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Basebf555 posted:What would be a good place to go next? I'm thinking maybe The Player or to go outside the Criterion collection maybe The Long Goodbye. Do Short Cuts and Nashville live up to the hype? The only problem with starting with Nashville is that every subsequent film you watch will seem lesser by comparison.
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Cool, so based on my personal taste I'm gonna go with The Long Goodbye next, and then I'll probably pick up Nashville at the next sale. Thanks!
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Apr 9, 2018 13:53
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He had a lot of hits and Nashville is certainly one of them, but Short Cuts is hands down my favorite.
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Once you get through Long Goodbye (my favourite movie ever) and perhaps The Player and Nashville, see if you can find California Split. It's so good, and I hope the music rights get figured out so a proper Blu happens.
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The Robert Altman film I had to see as soon as I found out it existed, based on the premise alone, was Quintet, of all things. It's not good, but it's one of those interesting, memorable failures that I'm glad I watched.
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Apr 10, 2018 02:05
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I assume everyone here has seen Popeye.
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Popeye is incredible if just for the fact that there will never be as perfect casting as Shelley Duvall and Robin Williams. Also, Robert Altman was the perfect choice for director considering the Fleischer cartoons were all about overlapping dialogue and ad-libbing (most of the dialogue was recorded after animation).
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Also, it made perfect use of Harry Nilsson, which gave us that wonderful Hawaii scene in Punch-Drunk love.
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Popeye sort of annoys me but it's such a sincere and quaint movie, weirdly absorbing.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I assume everyone here has seen Popeye. I actually just watched it for the first time this weekend, it’s wild-rear end
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Apr 10, 2018 18:35
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How’s the Barry Lyndon blu-ray? It’s about time I upgrade from the ancient snapcase dvd.
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Apr 15, 2018 11:05
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I mean, think about the question you asked and the sentence you followed it with.
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nemesis_hub posted:How’s the Barry Lyndon blu-ray? It’s about time I upgrade from the ancient snapcase dvd. One of their best releases ever.
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Apr 15, 2018 15:43
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Definitely! To be less sassy, it's 100% worth a purchase.
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July releases are up: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood (Josef Von Sternberg) #930, Jul 3 - Morocco - Dishonored - Shanghai Express - Blonde Venus - The Scarlet Empress - The Devil is a Woman
 Bull Durham (Ron Shelton) #936, Jul 10
 Dragon Inn (King Hu) #937, Jul 10
 Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh) #938, Jul 17
 A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger) #939, Jul 24
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Apr 16, 2018 22:50
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I really like that A Matter of Life and Death cover
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Sternberg/Dietrich, Sex Lies and Videotape, and A Matter of Lifeand Death are must haves. And during the B&N sale. 
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It's a very good month of releases. All of them are a must-watch except maybe Bull Durham. Dragon Inn is pretty much a perfect martial arts movie. And the extras are all different from the Masters of Cinema release, hopefully they go up on Filmstruck I really shouldn't double dip.
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FancyMike posted:
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Apr 16, 2018 23:33
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That Dietrich/Von Sternberg box set is by far the gem of this month. Hope I can get it on sale during July at B&N. I almost never buy physical movies anymore but I'm all about that one.
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FancyMike posted:All of them are a must-watch except maybe Bull Durham. How dare you
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Any Powell & Pressburger is 100% worth blind-buying, but A Matter of Life and Death is just sublime. "One is starved for Technicolor up there..."
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Well, we can keep our fingers crossed that Criterion fixes the colour scheme on Dragon Inn. I don't think it's very likely, though.
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I've been waiting for them to release A Matter of Life and Death ever since I first watched their DVD of Colonel Blimp over fifteen years ago. This is an emotional day for me.
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Egbert Souse posted:Any Powell & Pressburger is 100% worth blind-buying, but A Matter of Life and Death is just sublime. I love Technicolor and I've never seen a Powell & Pressburger film. Would The Red Shoes be a good place to start? Edit: Also, thanks to recommendations in here I made sure to watch Altman's The Long Goodbye ASAP. Great, great film, which I expected, but holy poo poo that ending! Definitely didn't see it coming but Gould completely owns that scene and I love how he spits after he does it. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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I made a post in GenChat about being surprised during blind viewings of classic films and that loving scene with the gangster's wife is one of them. Also Arnie!
