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checkplease posted:Oh good to know. I was eying that shout factory version of wild at heart, but maybe I’ll wait. Though who knows if a better restoration will happen. I'd be surprised if it's not out within the next year between it being MGM and they're close to having all of Lynch's catalog on Blu. Janus also has distribution rights to the essay film Lynch/Oz, which would be an obvious choice for an extra. For that matter, good chance we'll get UHD upgrades of Fire Walk With Me, Eraserhead, and Blue Velvet before too long. FWWM is getting a UHD in a few other territories and who knows, maybe Paramount will license the show for 4K.
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Egbert Souse posted:I'd be surprised if it's not out within the next year between it being MGM and they're close to having all of Lynch's catalog on Blu. Janus also has distribution rights to the essay film Lynch/Oz, which would be an obvious choice for an extra. Jesus Christ I can't afford to buy all of twin peaks again but I will
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https://twitter.com/criterionchannl/status/1644732339497447425 PSA to check your emails, they sent out $10 coupons for the store. Their coupons never expire and can be stacked, so you don't have to spend it now if you wanted to wait for a sale
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Can enter a chance to visit the criterion closet. Any goon that wins gotta speak up.
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Prizes twitter thread https://twitter.com/criterionchannl/status/1644734488507719680?s=46&t=KEkwRcq6lyEDDdE9dEWAkg Also, charter subscribers got a $20 code, sweet.
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Chris James 2 posted:https://twitter.com/criterionchannl/status/1644732339497447425
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July titles: One False Move After Hours The Watermelon Woman Breathless 4K And the Ranown Westerns: 5 Films directed by Budd Boetticher (The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station) https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1646901781929107456
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Very very good. After Hours is one of my favourite Scorseses, and The Watermelon Woman kicks rear end.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:What’s up with those westerns? I don't know much about them but they appear to be late 50s/early 60s Westerns that I'm sure fell into that hole in history that most Westerns did if they weren't either Spaghetti Westerns or John Ford Westerns.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:What’s up with those westerns? They're the five collaborations between director/writer Budd Boetticher and star/producer Randolph Scott, all Columbia westerns. Indicator released them as a box set several years ago, Five Tall Tales. Lots of fun, they're all around or under 90 minutes each, and have beautiful 50s Technicolor look. These are also new 4K restorations by Sony compared to the Indicator box, so it's awesome it's also getting a UHD version. I had speculated Sony was going to do their own UHD set of these or package with more Mann/Daves Columbia westerns (like 3:10 to Yuma and The Man from Laramie), but this will do nicely. Worth a blind buy, especially during the July sales. Price is a little steep considering the Indicator box would have a $65 MSRP today, but with a $75 price tag while on sale and having UHDs, I think it'll still be worth it. These are going to be demo discs in terms of Dolby Vision and HDR, even going from how the old masters looked. Probably going to pick up the whole lot, but After Hours 4K is a day one pickup for me. Holy poo poo. Between Criterion giving The Rules of the Game and the Ranown Westerns a chance for UHD, this increases my hope that we get the Truffaut/Doniel box on the format, as well as other deeper cuts. edit: drat, Criterion is at SIXTEEN 4K releases for 2023 so far and we still have five more months of titles to be revealed! Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Apr 14, 2023 |
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After Hours is burned into my memory because of seeing the cover at the video store with his head being twisted as the stopwatch stem really bothered me as a kid.
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Chris James 2 posted:One False Move Two underrated titles that aren't talked about enough. Chris James 2 posted:The Tall T I keep putting off watching this one.
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Zogo posted:Two underrated titles that aren't talked about enough. Yeah, I've only seen each one time, and decades ago - but both have scenes seared into my brain.
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After Hours is mostly fine, maybe I'll give it a rewatch sometime, but I sort of noped out when I saw that one scene with some fairly offensive gay stereotypes. I mean, it was the 80s at the height of the AIDS epidemic and homophobia/gay panic but still. Like, I'm sure you can still enjoy Eddie Murphy Raw but... oof.
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Criterion Channel weed day movie recs? Best of the Erotic Thrillers section?
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Criterion Channel weed day movie recs? Erotic Thrillers: I can vouch for De Palma, especially Body Double (Dressed to Kill is pretty divisive but highly regarded in his filmography), Ken Russell, and The Last Seduction. Jade is a wild movie, but it is objectively bad and doesn't make any sense. (Written by Joe Eszterhas, writer of Showgirls and Basic Instinct; botched by low-point Friedkin). I have not seen, but plan to watch Body Heat, The Comfort of Strangers, and Bound. Weed movies will depend on what types of movies you like to watch while high. What mood are you looking for? Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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Thank you. Weed Movies: Kung-Fu, Comedy, visually captivating art house. Kart Barfunkel fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Thank you. There's some great Hong Kong action flicks on there right now. The Police Story series and all of the Michelle Yeoh stuff.
