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Paris, Texas has Harry Dean Stanton giving one of the best lead performances in cinema history. It should be at the top of your list. Arrow's 3 Women gives you more bang for your buck if your player can handle Region B discs. Especially since they've got a sale on right now, too.
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Badlands and Paris, TX are two of my favorites.
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Stan Taylor posted:I'm trying to pick a third to round out my order, should I blind buy Lost in America or Battle of Algiers? Battle of Algiers by loving far e: Lost in America is dope but Battle of Algiers might honest-to-God be one of the most important movies ever made
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Jul 29, 2017 02:14
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Battle of Algiers by loving far Yeah, I'm going for this. I'm much more excited to watch it after reading about them both. Though this release of Lost in America does include and essay by my boy Scott Tobias. I'll have to save it for the November sale.
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Jul 29, 2017 03:08
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Unmature posted:I went with Medium Cool after watching the trailer. Seems up my alley. Medium Cool is really good if you're interested in the late 60s. Def gives a great view of what it was like to be on the ground in '68.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Battle of Algiers by loving far Battle of Algiers was the first criterion I ever bought and it blew my mind when I was a 18 year old kid.
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Jul 29, 2017 05:48
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Egbert Souse posted:You're a cookie full of arsenic, Hector. bunch of booze too, probably
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Jul 29, 2017 14:24
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3 Women may be my favourite Altman. No, wait, Nashville. No, wait, 3 Women. No, wait, Nashville. Okay, it's a tie.
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Jul 29, 2017 21:14
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Twin Cinema posted:3 Women may be my favourite Altman. McCabe and Ms. Miller!!
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Jul 29, 2017 21:22
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Galaxy Brain: McCabe and Mrs. Miller E: jinx Related, has anyone else tried Tanner 88? I checked out the first episode and it's definitely interesting to see Altman's approach in the context of a primary, but the limitations of TV production at the time really hold it back. Still, you can see its dna in West Wing, Veep, et al.
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Jul 29, 2017 21:22
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I Before E posted:Galaxy Brain: McCabe and Mrs. Miller I've watched a few episodes and I think it holds up surprisingly well. I got Gary Trudeau to sign my booklet for it.
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Jul 29, 2017 22:46
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exploding brain: quintet also tanner 88 is so loving good. the use of video and tv format works hugely to its advantage because everything in its format screams "real!" (compare it to War Room, which has a similar vibe)
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Twin Cinema posted:3 Women may be my favourite Altman. I got high the other day and re-watched MASH and had quite the time, let me tell you
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Jul 30, 2017 01:07
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MASH is really good, but man, every scene with Hot Lips is uncomfortable.
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Jul 30, 2017 02:21
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MASH really falls apart in the crappy football sequence, as well.
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Jul 30, 2017 02:27
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Twin Cinema posted:MASH is really good, but man, every scene with Hot Lips is uncomfortable. Please don't talk about my girlfriend Sally Kellerman, like that. Also, football scene owns, imo.
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Jul 30, 2017 02:54
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The set design in Stalker is loving incredible. Is it even set design? Or did all these places just really exist? Like the door to the tunnel with all the fuzzy mold on it.
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Jul 30, 2017 17:56
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Unmature posted:The set design in Stalker is loving incredible. Is it even set design? Or did all these places just really exist? Like the door to the tunnel with all the fuzzy mold on it. I think it was mostly just location shooting at a couple of abandoned factories. It all feels so real, it puts even stuff like Children of Men to shame. To be fair, the sets in Children of Men have big action scenes happening in them, so that's a whole different challenge.
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Jul 30, 2017 18:09
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Tripple dipped with America Lost and Found (BBS set) and His Girl Friday. I actually owned the BBS set before, but it was one that I had to sell. Almost got more, but they didn't have Breathless.
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Unmature posted:The set design in Stalker is loving incredible. Is it even set design? Or did all these places just really exist? Like the door to the tunnel with all the fuzzy mold on it. They apparently shot in some moderate to seriously dangerous abandoned industrial sites in Estonia that may have indirectly resulted in several cancer deaths among the cast and crew later on. From the Wikipedia article: Sound designer Vladimir Sharun posted:We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris. The fact that something like Stalker was written and shot seven years before Chernobyl just goes to show that Soviet Russia was already well familiar with horrible unexplained events leading to depopulated wastelands.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:38
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Jesus loving Christ. I feel like I accidentally clicked on the PYF unsettling articles thread.
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Jul 31, 2017 02:13
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what was that john wayne western they filmed downwind from all atomic testing and bunch of crewmembers got cancer
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Jul 31, 2017 03:00
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Unmature posted:Jesus loving Christ. Also, they hosed up and lost half the film the first time, so they had to go BACK to those areas and refilm a bunch of it.
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Jul 31, 2017 03:01
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Hector Beerlioz posted:what was that john wayne western they filmed downwind from all atomic testing and bunch of crewmembers got cancer The Conqueror, there's good WHM and Chapo episodes about it.
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Jul 31, 2017 03:45
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It took a couple evenings, but I finished Stalker. I can safely say I've definitely never seen another film like it. Goddamn.
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Jul 31, 2017 05:10
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RIP Jeanne Moreau. 
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Jul 31, 2017 17:12
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Raxivace posted:RIP Jeanne Moreau. I haven't seen a ton of her work but she was absolutely fantastic in La Notte.
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Jul 31, 2017 17:22
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Looks like they got The Philadelphia Story per the newsletter clue.
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Jul 31, 2017 22:00
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Awesome. I love Tom Hanks.
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Jul 31, 2017 22:34
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Raxivace posted:RIP Jeanne Moreau. The Bride Wore Black is a cool Truffaut film and she was good in it.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Awesome. I love Tom Hanks. No, idiot, it's the movie about the boxer with Sly Stallone.
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Jul 31, 2017 23:47
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Unmature posted:No, idiot, it's the movie about the boxer with Sly Stallone. It's OK, but I'm not much into rock musicals despite Tim Curry being good in it
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Jul 31, 2017 23:58
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Egbert Souse posted:Looks like they got The Philadelphia Story per the newsletter clue. Is that the one where he fights Mr. T?
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No you dingus. It's about how that bell got cracked.
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Nah, it's the one where an aircraft carrier from WWII gets sent into the future to meet RoboCop's partner.
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Wait I thought the movie where Travolta was a sound guy was already in the Collection?
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Aug 1, 2017 14:45
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It's actually about The Nightman and The Dayman battling for a boy's soul
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I Before E posted:It's actually about The Nightman and The Dayman battling for a boy's soul No you're thinking of Twin Peaks
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FYI, The Front Page is a fantastic movie. Since I have seen His Girl Friday before, I watched its predecessor first. It's one of those films I've been curious about, but it has always looked and sounded like garbage thanks to its public domain status. The film is full of clever camera movements - it reminds me of the '31 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in how every shot seems to have something interesting going on. Also, since this version only survives as one dupey print, the image quality is at least very clean (taken from metal masters), but it's the sound that's a real stunner. This is one of the best instances of Criterion including a second film on a release. Given that both this and His Girl Friday are in the public domain, this makes the package that much more valuable.
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Welp I caved and decided to hit up that sale. My gets: Rififi Stalker Ghost World Blow-Out Cat People All blind buys except for Stalker which I haven't seen since 2004. I hope I got some good ones!
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