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Genuinely, as poo poo as the Razzies are for many reasons, it's awesome to see Criterion put together a list of movies like this. The writeup about the controversial nature of "bad" movies and "low" art filled me with joy. This must be foreshadowing the long-awaited physical Criterion release of The Room.
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Tom Green is finally being recognized for the auteur he is. I know they filmed a massive boat explosion for that movie specifically in order to not include that scene in the final cut, have any of the physical releases included it as a deleted scene?
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Good month although sucks that Floating Weeds isn’t a 4K
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Chris James 2 posted:Next month on the Channel i finally saw Under the Cherry Moon recently on 35mm and it kicked rear end, let's go Under the Cherry Moon Critical Re-evaluation Project.
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I've never seen Girlfight but I love Jennifer's Body so I'm down to watch more Karyn Kusama. Shame that the rights holders for Jennifer's Body means that'll never happen.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I've never seen Girlfight but I love Jennifer's Body so I'm down to watch more Karyn Kusama. Shame that the rights holders for Jennifer's Body means that'll never happen. Jennifer’s Body is more of an Arrow or Shout release, anyway
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gently caress yeah, Peeping Tom in 4K Dolby Vision. Also up for the Ozu double feature.
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Definitely copping Peeping Tom. Anyone know anything about that African triple feature?
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poo poo, I might be getting everything that month. For sure the Ozu double-feature, Peeping Tom, and Anatomy of a FallKart Barfunkel posted:Anyone know anything about that African triple feature? Ousmane Sembene was a really good Senegalese author and director. I haven't seen any of his films so I'm more familiar with his writing work, God's Bits of Wood is an extremely good book about a community banding together for and during a railroad strike
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Watched The Heroic Trio earlier. That movie goes soooo fuckin hard
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Definitely copping Peeping Tom. Xala and Ceddo are both excellent films, haven't seen the other one.
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Gaius Marius posted:Anatomy of a Falls cover is awful This might be a hot take, but I think Criterion's covers are more often bad than good. But yeah, woof on Anatomy of a Falls's cover. That's awful.
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Any big recommendations from the Gothic Noir section?
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Any big recommendations from the Gothic Noir section? My ratings for the ones I've seen: 87 When Strangers Marry 85 My Name is Julia Ross 77 Ministry of Fear 75 Woman in Hiding 74 Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 73 Lured 65 The House on Telegraph Hill 64 Undercurrent
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GrandpaPants posted:This might be a hot take, but I think Criterion's covers are more often bad than good. Not a hot take.
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Escobarbarian posted:Watched The Heroic Trio earlier. That movie goes soooo fuckin hard It whips rear end, although watching it in tyol 2024 I was struck by its seeming obsession with (general content spoiler I guess gratuitous violence against children?
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Those kids did have a taste for human flesh now though.
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checkplease posted:Those kids did have a taste for human flesh now though. Something about stones and glass houses
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RichterIX posted:It whips rear end, although watching it in tyol 2024 I was struck by its seeming obsession with (general content spoiler I guess gratuitous violence against children? That era of China honestly just didn’t give a poo poo. If you’ve ever see Righting Wrongs you see a whole family kids included get bombed in their apartment there’s a ton of other Hong Kong action movies where they really just don’t shy away from killing kids.
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The_Rob posted:That era of China honestly just didn’t give a poo poo. If you’ve ever see Righting Wrongs you see a whole family kids included get bombed in their apartment there’s a ton of other Hong Kong action movies where they really just don’t shy away from killing kids. I think what's most alarming in Heroic Trio (again spoiled more for content than for plot) the protracted shot of the kids writhing in agony and pissing all over the place It sounds like I am ragging on the movie and I'm really not, I said in the phys. media thread it basically got me into the genre single-handedly, but I'm guessing the version I saw on TNT or whatever didn't have some of this stuff and when I was watching it on DVD I was I guess a little less intellectually curious and now I kind of wonder what the thought process was behind that shot. It almost feels like a cultural reference that's going over my head because it's weirdly out of place.
