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oneforthevine posted:I just finished watching Irma Vep, my latest blind buy, and I’m not sure I’ll enjoy a film more all year. What the gently caress was *that*? Great movie. The entire hotel sequence starting with zoning out to Sonic Youth is what cinema is all about.
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Teenage Fansub posted:It's all uphill from there till A Dangerous Method. Go chronologically from where you are, then go backwards to his best film, Fast Company! Fast Company is criminally underappreciated.
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Iron Crowned posted:I bought Christmas Evil around March last year and I waited until December to watch it. That was a mistake Why? It's a perfect Christmas movie.
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King Vidiot posted:Why? It's a perfect Christmas movie. I assume because they enjoyed it so much they wish they could have seen it earlier
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I Before E posted:I assume because they enjoyed it so much they wish they could have seen it earlier 
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Christmas Evil should be viewed on every single holiday.
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Don't know that I'd like Christmas Evil. What I really want is a Krampus sequel that is what Gremlins 2 is to Gremlins.
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The best part about Christmas Evil is how different it is that what you'd expect if you go in blind. It's not at all just another killer Santa movie, not even close. It's like a Christmas themed Taxi Driver.
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Basebf555 posted:The best part about Christmas Evil is how different it is that what you'd expect if you go in blind. It's not at all just another killer Santa movie, not even close. This. It's really good, everyone who doesn't have it should get it next time Vinegar Syndrome has it on sale.
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Basebf555 posted:The best part about Christmas Evil is how different it is that what you'd expect if you go in blind. It's not at all just another killer Santa movie, not even close. I went in about as blind as can be. My weekly horror group was supposed to be showing Silent Night, Deadly Night but the print was hosed up and unplayable so the guy running things brought Christmas Evil. I knew literally nothing about it, didn’t even know it existed. And then that ending hit 
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Basebf555 posted:The best part about Christmas Evil is how different it is that what you'd expect if you go in blind. It's not at all just another killer Santa movie, not even close. Yep. And Brandon Maggart is great.
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Has anyone picked up any of the Vinegar Syndrome 5 films 5 years sets? I usually don't go for the more pornographic things they have, but they seem like some decent variety in what they sell.
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I have all four. The horror / exploitation discs are all good grimy 42nd street trash. I already had some of the DVDs for titles like The Cut-Throats, which is a movie I really enjoyed, so I didn't even think twice upgrading. The porn discs... depends on if you dig vintage adult movies. I'm old enough to remember watching Ribald Tales of Canterbury on VHS on a 6-hour SLP tape, so the jump in quality was massive. Kind of surprised that the first two sets are still available. I figured that they would've sold out within a couple of weeks.
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ultraviolence123 posted:I have all four. The horror / exploitation discs are all good grimy 42nd street trash. I already had some of the DVDs for titles like The Cut-Throats, which is a movie I really enjoyed, so I didn't even think twice upgrading. The porn discs... depends on if you dig vintage adult movies. I'm old enough to remember watching Ribald Tales of Canterbury on VHS on a 6-hour SLP tape, so the jump in quality was massive. Kind of surprised that the first two sets are still available. I figured that they would've sold out within a couple of weeks. I guess the big thing is I don’t know what to expect with vintage adult films. I’d get them if I knew they were kinda raunchy and goofy. I mean a title like Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls has to be pretty goofy, right?
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HASPG is great, but the other four on that set don't really have plot sections compelling enough to outweigh the boring sex. The second 'erotica' set is better about that with it's Dracula and Kung-Fu porno flicks. Baby Rosemary is also a good grimy exploitation movie in it's own right. I'd already seen that on their streaming service. Haven't got to the other two yet. The exploitation/horror sets are flat-out good. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jul 31, 2018 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Brand new Alamo Drafthouse in the Twin Cities showing Lawrence of Arabia and Blade Runner: Final Cut and here I am out of the country. Right? I don’t have a car and don’t live by Woodbury anymore so it feels so close yet so far.
