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Lots of Buster Keaton now out on the channel. I’ve never seen any. What are some favorites?
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checkplease posted:Lots of Buster Keaton now out on the channel. I’ve never seen any. What are some favorites? The General is his most well-known, so start there. It's short, creative and still impressive. For a short, go for Cops.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:57
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checkplease posted:Lots of Buster Keaton now out on the channel. I’ve never seen any. What are some favorites? His first independent short, One Week, is a riot. Aside from The General, check out College and Three Ages for features. A shame they don't have IMO his second-best feature, Seven Chances. Just poke around though, I've never seen bad (silent) Keaton. 
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Mar 3, 2023 09:15
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The General was interesting. All of the train duel stuff is fun in seeing the various ways the trains try to sabotage each other. But it is surprising to see such a pro confederate movie now while understanding this movie is 100 years old. I had watched city lights recently so it was neat seeing the different styles of Chaplin and Keaton.
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Mar 4, 2023 03:55
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I’m surprised they didn’t put Sherlock Jr. up there - that’s easily my favorite of his.
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Mar 4, 2023 04:11
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For what it's worth, Wikipedia now puts the film up on a movie's page if it's public domain in the US. They don't have every film yet but it looks to be a recent change
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Mar 4, 2023 20:27
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the pre-code paramount collection they got on the channel right now is awesome, highly recommend "trouble in paradise"checkplease posted:Lots of Buster Keaton now out on the channel. I’ve never seen any. What are some favorites? i just watched "steamboat bill jr." a few days ago and that was a pretty solid one. honestly keaton never lands for me in the same way chaplin does but he's still obviously an absolute legend.
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Mar 5, 2023 23:26
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Steamboat Bill, Sherlock Jr, Our Hospitality, and The General are all solid. Though no one will judge you if you put the movie on 1.2x speed between the setpieces.
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Mar 6, 2023 00:05
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Mantis42 posted:Steamboat Bill, Sherlock Jr, Our Hospitality, and The General are all solid. Though no one will judge you if you put the movie on 1.2x speed between the setpieces. yeah, that's i guess my thing with buster keaton vs someone like charlie chaplin, keaton's work is a lot slower and more narrative than the, like, gag-a-minute stuff that chaplin was doing. i recently watched city lights and the kid on criterion and i was shocked at how fast-paced and still extremely funny they were. (also i'm a sucker for schmaltzy emotional melodrama so chaplin is just perfect for me). i still gotta watch our hospitality and the general, though, maybe i'll check those out tonight.
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Mar 6, 2023 03:32
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Out at the end of June: Pasolini 101quote:One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities—and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society’s downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, the nine uncompromising, often scandal-inciting features he made in the 1960s still stand—on this, the 101st anniversary of his birth—as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance. Accattone Mamma Roma Love Meetings Gospel According to Matthew Hawks and the Sparrows Oedipus Rex Teorema Porcile Medea quote:Two shorts made by director Pier Paolo Pasolini for anthology films: La ricotta (1963) and The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969) https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101
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Mar 9, 2023 19:30
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goddamn
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Mar 9, 2023 19:42
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Never tried his work. Always intimidated me.
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Mar 9, 2023 20:45
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Never tried his work. Always intimidated me. https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1227746326701596672?s=46&t=K6CRMiA33aFQep_ZPx64DQ
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Mar 9, 2023 20:56
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Seems odd to call it “Pasolini 101” and not have his most famous movie but cool!
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Mar 9, 2023 21:03
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Never tried his work. Always intimidated me. Give The Decameron or Canturbury Tales a spin. They're playful, creative, horny as hell, and a few of the stories will be familiar to you through cultural osmosis. They're much more approachable than, say, Salo. I haven't seen anything that will be included in this box set, and I'm pretty excited to use it as an excuse to watch them. Escobarbarian posted:Seems odd to call it “Pasolini 101” and not have his most famous movie but cool! They've already got a release for Salo, and a box set for the Trilogy of Life. I'm glad it's not redundant, that kinda frustrates me. Also it's 101 because it's his 101st birthday.
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Mar 9, 2023 21:06
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pasolini 101: they don't all involve poop!
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Mar 9, 2023 21:22
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Magic Hate Ball posted:pasolini 101: they don't all involve poop! Salo disturbed me. It wasn't the violence, the torture, the rape, or the piss. It was the poo poo. The whole poo poo chapter started bad and then just got worse. I think eating the poo poo like a delicacy was really foul. That said, it's a good movie, and one I've read, thought and written quite a bit about.
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Mar 9, 2023 21:30
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Gospel According to St. Matthew is great, does this mean there was a restoration? the dvd transfer i saw forever ago was pretty beat
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Mar 9, 2023 21:32
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Gospel According to St. Matthew is great, does this mean there was a restoration? the dvd transfer i saw forever ago was pretty beat From the specs: New 4K digital restorations of seven films and 2K digital restorations of Teorema and Medea, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
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Mar 9, 2023 21:35
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I've never seen any of Pasolini's films. Where do I start? I've always meant to give Salo a shot.
