The Criterion Collection

[RandyK]

Originally Posted by brandon_260

Not exactly Criterion related, but David Cronenberg's son, Brandon's film comes out this Friday in NYC. If you're unable to see it though, it's getting its blu-ray release in Canada the following Tuesday. If you're interested in it, it might be worth importing. I was able to see it when it came out here back in October, which was the perfect time of year for that film. If you're into David Cronenberg's weirder, more "out there" work, I definitely recommend checking it out.

Is that Antiviral?

It looks really interesting. I love Cronenberg's weirder stuff so I very well may import this. Thanks for the heads up.

[R o d]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

For those that care, Ebert's last review:

Very fitting. Even the title of the review is revealing: A few characters in search of transcendence

[rkish]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

Les Blank has passed away. NYT obit

Thanks for the heads up Joe! I knew nothing about the man. Unfortunately I don't have a NYTimes subscript, but here are a couple of links to help educate those like myself:

http://www.lesblank.com/

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Blank

[ShellOilJunior]

Originally Posted by R o d

Very fitting. Even the title of the review is revealing: A few characters in search of transcendence

I'm very anxious to see it. I'm curious to see how personal of a film it is for Malick. The TM detractors often fail to see what angle he's coming from as a filmmaker. There have been a few tragedies in his life that have affected the way he views life and they've seeped into his works (especially Tree of Life).

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by Fellini912

I saw a poster (Spicoli) in another thread with this avatar. I laughed the whole evening. Whoever is in the TIE fighter does not stand a chance. Cary Grant is the man.

[Show spoiler]

That's gold!

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by TJS_Blu

That's right. The rights were up for grabs last year, the restored Safety Last was shown at Cannes and shortly after Park Circus and Carlotta reached some sort of agreement for distribution in the EU which received some publicity last year. I thought that was where the first release would come from. I don't think anyone knew about the Janus acquisition until Harold Lloyd Entertainment Inc. listed them as the contact for theatrical rights on their website.

Jeez, I don't know how some of you guys know all this stuff, but I'm glad you're keeping us up-to-date - cheers

[drbikeshorts]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Hola... I'm back after a few days of absence.

I traveled up to North Carolina to run my second 100-mile ultramarathon. I was on track for an awesome race until I started having some Achilles pain around the 25-mile mark. I dropped after 37.5 miles after an EMT at the main aid station advised me to stop so that I could keep from injuring the Achilles even worse. I stuck around for the rest of the weekend to help out some friends who were still in the race. I was one of the 35-40% of total runners who ended up dropping out of the race. Nothing particularly devastating, since my training had not quite been ideal going into this, so I'm glad that I saved the legs to recover quickly and run another day.

And this has absolutely jack to do with Criterion movies, except...

I was getting sleeping earlier this morning during the six-hour drive back home, so I reached into the glove compartment to get out the big guns... My old movie soundtrack CD for Repo Man. That music never fails to give me a shot in the arm of adrenaline.

I am really, really, looking forward to seeing what Criterion has done with this movie.

You were having Achilles pain because that's your body telling you to stop being a mental patient
I'll be jogging home from work tonight, which should take about 45-50 minutes. And when I say jog, I mean shuffle
Since all this talk of jogging is off-topic, let's save it by saying that Criterion should restore and release Michael Mann's The Jericho Mile.

[The Great Owl]

I'm sitting here listening to a streaming preview of the new album from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and decided to go looking for their 1991 video for "Pandora's Box", a song about Louise Brooks with a music video that includes images from the film, Pandora's Box.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss5RNpyWjSU

It's a fun video, a good homage, and a great song.

I can't help wondering if Quentin Tarantino had Pandora's Box in mind when he was directing Pulp Fiction, because the character of Fabienne bears an uncanny resemblance in appearance to Louise Brooks. (Come to think of it, Mia Wallace also bears a resemblance to Louise Brooks.)

[Archedamian]

Man, I love Louise Brooks.

[drbikeshorts]

Since there's been a bit of talk about Harold Lloyd, I thought I'd point everyone to this Tumblr page: F*** Yeah Harold Lloyd!
I'm not sure who runs this Tumblr, but they basically post lots of animated gifs from his films. If you want a primer for his work, this will get you excited about Safety Last!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Archedamian

Man, I love Louise Brooks.

She really was something else.

I'd love to see this movie on Blu-ray someday, if that's possible.

[Sherlock_Jr]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

Les Blank has passed away. NYT obit

I really only know of him because of Werber Herzog Eats His Show and Burden of Dreams, but he was a great documentarian.

[RojD]

Originally Posted by Archedamian

Man, I love Louise Brooks.

So do I. Why isn't Pandora's Box on blu?

[scorsetinogilliam]

I can't help wondering if Quentin Tarantino had Pandora's Box in mind when he was directing Pulp Fiction, because the character of Fabienne bears an uncanny resemblance in appearance to Louise Brooks. (Come to think of it, Mia Wallace also bears a resemblance to Louise Brooks.)[/QUOTE]

Tarantino is paying homage to Godard's Vivre Sa Vie which was paying homage to Pandora's Box...

[BLOFELD]

when i was checking out chem graduate schools the university of florida in gainesville had the largest louise brooks dvd collections that i'd ever seen (and largest dvd/blu-ray collections period for that matter). i'm talking RARE dvd's, blu-rays and lasers from american venus to the canary murder case (my fav). they had it all. it was quite a sight to behold.

Originally Posted by RojD

So do I. Why isn't Pandora's Box on blu?

[tonylopez]

Its early, but any guesses for new announcements for this month? I'm hoping for at least one of the many titles thats been "promised" for some time now ( LORD OF THE FLIES, LE SAMURAI, SCANNERS, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, etc.).

[shadedpain4]

Howdy all. I was wondering if anyone could steer me towards some recent films (say last 15-20 years) that take place in Japan. I love Japanese films, but a large chunk of the ones i have are older films.

Off the top of my head i can think of Tokyo Sonata, Lost In Translation, Babel, I Wish, and Still Walking as the films in that date age range in my collection that at least partially are set in Japan.

I just went to see Like Someone In Love today, which got me thinking about this.

Anyone have any other recent films to recommend to me that are set in Japan?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by drbikeshorts

You were having Achilles pain because that's your body telling you to stop being a mental patient
I'll be jogging home from work tonight, which should take about 45-50 minutes. And when I say jog, I mean shuffle
Since all this talk of jogging is off-topic, let's save it by saying that Criterion should restore and release Michael Mann's The Jericho Mile.

I'll go for that! I haven't thought about that film in ages.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by shadedpain4

Howdy all. I was wondering if anyone could steer me towards some recent films (say last 15-20 years) that take place in Japan. I love Japanese films, but a large chunk of the ones i have are older films.

Off the top of my head i can think of Tokyo Sonata, Lost In Translation, Babel, I Wish, and Still Walking as the films in that date age range in my collection that at least partially are set in Japan.

I just went to see Like Someone In Love today, which got me thinking about this.

Anyone have any other recent films to recommend to me that are set in Japan?

I'm not sure if Japanese horror is up your alley, but Pulse (Kairo) is my favorite of that particular lot.

The film is basically about ghosts infiltrating our world through the internet. It's the best cinematic depiction of the ubiquitous theory that the internet leads to isolation under the guise of being connected to everyone. It's an interesting film, to say the least.

[Scottie]

We are almost a week away from new announcements!