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Egbert Souse posted:FYI, Rashomon, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, and Mon Oncle should be on BluRay soon. All have had recent restorations. The current DVDs are good, but the new editions will be awesome. You are quite possibly my favorite person right now. My haul: Seven Samurai (blu) The Darjeeling Limited (blu) (replacing my DVD, gently caress I said I wouldn't do that) House (blu) (blind buy) The Thin Red Line (blu) Black Orpheus (blu) Charade (blu) (blind buy) Paths of Glory (blu) (blind buy after seeing so many people praise it, but seriously, how could it be better than FMJ?) Antichrist (blu) Carnival of Souls Last Year at Marienbad (blu) Modern Times (blu) (blind buy, but I LOVED City Lights, so I think I'll be alright) The Night of the Hunter (blu) (blind buy) The Ice Storm What's three hundred dollars? Right? Thinking of blind buying Scenes From a Marriage oh god don't make me do it.
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IFC has acquired the adorable family comedy Shoah, which may indicate a future Criterion release.
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Modern Times is easily Chaplin's funniest feature-length, even if City Lights is his best film. The whole opening scene in the factory (up to him going crazy) is perfect. Try not to laugh during the part with him using the wrenches on everything.
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I think that that is just a slipcase that is coming as part of their whole America box set release. I hope that I'm wrong and they are releasing Easy Rider individually because I really want to get it but don't want to get the boxset for $100.
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TheYellowFog posted:I think that that is just a slipcase that is coming as part of their whole America box set release. I hope that I'm wrong and they are releasing Easy Rider individually because I really want to get it but don't want to get the boxset for $100. No, they're not. At least, not right now. They may well split it out for an individual release at some point in the future, though (like they did with the Cassavetes box).
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FitFortDanga posted:IFC has acquired the adorable family comedy Shoah, which may indicate a future Criterion release.
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SubG posted:Eh. It's easily one of the best films ever made, but I've never really felt like what it really needed was a really pristine transfer or a shitload of extras. I bet there's an awesome gag reel.
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I can't even imagine individuals wanting own it, much less for the ridiculous price it will command if only for its length. Are there really enough institutional buyers and Criterion completists for it to sell?
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Nov 3, 2010 22:51
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FitFortDanga posted:I bet there's an awesome gag reel.
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Nov 3, 2010 22:52
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Long lost appearance of Adolf Hitler on What's My Line.
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I bought Louie Bluie, also Black Orpheus and Thin Red Line, and I can't recommend it enough. Between the killer price thanks to the sale and the absolute joy that leaks out of every second of the film's 60 minutes it is really worth a buy.
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SubG posted:Eh. It's easily one of the best films ever made, but I've never really felt like what it really needed was a really pristine transfer or a shitload of extras. It's out of print in the US so some people would like a chance to watch it >: (
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The Lucas posted:It's out of print in the US so some people would like a chance to watch it >: ( Yeah, I haven't seen Shoah just because the only way would be to blind buy the MoC version or pirate it.
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The Lucas posted:It's out of print in the US so some people would like a chance to watch it >: (
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I watched the whole thing over the span of a few days and can't see myself wanting to revisit it; not because it was bad or boring, but because it was too good at what it set out to do: document remembrances of the holocaust. What Night and Fog did with haunting images, Shoah does with words and stories of the atrocities people went through from first hand accounts. The impact this has is a testament to why the holocaust is more powerful and disturbing when documented rather than dramatized. It's an important historical document that should be presevered and viewed by a wider audience so I'm all for a Criterion release because they are the best at doing just that, and then it might make its way more into highschool/college curriculum. I remember being shown Schindler's list on 3 separate occasions during my highschool years as if it were a historical fact, and something about that is just wrong. There's the famous quote by Kubrick that "Schindler's List is about success, the Holocaust was about failure" and I would say that Shoah is 9 hours of documenting failure.
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FYI some of the Studiocanal titles may still have copies floating around in the B&N system. as the following show as available to order. Keep in mind that the order may not ultimately be filled: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse Series 6) The Fallen Idol Forbidden Games (Essential Art House) Gervaise (Essential Art House) Peeping Tom Pierrot le fou (DVD) The Small Back Room The Tales of Hoffmann (Essential Art House) The rest are listed as OOP, but you might still get lucky—for example, I spotted Port of Shadows and Variety Lights (Essential Art House edition) in a brick and mortar today.
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Nov 4, 2010 04:49
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Egbert Souse posted:House is waiting for me at home from Netflix. I just watched this via Netflix last night... Honestly, I feel robbed of an hour and a half of my life. Maybe if I would have enjoyed this more in a theater, with a bunch of bad movie fans, and a nice buzz going.
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zenintrude posted:I just watched this via Netflix last night... Honestly, I feel robbed of an hour and a half of my life. Maybe if I would have enjoyed this more in a theater, with a bunch of bad movie fans, and a nice buzz going. Are you putting House in the same category as The Room?
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melvinthemopboy3 posted:Are you putting House in the same category as The Room? Ehh... less The Room, more Troll 2. But yes, it does land pretty squarely in the "so bad it's something I want to watch with a bunch of stoned people" category and not in the "watch it alone because I truly enjoy it" category. With House, you get the sense that the director had a sense of what he wanted to do, had the talent to do it, but it just didn't translate to the screen. It's like a grab-bag of antiquated special effects, which on their own are interesting, but the story itself is not good (despite the premise being interesting), the story editing/pacing is flat out bad, and the acting is not great. In all truthfulness, I was PUMPED for this movie, and it disappointed me immensely.
