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Consuming Spirits amazing but super depressing. It reminded me of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, which was also amazing but super depressing.
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lmao @ the theories that spine 1100 would be their first 4K disc and instead it’s….The Incredible Shrinking Man (also Ratcatcher/Onibaba blu upgrades, High Sierra, and Devi)
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Escobarbarian posted:lmao @ the theories that spine 1100 would be their first 4K disc and instead it’s….The Incredible Shrinking Man Awesome, I’m always down for more schlocky 50s sci-fi and tbh I wish Criterion had way more of it. Definitely getting that Uncut Gems too, glad I held off picking up the regular blu.
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I’ll def get Uncut Gems and Ratcatcher if they get UK releases. Would be surprised if they didn’t, all the Netflix Criterions have had UK releases so far and Ratcatcher is y’know classic British gritty cinema and we eat that poo poo up
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drat that's a crazy good month. Especially excited for Onibaba, which I saw for the first time recently and was immediately disappointed to learn Criterion hadn't released it on BD yet. Now I'm happy!
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Watch Criterion license THX 1138 entirely so it can be #1138, but they couldn't be bothered to make #1100 Citizen Kane or at least something significant. Then again, 600 was Anatomy of a Murder, 700 was Fantastic Mr. Fox, 800 was The Graduate. Other than being disappointed that Uncut Gems is on its second US release without a UHD, even if it absolutely should have been a Criterion release to begin with, pretty amazing month. High Sierra, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Onibaba are definites. Maybe also Devi since I've wanted to see more Ray (loved the Apu Trilogy, liked The Music Room).
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Egbert Souse posted:Watch Criterion license THX 1138 entirely so it can be #1138, but they couldn't be bothered to make #1100 Citizen Kane or at least something significant. Then again, 600 was Anatomy of a Murder, 700 was Fantastic Mr. Fox, 800 was The Graduate. They've never done anything traditionally special with "big" numbers. 100 was a Beastie boys music video collection, for example.
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I really enjoyed The Incredible Shrinking Man when I watched it last Halloween-ish. There’s a real melancholy mood to the whole thing, the pace is nice and the science hits a perfect pulpy note for me. What’s great about Onibaba? What makes it stand out?
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I'm going through some of the neo-noir collection on the criterion channel, and I just finished Chinatown. drat, that ending. I literally just kept expecting more and was shocked when the credits rolled up. Great film.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:What’s great about Onibaba? What makes it stand out? Primarily the absolutely gorgeous black-and-white cinematography (nowhere else do reeds look so beautiful). Beyond that, it's a well-told ghost story with psychologically complex characters. If you like horror and/or Japanese post-war cinema, it's a must-have imo.
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Incredible Shrinking Man is a genuinely great film, Jack Arnold’s best. Not even schlocky, it’s about the anxiety of being swallowed up by a rapidly changing world.
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The downside is that they killed a shitload of spiders while filming the spider stuff
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checkplease posted:I'm going through some of the neo-noir collection on the criterion channel, and I just finished Chinatown. drat, that ending. I literally just kept expecting more and was shocked when the credits rolled up. Great film. I feel like that even though everyone knows the final line of the film, it really does not set you up for the ending at all. Blow Out is one of my favourite films ever, and it also has a great ending. Night Moves, which I watched last week, is another really great ending for these neo-noirs. Now that I think of it, maybe the key to a great neo-noir is to have a great ending.
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Wolf is worth catching while it’s still on the channel. It’s not great but it’s crazy enough to kinda work. It veers between being kind of serious and classy and like trying to render a werewolf story in a new modern way, and then it just goes silly in the last 20 minutes (albeit in a way that’s still pretty entertaining.) The cast is great, James Spader especially. Nichols kinda has trouble with some of the FX stuff but the film looks really nice and there’s a good Morricone score. I feel it’d be better if they’d leaned more into the goofiness but as it is, not a bad time.
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What are some good movies to buy during the sale?
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Gripweed posted:What are some good movies to buy during the sale? I hear that Lady Snowblood is a pretty good movie
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Roth posted:I hear that Lady Snowblood is a pretty good movie I've seen them both already
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Why not post a few titles that sound potentially interesting to you and ask the thread for opinions on them? You'd probably get a lot more people chiming in that way.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Why not post a few titles that sound potentially interesting to you and ask the thread for opinions on them? You'd probably get a lot more people chiming in that way. A lot of them sound interesting. That's the whole thing about the Criterion Collection, they're supposed to all be certified bangers. I wanna do a couple more blind buys before the sale ends, so I thought I'd let the taste of other posters guide my hand.
