The Criterion Collection

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by JJJ225

If you like 3 Women, you'll like Persona.

Excellent!

Originally Posted by SilentxStatik24

Thanks for the reply, I don't want to pick it up at B&N right now because of the price, I am probably going to take my chances with Amazon.

Thanks for the recommendation btw, I might check it out soon!

Not a problem!

Originally Posted by JJJ225

That's really not really accurate. Ever hear of the Take Our Jobs campaign (widely publicized on the Colbert Report, though it was a real effort). It tried matching up unemployed people with real paying farm jobs. The response was paltry.

I was trying to remember where I heard it, but that's more along the lines of what I was initially talking about.

[brandon_260]

I can't wait until Persona is released. If 3 Women is in any way similar, I'll need to pick that up at some point.

How is the Bergman Eclipse series? Although I haven't been on a Bergman kick recently, I've had a bad hankering for watching some of his films. I'm really excited for Autumn Sonata to be released.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Smog was trying for a more "mod" 60's-70's look, with the new hippie social conscience, but at least Sony's DVD a while back restored the dub and put the (ahem, annoying) "Save the Earth" song back into Japanese.
Still misses the "class" of having Ishiro Honda at the helm, though--And by the time they got to Revenge, their money was in kiddie matinees.

I don't know which is worse-"Save the Earth" or "The Words Keep Getting Stuck in My Throat" from War of the Gargantuas. Both are

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

I don't know which is worse-"Save the Earth" or "The Words Keep Getting Stuck in My Throat" from War of the Gargantuas. Both are

I'm not sure which is my favorite thing to do with Godzilla, "Save The Earth" or Minya's folksy dub voice ("Godzilla says that I should learn t' fight m'own battles, y'know").

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by kidglov3s

I'm not sure which is my favorite thing to do with Godzilla, "Save The Earth" or Minya's folksy dub voice ("Godzilla says that I should learn t' fight m'own battles, y'know").

As far as the later Godzilla incarnations go, I rather like Godzilla 2000. Godzilla 2000 was wonderful to see on the big screen, and I loved how the movie made fun of American flicks like Twister, Jurassic Park, and, of course, the 1998 American remake of Godzilla.

I also loved the scene in Godzilla: Final Wars when Godzilla is battling a ton of other monsters conjured up by the aliens, and after he instantly destroys a creature resembling the 1998 American Godzilla, an alien says, "I knew that tuna-eating monster was useless!"

[Ctzalman]

mccabe and mrs. miller is my favorite altman film, hands down. 3 women is excellent as well, and yes, if you are a fan, you will enjoy persona. very similar themes throughout. more altman notables (at least my personal favorites): nashville and brewster mccloud. i took an awesome film class in college (the films of kubrick and altman) and had the opportunity to see many of their works on the big screen.

[duggie walker]

Originally Posted by JJJ225

If you like 3 Women, you'll like Persona.

And if you like those two, you'll also like Altman's IMAGES, which is a creepy bit of paranoia in the vein of THE TENANT or even DON'T LOOK NOW. A very over-looked film that I think even Altman-haters might appreciate.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

As far as the later Godzilla incarnations go, I rather like Godzilla 2000. Godzilla 2000 was wonderful to see on the big screen, and I loved how the movie made fun of American flicks like Twister, Jurassic Park, and, of course, the 1998 American remake of Godzilla.

I also loved the scene in Godzilla: Final Wars when Godzilla is battling a ton of other monsters conjured up by the aliens, and after he instantly destroys a creature resembling the 1998 American Godzilla, an alien says, "I knew that tuna-eating monster was useless!"

I figured in the American Godzilla we were just evening the score for what the Japanese did to our iconic monster in King Kong vs Godzilla.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

And if you like those two, you'll also like Altman's IMAGES, which is a creepy bit of paranoia in the vein of THE TENANT or even DON'T LOOK NOW. A very over-looked film that I think even Altman-haters might appreciate.

Whoah... I just checked, and Images stars Susannah York, whom I loved watching in Sands of the Kalahari, which is available from Olive Films.

Count me in for Images and The Long Goodbye.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

And if you like those two, you'll also like Altman's IMAGES, which is a creepy bit of paranoia in the vein of THE TENANT or even DON'T LOOK NOW. A very over-looked film that I think even Altman-haters might appreciate.

Altman blindspot for me. Who has the rights for a BluRay release?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

I figured in the American Godzilla we were just evening the score for what the Japanese did to our iconic monster in King Kong vs Godzilla.

That movie was a travesty. A fun travesty, but a travesty nonetheless. Haha.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Whoah... I just checked, and Images stars Susannah York, whom I loved watching in Sands of the Kalahari, which is available from Olive Films.

