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Defiantly interested in checking out A Night to Remember. I haven't seen it in over 10 years, but I remember liking it. It will be nice to see it again since all I remember about it is that the ship sinks. I absolutely love The Cranes are Flying, so I am defiantly going to check out Letter Never Sent, but it basically being a $30 Essential Art House release is the only thing keeping me from making it a blind buy. I'm interested in the Lean/Coward movies, but particularly Brief Encounter. Is there any indication that they are going to be released individually, or is it that if you want one you have to get them all?
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A Letter Never Sent is on Hulu Plus for anyone who has that, might be available for regular users too, for those who want to check it out before buying. And I am all over A Night to Remember, love that goddamn movie.
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Wilhelm Scream posted:A Letter Never Sent is on Hulu Plus for anyone who has that, might be available for regular users too, for those who want to check it out before buying. It's on Hulu for subscribing users only, but the whole thing is up for free on youtube. Apparently Mosfilm has a whole channel with loads of movies and it seems that most of them have englush subtitles via the caption translator. This may be old news, but I never knew about it until now and am just imagining the hours I am going to lose watching random Soviet films. Most of the titles listed are only in Russian, but I guess that is what google translate is for. Mosfilm - http://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm Letter Never Sent - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-_rgB30gs Here are links to some of the other ones there that y'all might like. Andrei Rublev - http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3D1PAhbcy8mP4 Stalker - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYEfJhkPK7o Solaris - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9Anstjlro&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2Fmosfilm%3Ffeature%3Dwatch Ivan's Childhood - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-cOMy9k-6s Kin-Dza-Dza! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47CNxwlt9U Dersu Uzala - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1MmSjMofOY
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Dec 16, 2011 00:42
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Blithe Spirit in HD! In R1! Shame it's in a box set, though. As much as I dig early Lean, Blithe Spirit makes a fantastic start to a tonally-similar triple feature, followed by Asquith's Importance of Being Earnest and ending with Cold Comfort Farm (which oughta have a Criterion edition). Best start saving pennies for the next B&N half-off sale, I guess.
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Dec 16, 2011 02:43
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Haha what were the chances that James Carville and George Stephanopoulos would ever grace the cover of a Criterion release. Letter Never Sent seems pretty swag and has a solid cover. Lean/Coward is probably a purchase for me.
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Dec 16, 2011 14:31
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How is Kuoneko? I saw it in HMV today and saw it was a Criterion film, and I've wanted to get into this collection for a while.
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Does anybody have the Chris Marker set with La jetee and Sans Soleil? I've been thinking about picking that one up: I enjoyed the documentary Marker did about Ran (AK, I think it was called) and want to see more of his films. Would anybody recommend it?
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barkingclam posted:Does anybody have the Chris Marker set with La jetee and Sans Soleil? I've been thinking about picking that one up: I enjoyed the documentary Marker did about Ran (AK, I think it was called) and want to see more of his films. Would anybody recommend it? If you liked AK then there's little doubt you can get into his other stuff, though fair warning, Sans Soleil is definitely less grounded and more cerebral, but amazing. If you have a blu-ray player wait 'til it gets released on February. Also, not Criterion, but seeing as I get kind of giddy when someone mentions they like Marker, you should see about renting The Last Bolshevik, which is similar to AK insofar as it's about a fascinating filmmaker.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How is Kuoneko? I saw it in HMV today and saw it was a Criterion film, and I've wanted to get into this collection for a while. It's very good, although a bit more fantastic and understated than 'Onibaba.'
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Pointless Criterion-related trivia: in the opening minutes of Something Wild, Lulu and Charles drive by Film Forum then located on Watts St. Playing at the time, according to the marquee? Routine Pleasures, contained in the upcoming Jean-Pierre Gorin Eclipse set!
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Does anyone know why Showboat (1936) isn't in the Paul Robeson box? (I assume it's a rights issue, because Criterion released Showboat on laserdisc.)
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STEVIE B 4EVA posted:Does anyone know why Showboat (1936) isn't in the Paul Robeson box? (I assume it's a rights issue, because Criterion released Showboat on laserdisc.) MGM bought the rights to the 1929 and 1936 versions from Universal to make their version in 1951. All three are part of the Turner library now owned by Warner. They were supposed to release a DVD set with all three versions back in 2001.
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Egbert Souse posted:MGM bought the rights to the 1929 and 1936 versions from Universal to make their version in 1951. All three are part of the Turner library now owned by Warner. They were supposed to release a DVD set with all three versions back in 2001. But at least one other of the films in the Robeson box was licensed from Warner, no? And it came out long after 2001.
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Dec 20, 2011 22:40
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Criterion posted a shot from Thief on their FB!! YES!
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FitFortDanga posted:Criterion posted a shot from Thief on their FB!! YES! loving finally, the only chance I've had of watching Thief was an edited for television version at 2:00 AM. And I couldn't do that.