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Gripweed posted:What are some good movies to buy during the sale?
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Gripweed posted:A lot of them sound interesting. That's the whole thing about the Criterion Collection, they're supposed to all be certified bangers. Not all of them might be to your taste, so if you have a list of movies you've liked from the Collection that would be good for providing a list of movies we think you might enjoy, and some stuff that we can say "This might be a bit off your beaten path"
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Roth posted:Not all of them might be to your taste, so if you have a list of movies you've liked from the Collection that would be good for providing a list of movies we think you might enjoy, and some stuff that we can say "This might be a bit off your beaten path" I like the Wes Anderson movies, and the Godzilla movies, and the Guillermo delta Toro movies. Individual ones I can remember really liking are Paths of Glory The Third Man Seventh Seal 12 Angry Men In The Heat of the Night Kwaidan Anatomy of a murder High and Low That eclipse boxset with A Colt is my Passport The Shooting And I didnt like any of the Goddard movies I saw.
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Gripweed posted:I like the Wes Anderson movies, and the Godzilla movies, and the Guillermo delta Toro movies. Individual ones I can remember really liking are Check out Barry Lyndon and Three Outlaw Samurai
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Thief is always a guaranteed good time!
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Roth posted:Check out Barry Lyndon and Three Outlaw Samurai Oh poo poo, I forgot about Three Outlaw Samurai. I've already seen it. It kicks rear end though. Isn't Barry Lyndon the musical abou the coal mining child who wants to dance?
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That’s Billy Elliot. Barry Lyndon’s about an rear end in a top hat failing upwards and Stanley Kubrick being completely obsessed with William Hogarth and wanting to shoot by candlelight in equal measures
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Gripweed posted:I like the Wes Anderson movies, and the Godzilla movies, and the Guillermo delta Toro movies. Individual ones I can remember really liking are Check out Tokyo Story, Bicycle Thief, Do the Right Thing, The 400 Blows and Ali : Fear Eats the Soul.
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poo poo, that list is not actually representative of my movie tastes at all. It's just Criterion Collection movies I could think of off the top of my head. And the whole point was to get random recommendations based on other people's taste to find stuff I might not otherwise consider. Nevermind, this didn't go as I thought it would. It is nice to know Barry Lyndon wasn't the movie I thought it was. I did wonder why the guy on the cover had a gun.
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Gripweed posted:poo poo, that list is not actually representative of my movie tastes at all. It's just Criterion Collection movies I could think of off the top of my head. And the whole point was to get random recommendations based on other people's taste to find stuff I might not otherwise consider. What are just some movies you like, then?
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Short Cuts and The Player were solid blind buys for me, it’s hard to go wrong with Robert Altman. Same with Until the End of the World. It’s almost 5 hours long but I was fascinated the entire time. It’s got some sci-fi, some end of the world, and a lot of globe trotting. World on a Wire is a solid German sci-fi involving simulations.
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Vince MechMahon posted:What are just some movies you like, then? OK, if I had to name thirty I'd probably go with 1: Shin Godzilla 2: A Serious Man 3: Promare 4: Primer 5: Royal Tenenbaums 6: 12 Angry Men 7: Predator 2 8: Walk Hard 9: Pacific Rim 10: Occult 11: Lake Mungo 12: One Cut of the Dead 13: Rushmore 14: A Record of Sweet Murder 15: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald 16: Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 17: The Grand Budapest Hotel 18: Star Trek (with whales) 19: Predator 20: Heat 21: The Thing 22: Slacker 23: First Love 24: Sister Act 25: Patlabor (Yes, I like the first Patlabor movie more than the second Patlabor movie. They're both great, I just like the first one more) 26: Alternative 3 27: Die Hard 3 28: Versus 29: Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County 30: Penguin Highway That order is not very firmly set so don't read much into one movie being above another Gripweed fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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I don't know man... Hausu Stalker Salesman Anything Kurosawa Repo Man Branded to Kill The Brood True Stories
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Get Thief if you like Heat a lot.
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Biff Rockgroin posted:I don't know man... I almost put House and the Lure in my list of Criterions I liked, but held odd because while I did like them I feel like I didn't like them as much as other people like them It's good but I like the book a lot more I've seen some Kurosawa. He's pretty good Love Repo Man. If I did a list of forty movies I liked, Repo Man would be on it I've seen some Suzuki movies and liked them, I should get back into his stuff. Thanks. Never heard of it, if they have it I'll buy it It seems like it would be up my alley and I've liked the clips I've seen, I just hate that coverart so much  Boywhiz88 posted:Get Thief if you like Heat a lot. Alright
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