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My order from the sale came very quick, I didn't expect it before the weekend, but it was there when I got home friday. I'm excited to tell myself "this is the weekend I finally get around to watching 'Eyes Without a Face,' this time for sure" for the next three months.
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For a real time, watching Godzilla then the Raymond Burr american version. It’s really a change. The whole Godzilla Spine is really fun, several years ago we watched all of them when it was a pain to wrangle them up. Nice to have everything together & I could justify it because it was for my gf’s b-day, she’s more of a fanatic than I.
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Apr 4, 2020 03:31
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It's nearing the end of April so I'm trying to figure out which movies I should watch that are leaving criterion channel soon. When looking at this list, are there any that stand out to people?
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Apr 20, 2020 13:40
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I come again, hat in hand, and request people to look over the movies leaving on june 30th then tell me what they think I should make sure to watch. I only know a few of these, so don't be afraid to shout out anything, even if it seems obvious.
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Jun 17, 2020 16:26
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I watched Mulholland Dr back when it came to the channel in December I think. Otherwise it would be a perfect one for me. Apart from that, I’ll do as many movies from what was recommended as I can, thanks everyone for the suggestions! Whoever noted Oslo, August 31st the last time I did this: thank you, it’s a very good movie.
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Jun 18, 2020 04:04
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We watched God Told Me To last night and, in a fit of boredom from a meeting, I decided to google any reviews. Roger Ebert did not like the movie. I didn't find it quite as confused, my fiancee described it as "pulp-y" which I think is accurate. The dialogue was bad in a few places and I don't know that it was overall a good movie, but I'm glad I watched it. Definitely interesting to see religiosity as a sort of painful isolator from humanity. Thanks for the recommendation, everyone. We're going to watch In a Lonely Place, and I'll try and see Raging Bull as well, but the past few weeks have been so busy. I'm glad that we watched Mulholland Dr. back in December though, would hate to have missed out on it.
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Jun 30, 2020 15:56
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Thanks to all who recommended Aguirre, the Wrath of God. We watched it last night in a double-feature with Lady Snowblood (bought two years ago and sat collecting dust) and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie make so much out of a lingering shot where nothing is explicitly happening. Really interesting stuff, especially to compare with Snowblood which came out around the same time.
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Jul 13, 2020 03:53
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It’s the middle of the month so I’d like to know what movies are leaving the channel that we should be sure to watch. Leviathan has been on my list for a while so that’s one. There are several particularly old movies leaving & I don’t know how easy they are to see, so if any of them are fun or interesting don’t hesitate, but I do have Nosferatu on physical media so I’m not worried about it.
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Aug 16, 2020 23:01
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Years ago I watched Color Me Blood Red with some friends. Last night we decided to watch a movie so I took a look at the list of what's leaving and saw that it was on there, along with five other movies by the same director. We settled on The Gruesome Twosome, so I guess I should ask if any of the others are worth watching. Or if any of the other movies that are leaving this month shouldn't be missed. We watched A Fistful of Dollars last year, no worries there.
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Sep 12, 2020 17:43
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We watched Shivers the other night and I couldn’t get over the decor and outfits. It’s easy to see how the same writer a director would go on to make Videodrome though. Kinda felt like the movie lost the plot a little in the second half, and the ending was, by todays standards, bad hack work. For others that have seen it and know horror better than me, is that fair? I’m willing to believe that I missed some stuff that made it good or that I don’t have the proper context, but for a movie with a really intersting hook and engrossing first 30 minutes it really just falls flat at the end.
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Oct 19, 2020 20:42
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Franchescanado posted:Faculty of Horror podcast did an episode about Shivers and it's context in Canadian filmmaking: https://www.facultyofhorror.com/2015/11/episode-32-i-want-your-sex-david-cronenbergs-shivers-1975/ Thank you, reading the discussion was useful and I'll listen to the podcast today/tomorrow. I'm so rusty in horror that I forgot it really is a genre all its own, lol. That the best way to watch most of it is to ask "what sort of society produced this situation?" With that in mind, Shivers makes much more sense as an indictment of both the insulated and touch-starved denizens at the start of the movie & the backlash of disgusting excess they enjoy as soon as those barriers are broken down. I am a little torn in that I didn't like the ending, but (as pointed out in the Horror Bracketology thread) to have the inversion of what would be a normal happy ending to a horror film was good.
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Oct 20, 2020 13:29
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Same. It was on the channel, because I watched it (twice, three times? with people to show it after it was recommended here) but I think it’s off right now. It is a fantastic movie, and BWDR had a solid essay on it that really sold me.
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Jul 3, 2021 13:46
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This was, what, eight years after Birth of a Nation got screened at the white house and a little quote from president wilson talking about how important it is? The revival of the Klan was in full force by ‘26.
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Mar 10, 2023 14:47
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We watched The Parallax View last year and it was great. I managed to distract myself so I didn't buy anything last night, but this last 90 minutes has me really fighting the urge.
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Mar 22, 2023 15:34
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G-Gundam is great because it starts out as a noir story, a man shows up in town with a torn picture asking everyone if they’ve seen the guy in the picture and getting the crap beat out of him by cops in a smoky backroom, then it almost completely loses that veneer and is a childrens tv show for a while, with some really goofy and fun gundam designs… then there’s a tournament arc. It’s such a baffling show, and has some really fun moments, plus it’s not very long. More on-topic, The Doom Generation is great. I saw Nowhere a couple years ago and wanted to watch the others he’s done, and drat is it good. I’m excited to round out the trilogy. I am glad I saved Nowhere because it’s impossible to find.
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Jun 18, 2023 14:16
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distortion park posted:This made me think of trying chromecast - it looks like I might need the chromecast dongle (gently caress samsung) but in theory that should work as Criterion has instructions on how to cast from your browser. Yeah, we have a normal TV and sometimes I chromecast from my computer, it works just fine.
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Nov 20, 2023 13:35
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Yeah, Doom Generation is great and whenever you have the chance to see Nowhere: do. There's so many good movies on right now, I'm excited to catch The Devils for the first time.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:On-Gaku/Our Sound is leaving the channel this month. Cute little anime movie about a group of numbskulls starting a band. Great music, very funny, and less than 90 minutes. I love this little movie. Gripweed posted:On-Gaku is so fun. I've never seen a movie about the joy of music that comes down so strongly on the idea that you never ever have to get good, or even try to get good, to enjoy making music. Chris Knight posted:On-Gaku is loving great. Add 10 years to all the characters and you'd have an Aki Kaurismäki movie. We just watched it, and you're all right. On-Gaku is great!
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