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Mishima definitely isn't as cool as the guy who distributed pornographic leaflets of Emperor Hirohito and slung rocks at him because Hirohito failed to take responsibility for his crimes during WW2.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Mishima definitely isn't as cool as the guy who distributed pornographic leaflets of Emperor Hirohito and slung rocks at him because Hirohito failed to take responsibility for his crimes during WW2. does that guy have a picture of himself wearing a thong and covered in oil holding a sword? If not, I respectfully disagree
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I can appreciate it through the lens of a young milo yiannopoulos against the world, stealing others work, laughing at the libs for calling him fascist and then getting beheaded in an overwrought attempt to find that bathwater Rilke philosophy he adopted. I just thought for a moment we were unironically loving Mishima
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Peacoffee posted:I can appreciate it through the lens of a young milo yiannopoulos against the world, stealing others work, laughing at the libs for calling him fascist and then getting beheaded in an overwrought attempt to find that bathwater Rilke philosophy he adopted. I mean I do unironically love Mishima, dude was a genius and a paragon of 20th century lit. I can also appreciate however that he was bugfuck crazy and that it lead to hilarious stories. Like, there are hilarious stories about Hemingway and how insecure about his own masculinity he was that you can laugh at and still respect him as a genius.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I mean I do unironically love Mishima, dude was a genius and a paragon of 20th century lit. I can also appreciate however that he was bugfuck crazy and that it lead to hilarious stories. “Man boy love” is just rape and pederasty is just another word for that, in my opinion. Hemingway was attacked by someone older than him in a hospital in Milan, likely sexual in nature, which makes his discomfort about masculinity very much in line with Mishima’s early life too. Neither are very hilarious? Just like with those white boys in high schools all over America the suicide is a power fantasy at the end of an ugly painful road. Here is probably not the place to discuss sex abuse though... I can see your point and it makes sense from an art perspective so I apologize if I seemed condescending or dismissive of someone’s work or others appreciation of it. e: let me fix that part at the end. I WAS trying to condescend and be dismissive which was wrong and I should correct myself. Peacoffee fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Apr 15, 2019 |
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Apr 15, 2019 17:46
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July releases: Do the Right Thing The Baker's Wife 1984 BRD Trilogy Klute Europa Europa
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Egbert Souse posted:July releases: 
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Holy poo poo, July is a REALLY good month. 
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Still, I need confirmation that 1984 has the Eurythmics score or no buy.
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1984 is a "we live in a society" movie, right?
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Apr 16, 2019 12:35
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All I remember about 1984 is that my friend and I were watching it and my dad walked in right as the nude scene happened and he said “checkin’ if the carpet matches the drapes?” and then left.
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Apr 16, 2019 13:59
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Egbert Souse posted:July releases: I'll be ruined that month. All those releases are perfect.
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I’ve never seen Europa Europa, but Marco Hofschneider is super charming in the Island of Dr. Moreau documentary so I want to check that out for sure.
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Egbert Souse posted:July releases: I can't wait to see this movie with the correct colours.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Still, I need confirmation that 1984 has the Eurythmics score or no buy. Given that score was requested by Richard Branson and not the director, I'd be surprised if it was.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Still, I need confirmation that 1984 has the Eurythmics score or no buy. The Twilight Time edition had both tracks.
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KidDynamite posted:I can't wait to see this movie with the correct colours. They have screencaps from the new transfer on the Criterion site along with the Sal-Radio Raheem confrontation scene and it looks loving gorgeous. Egbert Souse posted:The Twilight Time edition had both tracks. I guess a reason to keep the Twilight Time edition.
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Island Nation posted:Given that score was requested by Richard Branson and not the director, I'd be surprised if it was. It's on the Region B Blu, and it's a really good and appropriate score. If Criterion wants to have the definitive version of the film then they can't exclude it.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:It's on the Region B Blu, and it's a really good and appropriate score. If Criterion wants to have the definitive version of the film then they can't exclude it. The credits list on the Criterion site lists two separate Music by credits for The Eurythmics and Dominic Muldowney, so I assume it'll be in there.
