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Thom and the Heads posted:I think I'm going to watch The Seventh Seal tonight. Is there a consensus on whether first timers should watch the theatrical cut or miniseries version of Fanny and Alexander? Apologies, I'm sure this question has been asked a billion times. The full miniseries is the way to go, but don't feel like you have to watch it all in one sitting. It was designed to be watched in multiple parts(obviously).
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Except that you will probably wind up watching it all in one sitting anyways.
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Speaking of recs The Decalogue and Three Colours if no one has seen it Three Colours in HD is a loving religious experience
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I added the Three Colours trilogy after I saw Julie Delpy was in Three Colours: White. I will watch anything with her, and I'm kinda low-key upset that Linklater's Before Trilogy isn't on the site at launch. I'm not seeing The Decalogue/Dekalog on Criterion Channel, but they have the expansion films A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, unless I'm missing something.
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Apr 10, 2019 16:06
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Franchescanado posted:I added the Three Colours trilogy after I saw Julie Delpy was in Three Colours: White. I will watch anything with her, and I'm kinda low-key upset that Linklater's Before Trilogy isn't on the site at launch. Yeah, weird Dekalog is a Criterion box set but I guess they haven't put it up yet But yeah watch Three Colours Especially Blue
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Apr 10, 2019 16:09
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Thinking about going for a relatively chill film when I get home. Should I go with Night on Earth (one of the only Jarmusch films I haven't seen yet) or The Player?
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Friends Are Evil posted:Thinking about going for a relatively chill film when I get home. Should I go with [...] The Player? I can assure you a film about me would be cool, but not chill. 
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Apr 10, 2019 17:55
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Franchescanado posted:Someone also made a Criterion Channel Letterboxd list. You’ve watched 851 of 1489  FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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Apr 10, 2019 19:24
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Really thought you of all people would hit quadruple digits there
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Apr 10, 2019 19:33
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Thom and the Heads posted:I watched Persona last night - my first time watching a Bergman film. The story she tells about her and her friend at the beach singed my eyebrows.
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Apr 10, 2019 19:42
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FitFortDanga posted:You’ve watched 851 of 1489 If you think about, this merely means the service has less value for you. You’re being ripped off in a way
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Apr 10, 2019 20:04
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FitFortDanga posted:You’ve watched 851 of 1489 But at what speed
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Apr 10, 2019 20:25
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sciencehuh posted:
Thanks for your efforts. Have you seen this guy's spreadsheet? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-ctl5IGVUqfkCH48DFUbLx0iQai9r6BLG9NStMwxPSw/edit#gid=1669669741 He has an expiring soon column that would be a nice feature to add to tcclibrary. Also being able to see the supplemental material is cool. The only issue is that it is not grouped properly in his spreadsheet.
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DeimosRising posted:If you think about, this merely means the service has less value for you. You’re being ripped off in a way I would be getting ripped off.... if I had the service.
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Apr 10, 2019 21:08
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Speaking of recs 100%. I was fortunate enough to see Red at the Toronto film festival on a giant rear end screen. So good.
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Basebf555 posted:Sometimes I wonder if Persona is maybe not a great place to start with Bergman, because in a lot of ways you can't top it. It's mostly downhill from there. Even though I'm not the biggest Bergman fan Persona is fantastic, though I like The Silence and Through A Glass Darkly as well. Agreed that Persona is basically the definitive work from him. General Dog posted:The story she tells about her and her friend at the beach singed my eyebrows. I think it was in The Pervert's Guide to Cinema where Zizek described it as the most erotic moment in all of cinema, and even sort of remembering him saying that in the background, I was still  at how amazing it actually was. Got to see Persona for the first time on a newly restored print at the art museum film center and it was really special. Bought the blu the next day.
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ok the Criterion Channel's library is amazing, but my god does their app loving suck at this point. downloads that won't play, streams that won't load, subtitles that aren't a standard feature for English-language content, "continue watching" syncing that seemingly only works within the mobile app or in the browser -> mobile direction, lovely controls and UI for basic functions like rewinding/fast-forwarding, etc
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It's still early, but yeah, their interface is dogshit. If you know what to look for, it's great. But it's extremely offputting for outsiders.
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The app not the greatest, but the library is really good once you find something. First movie I watched was Rashomon as I always wanted to watch it. And it was really good.