Count me in for Images and The Long Goodbye.

You best see some Altman before my 70s poll Any obscure reccomendations for me before I compile my list?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

You best see some Altman before my 70s poll Any obscure reccomendations for me before I compile my list?

Mwahahahaha.

For your polls of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, my lists tended to have a lot of critically-acclaimed movies that are considered universal favorites, because those are the movies that are generally available to the masses these days, and those are the movies with which I am familiar. I threw in a few oddball favorites off the beaten path, but most of my personal favorites coincided with critical raves for those decades.

The 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, however, will probably be decades where my Top 20 List completely throws critical acclaim under the bus.

Race with the Devil, The Towering Inferno, Westworld, and Assault on Precinct 13 will likely rock out my 1970s list.

The 1980s Top 20 will include the Roger Moore Bond flick, For Your Eyes Only, along with a myriad of teen flicks. You've been warned.
In fact, survey says that my Top 20 of the 1980s may only include one or two Criterion releases.

The 1990s Top 20 will probably include Point Break. You've been warned.

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

You best see some Altman before my 70s poll Any obscure reccomendations for me before I compile my list?

I'm not sure what counts as obscure or not but over the past year or so my mind was definitely blown by Joe, Getting Straight, The Strawberry Statement, Soldier Blue, No Blade of Grass, Billy Jack and (especially) The Trial of Billy Jack, The Traveling Executioner, Bergman's The Touch and Rabbit, Run to varying extent. It's especially frustrating to read about titles that are essentially unavailable like Believe in Me or Keep Off My Grass!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

You best see some Altman before my 70s poll Any obscure reccomendations for me before I compile my list?

I've got a few...

Wake In Fright
Un Flic
Tourist Trap (This will not make my Top 20 of the 1970s, but, wow, it's such a great little horror flick.)

[B-Creamy]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

You best see some Altman before my 70s poll Any obscure reccomendations for me before I compile my list?

Where can I find these polls you've taken? I'd be very interested in looking at them.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I've got a few...

Wake In Fright
Un Flic
Tourist Trap (This will not make my Top 20 of the 1970s, but, wow, it's such a great little horror flick.)

Re: first post, I can roll with Assault on Precinct 13. Such a nailbiter!!

•Wake in Fright is concentrated awesome.
•Un Flic, you know what, who'd of guessed you'd reccomend that one

[Show spoiler]

•Tourist Trap has never been on my radar. I will have to research it.

:thumbsup

My one too-unseen recommendation is none other than Turkish Delight. The movie has Rutger Hauer's finest performance (which is saying something)

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Re: first post, I can roll with Assault on Precinct 13. Such a nailbiter!!

•Wake in Fright is concentrated awesome.
•Un Flic, you know what, who'd of guessed you'd reccomend that one

[Show spoiler]

•Tourist Trap has never been on my radar. I will have to research it.

I saw Wake in Fright at a theater last year when it was first re-released. Man, oh man...that was such a great flick to see on the big screen. There's a lot of debate about the picture quality of the Blu-ray, but I think that it looks superb, and that it does justice to what I saw on the big screen.

Tourist Trap gets lumped in with the other late 1970s low-budget throwaway horror films, as it probably should, but there's something really special about the movie and it has an extra little "oomph" and a certain gleeful spark that all of the other horror movies from that era lack. It's one of those horror flicks that you go into with low expectations, sort of like the many straight-to-video horror flicks these days, but it really takes you off guard. It's an odd thing of beauty. Speaking of beauty, it features Tanya Roberts (The Beastmaster, That '70s Show) in one of her early roles.
You may watch Tourist Trap and think to yourself that it's no big deal. I adore the film, though.

I'll never forget the first time I saw John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. I was 11 years old, and I saw the movie one Sunday afternoon on a black-and-white TV in my bedroom while nobody else was at home. When the little girl went back to get her vanilla twist cone, I was floored by that scene.
"WTF? No way that just happened! Did that really just happen? Whoah...that really happened!" So horrible, but so...so...awesome.

[brandon_260]

I've got a backlog of Criterion titles that are still sight unseen, including Children of Paradise, Rules of the Games, and probably 10 others, but I keep skipping over them because I can't decide which to watch first. Instead of digging into one of these, I decided to revisit Videodrome. Still fantastic, as most Cronenberg is, but also still far from my favorite work of his. Watching it just made me want The Brood, and to a lesser extent Scanners, announce as soon as possible.

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by brandon_260

I've got a backlog of Criterion titles that are still sight unseen, including Children of Paradise, Rules of the Games, and probably 10 others, but I keep skipping over them because I can't decide which to watch first.

I have that problem sometimes! I usually just pick an arbitrary way to choose - Chronologically, or alphabetically etc.