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Mar 9, 2023 22:35
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gey muckle mowser posted:I've never seen any of Pasolini's films. Where do I start? I've always meant to give Salo a shot. Salo if you want to dig into it and see what it's reputation is all about. Canterbury Tales or The Decameron for something more playful, less oppressive, and horny. edit: Last year's Bracketology thread got a bunch of write ups for Salo, if you want to read goon thoughts about it. I know I wrote about it at length in there. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Mar 9, 2023 22:41
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Franchescanado posted:Salo disturbed me. It wasn't the violence, the torture, the rape, or the piss. It was the poo poo. imo we need more posts like this
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Mar 10, 2023 01:27
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Criterion Collection: The whole poo poo chapter started bad and then just got worse
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Mar 10, 2023 01:34
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Escobarbarian posted:imo we need more posts like this The Circle of poo poo™ takes all comers
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checkplease posted:The General was interesting. All of the train duel stuff is fun in seeing the various ways the trains try to sabotage each other. But it is surprising to see such a pro confederate movie now while understanding this movie is 100 years old. It's even more absurd - from Wikipedia: "In early 1926, Keaton's collaborator Clyde Bruckman told him about William Pittenger's 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase about the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase. Keaton was a huge fan of trains and had read the book.[3] Although it was written from the Union Army perspective, Keaton did not believe that the audience would accept Confederates as villains and changed the story's point of view."  Americans in 1926 (apparently): "We refuse to accept that the people who fought to preserve slavery were the baddies!" See also: Gone with the Wind.
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This was, what, eight years after Birth of a Nation got screened at the white house and a little quote from president wilson talking about how important it is? The revival of the Klan was in full force by ‘26.
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Mar 10, 2023 14:47
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Yikes.
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Mar 10, 2023 20:33
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Future president Harry Truman also came within a hairs breadth of joining the klan around then (to help his political career in Missouri, but also because he was a cartoonishly big racist.)
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Mar 11, 2023 01:00
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Steen71 posted:It's even more absurd - from Wikipedia: "In early 1926, Keaton's collaborator Clyde Bruckman told him about William Pittenger's 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase about the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase. Keaton was a huge fan of trains and had read the book.[3] Although it was written from the Union Army perspective, Keaton did not believe that the audience would accept Confederates as villains and changed the story's point of view." Southern Journalists and the Daughters of the Confederacy had begun spinning up the lies about States Rights within weeks of Robert E Lee's surrender.
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Mar 11, 2023 06:31
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Escobarbarian posted:Seems odd to call it “Pasolini 101” and not have his most famous movie but cool! While they could have made it a complete set, the Trilogy of Life stands on its own and the set is clearly meant to be focused on his 60s films since only Teorema had been released so far. I also suspect there's a good chance of UHD upgrades of the trilogy and Salo at some point as they're MGM properties and there's already a 4K restoration of Salo.
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Mar 11, 2023 15:12
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boxset is 101, trilogy is 401, salo is 601
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Looks like the next flash sale will be next Tuesday, the 21st. Just got a $10 gift certificate for Criterion Channel subscribers. Just in time for Inland Empire. For those new to Criterion flash sales, it's usually 50%-off on all in-stock discs. Free shipping starts at $75 within the US. Quick list of everything that's been released since November's B&N sale... Michael Haneke: Trilogy [The Seventh Continent/Benny's Video/71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance] - Blu-ray Cooley High - Blu-ray Three Films by Mai Zetterling [The Girls/Night Games/Loving Couples] - Blu-ray The Velvet Underground - Blu-ray, DVD The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - 4K UHD/Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray Imitation of Life (1934) - Blu-ray, DVD Lars Von Trier's Europe Trilogy [The Element of Crime, Epidemic, Europa] - Blu-ray box set This is Not a Burial. It Is a Resurrection - Blu-ray, DVD Bergman Island - Blu-ray, DVD Three Colors Trilogy - 4K UHD/Blu-ray Combo box set Romeo and Juliet (1968, Zeffirelli) - Blu-ray, DVD Dazed and Confused - 4K UHD/Blu-ray Combo Two Films by Marguerite Duras [India Song/Baxter, Vera Baxter] - Blu-ray, DVD Hollywood Shuffle - Blu-ray Mildred Pierce - 4K UHD/Blu-ray Combo Last Hurrah for Chivalry - Blu-ray Inland Empire - Blu-ray, DVD
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Escobarbarian fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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drat I've got 60 bucks worth of codes at this point.
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June announcements: The Rules of the Game 4K Time Bandits 4K The Servant Medicine for Melancholy and the previously announced Pasolini set
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Escobarbarian posted:June announcements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvtQYsckLxk&t=9s
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Mar 15, 2023 16:57
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Edit EFB
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Escobarbarian posted:
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At some point a couple years ago did somebody at the Criterion office say, "hey, has anybody else noticed that we don't do movies with black people in them?" and now they're trying to make up for lost time?
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Gripweed posted:At some point a couple years ago did somebody at the Criterion office say, "hey, has anybody else noticed that we don't do movies with black people in them?" and now they're trying to make up for lost time? It was somebody on Twitter and not an employee, but yeah, and they responded hey, you're right
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