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Please tell me this is going to be another one of those Netflix movies that gets a Criterion release https://twitter.com/NetflixFilm/status/1485613459127549957?s=20
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Gripweed posted:Please tell me this is going to be another one of those Netflix movies that gets a Criterion release Hell I'm hoping that Power of the Dog gets a Criterion release. And The House, if you wanted to do stop motion animation.
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Jan 25, 2022 00:58
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watched My Winnipeg earlier today, one of the most genuinely hypnotic and dreamlike films I've ever seen. Guy Maddin isn't for everyone but highly recommended
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Jan 25, 2022 02:43
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Franchescanado posted:I love both Lola and Bay of Angels, both Demy films. Bay of Angels is my favorite gambling film I've seen in recent years. (Really, all of the Demy is worth watching. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is an operatic musical, where every piece of dialogue is sung. I love it, but some people hate that kinda pacing. The Young Girls of Rochefort is a more traditional musical, with singing and dance numbers more organic or separated by regular dialogue. It's more upbeat and charming than Umbrellas, in that it's about finding your perfect person.) Oh yeah, you reminded me that I saw Alphaville too in the same time period I saw The 400 Blows and Hiroshima Mon Amour. I remember liking it as well (though, again my memory of the film itself is hazy because it was so drat long ago). I saw them all as part of a film class on French Cinema. I also loved Chris Marker's short film La Jetée, which you can find on the 12 Monkeys Blu-Ray.
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Jan 25, 2022 03:27
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also watched Kurosawa's Kagemusha for the first time last week, jesus christ this film is stunning
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Jan 25, 2022 03:53
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Gripweed posted:I have bounced off every Godard movie I've watched. That dude rubs me the wrong way. I feel like I should try some other French New Wave stuff other than Godard to see if I can still like the genre otherwise. Yeah, I've had the same response too. He just leaves me cold, and it feels so detached. Like, I understand that he's trying to do, but I feel like I like the idea of Godard more than I like his films.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:01
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There are some excellent Godards - Vivre sa vie and Week End come to mind - but yeah a lot of his work is just. Not very good and full of irritating meaningless platitudes. And anyone who claims to like anything he’s made since 2010 is a filthy liar
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Jan 25, 2022 04:02
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Escobarbarian posted:There are some excellent Godards - Vivre sa vie and Week End come to mind - but yeah a lot of his work is just. Not very good and full of irritating meaningless platitudes. And anyone who claims to like anything he’s made since 2010 is a filthy liar Goodbye to Language is great, one of the most memorable times I've had in a movie theater
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Jan 25, 2022 04:28
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Cloks posted:Goodbye to Language is great, one of the most memorable times I've had in a movie theater hell yeah friend
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Jan 25, 2022 05:00
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Cemetry Gator posted:Yeah, I've had the same response too. He just leaves me cold, and it feels so detached. I keep waiting for him to click with me, but he never does. I'll still keep at it.
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Jan 25, 2022 06:06
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I'm thinking of just getting The French Dispatch on iTunes, because, like Isle of Dogs, it probably won't see a physical release in 4K anytime soon. Of course this means that Criterion will announce a 4K set of all of Anderson's films the second I purchase it.
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Jan 25, 2022 12:03
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GoldenGun posted:I'm thinking of just getting The French Dispatch on iTunes, because, like Isle of Dogs, it probably won't see a physical release in 4K anytime soon. Of course this means that Criterion will announce a 4K set of all of Anderson's films the second I purchase it. God I hope not. I've already bought half of them individually. I tend to grab one or two each sale.
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Jan 25, 2022 13:48
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Gripweed posted:I have bounced off every Godard movie I've watched. That dude rubs me the wrong way. I feel like I should try some other French New Wave stuff other than Godard to see if I can still like the genre otherwise. Same and I feel the same way about a lot of French New Wave, but I really loved Cleo from 5 to 7 so maybe give that a chance if you haven’t
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Jan 25, 2022 18:47
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Watched Varda by Agnes last night. Not really French New Wave since it came out in 2019 but it's Varda doing a retrospective of her own career and I found it quite enjoyable. Looking forward to getting into more of her work.
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Jan 25, 2022 19:43
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Watched Varda by Agnes last night. Not really French New Wave since it came out in 2019 but it's Varda doing a retrospective of her own career and I found it quite enjoyable. Looking forward to getting into more of her work. It's very good, and inspiring for creatives, but can also make a creative person feel like poo poo. Varda can somehow make art out of potatoes and it seems funny, insightful, charming and interesting, and it seems effortless for her.
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Jan 25, 2022 19:47
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Next month on Criterion Channel: https://criterioncast.com/news/february-2022-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced
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Jan 25, 2022 20:23
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I loving love The Square, even if it deflates in the last fifteen minutes the first two hours are some of the tightest, most provocative dark comedy I've ever seen.
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Jan 25, 2022 23:01
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I loving love The Square, even if it deflates in the last fifteen minutes the first two hours are some of the tightest, most provocative dark comedy I've ever seen. Yeah, I really dug The Square in theaters. It's not going to be to everyone's taste, but I thought it was a great time and gets really tense and harrowing during the Ape Performance scene.
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Jan 25, 2022 23:05
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I loving love The Square, even if it deflates in the last fifteen minutes the first two hours are some of the tightest, most provocative dark comedy I've ever seen. seeing The Square and The Killing of a Sacred Deer and mother! back to back to back was premium level poo poo. 2017 was such a fantastic year for macabre socio-political allegory in film.
