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[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by Rayjg

I keep hearing about the horse, and understandably so, but what about that poor dog that gets brained to death? Poor thing is yiping it's head off for a good minute. Yeah it is mostly off screen but we're talking Tarkovsky here so it most likely was real. Probably went through a whole litter to get the right take. He was no animal lover.

Yep. I don't watch his films anymore and I don't care how much of a "genius" he was. That's one place and he's one person where I drew the line.

[Somebuddy]

I'd be STOKED to get SubUrbia (1996) in July! RIP Nicky Katt

[Adam_ME]

I'm hoping for Barry Lyndon on UHD since it's the 50th anniversary and Criterion already has a Blu-ray release.

[duggie walker]

Originally Posted by apricissimus

That's a great essay, but I'm not sure if anyone is trying to censor the movie.

For my part, I can choose not to watch it.

Of course, and I think I made that point.

But I think we also know that there is a kind of "soft censorship" at play at a pragmatic Corporate level. You're unlikely to see calls for a ban on any film on these forums but there are absolutely campaigns on social media (which often bleeds into mainstream media) which create such a toxic whirl of misinformation that companies fear an impact on their bottom line.

I'm extremely pleased LAST TANGO IN PARIS is getting a 4k release but the fact that it's been relegated to Vinegar Syndrome's subsidiary labels and not a bells-and-whistles Criterion edition is quite telling. LTIP was, like it or not, a VERY big deal when it opened and the controversy both then and now deserved to be documented thoroughly as a vital piece of film and cultural history. So no, it's not been suppressed and thank god for that; but it's certainly being hushed and that's a shame, I think, as well as another footnote in an increasingly ominous text.

EDIT: As mentioned above, COME AND SEE (Klimov not Tarkovsky) is a great example of my own hypocrisy. I hate what happened there and yet I feel the film is so important and so effective as an anti-war statement that it's worth bearing that moment. But I couldn't blame anyone for not watching it on that basis. If they killed an animal today for as powerful a film, rather than just use CGI, I wouldn't give it a pass. But for me COME AND SEE is worth a thousand KHARTOUMs. Can't defend it, it's just my personal view. We all draw the lines in different places.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by apricissimus

I believe Tarkovski killed a cow that the boy used for cover from gunfire in Come and See. (Maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong.)

Tarkovsky had nothing to do with Come and See. Elem Klimov directed it.

[apricissimus]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

Of course, and I think I made that point.

But I think we also know that there is a kind of "soft censorship" at play at a pragmatic Corporate level. You're unlikely to see calls for a ban on any film on these forums but there are absolutely campaigns on social media which create such a toxic whirl of misinformation that companies fear an impact on their bottom line.

I'm extremely pleased LAST TANGO IN PARIS is getting a 4k release but the fact that it's been relegated to Vinegar Syndrome's subsidiary labels and not a bells-and-whistles Criterion edition is quite telling. LTIP was, like it or not, a VERY big deal when it opened and the controversy both then and now deserved to be documented thoroughly as a vital piece of film and cultural history. So no, it's not been suppressed and thank god for that; but it's certainly being hushed and that's a shame, I think, as well as another footnote in an increasingly ominous text.

Should we censor the speech of the social media campaigns?

[apricissimus]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Tarkovsky had nothing to do with Come and See. Elem Klimov directed it.

Oh! I believe the cow was killed, but I'm grateful for the correction.

[suspiciouscoffee]

Tarkovsky actually went to the location that day and did it just for fun, he was a real sicko like that. He could’ve visited his son or something in his one day back in the USSR from his “exile” but he chose cow-killing.

[ilenewoodsfan99]

Originally Posted by Ned Brainard

My usual suspects:
Captain Blood (1935)
The Wedding March (1928)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Love Parade (1929)
One Hour with You (1932)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
A King in New York (1957)
The Chaplin First National shorts (1917-1923)
Something with Harold Lloyd

Yes to The Wedding March and more Lubitsch, also have to mention The Wind and The Crowd!

[TheBigG753]

Originally Posted by RevolverOcelScott

Twin Peaks: The Entire Series 4K

I just got the "From Z to A" Blu-ray set a few weeks back, so I can totally believe this will happen lol.

[duggie walker]

Originally Posted by apricissimus

Should we censor the speech of the social media campaigns?

No, absolutely not. But Corporations should stop taking the bait. Social Media amplifies the most marginal voices (sometimes for the good) but attention spans are shorter than ever. It's the furnace of the Attention Economy - it will always need fuel but we can decide how, when and with what we feed it.