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Bull Durham is the greatest film about baseball, and I'm going to buy copies for both myself and my father.
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Steen71 posted:Well, we can keep our fingers crossed that Criterion fixes the colour scheme on Dragon Inn. I don't think it's very likely, though. They're not going to touch the colors. The cinematographer was involved in the restoration and it's the same one Eureka released back in 2015. A Touch of Zen has some of the same color complaints from the blu-ray.com forum types and they didn't touch that one, the Criterion and Eureka discs are pretty much identical. For what it's worth I didn't notice anything wrong while watching either movie and think they both look great with the new restorations. Related, Amazon has pre-orders for Kino's release of King Hu's Legend of the Mountain up at $13.25. It's a fantastic movie and the new restoration looks very good.
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What can one expect from a Von Sternberg film? E: also, is Dragon Inn related to A Touch of Zen?
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Kart Barfunkel posted:E: also, is Dragon Inn related to A Touch of Zen? Same writer/director, King Hu and they're both wuxia movies. Dragon Inn was his first movie after leaving Hong Kong for Taiwan following a falling out with the Shaw Brothers over his film Come Drink With Me. It's pretty straightforward as an action movie, but is still incredibly good. A Touch of Zen stretches the genre into new and exciting places and has one of the best third act turns ever. Hopefully they keep up with these restorations I'd love to be able to buy new blu-rays of The Fate of Lee Khan, Raining in the Mountain, or The Valiant Ones.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:What can one expect from a Von Sternberg film? Sternberg = incredible lighting and composition in every single shot, almost like a Rembrandt painting
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Basebf555 posted:I love Technicolor and I've never seen a Powell & Pressburger film. Would The Red Shoes be a good place to start? The Red Shoes is amazing, and although the music is great I'm bummed Ralph Vaughan-Williams dropped out from writing it, I think I remember reading, that would have owned.
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The movie still owns though.
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Basebf555 posted:I love Technicolor and I've never seen a Powell & Pressburger film. Would The Red Shoes be a good place to start? The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, take your pick they're all phenomenal.
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There's also Peeping Tom, though Powell went solo on that one IIRC.
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Raxivace posted:There's also Peeping Tom, though Powell went solo on that one IIRC. Seen that actually, I'm a horror fanatic. I'm embarrassed to admit I had no idea it was the same Powell though, shame about what happened to his career after that though.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:The Red Shoes is amazing, and although the music is great I'm bummed Ralph Vaughan-Williams dropped out from writing it, I think I remember reading, that would have owned. Brian Easdale's score is perfection. I'll listen to just the 15 minute ballet segment sometimes because it's probably the finest sustained piece of film music ever composed and every bit as great as something like Vaughan-Williams' best work. Easdale's minimalistic piano score for Peeping Tom is perfection, too. I like how the two best horror films of 1960 went for simple, but profound scores that added to the scariness.
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Didnt know Easedale did the Peeping Tom score too, another great movie. I remember the commentary on it being above par too. Tho for British classical compositions I gotta go with Arthur Benjamins Storm Cloud Cantata from both The Man Who Knew Too Muches. Iirc for the remake Hitchcock offered Bernard Herman to make a new one but he said the original was good enough.
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So is there a reason that the CC editions of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and The Terror of Mechagodzilla are the dubs? Because Mothra vs. Godzilla, Godzilla, and Godzilla raids again are not. This is through Filmstruck anyhow.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Didnt know Easedale did the Peeping Tom score too, another great movie. I remember the commentary on it being above par too. I originally saw Peeping Tom as part of a film theory class, which was fun. It has so many levels between the way it questions the filmmaker's role in film violence or the male gaze as a literal camera. It's the sort of film that's like walking into a hall of mirrors because it even asks whether the audience is complicit in watching a character be murdered. People were horrified by the film because it was too honest about the nature of violence against women. Michael Powell should have been knighted for making the most honest film about murder rather than run out of the business. While it gets compared to Psycho most often, it would make a great double-feature with Bogdanovich's Targets.
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