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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The cardboard sleeves for the David Lynch films are undoubtedly beautiful Don't forget to look inside the Blue Velvet sleeve after watching
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I watched Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire that I got from the Criterion site sale a few months ago over the long weekend and they're all really great versions and packages. Inland in 4k looks better than I expected in a lot of scenes.
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Vinegar Syndrome issued a press release announcing that while Culture Shock is moving on to do its own thing, a) they've acquired two new partner labels. IFC Films and Art Label b) both will have titles added to the monthly lineup starting in December c) they teased that IFC's December release will be from Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell previously released on the service; its success probably helped boost their interest in trying to make more of this happen in the first place. I'd love to see a Queen of Earth release) d) they also teased that other partner label releases this year will include the first 4K from Canadian International Pictures, and Dekanalog releasing the first partner label 3D distribution
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Someone posted a while back about F/X and F/X 2 getting a 4K release but it’s totally ungoogleable. Does anybody have the link?
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I checked Wikipedia to see what IFC Films has and apparently they did a restoration of Brother From Another Planet
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Chris James 2 posted:Vinegar Syndrome issued a press release announcing that while Culture Shock is moving on to do its own thing, I hope this means I can finally own Death of Stalin on BD in region A, only got a DVD and VOD here...total nonsense. e: google says there's a german bluray thats region A/B though...might be the move if VS isn't doing it
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Here's where I found the press release btw https://www.highdefdigest.com/news/...ew-labels/47958 IFC Films' catalog of 967 releases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IFC_Films_films Really excited if that archive gets explored. Even if the first thing I want is more on the semi-recent side of that (I Am Not A Serial Killer deserves more respect and everything VS has done with their partner labels in my brief history of following this stuff makes me trust them)
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Bummer to see Culture Shock is leaving the partner labels, doubt I'll remember to check their solo site often enough lol
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Creature posted:Someone posted a while back about F/X and F/X 2 getting a 4K release but it’s totally ungoogleable. Does anybody have the link? Maybe a 4K scan? https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/F-X-and-F-X-2-Blu-ray/339131/
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VS' $14 deals today: Beats Devil Story Steel and Lace El Planeta Master of the World Pathogen Backwoods Marcy Take Me Somewhere Nice Streets of Death Unmasking the Idol The Flesh Merchant This is their last set. Tomorrow is $18 4Ks and then their subscriber week is done Also their first set where I don't already have anything of  I've got $10 in rewards left to spend, might hold onto it unless anyone has recommendations
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I can sign off on Steel & Lace as being good and the same for Beats (a nice slice of life/coming of age story set in the underground rave scene of the 90’s).
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Chris James 2 posted:Tomorrow is $18 4Ks and then their subscriber week is done My wallet is hosed tomorrow, isn't it  
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Yessss, I've been wanting Unmasking the Idol! Hoping they have Werewolf vs Vampire Woman tomorrow.
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The Camp Arrow sale rules, mostly because the turn around of placing the order to it being shipped was about 15 hours
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Devil Story is AWFUL, highly recommended
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Steel & Lace is a surprisingly fun flick, but Unmasking the Idol is just terminally boring.
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PinkoBastard posted:Devil Story is AWFUL, highly recommended Oh yeah that one is… unique
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Final day of VS' Subscriber Week. Today's $18 4K(+Blu) deals: The Beastmaster Prospect Awaken Summer of 84 Ebola Syndrome Madman Schizoid/X-Ray double feature Scanner Cop Scanner Cop 2: The Showdown Out of Order Recommend Ebola Syndrome, Out of Order and Summer of 84. I'm jumping at the Scanner Cops  holy poo poo
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If you love the Qatsi films, Baraka, and Samsara, you’ll like Awaken
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Thinking about dropping $18 just see Tanya Robert’s eyes in HDR
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Couldn't resist two 4K movies for $18 and grabbed X-Ray and Schitzo on top of the Apocalypse Tetralogy. 
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Out of those I can say Scanner Cop 1 and Schizoid/X-Ray are worth a blind-buy. Might go ahead and grab Ebola finally. That one has been on my radar for a minute.
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The Beastmaster has one scene where the colors look off but they have a statement at the beginning about it. I think it looks pretty great and there’s a good amount of ferret shenanigans that makes the movie pretty charming overall. Plus Rip Torn as an evil wizard.
