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woo, Half Price Books memorial day sale means dirt cheap Criterions Any duds in this stack? The only one I'd heard of before was Modern Times(that's the one where the horror of capitalism is depicted by a man riding on a giant gear and wiggling his eyebrows, right?) 
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Nope, that’s a pack of classics. Anatomy of a Murder is incredible.
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May 24, 2019 20:43
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Da Share Zone: The Criterion Collection
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May 24, 2019 20:47
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In a Lonely Place is probably my favorite Bogart tbh. You’re in for a treat.
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May 24, 2019 20:54
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Yeah, that's a fantastic haul. The Killers is probably the worst film in the selection, and even that's a pretty slick noir.
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May 24, 2019 22:59
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You guys were right, Anatomy of a Murder is good. Never thought I'd hear Jimmy Stewart say "panties" so many times.
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May 28, 2019 00:31
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Gripweed posted:Never thought I'd hear Jimmy Stewart say "panties" so many times. I demand a new thread title
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May 28, 2019 00:33
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Time Bandits is a cool movie that’s all.
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May 28, 2019 00:33
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If you're depressed and casually browsing CC for something to watch, don't pick Sansho the Bailiff. Beautiful movie, but that was some Grave of the Fireflies level poo poo I wasn't expecting.
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May 28, 2019 01:19
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Been really digging the Columbia Noir series on the channel, good stuff there.
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May 28, 2019 02:13
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I just want to see a Criterion remaster of Ordinary People in my lifetime 
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May 28, 2019 03:18
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Chuka Umana posted:I just want to see a Criterion remaster of Ordinary People in my lifetime It's actually a good movie!
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May 28, 2019 03:29
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Origami Dali posted:If you're depressed and casually browsing CC for something to watch, don't pick Sansho the Bailiff. Beautiful movie, but that was some Grave of the Fireflies level poo poo I wasn't expecting. Sansho inspired one of my favorite quotes from a critic: Anthony Lane posted:I have seen Sansho only once, a decade ago, emerging from the cinema a broken man but calm in my conviction that I had never seen anything better; I have not dared watch it again, reluctant to ruin the spell, but also because the human heart was not designed to weather such an ordeal.
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May 28, 2019 06:28
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Yo I’m watching this movie about a guy in Italy who’s bike got stolen and it’s real good
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May 28, 2019 06:42
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Unmature posted:Yo I’m watching this movie about a guy in Italy who’s bike got stolen and it’s real good Pee Wee’s Grande Avventura is one of my favorites too
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May 28, 2019 11:59
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:It's actually a good movie! People poo poo on it cuz it won over Raging Bull for Best Picture, but I still think it's just as worthy as Raging Bull tbh
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May 28, 2019 13:36
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Chuka Umana posted:I just want to see a Criterion remaster of Ordinary People in my lifetime I was more of a fan of Ordinary Peepholes. If we are bringing it back to Gilliam films.
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May 28, 2019 17:48
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Criminal Minded posted:Sansho inspired one of my favorite quotes from a critic:
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May 28, 2019 18:00
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When is the next 50% off sale. I want Police Story!
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May 28, 2019 18:15
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DevCore posted:When is the next 50% off sale. I want Police Story! it's typically in July
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May 28, 2019 18:25
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gey muckle mowser posted:Pee Wee’s Grande Avventura is one of my favorites too Mecca Lecca Hi’m walkin’ heeere!
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May 28, 2019 18:50
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Chuka Umana posted:I just want to see a Criterion remaster of Ordinary People in my lifetime Unfortunately, Paramount has opted to keep the majority of their previously-released-on-DVD library under lock and key for licensing. That's why Olive Films and Kino Lorber have released a ton of titles that never got DVD releases from Paramount themselves. At the same time, only a whopping 12 titles previously released on Paramount DVD have been licensed out since 2006. (1900 to Olive Films; The Duellists to Shout! Factory; and Days of Heaven, Harold and Maude, The Virgin Suicides, Election, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Medium Cool, Nashville, Rosemary's Baby, Seconds, and Don't Look Now to Criterion). Between Criterion, Shout! Factory, and Arrow, there's a ton of titles that are prime for full-out special editions.
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May 28, 2019 20:41
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anyone else get their Blue Velvet pre-order in? just got mine on saturday, excited i ams
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May 28, 2019 22:24
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Picked up the Criterion copy of Michael Mann's Thief today, should be an interesting watch.
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May 29, 2019 02:56
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Thief is great and I like it more than Heat
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May 29, 2019 03:33
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I watched Thief for the first time the other day and really liked it. Mann is not someone who I've seen very many films from but that made me think I should definitely be watching more from him.