[apricissimus]

It really helps to know that depictions cruelty are fake. A simulated rape scene that serves the interests of the story can be fine. A real rape scene of course never is.

But even simulated cruelty can be distasteful and offensive if the point is only to titillate certain people who actually enjoy that kind of thing.

I also respect that people may be triggered even by simulated cruelty done with the best of intentions due to past trauma in their lives. (I have my own sensitivities... the details of which I do not want to get into here.)

[MifuneFan]

The Big Heat 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/29681-the-big-heat

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini
• New video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film
• Audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
• Interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem

New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde

[MifuneFan]

Barry Lyndon 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
• Interviews with the cast and crew as well as archival audio featuring director Stanley Kubrick on the film’s cinematography, costumes, editing, and production
• Interview featuring historian Christopher Frayling on production designer Ken Adam
• Interview with critic Michel Ciment
• Interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised
• Interview with curator Adam Eaker about the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and two pieces about the look of the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer

Cover by F. Ron Miller based on an original theatrical poster by Guy Jouineau and Guy Bourduge

[ilenewoodsfan99]

Originally Posted by javy

Maybe they'll come out of left field and give us something like Chabrol's Les Biches or a Norma Shearer boxset.

Someone else putting respect on Norma Shearer's name

[duggie walker]

Originally Posted by Watershipdownisgood

Is it crazy that I’m not really bothered by animal cruelty unless it’s cats, or dogs? I’m way more uncomfortable with rape scenes in any movie I have to skip any type of rape scene in any movie it just is awful as my mom was raped when she was a young adult true story by the way. So I cannot stand rape in any movie even if it’s important to the plot I despise it. It disgusts me, and I don’t know why movies continue to put rape scenes in films they feel completely unnecessary.

That's a great and beautifully honest response but you lose me when you advocate censorship.

My Uncle was killed in a horrific road accident many years ago. At the time, UK TV showed quite horrific adverts about road safety, showing crash-test dummies being obliterated in slow-motion. It was difficult to sit and watch that with my family because our personal experience had sensitised us to the material. But would it have been right to call for a ban on those adverts?

We don't - we can't - legislate on the basis of the most sensitised members of the population. Grief and pain are a part of life and we can't and shouldn't try to block it out, however much we may want to. Not good for us personally and not good for Society in general.

EDIT: And they've announced BARRY LYNDON! So I'll shut up now.

[MifuneFan]

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/34...antoine-doinel

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• In the 4K UHD edition: Four 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and four Blu-rays with the films and special features
• New 4K restoration of Les mistons, Truffaut’s 1957 short film, with commentary by Claude de Givray, Truffaut’s then assistant director
• Two audio commentaries for The 400 Blows, one featuring film scholar Brian Stonehill and the other Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
• Archival interviews with Truffaut and his collaborators, including actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, and Marie-France Pisier and cowriters de Givray and Bernard Revon
• Video essays by film historian Serge Toubiana for Stolen Kisses and Les mistons
• Introducing My Father, François Truffaut, a 2019 interview with Laura Truffaut by filmmaker Daniel Raim
• Trailers
• PLUS: Essays by Annette Insdorf, Kent Jones, Andrew Sarris, Noah Baumbach, and Chris Fujiwara, and a 1971 piece by Truffaut

Covers by Lucien S. Y. Yang

[Cremildo]

Doinel 4K! A contender for announcement of the year.

[MifuneFan]

Carnal Knowledge 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/28109-carnal-knowledge

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New audio commentary featuring filmmaker and playwright Neil LaBute
• New program with Mike Nichols biographer Mark Harris and film critic Dana Stevens
• New interview with film-editing historian Bobbie O’Steen
• Conversation from 2011 between Nichols and filmmaker Jason Reitman
• Q&A with screenwriter Jules Feiffer
• Radio spot and trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by scholar Moira Weigel and a 1971 piece from American Cinematographer about the look of the film

New cover by Catarina Sampaio

[apricissimus]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

That's a great and beautifully honest response but you lose me when you advocate censorship.

My Uncle was killed in a horrific road accident many years ago. At the time, UK TV showed quite horrific adverts about road safety, showing crash-test dummies being obliterated in slow-motion. It was difficult to sit and watch that with my family because our personal experience had sensitised us to the material. But would it have been right to call for a ban on those adverts?

We don't - we can't - legislate on the basis of the most sensitised members of the population. Grief and pain are a part of life and we can't and shouldn't try to block it out, however much we may want to. Not good for us personally and not good for Society in general.

EDIT: And they've announced BARRY LYNDON! So I'll shut up now.

He didn't advocate censorship though. At least not in that post you quoted. (Did he do it somewhere else?)