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zenintrude posted:With House, you get the sense that the director had a sense of what he wanted to do, had the talent to do it, but it just didn't translate to the screen. It's like a grab-bag of antiquated special effects, which on their own are interesting, but the story itself is not good (despite the premise being interesting), the story editing/pacing is flat out bad, and the acting is not great. I felt the same way and I saw it stoned in theaters. House is kind of a cool novelty movie but the way people talk about it makes it seem like it's more than a really weird Japanese horror movie when it's not. I enjoyed it's odd style but in the end it's apparent that the movie is dragged along by a mishmash of ideas, some that work and some that don't.
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Glad I stumbled into this thread. I was immensely disappointed by House. Yes it was nonsensical, but it was also boring.
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I bought it because of the hype and was waiting for the story to continue to something mindblowing and cool after the climax, but it just seemed kind of meh. The supplements, however interesting, make Nobuhiko Obayashi and his daughter really seem full of themselves. Removing all the fluff from the interview it basically looks like Obayashi "sold out" the movie via really excessive marketing and hype to get it made instead of keeping an artistic vision. All the examples of advertising shown with the girls half naked is pretty cheap and creepy too.
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got dat wmd posted:Removing all the fluff from the interview it basically looks like Obayashi "sold out" the movie via really excessive marketing and hype to get it made instead of keeping an artistic vision. All the examples of advertising shown with the girls half naked is pretty cheap and creepy too. Did you miss the part where his artistic vision was to go against every Japanese film making convention at the time? Also, he wanted to get the drat thing made and it sounds like creating a hype machine worked.
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I don't know what to tell you guys. I guess, go rewatch every film by Kurosawa, Ozu, and Mizoguchi, and Shindo and Kobayashi, for good measure, and then rewatch every American horror film made between 1940 and 1975, and then watch House again.
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I believe Chuck D said it best: "Don't believe the hype!" Hype will ruin just about any movie for anyone that may have otherwise enjoyed the poo poo out of it. Curse you, internet!
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Hype didn't ruin House for me, and that's loving rare (although I may have gotten in before the worst of it). In fact, I thought it actually surpassed the hype.
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tickle monster posted:I don't know what to tell you guys. I guess, go rewatch every film by Kurosawa, Ozu, and Mizoguchi, and Shindo and Kobayashi, for good measure, and then rewatch every American horror film made between 1940 and 1975, and then watch House again. so what you're saying is that if you don't like House, you don't get it?
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FirstCongoWar posted:so what you're saying is that if you don't like House, you don't get it? Comparing it to Troll 2 or The Room is, to put it mildly, a bit off the mark.
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People comparing it to The Room and Troll 2 are wayyy off. House is actually a good movie.
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The Lucas posted:House is actually a good movie. Some of us disagree with that... but we can still get along 
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House is truly childlike in both its thin line between the fascinating and the frightening and particularly in the hyperreallity of it all. Something like a kids' Inland Empire maybe? It does seem to have the mark of a "best worst film" at first, what with its use of "every in-camera trick," as Ti West put it. And certainly the only really experienced actor in the bunch was Minamida Yoko, who as the Auntie gave the type of performance you'd see in late-period Robert Aldrich. But all of it was sort of the point. Not to say people who don't like it don't "get" it, but, yes, Obayashi breaks just about every rule both of classical continuity and of Japanese film tradition with full knowledge of having done so. So if you didn't like what he was going for, then fair enough. But comparing it to Troll 2 is way off-base.
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Also, according to Obayashi in the documentary, an unwritten rule of the Japanese film industry was that once an actress plays a mother, she is out of consideration for "ingenue" roles. Minamida Yoko was at an odd transitional age—not yet willing to make the leap into motherly roles, but no longer finding other roles up to her expectations (which can happen once you've worked with Imamura twice, Mizoguchi twice, and Suzuki Seijun four times, not to mention every other major working Japanese director short of Ozu (who died just as her career was taking off) and of course Kurosawa. By the late 1970s she had also done a bunch of the type of B movies that gained critical appreciation after the fact, for Fukasaku, Ishii Teruo, Ozawa Shigehiro, and others, before doing mostly stage work, where she could find roles to her liking. So either Minamida Yoko loved House so much that she decided she was willing to give up younger roles for the sake of the film (which is how Obayashi sees it) or she had completely given up on getting any good younger roles to the point that she accepted the role in House (which is plausible). I would argue that the latter explanation is true regardless, but certainly she saw something in House if she was willing to choose Auntie as her first "motherly" role, not to mention to play waay older. e: In other words Obayashi makes Minamida out to be the Meryl Streep of that time in Japan, and while he is to some extent being aggrandizing, Minamida certainly still had the power in the industry to pass on House. STEVIE B 4EVA fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Nov 5, 2010 |
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FitFortDanga posted:
Obviously it's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
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Theories from cf.org: The Conversation - This one occurred to me, too, but it seems unlikely that Criterion would get the rights. I do remember reading somewhere or other that Coppola was working on it, though. Blowout - Maybe. Not a fan of the movie. edit: someone reminded me that Travolta is recording owls at the start of Blowout, so now I'm pretty convinced. FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Nov 5, 2010 |
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The Conversation is coming via Lionsgate.
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FitFortDanga posted:Theories from cf.org: We all know that The Conversation is coming next year so that was my guess. I would think Paramount would be handling the release but then again Criterion does have a partnership with them. Blowout is a very good possibility and I didn't even think of it until you mentioned it. I actually like it but then again I love early DePalma.
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SneakySneaks posted:We all know that The Conversation is coming next year so that was my guess. I would think Paramount would be handling the release but then again Criterion does have a partnership with them. I don't think they do.
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