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Mel Mudkiper posted: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 The thing I loved about Ebert is he knew what a film was trying to do. He didn't rank a silly comedy on the same scale as you would rank the Seven Samurai. He appreciated the film for what it did successfully. That's the thing about him that I think a lot of movie critics just don't have.
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InfiniteZero posted:I would like to request that you know that I'm really grateful for what you've done here. Good work. Oh hell yes, I completely forgot about all the Godzilla flicks. They even have War of the Gargantuas!
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Almost Blue posted: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. I checked for it on the first day and I don't think the movie was ever actually there, though it showed as a "collection". See my post earlier in the thread.
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Cemetry Gator posted:The thing I loved about Ebert is he knew what a film was trying to do. He didn't rank a silly comedy on the same scale as you would rank the Seven Samurai. He appreciated the film for what it did successfully. the other thing is that people do not realize he did commercial criticism and academic criticism the two thumbs up thing was literally him trying to decide if the movie appealed to the audience it was trying to appeal to. He also had a separate academic canon that was gorgeous. His Great Movies essays are wonderful.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:the other thing is that people do not realize he did commercial criticism and academic criticism I just wish he "got" the Friday the 13th series. Or David Lynch. Or Terry Gilliam. But no, ol' Roger's gonna give four stars to Anaconda instead.
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Franchescanado posted:I just wish he "got" the Friday the 13th series. Or David Lynch. Or Terry Gilliam. He actually appears on a documentary included with the Final Destination 3 DVD about the history of slashers where he talks about his Friday comments in hindsight
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He actually appears on a documentary included with the Final Destination 3 DVD about the history of slashers where he talks about his Friday comments in hindsight No friggin way. I'd like to find that and post it in the horror thread. But I don't own that DVD, nor will I.
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Franchescanado posted:No friggin way. I'll try to find it
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I have FD3 in one of those cheapo 4-film DVD sets, not sure if it has extras though.
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Found the documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idELl0Q5OxE Its called "Dead Teenager Movie" He talks about how he realizes his issue wasn't so much the violence as how it had become derivative as a narrative
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Found the documentary Oh hell yeah. Good work. I'll watch it when I get home tonight.
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https://www.instagram.com/officialspikelee/p/BwHxFVQH743/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/bc5i38/full_browsable_list_of_films_coming_to_criterion/quote:Hi, What a weird decision not to have this feature at launch haha
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Not to undersell their capabilities, but Criterion is essentially a boutique video label and launching the channel, even in the state that it’s in, was probably a massive undertaking.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Not to undersell their capabilities, but Criterion is essentially a boutique video label and launching the channel, even in the state that it’s in, was probably a massive undertaking. They also clearly bought and repurposed part of it, hence every movie and its extras being labeled as seasons and episodes
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holy poo poo Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. what an amazing film Also enjoying the Columbia Noir series
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Barry Convex posted:holy poo poo Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. what an amazing film yeah that movie turned me onto Mishima as an amazing author
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Hello I am here to recommend everyone watch Kaili Blues. It's a seriously impressive debut and from what I've heard so far about his latest film Bi Gan is definitely someone worth paying attention to whatever he does next. Didn't find it as slow as the Tarkovsky and Hou influences might make one expect and It's been a couple days now and I still can't get it out of my head. It's a good time for them to get it up too, as Long Days Journey Into Night opens in the US this weekend.
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Ask and ye shall receive: https://films.criterionchannel.com/
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Egbert Souse posted:Ask and ye shall receive: I wish clicking led to the collection instead of straight to the movie but baby steps.
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Apr 12, 2019 22:42
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And it'd be nice if it was available in-app and not just desktop. Also, Canadian here, it's a bit of a bummer that there are quite a few titles not available here (The Brood, Mikey and Nicky, etc.). I mean, I have no shortage of options, obviously - and I know rights are an issue across the border - but it's always a little frustrating. Still, enjoying it otherwise. Watched John Woo's Last Hurrah for Chivalry, which was a lot of fun.
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Ratedargh posted:And it'd be nice if it was available in-app and not just desktop. I just finished Last Hurrah as well. Really liked it, but the app kept crashing during the final fight until I eventually just had to watch the last 3 minutes or so with the error code overlay. Fix your poo poo Criterion!
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I just finished Last Hurrah as well. Really liked it, but the app kept crashing during the final fight until I eventually just had to watch the last 3 minutes or so with the error code overlay. Fix your poo poo Criterion! Same exact poo poo happened to me while watching The Big Heat.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I just finished Last Hurrah as well. Really liked it, but the app kept crashing during the final fight until I eventually just had to watch the last 3 minutes or so with the error code overlay. Fix your poo poo Criterion! Oh man, that sucks. What are you using? I found watching on my laptop before I picked up a new Apple TV was nigh unwatchable. With the Apple TV, I haven't had any problems yet (just watched Tokyo Drifter for the first time...man, Seijun Suzuki was wild).
