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Janus Contemporaries’ first releases announced. Coming in October EO No Bears The Innocent https://www.criterion.com/janus-contemporaries
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Is Demonlover any good on the channel?
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Jul 31, 2023 16:38
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Yeah it kinda slaps and is scarily prescient
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Jul 31, 2023 17:15
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Tesh posted:Yes, yes it is. I went straight from high school that afternoon to the (completely empty) mall to watch it, because drat it apparently nothing was going to ruin my plans that day was hoping you had a collection of 9/11 ticket stubs
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Aug 1, 2023 17:33
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If I haven't seen any Ozu, can I just start anywhere, or should I go chronologically? I know some films are thematically linked but not exactly sequels, and there's two versions of Floating Weeds. Is there a recommended film as an introduction?
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Aug 10, 2023 01:40
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Origami Dali posted:If I haven't seen any Ozu, can I just start anywhere, or should I go chronologically? I know some films are thematically linked but not exactly sequels, and there's two versions of Floating Weeds. Is there a recommended film as an introduction? Tokyo Story probably, but Good Morning is really fun. It's not every day you have a film from the 50s that's mostly centered on young boys farting and making GBS threads their pants to impress each other.
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Origami Dali posted:If I haven't seen any Ozu, can I just start anywhere, or should I go chronologically? I know some films are thematically linked but not exactly sequels, and there's two versions of Floating Weeds. Is there a recommended film as an introduction? I don’t think you can go chronologically, I thought some of his early movies were lost. Because of the war.
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Aug 10, 2023 01:47
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Yeah I watched Tokyo Story recently and it felt pretty timeless. 80 years later and kids still want space from their parents.
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Aug 10, 2023 01:49
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Holy gently caress Targets is really, really good.
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Aug 10, 2023 11:23
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I, Butthole posted:Holy gently caress Targets is really, really good. Yeah, I don’t know why it isn’t held in higher esteem in horror circles. It’s awesome.
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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, I don’t know why it isn’t held in higher esteem in horror circles. It’s awesome. I got introduced to it via the forbidden forums back in 2002, and yeah, Karloff knocks it out of the park.
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Aug 10, 2023 22:16
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Yeah it’s good that Karloff got to give a great high profile late career performance.
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Aug 10, 2023 23:06
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Well, I'm watching it now thanks to this thread. 
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Aug 10, 2023 23:28
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zer0spunk posted:I got introduced to it via the forbidden forums back in 2002, and yeah, Karloff knocks it out of the park. I watched it after reading Shock Value by Jason Zinoman. He talks about how it was made and it’s place in horror film history for a chapter.
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Targets is super good I only watched it for the first time a couple weeks back and I loved it
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Aug 11, 2023 00:43
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Any recs from the hip hop collection on the channel
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Aug 11, 2023 22:44
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checkplease posted:Any recs from the hip hop collection on the channel I liked both Deep Cover and Paid in Full. Origami Dali posted:If I haven't seen any Ozu, can I just start anywhere, or should I go chronologically? I know some films are thematically linked but not exactly sequels, and there's two versions of Floating Weeds. Is there a recommended film as an introduction? The Only Son is a good one from his early years.
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Aug 11, 2023 22:49
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Deep Cover and Ghost Dog rule
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Fear of a Black Hat is hilarious
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checkplease posted:Any recs from the hip hop collection on the channel I had a great time with the Freestyle documentary. It’s partly cuz it’s a specific time and place, but it goes into the art and battles of freestyle, has a lot of talent in it, and it’s short. It’s a little cheap looking, but it feels raw in a cool way. Seconding Deep Cover and Ghost Dog recs.
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The November Janus Contemporaries releases: Godland The Eight Mountains Tori and Lokita https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1694742236510970182?s=20
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checkplease posted:Any recs from the hip hop collection on the channel Wild Style, Style Wars, Krush Groove and the ATCQ doc are all worth checking out.
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Apparently the rights to The Fall are with Tarsem Singh now and he offered it to Criterion, but they're not interested. Odd choice as it's out of print and would be a perfect UHD (even had an early 4K DI), but hopefully Arrow or Shout picks it up.
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Egbert Souse posted:Apparently the rights to The Fall are with Tarsem Singh now and he offered it to Criterion, but they're not interested. The fall and the cell while maybe not amazing films script-wise, are still incredibly cool from a visual standpoint. I think some other label will go for it.
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Egbert Souse posted:Apparently the rights to The Fall are with Tarsem Singh now and he offered it to Criterion, but they're not interested. Seems short sighted, isn't Lee Pace everyone's favourite hot gay daddy?
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Aug 28, 2023 19:40
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The Fall owns, big L from Criterion
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Aug 28, 2023 19:52
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Escobarbarian posted:The Fall owns, big L from Criterion As much as I'd like to see Criterion take a run at a movie like that, you just never know what the behind the scenes deal is. My guess: Tarsem either doesn't have all the rights he thinks he does or he's being a prick about his fee. Pigma_Micron fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Aug 29, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 21:52
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Cacator posted:Seems short sighted, isn't Lee Pace everyone's favourite hot gay daddy? He's one of the more legitimate choices in that he's actually queer but he'll never beat david harbour and rahul kohli
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Aug 28, 2023 21:57
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Watched a couple of the 70's Car movies with my mom on the weekend. Both agreed The Cars That Are Paris was completely bizarre and a lot of fun, and while she liked Dirty Mary Crazy Larry more than White Lightning, we both loved the ending to the Burt one. The Seven-Ups is a petty good follow-on to The French Connection, deffo worth a look.
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Sep 5, 2023 03:42
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Going through some old stuff and found my old 50 years of Janus essential art house set. I've never gotten around to watching most of it. Is this something I should bother to list on SA-mart/facebook marketplace, or are these DVDs pretty much worthless now that everything is either blu-ray or streaming?
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trevorreznik posted:Going through some old stuff and found my old 50 years of Janus essential art house set. I've never gotten around to watching most of it. Is this something I should bother to list on SA-mart/facebook marketplace, or are these DVDs pretty much worthless now that everything is either blu-ray or streaming? I was able to sell a lot of DVDs via Facebook collector’s buy/sell groups, there is definitely still a market for them. Even for movies that have gotten blu/4K upgrades. Not so much in SA-Mart though in my experience, although there may be interest in something unique like that set.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:15
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DVDs are still the highest selling physical format available. There’s definitely a market for it.
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Cool, thanks. I'm surprised to hear that.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:50
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Criterion UK releases are back! This time including UHDs! After Hours and a Todd Browning set in Oct, One False Move and The Last Picture Show in Nov.
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Nice to see more streaming releases: https://www.criterion.com/films/33828-guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio
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Sep 18, 2023 21:45
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Seems like we're getting three December physical releases, too, including Del Toro's Pinocchio. The other two are Allen Baron's Blast of Silence and "The Red Balloon and Other Stories", a five-film collection of Albert Lamorisse.
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I’m only 5 films into the Varda set and it’s already won me over, so glad I picked this up.
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gey muckle mowser posted:I’m only 5 films into the Varda set and it’s already won me over, so glad I picked this up. Low key the best big box from Criterion so far.
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Sep 21, 2023 00:03
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It's such a good set, I've also only made it thru about 5-6 films and am already loving it.
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Finally got around to watching Housemaid on the channel, what an absolutely fascinating picture. Male anxiety about getting put in the same position as women, class anxiety about losing your status, and all the various social anxieties of being trapped with someone else who doesn’t obey the “right” code of conduct. Everyone is kind of a monster, but in such different and interesting ways. Just top-tier across the board.
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