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oof I did it again... those damned sales titles get me every time...
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Beastmaster is so good. They really put an incredible amount of money and effort into making it that goes underappreciated. Filming with a child actor and animals is super difficult. All natural lighting and cinematography by the same guy that did Barry Lyndon. The climax where literally everything is on fire is insane.
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TheMopeSquad posted:Beastmaster is so good. They really put an incredible amount of money and effort into making it that goes underappreciated. Filming with a child actor and animals is super difficult. All natural lighting and cinematography by the same guy that did Barry Lyndon. The climax where literally everything is on fire is insane. They blackfaced a whole tiger, that’s the kind of dedication to in camera effects you just don’t see anymore.
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Beastmaster rules. I watched an episode of the TV show as a kid and it was pretty lame, which turned me off watching the movie for a couple decades. Don't make the same mistake I did, kids.
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Mantis42 posted:How many of you actually listen to commentary tracks on most of the movies you buy? I try to every now and then but I just don't rewatch movies often enough to make it that attractive. Also on a lot of the kung fu movies I collect the commentaries are just some breathy nerd with a podcast or something. I do generally if it's a movie I really like. I do have many disks where that is a feature and I haven't, but I probably will one day. Funnily enough though, my favourite commentary track is on the Timelife "The Real Ghostbusters" box set. It's an actual video commentary, you see the people talking in it talking head-style with the episode inset, and the J. Michael Straczynski ones in particular are really interesting. He really cared about that show, including writing an episode that explained events directly after the end of the movie which obviously was broadcast out of order because networks. He also is really angry about the consultants who the network got in to "fix" the popular show, who just made racist and sexist stuff up like "children find Janine's NY accent and pointy glasses too scary" and "Winston should be the driver", as well as "you need to have some children for viewers to relate to, we have invented The Junior Ghostbusters" and he really explains in detail exactly why the show started off great and just got worse and worse over time, mostly due to the incoherent "MORE SLIMER" screaming from the network/consultants.
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Charles Ford posted:"children find Janine's NY accent and pointy glasses too scary" Lmao at Jeanine's glasses.
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Charles Ford posted:I do generally if it's a movie I really like. I do have many disks where that is a feature and I haven't, but I probably will one day. Yea I should clarify that if it's one of my all time favorites I'll listen but not for every random Shaw Bros film I pick up. Btw I think I met one of the goons from this thread the other day. There's this old guy at work who was talking about his collection of old films and he specifically mentioned a softcore British dracula film from the 70s or something.
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Mantis42 posted:How many of you actually listen to commentary tracks on most of the movies you buy? I try to every now and then but I just don't rewatch movies often enough to make it that attractive. Also on a lot of the kung fu movies I collect the commentaries are just some breathy nerd with a podcast or something. Commentaries have always been my favorite supplement, particularly from film scholars (name on Criterion discs) and directors. I've always been pretty diligent about listening to them, but lately with the proliferation of so many boutique labels offering commentary tracks I've stopped bothering for a lot of discs. As you've discovered, Hong Kong movies seem to be the worst offenders in my experience. It's same couple of nerds just hurriedly reading Wikipedia articles, listening off endless dates and related works, and often times retelling anecdotes verbatim from the site. It's honestly kind of insulting and I'd rather the just didn't bother if they weren't going to do them well.
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Dragon Dynasty DVDs had great Bey Logan commentary tracks. Gotta close your eyes when the Weinstein logo is on the screen though.
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Boinks posted:Dragon Dynasty DVDs had great Bey Logan commentary tracks. Gotta close your eyes when the Weinstein logo is on the screen though. I, uh, have some bad news about Bey Logan.
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The best commentary tracks are either a) the Kurt Russell and John Carpenter ones where it's the two of them catching up over beers or b) the C.H.U.D. commentary track where the director, writer and Daniel Stern just rip on their own movie
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The commentary for Jack-o is pretty famous. It's just Fred Olen Ray roasting the director who eventually gets so mad that he leaves.
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Which commentary was Carrot Top watching a movie he wasn't even in?
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TheMopeSquad posted:Which commentary was Carrot Top watching a movie he wasn't even in? The Rules of Attraction
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https://twitter.com/brettgallman/status/1677704986220789760?s=46&t=wbUf_u7uOvtvxKOmB6dAHQ
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