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ThetaOmnikron posted:
That's awesome. Shock Corridor is one of my favorite Fullers, it's really quite crazy and very intense. Never heard of White Dog, I'll ask my film professor when I get back to school about it - she just wrote a book on Fuller. Also - all of these movies that are being announced now for later releases, are they coming out on Blu-Ray as well?
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Horseface posted:Probably the weakest Criterion I've watched was My Life as a Dog. It's not terrible or anything, it's just a completely by-the-numbers depressing european film about childhood. There's nothing it does that Bergman and several others have done much better. I agree totally. That movie plays like "Arty European Films 101." Also, I wrote a paper on The 400 Blows and so saw it like a billion times. It got exponentially better every time I watched it, and the more research I did into it. Some of the jokes or little joys in it are incredibly obtuse, but I wouldn't put it past Truffaut to put them in there just for a film scholar. For example, that scene where the kids are jogging though Paris in gym class and run away one by one is an homage to a movie called "Zéro de conduite." The joke is that this scenes comes directly after Doinel is chewed out for plagiarizing Balzac. It's stuff like that that makes the movie awesome.
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SubG posted:I wouldn't call a reference to a Jean Vigo film obtuse, particularly in a French film in the late '50s. Zéro de conduite and L'Atalante are pretty solidly in the canon of French cinema. They're not currently particularly well known to English-speaking audiences largely, I suspect, due to the lack of a R1 DVD of either. If Criterion released them, though, I'm sure you would suddenly find yourself unable to swing a dead cat around your head in an internet film discussion forum without hitting a half dozen people talking about all the obvious influences Vigo had on Truffaut and, now and for the same reasons, Lindsay Anderson. Okay, point. And also, L'Atalante is a great movie. But when I said obtuse, I meant structurally - the joke was that it happened right after the scene where the protagonist gets chewed out for plagiarism. Even if you recognized the reference as soon as you saw it, it would probably take a moment to realize the placement was intended as a joke. I didn't recognize the homage since I hadn't seen Vigo's film, and so I only got the joke while doing a narrative breakdown for a paper. I guess I could have been over-generalizing, but I still think it would be kind of a hard joke to notice, especially the first time through.
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Og Oggilby posted:
Oh man, I never considered what Tati would be like in Blu-Ray. They might be the films that benefit the most from an HD transfer... great, now you got me excited about something that won't be out for another three years, thanks Og.
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Oh loving damnit it to hell! Why'd they have to go and bump the Blu-Rays for? I'm writing a term paper on WKW's use of color and I was loving pumped to be able to study Chunking Express in HD. AAAAAHH gently caress you Criterion!! I'm sorry Criterion... I don't mean that... you've been so good to me, Baby, so good.
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