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I just ordered the DVD of Bergman's Face to Face since Amazon had it marked down to $16, so all of you can thank me when Olive Films announces their Signature Edition next week.
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My copy of Saraband in the Ingmar Bergman set came scratched and Smiles of a Summer Night started skipping 12 minutes in. Gotta say, I'm less than thrilled with this.
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Mar 9, 2019 05:15
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Cloks posted:My copy of Saraband in the Ingmar Bergman set came scratched and Smiles of a Summer Night started skipping 12 minutes in. Email mulvaney@criterion.com and they’ll send replacement discs.
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Egbert Souse posted:Email mulvaney@criterion.com and they’ll send replacement discs. Yeah, I sent them an email... I'll try watching the next disc and pray it doesn't cause my tv to burst into flames.
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Mar 9, 2019 05:26
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Crisis is skipping for me at about 75mins in.
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Mar 11, 2019 18:27
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Should I jump around the Bergman set or do it in order?
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Mar 11, 2019 21:09
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Unmature posted:Should I jump around the Bergman set or do it in order? Trust Criterion. A lot of his early films aren’t that great. It results in alternating between the essentials, underrated, and his duds. I’m glad I watched this way since it wasn’t as tedious as it could have been at first.
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Mar 11, 2019 21:33
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Ok starting with Smiles of a Summer Night and loving it
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Mar 12, 2019 02:30
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Per Criterion Forum, this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival schedule is out and Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman will be screened from a new 4K restoration by Criterion and Warner Bros.
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Mar 13, 2019 14:18
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Criterion Channel's latest hint for Movie of the Week: https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1105815229081022472 Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth
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Mar 13, 2019 14:22
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My first thought was Network. Man, now I wanna watch Network again.
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Mar 13, 2019 17:44
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The email says "For All Mankind" which I've been jonesing to watch again since seeing "Apollo 11" on the weekend.
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Mar 13, 2019 18:27
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Chris Knight posted:The email says "For All Mankind" which I've been jonesing to watch again since seeing "Apollo 11" on the weekend. You are correct. I was mistaken, the Criterion Collection did that as a teaser, and I thought it was the Channel hint. https://twitter.com/criterionchannl/status/1105848150672228352
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Mar 13, 2019 19:20
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Am I misremembering or was Scorsese’s After Hours teased for an upcoming release?
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Mar 13, 2019 19:32
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Four movies deep into the Bergman set and boy is this purchase already worth it. It’s nice to have the incredible Smiles of a Summer Night and Wild Strawberries hold up the comparatively boring Crisis and A Ship to India, but already hitting that 50% great V not great ratio is a liiiittle worrisome. What percentage of the films in the set would you say are stone cold classics vs movies that he made and should be included but aren’t as good?
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Unmature posted:Four movies deep into the Bergman set and boy is this purchase already worth it. I'd rank at least 15 of them as essential. I think the two that surprised me the most were From the Life of the Marionettes and The Rite, which are amazing films. I'm curious to what others think about All These Women and The Serpent's Egg since I was actually surprised I liked them, even if they're pretty drat flawed. But the only ones I outright disliked were The Touch and Summer with Monika. This is semi-subjective, but my rankings... Best: Cries and Whispers Fanny and Alexander Faro Document From the Life of the Marionettes Persona The Rite Scenes from a Marriage (watched only the miniseries) The Seventh Seal Shame The Silence Through a Glass Darkly To Joy The Virgin Spring Wild Strawberries Winter Light Very Good: After the Rehearsal Autumn Sonata Brink of Life Crisis Dreams Faro Document 1979 Hour of the Wolf A Lesson in Love The Magic Flute The Magician The Passion of Anna Saraband Smiles of a Summer Night Summer Interlude Alright/Better than expected: All These Women The Devil's Eye Port of Call Sawdust and Tinsel The Serpent's Egg Meh: A Ship to India Summer with Monika Thirst Waiting Women Hot Garbage: The Touch
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Mar 14, 2019 04:39
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If Smiles of a Summer Night is mid-tier to you then I’m excited because I thought that was an ANumberOneDukeOfNewYorkStoneCold Classic
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I went in to All These Women ready to be pleasantly surprised, and I’m sorry to say it didn’t happen. But others have done that admirably - I loved Saraband and Dreams, two nobody seems to discuss much. The hit rate definitely gets better in the First Centerpiece, which I thought was almost wholly remarkable (sorry again, Egbert, but I didn’t like Marionettes very much!). I wasn’t a Bergman fan before diving into the set, but I’m definitely one now. The run of Faro-set films and the Faith trilogy is astonishing.
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Mar 14, 2019 05:55
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I had never seen a Bergman film before two days ago and I’m glad I get to experience it with this set
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Mar 14, 2019 06:03
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Mar 14, 2019 07:30
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I just watched For All Mankind and enjoyed it quite a bit. It was a little confusing with how they combined all missions into one and sometimes presented sequences that appeared to be back-to-back, but in fact took place on separate missions entirely. Or footage from one mission with audio from another overlayed. In the special features there is a version of the film "with identifiers" that puts astronaut names on the screen and I think it helps add a lot of context to the scenes, as does enabling subtitles that identify the narrators.
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Mar 14, 2019 18:27
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I think the point of the movie is to combine all the footage to provide an overall portrait of what travelling to the moon is/was like, rather than a literal document of each separate trip.