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Please tell me they're using the theatrical cut and not that weird 'director's cut' where Mann sped up all the slo-mo shots at the end.
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DVDBeaver tells me that the TV version of Fanny & Alexander on the new blu-ray is just one massive long film and not split into the four chapters of the DVD. Could anyone confirm this?
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Bown posted:DVDBeaver tells me that the TV version of Fanny & Alexander on the new blu-ray is just one massive long film and not split into the four chapters of the DVD. Could anyone confirm this? It's definitely split up - there are credits after each section and a new title and the beginning of each. You can play them all in a row at once but the credits and such are still there.
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I've been holding off watching the whole of Fanny and Alexander until closer to Christmas. I just finished the second episode and the only thing I noticed was a slight stutter in the video when the camera pans through the room during Oskar's death. Anyone else notice this?
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FitFortDanga posted:Criterion posted a shot from Thief on their FB!! YES! Never mind... it turned out to be a shot from Hollis Frampton's Winter Solstice.
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FitFortDanga posted:Never mind... it turned out to be a shot from Hollis Frampton's Winter Solstice. Tease. 
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FitFortDanga posted:Never mind... it turned out to be a shot from Hollis Frampton's Winter Solstice. Hated Zorn's Lemma but liked the other two Frampton film's I've seen so I'm curious to see what will be in the set. Nice to see more experimental films besides Brakhage in the collection, even if I end up not caring for them.
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Certified Copy is on Netflix Instant. Is that a clue that it's an April title?
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STEVIE B 4EVA posted:Certified Copy is on Netflix Instant. Is that a clue that it's an April title? They already said they're not releasing it.
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They'll be dropping another massive New Year sketch tomorrow. They teased a piece of it on their FB page, with clear hints for Weekend (meh), Quadrophenia (yay!!!) and Harold and Maude (yeah okay) and something to do with Coney Island (???). edit: cf.org is pegging the Coney Island sign as Lonesome, which I never heard of but it looks good FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Dec 31, 2011 |
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I just watched De Palma's Blow Out. I really liked 3/4ths of it, but the climax is just so over the top and goofy that it took what good will I had for the film and just tossed it all away.
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I don't know about that. Yeah the car driving sequence was a little over the top, but the ending though was absolutely chilling. The very notion of hearing the woman you are trying to save dying in your ear because of something you forced her into just had me so freaked out. Plus, John Lithgow was amazing, and I need to see more films where he plays the villain.
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FitFortDanga posted:edit: cf.org is pegging the Coney Island sign as Lonesome, which I never heard of but it looks good My guess/hope is still The Little Fugitive.
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For Christmas I got: Last Year at Marienbad The Darjeeling Limited Black Narcissus The Thin Red Line Fanny and Alexander I just watched Marienbad for the first time.  that was quite an experience. I liked it but wouldn't recommend it to anyone I know.
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FitFortDanga posted:They'll be dropping another massive New Year sketch tomorrow. They teased a piece of it on their FB page, with clear hints for Weekend (meh), Quadrophenia (yay!!!) and Harold and Maude (yeah okay) and something to do with Coney Island (???). The threesome is Y Tu Mama Tambien and the billboard is Eating Raoul.
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Are they implying the Samurai Trilogy with those three samurai? I love that first one.
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robix smash posted:Lonesome is pretty short for a disc all on its own. The Most Dangerous Game is the same length. I think it would just fall under the lower pricing level if they released Lonesome.
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robix smash posted:My guess/hope is still The Little Fugitive. God that would be the best. I once wrote them an email telling them to release The Little Fugitive.
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dancehall posted:I just watched Marienbad for the first time. It's a good film if you're into cinematic studies and art - but yeah, I don't think I'll watch it again any time soon. I've been lazy about my Criterion watching the past few months thanks to work, time to go justify my NetFlix subscription over New Years break.
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Over the past couple weeks I picked up Fanny and Alexander from the recommendations in this thread. Haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet, since it's around five hours long. Grabbed the Nikkatsu Noir set too, which I've been enjoying (Take Aim at the Police Van especially).
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SneakySneaks posted:The threesome is Y Tu Mama Tambien and the billboard is Eating Raoul. Is Eating Raoul confirmed anywhere? I would love for it to be in the collection. EDIT: To clarify, have they mentioned the movie before anywhere? Dangerous Person fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 2, 2012 |
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Dangerous Person posted:Is Eating Raoul confirmed anywhere? I would love for it to be in the collection. It's been running with Janus Films slates on TV. I think that's as close to a confirmation as possible. But the wacky image drawing is ripped from the poster and is extremely recognizable.
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I'm assuming the marionette is Being John Malkovich? I was thinking we'd already heard those rumors for a bit.
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ClydeUmney posted:I'm assuming the marionette is Being John Malkovich? I was thinking we'd already heard those rumors for a bit. Yeah, somebody posted a screen on CriterionForum that cinches it.
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