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Post by grundle on Jul 18, 2017 0:32:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 0:34:34 GMT
Sweet, and Fire Walk With Me too!
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Post by countjohn on Jul 18, 2017 0:47:16 GMT
Very excited about this. This is one I'll definitely pick up.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 17, 2017 22:38:05 GMT
That's quite an eclectic group - 2 Pabst films, Breakfast Club and I, Daniel Blake........you want to see something funny? Go and visit John Bender in 5 years.......
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 18, 2017 0:29:09 GMT
2 Pabst movies and TBC!? I love you, Criterion.
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Post by no on Oct 18, 2017 7:31:17 GMT
sell outs
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 18, 2017 16:16:56 GMT
They sell "important classic and contemporary films." It doesn't get much more important than two Pabst movies, one of the most influential films of the 1980s, and a Palme d'or winner. Just because TBC is popular doesn't mean that licensing it is a sellout move. Would you say the same if they licensed Apocalypse Now?
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Post by no on Oct 18, 2017 18:38:33 GMT
They sell "important classic and contemporary films." It doesn't get much more important than two Pabst movies, one of the most influential films of the 1980s, and a Palme d'or winner. Just because TBC is popular doesn't mean that licensing it is a sellout move. Would you say the same if they licensed Apocalypse Now? Na man, I was joking lol. Though I do wish they would shift focus to restoring movies in need of restoration. Pan's Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies but I saw no point of them getting that in the collection.
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Post by Viced on Oct 18, 2017 19:22:01 GMT
They sell "important classic and contemporary films." It doesn't get much more important than two Pabst movies, one of the most influential films of the 1980s, and a Palme d'or winner. Just because TBC is popular doesn't mean that licensing it is a sellout move. Would you say the same if they licensed Apocalypse Now? Na man, I was joking lol. Though I do wish they would shift focus to restoring movies in need of restoration. Pan's Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies but I saw no point of them getting that in the collection. Releasing big sellers like The Breakfast Club and Pan's Labyrinth gives them more money to use for restorations of smaller stuff. It's not that hard to understand.
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 18, 2017 19:41:36 GMT
They sell "important classic and contemporary films." It doesn't get much more important than two Pabst movies, one of the most influential films of the 1980s, and a Palme d'or winner. Just because TBC is popular doesn't mean that licensing it is a sellout move. Would you say the same if they licensed Apocalypse Now? Na man, I was joking lol. Though I do wish they would shift focus to restoring movies in need of restoration. Pan's Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies but I saw no point of them getting that in the collection. They did do a new eclipse release and two old Pabst movies this month. I don't know how much these needed restoration, but I imagine that the popular stuff like Pan's Labyrinth and TBC make those possible.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 3:48:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 4:20:48 GMT
I love these videos
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Post by countjohn on Nov 16, 2017 6:23:46 GMT
I think they put it out on Laserdisk but this may be it's first Criterion DVD release. Lots of special features. It February of next year. Just recently rewatched it for the first time in a while so I'm excited about this. www.criterion.com/films/528-the-silence-of-the-lambs
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Post by wilcinema on Nov 16, 2017 8:21:19 GMT
What a queen.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 16, 2017 11:27:00 GMT
The Silence of the Lambs is as immaculate a piece of filmmaking as any of that era - I usually watch it every couple years and am blown away by how precise it is but still also allows all this character depth too. It's just a technical marvel, a real example of everything coming together perfectly.
You can really learn a lot about filmmaking by studying that movie......
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 16, 2017 11:33:55 GMT
Almost comprising too many appealing characteristics for one person to have - uniquely funny, uncommonly sexy, joyful, supremely intelligent, goofy, egoless......which would all be amazing but the fact that she's also the greatest actress of all time is the kicker.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 16, 2017 17:43:41 GMT
I actually bought the original Criterion DVD for a buck not too long ago, so this isn't on my list right now. Dang, that cover is awesome, though.
Edit: The original Criterion DVD wasn't especially loaded with special features, either. It had... lemme see... Commentary by Jonathan Demme, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Tally, and FBI agent John Douglas Seven deleted scenes Film to storyboard comparison (I believe this applied to the storage unit scene) FBI crime classification manual (includes several case studies of real killings and nasty stuff) Voices of Death: word-for-word statements of convicted serial killers (chilling stuff, but like the FBI manual, it had nothing to do with the movie)
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Post by no on Nov 16, 2017 18:55:26 GMT
A Taste of Honey is great
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 16, 2017 21:08:03 GMT
A Taste of Honey is great Sure is. Exceptionally well written and directed... and Dora Bryan (the mother) her performance is brilliant. Tony Richardson followed this with Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.... the two I think are the quintessential kitchen sink dramas. Or at least the two I'd suggest to gauge the era from both gender perspectives.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Nov 16, 2017 22:38:03 GMT
The Silence of the Lambs is as immaculate a piece of filmmaking as any of that era - I usually watch it every couple years and am blown away by how precise it is but still also allows all this character depth too. It's just a technical marvel, a real example of everything coming together perfectly. You can really learn a lot about filmmaking by studying that movie...... So true. Rare for everything to come together so perfectly. So well-executed in every department. This may seem like a crazy question because he did win an Oscar for it, but do you think that perhaps Jonathan Demme's directorial work on this film is slightly underappreciated?
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Post by no on Nov 16, 2017 23:29:30 GMT
A Taste of Honey is great Sure is. Exceptionally well written and directed... and Dora Bryan (the mother) her performance is brilliant. Tony Richardson followed this with Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.... the two I think are the quintessential kitchen sink dramas. Or at least the two I'd suggest to gauge the era from both gender perspectives. I'll have to check it out. I am actually writing about A Taste of Honey for my class.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 17, 2017 12:22:01 GMT
I do think it's underappreciated a bit because it is something of a curveball in his career. He was once acclaimed as sort of a freewheeling, quirky artist (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild) and post-Silence as maybe a kind of a cookie cutter prestige director for a while (Philadelphia, Beloved).......where Rachel Getting Married is more of a swing back to his pre-Silence self.
That's what makes the movie so special for him, it has elements of both of his careers and he wouldn't have been the safe pick for that material back then I would think - not a cliched thriller director for sure. But the movie also lent itself so perfectly to him - he's really great at close-ups which he used brilliantly and repeatedly in Silence - and forced a kind of narrative discipline on him where he made a lot of shrewd choices to keep things hurtling forward.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 16:05:01 GMT
Legend. She is so sweet!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 2:50:14 GMT
I think Varda would really love Lady Bird (and Greta Gerwig in general) - talk about a dream collaboration!
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 15, 2017 21:27:18 GMT
Baal (1970, Schlöndorff) Women in Love (1969, Ken Russell) The Age of Innocence (1993, Scorsese) King of Jazz (1930, John Murray Anderson) www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?f=1&s=release_dateWhich have you seen? And also, cus I'm curious, your fav films from Schlöndorff and Ken Russell?
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