neutral posted:

I actually have a few.

What are the differences between the three versions of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Like Blade Runner, I thought it was pretty good, but I'm not dying to see it again. Still I am curious to know whether its worth it to check out the other cuts.

neutral posted:

My second question is about the different soundtracks to Man With A Movie Camera. Does anyone have preferences? I've listened to the Cinematic Orchestra's version and it was still awesome, but I know that's far from the definitive.

neutral posted:

And my third question is about Kieslowski's Short Films about Killing and Love. I loved the Decalogue, so I guess I will probably just watch them anyways, but again, is there enough added to really make it worth it?

Voodoofly posted:

Bergman watching question:

I recently received quite a few dvds as an engagement present from my fiance's family friend, I think based somewhat on the condition that he was going to watch them as well so we could talk about them (I think he is happy to have found another film dork).

- For Scenes From a Marriage, neither of us has ever seen it. Should we watch the theatrical version or the 5 hour television first. Does your answer change if we might not ever see the other version?

- For Fanny and Alexander, I have only seen the theatrical version, and he has seen neither - same question, which one should he watch first?

BooDoug187 posted:

And does anyone know of any other older american movies (40's and 50's) that dont have the typical happy ending or "the heroes stops the bad guy" endings?

Peaceful Anarchy posted:

Are you sure it was in English? It sounds a bit like The Exterminating Angel to me.

Satch posted:

One of my favorites is a noir flick called Detour wherein a guy kills 2 people accidentally in the course of the film and at the end is supposed to just hit the highway, unsure of where he's going but with nowhere TO go.

Then the government said he had to get caught at the end, since he'd killed people and was thus the 'bad guy'. So there's this OBVIOUSLY tacked on segment where a cop pulls over while he's walking and nabs him with this voice over:

Og Oggilby posted:

One of the best examples of the bad guy getting away with it is... It's a Wonderful Life. Few people realize that Potter got away with stealing the money

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

I guess I can ask this here, but is the 3 disc edition of Brazil worth the extra 30 bucks or is the standard criterion good enough? I do enjoy extras and commentaries but are they worth the additional cost?

Kentucky Shark posted:

Off the top of my head, Kevin Smith specifically calls out some actors as assholes in his commentaries (like Linda Fiorentino in Dogma).

Tookus posted:

In the film Deliverance,

Wikipedia Says:

"The reason for Drew's fall is left unclear: Drew was either shot and killed by the surviving mountain man, or he lost his balance and fell from the canoe in the heavy rapids."

But when I watched it I interpreted it as Drew being wracked with guilt over letting his friends bury the hillbilly. He seemed despondent, and it looked to me like he killed himself by throwing himself out of the canoe. That would also explain why he didn't put on his life jacket. What are your thoughts?

Tookus posted:

Also was the man that Ed killed at the top of the gorge the deputy's brother that was out hunting or was it the surviving hillbilly?

Jack Does Jihad posted:

This doesn't really have to do with a specific movie, but I was browsing dvdbeaver and went to this page: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/reviews.htm

The reviews are sorted alphabetically, and a thumbnail with a picture links to each letter (the picture for M is from A Man Escaped, P has a picture of Passion of Joan of Arc, etc). I have no idea what some of them are, specifically I and L:



I'm sure it's going to turn out to be something obvious, but I'd appreciate it if anyone could identify these two.

Jack Does Jihad posted:

Good guess, but The Insect Woman isn't listed in their reviews, so I don't think it's that. It certainly is a striking image, though.

Dr. Coffee posted:

So I have been more and more interested in Oldboy and just learned that it is part of a trilogy. Is the rest of the series any good? Is there an order I should watch them?

We Are Citizen posted:

We Are Citizen posted:

it is still pretty obviously a term of disparagement

Egbert Souse posted:

In Baraka, what is that "chanting" called? It's the segment with these people waving around their arms in unison.

ayb posted:

My Cinema class this week has a couple of assignments for us.

We have to watch 2 documentaries that offer "opposing" views on the topic(and of course analyze them). I know of the more well known documentaries but don't know what has come out that opposes them.

