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Got F For Fake as a surprise Christmas present from a friend! Very excited to watch it because everyone I know who’s seen it really likes it and because my knowledge of it is basically none. I know the basic concept but nothing about the execution.
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F for Fake is cool because Welles took something he was already amazing at (Orating, talking with an audience etc.) and found a way to do it with a lot of cinematic pizazz and energy. It's a really cool movie.
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F for Fake is also cool because Welles wears a cape in it.
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Make sure you check out all the supplements. The Tom Snyder interview is great, plus it has One Man Band in HD - a doc by Oja Kodar on Welles' unfinished projects (including The Other Side of the Wind if you want to see how bad the workprint looked compared to the final film). Also has a straight documentary on Elmyr using a lot of the same footage, as well as bits with Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes conference.
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Supplements really help me appreciate the films sometimes. I watched King of Jazz and wasn't sure what to make of it at first. But the commentary has really helped to add context and historical importance. I gotta go through the rest of the extras soon.
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checkplease posted:Supplements really help me appreciate the films sometimes. I watched King of Jazz and wasn't sure what to make of it at first. But the commentary has really helped to add context and historical importance. I gotta go through the rest of the extras soon. I'll usually cherry pick supplements, especially commentaries, but I rewatched the film with that and watched every single extra. It's easily my favorite blind buy of the year.
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checkplease posted:Supplements really help me appreciate the films sometimes. I watched King of Jazz and wasn't sure what to make of it at first. But the commentary has really helped to add context and historical importance. I gotta go through the rest of the extras soon. Godzilla's commentaries are good for this too. A separate one for each version of the film!
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I know it’s blasphemous digital, but criterion films are on sale for $10 each on iTunes.
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smallmouth posted:I know it’s blasphemous digital, but criterion films are on sale for $10 each on iTunes. That's actually a decent deal. Looks like most of the titles up that had DVD releases, but not Blu-ray have 1080p versions as they did on Filmstruck.
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What They Found: Criterion Contributors Share Their 2018 Discoveries
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https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1078437534370332673 Extremely great news
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I saw Police Story 1 earlier this year, good stuff. Very much looking forward to these releases. How many honest to god sequels are in the Collection? Sanjuro is the only other one that is even coming to mind.
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Raxivace posted:How many honest to god sequels are in the Collection? Sanjuro is the only other one that is even coming to mind. If you count the sequels from the Zatoichi and Lone Wolf + Cub boxsets, quite a lot. Also Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is sort of a sequel
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Also the Before Trilogy.
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And the Antoine Doinel films. Saraband is basically a sequel to Scenes from a Marriage. If you count Eclipse, then there's the Leningrad Cowboys sequel and concert film.
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Also, the Apu Trilogy and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (which is a sequel to both Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler and M!)
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Wow that's a lot more than I realized. I really forgot about those big boxsets.
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Nroo posted:https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1078437534370332673 Man, I just bought the UK Eureka sets earlier this year.
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Nroo posted:https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1078437534370332673 This is really cool.
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I have the Shout set, but given the rough shape of I, I'd be willing to buy it again. I always figured it was just a badly preserved film and this was the best we got, but I'll be happy to be wrong.
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Asian cinema has generally been treated like poo poo until recently because there were simply no precautions put in place for preservation. Hell, Mysterious Object at Noon was made in 2000 and the original negative was lost, leaving only a subtitled print in an Austrian archive.
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Just watched what's likely my last film for the year, Andrei Rublev. It's the sort of film I'm going to have to think over for a day or two. Just a constant stream of indelible images. It's almost overwhelming. I honestly felt like I was taken back to the 1500s and woke up back in 2018 when it was over. (This is the "official" cut - I'm going watch the longer Passion cut sometime)
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Egbert Souse posted:Just watched what's likely my last film for the year, Andrei Rublev. I absolutely love "The Passion...". One of the most significant things (in my own humble) censored out of the "Official Cut" is during the first appearance of Irma Raush (the idiot girl) when she enters the church she just stands there and pisses on the floor.  Even better when you find out that Irma Raush was married to Tarkovsky at the time. There are certain other instances of puritan censorship that I simply cannot overlook in the 185 minute cut.The film is magnificent either way (especially the restoration) but it's shameful that they cut out certain things, and I consider "The Passion..." to be the definitive statement. It's certainly the last word on the artist's struggle.
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The geniuses at Criterion Forum pointed out so far: Klute An Angel at My Table Swing Time Bamboozled (bamboo sleed) La vie de Jesus Diamonds of the Night One Sings, The Other Doesn't War and Peace (Rabbit warren and peas) Bringing Up Baby The Koker Trilogy (three cokes)
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Looks like Children of Men on the right there too, and someone on Facebook thought of Von Trier's Europa (Euro on the bjorns, Pa for fathers) which...more Von Trier, yay /s I got unreasonably excited that the clock could be After Hours and the sled being Citizen Kane, but I doubt either of those are in the pipeline.
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Any guesses what the White Owl eyeing the Surprised Worm might mean?
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I feel like the S balloon should be something obvious, but if the Crierion forum members haven't figured it out yet, I doubt I'll be able to. Edit: The Last Airbender 
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Any guesses what the White Owl eyeing the Surprised Worm might mean? CriterionForum says Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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Finally Cool Runnings gets the treatment it deserves
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I, Butthole posted:someone on Facebook thought of Von Trier's Europa (Euro on the bjorns, Pa for fathers) which...more Von Trier, yay /s There's two of them, so it's probably Agniezska Holland's Europa Europa, I'm not huge fan of either, but whatevs. I'm most excited about War and Peace, Angel at My Table, The Heiress (Air-S, the balloon) and Koker Trilogy.
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Egbert Souse posted:The geniuses at Criterion Forum pointed out so far: They'd go from Do The Right Thing to Bamboozled? I mean, I love any Spike Lee getting added, but I figured they'd go with something safer like Malcom X or 25th Hour. Samuel Clemens posted:No joke, if they released a special edition of Cool Runnings, I'd buy it on day one. 
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InterrupterJones posted:They'd go from Do The Right Thing to Bamboozled? I mean, I love any Spike Lee getting added, but I figured they'd go with something safer like Malcom X or 25th Hour. Probably because it's one of the few Warner Bros. owns that they haven't issued themselves. She's Gotta Have It will probably come eventually, too, between it having a new 4K master and the Netflix show. Malcolm X already has a packed, excellent Blu-ray. Also worth saying Kino has a bunch of Lee films coming out this year from Universal and Disney licenses - Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues, Son of Sam, and Clockers.
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The best part about the X dvd/blu-ray is that it comes with the amazing 1972 Arnold Perl documentary.
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InterrupterJones posted:They'd go from Do The Right Thing to Bamboozled? I mean, I love any Spike Lee getting added, but I figured they'd go with something safer like Malcom X or 25th Hour. Bamboozled is hard to find, underappreciated, and in need of restoration. I'd love to see Malcolm X, too, tho
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I would unironically buy a Criterion Spike Lee Cinema set
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Has anyone worked w Mulvaney at Criterion? I sent him an email a few days ago and haven’t heard back. I don’t expect to hear back until maybe later this week considering the holidays, etc but wanted to see if people had an idea for a timeline. Thanks!
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