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codyclarke posted:Spirit of the Beehive Maybe my favorite Spanish language film. It's elegant and dream-like, really sensitive and beautiful.
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I just picked up Shock Corridor, Bigger Than Life and Hausu at that Barnes and Noble sale. I can't play Criterion blu-rays because I'm a filthy foreigner, but B&N shipping was only ten bucks so the entire thing was a steal.
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Nov 2, 2012 22:28
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God, 'Lonesome' is great. I always wished more movies were like 'People on a Sunday,' and 'Lonesome' is just a little slicker and sweeter.
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Nov 3, 2012 03:21
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Went to the store, debated a lot of obvious choices, threw them all out on a whim for the Eric Rohmer set, of which I had zero knowledge. Just finished my first entry. loving nailed it. God, I love it when a blind buy works out.
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Nov 3, 2012 08:32
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Aorist posted:Went to the store, debated a lot of obvious choices, threw them all out on a whim for the Eric Rohmer set, of which I had zero knowledge. Just finished my first entry. Oh yeah, you nailed it. Claire's Knee is, with In the Mood for Love now released, my last serious "I need this on Blu-ray" disc. It's unbelievable looking.
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Nov 3, 2012 09:02
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Aorist posted:Went to the store, debated a lot of obvious choices, threw them all out on a whim for the Eric Rohmer set, of which I had zero knowledge. Just finished my first entry. QVT posted:Oh yeah, you nailed it. Claire's Knee is, with In the Mood for Love now released, my last serious "I need this on Blu-ray" disc. It's unbelievable looking. See and for someone that has never heard of Eric Rohmer, this is the kinda stuff I love seeing posted. Thank you for the heads up! It's good hearing about the less-obvious choices such as this and Spirit of the Beehive. I now know what to get next sale.
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Nov 3, 2012 16:45
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Originally wasn't going to buy anything this sale since I don't have much to spend right now. But my willpower is nothing. Ordered Chungking Express online since it'll probably be my last chance to buy it for less than $80. Going in blind to this one.
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Nov 3, 2012 17:33
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TrixRabbi posted:Originally wasn't going to buy anything this sale since I don't have much to spend right now. But my willpower is nothing. Ordered Chungking Express online since it'll probably be my last chance to buy it for less than $80. Going in blind to this one. If it helps at all, I like that movie so much I made it my avatar, so I think you made a good choice there.
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Nov 3, 2012 17:44
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I just realized that I have a coupon for this deal (the one that gives you a mystery discount) and while looking to order "When Horror Came to Shochiku" and "Rashomon", both are only 15% off, rather than 50%. Is anyone else getting this currently?
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friendo55 posted:See and for someone that has never heard of Eric Rohmer[...]. Le Genou de Claire (1970) has already been mentioned and it's great, but Ma Nuit Chez Maud (1969) (My Night at Maud's, the film Rohmer made immediately prior to Claire) and L'Amour L'après-Midi (1972) (originally always Chloe in the Afternoon but now invariably Love in the Afternoon) are the two that I'd consider absolutely essential Rohmer (like Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) and Jules et Jim (1962) for Truffaut or À Bout de Souffle (1960) and Bande à Part for (early-career) Godard). I think it's always interesting when Criterion adding a film doesn't immediately catapult a title to the `mainstream film snob' vernacular. Like I would've laid money that Max Ophüls was suddenly going to become a part of everyday online film discussion the same way Jean-Pierre Melville did when Criterion started pushing his films.
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SubG posted:I think that's an interesting example where the `Criterion effect' hasn't happened. For years if the subject was the French Nouvelle Vague, the three names everybody would think of were Godard, Truffaut, and Rohmer. For whatever reason, Godard and Truffaut would still be part of that but Rohmer wouldn't. Random callback to Pennchat from earlier---despite the obvious comparisons to be made between Godard's Bande à Part (1964) and Bonnie and Clyde, Rohmer was the big influence on Penn, and Penn has the protagonist Moseby in Night Moves (1975) comment that watching a Rohmer film is like watching paint dry. Yeah, it's strange, I've seen Rohmer mentioned every now and then, but I never felt compelled to check him out. Watching him now, the only explanation I can come up with for why he didn't blow up after hitting Criterion is that A) the movies are only available as a fairly sizeable box set, so there's a higher barrier of entry, and B) his films lack the immediately gratifying formal impact of Godard or Truffaut, or of Bergman, Antonioni, and Bresson on the other end of the spectrum. I am only going off of My Night at Maud's here, but I don't think I'd appreciate it as much as I did if I hadn't already explored those other directors first.