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Basebf555 posted:There's some great Hong Kong action flicks on there right now. The Police Story series and all of the Michelle Yeoh stuff. I went with The Heroic Trio and I feel it was the right choice.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Thank you. Kung-Fu: You've still got the Michelle Yeoh collection which has Yes, Madam!, Royal Warriors, Police Story 3, and The Heroic Trio. Really they're all bangers. Half a Loaf of Kung Fu. Police Story 1 & 2 and the rest of Starring Jackie Chan Collection is still up. If you're also into Samurai films: Last Hurrah for Chivalry, Lone Wolf and Cub series, Zatoichi series Comedy: Eating Raoul, Fishing With John, The Phantom of Liberty, The Gold Rush, Playtime (or other Tati), My Night at Maud's, The Player, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (might be too taboo, depending on your taste), Visually Captivating Art House: Daisies, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Sweetie (also a dark comedy), Slacker, Karel Zeman's The Fabulous Baron Munchhausen, the Prismatic Ground Presents collection, House, La Jetee (short film), Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma (short film) May I also suggest some musical films with lots of visual flair or great moods: The Young Girls of Rochefort, Monterey Pop, Space Is The Place, The Harder They Come, The Wicker Man
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I went with The Heroic Trio and I feel it was the right choice. Heroic Trio loving rips but is alarming in how often it shows children and babies being maimed Still, every time a Criterion release announcement drops I keep hoping I'll see it pop up. Watching it on latenight cable was my gateway into misspending a fair amount of my youth tracking down bootlegs and Tai Seng DVDs.
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Flash sale https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1652803915513987078 Grand Budapest Hotel Moonrise Kingdom Fantastic Mr Fox Darjeeling Limited Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Royal Tenenbaums Rushmore Bottle Rocket And from his top 10: The Earrings of Madame de... Au hasard Balthazar The Taking of Power by Louis XIV The Spy Who Came in From the Cold The Friends of Eddie Coyle Classe tous risques L'enfance nue Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters The Exterminating Angel
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Criterion Channel weed day movie recs? Body Heat and Bound are the best of the ones I've seen. Body Heat is extremely sweaty in a literal way
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Oh man a bunch of Seijun Suzuki films are on the channel now. Plus Infernal Affairs trilogy
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Chris James 2 posted:
Man, I wish I connected to this movie the way that apparently every good director ever born has. I didn't get it at all. And I love languidly paced black and white movies! Also Wes Anderson should direct something more directly inspired by Exterminating Angel. In general that is a way bleaker list (tonally) then I might have expected from him.
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https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1656699179219943426?s=20quote:Starting this fall, Criterion will proudly join Janus Films in presenting Janus Contemporaries, a new line of home-video editions of first-run releases, fresh from theaters, following their streaming premieres on the Criterion Channel. First announcements: EO No Bears The Innocent Godland Tori and Lokita The Eight Mountains
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Sejin Suzuki collection on the channel. I’ve seen branded to kill and Tokyo drifter. Any other favorites from this set?
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As well as many cool pride things and Marilyn Monroe Criterion Channel has a screwball spotlight this month which includes What’s Up, Doc? which I just watched for the first time the other day and which is easily one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen in my life, go watch it. Also a method acting section with a conversation between Ethan Hawke, D’Onofrio, and Isaac Butler (I don’t know who that last guy is) and a bunch of great flicks including two of my favourites Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge
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Screwball comedy is one of the best genres Hollywood ever produced. Thanks for the rec.
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Escobarbarian posted:Carnal Knowledge That movie is a loving gem, I don't see it mentioned much. Would love to have a physical copy of it
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Escobarbarian posted:Also a method acting section with a conversation between Ethan Hawke, D’Onofrio, and Isaac Butler (I don’t know who that last guy is) I haven't checked it out yet but Isaac wrote a semi-recent award-winning 500-pager on the history of method acting https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/method-9781635574777/
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Don’t Bother To Knock is an underrated Monroe film
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September announcements: The Princess Bride 4K Walkabout 4K Orson Welles' The Trial La Bamba and Moonage Daydream
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Chris James 2 posted:September announcements: The Trial! I don't think that's ever had a particularly good release. I even bought that janky DVD... however long ago. I'm really curious how that one pans out.
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