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Origami Dali posted:Same exact poo poo happened to me while watching The Big Heat. Happened to me with terror of mechagodzilla this morning, don’t think it’s tied to certain videos Edit: I did notice that the minute tracker does not include anything after the error, so you can’t fast forward into it and the movies appear to be several minutes shorter than they are. I was on roku app, which played nightfall and dragon inn just fine, and I watched experiment in terror on iPhone with no issues DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 13, 2019 |
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I finally bit the bullet and bought a FireTV. I dunno why I expected the UI to be cleaner than a Roku. 
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Ratedargh posted:Oh man, that sucks. What are you using? I found watching on my laptop before I picked up a new Apple TV was nigh unwatchable. With the Apple TV, I haven't had any problems yet (just watched Tokyo Drifter for the first time...man, Seijun Suzuki was wild). Roku app
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I've watched a few movies so far on the android tv app (nvidia shield) and no problems at all. Actually seems smoother than the old filmstruck app, which would occasionally desync the audio slightly. Also the english closed caption subtitles don't look awful now.
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So far, the Roku app is behaving way better than the old Filmstruck app ever did, which constantly desynced and had audio clicks. They’ve admitted it was put together in a rush, to try and limit the span of unavailability after Filmstruck shut down. Vimeo is doing the backend work. Good indiewire profile w/ the Criterion president Peter Becker: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/04/criterion-channel-after-filmstruck-1202056861/
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I want to watch any movie that’s even remotely like Guava Island It weirdly made me think of Medium Cool a lot Unmature fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Apr 14, 2019 |
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SgtSanity posted:So far, the Roku app is behaving way better than the old Filmstruck app ever did, which constantly desynced and had audio clicks. So that’s why my criterion channel bookmark’s icon changed to Vimeo’s the day the channel launched?
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This is my jam. Only had a couple of Criterion LDs, but I kept the best ones: 
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I just finished watching Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters. That was a fascinating movie. 80s Japanese cinema was a gorgeous aesthetic. I saw it on Criterion Channel, my first watch on the new service. The Blu-ray box is probably the most eye catching in the entire Collection but I always thought it was a documentary for some reason. I kinda wanna read some of his work. Is it worth it? What's good? He was clearly a Japanese right wing radical so I don't know if it would be the Japanese equivalent to reading The Turner Diaries or something. I don't know what the current day view of him is these days.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Found the documentary this along with his daily show interview was some of the last recorded footage of ebert speaking  i always thought he was overreliant on pointing out plot holes as substantive criticism but considering how lovely the critical landscape has gotten since his death he's dearly missed.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I just finished watching Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters. That was a fascinating movie. 80s Japanese cinema was a gorgeous aesthetic. I saw it on Criterion Channel, my first watch on the new service. The Blu-ray box is probably the most eye catching in the entire Collection but I always thought it was a documentary for some reason. Criterion also released Mishima's short film Patriotism on DVD, which includes the short story in booklet form. I'm not familiar with his literary work, but I agree that Schrader's film is magnificent. For that matter, Patriotism is pretty amazing, too, considering it was the only thing Mishima directed. But yeah, it seems pretty right-wing, down to the film being scored with 78s of Wagner...
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Detective No. 27 posted:I kinda wanna read some of his work. Is it worth it? What's good? If you have time for only one book, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea If you have time to invest, you cannot beat his Sea of Fertility series (Spring Snow/Runaway Horses/Temple of Dawn/Decay of the Angel) Come ask about him in the TBB lit thread, we loving love Mishima As for his being a right wing radical, I forgive him for having the raddest suicide on earth
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Oh weird, there's no Kindle edition of The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Spring Snow is only $2 so I'll give it a shot.
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I too forgive the guy who wanted to return Japan to imperialism and took hostages before offing himself, so cool.
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Peacoffee posted:I too forgive the guy who wanted to return Japan to imperialism and took hostages before offing himself, so cool. If you cannot sit back and appreciate a dude trying to overthrow Japan with an army of literal samurai with katanas made up of his young gay lovers who then commits seppuku when it fails you are a huge loser hth Like, you are like "he took hostages! qq" but you ignore it was one hostage, it was a general, and he did it with SWORDS best part is that his favorite lover was his second but hosed up cutting off his head so it took like three tries and he was so ashamed that he then too committed seppuku as well.
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