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SubG posted:I think it's always interesting when Criterion adding a film doesn't immediately catapult a title to the `mainstream film snob' vernacular. Like I would've laid money that Max Ophüls was suddenly going to become a part of everyday online film discussion the same way Jean-Pierre Melville did when Criterion started pushing his films. Stumbled on an unexpected Ophüls shout out recently: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59451
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Glad to see someone discovering Rohmer. I think the big distinction between him and Godard/Truffaut in terms of popularity is that the latter two made films that were at least partially about the medium itself whereas Rohmer's are much more about the characters as people. It's much easier to get broad appeal from film lovers when your films are clearly steeped in the cinematic tradition whether accepting it or rejecting it. It sucks that Rohmer's 80s and 90s films are unavailable in the US, they're really great.
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Nov 3, 2012 23:20
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Twin Cinema posted:I just realized that I have a coupon for this deal (the one that gives you a mystery discount) and while looking to order "When Horror Came to Shochiku" and "Rashomon", both are only 15% off, rather than 50%. Is anyone else getting this currently? Yeah, getting this on a lot of titles actually. I added about 6 movies to my cart the day the sale started and then walked away because that was too much. Came back today and a bunch of the movies I had in my cart are no longer on sale. Kinda bummed.
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Nov 4, 2012 01:15
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sexily posted:Yeah, getting this on a lot of titles actually. I added about 6 movies to my cart the day the sale started and then walked away because that was too much. Came back today and a bunch of the movies I had in my cart are no longer on sale. Kinda bummed. It looks like they took pre-orders off the sale.
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Nov 4, 2012 01:39
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GrandpaPants posted:It looks like they took pre-orders off the sale. Looks like my pre-orders all got in before they changed the price. Here's hoping they don't cancel the order.
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Nov 4, 2012 02:39
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I made an order (with a preorder in it) and didn't get an email, AND nothing is showing up in my recent order history. Did that happen to anyone else? This was a few days ago.
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Nov 4, 2012 05:36
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Brian Fellows posted:I made an order (with a preorder in it) and didn't get an email, AND nothing is showing up in my recent order history. Did that happen to anyone else? This was a few days ago. I got an e-mail saying that my order was ready to ship sometime in December (it waits until all pre-orders can be filled, I assume). I ordered on the first day of the sale, so maybe they got wise.
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GrandpaPants posted:I got an e-mail saying that my order was ready to ship sometime in December (it waits until all pre-orders can be filled, I assume). I ordered on the first day of the sale, so maybe they got wise. I also pre-ordered Rashomon, Brazil, and When Horror Came To Shochiku on day 1, and so far so good. My order is still intact and is ready to ship December 4th. As far as discovering Rohmer goes, I only started really taking movies more seriously about 5-6 years ago, so I was late to the Criterion party. I think Aorist said it best that you only see his films in one large boxset, so not only is it a bit daunting, but trying to catch up on so many Criterion titles it can be easy to 'wait until later' or even skip over completely. On top of not seeing much discussion about it here, Rohmer just happens to be one, for me, that I've overlooked. But this is half the fun for me. With so many ways of discovering film - the instant availability, film festivals, internet discussion, lists and blogs - there's an endless supply of great movies to be found.
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GrandpaPants posted:It looks like they took pre-orders off the sale. Probably for the best in regards to my wallet. I held back and only ordered Shallow Grave and Days of Heaven. Still, there are some that aren't pre-orders that aren't on sale anymore. Wonder why that is.
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Nov 4, 2012 21:00
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Picked up Fanny & Alexander for thirty bucks, gonna sell my DVD copy with Royal Tenenbaums so I can upgrade there, too. And then I get paid in the middle of the month. When does this end?