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Jan 26, 2022 00:12
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Gripweed posted:I have bounced off every Godard movie I've watched. That dude rubs me the wrong way. I feel like I should try some other French New Wave stuff other than Godard to see if I can still like the genre otherwise. Watch Varda, particularly Cleo and Le Bonheur. She does a lot of the same things Godard does, but when she does it, it feels charming and playful rather than contrived and deliberately irritating.
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Jan 26, 2022 15:26
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Just watched The Lusty Men Really enjoyed it but the ending was so abrupt
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Jan 26, 2022 18:43
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LemonLimeSoda posted:Just watched The Lusty Men Mitchum is great. If you haven't seen Blood on the Moon, it's a pretty classic Western tale of pitting two sides against each other, it reminded me a lot of Yojimbo. Cloks fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Jan 26, 2022 19:11
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Cloks posted:Mitchum is great. If you haven't seen Blood on the Moon, it's a pretty classic Western tale of pitting two sides against each other, it reminded me a lot of Yojimbo. If it's on Criterion, I'll give it a shot!
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Jan 27, 2022 17:21
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LemonLimeSoda posted:If it's on Criterion, I'll give it a shot! You probably have four days left. They're losing a lot of their Mitchum films on the 31st.
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Jan 27, 2022 17:27
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Noticed that Sweet Smell of Success is haunting the Channel so this post is expressly to encourage somebody who hasn't seen it to take the plunge
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Jan 27, 2022 20:57
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Finished The Human Condition, which might just be the best thing I've bought from Criterion. It is so interesting to me see a reflective look on WW2 purely from a Japanese point of view. Feels all too common that depictions of the Japanese in WW2 veer into straight up racism, so a more nuanced depiction is appreciated.
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Jan 28, 2022 07:04
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I just finished Rear Window and enjoyed it very much There was this strange sped-up motion in the last couple of minutes where everyone is rushing to Jeff's rescue, was that a frame rate issue or part of the movie itself?
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Jan 29, 2022 00:29
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No, I remember it like that re: Rear Window
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Jan 29, 2022 00:51
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Finally got over that weird fisheye lens in Fallen Angels and watched it. Was pretty good, but I must say I far prefer Chungking Express. Just wasnt nearly as interested in the story lines here.
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Jan 29, 2022 15:00
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Watched Hiroshima Mon Amour as my first French new wave. Enjoyed it quite a bit to my surprise. The juxtaposition of the love story with some of the death in Hiroshima was interesting. In particular I think of the shot when the two of them are embracing and smiling in a crowd next to a man with very visible burn scars. But I guess this, like her tragic story of the German soldier, showed how we all just keeping living. The opening was full of such strong imagery, som of which I had not seen before. Very powerful stuff. It was also captivating to see all of the shots of the city post war and rebuilt.
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Jan 29, 2022 18:47
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It would be difficult to pick between the Bergman and Varda box sets as my all-time favorite big box, but the Varda box was such an absolute joy to watch from start to finish. Ingmar Bergman's Cinema is like going to a festival retrospective while I felt like Varda was there guiding me through her body of work herself. LemonLimeSoda posted:I just finished Rear Window and enjoyed it very much Speed adjustments in post. That great closeup of Grace Kelly and James Stewart kissing for the first time was slowed down in post and always looked bad until the 90s restoration, though you can still tell there's something off about it even in the 4K restoration.
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checkplease posted:Watched Hiroshima Mon Amour as my first French new wave. Enjoyed it quite a bit to my surprise. The juxtaposition of the love story with some of the death in Hiroshima was interesting. In particular I think of the shot when the two of them are embracing and smiling in a crowd next to a man with very visible burn scars. But I guess this, like her tragic story of the German soldier, showed how we all just keeping living. i just pulled all the French new wave movies out of my collection to watch in order, I'm looking forward to watching this soon i watched The General last night, nothing but great bits.
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checkplease posted:Watched Hiroshima Mon Amour as my first French new wave. Enjoyed it quite a bit to my surprise. The juxtaposition of the love story with some of the death in Hiroshima was interesting. In particular I think of the shot when the two of them are embracing and smiling in a crowd next to a man with very visible burn scars. But I guess this, like her tragic story of the German soldier, showed how we all just keeping living. this, but also that moment when resnais winks at the audience to show he knows that his movie follows the same basic plot structure as casablanca hiroshima mon amour is a very prescient film about the eternal horror of living in a post nuclear age and the ways that time makes us passive to outrage looking forward to my next french new wave film, breathless
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Feb 5, 2022 02:01
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Ha right, the club being called Casablanca. Now I need to also rewatch that film.
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Isn't there normally a February sale at B&N? Are they not having it this year?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Isn't there normally a February sale at B&N? Are they not having it this year? No, that's Criterion's Flash Sale in February and October, usually the last Tuesday of the month. B&N is the months of July and November.
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I haven't watched any Douglas Sirk films since I was in college, so I put on Written on the Wind tonight, and my god I forgot how funny these movies are. Dorothy Malone weeping and stroking a model of an oil rig has to be one of the great overlooked sight gags.
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Feb 7, 2022 06:35
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written on the wind is so good
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VoodooXT posted:No, that's Criterion's Flash Sale in February and October, usually the last Tuesday of the month. B&N is the months of July and November. Gotcha thanks, I remembered buying discounted titles in February, just not who from.
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just got this email:quote:Hi,  get it together criterion QA
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