great film but I don't really feel like going in on it at the moment, not for that price.
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I gave my little sister my Criterion of Ran for Christmas, since she loves Japan. She did not give a crap. 
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