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Cinematographer Kim Hyung Ku came to my film school and did a talk about Memories of Murder where he showed clips from his personal copy of it and it matches the Criterion. Old trailers of MoM also match the Criterion color grade.
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I wonder what Christopher Doyle and Lee Ping Bin have to say about the new color grades.
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Checked the screencaps on DVDBeaver and the film's color palette just looks more natural now. As for the cropping, the frames are tighter and maybe they could have a bit more breathing room and head room so there aren't haircuts but I have no idea if that was the original framing from the original theatrical presentation.
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DetoxP posted:Yeah I'm not sure if the new one looks better but surely we're not taking the original Universal transfer as gospel, right? People still talk about Bluray color timings not being right based off VHS tapes so
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Gripweed posted:they're doing 30% off all May for some reason. Probably trying to stay afloat
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I took a class with Nic Meyer (dir. of Wrath of Khan) and he screened The Manchurian Candidate to my class, a third of which were mainland Chinese students. Yeah, they all walked out of the screening 
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Ingmar terdman posted:Here's an unsolicited recommendation of Funeral Parade of Roses on the channel I will second that recommendation.
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Egbert Souse posted:good info dump Thanks for the great info, Egbert.
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Gripweed posted:The Barnes and Noble membership no longer stacks with the Criterion sale! This is the worst thing that has happened in the past 18 months. Mine never did so you've now joined me. 
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I wish they kept the extended ending where Graham goes to the house of the next planned victims to test himself to see if he got too much into Dolarhyde's mind.
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My guess is 59.99 MSRP for Criterion UHDs.
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Franchescanado posted:Here's my question: Should I watch one of the films featured in the first collection-- Love is Colder Than Death (1969). Katzelmacher (1969), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) ,The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) , The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)-- or is there a different, more definitive introductory work by him available on Criterion Channel? Honestly, I think the only one I wouldn't recommend watching as a first RWF film is "Love is Colder Than Death". All the other ones should be good.
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Ended up getting: After Life Come and See Memories of Murder Mirror
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Isn't there normally a February sale at B&N? Are they not having it this year? No, that's Criterion's Flash Sale in February and October, usually the last Tuesday of the month. B&N is the months of July and November.
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Yeah, when I lived in Japan, I spoke to a bunch of film people there and asked them about their opinions of Kurosawa and it was universally negative. "Too Western" was the note.
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The names I heard thrown around the most when I was there was Mizoguchi, Ozu, and Kinoshita for the old guard. You'll pretty much never hear anyone talk about Japanese New Wave unless they're a diehard cinemaphile but even then, you probably won't hear Ōshima's name thrown around because of his politics and sympathetic views towards Koreans. I think one of the big problems is how cinema and canon are taught in Japan. I dated someone who was studying to be an editor at the Japan Institute of Moving Images for a little bit and they're pretty much taught a very small and specific canon of films considered "right" and "correct" (and all Japanese). I once tried to talk to her about Walter Murch and the editing in the Godfather I and II and she wasn't having any of that. VoodooXT fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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DeimosRising posted:Doesn't seem to reflect the supposed anti Kurosawa feeling at all. Interesting that even in Japan they won't give credit to any other animation directors beyond Miyazaki. A similar list by English language speakers would probably be pulpier, with more animation and more directorial variety, but I bet it would be pretty similar. I'd take it with a grain of salt since Kinema Junpo readers are pretty much the Criterion people of Japan, so they're more well-versed and openminded than the average Japanese film goer.
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Yeah, much of it is that other companies have caught up to Criterion in terms of technology and the quality of restoration work, and I would argue some have surpassed Criterion at this point.
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Steen71 posted:And if you're wondering exactly how the scene plays out now... While I lament the cutting of that line and not being the original theatrical version, I can see why the Coens did it. The sequence is funny enough as it is and the line is sort of a "hat on a hat" situation.
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Franchescanado posted:I disagree. Without "Jesus Tom", you kinda miss extra layers. That they're friendly enough to be on a first name basis, and that the guy's just doing his job, the whole act of being him up is a perfunctory thing that's "just gotta be done", and it's funnier that his feelings are hurt because Tom went for his nose, with a CHAIR of all things. I said I can see why they did it, I didn't say I agreed with it.
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checkplease posted:I see the channel has added a lot of Junzo Itami films. I love Tampopo. Any other of these that people recommend? Absolutely watch The Funeral.
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I don’t have a problem with WKW reediting his movies, but I firmly believe he should have provided the original versions with the release.
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checkplease posted:I saw the original version Chungking is on the channel. It’s not on the disc too? Nope. Original Chungking Express isn't in the World of Wong Kar-Wai box set, just the individual release.
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Cemetry Gator posted:I'm assuming Power of the Dog has a typo, otherwise 2.28:1 is a very specific aspect ratio. We live in a post-aspect ratio world so I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to go with something splitting the difference between 2.20 and 2.35/2.40.
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8k Freddy Got Fingered when
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Oh wow, Teknolust? That's gonna be interesting to revisit again (Lynn Hershman Leeson was one of my professors in undergrad until she was forced into retirement).
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Fate Accomplice posted:she came to one of my film class lectures at cal in the early 2000s and told us she was working on a modern version of Frankenstein Yeah, I spoke to her about that when she came back for some event at my undergrad after her forced retirement. It was supposed to star Tilda Swinton but I guess it never got off the ground due to funding and Swinton’s star rising astronomically in the years since doing Teknolust. VoodooXT fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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MS Gundam is so good but yea, be aware of the slow pace. I remember telling a bunch of friends in undergrad how much I liked the original MS Gundam and I got shouted down primarily because they weren’t patient enough to watch the entire thing through. If you like it, highly recommend moving onto the sequel Zeta Gundam. Even better than the original but man, prepare to be bummed out (in a good way). VoodooXT fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Brexit the Frog posted:gimme some more goddamned Oshima in HD Violence at Noon would look great in HD
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Roth posted:Ahahahahahahahaha Oh man, just watching him get dragged 
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:criterion not sending their best for years now. plenty of other boutiques in town. Yeah. At least in my personal boutique tier list, Criterion dropped from S to A tier at least five years ago and with other boutiques coming in and actually doing better work on movies you wouldn't even imagine getting that kind of treatment, they might be dropping to B tier sooner than later.
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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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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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They’re probably just trying to get rid of any Eclipse stock they have since that’s a dead sublabel for them.
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