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First month with a Criterion Channel subscription trip report: I've watched 42 movies in 30 days. All but about 3 were on the channel. I bought a Roku specifically for it after 2 weeks. It's singularly responsible for me falling in love with film. As far as I'm concerned, it has the best library of any streaming service I've ever used. It ownssss.
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Thom and the Heads posted:First month with a Criterion Channel subscription trip report: Your making me nostalgic for a few years ago when the exact same thing happened to me, except that was when Hulu has the Criterion library. A major awakening that happened all within just a month or two as I discovered this neverending ocean of important and influential films.
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May 9, 2019 15:45
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Detective No. 27 posted:Is there no way to change languages on Criterion Channel, or is that a movie by movie thing? I watched Godzilla vs King Gidorah last week and it was in Japanese. I started Invasion of Astro Monster today and I was ten minutes in before I realized I wasn't suddenly fluent in Japanese, that it was in English the whole time with no way to put in in Japanese. There isn't. Son of Godzilla is the only one that has an alternative dub, and you can see it when you go into that movie's collection. There must be some weird rights issue, because it was the same thing in Filmstruck with a couple of them being dubs.
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May 9, 2019 20:23
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Thom and the Heads posted:First month with a Criterion Channel subscription trip report: It is really great. I still miss the studio fluff from the Filmstruck end of things, but I suppose only having the Criterion channel side of that will push me into watching better things than 30s screwball comedies.
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May 9, 2019 20:25
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Chromecast is apparently working now. There's also now a Leaving Soon section. The movies leaving the Channel May 31: Opening Night by John Cassavetes The Elephant Man by David Lynch Blood Simple by Joel and Ethan Coen
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May 9, 2019 21:19
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Detective No. 27 posted:Is there no way to change languages on Criterion Channel, or is that a movie by movie thing? I watched Godzilla vs King Gidorah last week and it was in Japanese. I started Invasion of Astro Monster today and I was ten minutes in before I realized I wasn't suddenly fluent in Japanese, that it was in English the whole time with no way to put in in Japanese. Unless I’m wrong some of those are just english dub versions. I was bummed out the first time I realized it.
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May 9, 2019 23:51
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Electronico6 posted:Chromecast is apparently working now. There's also now a Leaving Soon section. Oh, this is good to know. I haven't seen Opening Night, yet, so that moves right to the top of my watchlist.
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May 10, 2019 03:52
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Anyone else try to watch via chromecast yet? It’s jumping around in quality on me and pretty bad. I tried to watch The Day He Arrives and it gets bad enough to make the subtitles unreadable.
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May 10, 2019 04:10
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I watched Smithereens last night. I loved it.
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May 10, 2019 15:02
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Vinegar Syndrome is releasing a Blu-ray of Putney Swope. Criterion included it in their Robert Downey Sr. Eclipse DVD set (which is 100% worth it, though it's all on the CChannel). New 4K restoration, too. Also, it's been confirmed Criterion's edition of Polyester will include a working Odorama card. 👃
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May 11, 2019 02:02
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Electronico6 posted:Chromecast is apparently working now. There's also now a Leaving Soon section. If anyone hasn't seen Blood Simple, it's a must watch. One of the best debut films I've ever seen. Don't go into it thinking it's the same old song!
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May 11, 2019 03:21
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Cloks posted:If anyone hasn't seen Blood Simple, it's a must watch. One of the best debut films I've ever seen. Don't go into it thinking it's the same old song! I just watched this (after finally figuring out which browser plays the drat channel), and... man, it's weird seeing Frances McDormand so young. Really good movie too; a bit like a comedy of errors, only not funny. At all. e: Well, no, I take that back. There isn't a Coen brothers movie that isn't at least a little funny, somehow. resurgam40 fucked around with this message at 22:51 on May 11, 2019 |
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May 11, 2019 22:40
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Cloks posted:If anyone hasn't seen Blood Simple, it's a must watch. One of the best debut films I've ever seen. Don't go into it thinking it's the same old song! I remember the Criterion store was selling a poster of the cover art for that edition but I totally slept on it and it sold out. But yes, love this movie. It's grown on me after every subsequent viewing, too. I think it's my wife's favourite Coen movie.
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May 11, 2019 22:48
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Blood Simple has one of the most efficient screenplays I've ever seen. It doesn't waste a single frame. Perfect ending too.
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May 12, 2019 00:57
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I hadn't watched a Kurosawa film in years and decided to give High and Low a try tonight, since I'd never seen it, and uh holy poo poo.
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May 15, 2019 04:43
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Origami Dali posted:I hadn't watched a Kurosawa film in years and decided to give High and Low a try tonight, since I'd never seen it, and uh holy poo poo. Tell me how you reacted to the pink smoke. It's so masterfully pulled off.
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May 15, 2019 05:17
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High and Low is my favorite film.
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May 15, 2019 15:04
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May 15, 2019 21:56
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Detective No. 27 posted:Tell me how you reacted to the pink smoke. It's so masterfully pulled off. I literally said "holy poo poo I love this movie" several times while watching it, and that was one of them.
