Brian Fowler Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 It's the only Adam Sandler movie I've ever liked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 18 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: It's the only Adam Sandler movie I've ever liked. Not the Wedding Singer? On 7/22/2017 at 0:24 AM, Throat said: Alright, now sell us on Sweet Movie. I don't think I can do that. Dusan Makavejev is the director. I first saw his work when I dug into Criterion's Eclipse's set. I thought he was doing some really fun experimental stuff with form and technique. My wife and I picked up Sweet Movie because it's basically his opus on sex in it's wild, perverse, filthy glory. John Waters probably envisions this movie when he's rolling on molly. The first scene is kind of a prototype of The Bachelor with women vying to win the hand of some rich guy. In front of a live studio they have a gyno give them an exam, and the winner's vajayjay has a golden glow like the suitcase from Pulp Fiction. This is not the weirdest scene in the film. From there it's pretty freewheeling with the narrative. Think Jodorowosky's Holy Mountain but with people orgasmically rolling around in food and shit. There were scenes I didn't enjoy, but I marveled at their existence. I think it's an insane masterpiece and it inspires me in my work often. If any of this makes you want to watch it, cool. But I understand if you turn it on for 10 minutes and break your TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Just watched The Sicilian Clan, which is not a Criterion release but dammit it should be! Fuck it, every French gangster movie with Alain Delon should be! James 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 37 minutes ago, J.H. said: Just watched The Sicilian Clan, which is no a Criterion release but dammit it should be! Fuck it, every French gangster movie with Alin Delon should be! James Never heard of it, but damn, it's got Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin as well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 A very very hard no on The Wedding Singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Didn't quite know where to put this, but Kino Lorber is running a good sale on many of their titles, which was a roadblock toward getting more from the Criterion sale (there's always November). Snagged: Game of Death (a riff on the Most Dangerous Game trope) Haunted Honemoon (Radner/Wilder) Hero and the Terror Scavenger Hunt The Stranger (Welles/Robinson, not part of the sale but was on my want list) Who? Several really good titles, that I incidentally already had on prior releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 The Stranger is a fun little game of cat and mouse that is mostly carried on the backs of two Titans. It's perhaps a dissapointment considering it's stars and their resumes. Not unlike Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair, in that you have two guys who have amazing matches, just not together. Still good, and still worth owning if your a fan or general collector of film. I also saw this morning that Amazon has Criterion's The Uninvited bluray for 17 bucks. Really great ghost story film with Ray Milland, who, according to letterboxd, I apparently watched him more than any actor last year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 The Uninvited is one of the best ghost stories ever filmed not named The Haunting, The Innocents, or The Devil's Backbone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Throat Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 On 7/23/2017 at 7:41 PM, jaedmc said: I don't think I can do that. Dusan Makavejev is the director. I first saw his work when I dug into Criterion's Eclipse's set. I thought he was doing some really fun experimental stuff with form and technique. My wife and I picked up Sweet Movie because it's basically his opus on sex in it's wild, perverse, filthy glory. John Waters probably envisions this movie when he's rolling on molly. The first scene is kind of a prototype of The Bachelor with women vying to win the hand of some rich guy. In front of a live studio they have a gyno give them an exam, and the winner's vajayjay has a golden glow like the suitcase from Pulp Fiction. This is not the weirdest scene in the film. From there it's pretty freewheeling with the narrative. Think Jodorowosky's Holy Mountain but with people orgasmically rolling around in food and shit. There were scenes I didn't enjoy, but I marveled at their existence. I think it's an insane masterpiece and it inspires me in my work often. If any of this makes you want to watch it, cool. But I understand if you turn it on for 10 minutes and break your TV. I've already seen it. I was just curious how you'd convince someone it was worth owning. If I hadn't seen it, you would've convinced me to. Having seen it, I don't ever want to see it again. I think it would have value as a film to lend out to people, though. A real test of a friendship. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Haha. Yeah, I wouldn't tell anyone else to buy it sight unseen. Like you were saying about it being a real test of friendship, when it was over my wife immediately said she really liked it, and I was like "Never leave me." I watched Chimes at Midnight yesterday, which is Orson Welles' Falstaff movie. I recommend it, if you dig Shakespeare. Welles' direction is pretty incredible, with an amazing fight sequence that kind of reminded me of elements from the Battle of The Bastards sequence from Game of Thrones. Actually the whole movie felt really reminded me of Terry Gilliam's work with camera angles and how he frames faces. So if any of that sounds worth watching check it out. It also has a really great long take which I deconstructed why it's so effective here: http://www.jaeetgail.com/news/2017/7/26/welles-long-take-mise-en-cine-in-chimes-at-midnight 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Throat Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 My wife liked it too, which really surprised me. She actually told me yesterday she'd like see it again. She'll have to do that alone. Though I'm not a fan of the film, I really like the soundtrack and listen to it often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 I understand theres a podcast with the professor who did the commentary on Chimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Well, this looks amazing! Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Summer and Winter Games, this one-of-a-kind collection assembles, for the first time, a century's worth of Olympic films—the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. These documentaries cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger": Jesse Owens shattering sprinting world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean Claude-Killy dominating the slopes of Grenoble in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the first-ever women's marathon on the streets of Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the work of Bud Greenspan, the man behind an impressive ten Olympic features, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such landmarks of the documentary form as Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia and Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad, along with lesser-known but captivating contributions by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also serves as a fascinating window onto the formal development of cinema itself, as well as the technological progress that has enabled the viewer, over the years, to get ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, and reflecting as well the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable marathon of films offers nothing less than a panorama of a hundred years of human endeavor. SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR'S SET FEATURES: • 53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games, presented together for the first time • Landmark 4K restorations of Olympia, Tokyo Olympiad, and Visions of Eight, among other titles • New scores for the silent films, composed by Maud Nelissen, Donald Sosin, and Frido ter Beek • A lavishly illustrated, 216-page hardcover book, featuring notes on the films by cinema historian Peter Cowie; a foreword by Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee; a short history of the restoration project by restoration producer Adrian Wood; and hundreds of photographs from a century of Olympic Games Films included:Stockholm 1912The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (dir. Adrian Wood)Chamonix 1924The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera)Paris 1924The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece (dir. Jean de Rovera)The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera)St. Moritz 1928The White Stadium (dirs. Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner)Amsterdam 1928The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (dir. unknown)The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (dir. Wilhelm Prager; supervisor Jules Perel)Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936Youth of the World (dir. Carl Junghans)Berlin 1936Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)St. Moritz 1948Fight Without Hate (dir. André Michel)London 1948XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (dir. Castleton Knight)Oslo 1952The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (dir. Tancred Ibsen)Helsinki 1952Where the World Meets (dir. Hannu Leminen)Gold and Glory (dir. Hannu Leminen)Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (dir. unknown)Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956White Vertigo (dir. Giorgio Ferroni)Melbourne/Stockholm 1956Olympic Games, 1956 (dir. Peter Whitchurch)The Melbourne Rendez-vous (dir. René Lucot)Alain Mimoun (dir. Louis Gueguen)The Horse in Focus (dir. unknown)Squaw Valley 1960People, Hopes, Medals (dir. Heribert Meisel)Rome 1960The Grand Olympics (dir. Romolo Marcellini)Innsbruck 1964IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (dir. Theo Hörmann)Tokyo 1964Tokyo Olympiad (dir. Kon Ichikawa)Sensation of the Century (prod. Taguchi Suketaro, supervisor Nobumasa Kawamoto)Grenoble 196813 Days in France (dirs. Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach)Snows of Grenoble (dirs. Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin)Mexico City 1968The Olympics in Mexico (dir. Alberto Isaac)Sapporo 1972Sapporo Winter Olympics (dir. Masahiro Shinoda)Munich 1972Visions of Eight (dirs. Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling)Innsbruck 1976White Rock (dir. Tony Maylam)Montreal 1976Games of the XXI Olympiad (dirs. Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux)Lake Placid 1980Olympic Spirit (dirs. Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam)Moscow 1980O Sport, You Are Peace! (dir. Yuri Ozerov)Sarajevo 1984A Turning Point (dir. Kim Takal)Los Angeles 198416 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Calgary 1988Calgary '88: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Seoul 1988Seoul 1988 (dir. Lee Kwang-soo)Hand in Hand (dir. Im Kwon-taek)Beyond All Barriers (dir. Lee Ji-won)Albertville 1992One Light, One World (dirs. Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey)Barcelona 1992Marathon (dir. Carlos Saura)Lillehammer 1994Lillehammer '94: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Atlanta 1996Atlanta's Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Nagano 1998Nagano '98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Olympic Glory (dir. Kieth Merrill)Sydney 2000Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Salt Lake City 2002Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Athens 2004Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Turin 2006Bud Greenspan's Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)Beijing 2008The Everlasting Flame (dir. Gu Jun)Vancouver 2010Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory (prods. Bud Greenspan, Nancy Beffa)London 2012First (dir. Caroline Rowland) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 New Criterions for November include The Philadelphia Story and Jabberwocky. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 The JABBERWOCKY cover is excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 I'm excited about Le Samourai finally getting a blu-ray release. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 Criterion talks samurai movies with Kareem https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4950-on-the-channel-adventures-in-moviegoing-with-kareem-abdul-jabbar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 If that Olympic set didn't cost an arm and a leg - even at 50% off - I'd get it. It's such an incredible collection of athletic history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 On 7/21/2017 at 9:10 AM, J.T. said: OCTOBER RELEASES ARE NEARLY HERE~! STOKED~! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 29, 2017 Author Share Posted September 29, 2017 I saw some new ones in BN I need to pick up, including Lost in America and Hopscotch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Hopscotch? The Walter Mathau spy film? James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 29, 2017 Author Share Posted September 29, 2017 39 minutes ago, J.H. said: Hopscotch? The Walter Mathau spy film? James Yep. A reissue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Should I try and rent The Lure? I was gonna grab The Girl With All The Gifts and It Comes At Night to keep up with my current horror; this already getting Criterion status is intriguing. I hate musicals though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 4 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: Should I try and rent The Lure? I was gonna grab The Girl With All The Gifts and It Comes At Night to keep up with my current horror; this already getting Criterion status is intriguing. I hate musicals though The Lure is weird and awesome, but The Girl With All The Gifts is probably one of my Top Ten favorite horror movies of the past five years and It Comes At Night is ridiculously solid. I'd stick with the latter two if price is a premium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Hopscotch is a ridiculously fun little movie. Old school spycraft done as a comedy with just a real crackerjack cast. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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