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ultraviolence123 posted:I have all four. The horror / exploitation discs are all good grimy 42nd street trash. I already had some of the DVDs for titles like The Cut-Throats, which is a movie I really enjoyed, so I didn't even think twice upgrading. The porn discs... depends on if you dig vintage adult movies. I'm old enough to remember watching Ribald Tales of Canterbury on VHS on a 6-hour SLP tape, so the jump in quality was massive. Kind of surprised that the first two sets are still available. I figured that they would've sold out within a couple of weeks. It's really only been the last ~6 months that the limited edition slip covers have started selling out at their standard 1,500 within a month, I get the feeling that Liquid Sky managed to put VS on a lot of people's maps. Teenage Fansub posted:HASPG is great, but the other four on that set don't really have plot sections compelling enough to outweigh the boring sex. HASPG was a blind buy in my first order from VS solely based on the title and I have no regerts.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Right? I don’t have a car and don’t live by Woodbury anymore so it feels so close yet so far. Yup. I don't think a 90 minute bus ride from Minneapolis is worth the effort. Also the Trylon showed Lawrence of Arabia some months back, so the sting is lessened.
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roffels posted:Yup. I don't think a 90 minute bus ride from Minneapolis is worth the effort. I wish they would be doing these as more than single showings or at least on days I don't loving work.
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Found a Criterion DVD for a buck at Goodwill today. The Battle Of Algiers. What am I getting into?
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Boinks posted:Found a Criterion DVD for a buck at Goodwill today. The Battle Of Algiers. What am I getting into? An excellent and extremely relevant film.
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Boinks posted:Found a Criterion DVD for a buck at Goodwill today. The Battle Of Algiers. What am I getting into? One of the greatest movies about war and societal control ever made. It's particularly relevant today. Enjoy.
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You know a film is great when it's used as an educational tool by both the Pentagon and the Black Panthers.
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UK label Indicator is releasing William Castle at Columbia Vol 1 in October. Limited to 6000 copies. It’ll include 13 Ghosts, Homicidal, The Tingler, and Mr. Sardonicus. Tons of extras. It’ll even have both the B&W and Illusion-O versions of 13 Ghosts. Tons of extras, too. All their Sony releases have been region free so far. Shout! will probably do their own box though.
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Also, Milestone has a 50-75% off sale: https://milestonefilms.com/collecti...-230373621&ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_6_11_2018_11_47_COPY_01)&mc_cid=7849c5ab6e&mc_eid=3be5d2268d I can’t recommend the Shirley Clarke releases enough. Just get all of them.
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roffels posted:Yup. I don't think a 90 minute bus ride from Minneapolis is worth the effort. I missed the Trylon viewing, but I got my parents’ car while they’re out of town and the ticket was so loving cheap, $9 after fees, that I said gently caress it. I probably wouldn’t have been productive anyway lol. Trylon has been the best discovery for me this year. My first time going was their Predator run after X-Mas. Never saw Predator before, so it was a ton of fun. Went to every week of their Paul Verhoeven month and I plan on seeing Once Upon a Time in the West and maybe the Man w No Name trilogy this month. I love Trylon! Actually, that’s why I grabbed Deep Red, they had a trailer before ROBOCOP or Basic Instinct but aren’t doing a showing. My girlfriend was interested and I saw it on the Arrow sale so here we are. EDIT: Battle of Algiers rules, I know I gushed about it a page or two ago but I cannot emphasize how much I like it. It took the Pentagon awhile to host viewings after the insurgency in Iraq kicked off, which is funny because you can draw the line in 30 seconds. Boywhiz88 fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Aug 2, 2018 |
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LA Confidential: 4JQ3UWFQRESFVPH7
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feedmyleg posted:LA Confidential: 4JQ3UWFQRESTFVPH7 Movies Anywhere didn’t recognize it but thanks... maybe someone else grabbed it.