We also have to find an animated feature film that succeeded commercially or critically beyond the traditional youth market(this one isn't as tough)

Anyone have good recommendations on these? I have to write papers on them but finding the films has been slightly more difficult

therochester posted:

Yeah, I meant ADR. The example that spurred the question today was I fidanzati. There were several scenes where it looked so bad, yet I couldn't see a justification for it. In particular there were a couple of scenes in a barber shop and an apartment. I would think it would be easy to control for extraneous noise in those cases, so perhaps they were foreign actors. It really takes me out of the movie.

Armyman25 posted:

In Animal House, what was up with the headline "Dean's wife to vacation in Florida" after she sleeps with the student. Did she go for an abortion or something?

ClydeUmney posted:

I have the theatrical recorded off of Turner Classic. Delete it unwatched and wait for the miniseries, or is the theatrical worth seeing on its own?

Dancing Potato posted:

I don't know if this is the right place for this but I have a question concerning DVD software. I do a lot of my renting from the public library, which means that a lot of the discs are in not-awesome shape. Half the time I start watching a movie only to have it start to crap out and skip on me. I was wondering if there exists some kind of program that can scan through a DVD and see if it will skip without having to watch the whole thing. I've been burned three times in the past two weeks with movies that I watched an hour of only to find the rest nigh unwatchable - I'd like to be able to prevent that in the future.

timeandtide posted:

I have just stared at this photo for a few minutes, looking at your name and your avatar and the photo, just staring and staring and staring away--hoping, begging, pleading for some sense to it all. To the mystery of life.

Dr_Amazing posted:

Until now I had no idea that "Angry White Guy" is a movie genre.

the posted:

I can't even name an Italian Horror film

the boy in a well posted:

I've forgotten what this film is. Its poster features a lighthouse, which is also prominent in the film's trailer. This movie is in black and white and wasn't released more than three years ago. I think it's French, but I could be wrong; in any case, it played Cannes or some other major festivals, and the director has made some films before. There was a definite film noir vibe to the movie, that I've also heard is a rather slow-moving picture. I don't have any other details, except to say this has been gnawing at me for some time. gently caress, I hope it's not actually called The Lighthouse!

the Bunt posted:

So my all-time favorite Godard movie is My Life to Live. What's the best quality DVD release to get? Does it matter? Is there even more than one?

Ape Agitator posted:

See when I hear of dated special effects I see the "haze" caused by double printing, the barely visible masking box

Brolita posted:

How much profanity/sexual content is in the movie TAPS? (Reading this you'd think I'm a parent showing this to my kid, actually I'm wondering if it's a movie my mom would like) Violence isn't as big of an issue.

Piano posted:

This might be a kind of silly request but lately I've been sort of enchanted by films that sort of expose how things get done in creative industries, ranging from stuff like Synecdoche, New York with the gigantic productions shown and even other stuff like The Devil Wears Prada(fashion/magazine publishing industries), which happens to share an actor on that show Entourage which I also liked in that aspect (the whole process that movies get made, however fictional/silly). The Aviator also touches on this at points. Any other stuff like this? And I don't mean just limited to theater type production but really anything with a creative process.

me posted:

I'm on a huge film noir kick right now, and there's still a bunch I haven't seen, but these are some of my favorites:

Double Indemnity
Murder By Contract
Touch of Evil
The Stranger
Sweet Smell of Success
The Third Man
The Night of the Hunter
Nightmare Alley
Bad Day at Black Rock
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Asphalt Jungle
The Lady from Shanghai
Gun Crazy
Laura
Murder, My Sweet
The Maltese Falcon

and a few foreign ones:

Diabolique
Stray Dog
Elevator to the Gallows
Quai des Orferves
Bob le flambeur
The Wages of Fear

Muley posted:

there was a thread here not long ago about some african movie, possibly sci-fi. maybe from zimbabwe or nigeria. seemed like an art film, there was a picture of a black guy with antlers on a blue wall. any help would be appreciated, thanks.