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Raxivace posted:I watched Thief for the first time the other day and really liked it. Mann is not someone who I've seen very many films from but that made me think I should definitely be watching more from him. He has a great batting average. Only rarely put out a stinker (Miami Vice). You can jump in almost anywhere and find a good to great movie. Collateral, The Insider, Manhunter, Heat - all awesome. I even like Public Enemies.
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FancyMike posted:Thief is great and I like it more than Heat Heat barely rates for me. I like half a dozen Mann movies more
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May 29, 2019 04:06
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Blast Fantasto posted:He has a great batting average. Only rarely put out a stinker (Miami Vice). You can jump in almost anywhere and find a good to great movie. Collateral, The Insider, Manhunter, Heat - all awesome. I even like Public Enemies. Public Enemies is great except for the two shots where it looks like he just had a camcorder around and decided that was best to use.
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I think Public Enemies is the only one I'm really not into (other than The Keep, which gets points for being straight up weird). I'm even really fond of Blackhat, and I hope the director's cut gets a physical release someday because the scene order int he theatrical cut is obviously compromised. Collateral, Blackhat, Mohicans, and Ali are all good in my opinion, while Manhunter, Heat, Insider, Vice, and Thief are all straight classics. Anyone who calls Miami Vice a stinker in my presence gets a slap updside the fuckin head.
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Blast Fantasto posted:He has a great batting average. Only rarely put out a stinker (Miami Vice). You can jump in almost anywhere and find a good to great movie. Collateral, The Insider, Manhunter, Heat - all awesome. I even like Public Enemies. Miami Vice is loving fantastic  Sometimes I think it's my favorite Mann film. The digital cinematography is so mournful, like a hungover dawn. The whole thing feels like your heart anxiously beating in your throat. It's as if Malick or Wong Kar-wai made a cop drama.
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Criminal Minded posted:Miami Vice is loving fantastic I've seen it referred to online as 'one of the most expensive art films of all time' Here is a cool essay http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/feature-articles/miami-vice/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wg1l17x0Y Gong Li  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNz2lEV-es bonus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJX7RrhPznQ
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May 29, 2019 08:41
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Yes! Thanks for digging up that essay, I read it years ago and haven't been able to find it since.
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May 29, 2019 08:52
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Criminal Minded posted:Yes! Thanks for digging up that essay, I read it years ago and haven't been able to find it since. For sure. It may or may not be my favorite Mann film but it's definitely my most watched of all of them
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Thief is a movie that's really grown on me. I blind bought the Criterion because I already loved Mann, didn't fall in love with it right away but then I watched it a second time and enjoyed it a lot more. I've since watched it a third time and it definitely seems to be moving up my personal ranking of Mann films. It's very real in a way that some Mann films aren't, he really nailed the balance there between style and realism that he probably only matched a few other times in his career.
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I assume this is what sparked the Thief conversation in the first place, but I hope everyone is listening to Blank Check. They just started a Mann series.
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Basebf555 posted:Thief is a movie that's really grown on me. I blind bought the Criterion because I already loved Mann, didn't fall in love with it right away but then I watched it a second time and enjoyed it a lot more. I've since watched it a third time and it definitely seems to be moving up my personal ranking of Mann films. Thief fuckin owns, but it doesn't hurt that the opening 10 minutes is just unfiltered cinematic bliss; I mean even just in terms of narrative structure it breaks so many unspoken formal rules, and I love that Caan comes off as sophisticated due to his trade but in terms of social development he's basically a naive high-schooler. After he breaks his code and it all comes crashing down around him he basically reverts to fight or flight animal nature and the film just runs with it and says 'Deal' It's crazy how influential Thief was under surface, I've caught bits of it in Sicario and No Country..., and elsewhere, but I'm of the opinion that Thief borrowed a lot, too, mainly from The Killing of a Chinese Bookee.I love that the Tangerine Dream song that shreds during the final scene is used in a modified version during Manhunter's most pivotal scene 5 years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htawoJODHA8&t=241s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl62PvygKeA&t=265s
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I found myself thinking of Friends of Eddie Coyle for some reason while watching Thief but I can definitely see some Chinese Bookie in there.
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miami vice could use a criterion blu ray of the theatrical cut, considering it is the unsurpassed greatest film of the 21st century
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atrus50 posted:miami vice could use a criterion blu ray of the theatrical cut, considering it is the unsurpassed greatest film of the 21st century miami 
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