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Mar 14, 2019 18:46
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I think the point of the movie is to combine all the footage to provide an overall portrait of what travelling to the moon is/was like, rather than a literal document of each separate trip. Oh for sure. It makes its intentions clear and it definitely captures the feeling of a round trip to the moon. Still doesn't stop my brain from constantly going "wait, who's that? What mission is that?" I really want to see the new Apollo movie after seeing this. wa27 fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Mar 14, 2019 18:50
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My Bergman rankings. A lot of these I haven't seen in a while (only up to disc 7 in the box) so some of these are likely to change. Masterpiece: Fanny and Alexander Scenes from a Marriage Shame Winter Light Through a Glass Darkly Smiles of a Summer Night Sawdust and Tinsel Saraband Autumn Sonata Great: Thirst The Silence Wild Strawberries The Virgin Spring Persona The Seventh Seal Summer With Monika Very Good: Cries and Whispers In the Presence of a Clown (TV) Brink of Life Dreams Hustruskolan (TV) Hour of the Wolf Good: The Ghost Sonata (TV) Summer Interlude Ovader (TV) The Last Gasp (TV) The Passion of Anna Port of Call A Ship to India The Magician A Dream Play (TV) Bildmakarna (TV) Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (TV) The Blessed Ones (TV) The Venetian (TV) Secrets of Women Prison Markisinnan de Sade (TV) The Making of Fanny and Alexander To Joy The Magic Flute The Rite Harald & Harald (short) The Serpent's Egg Fair: Face to Face Music in Darkness It Rains on Our Love Faro dokument Faro dokument 1979 From the Life of Marionettes A Lesson in Love Karin's Face (short) Poor: The Devil's Eye Crisis After the Rehearsal The Touch The Dance of the Damned Women (short) This Can't Happen Here Godawful: All These Women
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I've barely scratched the surface of Bergman's work but I'm judging these lists based on where Autumn Sonata is placed.
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Mar 14, 2019 20:45
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I'd like to think David Lynch based Frank Booth on Elliot Gould's character from The Touch.
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Mar 14, 2019 20:57
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I still haven’t gotten to any movies in my Bergman box, I feel mildly ashamed
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K. Waste posted:I still haven’t gotten to any movies in my Bergman box, I feel mildly ashamed Same
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I still haven't even bought a Bergman box yet, you fucks. I feel so left out. 
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K. Waste posted:I still haven’t gotten to any movies in my Bergman box, I feel mildly ashamed I wouldn't be ashamed. I pre-ordered mine from B&N in November and I've been spreading out the films since receiving it on the 20th. It's March 14 and I still have Fanny & Alexander (and the making-of) to watch. On top of re-watching all the films with commentaries and the remaining extras. Hell, I still have the book to read on top of that. Plus watching the DVD of Face to Face. This isn't really the sort of set you binge on, anyways. Maybe take advantage of some of the double features, but I can't imagine watching all five hours of Scenes with a Marriage without being a wreck afterwards or all three Faith Trilogy films in one night.
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Mar 14, 2019 21:49
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Watching the full Scenes from a Marriage in the cinema was a hoot.
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Fanny and Alexander is one of my favorite films. It's at times absolutely uplifting and others just horribly depressing. It's full of interesting characters and stories and so much just sticks with you. The only thing is the end is a little long. That loving speech. The thing that stood out to me was the title. I've heard people mention how they thought it was odd given how Alexander has a bigger role than Fanny, but really, the title is about them as a unit.
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Egbert Souse posted:I'd rank at least 15 of them as essential. I think the two that surprised me the most were From the Life of the Marionettes and The Rite, which are amazing films. I'm curious to what others think about All These Women and The Serpent's Egg since I was actually surprised I liked them, even if they're pretty drat flawed. But the only ones I outright disliked were The Touch and Summer with Monika. Summer With Monika is such a weird movie. I think it's definitely memorable (if only because Harriet Andersson is addictive) but I can't really argue with you either. The film is both a bit amateurish and refreshingly anarchic with its alienation from civilization, but additionally it's been a while since I've seen a film that seems to both love women and hate them this much, with weird manipulative moralizing to boot.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Fanny and Alexander is one of my favorite films. It's at times absolutely uplifting and others just horribly depressing. It's full of interesting characters and stories and so much just sticks with you. I forget where I read this (possibly in the book): there was speculation it was partially a dig at Bergman’s own sister who he didn’t get along with. “Let me make a film about a brother and sister, name it after the brother and sister, but jokes on you the sister isn’t in it very much” is a pretty weird burn.
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Mar 15, 2019 08:40
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And it's one of the greatest movies ever. Take that, sis.
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Mar 15, 2019 17:30
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New ones: Bergman Faith Trilogy reissue (still with the same ugly cover) Swing Time Hedwig and the Angry Inch L’humanité War and Peace La vie de Jésus
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Escobarbarian posted:Bergman Faith Trilogy reissue (still with the same ugly cover) The chamber drama trilogy with the spider cover? Oh man I love it!
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Mar 15, 2019 20:35
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What is the order of the films in the Bergman box set?
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Franchescanado posted:What is the order of the films in the Bergman box set? Same order.
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Are many of Bergman’s films that were left out if the box set essential? I figure if I make it through this thing (currently on Summer Interlude) I may as well keep going
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