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I didn’t realize Shout had released a Collector’s Edition of ‘In the Mouth of Madness’, I remedied that.
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zenintrude posted:Movies Anywhere didn’t recognize it but thanks... maybe someone else grabbed it. Updated! Somehow I hit an extra letter.
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Xenomrph posted:I didn’t realize Shout had released a Collector’s Edition of ‘In the Mouth of Madness’, I remedied that. Whoa, they did? How is it? I love that movie!
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According to some recent Blu-ray.com reviews, it looks like Shout! Factory has massively improved the quality of their encodes. All the recent reviews indicate nearly maxed-out bitrates for video.
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feedmyleg posted:LA Confidential: 4JQ3UWFQRESFVPH7 Holy poo poo it worked an hour later. Thanks!
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nemesis_hub posted:Whoa, they did? How is it? I love that movie! I just ordered it on amazon, I don’t have it on hand yet. 
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I can't keep up with Shout Factory, seems like every other month they put out something that feels like a must-buy, but I just can't swing it all the time. Candyman and Trick R Treat are coming later this year too.
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Where can a dude legally get a copy of Funny Games that plays in the US? Either version is fine but I'd prefer the 2007 American remake. Blu-Ray only, get that DVD nonsense out of my face. I'm trying to buy a copy for my friend too so I'd appreciate if the price isn't ridiculous but if there's nothing that can be done I understand. It seems like Amazon has several copies available, but they're all through third-party sellers and not through Amazon's warehouses, so the answers as to which region they are are absurdly inconsistent.
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Pirate Jet posted:Where can a dude legally get a copy of Funny Games that plays in the US? Either version is fine but I'd prefer the 2007 American remake. Blu-Ray only, get that DVD nonsense out of my face. I'm trying to buy a copy for my friend too so I'd appreciate if the price isn't ridiculous but if there's nothing that can be done I understand. From what I could find from blu-ray.com research it looks like there are 2 UK copies that are region free and one Canadian copy. The UK copy that’s a close up of Naomi Watts face is the bad one. The other two are good. They don’t look like they’re available at the moment.
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Egbert Souse posted:Also, Milestone has a 50-75% off sale: I picked up The Connection and Portrait of Jason, thanks. Going in blind but they read like my jam, and by spending these I didn't have to agonise about which two Criterions I was gonna pick from B&N.
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FYI, I received my copy of BFI's It Happened Here. Even though the packaging says Region B, it's a region free disc. Looks amazing and is absolutely packed with extras. It's pretty much a Criterion-level release, complete with a thick booklet.I, Butthole posted:I picked up The Connection and Portrait of Jason, thanks. Going in blind but they read like my jam, and by spending these I didn't have to agonise about which two Criterions I was gonna pick from B&N. They're both amazing films - I ordered all the Shirley Clarke releases except for Portrait of Jason, which I got during their last sale. Also got Film and NotFilm. I might do a thread on Shirley Clarke after watching Ornette and all the "Magic Box" films. Only ones I've seen on the latter are Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World, Bridges-Go-Round, and Skyscraper. All excellent. Clarke is one of the best filmmakers no one knows about.
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Pirate Jet posted:Where can a dude legally get a copy of Funny Games that plays in the US? Either version is fine but I'd prefer the 2007 American remake. Blu-Ray only, get that DVD nonsense out of my face. I'm trying to buy a copy for my friend too so I'd appreciate if the price isn't ridiculous but if there's nothing that can be done I understand. Speaking of Haneke, I sprang for that big French blu ray box a while back and it was a Very Good Decision. It doesn’t have all his movies and the ones included don’t all have subs, but everything not found in the box (which I believe is just everything from The White Ribbon onward) or lacking English subs is readily available on subtitled blu separately. I think the only one he directed that I haven’t seen so far is that opera. Highly recommended for anyone who can play region B blus and enjoys extraordinary movies.
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