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May 15, 2019 22:03
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The covers to the Koker Trilogy set are fan-loving-tastic
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May 15, 2019 22:07
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i bought the blu ray of high and low blind and holy cow did that turn out well.
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May 16, 2019 02:36
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FancyMike posted:August: A quiet month, but more Campion is a good (great) thing.
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May 16, 2019 02:53
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ham_sanitizer posted:i bought the blu ray of high and low blind and holy cow did that turn out well. To be fair it's not really gambling when it's Kurosawa.
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May 16, 2019 07:01
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GrandpaPants posted:To be fair it's not really gambling when it's Kurosawa.  I've seen 30 of his films, and I would say that he has made one bad film (Sanshiro Sugata II - which he was forced to make), a couple of so-so ones (mostly among his early works), and the rest range from great to masterpieces.
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May 16, 2019 09:38
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The Most Beautiful and One Wonderful Sunday are pretty bad too. I'm tempted to throw The Idiot in there as well though its a bit different of a case considering how badly cut up it was. Can't say I liked Red Beard or Dodes'ka-den very much either. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 15:34 on May 16, 2019 |
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May 16, 2019 15:31
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Red Beard is good but there's not quite enough there to justify owning it imo. It's the rare Kurosawa that feels too long for it's own good and I doubt I'd watch it again. Definitely worth seeing just because it's the final Mifune/Kurosawa collaboration, and Mifune is great as always. High and Low is legitimately one of the best crime thrillers ever made though, Kurosawa's versatility was really second to none.
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May 16, 2019 15:35
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Raxivace posted:The Most Beautiful and One Wonderful Sunday are pretty bad too. What’s your problem with Dodes’ka-den?
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May 16, 2019 15:47
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Red Beard is the point where Kurosawa starts to mellow out, becoming even more introspective and even slower. This can be seen as both good and bad depending on your patience, but all of his late career is born out of that film.
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May 16, 2019 16:09
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DeimosRising posted:What’s your problem with Dodes’ka-den? In general I think Kurosawa was better at exploring social themes through the context of his genre films (High & Low again being an example) than when he tried to approach those themes more directly in movies like this.
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May 16, 2019 16:10
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Yeah, I find Kurosawa a bit clumsy when he tries to go for "important" themes, especially compared to his contemporaries Ozu and Mizoguchi, so I prefer his spectacle films. Dodes’ka-den looks absolutely fantastic though. Electronico6 posted:Red Beard is the point where Kurosawa starts to mellow out, becoming even more introspective and even slower. This can be seen as both good and bad depending on your patience, but all of his late career is born out of that film. I think Red Beard also benefits from its place in Kurosawa's filmography. It makes for a perfect conclusion to his more optimistic phase. He started running into production and health problems soon afterwards and you can see it reflected in the increasingly cynical tone of his 70s and 80s output.
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Raxivace posted:Mostly I just find it pretty meandering. For personal reasons too, the way some characters in the film talk about the kid who likes trains hits a little too close to home for me since my little brother is mentally retarded. It’s definitely meandering, by design of course as it’s really a series of vignettes with a frame story but I guess if you don’t like that structure you don’t. Obviously the latter makes sense too and isn’t something I could speak to. I was thinking you meant something more specific about the look or narrative of the film, I don’t really see the distinction between how Dodes’ka-den portrays post war social structure and how high and low does that. Both are highly stylized portrayals of more or less “realistic” social relations.
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May 18, 2019 18:05
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Some highlights for June: - Directed by Dorothy Arzner (including Dance Girl Dance) - Directed by Nicolas Roeg (including Performance) - Alec Guinness (lots of Ealing, Lean, and Neame) - The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy - Double feature of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs - The Hours and Times - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 22:39 on May 22, 2019 |
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May 22, 2019 21:39
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Where's my blu ray of Bad Timing?  And while I'm bitching, where's my goddamned blu for Knife in the Water????
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May 22, 2019 22:53
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:And while I'm bitching, where's my goddamned blu for Knife in the Water???? Just tell Polanksi that Criterion hasn't done it yet, he'll get his lawyers on them.
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May 22, 2019 23:05
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Where's my blu ray of Bad Timing? *bangs fork and knife on table* Where's my Blu-ray for Come and See and Red Angel and The Abyss and Boggy Creek 2: And the Legend Continues?
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May 23, 2019 05:19
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Definitely feeling entitled right now
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May 23, 2019 08:43
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The first Boggy Creek is a legit culturally important film and should be preserved.
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May 23, 2019 12:49
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Egbert Souse posted:Some highlights for June: The outdoors is overrated. 
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May 23, 2019 13:38
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The first Boggy Creek is a legit culturally important film and should be preserved. There's a 4K restoration of the movie coming out this summer that was done by the director's daughter and it looks good as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEvbmZoD8Us
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Egbert Souse posted:Some highlights for June: I'd been holding out hope for a Criterion release of Plague Dogs for a while, but somehow it slipped past me that Shout did a restored release that includes the unedited cut! https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/the-plague-dogs
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