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The_Rob posted:That era of China honestly just didn’t give a poo poo. If you’ve ever see Righting Wrongs you see a whole family kids included get bombed in their apartment there’s a ton of other Hong Kong action movies where they really just don’t shy away from killing kids. I cannot recommend Righting Wrongs often enough, I loving love it. Depending on which cut you watch, it even ends with the hero of the movie, having defeated the villains and fulfilled his purpose, falling to his death and bleeding out in the ocean as credits and theme song play over shots of his body. Yuen Biao rules 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I cannot recommend Righting Wrongs often enough, I loving love it. Yeah I got the vinegar syndrome blu ray and it’s got the Hong Kong cut, the mandarin cut and the American cut. I know the 88 Film version has an ending randomizer which I find pretty funny.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I cannot recommend Righting Wrongs often enough, I loving love it. My favorite cut by far is the one where this (except for the credits part) happens, and then a ship comes by, the women onboard notice the guy pretty clearly bleeding out and are like "we gotta save him omg!!" And the one guy on the ship is like "nah, we're here for a good time, why should our fun be ruined" and turns the ship around and leaves
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Got The Tales of Hoffmann, Barry Lyndon, and Tokyo Olympiad in the flash sale. Had a bunch of codes saved up, so mondo savings even with the pricey Canadian shipping! 
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reminder that coupons stack on these sales (I got Rahomon and Chimes at Midnight)
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Rooney McNibnug posted:reminder that coupons stack on these sales (I got Rahomon and Chimes at Midnight) Yeah I didn’t realize I had two ten dollar gift certificates. So it was a nice surprise to stack them.
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Got Pinocchio, Afire, The Roaring Twenties, and Blast of Silence. Only seen Pinocchio.
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Synthetic Hermit posted:Got The Tales of Hoffmann, Barry Lyndon, and Tokyo Olympiad in the flash sale. What's coupons, precious? I ordered from Unobstructed View which is not cheap at all and their website sucks poo poo but still the cheapest I can get up here. I got all 4Ks of Heroic Trio, Lost Highway, Branded to Kill and Le Cercle Rouge with the last three being upgrades from DVDs.
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Cacator posted:What's coupons, precious? I ordered from Unobstructed View which is not cheap at all and their website sucks poo poo but still the cheapest I can get up here. Criterion periodically (once or twice a year?) emails discount codes to their customers. And if you're a Criterion Channel subscriber, you get even more codes. They only work on the American site, though, which means $23 USD shipping to Canada, so you really gotta wait for the sales. Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Criterion hasn't sent me any codes in years, and I just re-subscribed to the Criterion Channel. They're probably mad I don't spend $300 during flash sales anymore.
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You get the codes for being subscribed to the Channel so that makes sense I guess
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I had gift money from the holidays leftover, so I splurged. Arsenic and Old Lace blu-ray Targets blu-ray Trainspotting 4k Thief blu-ray The Qatsi Trilogy blu-ray Female Trouble blu-ray The Royal Tenenbaums blu-ray I had a handful of codes available, too, so that was a real nice discount.
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VoodooXT posted:Criterion hasn't sent me any codes in years, and I just re-subscribed to the Criterion Channel. They're probably mad I don't spend $300 during flash sales anymore. I get like 4 or 5 a year from them.
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I held back and only got the Videodrome 4K, as the $10 coupon paid for shipping, but if the rumors of their upcoming release of Bound are true I may be going on quite the binge next sale as there were at least three releases I held back on this time.
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Had enough coupons to get both Pinocchio and Last Waltz 4ks for just $10 total. Make sure to find that $20 birthday coupon.
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quote:HEROIC TRIO / EXECUTIONERS(4K)  I had been slacking on keeping with with Criterion releases, especially their 4Ks. In addition to what I already have I think this mostly catches me up finally.
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I got Crash during the last sale--I've never seen it, and it hasn't been on streaming for awhile, so I finally caved. I'm re-reading the novel first and then taking the plunge.
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