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Apr 11, 2019 06:08
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I watched The Seventh Seal last night and loved every frame. Bergmanbinge has officially begun. I think I'm going to watch Wild Strawberries and maybe Through A Glass Darkly tonight. For as annoying as the UI and lack of Chromecast support is (they actually just updated the Android app to remove the Chromecast functionality, stating that they're going to try to implement it in the future), I've been blown away by the quality of the library and definitely see myself subscribing after the trial period has ended.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:10
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Thom and the Heads posted:I watched The Seventh Seal last night and loved every frame. Bergmanbinge has officially begun. I think I'm going to watch Wild Strawberries and maybe Through A Glass Darkly tonight. The Seventh Seal was my first Bergman and I loved it so much that I immediately watched it again with the commentary on. You're in for a treat with the others.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:48
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General Dog posted:The story she tells about her and her friend at the beach singed my eyebrows. You should check out the scene from Weekend where Jean Luc Godard directly parodies that scene.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:53
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I might finally watch my first Godard film tonight, with Breathless. Bergman talk makes me want to watch a Bergman though. Should I do Smiles of a Summer Night? I've seen Persona and The Seventh Seal.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:58
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Does the criterion channel have The Rock? Because I would find it hilarious to make my first watch on that channel The Rock
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Does the criterion channel have The Rock? No.
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I think you'll like Smiles of a Summer Night so go with that, it's more in tone with Seventh Seal than Persona.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:that is some bullshit No Armageddon, no Chasing Amy Electronico6 posted:I think you'll like Smiles of a Summer Night so go with that, it's more in tone with Seventh Seal than Persona. Awesome, thank you. Seemed like a safe bet, since it's the first film in the Bergman box.
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Franchescanado posted:No Armageddon, no Chasing Amy Boo/Yay
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Does the criterion channel have The Rock? My first film watched on Filmstruck was, as a matter of principle, BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY. I am sadly unable to recreate this christening with Criterion Channel. 
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cvnvcnv posted:My first film watched on Filmstruck was, as a matter of principle, BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY. The Seventh Seal parody in that film never gets enough credit
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Friends Are Evil posted:It's still early, but yeah, their interface is dogshit. If you know what to look for, it's great. But it's extremely offputting for outsiders. I wasn't expecting the app to be on par with Netflix or Hulu, given that they only have a tiny fraction of those companies' resources, but I was at least expecting it to be on par with Kanopy, which is bare-bones (and coincidentally hosts a select handful of films from the Criterion/Janus library) but also perfectly functional in the very basic ways you'd expect a streaming service to be in 2019. hope it gets better sooner rather than later
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The Seventh Seal parody in that film never gets enough credit Doesn't it, though? Isn't that pretty much the only thing anyone ever talks about in regards to that movie?
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FitFortDanga posted:Doesn't it, though? Isn't that pretty much the only thing anyone ever talks about in regards to that movie? Actually a lot of people seem to really like those scenes and William Sadler in the role but without having any idea what it's referencing.
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FitFortDanga posted:Doesn't it, though? Isn't that pretty much the only thing anyone ever talks about in regards to that movie? I mean more of that Bill and Ted is always seen as dumb movies when they had they some pretty highbrow jokes
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Basebf555 posted:Actually a lot of people seem to really like those scenes and William Sadler in the role but without having any idea what it's referencing. Yeah I think it's absurd enough to be funny even if you don't get the reference
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I mean more of that Bill and Ted is always seen as dumb movies when they had they some pretty highbrow jokes Their "Bogus Journey" is a riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well, including some fairly sophisticated ones. -Roger Ebert
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cvnvcnv posted:Their "Bogus Journey" is a riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well, including some fairly sophisticated ones. Yeah but Roger Ebert owned and the fact that nerds hated him obscured the fact he got movies way more often than he didn't Like, the intro essay for the The Rock Criterion DVD was written by Ebert
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sciencehuh posted:If anyone here has any feature requests, or notices any bugs, let me know! I would like to request that you know that I'm really grateful for what you've done here. Good work. Also I've watched a bunch of "serious" films to start (because I watch more than enough horror and trash elsewhere) but looking at your list there's pretty much no chance that I won't be checking out RODAN tonight.
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Anybody notice that Virgin Suicides is gone now? I added it to my queue the other day and it's disappeared even though Sofia Coppola's short is still there and the main image on the home page is from the movie.
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