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Brian Fellows posted:I made an order (with a preorder in it) and didn't get an email, AND nothing is showing up in my recent order history. Did that happen to anyone else? This was a few days ago. Magic Hate Ball posted:When does this end?
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My order came through a couple of days later, glad I just stood pat on that. I'm so used to Amazon immediately emailing me and shipping hours later that when someone takes more than five minutes I get antsy. Which is weird, since I've been buying things online since the early days of AOL free-month discs... I'm glad my (way too big) order went through, but I forgot how obnoxious the required "Ship in as few packages as possible" option is when you're jumping on a preorder that doesn't come out until December.
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I grabbed Rosemary's Baby and The Game today thanks to the sale. Any opinions on Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter or Branded to Kill? I almost snagged those as well but they would have been a blind buy. I typically enjoy 60s era film but I am unfamiliar with these. Good buy? Bad buy?
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Nov 8, 2012 02:27
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PhunkMonkey posted:I grabbed Rosemary's Baby and The Game today thanks to the sale. Any opinions on Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter or Branded to Kill? I almost snagged those as well but they would have been a blind buy. I typically enjoy 60s era film but I am unfamiliar with these. Good buy? Bad buy? I enjoy them, though I'd recommend watching them first rather than blind buying.
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Nov 8, 2012 02:33
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PhunkMonkey posted:I grabbed Rosemary's Baby and The Game today thanks to the sale. Any opinions on Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter or Branded to Kill? I almost snagged those as well but they would have been a blind buy. I typically enjoy 60s era film but I am unfamiliar with these. Good buy? Bad buy? Branded to Kill is the better movie, it's a little more comprehensible and funnier but visually not as interesting as Tokyo Drifter.
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Cacator posted:Branded to Kill is the better movie, it's a little more comprehensible and funnier but visually not as interesting as Tokyo Drifter.
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Nov 8, 2012 03:00
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I take it from some of the posts here B&N does this sale every year?
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Nov 8, 2012 03:35
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Officer Sandvich posted:I take it from some of the posts here B&N does this sale every year? Twice a year. It's poison.
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Nov 8, 2012 03:37
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Cacator posted:Twice a year. It's poison. Seriously. Look what happened last time. 
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Nov 8, 2012 04:00
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I've actually shown restraint this time, probably because I couldn't get to a B&N right when it started. I ordered In The Mood For Love on BRD and that's it...so far.
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PhunkMonkey posted:I grabbed Rosemary's Baby and The Game today thanks to the sale. Any opinions on Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter or Branded to Kill? I almost snagged those as well but they would have been a blind buy. I typically enjoy 60s era film but I am unfamiliar with these. Good buy? Bad buy? Branded to Kill is basically bizarro Drive.
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WickedIcon posted:Branded to Kill is basically bizarro Drive.
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SubG posted:I'm really not seeing it. I don't remember him driving anywhere in Branded to Kill. So there's that?
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How's the Samurai Trilogy? Thinking of picking it up along with the Royal Tenenbaums, High and Low, and the Seventh Seal.
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They're all really exceptional samurai films. The first is my favorite but they all have great music, cinematography, and sword fights.
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It dawned on me today that I am unaware of any full length animation films being put out by Criterion. A quick search revealed that they did release Akira on Laserdisc in the 90s. Any hope of this getting a Bluray release someday? I'd really like an animated film in the collection and Akira would indeed be a fine addition.
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PhunkMonkey posted:It dawned on me today that I am unaware of any full length animation films being put out by Criterion. A quick search revealed that they did release Akira on Laserdisc in the 90s. Any hope of this getting a Bluray release someday? I'd really like an animated film in the collection and Akira would indeed be a fine addition. It's not criterion, but The Illusionist is a recent animated film that's beautiful and has a great story.
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PhunkMonkey posted:It dawned on me today that I am unaware of any full length animation films being put out by Criterion. A quick search revealed that they did release Akira on Laserdisc in the 90s. Any hope of this getting a Bluray release someday? I'd really like an animated film in the collection and Akira would indeed be a fine addition. I don't think animation at Criterion will happen unless it's Fantastic Mr. Fox or Ralph Bakshi.
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