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penismightier posted:Oh god Battle Hymn is so bad. And I say this to set up the observation that it's interesting that I don't really engage with most Sirk films because of their cool irony, while I don't really engage with Battle Hymn because of its apparent sincerity.
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Twitch posted:Is the Amazon instant version of Do The Right Thing messed up too? I've been meaning to watch it for a while and that seems like the easiest way to watch it. Couldn't tell you, I've never rented the movie off there and nobody's mentioned it either way that I can find. I'd assume since it's an HD copy that came from Universal, it probably has the same issue. And I'm sure that goes for any other digital copy you can get - iTunes, Google Play, etc. If there's an HD version of DTRT out there that is unaltered, it'd have to be from an HDTV showing from before 2009.
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live with fruit posted:Do you have a link for any of these? Cien aņos sin soledad: The Greatest Latin American Films of All Time Arcadia's Greatest Latin American Films This list includes Spanish films as well for some reason. The three big Latin American countries as far as cinema goes: Brazil Cuba Argentina I have another Brazilian list somewhere that I need to compile and put up when I get some time. As a counterpoint this: Guide to African Cinema is the only African film list worth a drat I've ever found and it's made by an outsider. It's still a decent introduction to the continent's cinema all things considered, but it's sad that there isn't something better or more comprehensive.
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I know nothing about anything but this looks like a list of good Latin American films from 2000-2009 (according to people in New York City but whatever).
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SubG posted:I'm not really a fan of Sirk in general. I admire a lot of his films, but I don't actually like most of them. Usually I think this is because I find his distinctive sensibility---of elaborately cultivated structural irony---difficult to engage with. I understand where he's coming from, and I think a lot of his films are really astonishing given that they were embedded in the mid '50s Hollywood mainstream. I feel approximately the same way about, for example, Michael Bay. I love Sirk and Bay for roughly similar reasons. Battle Hymn's an odd one because in the canon of his career it makes no sense. Dude was famous for complex and ironic dramas, yet when he has a script about a humanitarian soldier, the most cruelly ironic position of all, he plays it with gung-ho sincerity. What the gently caress? PLUS he's got those two WWII films which are acutely aware of the human damage and untenable carnage of war, and this film released between the two of them treats war like a game.
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Speaking of war films, I took a war film class last year and the teacher teased us with a story about a film that was shot at Normandy by John Ford, and up until recently the only people who'd seen it were Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, but that Spielberg had rediscovered it and it was being restored, anyone have any idea if that's true at all?
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Skwirl posted:Speaking of war films, I took a war film class last year and the teacher teased us with a story about a film that was shot at Normandy by John Ford, and up until recently the only people who'd seen it were Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, but that Spielberg had rediscovered it and it was being restored, anyone have any idea if that's true at all? John Ford was shooting Normandy - here's some of his camera crew's work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gXOU73Apg But I'm not aware of any film edited from the footage, which is mostly in the public record now. The idea of a lost Ford war doc sounds a bit like your prof got the Normandy stuff mixed up with Torpedo Squadron 8, a memorial film he made for a lost crew that was suppressed because it was bad for morale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aYVko3zJrQ
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penismightier posted:I love Sirk and Bay for roughly similar reasons.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Latin American films of the 2000s Cool, thanks.
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What is the best Army of Darkness DVD release?
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Ho Chi Mint posted:What is the best Army of Darkness DVD release? A fuzzy bootleg, viewed at midnight during a sleepover in 7th grade.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:A fuzzy bootleg, viewed at midnight during a sleepover in 7th grade. Well, I was already past the 7th grade when it was released, so that's out. 
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Ho Chi Mint posted:What is the best Army of Darkness DVD release? Whichever one has the coolest box art.
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I just watched Kill Bill for the first time since I saw it in theaters however long ago and I have to ask why The Bride getting shot in the chest with a loving shotgun doesn't even get credited as a real wound for more than like 2 minutes? She gets buried after that and then she's suddenly healed up
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BIZORT posted:I just watched Kill Bill for the first time since I saw it in theaters however long ago and I have to ask why The Bride getting shot in the chest with a loving shotgun doesn't even get credited as a real wound for more than like 2 minutes? She gets buried after that and then she's suddenly healed up Wasn't the justification that Budd was shooting her with rock salt, which would be blindingly painful in the short-term but wouldn't cause any serious damage (so she'd suffer as much as possible being buried alive)?
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BIZORT posted:I just watched Kill Bill for the first time since I saw it in theaters however long ago and I have to ask why The Bride getting shot in the chest with a loving shotgun doesn't even get credited as a real wound for more than like 2 minutes? She gets buried after that and then she's suddenly healed up She is shot with rock salt, which some people think is a "non-lethal" load for shot guns. According to mythbusters it may not even break the skin. Knowing QT, it is probably a reference to some other movie where that is done...
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Ho Chi Mint posted:What is the best Army of Darkness DVD release? Whichever one includes the director's cut with the proper ending.
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Ah ok I didn't catch that. Thanks
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Crackerman posted:Whichever one includes the director's cut with the proper ending. While the ending is better, the quality of the director's cut vs. the theatrical cut is pretty poor. Not just the reinserted scenes, but the whole thing is pretty poorly done (theatrical cut looks nice, though). However, overall, that edition is pretty good (Anchor Bay Boomstick Edition).
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I have a silly question. I've been watching Django Unchained and I noticed tonight that when Django is remembering Broomhilda being whipped, she's fully clothed for it. It doesn't seem like they even undid the back of her dress. Do you think that was on purpose? Maybe he wanted her to keep her dignity in his memories?