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I, Butthole posted:Dominic Muldowney how is this a name for a human being lmao
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Hey that's my D&D character you're talking about
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I only know Klute as a plot point in the first American Dad Christmas special
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According to Reddit, The Virgin Suicides is back up on the channel. https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-virgin-suicides I watched The Fabulous Baron Munchausen last night and was completely blown away by it. An absolute masterpiece of animation and art in film. It also has a lot of comedy that still holds up very well for a movie from 1962. It was a movie of the week pick so I don't know if it is going to become unavailable or what but I'd highly recommend it. Here's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na1h7ozW9VQ
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Thom and the Heads posted:According to Reddit, The Virgin Suicides is back up on the channel. Wake me when they add The Chad Manslaughters.
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Years later and I’m still sore about Netflix changing it’s rating system to thumbs up or down but at least it has one. Criterion and a whole lot of other services could stand to be nicer to me and give me a way like that to mark the ones Iv’e seen already.
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remusclaw posted:Years later and I’m still sore about Netflix changing it’s rating system to thumbs up or down but at least it has one. Criterion and a whole lot of other services could stand to be nicer to me and give me a way like that to mark the ones Iv’e seen already. I just use Letterboxd and add a Criterion Channel rag every time I watch something from their service.
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Wonder what the cover for Mon Oncle was. Also, that movie has really got to suffer from being panned-and-scanned.
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Almost Blue posted:Wonder what the cover for Mon Oncle was. In the top right corner it says that it's letterboxed.
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I'm ten minutes into War of the Gargantuas and it rules. The token white American guy is also poorly dubbed over. And he's a scientist in a world where scientists just regularly make Frankensteins. "No, that can't be our Frankenstein, he couldn't live in water."
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Wake me when they add The Chad Manslaughters. 
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Almost Blue posted:Wonder what the cover for Mon Oncle was. Sort of. While Playtime was shot in 65mm (printed 70mm), it was masked in-camera to about 1.75:1. Tati mainly just wanted the higher definition and the multichannel sound rather than a wider image. The only pre-Home Vision copy I can find is a tape from Embassy when they also released tapes of Mr. Hulot's Holiday and My Uncle in 1984. While I doubt it was letterboxed, 35mm prints would have been hard matted and I've seen some tapes that aren't listed as letterboxed, but they didn't crop either. On that note, I don't know why I didn't notice it before, but holy poo poo is there a world of difference in audio quality between the original Playtime Blu-ray and the 4K restoration in the Tati box set. The vast improvement in image quality is obvious, but it just sounds old on the original disc. The opening titles of the restoration (which are finally spotless) are like a night and day difference.
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Zogo posted:In the top right corner it says that it's letterboxed. Well, to be fair, I can only kind of read. Egbert Souse posted:Sort of. While Playtime was shot in 65mm (printed 70mm), it was masked in-camera to about 1.75:1. Tati mainly just wanted the higher definition and the multichannel sound rather than a wider image. The only pre-Home Vision copy I can find is a tape from Embassy when they also released tapes of Mr. Hulot's Holiday and My Uncle in 1984. While I doubt it was letterboxed, 35mm prints would have been hard matted and I've seen some tapes that aren't listed as letterboxed, but they didn't crop either. The sound of Playtime is just phenomenal. If you ever get a chance to see the new restoration in a theater, do so, it's incredible. It looks great, but there's so many things in the mix in I never noticed before. (Also, I saw the cardboard cut-out people for the first time)
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According to a Blu-ray.com forums poster, Turner Classic Movies recently played Orson Welles' The Trial and it had the Criterion logo before it.
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Just watched My Name is Julia Ross as part of the Columbia Noir feature. Goddamn it's a great noir. I saw the original Gaslight last month and while it was good, this takes a similar concept even further. And it's only a little over an hour long!
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Egbert Souse posted:Just watched My Name is Julia Ross as part of the Columbia Noir feature. Thanks for posting this! Just watched and REALLY enjoyed it. If I wanted to continue my noir binge, what would be a good next watch?
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thatfuturekid posted:Thanks for posting this! Just watched and REALLY enjoyed it. If I wanted to continue my noir binge, what would be a good next watch? The Lineup owns owns owns
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Man I did not think that Julia Ross was that good but The Big Heat is great.
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