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scary ghost dog posted:Whichever one has the coolest box art. So, the Japanese version... 
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Rake Arms posted:So, the Japanese version... "Captain Supermarket"
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What's the name of the super-early film guy who did lots of sequences of peoples' gaits?
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Kull the Conqueror posted:What's the name of the super-early film guy who did lots of sequences of peoples' gaits? Monty something, I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8&t=202s Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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It's certainly not "Walking" since it's not even close to super-early, but when am I gonna have a chance to post "Walking" again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpE_ETl0S58
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He did all sorts of animals too, and all sorts of racist studies of indigenous people. It was like late 19th-century. I can't google it.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:He did all sorts of animals too, and all sorts of racist studies of indigenous people. It was like late 19th-century. I can't google it. Wait are you talking about Eadweard Muybridge, the dude who invented movies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-IIaP4AErg (nudity in that)
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Yes, thank you. I feel less ashamed I could not remember that name, but now I won't forget it. e: Whoa, wait what? He killed a guy? Kull the Conqueror fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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Power of Pecota posted:Wasn't the justification that Budd was shooting her with rock salt, which would be blindingly painful in the short-term but wouldn't cause any serious damage (so she'd suffer as much as possible being buried alive)? Or he was setting himself up to get killed by taking all kinds of crazy, unnecessary risks while also making her really angry at him. He does really hate his life and also knows what the Bride is able to do and get herself out of.
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penismightier posted:Wait are you talking about Eadweard Muybridge, the dude who invented movies? He does a great job bridging the gap between technological pioneer and weird old perv. There's a movie of his that's a naked woman climbing a ladder and pouring a jug of water onto another naked woman in a bathtub, which seems kind of low on the list of events needing to be captured for science.
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Muybridge got into the sequential image game because of a bet. "Science" wasn't too high on the list.
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Jack Gladney posted:He does a great job bridging the gap between technological pioneer and weird old perv. There's a movie of his that's a naked woman climbing a ladder and pouring a jug of water onto another naked woman in a bathtub, which seems kind of low on the list of events needing to be captured for science. Also one of the motion studies he sold to the public was of himself, buck naked, swinging a bat.
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Jack Gladney posted:He does a great job bridging the gap between technological pioneer and weird old perv. There's a movie of his that's a naked woman climbing a ladder and pouring a jug of water onto another naked woman in a bathtub, which seems kind of low on the list of events needing to be captured for science. That's like #3 on my list of important scientific events.
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penismightier posted:That's like #3 on my list of important scientific events. 1. The Invention of Toilet Paper 2. The Internet 3. Bathtime Hanky Panky
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Yes, thank you. I feel less ashamed I could not remember that name, but now I won't forget it. Yep, and of course it was something instigated by a photograph. And anytime Muybridge comes up I have to recommend Rebecca Solnit's River of Shadows, which is a great book on him and on California, technology, Native Americans, and shooting people in the chest. quote:Those gestures -- a gymnast turning a somersault in midair, a nude pouring water -- were unfamiliar and eerie stopped because they showed what had always been present but never seen. Set into motion, they were uncanny another way when they undid the familiar distinction between representations, which did not move, and life that did. Through the new technologies -- the train to the landscape, the camera to the spectacle -- the Victorians were trying to find their way back, but where they had lost the old familiar things they recovered exotic new ones. What they had lost was solid; what they gained was made out of air. Edit: oh, and the "killed a guy" part: quote:Larkyns was with a group of men and women playing cribbage in the parlor. He came to the doorway and asked of the figure obscured by darkness, "Who are you?" The photographer, who must have seen only a silhouette before the light, answered, "My name is Muybridge and I have a message for you from my wife." At the word wife, he squeezed the trigger of his revolver. The bullet pierced Larkyns an inch below his left nipple. He clapped his hand to his heart and ran through the house and out the other door, collapsing under a large oak tree. Another man at the scene covered Muybridge with his own gun and disarmed him. Muybridge never tried to resist or flee. He was taken to the parlor, and he apologized to the women there for "the interruption". CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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Jack Gladney posted:He does a great job bridging the gap between technological pioneer and weird old perv. There's a movie of his that's a naked woman climbing a ladder and pouring a jug of water onto another naked woman in a bathtub, which seems kind of low on the list of events needing to be captured for science. Oh gently caress, did they finally release "Ladder Ladies 7: An Aqueous Caprice"?!? gently caress, gotta get to the store now, I'm jerkin' a half-chub already.
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penismightier posted:It's certainly not "Walking" since it's not even close to super-early, but when am I gonna have a chance to post "Walking" again? On a similar tack, I feel like the opportunities to post "Ryan" are also somewhat limited. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfgLBMmtVs
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So I noticed that Argo starts with the 70's-style Warner Bros. logo created by Saul Bass. I assumed it was an artistic choice referring to the time period the movie takes place in. But then I watched Magic Mike and the same logo appears at the beginning. Does anyone know what the logic behind this is, if any?
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kuddles posted:So I noticed that Argo starts with the 70's-style Warner Bros. logo created by Saul Bass. I assumed it was an artistic choice referring to the time period the movie takes place in. But then I watched Magic Mike and the same logo appears at the beginning. Does anyone know what the logic behind this is, if any? Inglourius Basterds and Django Unchained both have retro logos (1970s Universal and Columbia, respectively). Even in the 1970s, there's The Sting with the 1930s "art deco" Universal logo and Chinatown opens with the 1930s Paramount logo. The Aviator has the mid-1950s Warner logo (made for 3-D, but used on a few CinemaScope films).
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